Re: [WSG] Icons

2004-04-06 Thread simon
Hi There. I know zeldman posted a link a week or two ago about an icon site. Go there and take a look at his link section ... cheers Simon Sven Jacobs wrote: Dear newsgroup, this may be a bit off topic but I'm sure you can help me. I want to show the visitors of my site that I care about web

Re: [WSG] Icons

2004-04-06 Thread russ weakley
You could always make any that you want for yourself with the buttonmaker: http://kalsey.com/tools/buttonmaker/ Or if you prefer the manual approach: http://www.sovavsiti.cz/css/w3c_buttons.html HTH Russ Dear newsgroup, this may be a bit off topic but I'm sure you can help me. I want to

Re: [WSG] Feedback on site :: color red

2004-04-06 Thread Andy Budd
Cheryl Perkins wrote: What can I say? The surgeon who hired me insisted on red. I think he'd have liked it entirely in red. I actually offered a couple different colour schemes in blues and greens, which happen to be my favourite colours, but there was no interest in them at all. I know it's

Re: [WSG] Icons

2004-04-06 Thread Andy Budd
Sven Jacobs wrote: I want to show the visitors of my site that I care about web standards and put an effort into making my website comply to these standards. ... Is there any official website where all these icons are collected? http://www.antipixel.com/blog/archives/2002/10/22/

[WSG] This months Web Standards Award winner

2004-04-06 Thread russ weakley
http://www.webstandardsawards.com/previous/jason_santa_maria.html A well deserved winner! There is also a nomination at weekly standards, although Adam Howell seems to have replaced his usual detailed analysis with comments like: So, in closing. Tables are the work of Satan spawn hellfire. Light

[WSG] Article - The Way Forward with Web Standards

2004-04-06 Thread Nick Lo
Not sure if it's been pointed to: By MACCAWS: MACCAWS' mission is to provide Web authors with the resources necessary to promote Web standards as a commercially desirable choice for clients. http://www.maccaws.org/kit/way-forward/ Nick *

Re: [WSG] IE6 rendering error. anyone knows the cause?

2004-04-06 Thread fatshady
My bad - there was one extra div closing tag that was causing the problem. After tweaking with the spacing for the past hour or so, I think it's finally done. My apologies for clogging the list! But, if you notice anything else wrong, give a hollar. :) I whipped up a portal page for the new

Re: [WSG] left margins on lists

2004-04-06 Thread Jeremy Flint
Set the margin for the ul, not the li. - Jeremy Flint www.jeremyflint.com Barbara Dozetos wrote: This may be a really stupid question, but I've searched high and low and can't find the answer. Is there any way to set the left margin on a list? I'm not talking about the space between the

Re: [WSG] left margins on lists

2004-04-06 Thread russ weakley
Barb, This is a bit hard to answer as I don't know if you are talking about a standard list or a list with graphics. I'll assume you men standard html lists... Standard HTML lists have a certain amount of left-indentation. The amount varies on each browser. Some browsers use padding (from

[WSG] Re: List Left Margin

2004-04-06 Thread Cameron Adams
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Re: [WSG] Re: List Left Margin

2004-04-06 Thread russ weakley
M weird. Is Browsercam branching out into new services? Apologies all. I should have checked all screenshots before sending the link. I will do so in future. :) Russ Geeze Russ, aren't you married? http://www.browsercam.com/projects/56771/930830.jpg -- Cameron Adams W:

[WSG] Relative Fonts

2004-04-06 Thread Gary Menzel
I don't consider myself a guru on web standards (specifically XHTML/CSS) but am learning and getting better. I like standards. I dont like how they aren't uniformly supported (and am not really concerned about getting into another Browser Wars thread). But I am having some issues with Relative

Re: [WSG] Relative Fonts

2004-04-06 Thread G A R Y C R O U C H [ A I T ]
Hi Gary * Understand your plite, its what we all face every day, one day it will all be easy. Every browser will render STANDARD code be it HTML, XHTML, CSS in the same way on any platform. They will even execute JavaDcript in the same way and

Re: [WSG] Relative Fonts

2004-04-06 Thread Cameron Adams
Given the ignorance of some of your users, I'd assume they were using IE. But remember, there's no such thing as fixed font design anymore. Mozilla, Safari et al all resize fonts irrespective of units. -- Cameron Adams W: www.themaninblue.com --- Gary Menzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't

RE: [WSG] Relative Fonts

2004-04-06 Thread James Silva
There are issues though * Embedded WYSIWYG editors are still very immature when it comes to XHTML and CSS (our CMS lets us plug in lots of editors but most of them lack something in some way or other) so enforcing the use of EM's is flawed (at best). Some of the editors support

[WSG] Problem and can't validate

2004-04-06 Thread Taco Fleur
Title: Problem and can't validate Sorry I can't validate my content, due to it being on the intranet and it's a CMS that most likely will not validate anyway. Can anyone see why my top two columns dailyNews and majorAnnouncements do not display inline? Everything within #quicklinks

RE: [WSG] Relative Fonts

2004-04-06 Thread Kay Smoljak
So when we launched our new site we had HUNDREDS (not exaggerating - they are all logged) of complaints about the font size being too small or too big because they did not have their font size set to medium (and there doesn't appear to be a way to detect what the setting is - probably

RE: [WSG] Problem and can't validate

2004-04-06 Thread Taco Fleur
Title: Problem and can't validate Well I solved that by setting width: 49% instead of 50%, still wondering why that is though - I am guessing it has something to do with both divs being bigger than 50% somehow ?? -Original Message-From: Taco Fleur Sent: Wednesday, 7 April 2004

RE: [WSG] Relative Fonts

2004-04-06 Thread Peter Ottery
Title: RE: [WSG] Relative Fonts Kay wrote: we just decided to politely educate each user who complained about what their problem was and why it was better the way we'd done it. Time consuming, but after the first couple it was all cut and paste anyway. ditto here. i had a similar

RE: [WSG] Relative Fonts

2004-04-06 Thread Gary Menzel
We've faced this as well, particularly with the Perth International Arts Festival, and we just decided to politely educate each user who complained about what their problem was and why it was better the way we'd done it. Time consuming, but after the first couple it was all cut and paste

Re: [WSG] EM's vs % (was: Relative Fonts)

2004-04-06 Thread russ weakley
Gary, Relative font sizes can also be done using percents as well as em's and this solution is recommended by the CSS discuss wiki for font scaling under 100% [1]. The Maxdesign site you mention is sadly in need of major restructuring and recoding. I used to do navigation in pixels and all other

RE: [WSG] Relative Fonts

2004-04-06 Thread Nick Cowie
Gary asked So - what does everyone do? I use em for all measurements (except images). So those column widths are not 200px but 16.7em. With a fixed width page (60em) long lines of text ie 80+ characters per line are difficult to read. Use a little bit of javascript to set the inital font size

[WSG] Re: IE with Gecko Was: Relative Fonts

2004-04-06 Thread Sven Jacobs
Understand your plite, its what we all face every day, one day it will all be easy. Every browser will render STANDARD code be it HTML, XHTML, CSS in the same way on any platform. They will even execute JavaDcript in the same way and follow the same DOM. Then again they may not! Is

RE: [WSG] Relative Fonts

2004-04-06 Thread Gary Menzel
I use em for all measurements (except images). So those column widths are not 200px but 16.7em. With a fixed width page (60em) long lines of text ie 80+ characters per line are difficult to read. OK - so is there a formula to work out PX to EM ? (at least on a vanilla type of setup). And I

Re: [WSG] tantek high_pass @import

2004-04-06 Thread 7 sinz
Thanks thats what i was looking for, i think Mariah sang it best- then a hero comes along thanks again From: Kay Smoljak [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] tantek high_pass @import Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 13:45:01 +1000 Im wondering if there's