Re: [WSG] Best Practice to Offer Different Formats of Documents

2008-02-17 Thread Joe Ortenzi
Dwain, Matt Sorry forgot to mention I also getfilesize in php for reasons Dwain mentioned and I have created simple functions like the one he mentions, with a pool of file icons to display with. Sorry for not mentioning these. Joe On Feb 17 2008, at 00:27, Matt Fellows wrote: As Joe

Re: [WSG] Best Practice to Offer Different Formats of Documents

2008-02-17 Thread Designer
Matt Fellows wrote: There is a nice article [1] that can show you how to automatically style links with little icons depending on the extension of the file it points to if you are interested. Cheers, Matt [1] - http://www.askthecssguy.com/2006/12/showing_hyperlink_cues_with_cs_1.html Hi

Re: [WSG] Best Practice to Offer Different Formats of Documents

2008-02-17 Thread Max A. Shpack
that's because IE6 doesn't support attribute selectors. but you can use classes instead. Max. 2008/2/17, Designer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Matt Fellows wrote: There is a nice article [1] that can show you how to automatically style links with little icons depending on the extension of the file

Re: [WSG] Best Practice to Offer Different Formats of Documents

2008-02-17 Thread Thomas Thomassen
Yes, IE doesn't handle attribute selectors. However, I'd still be tempted to use it. The only thing that happens is that IE6 doesn't display the icons. Graceful degradation. Users with newer browsers will get a better experience, but it'll still work with the older browsers. - Original

Re: [WSG] Best Practice to Offer Different Formats of Documents

2008-02-17 Thread Andrew Cunningham
On Sun, February 17, 2008 10:02 pm, Thomas Thomassen wrote: Yes, IE doesn't handle attribute selectors. There are always javascript workarounds for attribute selectors in IE. However, I'd still be tempted to use it. The only thing that happens is that IE6 doesn't display the icons.

Re: [WSG] Best Practice to Offer Different Formats of Documents

2008-02-17 Thread Thomas Thomassen
True. Dean Edwards got a very good library to aid IE: http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/ - Original Message - From: Andrew Cunningham To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2008 12:49 PM Subject: Re: [WSG] Best Practice to Offer Different Formats of Documents

RE: [WSG] Best Practice to Offer Different Formats of Documents

2008-02-17 Thread Kevin
Thank you to both you and Joe! Good info!!! _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dwain Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 4:01 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Best Practice to Offer Different Formats of Documents On 2/16/08, Joe Ortenzi

[WSG] Discussion on rules for posting was Hello OT

2008-02-17 Thread Michael Horowitz
While I agree people should check issues elsewhere beforehand as they should before using any list, tech forum etc for help. However list guidelines do state The mail list covers any topic associated with web standards including Implementing Web Standards - eg: technologies such as HTML,

[WSG] * { display: inline; }

2008-02-17 Thread Katrina
Gday all, This morning I was creatively thinking different things and playing around (as you do). I was wondering what would happen if I did a mass reset using the asterisk to make everything inline to begin with? So in the header of my document, I included style type=text/css * {

Re: [WSG] * { display: inline; }

2008-02-17 Thread Blake
On Feb 18, 2008 10:00 AM, Katrina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is that supposed to happen? And if so, why? I am honestly stumped on this one. All the information in the HEAD is still part of the document but is automatically styled as { display: none; } IIRC. When you set all elements to {

Re: [WSG] * { display: inline; }

2008-02-17 Thread Katrina
dwain wrote: ie does not recognize the *. dwain IE 7 does, and it doesn't answer the question in relation to the other browsers. What is going on? Kat *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] * { display: inline; }

2008-02-17 Thread dwain
ie does not recognize the *. dwain On 2/17/08, Katrina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gday all, This morning I was creatively thinking different things and playing around (as you do). I was wondering what would happen if I did a mass reset using the asterisk to make everything inline to begin

Re: [WSG] * { display: inline; }

2008-02-17 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Katrina wrote: I was wondering what would happen if I did a mass reset using the asterisk to make everything inline to begin with? So in the header of my document, I included style type=text/css * { display: inline; } /style Now I know that external style sheets are much smarter, I

Re: [WSG] * { display: inline; }

2008-02-17 Thread Tim White
On Feb 17, 2008 6:00 PM, Katrina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So in the header of my document, I included style type=text/css * { display: inline; } /style OK, I just tried it and got the exact same effects. So, I tried combinations and body * works (and I see Patrick just posted the

Re: [WSG] * { display: inline; }

2008-02-17 Thread Mordechai Peller
Katrina wrote: dwain wrote: ie does not recognize the *. dwain IE 7 does, As do 5 and 6 (before those, don't know and don't care). After all, if IE didn't recognize the asterisk, how would the beloved Star Hack work? ***

Re: [WSG] * { display: inline; }

2008-02-17 Thread Michael MD
IE 7 does, As do 5 and 6 (before those, don't know and don't care). After all, if I have to care about what IE5 and 6 do ... I see from server logs lots of people out there are still using them! (especially IE6 ... still very common ... and there are still quite a few IE5 Mac users

Re: [WSG] * { display: inline; }

2008-02-17 Thread Chris Broadfoot
Michael MD wrote: IE 7 does, As do 5 and 6 (before those, don't know and don't care). After all, if I have to care about what IE5 and 6 do ... I see from server logs lots of people out there are still using them! (especially IE6 ... still very common ... and there are still quite a few