Re: [WSG] CSS 3 color module and deprecation of system colors

2005-09-05 Thread Robin Berjon
Rowan Lewis wrote: Sure no browsers support the appearance property, or most of CSS3 for that matter, but thats fine as its not even complete yet. There really is no point in keeping the system colours if when CSS3 is ready all browsers will support the appearance property. The appearance

RE: [WSG] An accessible and semantic date picker calendar?

2005-09-05 Thread Mike Foskett
Hi all, I've just developed a date picker calendar for use on an intranet. http://www.websemantics.co.uk/tutorials/accessible_date_picker_calendar/ Could someone give it a once over and check it semantically and for accessibility please? Cheers mike 2k:)2 marqueeblink webSemantics

[WSG] Expanding height of left column to fill space

2005-09-05 Thread Stevio
What is the best way to expand a left floated navigation column to fill up the height of the available space? This column has a different colour, but the right column will usually be bigger. Is the best way still to use background image, or does anyone have a better way of doing it? Thanks,

[WSG] Web site advertisements

2005-09-05 Thread Angus at InfoForce Services
I do not know if this is off topic. If it is, please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I run an international nonprofit that has a number of retailers that willdonate a portion of the sale made through a web site made to track sales for our cause. I hate tabbing through a number of links just to get

Re: [WSG] Expanding height of left column to fill space

2005-09-05 Thread Kenny Graham
As far as I know, background images are still the only way. It's probably possible with _javascript_, but even if it is, I wouldn't want to put presentation in the behavioral layer. CSS should really really get some vertical formatting, and soon.Is the best way still to use background image, or

Re: [WSG] Expanding height of left column to fill space

2005-09-05 Thread Clive Walker
What is the best way to expand a left floated navigation column to fill up the height of the available space? This column has a different colour, but the right column will usually be bigger. Is the best way still to use background image, or does anyone have a better way of doing it?

Re: [WSG] Expanding height of left column to fill space

2005-09-05 Thread David Laakso
Clive Walker wrote: What is the best way to expand a left floated navigation column to fill up the height of the available space? This column has a different colour, but the right column will usually be bigger. Is the best way still to use background image, or does anyone have a better

Re: [WSG] Expanding height of left column to fill space

2005-09-05 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Stevio wrote: What is the best way to expand a left floated navigation column to fill up the height of the available space? This column has a different colour, but the right column will usually be bigger. Is the best way still to use background image, or does anyone have a better way of doing

Re: [WSG] Expanding height of left column to fill space

2005-09-05 Thread Clive Walker
Clive Walker wrote: What is the best way to expand a left floated navigation column to fill up the height of the available space? This column has a different colour, but the right column will usually be bigger. Is the best way still to use background image, or does anyone have a better

Re: [WSG] Expanding height of left column to fill space

2005-09-05 Thread Vicki Berry
Stevio wrote: What is the best way to expand a left floated navigation column to fill up the height of the available space? I really like this script from Project Seven, which also keeps the footer at the bottom of the viewport:

Re: [WSG] font-family- system value

2005-09-05 Thread Julián Landerreche
Felix Miata wrote: In control panel open the fonts folder and double click 8514SYS.FON. I think that's what you are looking at, AFAIK included with all doze versions back at least as far as Win95. The weird thing is that I dont have any 8514SYS.FON in my font folder, nor any system.ttf nor

Re: [WSG] Expanding height of left column to fill space

2005-09-05 Thread Stevio
From: Vicki Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stevio wrote: What is the best way to expand a left floated navigation column to fill up the height of the available space? I really like this script from Project Seven, which also keeps the footer at the bottom of the viewport:

Re: [WSG] Expanding height of left column to fill space

2005-09-05 Thread Vicki Berry
Stevio wrote: What is wrong with using a simple 1 row 2 column table to layout a web page when using DIVs and CSS requires hacks and JavaScript to work in the way required? Why is using CSS in this case the better of two evils? Surely we are abusing CSS in just the same way we are abusing

Re: [WSG] font-family- system value

2005-09-05 Thread Felix Miata
Julián Landerreche wrote: The weird thing is that I dont have any 8514SYS.FON in my font folder, nor any system.ttf nor similar font. I have checked all the fonts in Fonts folder but there is no one that looks as the system font... System font appears in my Character Map!! A mistery. No

Re: [WSG] Expanding height of left column to fill space

2005-09-05 Thread Terrence Wood
Stevio said: What is wrong with using a simple 1 row 2 column table to layout a web page when using DIVs and CSS requires hacks and JavaScript to work in the way required? Why is using CSS in this case the better of two evils? Surely we are abusing CSS in just the same way we are abusing

Re: [WSG] Expanding height of left column to fill space

2005-09-05 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day we have created an expectation of how a design will *visually* render in a browser. Quick reality check What do most people use when visiting a website? What do clients who pay the bill want? The whole concept of using tables for layout is flawed ... adds unneccessary weight

Re: [WSG] Expanding height of left column to fill space

2005-09-05 Thread Terrence Wood
Bert Doorn said: Quick reality check What do most people use when visiting a website? What do clients who pay the bill want? Once upon a time it was NN4, now it's IE6, and tomorrow who knows? And that's the point of designing to web standards. As for what the client wants, I say it's two

Re: [WSG] Expanding height of left column to fill space

2005-09-05 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day again Once upon a time it was NN4, now it's IE6, and tomorrow who knows? And that's the point of designing to web standards. As for what the client wants, I say it's two of: good, fast, cheap. Yep. And some of those have difficulty with non table based layouts :-) However, I doubt