[WSG] Web app guidance/site comment

2005-02-04 Thread Brendan Smith
Greetings all, I'm currently working on a web app that I have created in as much of a web standards karma giving way as I can muster. If I could get some feed back on this little number from the crowd out there I would be most greatful. General tips and pointers are what I'm after. If you

Spam: RE: [WSG] Is there any way to set the width of a file input field in Firefox?

2005-02-04 Thread Nick Cowie
Irina wrote: Does anybody knows how to set the width of a file input field in Firefox? Style like this produces funny looking input field (see file attached) Never had any problems with form elements or input fields with Firefox, other than legend. Most of what I use, I accquired from Cameron

[WSG] Converting Table to Div tutorial?

2005-02-04 Thread Robin Lauryssen-Mitchell
Is there some sort of tutorial available, preferably on-line, for converting HTML tables to div's? If you know of one please let me know where it is. Thanks RobinClear skies and warm feet! (expat Brit in Czech Republic)Location: N 50°08'46.6"; E 14°20'01.4" Ele: 872ft

Re: [WSG] Is there any way to set the width of a file input field in Firefox?

2005-02-04 Thread Terrence Wood
Styling file input is inconsistent cross browser and platform here is a work around: http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/inputfile.html Terrence Wood. Irina Ahrens wrote: Hello, Does anybody knows how to set the width of a file input field in Firefox?

Re: [WSG] cover me -- I'm gonna be naughty!

2005-02-04 Thread Andy Budd
Ted Drake wrote: But if we need to do it to be competitive, would this at least protect those that are innocent, the people who need to use screenreaders? I've an idea. Quite a few people run personal sites that allow people to leave comments. You could create a script that automatically leaves

RE: [WSG] Is there any way to set the width of a file input field in Firefox?

2005-02-04 Thread Ricci Angela
Terrence All you need to do is to give an id to the form field and define its width on the CSS. It will work for all browers. input type=text id=ffield / CSS: #ffield {width: 100px;} Cheers! Ge RICCI -Message d'origine- De : [EMAIL

Re: [WSG] cover me -- I'm gonna be naughty!

2005-02-04 Thread csslist
Another method would be to send lots of emails to random people YEAH!! spam them to death lol From: Andy Budd [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 4:49 AMTo: wsg@webstandardsgroup.orgSubject: Re: [WSG] cover me -- I'm gonna be naughty!Ted Drake wrote: But if we need to do it to be

Re: [WSG] cover me -- I'm gonna be naughty!

2005-02-04 Thread Rick Faaberg
On 2/4/05 2:01 AM csslist [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent this out: Another method would be to send lots of emails to random people YEAH!! spam them to death lol This list is way out of control and I'm going to leave unless somebody retakes control. I do care about this list when it's under control

ADMIN Re: [WSG] cover me -- I'm gonna be naughty!

2005-02-04 Thread Lea de Groot
On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 02:04:40 -0800, Rick Faaberg wrote: This list is way out of control and I'm going to leave unless somebody retakes control. I do care about this list when it's under control - otherwise, bye bye. 'How can i stay within Web Standards while spamming the search engines' is

Re: [WSG] cover me -- I'm gonna be naughty!

2005-02-04 Thread Bruce
It was said: I've an idea. Quite a few people run personal sites that allow people to leave comments. You could create a script that automatically leaves comments on their site along with a link. That way you'd inherit some of their Google juice. Another method would be to send lots of emails to

Re: [WSG] cover me -- I'm gonna be naughty!

2005-02-04 Thread Lea de Groot
Guys (in a very inclusive fashion), the thread is still closed. Now, imagine a big red 'closed' stamp coming down across it. warmly, Lea -- Lea de Groot WSG Core member ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

[WSG] Line spacing in MAC

2005-02-04 Thread Paul
Title: Message Page: http://www.speakupnow.ca/wu/index.php Problem, why is the line spacing erratic in MAC, I have line-height set to auto Much thanks for a quick response. Paul

[WSG] Irony

2005-02-04 Thread Bruce
Andy Budd wrote: And there was me thinking it was only the Americans who weren't supposed to get irony. Oh dear. Gosh! I always thought that irony was something the wife got when doing a lot of laundry... My apologies. Bruce bkdesign Canada

Re: [WSG] Irony

2005-02-04 Thread Tom Livingston
My apologies. I didn't realize I wasn't supposed to be on this list, being an American and all. Now where's that unsubscribe link. On Feb 4, 2005, at 9:58 AM, Bruce wrote: it was only the Americans who weren't supposed to get irony Tom Livingston Senior

ADMIN - Thread Closed: Re: [WSG] Irony

2005-02-04 Thread Lea de Groot
And we'll have none of that either! Don't make me get cross now! ;) Lea ~ come on guys I need to get some sleep! ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on

RE: [WSG] Gap between content and nav on events page in Firefox, looks fine in IE6

2005-02-04 Thread Trusz, Andrew
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leslie Riggs Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 7:41 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Gap between content and nav on events page in Firefox, looks fine in IE6 What gives? I have this small

[WSG] 2 Column Symetrical Stretching Layout?

2005-02-04 Thread Joey
Hi everyone, I wondered if anyone knew of some code for a simple 2 column layout, imagine: 50% Left Column 50% Right Column And when you stretch the browser the 2 columns will stretch too, but always both stay 50% of the browsers width. I have tried setting up something like this: div

Re: [WSG] 2 Column Symetrical Stretching Layout?

2005-02-04 Thread Tom Livingston
Maybe: #main {    width:100%;     padding:0 50px 0 50px; } hmm. Then left and right won't really be 50% each. More like 50% minus 100px. Maybe play with %s on those 2. Seems like it won't be pixel-perfect. Seems like you would need wiggle room. HTH... a little maybe?? :-P On Feb 4, 2005,

Re: [WSG] 2 Column Symetrical Stretching Layout?

2005-02-04 Thread Tom Livingston
This worked for me: !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd; html head meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 titleUntitled Document/title style type=text/css #main{width:100%; padding:0 50px 0 50px; margin:0;}

[WSG] List Indenting

2005-02-04 Thread Paul
Title: Message I have tried a number of sites that show how to make lists so they won't indent yet my list keeps indenting on MACs, does anyone know a definitive solution ? For your reference the page I am playing with is, http://www.speakupnow.ca/wu/meetingrooms1.php Cheers Paul

RE: [WSG] List Indenting

2005-02-04 Thread Pringle, Ron
I have tried a number of sites that show how to make lists so they won't indent yet my list keeps indenting on MACs, does anyone know a definitive solution ? For your reference the page I am playing with is, http://www.speakupnow.ca/wu/meetingrooms1.php Cheers Paul Paul- Assuming an

RE: [WSG] List Indenting

2005-02-04 Thread Paul
Thanks Ron, It is an unordered list but your fix didn't do it, just lost my bullets on the margin. I'll keep digging. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pringle, Ron Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 1:40 PM To: 'wsg@webstandardsgroup.org'

RE: [WSG] List Indenting

2005-02-04 Thread Pringle, Ron
Thanks Ron, It is an unordered list but your fix didn't do it, just lost my bullets on the margin. I'll keep digging. My bad, I didn't understand what you were wanting. Try setting a negative left margin on the bodylinklist class: .bodylinklist { margin-left : -18px; } The above

RE: [WSG] List Indenting

2005-02-04 Thread Iain Gardiner
Have you tried text-indent: 0? -- Iain Gardiner http://www.firelightning.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pringle, Ron Sent: 04 February 2005 17:42 To: 'wsg@webstandardsgroup.org' Subject: RE: [WSG] List Indenting

Re: [WSG] 2 Column Symetrical Stretching Layout?

2005-02-04 Thread Joey
Hi Tom, Thanks for that solution, but unfortunately it doesnt work, because i get a horizontal scrollbar at the bottom of the page, in both Firefox and IE. Does anyone else have any solutions for this? Thanks Josef Tom Livingston wrote: This worked for me: !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC

RE: [WSG] List Indenting

2005-02-04 Thread Paul
Thanks Vicki I will take a look at those margins but the problem I am currently after is only happening when I view on a MAC, the links in the body, everything after the 1st link indents 20-30 px to the rightvery frustrating. Cheers Paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [WSG] List Indenting

2005-02-04 Thread Paul
Just did, on the UL class as well as the li class, no luck -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Iain Gardiner Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 2:18 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] List Indenting Have you tried text-indent:

RE: [WSG] 2 Column Symetrical Stretching Layout?

2005-02-04 Thread Trusz, Andrew
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JoeySent: Friday, February 04, 2005 12:53 PMTo: wsg@webstandardsgroup.orgSubject: Re: [WSG] 2 Column Symetrical Stretching Layout? Hi Tom,Thanks for that solution, but unfortunately it doesnt work,

Re: [WSG] Gap between content and nav on events page in Firefox, looks fine in IE6

2005-02-04 Thread Leslie Riggs
What gives? I have this small two-page site up for testing right now: http://www.theonlineworks.com/test/wiscrad/index.html The index page is fine but the events page shows a gap between the nav and the content area. This is in windows, FF1.0. IE6 shows both pages just fine. The CSS is

[WSG] IE6 and my sidebar

2005-02-04 Thread Kim Kruse
Hi, I've made this site http://republicana.dk/ and I have a problem with IE. When the text is set to larger or largest the sidebar falls apart. When using largest the content drops and looks really bad. I works perfectly in FF 1 and Opera 7.5X. I've been looking at this for too long. Any help

Re: [WSG] IE6 and my sidebar

2005-02-04 Thread Jeff Lowder - Accessibility 1st
Hi Kim The problems lies in the #content statement in layout.css If you change margin-left: 30px TO margin: 0 200px 0 30px; get rid of the width: 420px; then it'll be more flexible. Cheers Jeff Lowder Accessibility 1st Ph: 02 9570 9875 Mobile: 0419 350 760 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website:

Re: [WSG] cover me -- I'm gonna be naughty!

2005-02-04 Thread Chris Stratford
Sorry just another point. There is a MUCH BETTER way to spamdex without effecting anyone here. I haven't used it before, but I have thought about it a lot. You can simply add your spam div, when the user_agent is a googlebot, msnbot, yahoobot etc... If you dont know the user agents for the bots

ADMIN - THREAD CLOSED Re: [WSG] cover me -- I'm gonna be naughty!

2005-02-04 Thread Lea de Groot
On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 12:07:15 +1100, Chris Stratford wrote: Sorry just another point. ALRIGHT!! ENOUGH!! This thread has clearly been closed TWICE now. (Yes, in case you were wondering, I AM YELLING!) Any more posts in this thread without a damn good reason[1] will see some public finger

Re: ADMIN - THREAD CLOSED Re: [WSG] cover me -- I'm gonna be naughty!

2005-02-04 Thread Lea de Groot
On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 12:25:41 +1000, Lea de Groot wrote: ALRIGHT!! ENOUGH!! And I've just had it pointed out that I used unacceptable language in my last post! My abject apologies - it was completely unintentional. warmly, Lea ** The discussion

Re: [WSG] List Indenting

2005-02-04 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Paul wrote: Just did, on the UL class as well as the li class, no luck Hi Paul, The problem lies in your bluebox container. *Remove* the left declaration and use margin-left instead, that should fix it. Regards, Thierry | http://www.TJKDesign.com

[WSG] Thumbnail Image overlapping container DIV - Help Please

2005-02-04 Thread Matt
Hi WSG, I have a problem with a site that I am working on, in that I have a thumbnail image, and some text related to that image contained within a DIV. If there is not much text, the thumbnail jumps out of its container DIV. This can be seen here: http://220.233.11.63:8080/ If you look about a

Re: [WSG] Thumbnail Image overlapping container DIV - Help Please

2005-02-04 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day I have a problem with a site that I am working on, in that I have a thumbnail image, and some text related to that image contained within a DIV. If there is not much text, the thumbnail jumps out of its container DIV. This can be seen here: Typical case of floats not sitting inside their