[WSG] safari display issue : help please!

2007-08-23 Thread Andrew Harris
Hi all, hope you can help. I have a problem with a page in safari. I won't bore you with the backstory, but this is from a large and complex template deployment over a range of websites that I have little control over. To solve a problem that kept cropping up due to Block Formatting Context, I

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RE: [WSG] When is invalid CSS okay?

2007-08-23 Thread michael.brockington
I think that a more appropriate example would be using: -moz-border-radius Any validator should tell you that this is non-standard, but it is up to you to decide whether or not to use it. Regards, Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

[WSG] IE help

2007-08-23 Thread Bob Schwartz
Some users have complained that when they go to this page http://www.fifeweb.org/wp/lib/lib_current.html and try to download the linked files with IE 7 they get a message stating something like Explorer is unable to download the requested file My Windows (server 2000) testing computer has

Re: [WSG] IE help

2007-08-23 Thread David Pietersen
Works fine for me... IE 7.0.6000.16512 on Vista Ultimate On 8/23/07, Bob Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some users have complained that when they go to this page http://www.fifeweb.org/wp/lib/lib_current.html and try to download the linked files with IE 7 they get a message stating

Re: [WSG] IE help

2007-08-23 Thread Spirit Q.9 Gaming
It's IE 7 bug i think, not ur web bug. I also sometime meet it when i use IE 7, rarely ... *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help:

Re: [WSG] IE help

2007-08-23 Thread John Faulds
I can download them OK and am running both hardware and software firewall with Avast antivirus. On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:24:08 +1000, Bob Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some users have complained that when they go to this page http://www.fifeweb.org/wp/lib/lib_current.html and try to

Re: [WSG] IE help

2007-08-23 Thread Kevin Lennon
Bob Schwartz wrote: Some users have complained that when they go to this page http://www.fifeweb.org/wp/lib/lib_current.html and try to download the linked files with IE 7 they get a message stating something like Explorer is unable to download the requested file My Windows (server 2000)

RE: [WSG] IE help

2007-08-23 Thread Steve Green
I have IE7 on Windows XP SP2 and all the Zip files download ok. Some of them contain Word documents, and the machine opens these in WordPad because I don't have Word on it. I get the error message Unable to load graphics conversion filter, which is probably to be expected. The document still opens

[WSG] Popup 'box' on hover

2007-08-23 Thread Nick Roper
Hi, A client would like functionality similar to that used on istockphoto.com - i.e. that a 'popup' window is displayed with a larger image and some text when the user hovers over a thumbnail image. e.g. Can I do this with CSS in a standards-compliant and works cross-browser way? Any

Re: [WSG] Popup 'box' on hover

2007-08-23 Thread Spirit Q.9 Gaming
http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/gallery_click Can you use this? On 8/23/07, Nick Roper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, A client would like functionality similar to that used on istockphoto.com - i.e. that a 'popup' window is displayed with a larger image and some text when the user hovers over

Re: [WSG] Popup 'box' on hover

2007-08-23 Thread Jason Grant
Or even this: http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/lightbox Regards, Jason www.flexewebs.com On 8/23/07, Spirit Q.9 Gaming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/gallery_click Can you use this? On 8/23/07, Nick Roper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, A client would like

Re: [WSG] Popup 'box' on hover

2007-08-23 Thread Nick Roper
That's cool, but I wanted to try and avoid having to use 'real-estate' on the page. A popup allows the larger image to display without having to allocate permanent space for it in the layout. Thanks for the link, as I'm sure that will come in handy anyway. Spirit Q.9 Gaming wrote:

Re: [WSG] Popup 'box' on hover

2007-08-23 Thread Barney Carroll
Spirit Q.9 Gaming wrote: http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/gallery_click Can you use this? Stu Nicholls has done a few :hover lightboxes: http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/lightbox.html If you want to be really flash (without flash, naturally)... http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/image_magnifier2.html

Re: [WSG] Popup 'box' on hover

2007-08-23 Thread Spirit Q.9 Gaming
That lightbox and the image will disappear when we move out the mouse though clicked, should use combo? On 8/23/07, Barney Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Spirit Q.9 Gaming wrote: http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/gallery_click Can you use this? Stu Nicholls has done a few :hover

Re: [WSG] Popup 'box' on hover

2007-08-23 Thread Barney Carroll
Spirit Q.9 Gaming wrote: That lightbox and the image will disappear when we move out the mouse though clicked, should use combo? What iStockPhoto does is a no-click interface where you just hover over things to expand them and off to make them disappear. iStock's thing uses javascript to

Re: [WSG] Popup 'box' on hover

2007-08-23 Thread Spirit Q.9 Gaming
i just mean it closes whole the gallery ... instead just close the pop up image. On 8/23/07, Barney Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Spirit Q.9 Gaming wrote: That lightbox and the image will disappear when we move out the mouse though clicked, should use combo? What iStockPhoto does is a

Re: [WSG] Popup 'box' on hover

2007-08-23 Thread Mike at Green-Beast.com
How about this: http://mikecherim.com/experiments/css_map_pop.php? This could be adapted easily I think. Cheers. Mike Cherim - Original Message - From: Nick Roper [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 10:23 AM Subject: [WSG] Popup 'box' on

Re: [WSG] Popup 'box' on hover

2007-08-23 Thread Nick Roper
Thanks guys - excellent stuff. Nick Barney Carroll wrote: Spirit Q.9 Gaming wrote: http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/gallery_click Can you use this? Stu Nicholls has done a few :hover lightboxes: http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/lightbox.html If you want to be really flash (without flash,

Re: [WSG] When is invalid CSS okay?

2007-08-23 Thread Rob Crowther
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: The hiding effect gained by 'CC' is used by many to justify hacking and to declare their solutions valid - because the validator doesn't complain. It is ultimately laziness, but I don't want to have to expend the mental effort to distinguish between invalid CSS that is

[WSG] 1to1 markup suggestions

2007-08-23 Thread Brian Cummiskey
i have some data 1 | A 2 | B and so on in a 1-to-1 I'm considering using a DL as A defines the symbol 1 but at the same time it is tabular data. Thoughts? *** List Guidelines:

Re: [WSG] 1to1 markup suggestions

2007-08-23 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Koen Willems wrote: To my opinion it would depend on the fact if there is only a relation between the data or if one is defining the other. There is no hard correlation between them. the data would be similar to this: @ | at $ | dollar sign Going like that, its easy to see that column

RE: [WSG] 1to1 markup suggestions

2007-08-23 Thread Koen Willems
To my opinion it would depend on the fact if there is only a relation between the data or if one is defining the other. Koen Willems -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens Brian Cummiskey Verzonden: donderdag 23 augustus 2007 19:48 Aan:

Re: [WSG] IE help

2007-08-23 Thread Bob Schwartz
Thanks to all who responded. Some users have complained that when they go to this page http://www.fifeweb.org/wp/lib/lib_current.html and try to download the linked files with IE 7 they get a message stating something like Explorer is unable to download the requested file My Windows

Re: [WSG] When is invalid CSS okay?

2007-08-23 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Rob Crowther wrote: Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: The hiding effect gained by 'CC' is used by many to justify hacking and to declare their solutions valid - because the validator doesn't complain. It is ultimately laziness, but I don't want to have to expend the mental effort to distinguish between

RE: [WSG] Popup 'box' on hover

2007-08-23 Thread Ted Drake
I think it was Jeremy Keith that railed against having CSS do what JavaScript should do and vice versa. This is going beyond what CSS is good for. You'll have inconsistent behaviors, require the user to download invisible images, and more. I'd suggest looking at the container library with the

Re: [WSG] safari display issue : help please!

2007-08-23 Thread Kit Grose
On 23/08/2007, at 5.04 PM, Andrew Harris wrote: Hi all, hope you can help. I have a problem with a page in safari. ... Here is a completely stripped out version of the page, displaying the issue. http://www.woowoowoo.com/safari-bug/formbug.html In all browsers there is (should be) a form. In

Re: [WSG] safari display issue : help please!

2007-08-23 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Aug 24, 2007, at 9:44 AM, Kit Grose wrote: I can fix it two ways: - wrap the form in a div - remove the display:table; rule on the enclosing div neither of which are very palatable in the context of the site. Hi Andrew, The issue is that you can't technically use the display: table

Re: [WSG] Popup 'box' on hover

2007-08-23 Thread Jermayn Parker
Just a question, does it have to be enlarged on hover?? That can be pretty messy and ugly if you mouse over it by accident. I would think onclick would be a better option with arrows to go to the next image etc like lightbox. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23/08/2007 10:23:53 pm Hi, A client would like

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Re: [WSG] Popup 'box' on hover

2007-08-23 Thread Jixor - Stephen I
I would create a css solution, with some unobtrusive javascript to enhance the functionality (such as to make it follow the mouse, animate in/out, etc.) Even then if the user has IE5 with JS turned off clicking the image could always take them to an enlarged view. I would make a link

Re: [WSG] IE help

2007-08-23 Thread Darrin at Jade Web and Print
Darrin Bob, I have 2 machines running WinXP SP 2 and IE 7 - both downloaded all files with no prob. cheers, D. Bob Schwartz wrote: Some users have complained that when they go to this page http://www.fifeweb.org/wp/lib/lib_current.html and try to download the linked files with IE 7 they