Re: [WSG] Links for light reading...

2004-03-10 Thread Gavin Thomas
With regard to the rounded corners not working in IE ONe that does work in IE is the alistapart version http://www.alistapart.com/d/customcorners2/step2.4.html _ Gavin Thomas University of the West of England Academic Technologies Group [ATG]

RE: [WSG] Links for light reading...

2004-03-10 Thread Peter Firminger
Also of some interest, maybe a bit old... Aug 7 2003 http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1388637 Paul Ford from ftrain.com on web standards. Nice to hear NPR on a topic close to my heart. I'm available for an interview too! (my public broadcasting (ABC) background showing through

Re: [WSG] Style Switcher and IE

2004-03-10 Thread Jaime Wong
Wowthe list sure is active during weekdays! Sorry just got around checking my list mail. I am not behind a firewall at all and did not use any programs such as firewall. If the site is showing/working for you guys then I guess the problem is with my computer. I will not be so worried then

Re: [WSG] Purpose of this mailing list

2004-03-10 Thread Jaime Wong
I think I am a lil late tocontribute here but I would like to say that I agree with Justin. Forums are a good tool for organising topics but for some who are too busy totake the trouble to log into forums and check the posts, it is a turn off. I would prefer for the list to remain as it is

Re: [WSG] Purpose of this mailing list

2004-03-10 Thread Leo J. O'Campo
Russ wrote in... Re: [WSG] Cascading background colors The important question is - do you know why it worked the second time around? The answer is that the second rule has more specificity... The above is a perfect example of the purpose of this mailing list. Russ' reply to Peter's how to

Re: [WSG] Lists weird br / requirement

2004-03-10 Thread Jaime Wong
Just a quick question Russ to make sure I understand better. Calendars and events (with dates and venue) or even for e.g. certain competition results (with points) would be more suitable to be done with tables rather than CSS right? With Regards Jaime Wong ~~

Re: [WSG] Purpose of this mailing list

2004-03-10 Thread Justin French
On Thursday, March 11, 2004, at 07:28 AM, Taco Fleur wrote: The only downside is that mailing list is that it is hard to organise it to specific folders. I have a folder for WSG but 90% of the mail ended up in my inbox instead because the from field is actually using the sender's name.\] You

[WSG] More links for light reading

2004-03-10 Thread Mark Stanton
How to debug CSS: http://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2004/03/10/css_problems/index.php Google goes anti semantic (h1's are to easily abused): http://www.sitepoint.com/article/brandy-google-update Cheers Mark -- Mark Stanton Technical Director Gruden Pty Ltd Tel: 9956

Re: [WSG] Purpose of this mailing list

2004-03-10 Thread Kristof Neirynck
Justin French wrote: You can also filter on the [WSG] in the subject, which is fool-proof. I'd rather not. That would filter out offlist messages as well. I filter on the to field. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Kristof * The discussion list for

[WSG] A kinda Simplequiz

2004-03-10 Thread Manuel González Noriega
Hi all, How would you mark up an interview? a) dl dtSo, how are you doing?/dt ddFine, thanks for asking/dd /dl b) p class=qSo, how are you doing?/p p class=aDidn't you just ask me that on a)/p c) hxSo, how are you doing?/hx pPlease, stop it./p d) Other This afternoon, at work, we were

Re: [WSG] Lists weird br / requirement

2004-03-10 Thread James Ellis
I believe Calendars would be a great use of floats, just set a height and width, float left limit the row float to seven days and you have a cascading day based calendar. Cheers James Jaime Wong wrote: Just a quick question Russ to make sure I understand better. Calendars and events (with

Re: [WSG] A kinda Simplequiz

2004-03-10 Thread russ weakley
Option A is completely acceptable, and is actually very close to a W3C example: Another application of DL, for example, is for marking up dialogues, with each DT naming a speaker, and each DD containing his or her words. http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/mod-list.html#edef_list_dt Russ Hi all,

Re: [WSG] A kinda Simplequiz

2004-03-10 Thread Justin French
On Thursday, March 11, 2004, at 10:39 AM, Manuel González Noriega wrote: How would you mark up an interview? a) dl dtSo, how are you doing?/dt ddFine, thanks for asking/dd /dl This seems most appropriate, given that a conversation/dialogue is given as an example usage of a DL in the specs.

Re: [WSG] Lists weird br / requirement

2004-03-10 Thread David McDonald
Yes, I have used this concept (floats) before for a calendar. If anyone wants the code, feel free to contact me off list. David McDonald Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] Lists weird br / requirement Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 10:57:06

Re: [WSG] A kinda Simplequiz

2004-03-10 Thread Robert Moser
Jackie Reid blurted out: Manuel Gonzlez Noriega wrote: b) doesn't work well for multi-paragraph questions or answers. scuse my ignorance but is it not ok to this: dldtfirst bit/dt dtnext bit/dt ddfirst bit/dd ddnext bit/dd ddand another bit/dd/dl While that would be

Re: [WSG] A kinda Simplequiz

2004-03-10 Thread Tonico Strasser
Robert Moser wrote: While that would be fine, I personally would prefer: dl dt pfirst bit/p pnext bit/p /dt dd pfirst bit/p pnext bit/p pand another bit/p /dd /dl I prefer this because doing it in the form of multiple dts or dds in a row loses a bit of the cohesiveness

RE: [WSG] Lists weird br / requirement

2004-03-10 Thread P.H.Lauke
*visually* you'd have a table...but what about the structure underneath the shiny facade ? Patrick -Original Message- From: James Ellis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 10/03/2004 23:57 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Re: [WSG]

Re: [WSG] Definition list wish

2004-03-10 Thread Tonico Strasser
Robert Moser wrote: Consider this: you want to put a border around all your individual terms, some of which might have multiple definitions. Using some pretty esoteric CSS3 selectors you might be able to do it, but for the most part, you're just out of luck. ... Then you could have

RE: [WSG] Definition list wish

2004-03-10 Thread Mark Stanton
What would the process be for making such a change? Sign up to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list. But a word of warning, be ready to have your idea ripped to shreds. Don't be dishearted by this process, every idea is ripped to shreds on that list - the good ones come through the other end and are

Re: [WSG] Purpose of this mailing list

2004-03-10 Thread Carl Reynolds
I filter on the [WSG] in the subject line and would suggest that if you want to add other categories, it be done by adding to the [WSG]. For example, [WSG][CSS] subject,or [WSG] - CSS - subject. Justin French wrote: On Thursday, March 11, 2004, at 07:28 AM, Taco Fleur wrote: The only

[WSG] effect of css background repeat-x at high res

2004-03-10 Thread Neerav
Hi I was looking at http://www.alistapart.com/d/customcorners2/step2.4.html on my 1024x768 monitor and wondered what would the gradient used for the background using : background: #d3d7e0 url(../images/bg.jpg) repeat-x; look like at a really high resolution because bg.jpg is 1 px wide x 800

Re: [WSG] A kinda Simplequiz

2004-03-10 Thread StBlanz
Hello Manuel, hello list, How would you mark up an interview? a) dl b) p c) hx Another idea: Isn't it at least a table? f.e.: table summary=interview trthInterviewer/ththQuestion/ththAnswering Person/ththAnswer/th/tr trtdSam:/tdtdWhat are you doing here?/tdtdTommy:/tdtdI prefer eating on

Re: [WSG] Definition list wish

2004-03-10 Thread Robert Moser
Tonico Strasser blurted out: Robert Moser wrote: Then you could have something like this: dl dli dtAlbatross/dt ddA sea bird/dd ddA tasty snack at the movies/dd /dli dli dtSwallow/dt ddCoconut delivery system/dd /dli /dl What about: dl dtAlbatross/dt ddA sea

Re: [WSG] effect of css background repeat-x at high res

2004-03-10 Thread Robert Moser
Neerav blurted out: I was looking at http://www.alistapart.com/d/customcorners2/step2.4.html on my 1024x768 monitor and wondered what would the gradient used for the background using : background: #d3d7e0 url(../images/bg.jpg) repeat-x; look like at a really high resolution because bg.jpg is 1