Re: [WSG] 100% height

2007-05-11 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Jermayn Parker wrote: let us know how you go I myself are in the middle of a website were I need something similar and it works fine in ie7 and firefox but breaks and looks horrible in ie6 Maybe this is the way to go...

Re: [WSG] 100% height

2007-05-11 Thread Bob Schwartz
So far, so good in IE 6 7 As soon as I have something to put up, I will. I'm still playing in local. let us know how you go I myself are in the middle of a website were I need something similar and it works fine in ie7 and firefox but breaks and looks horrible in ie6 Thanks

Re: [WSG] Help needed

2007-05-11 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
On 11 May 2007, at 05:52:58, John Faulds wrote: You really only need a dimension on the anchors to overcome an IE/ Windows bug when they're set to display: block so you can either use * html #nav a { height: 1% } or conditional comments. You can probably ignore my other comment about the

Re: [WSG] Acronym tag usage

2007-05-11 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
On 11 May 2007, at 10:55:14, Mike at Green-Beast.com wrote: Of course I cannot effectively support this by looking it up on the web because the lines on this have been blurred significantly over time so the dictionaries are of little help. The OED seems pretty clear on the issue:

Re: [WSG] Acronym tag usage

2007-05-11 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
On 11 May 2007, at 09:56:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not 100% sure this is the case, but what a screen reader _should_ do is to _read_ an acronym and to _spell out_ an abreviation. Even if that is not yet the case, it seems likely in the future, assuming that we all use the correct

Re: [WSG] Acronym tag usage

2007-05-11 Thread Mike at Green-Beast.com
Michael Brockington wrote: I'm not 100% sure this is the case, but what a screen reader _should_ do is to _read_ an acronym and to _spell out_ an abreviation. Even if that is not yet the case, it seems likely in the future, assuming that we all use the correct elements in the first

Re: [WSG] 100% height

2007-05-11 Thread Bob Schwartz
it broke. I put a properly cleared floated div inside the content div and the footer is now riding above the last few lines of the content. let us know how you go I myself are in the middle of a website were I need something similar and it works fine in ie7 and firefox but breaks

Re: [WSG] Acronym tag usage

2007-05-11 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
On 11 May 2007, at 13:10:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't see that this should be the case. For example, Ltd is a common UK abbreviation for the word Limited in the context of a Limited Liability Company, such as HyperGlobalMegaCorp Ltd. Another example would be Mr,

Re: [WSG] 100% height

2007-05-11 Thread al morris
Try this one... http://www.strictlycss.com/examples/fluid-css-layout-with-faux-columns-1.asp Al *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

Re: [WSG] Acronym tag usage

2007-05-11 Thread Dan Dorman
On 5/11/07, Nick Fitzsimons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The OED seems pretty clear on the issue: abbreviation, noun: a shortened form of a word or phrase http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/abbreviation acronym, noun: a word formed from the initial letters of other words (e.g. laser,

Re: [WSG] 100% height

2007-05-11 Thread Bob Schwartz
I have been at it all day and no luck. Anyone who would like to help can see some test pages at: http://www.fotografics.it/test/ The problem is explained on the pages. Bob let us know how you go I myself are in the middle of a website were I need something similar and it works fine

Re: [WSG] 100% height

2007-05-11 Thread dwain
Bob Schwartz wrote: I have been at it all day and no luck. Anyone who would like to help can see some test pages at: http://www.fotografics.it/test/ The problem is explained on the pages. Bob try placing your footer inside the wrapper. -- Dwain Alford http://www.studiokdd.com The

Re: [WSG] 100% height

2007-05-11 Thread Bob Schwartz
I'll try that, but I was sort of following: http://www.themaninblue.com/writing/perspective/2005/08/29/ which suggests to leave it outside. Bob Schwartz wrote: I have been at it all day and no luck. Anyone who would like to help can see some test pages at: http://www.fotografics.it/test/

Re: [WSG] 100% height

2007-05-11 Thread Michael
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Re: [WSG] 100% height

2007-05-11 Thread dstone
Do you have a background for the entire website? Are you using fixed widths? How many columns? From: Bob Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 4:41 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org