Re: [WSG] Adobe Forum comment on CSS in visual editors

2004-11-25 Thread Andrew Thompson
The point is only valid within their (Adobe's) current mode of thinking - that Style Sheets are created on the fly as designers muck about trying things within the visual editor, saving as they go. It may be done, but surely the only way to design is to produce your designs off-line, produce

Re: [WSG] video standards?

2004-11-16 Thread Andrew Thompson
.mov is QuickTime and Windows users are as likely to download and install that as Mac users are to install Windows Media Player. And even if you use Windows Media Player, the issue of codecs remains - not all codecs are available for the Mac and some do not play at all or play the video with no

Re: [WSG] What do you think about slicing images?

2004-11-15 Thread Andrew Thompson
I still use slicing to split a single image into JPEG and GIF sections. For example, in a people with product shot, the people work best as a JPEG whereas the product works best as a GIF. I know you're supposed to be able to create a CSS-based slice layout and Photoshop includes this option,

Re: [WSG] Font-size issue on Mac

2004-11-10 Thread Andrew Thompson
FWIW, it all looks fine to me on Safari 1.2, IE 5.2.3 and Firefox 0.9.3 under 10.3.6. All my browsers are set to default displays, so there must be something in your author's system which is causig the glitch. My guess is her IE font display Prefs have been changed (Preferences -

[WSG] IE/Win hover fix in percentages? Also a.current fix?

2004-10-24 Thread Andrew Thompson
I've been using the a:hover width fix to get IE/Win to display the hover property when mousing over the div, rather than just the linked text, in a navbar. However, this only works properly with fixed width navbars. I can't get it to work with navbars set at a percentage width. Check it out at

Re: [WSG] relative positioning inconsitencies

2004-10-01 Thread Andrew Thompson
From the Mac side, there's good news and bad news. It looks fine in Firefox 0.9.3 (http://www.imagine-hosting.com/images/hwaters_Firefox0.9.3_Mac.jpg) and Safari 1.2 (http://www.imagine-hosting.com/images/hwaters_Safari1.2_Mac.jpg), but IE5.5 makes a complete hash of it

Re: [WSG] IE5 Mac hanging on loading a page

2004-09-30 Thread Andrew Thompson
In Safari on the Mac it looks pretty much the same as it does in IE on the PC. If you're interested, you can see it at http://www.imagine-hosting.com/images/IG-3-template.gif My IE 5.2 on the Mac behaved as you report and I had to force quit. Thge only suspect I could see in your code was

[WSG] Navbar to foot of page?

2004-09-30 Thread Andrew Thompson
Does anyone know how http://www.smh.com.au got the lefthand nav bar to descend to the foot of the page, irrespective of the content? Nothing I try works. ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of Web

Re: [WSG] increasing font size breaking layout

2004-09-28 Thread Andrew Thompson
My understanding is that if all elements are relative/proportional, the layouts should never break. -- On Tuesday, 28 September 2004 4:14 PM, Focas, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if people had any opinions on when its acceptable if at

Re: [WSG] increasing font size breaking layout

2004-09-28 Thread Andrew Thompson
to the list getting help ** -Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] En nombre de Andrew Thompson Enviado el: martes, 28 de septiembre de 2004 8:33 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: Re: [WSG] increasing font size