Re: [WSG] block elements should expand to contain inline children?

2005-03-01 Thread Claudia Frers
Why would adding display:inline anywhere be ignored in this example? http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/box.html#mpb-examples russ - maxdesign wrote: Hi Scott, An inline element can have margin and padding applied to it but only left and right margin/padding will affect other elements. Top and bottom

Re: [WSG] Why won't my list items centre?

2005-03-01 Thread Claudia Frers
Hi Seona: Are you talking about the list at the top of the page or at the bottom? I assume that you mean the bottom. Gallery and Contact me move to the bottom line and are centered in IE 6.0 and ff win pro. Is this what you expect? I am missing The CSS for the menu bar at:

[WSG] Writing with a markup language

2005-03-01 Thread pierofissore
I'd like to propose a reading to my italian web friends (or to anyone who knows the italian language). I wrote this article thinking about the general laxism I can see all around me (about web coding). Its title is Writing with a markup language. What do you think about? -

Re: [WSG] horizontal list menus based on images rather text in css..WORKS NOW

2005-03-01 Thread Claudia Frers
So ...Why is the display: inline ever needed? Just threw out a lot of code and this works :-) Am I on the right track??? a humble newbie !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd; html xmlns=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml;

[WSG] Site Check and Mac Issues

2005-03-01 Thread Patrick Haney
Good morning everyone. I've been working on a redesign of my personal site for a few weeks now and I'm almost at a finalized point in the layout, however I'm running into a few issues, most of which are on Mac browsers. The pages are both XHTML 1.0 Transitional and CSS valid, though I

[WSG] Firefox usemap

2005-03-01 Thread Paul
Title: Message Have a page, checks XHTML 1.0 Transitional valid but Firefox is not picking up the usemap, any ideas? http://www.speakupnow.ca/wu/meetingrooms.php thanks Paul

RE: [WSG] horizontal list menus based on images rather text in css..WORKS NOW

2005-03-01 Thread Chris Botman
I guess the issues to consider are: - What happens to people who have images turned off. - How will a seach engine index those links. - How will a screen reader read them? - What happens if your page is printed (by default background images won't be printed) - which may or may not be a good

Re: [WSG] horizontal list menus based on images rather text in css..WORKS NOW

2005-03-01 Thread Jan Brasna
- What happens to people who have images turned off. That's the most painfull issue. Good solution is http://wellstyled.com/css-replace-text-by-image.html (Second solution) - How will a seach engine index those links. Well. - How will a screen reader read them? Well if you use something like

RE: [WSG] Why won't my list items centre?

2005-03-01 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi Claudia, The site has undergone a transformation since then, and not necessarily for the better. The layout I had before was very unstable from a cross-browser point of view, and since we needed it for going into a client meeting this morning I ran out of time to debug it fully. So it's now

Re: [WSG] Firefox usemap

2005-03-01 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Paul wrote: Have a page, checks XHTML 1.0 http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xhtml1-20020801/ Transitional valid but Firefox is not picking up the usemap, any ideas? http://www.speakupnow.ca/wu/meetingrooms.php Firefox does recognise the usemap (tab through the page's links to see this), but it

RE: [WSG] horizontal list menus based on images rather text in css..WORKS NOW

2005-03-01 Thread Chris Botman
- How will a seach engine index those links. Well. I was more meaning the lack of anchor text to give the likes of Google some juicy words to associate with your website. I don't claim this to be a definitive source, but for example, from:

[WSG] navigation using arrows for location

2005-03-01 Thread Peter Ottery
so I've designed myself a nice looking navigation scheme that displays visually whereabouts you are within a site. Now I just need to work out how to sort out the css :) Here's what I want it to look like: http://c41.com.au/test/sample_nav.gif I'm *not* after any dynamic or popout

RE: [WSG] horizontal list menus based on images rather text in css..WORKS NOW

2005-03-01 Thread Mike Pepper
Actually ... C) Click here for TLD akeyphrase/a and registration by our partner, e.g. - Click here for TLD *domain names* and registration by plibbleandco. This reinforces anchor text as it is not seen in isolation but with reference to surrounding copy. HTH, Mike Pepper Accessible Web

[WSG] Float Order

2005-03-01 Thread Chris Kennon
Hi, Can some clarify, why document order in XHTML matters with elements floated with CSS. I was having a time with a right floated DIV, until I switched it's place in the XHTML then all was fine. CK __ Knowing is not enough, you must apply; willing is not enough,

[WSG] IE Image vertical height oddity

2005-03-01 Thread Mike Pepper
On first rendering http://www.beautyofbedford.com/beauty_gift_vouchers.htm the two body images do not observe their height attributes in the markup under IE6 (vertical image stretching) yet subsequent iterations intermittently display images to size. Running IE6 under Win2K Pro. FF and other

Re: [WSG] navigation using arrows for location

2005-03-01 Thread Dave O'Brien
The navigation looks pretty good; started laying out a concept, still a fair bit to do however and will have a go finishing off when I can over the next few days. Am shattered so enough said. Dave On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 09:18:18 +1100, Peter Ottery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so I've designed

Re: [WSG] IE Image vertical height oddity

2005-03-01 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day p class=subimglimg ... alt= width=385 height=137 /br /Salon .../p I naturally looked for overriding CSS styles but could find none: Haven't looked at the page, but the snippet you sent shows: #block .subimgl img, #block .subimgr img { margin: 0 0 .5em 0; height: 1%; } What

RE: [WSG] IE Image vertical height oddity

2005-03-01 Thread Mike Pepper
What happens if you remove that height setting? I buy you a beer when you're in town :o) IE percentage challenges, eh. Now need to investigate why it was there in the first place. Thanks and cheers, Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf

Re: [WSG] Site check (esp. Mac): One House

2005-03-01 Thread David Laakso
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:54:54 +1100, Seona Bellamy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Laakso [] the fonts are much too small, that they go a little goofy on zoom in IE, Is that a great deal larger than what you