Re: [WSG] Large Top Margin

2005-07-25 Thread Bert Doorn
at the resources section of the webstandardsgroup website - there's plenty of resources there for two column css layouts. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list

Re: [WSG] link ?

2005-07-25 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day I'd say your problem is here: #navwrapper li a:link, a:visited { See the a:visited? That affects ALL links on the page. I think you meant to say: #navwrapper li a:link, #navwrapper li a:visited { Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast

Re: [WSG] headings and accessibility norms

2005-07-21 Thread Bert Doorn
a page should have only one main heading (H1) but that's another much debated issue and I'm neither an expert nor an authority on the subject. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] what tag will work here

2005-07-18 Thread Bert Doorn
Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints

Re: [WSG] Body tag background color changes

2005-07-18 Thread Bert Doorn
: #ffc } body.section2 { background-color: #fff } etc with body class=section1 and body class=section2 etc Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list

Re: [WSG] web stanards detection - is it possible?

2005-07-13 Thread Bert Doorn
. They'll get used to it as more and more sites go down that path. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

Re: [WSG] IE vs MF ~ Image padding, bullets numbers missing

2005-07-07 Thread Bert Doorn
the 65 validation errors... Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] paragraph indent

2005-07-03 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day I wanted to get my paragraphs to indent on a site so I tried the most intuitive thing: p:first-line{padding:1em} How about p { text-indent: 1em } Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] paragraph indent

2005-07-03 Thread Bert Doorn
in MSIE6 and Firefox before sending it too. They both behaved per spec, indenting only the first line of each paragraph. If the intention was to indent the whole paragraph, my suggestion would have been along the lines of p { margin-left: 1em } Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design

Re: [WSG] Playing a MIDI

2005-06-30 Thread Bert Doorn
WILL have to install something for this to work. Besides, going back to Angus' original post: I also chose MIDI because WAV and/MP3 would take to long to download. How does this player change that? Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user

Re: [WSG] looking for an accessibility reference on why text-only is bad

2005-06-29 Thread Bert Doorn
, reconsider the design of the original page; making it accessible is likely to improve it for all users. ...Last resort... Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] CSS List Separator

2005-06-15 Thread Bert Doorn
anyone?) -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints

Re: [WSG] CSS List Separator

2005-06-15 Thread Bert Doorn
inside the dt (for the number) and give it a width? And put a margin on the dd equal to that span? Or what about simple normal every-day headings? We can go up to 6 levels deep with them... I guess it all depends on the application. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http

Re: [WSG] FOUC Safari 2.0

2005-06-15 Thread Bert Doorn
is then displayed properly. See http://www.bluerobot.com/web/css/fouc.asp Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

Re: [WSG] Standards and ADS

2005-06-14 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day Jad Madi wrote: Will ADS break web standards in any mean ? such as Google ads, and Amazon ads? Not if they use standards compliant markup. Easiest way to check is to get a page to validate, then insert the ad and see if it is still valid. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design

Re: [WSG] Crazy font sizing with 2 tables inside a positioned div

2005-06-10 Thread Bert Doorn
to reproduce the symptoms you described would be with a nested table (old school, not recommended) The inner table would then inherit the 0.7em from the first table and further reduce it with its own font size setting. You'd end up with 0.7em * 0.7em = 0.49em. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design

Re: [WSG] resizing problem

2005-06-07 Thread Bert Doorn
(in browsers that support max-width and max-height) There are still a lot of people with browser windows that are 760px or less in width. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] CSS problems in IE (weird font-size)

2005-06-02 Thread Bert Doorn
the font on the body element, try adding the table to that rule there. The following example assumes your menu table has an id of menu: body, #menu { font: normal 90%/1.4 Helvetica,sans-serif } Hope this helps -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading

Re: SV: Re: [WSG] CSS problems in IE (weird font-size)

2005-06-02 Thread Bert Doorn
at, we may be able to spot the problem and steer you in the right direction. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] CDATA and html tidy

2005-06-01 Thread Bert Doorn
. Avoid the characters that make it necessary and/or usually use external style sheets (and external javascript files). Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] CDATA and html tidy

2005-06-01 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day again Thanks Bert, but I'm finding that a simple import such as: style type=text/css @import url(../CSS/primary.css); /style is 'tidied' into: style type=text/css /*![CDATA[*/ @import url(../CSS/primary.css); /*]]*/ /style So I doubt that I'm doing anything 'wrong' - am I? Some

Re: [WSG] Exporting inline CSS

2005-05-31 Thread Bert Doorn
section, you could use the same method to replace it to use an imported style sheet. Biggest question is: how consistent is the site's layout? Will it work with an overall style sheet or two? Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user

Re: [WSG] multi-lingual

2005-05-30 Thread Bert Doorn
element to lang=en and put lang=pt only on the elements (divs or whatever you're using) with portuguese content. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion

Re: [WSG] multi-lingual

2005-05-30 Thread Bert Doorn
-- Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] style sheet set up

2005-05-29 Thread Bert Doorn
feed it to every visitor? Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] valid flash?

2005-05-25 Thread Bert Doorn
. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints

Re: [WSG] CSS list spacing: margin or line-height?

2005-05-18 Thread Bert Doorn
into it. But I may be wrong. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] Playing a sound file - what is the best way?

2005-05-17 Thread Bert Doorn
mechanism, so your site doesn't fail accessibility standards/guidelines. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

Re: [WSG] search field image alignment

2005-05-15 Thread Bert Doorn
#adef-align-IMG The align attribute is deprecated and should be avoided if possible. In addition, align=absmiddle is a Microsoft Invention/Extension, which is why it works in MSIE. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] IE not displaying a link as a block level element

2005-05-11 Thread Bert Doorn
:#0b73c1; } Try adding a width. If a fixed width nav block, fix the width, otherwise play with 100% (but you might need a hack to hide that from browsers other than Windows IE) Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] site check/comments please

2005-05-10 Thread Bert Doorn
a list element? I note you don't want to add complexity. Is an unordered list more complex than the code in the splash page (which is not valid HTML4.01 Transitional, let alone Strict as suggested by the DTD)? Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading

Re: [WSG] The mother of all html references?

2005-05-03 Thread Bert Doorn
references) is www.zvon.org It even shows which elements and attributes are appropriate for each DTD (and I use strict 99.9% of the time) Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] BIIIIIIIG white space in Firefox not IE6

2005-04-29 Thread Bert Doorn
to analyse all those nested divs and the corresponding CSS. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

Re: [WSG] best practice?

2005-04-29 Thread Bert Doorn
, list item and what have you. Best to just put it on body... Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

Re: [WSG] new mycareer.com.au design

2005-04-26 Thread Bert Doorn
salary, it does not let me select (it appears, then disappears immediately). I have to hold my mouse down and drag to make a selection. Annoying. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] Nested Links?

2005-04-24 Thread Bert Doorn
other than a space). Cool link a href=#here/a or a href=#there/a ... Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

Re: [WSG] Drop Down Menu Hack for IE

2005-04-19 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day I cannot seem to isolate the IE Hack to just work on my menu DIV, and not work on the whole page. Suggest you validate and fix the xhtml, then check for cascading issues. With invalid xhtml it's anyone's guess what a browser will do. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http

Re: [WSG] Unexpected underlines and div wierdness in FF and NS

2005-04-07 Thread Bert Doorn
wrong here? Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some

Re: [WSG] Styling Forms

2005-04-04 Thread Bert Doorn
of accessibility... A quick scan of the webstandardsgroup.org resources section shows this link: http://www.webcredible.co.uk/user-friendly-resources/web-accessibility/accessible-forms-1.shtml Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly

Re: [WSG] Really strange results

2005-04-04 Thread Bert Doorn
) and see if it makes a difference. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] Scrolling layout problem

2005-04-03 Thread Bert Doorn
in Gecko based browsers Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] Style part of form field

2005-03-28 Thread Bert Doorn
a class) instead - this seems to work in some browsers. option.photo { background-color:red;color:white } Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list

Re: [WSG] Rounded corner and IE Win help needed

2005-03-28 Thread Bert Doorn
), put a background image on li.last a ...and... li.last a:hover Incidentally, you might ass more contrast - there's not enough of it, especially on hover, making the (tiny) link text very hard to read. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user

Re: [WSG] you've been framed! - Pt2 : overflow

2005-03-25 Thread Bert Doorn
scroll wheel doesn't work) but does what it's supposed to do in MSIE6 (built it quite some time ago, when I basically built for MSIE). Works in Opera 7 I'll see if I have some more examples (that validate) Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user

Re: [WSG] A web page crashing FireFox 1.01

2005-03-25 Thread Bert Doorn
remove the space and / from the end of the DTD (it should not be there) and see if the problem persists. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list

Re: [WSG] you've been framed!

2005-03-24 Thread Bert Doorn
-- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting

Re: [WSG] CSS/Font size query

2005-03-23 Thread Bert Doorn
/index.html Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints

Re: [WSG] Website Review

2005-03-22 Thread Bert Doorn
is a non-issue for me with Firefox. I have it set to not allow scripts to hide the status bar or change status bar text, resize windows, etc. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

[WSG] Standards compliant site, clients wants to make updates themselves

2005-03-20 Thread Bert Doorn
site), all of which increases the cost. What other options are there, apart from complex, expensive CMS setups (or forgetting about standards)? Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] Standards compliant site, clients wants to make updates themselves

2005-03-20 Thread Bert Doorn
use it much - prefer hand-coding). And if they can't figure out how to use it, they can come back and pay for updates... Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] Dilemma: Useful, additional attributes in elements, invalidating HTML

2005-03-19 Thread Bert Doorn
the standard DTDs). Still, it would be nice to have additional input types, like integer, email or currency, to go along with the existing types. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] Site Review - coylemedical.com

2005-03-17 Thread Bert Doorn
it sticks out on the left. Stats vary, but this site will have the formatting problem for a sizeable portion of visitors (perhaps half), The absolute positioning you mentioned is the cause of your problem. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading

Re: [WSG] absolute positioning in IE

2005-03-17 Thread Bert Doorn
question, I can't see why you would use a table for such a simple layout, and the inline styles should really go into the external style sheet. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] Writing with a markup language

2005-03-03 Thread Bert Doorn
. No Headings (h1..h6)? If you're going to tell people about markup and accessibility, at least present it on a page which actually uses that markup properly and is accessible. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

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

2005-03-02 Thread Bert Doorn
*have to* use the long-winded rgb(255,255,255) approach. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

Re: [WSG] IE Image vertical height oddity

2005-03-01 Thread Bert Doorn
happens if you remove that height setting? Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] vertical drop-down menu

2005-02-24 Thread Bert Doorn
neither js nor css support (e.g. lynx) will see a standard nested bullet list with ALL the links. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] Help centering footer IE6

2005-02-24 Thread Bert Doorn
). In standards mode (as with Firefox and Opera), left and right padding is added to that figure, for a total width of 728px. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] table background images with CSS

2005-02-23 Thread Bert Doorn
the table cell background colours show through). Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

Re: [WSG] table background images with CSS

2005-02-22 Thread Bert Doorn
you would need a very tall background image if you want it shown the full length *height) of the table/page. If it is an image that can and should tile, remove the no-repeat from your background rule (or replace it with the seemingly more appropriate repeat-y). Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better

Re: [WSG] setAttribute not working on Firefox

2005-02-21 Thread Bert Doorn
so it should work. windowdiv.setAttribute(className,wclass); windowdiv.setAttribute(id,name); the classname is not being set any suggestions? Have you tried class instead of className? Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] Subtractive Box model

2005-02-18 Thread Bert Doorn
worked at some resolutions in MSIE. Rounding issue. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

Re: [WSG] Summaries in blockquotes and the cite attribute

2005-02-17 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day Terrence Wood wrote: why? So that the summary is semantically different from the rest of the content. ... Bert Doorn wrote: Question: *why* do you want to use blockquote in the first place? If it is purely for presentational purposes (indented block) I agree that you are abusing the markup

Re: [WSG] Summaries in blockquotes and the cite attribute

2005-02-16 Thread Bert Doorn
attribute (and perhaps the cite element) would be appropriate, since I am QUOTING, verbatim, from another document and referring to the (external) source for reference :-) Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] Form field validation query

2005-02-15 Thread Bert Doorn
that in PHP because I don't speak PHP and it would be off-topic for this list. HTH -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

Re: [WSG] UL menu - gap and firstlink

2005-02-12 Thread Bert Doorn
lists at the bottom of the page, so the page doesn't suffer from spanitis and classitis. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] Links not working in MAC

2005-02-10 Thread Bert Doorn
, the result is unpredictable. The problem may not disappear if the page validates, but it should be the first step in trying to find the cause of the problem. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] Browser Checks

2005-02-07 Thread Bert Doorn
if you were selling software that can only be operated by expert users with the latest equipment? Different audience. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion

Re: [WSG] Thumbnail Image overlapping container DIV - Help Please

2005-02-04 Thread Bert Doorn
their container. Simplest way to fix it is to add this rule to your CSS: .TeaserContainer:after { clear:right; display:block; height:0; content: ; } See http://www.positioniseverything.net/easyclearing.html for more info. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http

Re: [WSG] Question about vertical CSS navigation

2005-02-03 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day Is there an alternative to the one I use now at http://www.iamu-edu.org , that is(/was?, can't find it anymore) listed on Russ http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/listamatic/ page? Son of Suckerfish: http://www.htmldog.com/ptg/archives/50.php Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web

Re: [WSG] Disappearing input boxes in Firefox1.0

2005-02-02 Thread Bert Doorn
The issue has been resolved. Thanks to all who replied (you know who you are). It was a faulty installation of Firefox, not faulty CSS or XHTML. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] Quick h1,h2 etc question

2005-02-01 Thread Bert Doorn
of the main h1. Each h3 belongs to a sub-sub-section under the h2. And so on. You can have multiple h2's each with multiple h3's etc. That means... Your second version. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] Indented text

2005-01-27 Thread Bert Doorn
blah blah/p /div css: div.whatever img { display:block; float:left; width: 200px; } div.whatever p { margin-left: 220px; /* image width + a little extra */ } Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] ID and class case sensitivity - potential CSS hack?

2005-01-26 Thread Bert Doorn
should be aware of? (I don't have a Mac or Linux system) Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

[WSG] ID and class case sensitivity - potential CSS hack?

2005-01-25 Thread Bert Doorn
would see no matching class or id in the (x)HTML so they would not use it. Thoughts, anyone? Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] Floats dont float - can you see what i've got wrong please?

2005-01-25 Thread Bert Doorn
#content: clear:left; That should fix it. I won't comment on the use of tables... OK, I did :-) Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] a train wreck of css

2005-01-25 Thread Bert Doorn
said about someone who had to take 17 different types of pills every day - about 12 of them were prescribed to combat side-effects of the others Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] Text wrapping and background images

2005-01-24 Thread Bert Doorn
as a single inline box, similar to a replaced element. The inside of an inline-block is formatted as a block box, and the element itself is formatted as an inline replaced element. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] Future XHTML Proposals?

2005-01-23 Thread Bert Doorn
to put a table with tabular data inside the single layout table). I cringe when I see sites that nest their tables just to get some spacing etc that can be achieved easily with CSS. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] valid table tags for xhtml strict

2005-01-20 Thread Bert Doorn
.org/TR/REC-html40/index/attributes.html indicates that the align attribute it is *NOT* deprecated for COL, COLGROUP, TBODY, TD, TFOOT, TH, THEAD and TR. Neither is valign. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] meta tag standards

2005-01-20 Thread Bert Doorn
with meta ... /meta, just like there is with br/br and img .../img HTH -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

Re: [WSG] valid table tags for xhtml strict

2005-01-20 Thread Bert Doorn
of it, keeping the (x)HTML document nice and clean. I thought the whole point behind (x)HTML strict was separation of content and presentation. Keeping align attributes does not seem to fit in. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] yet more valid table tags for xhtml strict

2005-01-20 Thread Bert Doorn
, use (still valid) Strict attributes in minimal quantities. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

Re: [WSG] IE and background image

2005-01-14 Thread Bert Doorn
as there may be elements inside this box and rules that affect it. At a guess, adding a width and/or height might help, especially if there's floated elements inside the box. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] iframe and HTML 401 strict.

2005-01-13 Thread Bert Doorn
data=vide.htm id=mframe type=text/html width=690 height=320Text here for older browsers (perhaps a link to vide.htm)/object HTH -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] Can I use a table in a form?

2005-01-12 Thread Bert Doorn
; width: 14em; /* Add whatever formatting you want */ } I use something like this on the forms on my own site (which probably aren't perfect either, but I try). Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] Problem UL with Firefox

2005-01-12 Thread Bert Doorn
; margin:0; padding:0; } li { background: transparent url(whatever) no-repeat; padding-left: 30px; } Seems to work fine in Opera, MSIE and Firefox (on a quick test I ran) But maybe I'm missing something. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading

Re: [WSG] Site Tracking and Validation

2005-01-10 Thread Bert Doorn
attributes to the images and putting the noscript content inside a div. See site in sig (towards the end of the xhtml source). Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] fonts

2005-01-07 Thread Bert Doorn
eyesight who have discovered there are browsers other than IE. My $0.02 Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

Re: [WSG] being framed!

2005-01-05 Thread Bert Doorn
on documents displayed in iframes and objects. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] IE PC Problem with

2005-01-04 Thread Bert Doorn
, rather than in the flow, or remove the spaces inside the map.../map. Seems that's the cause of the problem. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list

Re: [WSG] Slow loading of CSS

2005-01-03 Thread Bert Doorn
It's called a Flash of Unstyled Content (FOUC) See http://www.bluerobot.com/web/css/fouc.asp (Found in Resources section of the Web Standards Group's site) Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] A new year challenge - was [ Web Design in 2005]

2004-12-30 Thread Bert Doorn
with pure XHTML and CSS but why would one take on such a mission? Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web 'Design' http:/www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

Re: [WSG] CSS alignment issues

2004-12-26 Thread Bert Doorn
-40k would be better and should be achievable without too much loss of quality. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] Affiliate link code validation errors

2004-12-24 Thread Bert Doorn
with encoded mailto: links that look like gibberish in the HTML. It's always worked fine. What does a browser show when you put gt; or quot; in your HTML? Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] Affiliate link code validation errors

2004-12-23 Thread Bert Doorn
it, right after it tells you there's a problem. Perhaps you missed it. All you need to do is code the ampersands as amp; and it should validate (unless there are other errors of course). Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly

Re: [WSG] IE6 Doctype Quirks Mode

2004-12-22 Thread Bert Doorn
. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints

Re: [WSG] My Site

2004-12-21 Thread Bert Doorn
). Beyond that, replace the nested tables with more structural markup and (optionally) update it to XHTML1.0 Strict. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

RE: [WSG] IE img border padding error

2004-12-17 Thread Bert Doorn
(IMG, form field widgets, etc.) Regards -- Bert Doorn, Web Developer Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

RE: [WSG] IE img border padding error

2004-12-17 Thread Bert Doorn
(background images, lots of spans and classes, no img element with padding). Anyway, it's up to you what you do :-) Regards -- Bert Doorn, Web Developer Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

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