Re: [WSG] Center aligning links with a specified height

2005-08-22 Thread Kenny Graham
Try keeping them inline, and setting line-height to 40px. As long as word-wrap doesn't become a factor, that should work fine. But since you're using pixels, I'm guessing word-wrap would already cause problems anyway.

Re: [WSG] Center aligning links with a specified height

2005-08-22 Thread Kenny Graham
I got it working in firefox and almost in IE/Win (height is way bigger than it's supposed to be in IE) by changing the li a in Nick's example to: li a { background: #eee; display: inline-block ; /*height: 50px;*/ line-height: 50px; font-size: 14px; padding: 17px 20px; } Now, keep in mind

Re: [WSG] Two columns, one fluid one fixed?

2005-08-18 Thread Kenny Graham
yup, the only way to have something floated and still have it be fluid is to specify a % width. but then the other column can't be fixed width. so. can't be done. (i'll gladly welcome being corrected) why do you have to keep the float on there?

Re: [WSG] IE Madness

2005-08-18 Thread Kenny Graham
Works fine for me in IE6/WinXP/SP2. Normally, I'd recommend you uninstall and reinstall your browser... but wait... it's IE, and I doubt you want to reformat. *evil grin*

Re: [WSG] iframes

2005-08-17 Thread Kenny Graham
If you're using the iFrame to pull an external site into a box in your own site, I've been using object for that. But I'm not sure on the cross-browser status on that.

Re: [WSG] html design - best practices

2005-08-16 Thread Kenny Graham
If the books are mentioned in a sentence, such as In the dead sea scrolls, someone said foo, then I agree completely with using cite. pIn citethe dead sea scrolls/cite someone said qfoo/q/p or whatever. One problem with many examples (including mine) of cite is that they always are paired with a

Re: [WSG] HR - Presentation or Structure?

2005-07-12 Thread Kenny Graham
Tape a 30 secondconversation between a husband and a wife, and there are no headers or pages.It's a different ball game.Almost all forms of communication begin as structured content in the form of thoughts. You mentally structure what you want to say into sentences, you want parts of those

Re: [WSG] section and separator - formerly - Presentation or Structure?

2005-07-12 Thread Kenny Graham
Wow! I admit that my presentation vs structure thread was an attempt to get the pros out of the woodwork, as mentioned in a thread earlier this week, but a spin-off thread? I should start debates more often! ;-)

Re: [WSG] HR - Presentation or Structure?

2005-07-12 Thread Kenny Graham
If breaking the formula up into little chunks makescomprehension harder for the vast majority of people then we should not do it and I do not agree with your assertion that breaking a complexformula will make it more understandable - it may in fact undermine thelearning.Breaking content up into

[WSG] HR - Presentation or Structure?

2005-07-11 Thread Kenny Graham
Am I alone in feeling that hr should be depreciated in favor of CSS borders? Especially with section in the XHTML 2.0 drafts, what semantic or even structural value does hr have? Every argument for its retention that I've heard so far has been presentation related.

Re: [WSG] problems with aligning of thumbnails

2005-07-07 Thread Kenny Graham
It may be because your img elements in the gallery section aren't closed, and you're using strict XHTML. Try changing the imgs to img /s and see if that fixes anything. On 7/6/05, Bruce Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am *trying* to get my thumbnail images to align center to their

[WSG] Complete CSS reset

2005-07-05 Thread Kenny Graham
Has anyone made a stylesheet that resets everything back to the way it would be if styling pure XML? If I have to, I'll go thru html.css and undo everything that it does, but if someone here has already done it, it'll save me a lot of time. I'm going to be teaching some web developers CSS soon

Re: [WSG] Complete CSS reset

2005-07-05 Thread Kenny Graham
Well, this has been educational if nothing else. I figured out how to do it on every non-IE browser (insert sarcastic comment). At first I tried resetting 11 properties on *, but then realized that it was killing the entire concept of inheritance. If I set li to bold, links inside the li

Re: [WSG] Mac IE hack and CSS validation

2005-07-05 Thread Kenny Graham
I'm not sure on the specifics of the hack you're using, but it should validate if you put a space after the *. On 7/5/05, Bruce Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a couple of lines in my CSS targeting mac IE with: *htmlbody #wrapper_inner{ width:750px; background-color:#036;

RE: [WSG] page layout problems in IE

2005-06-27 Thread Cook, Graham R
First item - change your css link to : LINK href=bg3.css type=text/css rel=stylesheet Graham Cook Standards Manager - Content Integrity Data Online Telstra Technology 32/300 Latrobe St Melbourne VIC 3000 Ph- (03) 9632 8035 Fax - (03) 8600 9850 Mob - (03) 0417 876 869 Email - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [WSG] Fluidity help

2005-05-24 Thread Graham Bancroft
Hi Tom Try changing the div widths form px to em, this allows it to stretch although I'm not sure what the conversion is, I think it's dependent on a few other things. Hope this helps some Graham Bancroft. ** The discussion list

[WSG] site check please - Rowing History

2005-04-28 Thread Graham
The only thing I really don't like is that when you click a link the top menu disappears and the only way I can get it back is to click the Back button. (I'm using IE6) Otherwise a good looking site Graham Cook -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

[WSG] Please review http://www.mad4f1.com

2005-04-22 Thread Cook, Graham R
etc. This again is extremely useful for screenreader navigation. I concur also re the previous comment re putting the menu into unordered lists. Graham Cook Standards Manager - Content Integrity Data Online Telstra Technology 32/300 Latrobe St Melbourne VIC 3000 Ph- (03) 9632 8035 Fax - (03

[WSG] Web standards as a selling point?

2005-04-12 Thread Cook, Graham R
building blocks because of their many benefits you will come across as being professional. If it also piques the client's interest to ask what the benefits are, then you can go on to explain the many many benefits. See if you can list over 10, for both the client and yourself. Graham Cook Standards

RE: [WSG] PLEASE HELP! No scroll bars in IE, and floats funky in IE as well (grrrrr .... I'm hating IE right now!) UPDATE: floats fixed

2005-03-02 Thread Cook, Graham R
It is the position:relative in the below that is preventing the scroll bar. Try putting it in the body. * {margin:0;padding:0;position:relative;} From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mani SheriarSent: Thursday, 3 March 2005 10:24 AMTo:

[WSG] First Thoughts On Layout...

2005-01-31 Thread Cook, Graham R
Increasing font size sends your content overlapping the left page margin with the shadowing. Graham Cook ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints

[WSG] Problem UL with Firefox

2005-01-12 Thread Cook, Graham R
. Thanks Graham Cook Code: (ul and li borders for demonstration only) style.cssRightModule{right:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;width:240px;font-size : 80%;font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;color:#003366;} .cssRightModuleTop, .cssRightModuleContent, .cssRightModuleBottom{padding-left:15px

[WSG] Problem UL with Firefox

2005-01-12 Thread Cook, Graham R
.cssRightModuleContent ul{margin-top:.25em;margin-left:1em;padding-left:0px;}.cssRightModuleContent li{list-style-image : url(/global/res/images/orange_bullet.gif);margin-left: 0px; padding-left:10em;list-style-position : outside;} Cheers Graham Cook

[WSG] Problem UL with Firefox

2005-01-12 Thread Cook, Graham R
Bert, I cut down the html to minimum possible, actual lists include many items, plus several lists in each panel. Panel is also part of containing div which contains several of these panels. Thanks anyway Graham ** The discussion list

RE: [WSG] G* addressing standards

2005-01-07 Thread Graham
If the information is critical to JD, consider legal complaint under Disability Discrimination Act. Do you think Acme would hire Zippo again? Regards Graham Cook ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

RE: [WSG] PC IE problem

2005-01-06 Thread Graham
. This sets the margin to the correct width for others ***/ Graham -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mary Wright Sent: Thursday, 6 January 2005 10:38 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] PC IE problem I've produced a simple 3-page

RE: [WSG] Can't get image and text to line up in unordered list...

2005-01-04 Thread Cook, Graham R
Title: Can't get image and text to line up in unordered list... Kay, I get a DNS timeout error when trying to access your link. Graham From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Murphey, KaySent: Wednesday, 5 January 2005 11:48 AMTo: 'wsg

RE: [WSG] IE PC Problem with

2005-01-04 Thread Cook, Graham R
will not tab to either child item. Otherwise - LOVE THE SITE Graham -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shane Helm Sent: Wednesday, 5 January 2005 1:59 PM To: Web Standards Group Subject: [WSG] IE PC Problem with My problem is only in IE

RE: [WSG] Site Review Please! ZenGarden Submission ...

2005-01-02 Thread Graham
pages. Cheers Graham Cook -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mani Sheriar Sent: Sunday, 2 January 2005 7:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Site Review Please! ZenGarden Submission ... Looks great

RE: [WSG] why is IE showing bullets?

2004-12-27 Thread Graham
Took your code, ran it in IE6, no bulklets Graham -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted Drake Sent: Tuesday, 28 December 2004 9:06 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] why is IE showing bullets? Ok, I've got some inheritance

RE: [WSG] Semantic Mark-Up for Product Catalog

2004-12-17 Thread Graham
tdpretty/td /tr tr th scope=rowsProduct Cost/th tdbazillion/td /tr /tbody /table Graham Cook -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

RE: [WSG] Site Checking

2004-12-02 Thread Cook, Graham R
users at tip of form how the mandatory fields are identified Cheers Graham Cook Standards Manager - Content Integrity Data Online Telstra Technology -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil Baines Sent: Thursday, 2 December 2004 9:46 PM

RE: [WSG] Siter Review Please

2004-12-01 Thread Cook, Graham R
a start from a cursory look Graham Cook Standards Manager - Content IntegrityData OnlineTelstra Technology From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, 2 December 2004 1:47 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [WSG] Siter Review Please I

RE: [WSG] Siter Review Please

2004-12-01 Thread Cook, Graham R
, be they coders or not, should attend a course on web standards and accessible design. Graham Cook -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Natalie Buxton Sent: Thursday, 2 December 2004 5:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] Siter Review

RE: [WSG] Screen resolution problems with main page

2004-11-11 Thread Cook, Graham R
Try this height:expression(document.body.clientHeight); Graham Cook Standards Manager - Content Integrity Data Online Telstra Technology 32/300 Latrobe St Melbourne VIC 3000 Ph- (03) 9632 8035 Fax - (03) 8600 9850 Mob - (03) 0417 876 869 Email - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find out more about

[WSG] Re: You have subscribed to wsg@webstandardsgroup.org

2004-03-18 Thread graham
Thanks for submitting feedback from the Dark Stallion website! If a response is required I'll get back to you as soon as possible! - Graham http://www.darkstallion.co.uk * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

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