On 4/20/05, Ian Fenn wrote:
> Has anyone else noticed any issues with their standards-compliant websites
> and the new Firefox 1.0.3?
> looks a bit strange. The most significant difference is that background
> images inserted through the css do not seem to be displayed.
I haven't seen any problems
Alan -
Thanks for the clarification. I didn't know that you had to (were suppose
to) surround text tags with the blockquote - but now I know!
One follow-on:
As you could see on the like I provided, I've inserted a bunch of s
within the quote in order to control the line breaks of each quote. Jus
Hughes -
That is a neat trick. Thanks for sharing!
Cole
- Original Message -
From:
Hugues
Brunelle
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 11:11
PM
Subject: RE: [WSG] Blockquote or Q?
Hi Cole,
Blockquote for sure, and like Alan sugges
Hi
Any ideas how to stop a floated google ad from covering content when the
container its in has too short a height ?
eg: the 2nd post at http://www.bhatt.id.au/blog/ whose summary is
shorter than the height of the ad, causing the ad to cover part of the
older post below
thanks
--
Neerav Bhat
jackie reid wrote:
> is there a tutorial out there that anyone has seen or used that may
> help me achieve this.
Hi Jackie,
This may help you:
http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/css%20pop%20ups/
HTH,
Thierry | http://www.TJKDesign.com
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Jackie wrote:
> i would like to be able to make a disjointed rollover in css, you know
> rollover the text and the image nearby changes colour or whatever.
Hi Jackie,
I think youre after something like this (on eric meyer's site):
http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/popups/demo2.html
(mouseover
On 4/19/05, Alan Trick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anyways that is what blockquote was meant to refer to. I your situation
> I would use
>
>
>
> I am seldom attracted to books of this genre.
> This author was recommended by a friend, and I couldn't put it
> down!
>
>
>
Thanks
for the heads up Doug,
This
is great news and good to see that developers are really picking up on standards
compliant design and working that into projects of this
scale.
The
site does not yet validate and the encoded ampersands are a big issue in
this (in fact the only issue on
The US Library of Congress (LOC) has today released the first of
a series of upgrades to their Web site. As you will see if you visit:
http://www.loc.gov/
The new design uses tableless layout, full use of CSS, XHTML
and improved usability, accessibility and aesthetics. I sent them
an email today,
Hi
All
If you haven't tried
the more nifty corners approach to rounded corners, it's well ... pretty
nifty.
http://pro.html.it/articoli/id_599/idcat_31/pro.html
I am having a problem
and I'm wondering if anyone else has seen the same and fixed
it.
On some of my divs, I
have an ex
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gene Falck
> Sent: 19 April 2005 18:49
...
> Does anyone have a good quick reference as to which
> characters are "good" on UTF-8? How about a faster or easier
> way to type them in?
FWIW you may find this useful for Latin char
Jan Brasna wrote:
- Half of the Norwegian sites I visit in a day are full of
question-marks--until I actively change encoding, and change it
again, and again...
Hmm, we here in CZ use Latin2 or CP1250, everyone uses proper charset
headers, so no problem with this.
You hit one of the usual proble
- Half of the Norwegian sites I visit in a day are full of
question-marks--until I actively change encoding, and change it again,
and again...
Hmm, we here in CZ use Latin2 or CP1250, everyone uses proper charset
headers, so no problem with this.
--
Jan Brasna aka JohnyB :: www.alphanumeric.cz |
Dean Jackson wrote:
The only time I use them is when I'm on a keyboard/system where I
don't know how to enter the character, such as "å". I'd type å
in this case.
PS. Hopefully the W3C i18n guru Richard is listening and will tell
everyone if I'm wrong.
I'll second that...
Can someone actually _unde
Hi Dean,
You wrote:
... Norwenglish lines of text into numeric entities
(UTF-8) where needed.
What characters needs encoding into numeric entities when using UTF-8?
I try to avoid entities with exception for & < > " '
It is a small nuisance, of course. I do use them
when I type (US English qwertyui
Yes, but the bytes used in ISO 8859-1 (Latin1) or Windows code page and
those usef for UTF-8 are different.
Sure, however the mail came in Latin1 (see the headers), so I just want
to comment that it won't show the difference.
--
Jan Brasna aka JohnyB :: www.alphanumeric.cz | www.janbrasna.com
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> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jan Brasna
> Sent: 19 April 2005 17:29
> To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
> Subject: OT Re: [WSG] UTF-8
>
> > PPS. This is a good test to see if the WSG mail system can handle
> > UTF-8
>
> AFAIK "å" is
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean Jackson
> Sent: 19 April 2005 17:12
...
> > I try to avoid entities with exception for & < > " '
>
> You're right. If you're using UTF-8 you only need to encode
> the characters that are special in HTML/XHTML/XML (&, < and
PPS. This is a good test to see if the WSG mail system can
handle UTF-8
AFAIK "å" is Latin1 character (Scandinavian), so no need for UTF here.
--
Jan Brasna aka JohnyB :: www.alphanumeric.cz | www.janbrasna.com
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On 19 Apr 2005, at 02:36, Anders Nawroth wrote:
HTMLTidy is the only useful piece of software I've found for web page
development, and I use it to clean up my pages and get proper encoding
of my Norwenglish lines of text into numeric entities (UTF-8) where
needed.
What characters needs encoding i
You're right.
And I would not call any fixes with javascript.
So like everything, you can decide to use these CSS declarations or not :)
Hugues
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Martin Heiden
Sent: April 19, 2005 09:59
To: Hugues Brunelle
Su
Hi All
If you haven't tried the more nifty
corners approach to rounded corners, it's well ... pretty nifty.
http://pro.html.it/articoli/id_599/idcat_31/pro.html
I am having a problem and I'm
wondering if anyone else has seen the same and fixed it.
On some of my divs, I have an
Hugues,
HB> Blockquote for sure, and like Alan suggest, make use of normal tags inside.
HB> And let me give you a nice trick to insert language specific quotemarks :
HB> If you declare the language in your HTML tag like
HB> you can define inside your CSS what kind of quote mark to insert before a
Patrick Lauke wrote:
Brian Cummiskey
Not sure, but, why not just use
Ouch...I thought nobody used short-tags anymore because of the
kludgey workaround required when using XML declarations...
*shrug*
I don't use xml declarations, so i still use short tags :)
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On 4/19/05, Stefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 4/19/05, Patrick Lauke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Brian Cummiskey
> >
> > > Not sure, but, why not just use
> >
> > Ouch...I thought nobody used short-tags anymore because of the
> > kludgey workaround required when usi
Hello,
Has anyone else noticed any issues with their standards-compliant websites
and the new Firefox 1.0.3?
One of my client sites which looked great in Firefox up to v1.0.2 suddenly
looks a bit strange. The most significant difference is that background
images inserted through the css do not se
On 4/19/05, Patrick Lauke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Brian Cummiskey
>
> > Not sure, but, why not just use
>
> Ouch...I thought nobody used short-tags anymore because of the
> kludgey workaround required when using XML declarations...
>
> Patrick
>
> Patrick
How do you post a job opening in this site? I looked for a button or link
and didn't see anything. They are still looking for someone to replace me at
my old job in San Diego
Ted Drake
www.tdrake.net
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> Brian Cummiskey
> Not sure, but, why not just use
Ouch...I thought nobody used short-tags anymore because of the
kludgey workaround required when using XML declarations...
Patrick
Patrick H. Lauke
Webmaster / University of Salford
http://www.salford.ac.uk
> Alan Trick
> If I want a link that points to whatever page i am alread at (without
> any querystrings I can use (for example, I'm at
> index.php?start=10 and I want to go to index.php)
>
> Is this allowed?
>From the "Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax" RFC:
http://www.ietf.o
Alan Trick wrote:
If I want a link that points to whatever page i am alread at (without
any querystrings I can use (for example, I'm at
index.php?start=10 and I want to go to index.php)
Is this allowed?
Not sure, but, why not just use
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Hi Cole,
Blockquote for sure, and like Alan suggest, make use of
normal tags inside.
And let me give you a nice trick to insert language
specific quotemarks :
If you declare the language in your HTML tag
like ...> you can define inside
your CSS what kind of quote mark to insert before and a
If I want a link that points to whatever page i am alread at (without
any querystrings I can use (for example, I'm at
index.php?start=10 and I want to go to index.php)
Is this allowed?
Alan
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I guess it is up to the WSG members to think about.
The jobs section is definitely NOT for people advertising themselves as
available - it is for "positions vacant".
I do not think it is relevant to post jobs related to SELLING web services,
but it is definitely relevant for anything related to D
In writing (like not-web writing) there is a thing were quotes that are
just are just a few lines are written in the normal flow of the text;
however, if a quote is more than 3-4 lines it is separate and indented
(about .5' on each side, but it depends on whose rules you use).
Anyways that is w
The modular interface on top is kind of cool. To me it feels like the whole
thing should be certered with a black background.
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See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm
for so
Russ,
is it (strictly) only about web deign positions, or someone can also
post an ad related to the whole web design business (eg. sales managers
for a WD company etc.)?
Thanks.
--
Jan Brasna aka JohnyB :: www.alphanumeric.cz | www.janbrasna.com
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I completely agree Alan. This is an international list. I am hoping to see a
thriving list of jobs soon with all sorts of positions and countries.
The ball is (almost) in your court. Well, it will be very soon when Peter
gets another bit of time to set it up for all users. Until then, send any
rel
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 20:40:53 +0800, Cole Kuryakin - x7m wrote:
> So, semantically speaking, should I be using Blockquote or Q tags?
Blockquote, I beleive - you're correct in that q is meant for inline
eg
some text what he said more text.
I normally start my css file with
* {
margin: 0;
paddin
Hi Levi,
Just looking through the list and saw that you didn't get many replies,
so I thought I'd have a shot.
You might not have got much of an answer because there's not much to
say.
My first impression is that there's not much on the site to draw me in
or make me want to come back, that may
One question I wheather or not out-of-country people are allowed to
apply for these jobs. Max Design is pretty upfront about Australia
only, but I'm not sure about the other one. Being from Canada I would
like to see something around here that wasn't Australia only.
Why do all the good web de
Hi everyone.
I'm working on a site that contains 1 boxed quote per page. By
boxed, I mean there's a red border that encloses the quote.
These aren't famouse quotes - or anything particulary special
- just quotes from people who have read the pre-release of a new
book.
So, semantically s
Moderators
I take it that the appearance of
http://webstandardsgroup.org/resources/jobs.cfm means that list members
can post webstandards postions they know about there?
Would this extend to the reverse eg: allowing people who are available
for contracts/jobs to list themselves?
Or do people l
I think that is the same problem of hybrid dropdown CSS
you can fix it with javascript function
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/hybrid/
cheers
Daniel
http://www.gizax.it
Joshua Leung wrote:
Hi all,
i am working on a drop down menu and can get it working fine in Firefox 1.0
but not in Internet E
G'day
I cannot seem to isolate the IE Hack to just work on my menu DIV, and not
work on the whole page.
Suggest you validate and fix the xhtml, then check for cascading
issues. With invalid xhtml it's anyone's guess what a browser
will do.
Regards
--
Bert Doorn, Better Web Design
http://www.bet
Hi group
i would like to be able to make a disjointed
rollover in css, you know rollover the text and the image nearby changes colour
or whatever.
is there a tutorial out there that anyone has seen
or used that may help me achieve this.
cheers
Jackie
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