Re: [WSG] centering floats?

2005-03-10 Thread Alan Trick
to float to the left. David Laakso wrote: On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 14:44:39 -0500, Alan Trick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a bunch of boxes that are all a fixed width and a fixed height. I have them floated in a container so that they lineup nicely into rows. However, I want them centered so

[WSG] centering a page

2005-03-07 Thread Alan Trick
I'm trying to get a page to center vertically and horizontally, it works well on IE/win and gecko, but when I checked it on mac, both safari and IE/win mess it up. Any suggestions or links to resources on how to center things in the viewport? Here's a link to what I've been working with:

Re: [WSG] Logos explanations

2005-03-03 Thread Alan Trick
I /hate /trying check the accessbility of my web site because many of how subjective it is. I get 'warned' for some of the silliest things that would be a barrier to accessiblilty by adding unnessisary code. I think the best way to promote accessiblity is through accountablilty between web

[WSG] is rgb(255,255,255) better than #ffffff or white?

2005-03-02 Thread Alan Trick
are not as good? Why? Alan Trick ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **

Re: [WSG] wildcards in css selectors?

2005-03-02 Thread Alan Trick
It appears that gecko doesn't support that yet. I guess I'll have to wait. Jan Brasna wrote: a[href=http://www.foobar.com*] or a[href=*filename*] CSS3 has ^= selector. (Look it up in http://www.alistapart.com/articles/goingtoprint/ ...) **

Re: [WSG] validation logos - kitemarks?

2005-03-02 Thread Alan Trick
I like that idea. This is kind of off topic but to you think that validation logos should open in a new window, or not. Opening in a new window keeps people from leaving the site, but popups are anoying and generally frowned upon. designer wrote: - Original Message - From: Andy Budd

[WSG] site check please

2005-02-25 Thread Alan Trick
If it wouldn't be too much of a problem, I'd like it if someone checked my site. I've made all the pages valid code (last time I checked), but I'm not very knowledgeable about accessability issues and would like some suggestions on that. Thanks in advance, Alan Trick

[WSG] site check please

2005-02-25 Thread Alan Trick
d'oh, normally I'm not this stupid, really :-[ here's the url: http://jellybean.uni.cc ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting

Re: [WSG] To display or not to display validation logos?

2005-02-25 Thread Alan Trick
What you may want to do is insted of the displaying that logo, use the smaller ones, like the ones at the bottom of this (http://plone.org/) page. Also, this is off-topic, but the page displays an 'Invalid Security' image with a link to http://www.statcounter.com/ when javascript is turned

[WSG] limited clearing

2005-02-24 Thread Alan Trick
| | || like a way for limiting any clearing inside the section. -Alan Trick

[WSG] support for :after

2005-02-23 Thread Alan Trick
Hi, If I remember properly css2 was comming out with a :after that was primarily inteded for clearing without having to add markup. What I was wondering is what browsers (if any) support the property. -Alan Trick ** The discussion list

[WSG] innerHTML and javascript

2005-02-23 Thread Alan Trick
I was just wondering if there was any plans to put the innerHTML property into the DOM specs at some point seeing as how it is a very useful property and most browsers support it anyway. -Alan Trick ** The discussion list for http

[WSG] accessible ways to avoid spam

2005-02-22 Thread Alan Trick
good solutions? Alan Trick ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **

Re: [WSG] accessible ways to avoid spam

2005-02-22 Thread Alan Trick
explanitory how to get the address out of there if their UA doesn't support 'display:none'. Mike, I like that idea about strap.asp, but I use php, do you now any places were I could find equivilant php code for the page? -Alan Trick Mike Pepper wrote: Alan, I've looked at this for a while

Re: [WSG] accessible ways to avoid spam

2005-02-22 Thread Alan Trick
I'm not including it as a link, so people are going to have to copy and paste it anyways. I'm including a form on the page so that those who want to contact me directly, can. And Mike, just email me at this address, thanks :-) Patrick Lauke wrote: Alan Trick

[WSG] standards compliant tutorial

2005-02-21 Thread Alan Trick
the land of web design now and as far as I know, he doesn't even now css exists. I'm familiar with w3schools, but I'm wondering if there are any better turtorials around for doing xhtml, css, ecmascript, and teach good web design habbits. -Alan Trick

Re: [WSG] Re: firefox bug?

2005-02-21 Thread Alan Trick
Interesting, I thought I had replied to this. But no, it is no longer an issue. I just changed my margins on 'div#header p' into padding and now it is all good. Thanks for the help. Rosemary Norwood wrote: Is this still an issue? Looking in my FF 1.0 it's nicely up there against the top (I

[WSG] firefox bug?

2005-02-18 Thread Alan Trick
I've been working on redesigning a website and I have a bug where there is a bit of space at the top of the body that won't go away. I'm not sure it it's padding or margin or what, but I tried setting all of those to 0 and it wouldn't go away, I want to be able to line those black buttons up

[WSG] Re: firefox bug?

2005-02-18 Thread Alan Trick
Sorry, I forgot to include the link: http://www.cgemery.com/new -Alan Trick Alan Trick wrote: I've been working on redesigning a website and I have a bug where there is a bit of space at the top of the body that won't go away. I'm not sure it it's padding or margin or what, but I tried setting

[WSG] Quirks DTD

2005-02-16 Thread Alan Trick
To solve the issue of standarts-compliant browsers rendering non-standards-compliant web pages. Could the W3C create a 'Quirks DTD' for webpages that do not specify there own DTD? -Alan Trick ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] Quirks DTD

2005-02-16 Thread Alan Trick
To solve the issue of standarts-compliant browsers rendering non-standards-compliant web pages. Could the W3C create a 'Quirks DTD' for webpages that do not specify there own DTD? -Alan Trick Well, that's basically what is happening...just that browsers have different interpretation

[WSG] is this mozzila only css?

2005-02-16 Thread Alan Trick
Is this valid css or is it a mozzila/firefox only thing. (I know it doesn't work in IE) foo[bar=baz]{stylingstuff} for the element foo bar='baz'/foo If not is there a way to do this without using XSL? -Alan Trick

Re: [WSG] quot; or in copy?

2005-02-16 Thread Alan Trick
I don't know about quot; but if you use instead of amp; it will break your xml pages (i.e. a href='some.com/page.php?a=bc=d' *must* be a href='some.com/page.php?a=bamp;c=d' in xml) -Alan Trick Chris W. Parker wrote: Hello, Is there a reason I should be using quot; (or any other HTML entity

Re: [WSG] Pages reloading

2005-02-14 Thread Alan Trick
I'm on a dialup connection, so the fact that it is reloading is quite apparent. It doesn't bother me all that much, but if the client is really hard set on no reloading here's my suggestion. Keep the basic format as it is now, so that non js users can still use it fine, load all the images

[WSG] Proper way to embed fonts?

2005-02-11 Thread Alan Trick
Hi, I'm working on redesigning a company website to make it more accessable and I've done a pretty decent job with makeing everything scale with the font sizes, but I have one big problem. Our company is developing a particular font that we want to use for our company name, a font that will

Re: [WSG] accessibilty and responsibility

2005-02-11 Thread Alan Trick
Ok, I see your point here, but I'm the web designer for a company. Most of our customers probably wouldn't know what a 'browser' is and think that the 'e' is the is only way to 'download the internet'. I can't simply forget my customers browsers without alienating them as well, because they

Re: [WSG] Proper way to embed fonts?

2005-02-11 Thread Alan Trick
Thanks for the resources. I dont' think I can use sIIR cause we have an IIS server (as far as I could tell it's php only), but I'll try sIFR. Is they're any quick tutrials on how to implement it? Absalom Media wrote: Alan Trick wrote: Hi, I'm working on redesigning a company website to make

Re: [WSG] The Content Generation[2nd Post]

2005-01-21 Thread Alan Trick
I'm not sure I understand what you want done, are you saying something like haveing a differently generated css depending on the number of pages? If so Chris Stratford is probably right I think (don't quote me on this though) that link rel=stylesheet type=text/css href=style.php / is valid as

Re: [WSG] Help - newbie

2005-01-20 Thread Alan Trick
) Doesn't work in linux 4) Eclipse can do everything TSW Webcoder can do, everything I just mentioned (besides 1, but if I was smart enough I could just right and extention for that), and a whole lot more. Alan Trick Chris Stratford wrote: Glad to help! It honestly is the best ever coder I have

Re: [WSG] Help - newbie

2005-01-19 Thread Alan Trick
a while twidling your thumbs during uploads. The solution is simple though, just use an external program for FTP. There you go. Hope that helps. Alan Trick Paul wrote: I have been writing html code for awhile now and and starting to realize how inaccessible and non-web compliant my pages are. I

[WSG] resizing w/ floats

2005-01-19 Thread Alan Trick
Hi, I've built a couple of websites and each time I come up with the ominous problem of using div's as columns. The simplest solution and the one I've found all over the web is to use floats like so: ___ | | | | | |

Re: [WSG] Help - newbie

2005-01-19 Thread Alan Trick
True, provided your editor isn't WYSIWYG. Brian Cummiskey wrote: Paul wrote: I have been writing html code for awhile now and and starting to realize how inaccessible and non-web compliant my pages are. I have always hand written code in Edit Plus 2, is there a better editor I can use for web

Re: [WSG] My site is broken in Opera

2004-12-03 Thread Alan Trick
José López wrote: Hi Alan, the problem is simple, you no use the tag class else id 1) I don't think this would do anything different and 2) id's are meant to be unique and I don't want to have a whole bunch of id's all with the same css info, that's bad code and redundant. I think I'll go

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