Re: [WSG] how to force a cache bypass?

2012-08-03 Thread David Hucklesby
(See below) On 8/2/12 9:50 PM, James Ducker wrote: Second that. If you can version the filenames that's definitely the most sure-fire way to make sure users don't cache old copies. James On 3 August 2012 14:39, Emmanuel Negri nna...@gmail.com mailto:nna...@gmail.com wrote: Sometimes a

Re: [WSG] cross-browser or vendor-specific CSS

2012-06-29 Thread David Hucklesby
On 6/29/12 7:20 AM, Kevin Erickson wrote: Hi, I am asking if anyone uses http://ecsstender.org/ to write CSS cross-browser code or, if not, what are you using to write CSS cross-browser or vendor-specific code? Short answer - I don't even try to make all browsers act alike. :) Start with a

Re: [WSG] cross-browser or vendor-specific CSS

2012-06-29 Thread David Hucklesby
On 6/29/12 11:08 AM, coder wrote: - Original Message - From: David Hucklesby Start with a simple design for mobile and old browsers. Add advanced CSS inside @media queries or qualified by :root. qualified by :root? can you give us an example here? In HTML, :root is functionally

Re: [WSG] WSG: Best Practice Page/Content Tools [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

2012-02-26 Thread David Hucklesby
On 2/26/12 2:06 PM, Blumer, Luke wrote: Hi all, I have been looking at sites that contain a selection of tools for content, generally looking after print, email, and text size, shown in the below site. http://www.educationtaxrefund.gov.au/ I'm not sure why you'd need that - assuming

Re: [WSG] Expected behaviour of links to external websites

2011-12-21 Thread David Hucklesby
On 12/21/11 5:04 AM, Patrick H. Lauke wrote: On 21/12/2011 12:16, coder wrote: In one sense, this argument is fallacious, because whatever the web designer does decides what happens when a user just 'clicks a link'. In my experience, most folk 'out there' don't know about right clicking. To say

Re: [WSG] Expected behaviour of links to external websites

2011-12-21 Thread David Hucklesby
On 12/21/11 9:35 AM, Patrick H. Lauke wrote: On 21/12/2011 17:14, David Hucklesby wrote: Excellent points. If your reason for wanting to open a new window or tab is to be helpful, I suggest telling your visitors about the right-click option right there on your web page. Ah, but then do you

Re: [WSG] Is it possible to style an attribute?

2011-12-20 Thread David Hucklesby
On 12/19/11 10:47 PM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 4:38 AM, Grant Bailey wrote: Hello, I was wondering if anyone could clarify whether it is possible to style an attribute. I realise this sounds odd, so allow me to explain what I wish to do. In my web page there are a

Re: [WSG] Content div sticking out the side of container div

2011-12-03 Thread David Hucklesby
On 12/2/11 8:01 PM, Stevio wrote: Thanks for the suggestions. I am trying to develop a flexible layout (so I do not want to set a width for the parent element) for web sites that will be used in conjunction with a content management system. The width of child element will therefore be unknown as

Re: [WSG] nav element

2011-11-22 Thread David Hucklesby
On 11/22/11 6:32 AM, Frances de Waal wrote: Hi, Working with the semantical HTML5 elements I keep feeling aversion to the extra elements I am producing. Like the nav element, using it as a container for a menu in an list does not feel as an advantage, I never needed a container for the list

Re: [WSG] Wrapping text before float drop

2011-11-03 Thread David Hucklesby
On 11/3/11 10:52 AM, Stevio wrote: If I have two floats side by side, both are floated left as follow: .myfloat{ float:left; } and both contain text as follows: div class=myfloatLonger amount of text. Longer amount of text. Longer amount of text. Longer amount of text./div div

Re: [WSG] IE9's Browser Mode Controls - Reliable?

2011-09-23 Thread David Hucklesby
On 9/23/11 7:58 AM, Janice Schwarz wrote: On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 6:41 AM, Cole Kuryakinc...@koisis.com wrote: [...] This way of switching browser modes (between 7, 8 and 9) is quite convenient but... is it a true representation of how the project will render in these three browsers? [...]

Re: [WSG] IE issues: display none vs absolute position for show/hide effect

2011-06-16 Thread David Hucklesby
On 6/15/11 10:24 PM, tee wrote: Repost, change subject line. David and Jon, I am not trying to hide the texts from desktop screen and has screen reader able to read it - I want the content be available at all time for search engines, browsers, CSS enabled/disabled and JS enabled/disabled. I

Re: [WSG] IE7 page load issue, can it be prevented?

2011-06-15 Thread David Hucklesby
despite the slow connection. On Jun 14, 2011, at 8:21 AM, David Hucklesby wrote: On 6/13/11 6:31 PM, tee wrote: Some pages of the site loads very slow in IE7 (about 15 seconds), and while the page was loading and (I assume) IE7 was still parsing the scripts, all the hidden elements shown through

Re: [WSG] IE7 page load issue, can it be prevented?

2011-06-14 Thread David Hucklesby
On 6/13/11 6:31 PM, tee wrote: Some pages of the site loads very slow in IE7 (about 15 seconds), and while the page was loading and (I assume) IE7 was still parsing the scripts, all the hidden elements shown through. I wander if there is a way to prevent this.

Re: [WSG] the image is not showing in IE7

2011-06-03 Thread David Hucklesby
On 6/3/11 7:47 AM, Joseph Taylor wrote: Try losing the double quotes like: win.document.write('body style=background-color: #EBF2FA;h4Loading.../h4img src=ajax-loader.gif style=border:1px solid;/body'); [...] On 6/3/11 10:34 AM, Mahendran Venkatesan wrote: Hi Folks! I just tried to open

Re: [WSG] what is the exact version of FF 3.6 x prior to FF4?

2011-03-31 Thread David Hucklesby
On 3/31/11 1:44 AM, tee wrote: Thanks all! On Mar 31, 2011, at 1:05 AM, Fabien BENARIAC wrote: After upgrading to FF4, most addons worked -- until I restarted FF. I just have to re-install firebug... YSlow was ok after for me. btw, I think a upgrade is usefull (I don't understand why you

Re: [WSG] HTML5 v. HTML 4.x

2011-01-27 Thread David Hucklesby
On 1/27/11 6:42 AM, Steve Green wrote: That's exactly my point. At any point in time there will be projects where you should use safe, well-understood, well-supported technologies and there will be other projects where you can try out new cutting-edge ones. When making this choice, you should

Re: [WSG] CSS variable navigational menu`

2011-01-09 Thread David Hucklesby
On 1/9/11 10:24 AM, Thierry Koblentz wrote: These two essentially are the same. I am assuming the menu is controlled by a javascript, best practise is to use the absolute positioning to control submenu and use the toogle or mouseover to trigger the sub-level. I'm not sure this is considered

Re: [WSG] IE hasLayout - the long and short of it

2011-01-06 Thread David Hucklesby
On 1/5/11 11:12 PM, G.Sørtun wrote: On 06.01.2011 07:21, David Hucklesby wrote: Here's my attempt to put a gradient behind some headings. To get Microsoft's gradient filter to work, I must give the headers layout. This causes the headings to expand in width in IE6, and to shrink in IE7: http

Re: [WSG] IE hasLayout - the long and short of it

2011-01-06 Thread David Hucklesby
On 1/6/11 9:43 AM, Thierry Koblentz wrote: Hi David, It appears to be the existence of hasLayout on the .vcalendar that causes the problem (due to it being floated...) I don't think this is the issue per se. Imho, the problem is that this float is width-less. Give it with a width and things

Re: [WSG] IE hasLayout - the long and short of it

2011-01-06 Thread David Hucklesby
Re: http://thewebwiz.net/temp/has-layout-long-and-short/ On 1/6/11 5:05 PM, Jon Reece wrote: Hi David, Sorry, I was in a hurry and didn't read all that I should have, also didn't notice that removing hasLayout also removed the filter. Maybe you want to try PIE (css3pie.com)? - Jon That had

Re: [WSG] Detecting Mobile user agent - what methods work best?

2011-01-06 Thread David Hucklesby
On 1/6/11 8:10 PM, Mike Kear wrote: I have to convert a client site to enable phone users to use the site and I was wondering what is the best method to detect the mobile user agent and switch the css sheet? As far as I have seen, there are a few ways to do this - which is best? (or maybe the

[WSG] IE hasLayout - the long and short of it

2011-01-05 Thread David Hucklesby
Here's my attempt to put a gradient behind some headings. To get Microsoft's gradient filter to work, I must give the headers layout. This causes the headings to expand in width in IE6, and to shrink in IE7: http://thewebwiz.net/temp/has-layout-long-and-short/ Any solution, even a scripting

Re: [WSG] disallow IE6 to load the main style sheet

2010-12-21 Thread David Hucklesby
On 12/20/10 6:14 PM, Chad Kelly wrote: - Original Message - From: Erickson, Kevin (DOE) kevin.erick...@doe.virginia.gov To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 7:51 AM Subject: RE: [WSG] disallow IE6 to load the main style sheet Yes. Thank you Felix! best viewed

Re: [WSG] Re: WSG Digest (was disallow IE6...)

2010-12-20 Thread David Hucklesby
On 12/20/10 6:57 AM, Thierry Koblentz wrote: Using IE conditional comments on the html tag, you can target each version of IE. You can does not mean you should... In a comment [1] on forabeautifulweb, Molly Holzschlag says: Please, please don’t design for browsers. [1]

Re: [WSG] Document Formats

2010-11-30 Thread David Hucklesby
On 11/30/10 11:52 AM, Erickson, Kevin (DOE) wrote: Hi All, The website I work with receives a lot of documents to be posted that come in the form of Word, PowerPoint and Excel documents. And now, with the release of the latest versions of Ms Office, they are coming to me with an X on their

Re: [WSG] all media queries in one style sheet Vs individually served

2010-11-12 Thread David Hucklesby
On 11/11/10 4:57 AM, G.Sørtun wrote: Years since I tested what browsers actually did, and much has changed since then. I do prefer to spread styles in logical groups over a few stylesheets, to a certain degree. If nothing else it helps on maintenance and reuse. 1. Will the desktop browser

Re: [WSG] A simple IE and JS detection method?

2010-11-01 Thread David Hucklesby
On 11/1/10 3:15 AM, Foskett, Mike wrote: Hi David, How, without using conditional comments at all, do I target IE 6,7, and 8 I was asking how I'd be able to target all three *without* any CCs. Add an extra script line? script type=text/javascript/*![CDATA[*/var

Re: [WSG] A simple IE and JS detection method?

2010-10-30 Thread David Hucklesby
On 10/29/10 3:22 PM, G.Sørtun wrote: On 29.10.2010 23:33, David Hucklesby wrote: Perhaps you know of a browser-safe filter for IE8? Don't know about safe, but maybe you can find what you need here... http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/styles/target-browser.css Thank you, Georg. Your valuable

Re: [WSG] A simple IE and JS detection method?

2010-10-29 Thread David Hucklesby
On 10/29/10 2:13 AM, Foskett, Mike wrote: [...] David, How, without using conditional comments at all, do I target IE 6,7, and 8 From the example: bg {background: #fff} .IE6 bg, .IE7 bg { filter: progid: etc...} .IE8 bg { -ms-filter: progid: etc} Precisely. I was asking how I'd be

Re: [WSG] A simple IE and JS detection method?

2010-10-29 Thread David Hucklesby
On 10/29/10 12:05 PM, Thierry Koblentz wrote: goes against the separation of the three layers No it doesn't, it's purely presentational. No better or worse thanli class=last imho, CCs have nothing to do with the presentational layer, they are part of the structural layer and they are junk

Re: [WSG] A simple IE and JS detection method?

2010-10-28 Thread David Hucklesby
On 10/28/10 5:25 PM, Mathew Robertson wrote: I'll stick my neck out and say... dont do it for the CSS bit... specifically, you should be asking - What is the point of adding a specific class to html/body for a specific browser? In particular, using this technique discourages the whole graceful

Re: [WSG] attribute selectors to target external and internal links

2010-10-21 Thread David Hucklesby
On 10/21/10 2:49 PM, tee wrote: I tried but couldn't get it to work. I tried these: a[href=http://site.com] {color: #e21;background: #555;} a[href=http://www.site.com] {color: #e21;background: #555;} a[href=http://subdomain.site.com/] {color: #e21;background: #555;}

Re: [WSG] un-border-collapse, possible?

2010-09-20 Thread David Hucklesby
this: table {border-radius: 15px; border-collaspe: collapse} table, th, td {border:1px solid #369; } http://www.lotusseedsdesign.com/css-test/table/table.html tee On Sep 15, 2010, at 5:59 PM, David Hucklesby wrote: On 9/15/10 10:42 AM, tee wrote: When border-collapse is declared, it can't do border

Re: [WSG] un-border-collapse, possible?

2010-09-20 Thread David Hucklesby
On 9/20/10 2:48 PM, David Hucklesby wrote: On 9/19/10 2:17 PM, tee wrote: Hi David, Just got a chance to revisit this issue. I want the border radius for table. [...] I needed to do something like #6 (still not perfect due to the space in th cell) without the hassle of #6 codes, but it's

Re: [WSG] un-border-collapse, possible?

2010-09-15 Thread David Hucklesby
On 9/15/10 10:42 AM, tee wrote: When border-collapse is declared, it can't do border-radius. I have this: table {border-collapse:collapse} Because the site has many table layouts, it's easier to declare border-collapse in the table, but in one specific table in a given page I want to use

Re: [WSG] Current thinking on fixed width/liquid design ?

2010-08-20 Thread David Hucklesby
On 8/18/10 6:14 PM, Lyn Smith wrote: Good morning Was wondering what the latest opinions are on using fixed width or liquid design in light of the ever increasing size of monitor screens. [...] It seems to me, going by the sites I have frequented of late, that many seem to favour fixed

Re: [WSG] Paul Irish/Divya Manian HTML5 Boilerplate

2010-08-12 Thread David Hucklesby
On 8/12/10 4:57 AM, Tom Livingston wrote: Anyone have any thoughts on this? Worth a try? On a production site? http://html5boilerplate.com/ Looks pretty good to me... what say ye? Some useful ideas there, although I won't be using it as-is. Thanks for sharing. Cordially, David --

Re: [WSG] EM bug in Safari 5?

2010-07-30 Thread David Hucklesby
On 7/29/10 10:29 AM, tee wrote: It's been quite a while I have to do a site using EM unit for the layout width (with max/min-widths treatment), I am getting a shrunk page in Safari. In these two examples, the width is 62em which is around 992px according to pxtoem dot com, but in Safari 5 it's

Re: [WSG] ems versus pixels

2010-07-22 Thread David Hucklesby
On 7/22/10 7:13 AM, tee wrote: On Jul 21, 2010, at 7:43 AM, David Hucklesby wrote: With all due respect, I suggest you are attempting to control the uncontrollable far too finely. 0.9em is either one or two pixels smaller than default, depending on the rounding applied by the browser

Re: [WSG] ems versus pixels

2010-07-21 Thread David Hucklesby
On 7/20/10 9:58 PM, tee wrote: On Jul 20, 2010, at 7:10 PM, Mathew Robertson wrote: On 21 July 2010 11:52, tee weblis...@gmail.com mailto:weblis...@gmail.com wrote: EM can fail miserably in below senario for IEs for p, li and span tags due to inheritance making them very tiny and unable to

Re: [WSG] ems versus pixels

2010-07-20 Thread David Hucklesby
On 7/20/10 8:25 AM, David Laakso wrote: Foskett, Mike wrote: Has anyone on the list considered using keywords? Mike Foskett Has anyone conceived of a layout for the page using percent, em, /and/ pixel width, with the fonts specified in percent [ or em ] :-) ? Best, ~d Eric seems to have

Re: [WSG] Korean fonts

2010-07-14 Thread David Hucklesby
On 7/13/10 8:08 PM, Mathew Robertson wrote: On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:14 AM, David Hucklesby wrote: Can you please suggest a font stack suitable for a site that's entirely in Korean? The additional information has helped a lot. And what did you implement? I passed Andrew Cunningham's

[WSG] Korean fonts

2010-07-08 Thread David Hucklesby
Can you please suggest a font stack suitable for a site that's entirely in Korean? I am assisting a student Web designer who is developing a site in Korean--a language with which I am entirely unfamiliar. Using a font stack out of Dreamweaver, none of which have any Korean glyphs AFAICT,

Re: [WSG] IE ignores MIME type

2010-04-12 Thread David Hucklesby
On 4/11/10 11:52 PM, Luke Hoggett wrote: Hi, SSI header working on IE8 on Win7, sorry no time to check out other IEs cheers Luke On 12/04/2010 3:53 PM, David Hucklesby wrote: A student at a Web design course asked me how to include a common heading on all his pages without copy and pasting

Re: [WSG] IE ignores MIME type

2010-04-12 Thread David Hucklesby
On 4/12/10 11:41 AM, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: On Sun, 11 Apr 2010, David Hucklesby wrote: A student at a Web design course asked me how to include a common heading on all his pages without copy and pasting into each. I walked him through the process of making a Server-Side Include. http

[WSG] IE ignores MIME type

2010-04-11 Thread David Hucklesby
A student at a Web design course asked me how to include a common heading on all his pages without copy and pasting into each. I walked him through the process of making a Server-Side Include. http://webwiz.robinshosting.com/jaime/ This is a demo I made for him. The view source is named with

Re: [WSG] blockquote

2010-04-04 Thread David Hucklesby
On 4/4/10 2:53 AM, Patrick H. Lauke wrote: ... one thing blockquote does have that q doesn't is also the cite attribute (as minimally useful as it is today). I believe that Q elements do allow the cite attribute. But, as you say, this is rarely useful. Q may be more useful when writing in

Re: [WSG] Rendering mismatch in IE6 and IE7

2010-03-04 Thread David Hucklesby
On 3/3/10 9:47 PM, Chakravarthy, Srikanth wrote: [...] Now is there any way I can identify what CSS properties are not behaving properly in IE6? Is there any way that I can make the pages compatible with IE6? Any reference link or suggestion will be of immense help. The first thing to

Re: [WSG] RE: Difference between applied CSS and Computed CSS

2010-02-25 Thread David Hucklesby
On 2/25/10 5:00 PM, Stephen Holmes (Gmail) wrote: Hi, Just noticed this in the WSG List: Removing any characters before!DOCTYPE ... really does miracles, because now the layouts is much better under IE/Safari/Chrome/FF. This is because if the first thing a browser sees is anything BUT a

Re: [WSG] AAA Accessibility and validation

2010-01-13 Thread David Hucklesby
On 1/13/10 12:24 PM, Thierry Koblentz wrote: Nick Zoom:1 is not bad enough to warrant a conditional comment and separate style sheet. It's a valid rule that basically says show the screen at 100%. A user style sheet can still over-ride this rule. It's an easy way to add hasLayout without causing

Re: [WSG] CSS Popup

2010-01-11 Thread David Hucklesby
On 1/11/10 11:25 AM, Tom Livingston wrote: Hello list, I tried to repurpose this example from Eric Meyer: http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/popups/demo.html His page works in IE6. My attempt, however, does not. Can anyone see why? http://www.mlinc.com/css_popup/ Thanks in advance Yup. You

Re: [WSG] Re: WSG Digest

2009-10-29 Thread David Hucklesby
ピエールランリ・ラヴィン wrote: Actually is not enough. Accesskey is a good way about the accessibility, but it's not completed. I didn't check the latest WCAG and the latest version of screen readers but: * Keyboards shortcuts depend from the UA (the specifications didn't define it) * Users may define

Re: [WSG] Is page-break-before broken in Webkit?

2009-10-14 Thread David Hucklesby
James Ducker wrote: Hi there, As a test, try using that style on an element that isn't floated or inside a floated element. That was worth a try - I added a break-after to the preceding paragraph, but Safari 4 seems intent on ignoring my wishes. (I double-checked in other browsers - either

Re: [Spam] :Re: [WSG] Is page-break-before broken in Webkit?

2009-10-14 Thread David Hucklesby
Nick Fitzsimons wrote: 2009/10/14 David Hucklesby huckle...@gmail.com: James Ducker wrote: Hi there, As a test, try using that style on an element that isn't floated or inside a floated element. That was worth a try - I added a break-after to the preceding paragraph, but Safari 4 seems

Re: [WSG] Is page-break-before broken in Webkit?

2009-10-12 Thread David Hucklesby
David Hucklesby wrote: Trying to put the entire printed recipe on its own printed page, most browsers honor my page-break-before: always; declaration. I can't get this to work nohow no way in Webkit (Safari and Chrome), even by adding !important... http://yewebwiz.info/temp/kam/ The rule

[WSG] Is page-break-before broken in Webkit?

2009-10-11 Thread David Hucklesby
Trying to put the entire printed recipe on its own printed page, most browsers honor my page-break-before: always; declaration. I can't get this to work nohow no way in Webkit (Safari and Chrome), even by adding !important... http://yewebwiz.info/temp/kam/ The rule is first in the @print

Re: [WSG] Strange Table Border Rendering in everything BUT FF and IE

2009-09-27 Thread David Hucklesby
Cole Kuryakin wrote: [...] One MAJOR problem with using background images for the flag buttons is the fact that each entry could carry any one of 200+ flags. That's a WHOLE LOT of background declarations! No matter what type of more semantic structure I end up using for this I'm afraid I'll

Re: [WSG] Multiple IE's for browser testing

2009-08-24 Thread David Hucklesby
Dale Cruse wrote: I've been using IE Collection at http://finalbuilds.edskes.net/iecollection.htm You can download it and have versions of IE all the way back to 1.0! --- I just downloaded and tested this, selecting IE 5.01, IE 5.5, IE 6.0, and IE 7. They react as expected to the usual

Re: [WSG] hr / or CSS3 Border Background

2009-08-10 Thread David Hucklesby
Chris Taylor wrote: Hi, tee said: However, seeing that HTML 5 has given hr tag a new purpose: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#the-hr-element http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#flow-content-0 quote: The hr element represents a paragraph-level thematic break, e.g. a scene

Re: [WSG] position relative or margin?

2009-08-10 Thread David Hucklesby
Naveen Bhaskar wrote: Hi, Which is the right method to position a logo in the header. with * position :relative;top:10px; left:10px;* or *margin:10px 0 0 10px;* ** pls rell me the pros and cons ** Depends on how you want the logo to interact with the rest of the header. Relative

Re: [WSG] Accessible websites

2009-07-06 Thread David Hucklesby
Dennis Lapcewich wrote: While I agree with your general sentiment, I have to say I find the assertion that all people aged 35-40 or more are for all intents and purposes [...] web disabled and [...] in immediate need of web accessibility questionable, to say the least. I really don't see what

Re: [WSG] working with line-height

2009-07-01 Thread David Hucklesby
Joseph Taylor wrote re: http://www.hellobenlau.net/wsg/index.html Ben, On the spacing, the spaces you're fighting with are a combination of line-height, margin and padding. Each browser will implement their own defaults, so resetting the defaults with a reset stylesheet has become a popular

Re: [WSG] Accessible websites

2009-06-30 Thread David Hucklesby
Jens-Uwe Korff wrote: Hi all, I believe making sites accessible is very important. We are all used to ramps near stairs, lifts near escalators, lowered curbs at intersections. We need to get used to baking in time into our projects for accessible elements. [...] I agree wholeheartedly.

Re: [WSG] DIV Javascript Problem

2009-06-29 Thread David Hucklesby
Aaron Wheeler wrote: Hi All I was wondering if I can pick all your brains on an issue I am facing. I am not a big coder and good when it comes to JavaScript. I have recently taken charge of maintaining a website for a client who uses divs to display data onto a .htm page. They do not want to

Re: [WSG] Expand width of container to fit content's width?

2009-06-28 Thread David Hucklesby
(Joseph's reply moved to the bottom) On 6/27/09 1:32 AM, David Hucklesby wrote: Stevio wrote: Is it possible to expand a container's width to fit its content? Well, IE 6 treats width as min-width and likely does what you want. Non-IE browsers behave similarly if you add a display: table

Re: [WSG] Rendering difference between Strict Transitional doctypes in FF, IE8 Safari

2009-06-26 Thread David Hucklesby
David Dorward wrote: David Hucklesby wrote: I don't see anything in the W3C recommendations that forbids frames of any kind? http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/index/elements.html clearly marks iframe as a feature of the Loose (AKA transitional) DTD. A question of knowing where to look. Thanks

Re: [WSG] Expand width of container to fit content's width?

2009-06-26 Thread David Hucklesby
Stevio wrote: Is it possible to expand a container's width to fit its content? Well, IE 6 treats width as min-width and likely does what you want. Non-IE browsers behave similarly if you add a display: table; declaration. Don't know how to deal with IE 7 though... :( Cordially, David --

Re: [WSG] Rendering difference between Strict Transitional doctypes in FF, IE8 Safari

2009-06-25 Thread David Hucklesby
Damian Edwards wrote: [...] It only affects a few elements on the page (see links below) and is driving us mental. We need to serve this page as transitional as it uses a 3rd party service that requires an iframe. ... I don't see anything in the W3C recommendations that forbids frames

Re: [WSG] accessible free web hosting account

2009-06-25 Thread David Hucklesby
Marvin Hunkin wrote: looking for a free web hosting account that can handle side scripting, able to use such technologies as visual web developer, sql server, visualbasic, java script,etc. [...] so if any one can help out and recommend a good one which also has plenty of large space. and

Re: [WSG] free screen reader friendly web hosting

2009-06-17 Thread David Hucklesby
Ted Drake wrote: This is a very confusing email. The host has nothing to do with how screen-reader friendly your web site is. Are you looking for a host which has a screen-reader friendly admin interface? This would be geared to the developer not the end user. I think Marvin needs to find a

Re: [WSG] Image mapping standards question

2009-06-02 Thread David Hucklesby
Brett Patterson wrote: I meant that rather than using image mapping for hyperlinks, you could use it to (sort of) point out a particular part of an image, as if you wanted to show someone who can see which person in a picture is you if they hover their mouse over that image map. And you can use

Re: [WSG] CSS 3 Media Queries iPhone / Opera Mini 4

2009-05-30 Thread David Hucklesby
Christian Montoya wrote: I am looking into delivering an iPhone-specific stylesheet and I came across this: For example, to specify a style sheet for iPhone, use an expression similar to the following: link media=only screen and (max-device-width: 480px) href=small-device.css type= text/css

Re: [WSG] super bad Opera bug - v9.62

2009-05-23 Thread David Hucklesby
tee wrote: Stumble on one more annoying Opera bug that I am unable to figure exactly which element, and what is causing it. [...] bad-opera-2.html http://tinyurl.com/o5b259 2 columns layout, with left column intact Left column remains, and the right column has a large image which the

Re: [WSG] super bad Opera bug - v9.62

2009-05-23 Thread David Hucklesby
tee wrote: Stumble on one more annoying Opera bug that I am unable to figure exactly which element, and what is causing it. [...] bad-opera-2.html http://tinyurl.com/o5b259 2 columns layout, with left column intact Left column remains, and the right column has a large image which the

Re: [WSG] PNG - how cross-browser standard reliable?

2009-04-27 Thread David Hucklesby
Mike Kear wrote: I'm looking at a whole bunch of icons to use in a new app I'm building, and rather than convert them all to gifs, I was thinking of leaving them as the .png format they are now.They work on all the browsers I use, but I'm wondering what everyone else's experience has been

Re: [WSG] how reliable is it to use IE8 compatible mode to test IE7/6

2009-04-27 Thread David Hucklesby
tee wrote: Anybody use IE8 compatible mode to test IE7/6 instead of standalone version? Well, in my case I have a Conditional Comment for [if lt IE 8] that's supposed to make my h1 red if true; green if not. Now I installed IE 8 and not only IE 8 shows green (as expected) but in Compatibility

Re: [WSG] Box model in IE7

2009-04-24 Thread David Hucklesby
Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: We were told in the past by a massive client that for accessibility purposes font sizes needed to be set to 74% as a minimum as the basic reading size below which it's a straign on the eyes. To answer the O.P. question about IE box sizing-- I think the issue has

Re: [WSG] Borders in liquid layouts

2009-04-17 Thread David Hucklesby
Stevio wrote: [...] Essentially I reckon it comes down to equal height columns in liquid layouts. Any suggestions on how to best accomplish this? There is this: http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/equal-height-columns-cross-browser-css-no-hacks Cordially, David --

[WSG] Image Replacement and Accessabilty

2009-04-14 Thread David Hucklesby
You wrote: Other than using an img element and alt attribute, what image replacement techniques are also accessible? This is worth a look: http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/tip.asp Cordially, David -- *** List Guidelines:

Re: [WSG] URL naming best practice guide? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-02-20 Thread David Hucklesby
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:26:33 +1100, Chris Vickery wrote: Does anyone know where I could find a best practice guide to naming URLs? We're trying to keep our URLs descriptive like... www.whatever.com/news/events/index.html ...but not like this... www.whatever.com/news articles/Events Sent

Re: [WSG] Opera Targeting?!

2009-02-04 Thread David Hucklesby
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 03:37:19 -0800, tee wrote: IS 200% one time font size increasement or two? While FF 3 does not tell you, Firebug will show you the calculated font-size in pixels after re-sizing. In the CSS panel, choose Options Show computed style. Hope this helps. Cordially, David --

Re: [WSG] Opera Targeting?!

2009-02-04 Thread David Hucklesby
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 03:37:19 -0800, tee wrote: IS 200% one time font size increasement or two? While FF 3 does not tell you, Firebug will show you the calculated font-size in pixels after re-sizing. In the CSS panel, choose Options Show computed style. Hope this helps. Cordially, David --

Re: [WSG] Multi Column Category Lists

2009-01-27 Thread David Hucklesby
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:29:52 +, James Jeffery wrote: Hey all, Quick question. I have some data pulled from a database (50 of the most recent categories/tags). These are positioned in a list in 2 columns (example below): - Category1Category5

Re: [WSG] Validating (X)HTML + ARIA

2009-01-20 Thread David Hucklesby
On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:15:38 +1100, Anthony Ziebell wrote: Oh, also... there is a requirement for our pages to validate (hence I can only see JavaScript as a valid option at this point?) *Is* there a requirement for our pages to validate? I would have thought that making a page more

Re: [WSG] css Help Please

2009-01-12 Thread David Hucklesby
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:37:29 +1100, Marvin Hunkin wrote: Hi. got these three errors. but cannot seem to fix them. can you help. cheers Marvin. W3C CSS Validator results for file://localhost/C:\DOCS\MarvinsWebsite\styles.css (CSS level 2.1) Sorry! We found the following errors (3) URI :

Re: [WSG] Chrome and Safari render the same...or do they?

2009-01-08 Thread David Hucklesby
On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 16:36:45 +1100, Jens-Uwe Korff wrote: Hi experts, I'm running into big rendering differences between Google Chrome and Safari 3.1/PC. They are said to render pages the same, given that they're using the same Webkit engine. The differences seem to be mainly due to the

Re: [WSG] positioning help needed

2008-12-11 Thread David Hucklesby
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:03:46 +, kevin mcmonagle wrote: Hi I'm trying to modify this template to work with a footer. The problem is getting a footer to float below the right side div. I can't figure out how to keep #sidebar liquid but still float a footer under it. Is it possible.

Re: [WSG] Downloading Fonts

2008-12-08 Thread David Hucklesby
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Marvin Hunkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. rebuilding my site. and i have the following fonts in my style sheet. georgia, century school book, courrier, new courrier, comic ms, and others. but i notice, that on my local hard disk, or when i did have it on

Re: [WSG] Downloading Fonts

2008-12-08 Thread David Hucklesby
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Marvin Hunkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. rebuilding my site. and i have the following fonts in my style sheet. georgia, century school book, courrier, new courrier, comic ms, and others. but i notice, that on my local hard disk, or when i did have it on

Re: [WSG] HTML/XHTML/XML - Question about the future of.

2008-11-21 Thread David Hucklesby
On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:36:52 +0200, Rimantas Liubertas wrote: I made the same decision. I still follow HTML and XHTML, but anything I do (and have a choice about) is always HTML 4.01 Strict. I think it makes more sense than XHTML 1.0 Strict at this point since we can't really use real XHTML

Re: [WSG] CSS invisible to IE

2008-10-30 Thread David Hucklesby
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:02:21 +0500, Fuji kusaka wrote: Is there any way to code css (not conditional inline css), so that the CSS apply online to FF? I'm confused. Your subject line refers to IE, yet your question only refers to FF.(?) If you wish to target Firefox only, it will very much

Re: [WSG] CSS font-size-adjust

2008-10-22 Thread David Hucklesby
? Is there an ideal aspect value for screen display? On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 8:41 PM, David Hucklesby [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied: Hi Christian, I believe that Firefox 3 supports it, but must admit I have not tried using it. Interestingly I can't see the property listed in Sitepoint's Ultimate

Re: [WSG] CSS font-size-adjust

2008-10-20 Thread David Hucklesby
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:36:26 -0400, Christian Montoya wrote: - What's the support across browsers / machines for the font-size-adjust property? - Is adjusting the aspect value bad form? Is this as bad as letter-spacing body copy? Would this kill sheep? - Has anyone done this before? Is

Re: [WSG] Flash replace Javascript in Future?

2008-10-18 Thread David Hucklesby
On 17/10/2008, at 12:27 AM, Charles Ling wrote: Hi Guys/Gals, I would like to get some opinion from you all, that would Flash 10 or ++ will replace JavaScript in the future? According to this blog : http://ajaxian.com/archives/flash- 10-and-the-bad-news-for-javascript-interaction . On

Re: [WSG] min-might question

2008-10-18 Thread David Hucklesby
On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:24:03 -0700, tee wrote: Maybe this is something impossible with CSS, still I hope I am wrong and hope someone who knows better than me able to tell me yes, it can be done. In a block where I have min-height declared, something like this: div class=box div

Re: [WSG] Chrome and Safari

2008-10-16 Thread David Hucklesby
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:49:59 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Seeing as though Google's new Chrome browser uses the same rendering engine as Apple's Safari, would it be acceptable to test browser layout issues in Chrome and assume the same CSS solutions apply in Safari? Does anyone

Re: [WSG] Accessible menu lists - using the pipe character as separator?

2008-09-27 Thread David Hucklesby
2008/9/27 Daisy Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello all I can't seem to find a definitive answer on this via Google - is it best practice to use something like the pipe character ( | ) to separate links in a menu so that screenreader software pauses between the list items? Any recommended

Re: [WSG] Opera not playing nice with checkbox

2008-09-11 Thread David Hucklesby
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:09:38 -0700, tee wrote: Anybody encounters this? The checkbox inherits the input declaration, and though I added a class to overwrite it, with height and width, still I can't see the 'tick'. Another annoying thing with Opera, is that if I have background or border

Re: [WSG] Code for Firefox, hack for IE

2008-09-01 Thread David Hucklesby
On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 20:55:07 +1000, David McKinnon wrote: For a while now, I've been operating on the principle Code for Firefox, hack for IE. Interesting thread. I learned CSS from Eric Meyer on CSS books. He gives several ideas for avoiding browser bugs and related hacks altogether. FWIW

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