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2008-12-08 Thread Jake Liddell
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Re: [WSG] Safari now on Windows

2007-06-11 Thread Jake Badger
On the tool bar there is a big bug button, try that. :) Jake On 12/6/2007, Gary Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Main problem I have with safari is on win xp sp2 none of the fonts it wants to use render at all. Makes life very interesting. It would be nice if there was a way of reporting

Re: [WSG] Safari now on Windows

2007-06-11 Thread Jake Badger
.. -- Gary Barber Blog - http:/manwithnoblog.com Jake Badger wrote: On the tool bar there is a big bug button, try that. :) Jake On 12/6/2007, Gary Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Main problem I have with safari is on win xp sp2 none of the fonts it wants to use render at all. Makes life

Re: [WSG] background won't repeat-y

2007-03-04 Thread Jake Tracey
Hey Dwain, Do you want the paint stripe to repeat as the background for the whole page? I tried background: url(../images/paint-stripe.png) repeat-y; on body {} and it worked fine. Hope this helps! Jake -- Jake Tracey http://www.jaketracey.com p

Re: [WSG] It's times like this you remember how far you've come

2007-03-03 Thread Jake Tracey
forms when a normal submit would work fine.). Oh, and Hi to everyone on the list, I've been reading it for a few weeks now and thought I might join the conversation, if thats okay with you guys :) Have a good weekend, -- Jake Tracey http://www.jaketracey.com

Re: [WSG] Firefox caption madness

2005-10-11 Thread Jake Badger
It already has it, but firefox ignores it if the display isn't block, and if it is it's only as wide as the first cell of the table (as I just said). On 11/10/2005, Christian Montoya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/11/05, Jake Badger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting a weird problem when I

Re: [WSG] Firefox caption madness

2005-10-11 Thread Jake Badger
Hmm, you're right it's not valid. However even if I change it to an inline element (I tried cite and del) exactly the same problems happen, so that's not it. On 11/10/2005, Bert Doorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day I'm getting a weird problem when I try and absolutely position something in a

[WSG] Firefox caption madness

2005-10-10 Thread Jake Badger
of the table but the absolutely positioned em element is in the top left of the page rather than of the caption element. Any one have any ideas on what's going on here? Jake !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd; html

Re: [WSG] Java (JSP) v .net for standard and accessibility

2005-09-26 Thread Jake Badger
trouble than it's worth. Myself I quite like ruby on rials, but I'd go with what ever your already comfortable with. Jake On 27/9/2005, Matthew Cruickshank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stuart Sherwood wrote: I'm wondering how .net compares as I haven't had the chance yet to build a site with it? Current

Re: [WSG] WE05 - who's going?

2005-09-26 Thread Jake Badger
I'll be there http://www.flickr.com/photos/webessentials/44913770/ I'll be bloging nowhere, just representing my department. Lucky there isn't a spot the fed contest like they have at defcon. On 27/9/2005, Andrew Krespanis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm going. Will be doing a little

Re: [WSG] The Big Lie about CSS

2005-09-18 Thread Jake Badger
cached stylesheet but it's not going to be a major problem. I know if I see a site with what looks like bad stylesheet I'm going to refresh which will generally fix the problem. Jake On 19/9/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was thinking this morning that we constantly tell

RE: [WSG] The Big Lie about CSS

2005-09-18 Thread Jake Badger
Except that then that stylesheet gets cached (more likely cached on the proxy) and you have the same problem all over again. Jake On 19/9/2005, Geoff Pack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John, There's no need for a server-side include to do this. Just use a linked stylesheet to import the real

RE: [WSG] The Big Lie about CSS

2005-09-18 Thread Jake Badger
that big of an issue. Jake On 19/9/2005, Geoff Pack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can still change the filenames of the imported stylesheets as needed to get around the cache issues. The point was to avoid the SSI and do it all on the client side with link and import. Geoff

Re: [WSG] IE 7.0 Details Begin to Leak

2005-03-15 Thread Jake Badger
That article also says it will contain transparent Portable Network Graphics (PNG) support, which is something I know I've been waiting for. On 16/3/2005, Nick Lo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Partner sources say Microsoft is wavering on the extent to which it plans to support CSS2 with IE 7.0.

Re: [WSG] Somewhat OT - VERY print friendly?

2004-12-13 Thread jake
That's what we do at DEWR for our minister's press releases. It seems to work well enough, I'm not sure if it's semantically correct, but hey it works. J Quoting John Horner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Something came up that I hope you won't mind my asking on this list. I've got a database with a web

Re: [WSG] Somewhat OT - VERY print friendly?

2004-12-13 Thread jake
Unfortunately the machines our test lab aren't hooked up to a printer, but it worked fine in IE6 and Firefox (PC). Jake Quoting Matthew Cruickshank [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's what we do at DEWR for our minister's press releases. It seems to work well enough, I'm

RE: [WSG] Somewhat OT - VERY print friendly?

2004-12-13 Thread jake
who loads the image will have to download the print resolution image, but in our case at least it was just a 1bit BW gif so it wasn't all that big. Jake Quoting Website Direction Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED]: John said: What would you do? Make a huge image then force-shrink it using the code

Re: [WSG] 256 colours or the whole enchilada?

2004-10-21 Thread jake
(at least for any big blocks of colour). Jake Quoting Andreas Boehmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Out of curiosity: what's your stand to the 216 web colours? Do you stick with them or do you go the full 16 bits? I personally have stopped limiting myself a long time ago (unless absolutely necessary

Re: [WSG] Fluid Horizontal Lists

2004-10-05 Thread Jake Badger
If that's what you want then can't you just move the padding to the a rather than the li, it won't actiually make the nav bar go all the way across (you can make it look like it does though), but it will make it get change width when the windows does. Jake Quoting Todd Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [WSG] Table-style admin layouts

2004-10-05 Thread Jake Badger
It's tabular data, so you should use a table. It displays reliably, it's semantically correct and if implemented correctly it's usable for screen readers. It's best to use all of the semantic table elements (th, tbody, thead, summary, caption) if you can. Jake Quoting Ryan Sabir [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [WSG] Site review

2004-10-05 Thread Jake Badger
the front flash file is rather wide on IE 6. Quoting Moorey Mohamad [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi everyone We have just finished our department's site redevelopment (~4 months work). http://www.properties.curtin.edu.au/ Our first go at full standards. Generated pages (ie content pages) by our

Re: [WSG] Fluid Horizontal Lists

2004-10-04 Thread Jake Badger
; display:block; text-align:center; } Jake Quoting Richard Czeiger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Nup - collapses in IE :o( Richard - Original Message - From: Neerav [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 2:20 PM Subject: Re: [WSG] Fluid Horizontal Lists just a quick

Re: [WSG] Fluid Horizontal Lists

2004-10-04 Thread Jake Badger
I've found adding dividers in the form of borders are more trouble than they are worth in liquid horizontal lists. One solution is to put the dividers in as 1px wide background images rather than left or right borders. Jake Quoting Hugh Todd [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Todd, If you turn the 'a's

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

2004-09-16 Thread Jake Badger
Philippe was saying that it didn't happen in OW (which uses an older version of webcore), so either it's a problem with a new build (my guess) or in the webkit framework. Jake Quoting Michael Donnermeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Cameron, Sometimes there's an issue with the gamma difference between

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

2004-09-16 Thread Jake Badger
Are you sure? When I open it in OW (5.0.1 v558.48) is seems to happen, making me think that it IS a webcore/khtml issue. On 16/09/2004, at 6:54 PM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: On Sep 16, 2004, at 4:30 pm, Jake Badger wrote: Philippe was saying that it didn't happen in OW (which uses an older

Re: [WSG] WYSIWYG Editors

2004-09-16 Thread Jake Badger
editing. Jake On 16/09/2004, at 9:11 PM, Olajide Olaolorun wrote: Hi, I was wondering if any one knows a free WYSIWYG Editor that works with both IE and Firefox or Mozilla... or any other browser. The ones I have been seeing only work with IE Please help... -- Personal Hobby

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

2004-09-15 Thread Jake Badger
From the way I read it they're both at 32 bit. My guess would be that safari is using ColorSync to match the jpg to what it would like in print, which would be fine if you weren't trying to match it the gif next-door. You might have to use one format or the other (or switch both to png, which is

Re: [WSG] IE... grrr

2004-06-03 Thread Jake Badger
that you'll have to use a box model hack to declare a different widths for IE. Jake Quoting Collins, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Can someone CSS-savvy please take a look at http://stephencollins.blogdns.org/ and tell me why: * my calendar renders

Re: [WSG] Forms, labels headers

2004-05-11 Thread Jake Badger
It's not as though if we hadn't had tables for layout we would have sat around doing nothing. If it hadn't been for table layout CSS would have been developed sooner and taken up a lot faster. Quoting Andrew Sione Taumoefolau [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 21:19 -0400, Michael

Re: [WSG] Font Sizes

2004-05-09 Thread Jake Badger
I wouldn't bother testing in WebTV at all. It has a tiny market share and pretty limited functionality. Jake Quoting YoYoEtc [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is Firefox yet another browser? In designing sites, are there other browsers I need to take into consideration other than Internet Explorer

Re: [WSG] Removing bullets

2004-05-06 Thread Jake Badger
The list-style-type: none; needs to be on the LI not on the a. You need something like: #menu li { list-style: none; } J. Hi guys ,, I have contructed this navigation bar -- http://simondodson.com/nav2.html and im having trouble removing the bullet

Re: [WSG] Trying to add a back to top link

2004-04-26 Thread Jake Badger
I think it's something like echo a href=\$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].$_SERVER [QUERY_STRING].#top\top/a; but that's off the top of my head (as we don't have an SQL enviroment at work for me to test it with). Jake Hello, I am trying to add a back to top of page link to PHP dynamically generated

Re: [WSG] Trying to add a back to top link

2004-04-26 Thread Jake Badger
of my head (as we don't have an SQL enviroment at work for me to test it with). Jake Hello, I am trying to add a back to top of page link to PHP dynamically generated pages. The header and footers for these page never change so the anchor is in the header and the link