[WSG] OT: Site help please

2005-06-10 Thread Michael Kear
This is off-topic, and I'm sorry for that, but I need some independent people to have a look at a page and verify I'm seeing what the rest of the world sees - because my client doesn't .. . SO any replies off-list please so we don't end up with a long off-topic debate. My client swears when he

Re: [WSG] OT: Site help please

2005-06-10 Thread Joern Nielsen
Hi Mike I see some ... Fine, hand-made solid timber furniture ... and three pictures It's fine Cheers Joern Nielsen Bangkok, Thailand www.STUFbangkok.net Michael Kear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is off-topic, and I'm sorry for that, but I need some independentpeople to have a look at a page and

RE: [WSG] Character encoding

2005-06-10 Thread Richard Ishida
Hello Joshua, all, Here is the advice from the W3C Internationalization Activity: http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/tutorial-char-enc/en/all.html#Slide0420 (See in particular the subsection When to use escapes.) In summary, use characters rather than escapes when you can, except for a

Re: [WSG] OT: Site help please

2005-06-10 Thread Joseph Lindsay
Get your client to clear their browser cache and reload the page (Ctrl+F5 in internet explorer) On 6/10/05, Joern Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Mike I see some ... Fine, hand-made solid timber furniture ... and three pictures It's fine Cheers Joern Nielsen Bangkok, Thailand

RE: [WSG] WSG Meetings for the rest of us

2005-06-10 Thread Chris Taylor
I'm near Leeds as well, but I'd come to London for a meeting (probably not on a monthly basis, though). As someone has said, how do we go about organising this? Surely we just need a date and a venue - and if there's only a few people then anywhere that we can get a laptop and projector would

[WSG] Accessible form test

2005-06-10 Thread Erwin Heiser
Just to be clear, Joe Clark¹s book doesn¹t mention the use of definition lists to mark up forms, that's just something I've tried. It degrades nicely when the stylesheet is removed and it gives you a few extra hooks to apply CSS too, that's all. I've seen other examples of form markup using

Re: [WSG] WSG Meetings for the rest of us

2005-06-10 Thread Kvnmcwebn
id probably make it to london if i had a lot of notice. ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help

Re: [WSG] WSG Meetings for the rest of us

2005-06-10 Thread C Slack
Hi, I'm up North at Preston. Count me in if you set a date. Charlie Chris Taylor wrote: I'm near Leeds as well, but I'd come to London for a meeting (probably not on a monthly basis, though). As someone has said, how do we go about organising this? Surely we just need a date and a venue -

[WSG] Crazy font sizing with 2 tables inside a positioned div

2005-06-10 Thread Cole Kuryakin - x7m
I'm having this strange problem: I've got a content div (#content) which has 2 tables in it (.guestHeader and .guestComment - both classes). The first table accepts my css font stylingrules just fine. The second table however, absolutely messes up the font sizing and line height: The line

Re: [WSG] Crazy font sizing with 2 tables inside a positioned div

2005-06-10 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day I've got a content div (#content) which has 2 tables in it (.guestHeader and .guestComment - both classes). The first table accepts my css font styling rules just fine. The second table however, absolutely messes up the font sizing and line height: The line height is way to big and the

Re: [WSG] Crazy font sizing with 2 tables inside a positioned div

2005-06-10 Thread Parker Torrence
Without seeing the (x)html it is hard to say, but here are a few possibilities #content table.guestheader = font-size: 0.7em; #content table.guestheader p = font-size (80% of 0.7em) #content table.guestbook = font-size: 0.7em; #content table.guestbook p = font-size (80% of 0.7em) if guesbook

RE: [WSG] WSG Meetings for the rest of us

2005-06-10 Thread Peter Firminger
Sorry folks been busy so this has gone unanswered so far by the listkeepers. First of all, we just hit 2000 members! That is a moving target though and it may take a week to stabilise over that figure. Also, Let me take the time to thank our Core group of members, the people that run the

Re: [WSG] Crazy font sizing with 2 tables - follow on

2005-06-10 Thread Cole Kuryakin - x7m
Bert and Parker - I think it must be an inheritance issue. that's the only thing I can figure out as well. The two tables are NOT nested, but do follow each other in flow (one after the other). I'm going to chip away at this some more tomorrow morning and see if I can get it working

Re: [WSG] Crazy font sizing with 2 tables - follow on

2005-06-10 Thread Parker Torrence
Cole Try setting the font-size on the lowest element if there is no reason to have #content p { margin-bottom: 1.7em; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.5em; } change it to table.guestbook p { margin-bottom: 1.7em; font-size: 0.7em; line-height: 1.5em; } table.guestheader p {

[WSG] not sure why I am getting errors in CSS file

2005-06-10 Thread Bruce Gilbert
Can someone do me a favor and run my CSS through the CSS validator at w3c.org and see if they can determine what the errors mean and what needs be sone to correct? I am not sure why I am getting about 7 errors in my CSS file. I'm working only in a text editing program and not a good CSS editor, so

Re: [WSG] not sure why I am getting errors in CSS file

2005-06-10 Thread russ - maxdesign
Some little errors based on a quick look... 1. Additional unneeded end bracket after #main_content ruleset 2. Additional unneeded end bracket after #horizontal_list li a:active ruleset 3. font: normal 1em/100% verdana, arial. sans-serif; Remove full stop after arial and replace with comma 4.

Re: [WSG] problems with links

2005-06-10 Thread jackie reid
Alex, Ingo, David and Ajay...this is a belated thanks for taking the time to look at my links problem, i've been away. I'll have a crack at your solutions today and im sure they will fix the issue. Thanks. also thanks for spotting this glaring blunder Ingo I haven't looked at it yet, but