Re: [WSG] clearfixing

2005-07-16 Thread sam sherlock
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rowan Lewis wrote: Or how about the much simpler more correct method? http://www.quirksmode.org/css/clearing.html is there something wrong with standards mode? dwain thanks to all you sugestions on this 1 - great help atb > Sam

Re: [WSG] footer technique

2005-07-16 Thread Francesco Sanfilippo
Easy. I don't rely on Javascript for anything critical. I would rather use a layout hack without Javascript. Francesco On 7/16/05, Maarten Stolte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why not just use the technique from Bobby van der Sluis, it works all the > time on dom enabled browsers; > http://w

Re: [WSG] footer technique

2005-07-16 Thread Maarten Stolte
Hello, Joshua Street wrote: I don't have a Mac either, but supposedly Konqueror and Safari use similar rendering engines, so I tested in that instead. It is indeed mildly broken, but certainly acceptable. The footer will render at the very bottom of the viewport on page load without any p

[WSG] help on Vocab improvement

2005-07-16 Thread ^ .^
Hey box,   can any one help me ...! how to improve my Vocab   Jack Rods tee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Forgive me Russ, while I was writing this email, your THREAD CLOSED came inbut I have an urge to finish my message.Thank you Lea, Peter and others for not supporting the idea of turning thiswonder

Re: [WSG] footer technique

2005-07-16 Thread Rick Faaberg
On 7/16/05 4:15 AM "Rick Faaberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent this out: >> Apparently it doesn't work in IE5 Mac or Safari. IE5 Mac I can mostly >> live without, but Safari is a bit of a bugger. I don't have a Mac here >> so I can't test - I'm curious as to whether it can be made to degrade >> accept

Re: [WSG] footer technique

2005-07-16 Thread Rick Faaberg
On 7/16/05 4:01 AM "Kay Smoljak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent this out: > Explanation: http://solardreamstudios.com/learn/css/footerstick/ > Example: > http://solardreamstudios.com/_img/learn/css/footerstick/footerstick.html > > Apparently it doesn't work in IE5 Mac or Safari. IE5 Mac I can mostly >

Re: [WSG] footer technique

2005-07-16 Thread Vicki Berry
Looks perfect to me in Safari 2.0, OS 10.4.2. Vicki. :-) Kay Smoljak wrote: Could someone with a Mac please check the test page? ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] footer technique

2005-07-16 Thread Joshua Street
I don't have a Mac either, but supposedly Konqueror and Safari use similar rendering engines, so I tested in that instead. It is indeed mildly broken, but certainly acceptable. The footer will render at the very bottom of the viewport on page load without any problems, HOWEVER, if the user subseq

[WSG] footer technique

2005-07-16 Thread Kay Smoljak
Looks like someone has found a mostly-reliable CSS-only solution to that common footer problem - getting a footer to stick to the bottom of the viewport no matter how long or short the content is, which doesn't overlap the content when the window is resized: Explanation: http://solardreamstudios.c

Re: [WSG] clearfixing

2005-07-16 Thread dwain
Rowan Lewis wrote: Or how about the much simpler more correct method? http://www.quirksmode.org/css/clearing.html is there something wrong with standards mode? dwain -- Dwain Alford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alforddesigngroup.com "The artist may use any form which his expression demand

Re: [WSG] clearfixing

2005-07-16 Thread Rowan Lewis
Well, you could use something like 'zoom : 1;' instead, even though it doesn't validate. Anyhow, if all else fails, I feel that the hack Dwain linked it is far worse than adding a little bit of markup and using 'clear : both;'. On 7/16/05, Ingo Chao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rowan Lewis schrie

Re: [WSG] clearfixing

2005-07-16 Thread Ingo Chao
Rowan Lewis schrieb: Or how about the much simpler more correct method? http://www.quirksmode.org/css/clearing.html the problems the OP had in IE5.5 can get worse when the overflow: hidden of the "simple" clearing meets the Holly hack in other bugfixes needed in this browser: http://www.456b

Re: [WSG] clearfixing

2005-07-16 Thread Rowan Lewis
Or how about the much simpler more correct method? http://www.quirksmode.org/css/clearing.html On 7/16/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sam sherlock wrote: > > > > intention is to put a minimal size block below a container and have > > other containers flow below that without a