Re: [WSG] Fake Horizontal Frames Layout

Peter J. Farrell wrote: I'm newer to CSS then I'd like to admit, but I was wondering if it is possible to create a layout that consists of three content areas (Think about a 3-column layout turned 90 degrees). You've got plenty of fun waiting for you up the CSS-road. :-) Something like:

Re: [WSG] Firefox bug?

designer wrote: Perhaps you are right and I should ignore it. However, it is unsightly, as you can see if you look at the jpg screen grab I've put at: http://www.treyarnon.fsworld.co.uk/wg/FFbug.jpg I see, but that's Firefox messing up the /background on top of background/. I couldn't see that fir

Re: [WSG] what ie bug is this?

Kvnmcwebn wrote: What ie windows 6 bug creates relics like the ones at the bottom of the boxes in the central column of this page? http://mcmonagle.biz/OTI/INDEX3.HTM Countless bugs in IE6, but I think this is a "human bug" / coding error. There may be one or more misplaced in your source-code.

Re: [WSG] Firefox bug?

designer wrote: I have been trying to produce a gallery thing without using a table, and my test file has four images in a vertical column. It all seems fine, except in FF1.0, where the second and fourth images display several dashed lines across the image. http://www.treyarnon.fsworld.co.uk/wg/ga

Re: [WSG] Re: [Repost] 4 px gap in Safari and Gecko based browsers

tee wrote: Sorry, realized I got the url wrong. Here is the right one: http://www.clients.lotusseeds.com/catering_new.html Simple fix: #intro {line-height: 0;} Note also: "LOCATION" is too high up in Opera. Some adjustments needed to top of that list. regards Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no

Re: [WSG] To float or not to float

Hope Stewart wrote: ... What, if any, are the advantages and/or disadvantages of (1) floating neither column compared to (2) floating one column? Sample CSS: ... Absolute positioning of larger parts of a page, is *not* recommended. Only elements with fixed dimensions, in an environment of fixed

Re: [WSG] UTF-8

Jan Brasna wrote: - Half of the Norwegian sites I visit in a day are full of question-marks--until I actively change encoding, and change it again, and again... Hmm, we here in CZ use Latin2 or CP1250, everyone uses proper charset headers, so no problem with this. You hit one of the usual proble

Re: [WSG] IE three pixel bug has beaten me

Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] wrote: This is the second time I am coming across the IE three pixel bug, but this time it really got me: Only temporarily... http://www.addictivemedia.com.au/clients/gta/home2.html Try "killing a float-bug with a float": #home_right {margin: 0; float: left;} ... m

Re: [WSG] device independence

Rachel Radford wrote: Is there a web site or an accurate way of 'testing' websites on PDA's and cell phones if you don't have access to them? Not really. Too many "non-standards" around... There is a real standard: 'media handheld', but support for it is sketchy to non-existent for most software-p

Re: [WSG] Skip Navigation Visibility

InfoForce Services (Angus MacKinnon) wrote: This brings up a question. How effective are Skip navigation links? I have heard that half the people do not understand what skip navigation links are. I design web sites to get to the main content or with very few links until the main content. I'm in

Re: [WSG] Quirks mode vs Standards mode

Richard, you wrote: I think the decision has more to do with maximising the expectation that your design will appear the same on any browser than to do with the features that are available. Also allowing that expectation to continue as standards and browsers move forward and browsers implement

Re: Subject: Re: [WSG] Quirks mode vs Standards mode

Sarah, I suppose I really just wanted to see what others were doing, and more importantly *why*. Perhaps a poll would be useful here? Could be, but some check-points about "why" and "what do you know about browser-modes" should be included. Would make an interesting read, me thinks. There seems to

Re: Subject: Re: [WSG] Quirks mode vs Standards mode

Tim White wrote: ... It looked almost like the 3px jog bug, but since I wasn't using boxes, floats and the like that wasn't it. Thanks Tim. (no further details needed :-) ) Have a few cases in my internal archive that sounds like that one. Some of these cases are solved by changing mode, but that

Re: [WSG] Quirks mode vs Standards mode

Foster, Raymond W wrote: Also, IE6's handling of keyword font sizes in standards mode is consistent with other modern browsers. IE6 in quirks mode (and IE 5.5) renders keyword-defined font sizes a step larger than most other browsers. Yes, IE6 handle a few things _differently_ in "standard" and

Re: [WSG] zindex

Alan Trick wrote: Hi, I've been playing around with positioning and z-index and I'm wondering if it is possible to give a containing box higher z-index that it's children. As far as I have been able to tell, ( in firefox/opera ) it doesn't work. I have a with a background:transparent url(imag

Re: [WSG] Quirks mode vs Standards mode

designer wrote: ... Not sure what it is you're looking for . . . Basically everything that differs so much between "standard" and quirks mode in IE6 that using "standard" mode results in less code and simpler and more robust solutions than using quirks mode. -- Kornel Lesinski wrote: Right-alig

Re: [WSG] Quirks mode vs Standards mode

russ - maxdesign wrote: How about correct rendering of the box model? I'm aware of the box-model issue. That's why I linked to a W3C-page where this is explained in simplest terms. Now, my question again - rephrased: are there anything IE6 c

Re: [WSG] Quirks mode vs Standards mode

John Britsios wrote: When a document begins with an declaration. IE 6 for Windows doen't see the Doctype, so it lapses into "quirks mode". Therefore I would suggest you not to use it. Might you be kind enough to tell me what IE6 has to offer in standard mode that it doesn't have in quirks mode

Re: [WSG] Problem with floating heights

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ive made a little demo site, that shows my problem clearly http://www.tres.dk/test I want the container div to follow the heights of the floating elements, #left and #right In Internet Explorer it does, but not in Firefox, Opera, Safair or any other browser. The height is

Re: [WSG] Quirks mode vs Standards mode

Sarah Peeke (XERT) wrote: I am interested in people's thoughts about using "quirks mode" (ie adding before the doctype) vs "standards mode". Think we had a similar discussion a few months back... It is recommended to use the "xml-prolog" with xhtml1.0, and it _is only_ IE6 that gets thrown into qu

Re: [WSG] link one style sheet from another

Kvnmcwebn wrote: Is it ever helpful to link one style sheet from another using @ import? It may save you from having to link in additional stylesheets from each of maybe a hundred pages or more. It really depends on how you organize your stylesheets and your sites. I always @import extra styleshee

Re: [WSG] Web standards as a selling point?

tee wrote: ... For us who believed in web standards, it all sounds very beautiful and convincing, but for companies who provides services, they want web sites, they want their web sites looks nice and professional and they want it to be affordable. They simply want to know how much it will cost ri

Re: [WSG] IE, margin: 0 auto - does work???

Chris Stratford wrote: Sorry I should also say that the text-align in the parent element is NO center. Thats why I am so suprised its working! But IE seems to understand margin: 0 auto; IE6 always has -- when in standard mode. regards Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no ***

Re: [WSG] position:absolute in IE

Alan Trick wrote: That's what I had, but AFAIK, you can't have the page resize to fit the viewport without absolute/fixed positioning (unless you use a screwy js hack). If you could prove me wrong I would be very greatful. Personally I dislike absolute positioning. David Laakso wrote: Looks li

Re: [WSG] help with IE 3-pixel bug

Gallagher, Robin wrote: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~persia/final/test.html The background image in the floated right column is being affected by the IE 3-pixel bug. I would go for the simplest solution: #rightColumn {_width:202px;_margin-left: -2px;} ...that'll fix IE6. Then I would try a proper d

Re: [WSG] style attribute depreciated in xhtml 1.1?

Alan Trick wrote: I just found you that the style attribute is depreciated in xhtml 1.1. Does this mean that it will eventually be obolete? If so, what do they expect us to do for inline styles because it doesn't always make sense to have everything in an external style sheet. Well, unless they

Re: [WSG] Re: Float help

Keith Ellis wrote: Georg, I haven't tested this yet since I'm at the day job right now but why would I need the margin style? Yes, that's what makes the whole thing work-- once you've made the changes to your html-code. Those margins are repositioning the div back to where it is in your original.

Re: [WSG] Float help

Keith Ellis wrote: http://techvisioneer.com/clients/wshein/demo/admin/test/NewDesign.htm I have a fairly simple header/content/footer layout except the height of the logo in the header is greater than the desired height of the header itself. My goal is to have the logo fixed in the upper left a

Re: [WSG] overflow

john wrote: I've never used "overflow" before, but I'm experimenting with possibly using it as a means to contain a product listing within a page design (essentially keeping the page itself relatively short, but having the product listing scrolling within one of the divs). My question is...since ri

Re: [WSG] overflow: hidden not working...

Susanne Jäger wrote: Try adding: table.posts {table-layout: fixed;} I checked it with the "edit styles-Bookmarklet" and it works in Mozilla 1.8b, I'm not sure about cross-browser support. It does indeed work in FF 1.0,

Re: [WSG] overflow: hidden not working...

Chris Stratford wrote: WHY doesn't my forum table Clip the large image? Where do I need the overflow: hidden??? Doesn't work on a table. A table will expand by default, and no style can prevent that-- at least not in any browser I've tested in. The only solution that'll work for you, is something l

Re: [WSG] opacity as a hover for photo gallery thumbnails

john wrote: I know it may be unnecessary, but I'd like to put a hover on them anyway. Try as I might to understand the CSS better, it's still unclear to me how to properly put a hover on the thumbnails. I've tried so many things that it's a jumble in my mind now...but it seems like if I increase

Re: [WSG] IE: why are you so...

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a lot russ! Can I ask you (all) what do you think about my site? The address is www.itgmarinoni.it . I like it, but my Opera doesn't. :-) Think there's a missing min-width somewhere, since the background on the right column is pushed to the left on narrow windows. N

Re: [WSG] IE problem at small window size

Rachel Campbell wrote: http://actemp.sipu.apu.ac.uk/timetabling/camb/ttindex.phtml I've just noticed that this fix makes #footer come up the page; unfortunately it needs to stay at the bottom of the page, below #leftcolumn. Any ideas as to how that can be achieved? div#columns {min-height: 50em

Re: [WSG] IE problem at small window size

Rachel Campbell wrote: I have a problem with IE at small window size (640 x 480) when the content of the page gets shunted underneath the menu bar on the left. You should be able to see it happening on http://actemp.sipu.apu.ac.uk/timetabling/camb/ttindex.phtml A large enough negative back margi

Re: [WSG] Cool css box idea

Zachary Hopkins wrote: I've recently been fascinated by round boxes on pages. I will have to wait for CSS3 to be officially released and then adopted before I can use the border-radius feature. Or you can cheat a little while waiting for CSS3: http://www.gunlaug.no/homesite/main_6_xv.html ... my

Re: [WSG] Having trouble understanding floats and clear - and a few other minor issues

Rosemary Norwood wrote: BTW: you have triggered IE/win's "extreme font-step" bug. ... Did a search on Google and in the archives for references for this bug but couldn't find any. Could you point me to a resource (or even describe what it is so I can play with a solution for myself)? It's easier

Re: [WSG] Having trouble understanding floats and clear - and a few other minor issues

Rosemary Norwood wrote: I've been trying to get the banner for my site set up the way I would like. The design is here: http://www.blackwork.com/access/access_lesson2_page1.html The CSS is lessons.css in the same directory. It may not look like it, but occupy the whole line. Set background-col

Re: [WSG] linking to style sheet - how best?

J. DesGeorges wrote: I am wondering what is the consensus for calling a style sheet. The @import rule or the link href method ... I am confused as to the merits of both. If you can point me to a resource that discusses this issue I would really appreciate it. This might help:

Re: [WSG] accessibilty and responsibility

Alan Trick wrote: 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 w

Re: [WSG] Why DO floats not stretch their containers?

Andreas Boehmer wrote: Can you give an example of where standard-compliant browsers expand the outer container with a float as content? I believe Roger pointed to the almost perfect example: < http://www.complexspiral.com/publications/containing-floats/ > Myself, being a "heavy user" of floats, si

Re: [WSG] Why DO floats not stretch their containers?

Josh McDonald wrote: Sorry, I can't test my statement here, so if I am wrong please correct me, but as far as I remember taking out the set height (or min-height) of Div B will reduce Div A to 0 height. Floating Div B has got a similar effect to giving position:absolute - Div A will ignore the

Re: [WSG] Why DO floats not stretch their containers?

John Horner wrote: * floated elements too big for the enclosing element "spill out" * except on IE, where they stretch the enclosing element that's a bit simplified, but essentially correct, right? Right. For instance, with this code: DIV A DIV B DIV B will overlap DIV A and c

Re: [WSG] accessibilty and responsibility

designer wrote: What exactly is the position? Opera's zoom-feature is nice - and useful, but comes more as an addition provided in that browser. IE6 can also zoom pages, but not that user-friendly. We may want browsers to have useful features like this, but that's not what we want first and most (I

Re: [WSG] Site Review...

David R wrote: http://www.w3bdevil.com/scripts/ - Check z-index on the headline. Left side link "Home" is overlapping bottom of "W3b's ..." in Opera. Fine in FF and IE-win - *All* text with relative font-size for IE-win, please? - Otherwise: just fine. http://www.w3bdevil.com/turkeys/ - No problems

Re: [WSG] Browser Checks

Paul wrote: This is more of a general standards question, but if you are designing a page for the public in general (in my case a university) at what point ( % wise _or_ # of browsers) do you say 'Okay this is the site, no more trying to accommodate obscure browsers/older versions of browsers."

Re: [WSG] 2 Column Symetrical Stretching Layout?

Joey wrote: Is it really that difficult to create a simple 2 column layout in CSS? Im beggining to doubt CSS if this is the case. All i need is a 2 column layout with each column being 50% and when u stretch the browser each column increases (but both stay at 50%) Here is a table version of wha

Re: [WSG] Emulating min-width

David R wrote: I'm just looking for comments on a concept I thought for emulating min-width in IE: !!! #elementToHaveMinWidth { width: 40%; } #minWidthMaker { width: 620px; } The end result being a div#elementToHaveMinWidth never going below 620px width My experience with this type of "spacer" is

Re: [WSG] I can't get my DIVs to overlap or position correctly?

Joey wrote: But yes i wonder about the "margin-left" problem in IE too? If anyone knows why we have to use "margin-left: expression('8px');"? Correcting front-margins on a float in IE/win like this: margin-left: 17px; margin-left: expression('8px'); /* correct IE */ ...is the same as writing: margi

Re: [WSG] Image alignment and text

Chris Taylor wrote: Is there a CSS equivalent for the age-old image properties 'align="left"' and 'align="right"'. When these are used any text that is next to the image is automatically lined up with the top of the image. The way we usually do it looks more like this: img{ float: left; }

Re: [WSG] Web site review please

John Britsios wrote: Please see here: http://www.webnauts.net/ Had a look around with Opera7.54, FF1.0 and IE6. The page looks fine when I don't stress anything. I like the font a bit larger though, and your pages are a bit weak when I step it up. It simply looks a bit strange when I use larger fon

Re: [WSG] Nav Before or After Main Content

Michael Wilson wrote: My question at this point is: which is a better approach--nav first with a skip to content link or nav last with a skip to nav link? I'm inclined to think putting the nav last or at least after the main content is better for screen readers and such as well as for SEO, but I do

Re: [WSG] Comment before the DOCTYPE?

Maxine Sherrin wrote: I'm going through all the templates which came from our design competiton which will be used in Style Master 4, knocking them into shape. I've found one which puts a comment *before* the DOCTYPE declaration. And of course, when you remove this comment the layout breaks in

Re: [WSG] Floating to left and/or right...

Alex Katechis wrote: Hi all, this is my first shot at a tableless XHTML/CSS design and its turning out better than I thought... Everything is going according to plan, _except_ for one minor detail that is making a big difference. This _is_ one of the most difficult "details" in web design based

Re: [WSG] Review of website please

Miles Burke wrote: We've just launched our new website, having had a quick CSS learning curve over the last few months, and would love opinions/feedback/criticism of it. Everything is game - let me know it all, no matter how bad. :) Please have a gander at http://www.bam.com.au The page looked

Re: [WSG] Brazilian Portal site Review. Opinions Welcomes

Genau Junior wrote: I would appreciate all comments and suggestions about interface, design and usability standards. The temporary address is: http://meucarronovo.locaweb.com.br Hmmm, give it one click of font-resizing in Firefox, and it lines up "nicely" down the page. One more "clearer" would h

Re: [WSG] empty named anchors

Focas, Grant wrote: Empty link elements are not good (as Patrick pointed out)but what about named anchors (destination anchors)? Is there any reason why they should not be empty? I'm typically using anchors like this one: , and can't see the need to "fill" them. As Kornel pointed out; 'name=' is

Re: [WSG] Where is my navbar?

Lori Leach wrote: Georg, I added that to the bottom, and the menu is appearing at the top now, but my submenus are wrong in IE. Just continue, using this... ul li.menubar {position: relative;} ...which will put the submenus in the right place. If IE/Mac don't like this (as I can't test that one ri

Re: [WSG] Where is my navbar?

Lori Leach wrote: I have a CSS Drop Menu navigation on the following page - I can see it in FF but not in IE. http://www.zenfulcreations.com/client-files/gu/ IE/win need a "HasLayout" hack. @media all { * html mainMenu {height: 0;} } ... at the end of your stylesheet, will bring the menu up on sc

Re: [WSG] IE clearing when not needed

Lyn Patterson wrote: Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: You can make it work - partially at least - by "removing" short... :) Thanks, Georg - before I received your reply I kept researching and found that the containing box did not need a width and as soon as I took off the width in div.intro2

Re: [WSG] IE clearing when not needed

Lyn Patterson wrote: www.westernwebdesign.com.au/host.html Have a floated box that I want to sit inside and overhang another box. This works fine in FF and Opera but IE is clearing the normal box and putting it underneath the floated box. How do I make this work in IE? You can make it work - pa

Re: [WSG] Problem getting this layout to behave

Kim Kruse wrote: http://mouseriders.dk/thierry/ 1. I can't get the #inner div to line up with the tab menu above in any of the above browsers. #inner { width:660px; margin-right:auto; margin-left:auto; background-color:#FFF; padding-top: 1px; /* note */

Re: [WSG] problems fitting content in third column in IE win

Bruce Gilbert wrote: http://www.echs.dpsnc.net/testing/html/public_affairs.htm. the problem I am having is in IE Win, the text in the third column (on the right) is not fitting inside the column borders. I originally tested using firefox,... A few things: - A lot of margins and paddings, combined

Re: [WSG] CSS Roundbox

Lori Leach wrote: It works super well, unless you have as much content as I have on the page I have it on! Then the right side repeats. None the less, he has done more than I could have asked for and I am very grateful! I hope others get to use this too~ Just had a go at it, with a few changes. -

Re: [WSG] G* addressing standards

Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] wrote: G.S: Two factors creates this accessibility-problem with pixel-defined text: - Web designers in general don't know that IE/win can *override* font sizes. - Users in general don't know that either. The technical side of it: IE/win has "ignore font size...

Re: [WSG] G* addressing standards

russ - maxdesign wrote: I'd put the question back to the group... Rather than ask "why should I not use pixels, as there is nowhere that forces me not to", why not ask "how can I make my content as accessible to the widest audience possible". If you ask this question, then right now, with the c

Re: [WSG] Please Check Menu / PC user

berry wrote: That way I am sure that the font and the design will be always be the same with different resolution. That way user don't have to enlarge windows. The design will be always a the good size. http://www3.sympatico.ca/berryf/Template2.htm I'm sorry, but you cannot rely on someth

Re: [WSG] divs, layers, trans and strict

designer wrote: ... it works fine as HTML4.01 trans. it can be seen at [1]. However, as soon as I make it strict, the positioning changes, as shown in [2]. Both files validate OK, and so does the CSS, so why are they not behaving properly? - It's probably staring at me, but I just can't see it! W

Re: [WSG] Browser Check - such inconsistencies!

Lori Leach wrote: Apparently then there is nothing that I can do to keep the menu from breaking when you zoom as I have a fixed width design and not fluid. I am in a corner of sorts, as this is the layout he wants, refuses fluid, and this is the menu he wants. So I conclude that there is nothin

Re: [WSG] Browser Check - such inconsistencies!

Lori Leach wrote: http://www.zenfulcreations.com/sites/sss/ http://www.zenfulcreations.com/sites/sss/c/global.css So - can I get a double check on the ones that appear to work "okay", and some possible direction on what I need to do to get it to work right in the ones that don't... I really DO

Re: [WSG] CSS alignment issues

Tatham Oddie wrote: Not sure what you mean by: "then your name will end up on the wrong list." Besides that, I'm a reasonably active Firefox evangelist, not just a standards evangelist. I'm tossing up on allowing other standards compliant browsers and it will probably end up heading that way wi

Re: [WSG] CSS alignment issues

Tatham Oddie wrote: ... As for making the whole world FF-users, if you visit my site from any other browser soon you will be redireted via this page: http://www.e-oddie.com/sydneylife/GetFirefox.aspx Hopefully that should get some more users switching. Be careful with that "any other browser - r

Re: [WSG] Float problem in IE6

Tatham Oddie wrote: I’m getting a float problem in IE6 that I don’t understand. The URL is http://www.e-oddie.com/e-oddie2/. The problem is known as margin-doubling in IE/win. "display: inline" will fix that in your case. On top of that you have also made it a bit tight in there, so IE/win will dro

Re: [WSG] Display Differences

Lori Leach wrote: I always code my CSS and check it in Firefox. I have added the box hacks to my CSS to fix it for IE5 and IE6 - but now it is just a bit off in my right column using Firefox. I have been racking my brain trying to figure what I could have that is wrong in here. Can someone hav

Re: [WSG] expand divs height with content

Jeffery Fernandez wrote: I am trying to get a Div to expand its height when the content grows. Site development url is http://www.hotshot.com.au/dev/fpaa/ This: http://www.positioniseverything.net/easyclearing.html , or any other clearing-method, should fix that problem. BTW: IE6 won't display the

Re: [WSG] Checking in as many browsers as possible

David R wrote: Wong Chin Shin wrote: ... and how in tarnation do some of you guys manage to maintain so many of them. Simple answer: I don't :) I use http://www.browsercam.com, its got practically every UA and platform under the sun, the Remote Access feature is particularly useful Browsercam i

Re: [WSG] Cross browser background-position

Jonathan T. Sage wrote: Alright, so, I am out of ideas... ... My problem is that IE/Win does not support background-position: fixed in the same way that gecko does (or at all maybe?) not sure which browser 'get's it right' here, but the desired effect is the one in firefox. anyway, would lov

Re: [WSG] Float problem (perhaps) in IE 5 on www.mccn.org.au

Nick Lo wrote: I've just released... http://www.mccn.org.au/ ...and realised a little late that some last minute tweaks (possibly) have thrown out the "Stay Informed" column on the home page in PC IE 5. Some stuff in there widens the column in IE5/win. For a start, take out (or hack) the width:

Re: [WSG] link rel not working. @import ok!

Brett Walsh wrote:: I thought there might be a restriction on the number of sheets allowed. Is there? The number of stylesheets is obviously not the problem in your case, but maybe someone like to know... Don't know of any "standard" limit, but I tested it a while back. - >50 no problem in Opera 7

Re: [WSG] float and table width combination problem in IE

Cade Whitbourn wrote: Can anyone help me identify what's going wrong with the following layout in IE6/Windows. I've been struggling with it all morning, and I suspect there may be a simple fix that I've just overlooked. The page: http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~cadewhitbourn/test/demo.htm The problem:

Re: [WSG] New Windows

Paul Novitski wrote: At 11:11 AM 12/6/04, Felix Miata wrote: Fresh meat: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20041206.html Yes, but only 605 respondents?! Yikes, that's a small sample. Nielsen's results, satisfying as they are to one allergic to commercialism, would carry more weight if the sample si

Re: [WSG] No skipping to content needed?

Ben Curtis wrote: "Content" as in "stuff," not "satisfied." A lot of people put an in-page anchor at the top to "skip navigation" or "skip to main content." Are there any hidden gotchas with simply putting the navigation last and positioning it first? All I have been able to interpret about prope

Re: [WSG] New Standards Compliant Website

Chris Stratford wrote: Just need a little assistance here. http://inspiro.neester.com/ Click on ABOUT. In IE the content panel seems to overlap the whole nav panel too... I know its to do with the image floating right. But how can such a thing be fixed? Need to make sure I see the right thing to fi

Re: [WSG] Site check please (especially Mac)

Seona Bellamy wrote: Hmm... Any suggestions about how I could better do it so that it stays put? I would have thought that absolute positioning with the coordinates given in px would have been fairly static. :( I'm not sure what else to try. You are relative-positioning those links inside an absolu

Re: [WSG] Site check please (especially Mac)

Seona Bellamy wrote: Any PC users who want to look and give opinions would also be appreciated. :) The site: http://www.onehouseproductions.com/ohp2/ You should try a better positioning-method for that curved menu. The items leave the curved background-image and ends up all over the place upon fon

Re: [WSG] new msn search engine

Joey wrote: You mean this? http://beta.search.msn.com/ Yeh this is ALMOST valid well its nice to know they are validating their code. Ted Drake wrote: those crafty MSN folks. Who knows what is up their sleeves.

Re: [WSG] Help with a layout

Matt wrote: 1. If I add content to the left or right columns, the footer doesn't push down, and the content overlaps - the layout breaks. I would like for all 3 columns to be the same height, no matter which one has more or less content. All you need is to add "clear: both;" to #Footer. That is nee

Re: [WSG] How exactly does IE fall short and where do I find standards-compatibility charts?

Terrence Wood wrote: kkk!! Are you saying that expressions in CSS don't work with IE6 SP2??? And, What does "H.S." mean? Reports indicate that IE-expressions on my pages fall short in IE6, 5.5, 5.0 in XP-SP2 with "High Security" setting. "H.S." = High Security. I can't test this, as I do

Re: [WSG] How exactly does IE fall short and where do I find standards-compatibility charts?

Wong Chin Shin wrote: Difficult as it is to believe, this is not a troll. I believe you (but don't tell anyone :-) ) Now, I agree completely about the security risks. That alone is worth dumping the browser for. Yet, I want to find out how exactly is IE falling short of the DOM specs for e.g. Apart

Re: [WSG] WordPress & Overriding CSS layout issue

Sam Hutchinson wrote: Don't know if anyone's got time to offer me a lil' assistance...? working on a new project, "Funkdub", at the moment. Would welcome any insight as to why WordPress is screwing up my CSS/XHTML pages in Mozilla etc: http://www.funkdub.info/wp/ This will do: That is: you need

Re: [WSG] optimising CSS?

john wrote: I'm just wondering if there's a service available that optimises stylesheets. I know I have redundancies and some junk code in my CSS, and I'd love to have it streamlined. Any thoughts? I don't think there are software capable of doing any _real_ clean-up in CSS-- yet. Have heard l

Re: [WSG] Site review - torresburriel.com

Daniel Torres Burriel wrote: Hi all! I'd like you to review my personal site. All pages validate (I think) except the weblog section, under PMachine engine. http://www.torresburriel.com Look out for the top section and those images... Absolute positioning there makes the page unreadable upon font

Re: [WSG] Convincing usability/standards arguments

Nick Lo wrote: I think Felix has put in a lot of time and effort with his work at... http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/auth/wauth1.html ...and I found a lot of his demonstrations useful. I'd like to add my name under that comment. Have visited his site a number of times over the last couple of months,

Re: [WSG] forcing IE6 into quirks mode

Wayne Godfrey wrote: I find your take on all this very interesting as it is my mindset to try and find the happy medium that you seemingly are now accomplishing. I was wondering if you can give links to some of your sites and/or to some of the discussions on css-d. The thread should tell that I

Re: [WSG] forcing IE6 into quirks mode

Iain Harrison wrote: Hello Gunlaug, Saturday, November 20, 2004, 12:05:19 AM, you wrote: IE6 should be seen as an obstacle from a users point of view, as well as from a web designer's position. I'm not a user and I don't design for IE6 either. Although I think I agree with you, the reality is tha

Re: [WSG] forcing IE6 into quirks mode

Jeroen Visser [ vizi ] wrote: Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: I don't belong to the group of screaming developers. > Hi Georg, Sorry for this misunderstanding --I didn't mean to group you in any way. It's just that I was a bit amazed about your view when in general, the web standards '

Re: [WSG] forcing IE6 into quirks mode

Patrick Lauke wrote: Anyway, if the whole quirks mode thing is only used to throw IE into the old box model, why not simply circumvent the problem by not using padding? If that _was_ the only difference that caused problems, yes I would go along with that. You are describing the solution I use for

Re: [WSG] forcing IE6 into quirks mode

Jeroen Visser [ vizi ] wrote: Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: I know of no limitations in IE6 when doing this, and it saves some coding too. The improved box-model isn't reason enough to debug several versions of IE/win. IE/win can be made to almost behave like a good browser should-- in quirks

Re: [WSG] help with z-index?

john wrote: Now, I'm having a bit of a "brain fizzle" and I can't figure out how to prevent the text from being seen inbetween the buttons when I scroll. Once the text reaches the bottom of the buttons, I want it to disappear...but for the life of me, I can't figure out. Perhaps I've been working

Re: Usability dogma's [was Re: [WSG] Font size]

Jeroen Visser [ vizi ] wrote: I don't know why there's this 'designers who reduce browser base font size are evil' attitude. I go with Owen Briggs, who relates browser default size to general OS GUI elements' font size. No problem with that, other than the fact that we see those tiny text-bits a

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