Re: [WSG] IE team says no to hacks

2005-10-13 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Christian Montoya wrote: I'll probably be using conditional comments for the next five years, and everytime I use them I think to myself, this would just be easier if IE worked the same as FF/Opera/Safari. It sure would, but would IE be 'MSIE' then? :-) Besides, I think someone will have to

Re: [WSG] IE team says no to hacks

2005-10-13 Thread Christian Montoya
On 10/13/05, Peter Firminger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you've gone against all sane advice and used CSS hacks then you knewexactly what you were in for with future browsers and potential problems.Don't look at me. I don't want to see an M$ bitch session develop here while Microsoft

Re: [WSG] Browser Stats

2005-10-13 Thread bit
hi all, it may be that FF sucks sometimes a bit, the application-size is already reaching 40mb on my system, anyway - it is still the best solution for a browser, except for O 8.5 - that one has the facilities to get better maybe ... but FF is the icon and the symbol for Open Source getting

Re: [WSG] IE team says no to hacks

2005-10-13 Thread Alan Trick
If you don't use CSS hacks you have 2 options. 1. Avoid CSS that is buggy in a browser. 2. Use other hacks like conditional comments. (Conditional comments *are* hacks, there just intentional ones) Number 1 is simply not an option unless your willing to look like useit.com or something. Number

Re: [WSG] Chinese food and web standards

2005-10-13 Thread Lea de Groot
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 14:34:35 +0930, Katrina wrote: May I ask you which college/uni teaches web development? I believe Craig is a TAFE student in Brisbane, but I could be mistaken. warmly, Lea -- Lea de Groot Elysian Systems - http://elysiansystems.com/ Brisbane, Australia

Re: [WSG] Browser Stats

2005-10-13 Thread Alan Trick
Helmut Granda wrote: . . . it seems like FF is loosing terrain, is w3schools accurate? No they're not, in fact I think there is a note about how they are no accurate on the page there. Or is there anyother place that I can check what the general public is using. There are 3 kinds of

Re: [WSG] Redesign of a danish library website - help/comments

2005-10-13 Thread Alan Trick
Web page designed by clueless person. Film at 11. Personally I think both designs have issues. The font size is too small on the first one, and in the second one its a good size but it overflows eveywhere. And don't go in to the code behind it all. Kids these days :P Felix Miata wrote: Soren

Re: [WSG] Browser Stats

2005-10-13 Thread Christian Montoya
In my experience Firefox runs a lot better on linux, and even faster onWindows. A lot of the stuff that firefox does on linux it could really improve. I think the reason that it's like that is because most of themain developers use windows and they're trying to appeal to themainstream (i.e.

Re: [WSG] Is a colon after a form label necessary?

2005-10-13 Thread Donna Jones
Hi Gail. i was just thinking about this last night. After recently reading Eat Shoots and Leaves i've become more aware of punctuation and how it aids in the rhythm of words, and phrases, and thus comprehension. it would seem to me that a colon would help a screen reader user. and your

Re: [WSG] Is a colon after a form label necessary?

2005-10-13 Thread Alan Trick
Yes, but it also depends on the context. Remember that the input does not nessisarily follow the label. And in some situations, a colon might not fit (visually). Alan Trick Zach Inglis wrote: It makes things easier to associate in my opinion. At the end of the day its just punctuation... like

Re: [WSG] Chinese food and web standards

2005-10-13 Thread James Bennett
On 10/12/05, Craig Rippon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Genuine question: Is this because they visit, it doesn't work, and they don't come back, forever losing them as a customer? Probably not. Linux users tend to be running either a Gecko-based browser (Mozilla, Firefox, Galeon and Epiphany being

Re: [WSG] Browser Stats

2005-10-13 Thread Joshua Street
On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 02:58 -0400, Christian Montoya wrote: I think of it more as, on Mac there is a decent browser (safari). So there isn't much need for FF there. Whereas PC users really need FF. It's also worth remembering Opera have recently released their browser for free (as in beer), so

Re: [WSG] Chinese food and web standards

2005-10-13 Thread James Bennett
On 10/12/05, Paul Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but there should be something similar which uses the KDE desktop. Knoppix uses KDE from (rather rusty) memory http://www.Knoppix.org It does. There's also a KDE version of Ubuntu called Kubuntu: http://kubuntu.org/ -- May the forces of

[WSG] clean forms with javascript injected for a site demo

2005-10-13 Thread Peter Ottery
I need to demonstrate the design/structure of a website that will later house dynamic content - but at the moment it is plain static xhtml/css templates. In particular I'd like to highlight the site search facility and how searching for different terms can give you very different results. I'd

Re: [WSG] Browser Stats

2005-10-13 Thread Stuart Sherwood
Here are some other browser stat resources for what they are worth... http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/stat.htm http://www.webreference.com/stats/browser.html http://www.echoecho.com/ http://www.thecounter.com/stats/ Stuart Sherwood www.re-entity.com

RE: [WSG] IE team says no to hacks

2005-10-13 Thread Geoff Pack
Peter Firminger wrote: If you've gone against all sane advice and used CSS hacks then you knew exactly what you were in for with future browsers and potential problems. ... Sorry for the smug told you so, but many people including myself have made this very clear over the whole life of

Re: [WSG] IE team says no to hacks

2005-10-13 Thread James Bennett
On 10/13/05, Peter Firminger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you've gone against all sane advice and used CSS hacks then you knew exactly what you were in for with future browsers and potential problems. A hack is a hack is a hack. Calling a hack a conditional comment doesn't magically make it

Cross platform weirdness in FF WAS Re: [WSG] Chinese food and web standards

2005-10-13 Thread Joshua Street
On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 03:16 -0400, James Bennett wrote: Since Gecko-based browsers render (nearly) identically on all platforms, there's no need to worry on that count snip I thought I'd take this opportunity to hijack a thread and ask about a weird problem I've been having with Firefox on

[WSG] faux columns for fixed AND percentage width

2005-10-13 Thread Titanilla
Hi all! Various great sites give instructions on how to create faux columns for fixed-width designs and how to do it for liquid designs. But what happens if I have a navbar with a fixed width floating left, and a liquid content with two columns floating right? To make it a bit more clear:

Re: [WSG] faux columns for fixed AND percentage width

2005-10-13 Thread Christian Montoya
Does this help?http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com/design/faux-columns-for-liquid-layouts/-- - C Montoya rdpdesign.com ... liquid.rdpdesign.com ... montoya.rdpdesign.com

Re: [WSG] faux columns for fixed AND percentage width

2005-10-13 Thread Joshua Street
On 10/13/05, Titanilla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The border you see next to the left navbar is a background image. What I need is the same looking border between the other two columns, set at a percentage width to 'shrink' with the page if necessary. But when I try to place a background image

[WSG] Counters support?

2005-10-13 Thread Joshua Street
I discovered a page today that's all about counters and printing things here: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/CSS:Getting_Started:Media#Action:_Printing_a_document I didn't think Firefox supported counters, though... I'd read that Opera did (but later checked that and apparently it's

Re: [WSG] faux columns for fixed AND percentage width

2005-10-13 Thread Titanilla
Christian Montoya wrote: Does this help? http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com/design/faux-columns-for-liquid-layouts/ Not quite, I've known it already. See, the problem is I've got a design which is half fixed, half liquid. These techniques are either for fixed pages (with one fixed background

Re: [WSG] faux columns for fixed AND percentage width

2005-10-13 Thread Titanilla
Joshua Street wrote: Change your background GIF to a 2px by 7px graphic, instead of 210px wide as at present. Then, use background-position to put it in place. You can specify that as an em value to make it work well with fluid layouts. HTH, Josh I'm not sure I understand you right. The

Re: [WSG] Counters support?

2005-10-13 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On 13 Oct 2005, at 8:34 pm, Joshua Street wrote: I discovered a page today that's all about counters and printing things here: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/CSS:Getting_Started:Media#Action: _Printing_a_document I didn't think Firefox supported counters, though... I'd read that

[WSG] Web page check

2005-10-13 Thread GALLAGHER Kevin S
First off the site was designed before Firefox and was my first site. Now I have been seeing things were Firefox is displaying somethings differently then IE which is fine except one thing. On http://www.jimjacobe.com/ClassDescriptions.html I have listed classes for an instructor,

Re: [WSG] faux columns for fixed AND percentage width

2005-10-13 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Titanilla wrote: Joshua Street wrote: Change your background GIF to a 2px by 7px graphic, instead of 210px wide as at present. Then, use background-position to put it in place. I'm not sure I understand you right. Keep existing background-image where it is. Add a trimmed down version of

Re: [WSG] IE team says no to hacks

2005-10-13 Thread Francesco Sanfilippo
That's not really true, Alan. A site without CSS hacks does not necessarily have to be ugly. I develop table-less ASP.NET sites using CSS and I have never used a single CSS hack or conditional comment, yet my sites are still clean, good-looking and functional in the leading browsers (IE, FF,

Re: [WSG] IE team says no to hacks

2005-10-13 Thread Ben Curtis
On Oct 13, 2005, at 12:55 AM, Geoff Pack wrote: If the IE team fix the CSS hacks and also fix the bugs the hacks are used to work around (as I think they originally mentioned they would), then the hack users will be fine. And if not, then it's no worse than having to update your

Re: [WSG] IE team says no to hacks

2005-10-13 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Ben Curtis wrote: As a general rule, Only hack the dead. The only safe bug to exploit is one that is fixed in ongoing generations of the product, or will never be fixed because the product is dead. All other necessary targeting should use features, not bugs. (Some may ask what the difference

Re: [WSG] IE team says no to hacks

2005-10-13 Thread Terrence Wood
MS have fixed the * html hack for IE7, which isn't a bad thing provided the rest of the engine comes up to scratch. I think the article acutally makes a pretty good case for throwing IE into quirksmode and developing for one (lousy, but reasonably predictable) version of IE instead of four (5,

Re: [WSG] Is a colon after a form label necessary?

2005-10-13 Thread Terrence Wood
A colon is often used to delineate a key:value pairs (e.g. mail headers [RFC822]). Perhaps the convention to use this for labels: form controls grew out of this before the intorduction of the label element? Now that we have actual label elements that we can associate with form controls, this type

Re: [WSG] Need more help Was: [css-d] List with hover background images

2005-10-13 Thread Tom Livingston
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 00:58:47 -0400, Gunlaug Sørtun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, if I write... #faphomecontent a.subcatlink{display: table; display: inline-block; ... } regards Georg Thanks Georg, but this doesn't appear to do anything for me. I still trigger the link and

Re: [WSG] Web page check

2005-10-13 Thread adam reitsma
try putting a float:left into your div.classdescriptions. worked for me in FF.On 10/13/05, GALLAGHER Kevin S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First off the site was designed before Firefox and was my first site. Now I have been seeing things were Firefox is displaying something's

Re: [WSG] Meta Keywords?

2005-10-13 Thread Martin Jopson
The response: The purpose of the inclusion of Meta Keywords is to cater for older search engines that are still using meta tags. The Meta Keywords tag allows [ClientName] to define which search terms are important to their web page. Yahoo actually uses the meta keywords tag to see if a site

ADMIN - THREAD CLOSED Re: [WSG] Meta Keywords?

2005-10-13 Thread Lea de Groot
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:51:49 +1000 (EST), Martin Jopson wrote: The response: Thank you for finalising the info - we were all hanging out to hear what nonsense they would claim :) The thread is still closed, guys! Offlist, if you want to discuss it! warmly, Lea WSG Core Group

RE: [WSG] faux columns for fixed AND percentage width

2005-10-13 Thread Nick Cowie
It can be done, but only if the content of the nav div will never be taller than any other div first you need div to hold the nav and content divs lets call that the holder: div id=holder style= float: left; /* need to hold floats */ background-color: #e8e8e8; /* gives nav

RE: [WSG] faux columns for fixed AND percentage width

2005-10-13 Thread Nick Cowie
I wrote: It can be done, but only if the content of the nav div will never be taller than any other div It should read the nav div can not be longer (taller) than the longest (tallest) of centre or right div. I will see if I can pump out a working example to my blog in the next day or so.

[WSG] css for ie4/ie5

2005-10-13 Thread Rhys Burnie
I am interested in the current opinion of the relevance of css hacks for explorer 4.0.x 5.0.x specifically in regards to the Box Model Hack. I understand the problem associated with the box model in ie4 5 but have begun to question the need for hacks in your css for these browser versions. In

RE: [WSG] css for ie4/ie5

2005-10-13 Thread Geoff Pack
Standalone versions of IE 4 and IE 5 are available at http://browsers.evolt.org/?ie/32bit/standalone. These will work even if you have a later version of IE installed. cheers, Geoff. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rhys Burnie Sent:

Re: [WSG] css for ie4/ie5

2005-10-13 Thread Peter Ottery
Rhys wrote: But with the implementations in ie6 and the ones to come in ie7 perhaps its time to finally stop worrying about ie 4/5 you're the only one that can take on that issue and make a decision for *your* site. Different sites require different decisions. Examine your logs and weigh them

RE: [WSG] css for ie4/ie5

2005-10-13 Thread Peter Firminger
But they may make your system vulnerable as they are not patched. There's a very good reason Microsoft doesn't publish these for developers or anyone else. Not at all recommended on any machine you care about. P Standalone versions of IE 4 and IE 5 are available at

RE: [WSG] css for ie4/ie5

2005-10-13 Thread Geoff Pack
Sure. But if you are only testing your own sites, and not surfing the web with them, then it shouldn't be much of a risk. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Peter Firminger Sent: Friday, 14 October 2005 2:18 PM To:

Re: [WSG] css for ie4/ie5

2005-10-13 Thread Peter Ottery
Peter Firminger wrote: Not at all recommended on any machine you care about. Just for my own peace of mind tho - they're only a security issue when you have launched the program right? so if i'm launching them (old standalone IE5 5.5) once a month to *only* test pages that I've created - I'm

Re: [WSG] css for ie4/ie5

2005-10-13 Thread Joshua Street
Yeah, the main risk is in the OS/Browser integration thing. And, since those versions are standalone, they're safer than IE6... plus your usage patterns for it will be different.On 10/14/05, Peter Ottery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just for my own peace of mind tho - they're only a security issue

[WSG] Footer Navigation

2005-10-13 Thread Sarah Peeke (XERT)
Hi all, I am interested to know what you think of duplicating navigation in the footer of a page. I have a client who has requested it, but I do not, as a rule, include duplicate links - I seem to recall there were some accessibility issues with duplicate navigation links for screen readers.

Re: [WSG] faux columns for fixed AND percentage width

2005-10-13 Thread Titanilla
Nick Cowie wrote: I will see if I can pump out a working example to my blog in the next day or so. Thanks Nick and Georg for your suggestions. I guess there must be multiple ways of making it work, I just could find any of them. CSS has breathtakingly creative ways of supporting

Re: [WSG] Footer Navigation

2005-10-13 Thread William Bartholomew
I think this practice is a remnant of pre-accessibility days where navigation options that were provided as images were duplicated as plain text links in the footer to aid people with images turned off etc. With judicious use of alt tags I don't believe this is something that is still necessary.