RE: [WSG] Embedding Flash

2004-09-24 Thread David McKinnon
There you go! I knew it was too good to be true. That probably means that there really is no standards-compliant way of embedding Flash that doesn't cause problems for someone somewhere. Back to the drawing board. David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [WSG] ol start attribute deprecated in XHTML 1.0 Strict and up.

2004-09-24 Thread Mordechai Peller
Nick Lo wrote: COASTAL DEVELOPMENT 4. Mayor Casts Doubt Over Magnetic Is Report (Great Barrier Reef) 5. Hope for Maldives Rises from the Sea (Maldives) ...and looking at the how of doing that; ol start=4 I came up with something. While it's not perfect, it works.

[WSG] Positioning in IE6

2004-09-24 Thread Suzanne Malyon
Hi there, Ive got a page working as I want it in Firefox, but in IE6 Im having a problem with the position of the home navigation bar. Ive validated the CSS HTML. Any tips? Its online at: http://www.eshopworks.co.uk/suz/index.htm CSS is:

[WSG] another quick question

2004-09-24 Thread john
I have another question (you'll have to forgive me...I don't currently have Net access, so I don't have luxury of looking this information up myself. I only have the time to write my emails offline and plug my laptop into somebody's network every once in awhile for the email upload/download

[WSG] screen resolution and standards

2004-09-24 Thread john
Okay, my first question. ;) Screen resolution: back in the day, designers made their sites look good on 640x480 because that's what most people used (only the *ultra geek* used anything higher than 800x600 ;) ). Then, of course, everybody went up to 800x600, and now most laptops (and perhaps

Re: [WSG] screen resolution and standards

2004-09-24 Thread russ - maxdesign
A lot of this comes down the the site and its intended audience. However, you should keep in mind hand-held devices which are on the increase in a major way. They have tiny screens. This means we really have to think outside the standards screen sizes. A good mind-shift article is here:

Re: [WSG] ol start attribute deprecated in XHTML 1.0 Strict and up.

2004-09-24 Thread Nick Lo
Thanks for taking the time to do that but since I'm not using xhtml 1.0 strict I actually wasn't having a problem. I was merely noting, for the sake of those looking at strict, the depreciation of an ol attribute start that seemed to have as much to do with document structure as presentation.

Re: [WSG] another quick question

2004-09-24 Thread Rick Faaberg
On 9/24/04 2:30 AM john [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent this out: What are your feelings regarding rsac.org and do you feel it's necessary to register and include their meta tag on your sites? RSAC no longer exists. is the first line in the body. In any event, ICRA looks like a content

Re: [WSG] screen resolution and standards

2004-09-24 Thread Rick Faaberg
On 9/24/04 2:39 AM russ - maxdesign [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent this out: However, you should keep in mind hand-held devices which are on the increase in a major way. They have tiny screens. This means we really have to think outside the standards screen sizes. A good mind-shift article is here:

Re: [WSG] screen resolution and standards

2004-09-24 Thread russ - maxdesign
Opera-based devices seem to support well but some others do not. Patrick has done a lot of research and could tell us real stats: http://www.htmldog.com/ptg/archives/55.php Worth reading: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/pocket/ http://my.opera.com/community/dev/device/css-media/ While

[WSG] Opera formatting problems

2004-09-24 Thread Ted Drake
Hi Everyone Opera is definately not in my scope of expertise. I've fixed the vast majority of my css bugs and now I need to fix a couple Opera problems. Here are some screen shots from browsercam. I hope you can view them. http://www.browsercam.com/projects/99910/1643010.jpg

[WSG] netscape gasp/ 4.7 emulator

2004-09-24 Thread Ted Drake
Does anyone know an online resource that emulates netscape 4.7? I need to do some css shuffling to make my main.css look ok in nn4. I have a browsercam subscription for this month but would like to see more than a screenshot. I'm sure others would appreciate the information as well. Ted

Re: [WSG] netscape gasp/ 4.7 emulator

2004-09-24 Thread Kay Smoljak
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 08:47:12 -0700, Ted Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know an online resource that emulates netscape 4.7? Why not just install it on your dev machine? It's not that bad... http://browsers.evolt.org has an archive with heaps of different versions. K. -- Kay Smoljak

RE: [WSG] netscape gasp/ 4.7 emulator

2004-09-24 Thread Ted Drake
Hi Kay thanks I ended up downloading one from netscape, they have an archive of old browsers. However, it comes packaged with aol advertising. I bet the link you give doesn't have the aol stuff added. Ted -Original Message- From: Kay Smoljak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday,

Re: [WSG] Opera formatting problems

2004-09-24 Thread Big John
Ted Drake wrote: There is an image in the div#topright that is floated left that is sitting below the menu toprightnav I am using the IE Whitespace hack to avoid putting the unordered list on one line of code: http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/546/ie-whitespace-bug Will this mess up

RE: [WSG] Opera formatting problems

2004-09-24 Thread Ted Drake
Hi Big John Thanks for the tip. It worked on the upper right. I have two more problems with Opera that I haven't figured out. In the body of some pages, I have a tertiary set of nav buttons that are stacking. the ul is floated right and the list items inside it are floated left. I tried to set

Re: [WSG] screen resolution and standards

2004-09-24 Thread Gary Menzel
Another thing that is often forgotten is that many people DONT run applications (which also means browsers) at full screen resolution. Many people still run lots of overlapping windows (the messy desktop approach). So - it's all well and good to not design for 640x480 - but there will be lots of

Re: [WSG] screen resolution and standards

2004-09-24 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 09:02:14 +1000, Gary Menzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another thing that is often forgotten is that many people DONT run applications (which also means browsers) at full screen resolution. Many people still run lots of overlapping windows (the messy desktop approach). ...

[WSG] font sizing

2004-09-24 Thread Andrew Poulos
I have a few questions about font sizing: - Is it possible to query the text zoom on MZ (or the text size on IE/FF) with, say, JavaScript? - Is it possible to prevent an item of text from being resized by the user? I'm not anti-accessibility but there are some on-screen elements that need to

[WSG] No background image in Firefox

2004-09-24 Thread Wayne Godfrey
This is my second real try at CSS and XHTML so bear with me! I thought I had it nailed, but noo... The page works in Safari, IE 5.2, 5.1 and Opera 6.03 all on a Mac both OS x and OS 9, but Firefox says no go. Firefox will not load my background image nor the logo at the bottom. The XHTML

RE: [WSG] No background image in Firefox

2004-09-24 Thread Bert
G'day Loads fine for me in Firefox 1.0PR. You haven't disabled images in Firefox (through the web developer toolbar) by chance? Regards -- Bert Doorn, Web Developer Better Web Design - www.bwdzine.com Fast-loading, user-friendly websites **

Re: [WSG] No background image in Firefox

2004-09-24 Thread Wayne Godfrey
Hey Bert, I don't think I've disabled images, but I don't use Firefox very much since it's on my wife's machine. Where would I look to find out? It almost sounds that like that's the problem. It loads fine for you?? Hope I'm not going to be feeling like a total idiot, but I've loaded other test

RE: [WSG] No background image in Firefox

2004-09-24 Thread Bert
G'day I don't think I've disabled images, but I don't use Firefox very much since it's on my wife's machine. Where would I look to find out? It almost sounds that like that's the problem. It loads fine for you?? I can't help you on browser settings, nor is that a web standards issue :-)

Re: [WSG] screen resolution and standards

2004-09-24 Thread Lea de Groot
On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 03:16:47 +0300, Rimantas Liubertas wrote: Precisely. Only I yet have to see someone who runs his/her browser NOT maximazed. That's around my workplace. So better not to speculate on this issue. Yes, speculation is useless. One of my clients, for the month of August shows