Re: [WSG] Browsers as copilers (was) Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-08 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
of Firefox 1.5 (DeerPark or later) the Javascript Console also flags all CSS errors (including properties that Gecko doesn't support, such as display:inline-block). Another nightmare. (all those errors in those Google ads...). Very useful for debugging, btw. Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh

Re: [WSG] Text Size Statistics

2005-09-01 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
apparently resize the font-size, a few needed help from the staff. (nothing scientific here, just a few tidbits). Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://emps.l-c-n.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

Re: [WSG] IE in Virtual PC

2005-08-21 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
? It displays web sites, with the same quirks, bugs and stupidities, same risks in browsing the web, same everything. [1] I now run VPC 7 + XP on an old, tired dual 450Mhz G4; it isn't fast, but it does the job. Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://emps.l-c-n.com

Re: [WSG] Safari 1.3 vs Safari 2 differences

2005-08-18 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
. There could be some display bugs due to a particular OS configuration (Panther vs Tiger), difference in font rendering, ... It shouldn't cause major layout problems though. PS - Jan, Safari v312 (1.3, Panther) beats Safari v412 (2.0, Tiger) by 35% in *my* stats. Philippe --- Philippe

Re: [WSG] Proper IE Hacks

2005-08-08 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
yet what the final release of IE 7 will do. Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://emps.l-c-n.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting

Re: [WSG] firefox for OS9?

2005-08-05 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
support. It runs well on OS 9, even on older machines with low CPU power and not much memory. Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://emps.l-c-n.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] Does anyone still design for 640x480?

2005-08-03 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
your text pretty small, and zoom up a few notches. [1] browser is the Japanese developed Netfront http://www.access.co.jp/english/products/nf.html Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://emps.l-c-n.com/ ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] implicit / explicit labels which is better?

2005-08-02 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
System 8 (Mac OS 8). And no Safari doesn't do it. That is a bug I filed ages ago (when version 1.0 came out, iirc). According to recent blog postings they are working on form widgets, it would be about time they add this functionality. Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://emps.l-c-n.com

Re: [WSG] Firefox MAC OSX checkbox keyboard tabbing problem - ANSWER (of sorts)

2005-07-28 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
pane, you'll see a checkbox for that purpose. Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://emps.l-c-n.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting

Re: [WSG] Problem in Firefox on initial page load only

2005-07-26 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
of the page, you have a p class=clear/p make that p class=clearnbps;/p (adding a non-breaking space in it). Clear your cache, and try again. Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://emps.l-c-n.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] Body tag background color changes

2005-07-19 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
. John is referring to this bug in IE Mac http://www.macedition.com/cb/ie5macbugs/#whitespace which is about the use of multiple classnames with the same substring in their name. Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://emps.l-c-n.com

Re: [WSG] nth child rule

2005-07-18 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
/css3-selectors/#nth-child-pseudo Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://emps.l-c-n.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting

Re: [WSG] text alignment on form submit buttons

2005-07-18 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
unexpected consequences. (I've just tested that for the style, it 'looks' like it works, not sure about the behaviour of the element). PS - the input[type=submit] {text-align:left} doesn't work either in Opera 8 and Safari. Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://emps.l-c-n.com

Re: [WSG] Longhorn Avalon - seismic shift for web standards?

2005-07-14 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
. Konqueror recent builds should support SVG as well. Internet exploder: no support, except via the Adobe plugin. Maybe in the elusive Longhorn. As far as webstandards goes: no shift. You can use svg as a background-image, or for a series of buttons, or... Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http

Re: [WSG] Complete CSS reset

2005-07-05 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
morbidly curious, it's at http://www.kennygraham.net/reset.css Because IE Win doesn't understand the keyword 'inherit'. Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://emps.l-c-n.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

Re: [WSG] Preventing scrolling

2005-06-21 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
the content will be visible. what you probably want is setting some height in em/px/km/ then your overflow:hidden will have some effect. If I'm wrong, please provide a test case (url). Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://emps.l-c-n.com

Re: [WSG] Strange font-family behavior on Mac

2005-06-21 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
. (with smooth type on/off). Thanks in advance. Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://emps.l-c-n.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting

Re: [WSG] FF Bug - Any Fixes?

2005-06-19 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On 19 Jun 2005, at 6:10 pm, designer wrote: Hi Chris, Try border-collapse : collapse in your ul declaration. Bob Applies only to tables, or block level elements set to {display:table} Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://emps.l-c-n.com

Re: [WSG] Online screen viewer

2005-06-18 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
(2.8.4) is available through Fink (package manager). http://fink.sourceforge.net/index.php Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://emps.l-c-n.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] FF Bug - Any Fixes?

2005-06-18 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/geckogaps.html Note that I don't see any problem running Firefox 1.0+ latest nightly build, at any zooming factor. Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://emps.l-c-n.com/ ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] FF Bug - Any Fixes?

2005-06-18 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
the border-property, is another fix that has been mentioned on CSS-D once. As I said, I don't see the problem at all on my nightly build at various zoom levels. Lots of work has gone in some of those rendering issues (rounding errors). Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://emps.l-c-n.com

Re: [WSG] Fair usage of Pre and a Mac issue with it

2005-06-14 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
. http://dev.l-c-n.com/overflow/overflow_IEM.php Note that with percentage width on the pre, I more than once had problems with IE Win, requiring a wrapper div anyway. Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://emps.l-c-n.com/ ** The discussion

Re: [WSG] CSS List Separator

2005-06-14 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
of the required markers for that, unfortunately, they don't display correctly in many browsers]. Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://emps.l-c-n.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] Fair usage of Pre and a Mac issue with it

2005-06-13 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
/IE5tests/overflow/#overflowblock Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://emps.l-c-n.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting

Re: [WSG] IE table 100% width.

2005-06-05 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
browser. Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://emps.l-c-n.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **

Re: [WSG] national letters on MAC

2005-06-01 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
could add a font-family that does contain Cyrillic characters, like 'HelveticaCY' See this OS X font-list http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301332 Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://emps.l-c-n.com/ ** The discussion list

Re: [WSG] inline-block support?

2005-05-31 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
it reasonably on elements 'whose natural display is inline' to quote from a MS document. [1] sometimes display: -moz-inline-box is an alternative. Sometimes. [2] bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9458 Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://emps.l-c-n.com

Re: [WSG] An alternative to FIR (Fahrner Image replacement)?

2005-05-31 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
displayed. Like: if it fixes inside the bounding box for the image. If the text is too long, (ie a long long alt text) on a 20px by 20px image, the alt text is not displayed. Not Good. When the alt text is displayed, it takes size and font-style from the context. Philippe --- Philippe

Re: [WSG] inline-block support?

2005-05-31 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
-block is not supported at all by IE 5.0 Win, if one need to support that browser) Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://emps.l-c-n.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] CSS selectors: next adjacent element?

2005-05-24 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
. Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web projects : http://www.l-c-n.com/ IE5 Mac bugs and oddities : http://www.l-c-n.com/IE5tests/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

Re: [WSG] flash satay firefox bug

2005-05-23 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
://www.splintered.co.uk/experiments/76/ I can't even tab past the first (embeded) movie using the latest nightly builds of Firefox on OS X. Do you know if there is any bug filed for this in Bugzilla ? Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web projects

Re: [WSG] ® character

2005-05-17 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/ section c12 It is valid for text/html (aka tagsoup). If you serve the document as application/xhtml+xml, then the browser should ignore named entities except the 5 ones (quot, amp, lt, gt and apos). Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code

Re: [WSG] Problem with print friendly and name anchor

2005-05-13 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
solutions: 1/ delete the title form the print stylesheet. 2/ give both stylesheets the same title (And IE doesn't support the title attribute for stylesheets). Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web projects : http://www.l-c-n.com/ IE5 Mac bugs

Re: [WSG] Formatting tables

2005-05-11 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
-- xhtml1.1 table border=0 cellpadding=1 cellspacing=0 .. http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdev.l-c- n.com%2F_temp%2Ftable_1.phpcharset=%28detect+automatically%29doctype=I nliness=1verbose=1 Doesn't mean it is a 'best practice' however. Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now

Re: [WSG] CSS Comments

2005-05-11 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
from IE Mac \*/ selector {property:value} /* end hiding from IE Mac */ Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web projects : http://www.l-c-n.com/ IE5 Mac bugs and oddities : http://www.l-c-n.com/IE5tests

Re: [WSG] Formatting tables

2005-05-10 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
is a valid attribute for html 4.01 and xhtml 1.0 strict and 1.1. Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web projects : http://www.l-c-n.com/ IE5 Mac bugs and oddities : http://www.l-c-n.com/IE5tests

Re: [WSG] Can fonts be fixed in firefox?

2005-05-09 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
cannot allow it. And Safari, Opera, Camino, OmniWeb will all allow the user to resize the text, no matter what. You'll have to use an image, bearing in mind that Opera can resize that as well, and there are some extensions to do it in Firefox. Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live

Re: [WSG] Mystery connection of css and non-liquid design

2005-05-02 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
/let_type_scale.html (- pixels are so last century.) Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web projects : http://www.l-c-n.com/ IE5 Mac bugs and oddities : http://www.l-c-n.com/IE5tests

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

2005-04-25 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
/#anhid Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web projects : http://www.l-c-n.com/ IE5 Mac bugs and oddities : http://www.l-c-n.com/IE5tests/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

Re: [WSG] safari list question

2005-04-20 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
://dev.l-c-n.com/safari/background-hover.php The problem is *less* pronounced if you move the image horizontally. A solution is to space out the fragments of your sprite more, or put them in an horizontal row. Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design

Re: [WSG] Unicode Chars don't render in bold?

2005-04-17 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
that one yet). Some more reading matter: http://weblog.delacour.net/archives/2005/04/ bitstream_vera_not_for_me_thanks.php Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web projects : http://www.l-c-n.com/ IE5 Mac bugs and oddities : http://www.l-c-n.com

Re: [WSG] Skip Navigation Visibility

2005-04-14 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
this issue? a:focus is simply not implemented in Opera. It uses its own scheme, but doesn't listen to the css :focus. It only works partly on form elements, I think. Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web projects : http://www.l-c-n.com/ IE5 Mac

Re: [WSG] Easy forms, uneasy Gecko

2005-04-14 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
display:-moz-inline-box, that is an internal alias to inline-block that works sometimes. Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web projects : http://www.l-c-n.com/ IE5 Mac bugs and oddities : http://www.l-c-n.com/IE5tests

Re: [WSG] I18n - Traditional Simplified Chinese in an English web site

2005-04-13 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
my commercial sites in shift_jis. This provides less hassle, esp when dealing with forms and cgi scripts. Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web projects : http://www.l-c-n.com/ IE5 Mac bugs and oddities : http://www.l-c-n.com/IE5tests

Re: [WSG] Skip Navigation Visibility

2005-04-13 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
KeyboardMouse. Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web projects : http://www.l-c-n.com/ IE5 Mac bugs and oddities : http://www.l-c-n.com/IE5tests/ ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] CSS issues: Opera's absolute positioning

2005-04-11 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
for display as 'inline'. I had expected 'block'. This is the OS X default forms.css for FF latest nightly. (But those setting go as far back as dec 2004). Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web projects : http://www.l-c-n.com/ IE5 Mac bugs

Re: [WSG] CSS issues: Opera's absolute positioning

2005-04-11 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
=269908 Based on the comments, I don't expect anything to change soon. And, agreed, it doesn't make it easier to style the legend. :-/ Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web projects : http://www.l-c-n.com/ IE5 Mac bugs and oddities : http://www.l

Re: [WSG] {Spam?} css type glich

2005-04-05 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
is using Mac OS 9. The best browser available on that platform is Mac IE 5. The most recent Mozilla build is the Wacom build (Mozilla 1.3.1), you can get from here http://wamcom.org/ Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web projects : http://www.l-c

Re: [WSG] Any Safari 1.0 users out there?

2005-04-01 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniweb/ Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web projects : http://www.l-c-n.com/ IE5 Mac bugs and oddities : http://www.l-c-n.com/IE5tests/ ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] Any Safari 1.0 users out there?

2005-03-31 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
/style_master/product_info/index.html A quick look around with Safari 1.2 and Omniweb 5.0, I'd say yes. Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web projects : http://www.l-c-n.com/ IE5 Mac bugs and oddities : http://www.l-c-n.com/IE5tests

[WSG] overstyling forms

2005-03-22 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
10.3.8 http://emps.l-c-n.com/misc/gretagmacbeth-select.png (using customised widgets for OS X builds). Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web projects : http://www.l-c-n.com/ IE5 Mac bugs and oddities : http://www.l-c-n.com/IE5tests

Re: [WSG] Print Stylesheet is ignored

2005-03-17 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
style sheet with a 'title' attribute (alternate stylesheets is another matter). Delete the 'title' attribute from your print stylesheet link and you'll be OK. Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web projects : http://www.l-c-n.com/ IE5 Mac bugs

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

2005-03-03 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
/safari_css.html I think that is an old list. Also Safari supports RGBA colors - testfile: http://dev.l-c-n.com/CSS3/transparent.php Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web projects : http://www.l-c-n.com/ IE5 Mac bugs and oddities : http://www.l-c-n.com

Re: [WSG] A different Firefox bug?

2005-02-20 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
should I do? Anyone come across this before? BTW, I'm sending as application/xhtml+xml for browsers that understand it. In your case it seems related to the use of position fixed. maybe file a bug in Bugzilla ? Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design

Re: [WSG] A different Firefox bug?

2005-02-20 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On 20 Feb 2005, at 6:10 pm, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: In your case it seems related to the use of position fixed. maybe file a bug in Bugzilla ? No need to file a bug, there is one already https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281455 Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http

Re: [WSG] Subtractive Box model

2005-02-18 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
something like this: http://dev.l-c-n.com/disp-table/equal-H-nav.php ;-) Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web projects : http://www.l-c-n.com/ IE5 Mac bugs and oddities : http://www.l-c-n.com/IE5tests

Re: [WSG] CSS3.0

2005-02-17 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
-align:justify; text-justify:inter-ideograph is very cool in IE for longer articles). Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web projects : http://www.l-c-n.com/ IE5 Mac bugs and oddities : http://www.l-c-n.com/IE5tests

Re: [WSG] CSS3.0

2005-02-16 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
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Re: [WSG] CSS3.0

2005-02-16 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On 17 Feb 2005, at 9:21 am, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: Because I really want to suggest multiple background images for CSS3.0 (provided it isn't suggested already) Has already been suggested in various ways on the www-style mailing list. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/ Forgot

Re: [WSG] Safari and overflow:auto

2005-02-11 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
in the right direction... http://www.skyrocket.com.au/Concepts/Grindley/BuildingProjects.html It is not a problem with overflow:auto; but with Safari acting up on the ul adjacent to the floated images. Having the images part of the li should help fixing the problem. Philippe ---/--- Philippe

Re: [WSG] Turning Japanese

2005-02-09 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
by other things. Take care of character encoding, and be aware that MS Office uses some non-standard characters that only display fine in that browser (ahem). Hope this get you started. Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web projects : http

Re: [WSG] Inline list with images, no text

2005-02-09 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
users of other devices. Zeldmans top navigation use images, and does what the OP wants. http://www.zeldman.com/ he uses absolute positioning and negative text-indent. HTH Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web projects : http://www.l-c-n.com

Re: [WSG] Emulating min-width

2005-01-31 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
/extensions/info/minwidth/example2.htm (exist as a DW extension, I think). Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web projects : http://www.l-c-n.com/ IE5 Mac bugs and oddities : http://www.l-c-n.com/IE5tests

Re: [WSG] What's up with Mac IE and floats?

2005-01-28 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
wrong in my coding? The CSS XHTML validate. the problem is the clear:left on you #container which is kind of inherited in IE Mac See http://www.l-c-n.com/IE5tests/float2misc/#fm002 Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web projects : http://www.l

Re: [WSG] need explanation on this css element please

2005-01-28 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
of the space. It should be * html rest-of-selector {property:value} Note the space between the * and html. Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web projects : http://www.l-c-n.com/ IE5 Mac bugs and oddities : http://www.l-c-n.com/IE5tests

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

2005-01-26 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
those 'weird' hacks, a bit of ASCII art is not bad to brighten a style sheet :-) Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web projects : http://www.l-c-n.com/ IE5 Mac bugs and oddities : http://www.l-c-n.com/IE5tests

Re: [WSG] Heading without line break

2005-01-25 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
in Gecko, nor that other browser. Alternatively set both elements to display: inline, but it might be problematic depending on what other (inline) objects you have there. Or float: left/right. Both create problems though, in this particular case. Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live

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

2005-01-25 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
, latest, does read your second selector.. Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web projects : http://www.l-c-n.com/ IE5 Mac bugs and oddities : http://www.l-c-n.com/IE5tests/ ** The discussion

Re: [WSG] Browser Check - such inconsistencies!

2004-12-28 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
a are floated elements, again without a width, each block expands to the full width of their parent. Take a look at how I coded this navigation: http://www.l-c-n.com/IE5tests/phantom-links/inline-block_list.php Using inline-block instead of float to deal with IE Mac. HTH Philippe ---/--- Philippe

Re: [WSG] Please explain use of html#____

2004-12-21 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
be used to serve a style rule to IE Mac *only*. Given the context mentioned by Helen, it might have been one of those 'be nice to Opera' hacks associated with the Tantek voice-family filter. Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web projects

Re: [WSG] Nav bar rounding error problem

2004-12-17 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
/ #firstAttempt ul#mainNav li a { /* rest of styles */ line-height:normal /* - this fixes it in Mozilla */ } Use padding (in px) to create the height of the line box. http://dev.l-c-n.com/Gecko/moz_spacing.php for some background. Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http

Re: [WSG] accessible image form buttons

2004-12-17 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
for good measure and increased accessibility, providing your image doesn't use tiny text, and has good contrast between text and background ? All my Mac browsers display the 'title' as a 'tooltip'. Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web projects

Re: [WSG] A quick breakdown of some code today

2004-12-07 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
complex (CSS3) selectors, those described in the CSS2.1 CR: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/selector.html#attribute-selectors The losers are the usual suspects. (I personally love those pattern-matching thingies, and some other goodies in the CSS3 selectors). Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now

Re: [WSG] Safari Users / Layout Issue / Not Clearing

2004-12-03 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
spent (OmniWeb is a very nice browser, compared to Safari - imho). Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web projects : http://www.l-c-n.com/ IE5 Mac bugs and oddities : http://www.l-c-n.com/IE5tests

Re: [WSG] inline list issues on MAC IE

2004-12-01 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
lists though. As a possible alternative, take a look at this one: http://dev.l-c-n.com/Rfloatnav/slidingdoors.php I use display:inline-block for IE Mac, and a few other goodies. Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web projects : http://www.l-c-n.com

Re: Focus highlighting, was Re: [WSG] Some links for light reading (30/11/04)

2004-11-30 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
/ui.html#propdef-outline Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web projects : http://www.l-c-n.com/ IE5 Mac bugs and oddities : http://www.l-c-n.com/IE5tests/ ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] IE5/Mac Again

2004-11-23 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
collapses in height in IE Mac. If you need to use the overflow property on the li here (and I'm not convinced you need to), hide it from IE mac. Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web projects : http://www.l-c-n.com/ IE5 Mac bugs and oddities

Re: [WSG] IE5/Mac Again

2004-11-23 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
/IE5tests/#debug Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web projects : http://www.l-c-n.com/ IE5 Mac bugs and oddities : http://www.l-c-n.com/IE5tests/ ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] forcing IE6 into quirks mode

2004-11-17 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
still hovers around 10-12%. Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web projects : http://www.l-c-n.com/ IE5 Mac bugs and oddities : http://www.l-c-n.com/IE5tests/ ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] Validate Inside Your Firewall

2004-11-14 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
, and it is extremely useful to have on your local dev server, esp when you work with dynamic pages (includes, etc). Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web projects : http://www.l-c-n.com/ IE5 Mac bugs and oddities : http://www.l-c-n.com

Re: [WSG] IE6 background image issue

2004-11-12 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On 12 Nov 2004, at 4:17 pm, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: IE 6 surprises me :/ http://dev.l-c-n.com/_j/head2.html A solution: ul {_display:inline-block} And IE 6 is beaten into submission. Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web projects : http

Re: [WSG] Float Problem on IE Mac

2004-11-11 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
if I reduce each float to only 100px wide it still happens. http://www.l-c-n.com/IE5tests/float2misc/#fm002 hint - the problem is with the #panel-wrap div Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web projects : http://www.l-c-n.com/ IE5 Mac bugs

Re: [WSG] Float Problem on IE Mac

2004-11-11 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
. And I still find it more easy to deal with that browser than with IE win. Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web projects : http://www.l-c-n.com/ IE5 Mac bugs and oddities : http://www.l-c-n.com/IE5tests

[WSG] IE6 background image issue

2004-11-11 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
of the logo image to the left) Solutions ? (I know that thing is way to long - not my idea, client even wants 4 more links in there) TIA Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web projects : http://www.l-c-n.com/ IE5 Mac bugs and oddities : http

Re: [WSG] FireFox Problem With UL/LI

2004-11-11 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On 12 Nov 2004, at 3:23 pm, Chris Stratford wrote: www.neester.com/beta/ The navigation menu has extra pixels in the margin after: JOURNAL, CALENDAR and UNIVERSITY... does this matches your problem ? http://dev.l-c-n.com/Gecko/moz_spacing.php Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http

Re: [WSG] css hack for Opera 5,6,7

2004-11-09 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
suggestions for a good hack? I've been using CSS 3 media queries to serve Special Values for Opera 7.x @media screen and (min-width: 0px) { selector {property:value} } Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web projects : http://www.l-c-n.com/ IE5 Mac bugs

Re: [WSG] be-nice-to-IE/MAC @media rule

2004-10-04 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
doesn't really enables @media for IE Mac; the rules will apply to all media if used. Philippe --/--\-- Philippe Wittenbergh blog : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | webprojects http://www.l-c-n.com/ IE5 Mac bugs and oddities http://www.l-c-n.com/IE5tests

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

2004-10-01 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
to the IE Mac bug list (see sig). Philippe --/--\-- Philippe Wittenbergh blog : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | webprojects http://www.l-c-n.com/ IE5 Mac bugs and oddities http://www.l-c-n.com/IE5tests/ ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] Mac site check please...

2004-09-27 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
on, thanks. Doesn't work the same in IE. 5.2 for Mac - everything stacks vertically and overlap each other Float require a width ! http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/visuren.html#floats enough said Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web projects

Re: [WSG] IE 5.2 Mac and Site Issues - Any Help Appreciated

2004-09-27 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
the site was all broken. It i not that bad... Give #leftcolumn a width and it will work much better (at present, that column extend to 100% width of the viewport). And add background colour to your body, lime green is probably not what you want to see. Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live

Re: [WSG] Mac (Safari) rendering of colours

2004-09-16 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
. Omniweb uses Webcore and doesn't rely on the Webkit frameworks. Anyone running OS X 10.2 could check ? Anyway, it is a bloody annoying bug. [1] http://dev.l-c-n.com/safari/colorCheck.php [2] http://dev.l-c-n.com/safari/images/Safari_colourTest.png Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live

Re: [WSG] Change defaults in IE with CSS style sheet

2004-09-09 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
: allow sites to set font-family of font-size on/off). [1] granted, it is not as powerful as full blown user stylesheet, but as Felix notes, only a few users are capable to manage a user stylesheet. Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web projects

Re: [WSG] Sliding Doors and IE5.00 Mac

2004-09-02 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
for me on Mac OS 9 Japanese localisation, both IE5.00 and 5.17 - as it does on IE Win (Japanese localisation), Gecko, Opera 7.x, Safari, Konqueror3.2 (running on OS X, not 100% sure how reliable that is). Do you have the Japanese language resources installed ? Philippe ---/--- Philippe

[WSG] Sliding Doors and IE5.00 Mac

2004-09-01 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web projects : http://www.l-c-n.com/ IE5 Mac bugs and oddities : http://www.l-c-n.com/IE5tests/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of Web

Re: [WSG] Meta tag question

2004-08-21 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
and lang attributes, just doesn't know they exist. P. ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web projects : http://www.l-c-n.com/ IE5 Mac bugs and oddities : http://www.l-c-n.com/IE5tests/ ** The discussion

Re: [WSG] RE: Image replacement techniques for linked elements

2004-08-15 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
adjustments to your markup, but unfortunately doesn't address the issue of images being turned off when CSS is left on, and it utilises a box-model hack. A much better method imsho http://www.ryznardesign.com/web_coding/image_replacement/#glrj P. ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c

Re: [WSG] applying style to the 3rd column of a table?

2004-08-13 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
, then the syntax td+td+td will give a background colour to more than one column. You'd need to add td+td+td+td to override the previous one. [1] Safari, Omniweb5, Opera7.x, IE Mac and Gecko based browsers now. ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web

Re: [WSG] image placement

2004-08-12 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
with text-indent and padding should work fine. Over multiple lines, maybe as p:first-letter {float:left; height: /*image height*/; background: /* path to image */; padding: /*image width*/} might not be easy to get a consistent look cross browser. Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live

Re: [WSG] Why do web developers user Firefox?

2004-07-28 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
=5089 End user upgrades should be available soon for Firefox 0.9 and Mozilla 1.7, 1.4. Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web projects : http://www.l-c-n.com/ IE5 Mac bugs and oddities : http://www.l-c-n.com/IE5tests

Re: [WSG] CSS Drop down menu - Bugfix IE

2004-07-27 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
://www.regnskapsbyraet.no/sider/global.css) So - is there some way of tricking IE for this excact type of listmenu? li {float:left; width:100%; clear:both}. But this is better hidden from other browsers than IE win. Philippe ---/--- Philippe Wittenbergh now live : http://emps.l-c-n.com/ code | design | web

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