Re: [WSG] Auto scaling within a table's background image

2007-08-01 Thread Stuart Foulstone
Hi, This is the Web Standards Group. Web Standards say only use tables for tabular data - not presentation. I'm not sure what your tabular data is here? -- Stuart Foulstone. http://www.bigeasyweb.co.uk BigEasy Web Design 69 Flockton Court Rockingham Street Sheffield S1 4EB Tel. 07751 413451

Re: [WSG] Auto scaling within a table's background image

2007-08-01 Thread lisa herrod
Hi there On 01/08/07, Stuart Foulstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, This is the Web Standards Group. Web Standards say only use tables for tabular data - not presentation. Stuart, I think you're referring to WGAG 1. It does *sort of* say that, but not quite... While it's not best

Re: [WSG] Auto scaling within a table's background image

2007-08-01 Thread lisa herrod
On 01/08/07, David Dorward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1 Aug 2007, at 09:34, lisa herrod wrote: On 01/08/07, Stuart Foulstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Web Standards say only use tables for tabular data - not presentation. Stuart, I think you're referring to WGAG 1. Lets look at HTML

[WSG] CSS height/padding

2007-08-01 Thread Christian Fagan
Hi all, I have previously tried to create a horizontal page navigation with a fixed height but there seems to be two distinct problems with the two methods that I have used to date. 1) The first method employs top and bottom padding on a elements to vertically centre the text within the

Re: [WSG] Auto scaling within a table's background image

2007-08-01 Thread David Dorward
On 1 Aug 2007, at 09:34, lisa herrod wrote: On 01/08/07, Stuart Foulstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Web Standards say only use tables for tabular data - not presentation. Stuart, I think you're referring to WGAG 1. Lets look at HTML 4.01 instead, which is somewhat clearer on the subject:

Re: [WSG] CSS height/padding

2007-08-01 Thread al morris
Hi Christian, Use option 1 with em units instead of pixels for your top and bottom padding. The padding will increase as the text resizes. Al On 8/1/07, Christian Fagan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have previously tried to create a horizontal page navigation with a fixed height but

Re: [WSG] CSS height/padding

2007-08-01 Thread Daniel Kendrick
I agree Al. Christian its not bad. There are MANY pixel to em calcs online to google it. :) --DK On 8/1/07, al morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Christian, Use option 1 with em units instead of pixels for your top and bottom padding. The padding will increase as the text resizes. Al

Re: [WSG] CSS height/padding

2007-08-01 Thread Tom Livingston
On 8/1/07, Daniel Kendrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree Al. Christian its not bad. There are MANY pixel to em calcs online to google it. :) --DK I use this religiously (well, ya know...): http://riddle.pl/emcalc/ -- Tom Livingston | Senior Multimedia Artist | Media Logic | ph:

Re: [WSG] CSS height/padding

2007-08-01 Thread E Michael Brandt
If I understand what you are asking, try using line-height instead of what you are doing now. That will keep the text centered vertically in the element. -- E. Michael Brandt www.divaHTML.com divaGPS : you-are-here menu highlighting divaFAQ : FAQ pages with pizazz www.valleywebdesigns.com

[WSG] Re: WSG Digest (Out of the office until 6/08/2007)

2007-08-01 Thread Marian WEATHERSTONE
I am currently out of the office until Monday 6 August 2007. If you have an enquiry please contact: Martha Herewini on 9391 9048 or Saikat Choudhury on 9391 9769 Regards, Marian Weatherstone Web Support Officer NSW Department of Health

Re: [WSG] Auto scaling within a table's background image

2007-08-01 Thread Hassan Schroeder
Matt wrote: I guess there were a couple of concerns raised. One of them was the justification of the table's use. I chose it only because it is currently the only way I know to put pretty borders (outer and inner) around and within an image. / I'm still waiting on someone to post a

Re: [WSG] Auto scaling within a table's background image

2007-08-01 Thread Matt 0000
Hassan, The specific portion of the code I'm having a problem with was inlcuded on my first post. The code that was not included is just regular table based border wrapping. I bet most if not all the members here are of the been there, done that experience level, which is why I didn't bother

Re: [WSG] CSS height/padding

2007-08-01 Thread Christian Fagan
Thankyou for responses... Thanks Michael, this is what I was after E Michael Brandt wrote: If I understand what you are asking, try using line-height instead of what you are doing now. That will keep the text centered vertically in the element. -- Christian Fagan Fagan Design

Re: [WSG] Auto scaling within a table's background image

2007-08-01 Thread Hassan Schroeder
Matt wrote: The specific portion of the code I'm having a problem with was inlcuded on my first post. The code that was not included is just regular table based border wrapping. I bet most if not all the members here are of the been there, done that experience level, which is why I

RE: [WSG] Auto scaling within a table's background image

2007-08-01 Thread Kepler Gelotte
My dilemna was and still is to autofit an image of any size (entire image should be viewable) within the table's background image property using the style attribute. This table is currently no more than roughly 100 pixels on either side. Hi Matt, Here is a sample mockup I created using

Re: [WSG] CSS height/padding

2007-08-01 Thread E Michael Brandt
You're very welcome. There are a bewildering array of tricks with CSS. -- E. Michael Brandt www.divaHTML.com divaGPS : you-are-here menu highlighting divaFAQ : FAQ pages with pizazz www.valleywebdesigns.com JustSo PictureWindow JustSo PhotoAlbum -- Christian Fagan wrote: Thankyou for

[WSG] vCard File

2007-08-01 Thread Joyce Evans
I think there may have been a discussion regarding the vCard File recently, and if there was, I didn't study those emails because I didn't have to deal with it at the time. Today, however, I got a new project of re-creating a website with the current design. On this client's contact page, there

RE: [WSG] vCard File

2007-08-01 Thread Paul Bennett
Hi Joyce, It looks like vCard is a standard, so I guess the user's email client would pick it up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCard HTH, Paul *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

Re: [WSG] vCard File

2007-08-01 Thread Lucien Stals
Oh, you so just put a huge smile on my face :D Thanks for the technorati link. I was unaware of this, and it makes all the work I did on microformats on my staff listing page worth it. (http://www.swinburne.edu.au/ads/about/staff.htm) Thanks. Lucien. -- Lucien Stals Multimedia/Web Developer

Re: [WSG] vCard File

2007-08-01 Thread Brad Pollard
vCard's (.vcf files) will also open in a Mac OS X Address book. Not everyone will have a VCF compatible address book and hence an attempt should be made to educate/explain their use. You should mark up the displayed address information as an hCard: http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard ... and

Re: [WSG] vCard File

2007-08-01 Thread Kit Grose
A vCard is an industry standard format. It works in Outlook or Windows Address Book in Windows, Entourage and Address Book in OS X and if your mobile phone was released in the last 5 or so years, likely it as well. vCard files are often attached to outgoing emails in the corporate world