[WSG] delayed rendering of containing div's background colour

I have two floating divs #mainbar and #sidebar inside another div: #content. When the page is rendered the content of the two floating divs is rendered then the background colour of the #content div seems to roll-out. This occurs in both IE 6 and Firefox 0.9 at dial-up speeds, Opera 7.52 is fine.

[WSG] Tantek Celik on Ten CSS tricks you may not know

Recent Evolt article Ten CSS tricks you may not know, http://www.evolt.org/article/Ten_CSS_tricks_you_may_not_know/17/60369/index.html You should know most of the tricks. Tantek's peer review http://tantek.com/log/2004/09.html#d07t1434 I found far more informative and I learnt more. Like why

RE: [WSG] Does display:none work on img replacements?

display:none has been discourages early on in the whole image replacement discussion, as it completely hides the element from screen readers. Patrick -Original Message- From: Lorenzo Gabba @ Quirk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 September 2004 14:52 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: [WSG] Does display:none work on img replacements?

ah... just read http://tantek.com/log/2004/09.html#d07t1434 nevermind. =P On Wednesday 08 September 2004 15:51, Lorenzo Gabba @ Quirk wrote: | Question | Is this an acceptable alternative to #5 on: http://www.evolt.org/article/Ten_CSS_tricks_you_may_not_know/17/60369/index .html ... or will

[WSG] Better Flexible Rounded Corners Option? and Site Check

Hi I am looking for a flexible rounded corners (with borders) that is not restrictive to size. Googled for some but most are filled with lots of complex solutions (lots of html meddling and tones of css codes). Did anyone come across something good? Right now this page -

Re: [WSG] Standards-based PHP tutorials for beginners...

Hi Michael, One thing I'd suggest if you're learning PHP is to from the very start try as much as possible to avoid having PHP generate your HTML (as in your example). I started coding PHP over 4 years ago using an e-commerce system that generated large amounts of the HTML and I still now

Re: [WSG] Standards-based PHP tutorials for beginners...

Couldn't agree more. One other suggestion, though, is to extend that separation a little further by generating XML with PHP, and then parsing that XML into whatever templating engine you end up using. This just provides another degree of separation, and reduces the temptation to hard-code ANY

RE: [WSG] Better Flexible Rounded Corners Option? and Site Check

There is an article on A List Apart that has something like that, not sure if you have seen that one. http://www.alistapart.com/articles/customcorners/ But I guess this has html meddling... Tim Hill Computer Associates Graphic Artist tel: +612 9937 0792 fax: +612 9937 0546 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [WSG] Brisbane Meeting, Wednesday

thanx to the WSG(bris) organisers and John Allsopp for a very interesting presentation. I certainly got some ideas out of last night. SO... while we wait for John to blog the resources of the presso, can anyone remember some of the links he had? - esp the W3C semantic viewer tool? thanx again

[WSG] Change defaults in IE with CSS style sheet

Hi everyone I am wondering if anyone knows how to change the defaults in browsers like IE. I recall someone showed how a user can make their default font say Arial, 10, etc with particular colour like black on white background. Its all configured in a CSS file. So it over rides the CSS style

Re: [WSG] Content Management tools for non-tech authors

AssetNow NX (www.assetnow.com) - will be available October. Uses Java editor. XHTML/CSS. Pricing will be under US$2k (for 10 editor seats). Disclosure: I am the developer. Johan Original Message From: Joseph Lindsay [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu,

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

Ralph wrote: I am wondering if anyone knows how to change the defaults in browsers like IE. I recall someone showed how a user can make their default font say Arial, 10, etc with particular colour like black on white background. Its all configured in a CSS file. So it over rides the CSS

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

Go to Tools | Internet Options and at the bottom of the General tab click the Accessibility button and add your stylesheet there. P -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ralph Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 11:59 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: [WSG] Brisbane Meeting, Wednesday

I second that, it was a very interesting night... Thanks guys! ...and I third (?) that motion; most enjoyable. I've been looking for the web related design patterns that John mentioned, not sure if I've found it though. http://www.e-gineer.com/articles/design-patterns-in-web-programming.phtml

Re: [WSG] Content Management tools for non-tech authors

I imagine new versions of Contribute are pretty good (there's a demo, why not try it out?). It depends on how much they need to do -- if it's just basic formatting of text, I'd say Textile[1] or Markdown[2] which are ASCI-to-XHTML converters with simple shorthand for links, bold, italics, etc.