[WSG] XHTML again - was:[Claiming compliance when a site doesn't' actually comply]

2006-01-06 Thread designer
Leslie Riggs wrote: What's a person to do? When is it appropriate to use one of the XHTML DTDs and when to use HTML 4.01, and what about those XHTML Transitional DTDs? I guess I'm looking for a bit of a summarization clarification of this concept. Leslie Riggs The approach I use (I'm

Re: [WSG] XHTML again - was:[Claiming compliance when a site doesn't' actually comply]

2006-01-06 Thread Lynne Pope
I didn't want my first contribution to the group to be a comment on another person's website, but as you said you are learning Bob I thought you might find this helpful. The problem with browser sniffing is that you have to be very careful to serve the right information. At the moment, your site

Re: [WSG] XHTML again - was:[Claiming compliance when a site doesn't' actually comply]

2006-01-06 Thread Roberto Scano (IWA/HWG)
- Messaggio originale - Da: Lynne In IE, your site shows meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8. It needs to be sent with the text/html mime type. A little tweak to your php code and you will have it nailed ;) Roberto

Re: [WSG] XHTML again - was:[Claiming compliance when a site doesn't' actually comply]

2006-01-06 Thread designer
Hi Roberto, When I 'view source' in FF, I get the following: ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' ? !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN' 'http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd' html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' xml:lang='en' If I look in IE, I get

Re: [WSG] XHTML again - was:[Claiming compliance when a site doesn't' actually comply]

2006-01-06 Thread Roberto Scano (IWA/HWG)
- Messaggio originale - Da: designer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Roberto, When I 'view source' in FF, I get the following: [cut] Are you getting something different? Roberto: You miss the css stylesheets as xml. Try this page for see the difference in the

RE: [WSG] Claiming compliance when a site doesn't' actually comply

2006-01-06 Thread Berman, Pamela E
Rowan, I had the same problem when I started my blog. I had to edit the markup in the template as there was a set of p/p that caused the problem. The pages did validate but their search box wasn't labeled. I see now that Blogger added additional elements to their search feature and it no longer

Re: [WSG] XHTML again - was:[Claiming compliance when a site doesn't' actually comply]

2006-01-06 Thread Roberto Scano (IWA/HWG)
- Messaggio originale - Da: Roberto Scano (IWA/HWG)[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: 06/01/06 14.26.37 A: wsg@webstandardsgroup.orgwsg@webstandardsgroup.org Oggetto: Re: [WSG] XHTML again - was:[Claiming compliance when a site doesn't' actually comply] -

Re: [WSG] XHTML again - was:[Claiming compliance when a site doesn't' actually comply]

2006-01-06 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Roberto Scano (IWA/HWG) wrote: Roberto: You miss the css stylesheets as xml. Try this page for see the difference in the source code: http://www.fruibile.it What's the point of defining the stylesheet both with the xml-stylesheet instruction AND the (valid, and clearly defined in

Re: [WSG] XHTML again - was:[Claiming compliance when a site doesn't' actually comply]

2006-01-06 Thread Roberto Scano (IWA/HWG)
- Messaggio originale - Da: Patrick H. Lauke[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: 06/01/06 16.54.27 A: wsg@webstandardsgroup.orgwsg@webstandardsgroup.org Oggetto: Re: [WSG] XHTML again - was:[Claiming compliance when a site doesn't' actually comply] Roberto Scano (IWA/HWG)

Re: [WSG] css rollover - with current page highlight?

2006-01-06 Thread Vicki Berry
Stephanie Sullivan has a good tutorial on how to do what Zachary suggested at: http://nemesis1.f2o.org/aarchive?id=9 (Especially useful if you use Dreamweaver but the principles and basic process applies regardless.) Project VII also has their Uberlink Menu tutorial which takes a

[WSG] New to web standards and CSS

2006-01-06 Thread Rosemary Probert
Hi Everyone, I've been lurking on this list for a while now, reading and learning. I am not a professional anything - reluctantly I think I'd be in the category of Aunt Betty - although I don't feel that old yet! I rashly volunteered to update a website for a local charity, and decided it

RE: [WSG] New to web standards and CSS

2006-01-06 Thread kvnmcwebn
hello, hey nice page -sorry i only have a question for list members about something i noticed on your page wich im having trouble with also. http://www.btcvnp.tsohost.co.uk/test/index.htm On the left hand nav bar the list link footpaths resizes in ie6 on the first rollover. Its very subtle on

[WSG] missing image in ie

2006-01-06 Thread kvnmcwebn
hello, trying to get my portfolio site presentable. just made some changes to my stylesheet and lost a 1px repeating background image in ie. renders fine in ff. notice the missing drop shadow on the right side of the middle box. www.mcmonagle.biz/gildeas2.htm here is the div that contains the

Re: [WSG] New to web standards and CSS

2006-01-06 Thread Peter Asquith
Hi Rosemary This article by Eric Meyer may help keep the images from escaping from their containing blocks: http://www.complexspiral.com/publications/containing-floats/ Cheers Peter Rosemary Probert wrote: I want to be able to put a series of images down the page - some left and some right

Re: [WSG] New to web standards and CSS

2006-01-06 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Rosemary Probert wrote: http://www.btcvnp.tsohost.co.uk/test/footpaths3.htm I want to be able to put a series of images down the page - some left and some right aligned, and text in the opposite spaces. It would be easy using tables - but I want to be able to use CSS for it. And everything

Re: [WSG] XHTML again

2006-01-06 Thread designer
Hi Lynne, Thanks for your comments. Unless I'm very much mistaken, it 'is' sent as text/html - that's the point. OK, it does say that it is application/xhtml+xml in the meta tag, but that is just ignored when it's sent with the correct mime type. Also, try as I might, I can't get it to be

Re: [WSG] New to Standards.

2006-01-06 Thread Alvaro Mouriño
Well, I'm overwhelmed for your help, thanks everyone! I'll check all the links, and please if you find any more info please send it too. Thanks again! AlvAro - 2006/1/5, Côcu [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://www.alistapart.com/ 2006/1/5, Bert Doorn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Alvaro -- .:

[WSG] absolute positioned a not where it should be

2006-01-06 Thread Taco Fleur - Pacific Fox
Didn't see my first message hit the list so I thought I'd try again, excuses if it did arrive the first time. Is anyone able to tell me why in Internet Explorer the "read more..." link is not positioned where it should be? The li itemis positioned relative, the a link itself is

RE: [WSG] absolute positioned a not where it should be

2006-01-06 Thread Nic
Not sure about your layout issue, but you may want to consider changing all those read more links. WCAG 1.0 point#13.1 says: Clearly identify the target of each link. This means someone who uses a screenreader and skips links by tabbing through them will actually have an idea about where the

[WSG] Position problem.

2006-01-06 Thread Alvaro Mouriño
Hi, as some may already know, I'm just begining with Web Standards and I'm having this problem: http://tinypic.com/view/?pic=jsltgk As you can see, I have a header under a h1 tag, then a tag fecha defined by me and a p tag. I managed (mybe not in the most standart-compliant way) to move up the

Re: [WSG] XHTML again

2006-01-06 Thread Lynne Pope
Hi Bob,Your splash page validates in xhtml, but the rest of your site has css errors: Errors URI : http://www.rhh.myzen.co.uk/rhh/gam/altgam/altgam.cssLine: 6 Context : html Property text-justify doesn't exist : newspaper Line: 62 Context : #container Property text-justify doesn't exist :

Re: [WSG] absolute positioned a not where it should be

2006-01-06 Thread Lynne Pope
The li triggers white space issues in IE. You will need to add some conditional statements to insert an IE workaround for this issue.Cheers,LynneOn 1/7/06, Taco Fleur - Pacific Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Didn't see my first message hit the list so I thought I'd try again, excuses if it

RE: [WSG] absolute positioned a not where it should be

2006-01-06 Thread Taco Fleur - Pacific Fox
Hi Lynne, thanks a million, and I not familiar with conditional statements, are you able to give me an example? Kind regards, Taco Fleur - Chief Executive OfficerPacific Fox http://www.pacificfox.com.au an industry leader with commercial IT experience since 1994 Web Design and

Re: [WSG] absolute positioned a not where it should be

2006-01-06 Thread Lynne Pope
Conditional statements are, in my opinion, the best way to handle IE hacks (especially with the likely introduction of more problems to deal with when IE7 is released). You can just take the route of adding IE hacks into your css if you are not familiar with the if, then, else types of

RE: [WSG] absolute positioned a not where it should be

2006-01-06 Thread Taco Fleur - Pacific Fox
Thanks, so this conditional style will only work in Internet Explorer is that right? Sorry, just never used anything like this, if something didn't work I just did it another way, never implemented a hack for something. Question; is there some reading material in regards to this problem that I

Re: [WSG] absolute positioned a not where it should be

2006-01-06 Thread Lynne Pope
On 1/7/06, Taco Fleur - Pacific Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, so this conditional style will only work in Internet Explorer is that right? It depends on how you write a conditional statement but the example I gave you is for IE, yes. It says, if IE, then do something. Sorry, just

Re: [WSG] XHTML again

2006-01-06 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
designer wrote: If I'm missing something here, perhaps one of our learned colleagues will tell me? Bob, I don't think you are missing anything !important so far :-) Lynne Pope wrote: Your splash page validates in xhtml, but the rest of your site has css errors: Errors URI :

Re: [WSG] XHTML again

2006-01-06 Thread Lynne Pope
On 1/7/06, Gunlaug Sørtun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is not as easy to hide proprietary and 'not-yet-recommended' CSS from the validator, as it is with all the garbage often needed to make IE/win behave. OTOH: hiding something in a conditional comment (or in a 'non-existent stylesheet',