Re: [WSG] Hiding Headings

2005-09-28 Thread Joseph R. B. Taylor
I think we're strictly thinking of the perfect semantic document, which would in all likelihood, have an H1 at the very top. Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] wrote: -Original Message- From: Duncan Heal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 28 September 2005 1:02 PM To:

Re: [WSG] IE MAC just won't play ball!

2005-09-28 Thread Joseph R. B. Taylor
I noticed one other thing worth mentioning on the charismalab site. Your container div with the background gets cut off at the bottom of the first page length (in Firefox using 1024x768 resolution). I haven't gone through your CSS as I'm supposed to be working right now, but I'm guessing

[WSG] WE05

2005-09-28 Thread Drake, Ted C.
I'm not going to the WE05, I just have too many things in the fire right now. However, I would highly recommend everyone try to attend these conferences. Even if you have to pay for it out of your own pocket, go. You will meet new people, learn new techniques, network, eat convention food,

[WSG] Page templates submitted for review (discard previous mail)

2005-09-28 Thread Pat Boens
Dears, In an attempt to bring a little contribution to the world of web standards we have developed a dozen templates that we would like to submit for your review. These templates are all shared under the terms of the Attribution license of Creative Commons. We would like to obtain your

[WSG] Page templates submitted for review

2005-09-28 Thread Pat Boens
Dears, In an attempt to bring a little contribution to the world of web standards we have developed a dozen templates that we would like to submit for your review. These templates are all shared under the terms of the Attribution license of Creative Commons. We would like to obtain your

Re: [WSG] IE MAC just won't play ball!

2005-09-28 Thread Adam Morris
Yes, I noticed that too and was trying to sort it out earlier today without any success whatsoever. Thanks for the advice! On 9/28/05, Joseph R. B. Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I noticed one other thing worth mentioning on the charismalab site.Your container div with the background gets cut off

[WSG] css variables

2005-09-28 Thread Drake, Ted C.
Hi everyone There was a recent spat of posts about using variables in CSS. I looked at them and thought I need to look at these later. Well, now Im working on a very complicated CSS file and would like to replace #f60 in several million places with {selectedlink}. Its not several

RE: [WSG] Page templates submitted for review (discard previous mail)

2005-09-28 Thread kvnmcwebn
-nice grids andvery quick download time. I had one questioin about the use of thetables. Could you explain how this helps? We use a table to render the main content. However, the real content will be displayed first because it spans over 2 lines 2 rows of the table).

Re: [WSG] css variables

2005-09-28 Thread Terrence Wood
Drake, Ted C. said: There was a recent spat of posts about using variables in CSS.[snip] Ouch, my 4 rule css file now grows to 54,056 lines of rules re-writing the #f60 code. Wouldn't it be lovely if I just had {selectedlink} : #ffcfcf ? There's no point using a slegehammer to drive in a

Re: [WSG] css variables

2005-09-28 Thread Steve Clason
On 9/28/2005 2:33 PM Drake, Ted C. wrote: I'm not sure If I asked the question right. I'm not looking to do a search and replace. I'm hoping to set a variable in the CSS, such as This is the color of all selected links in the navigation. Then, the css would just set that variable. All of the

RE: [WSG] css variables

2005-09-28 Thread Rebecca Cox
Hi Ted, You're not thinking of these? http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2005/08/31/the-constants-gardener/ Cheers -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Drake, Ted C. Sent: Thursday, 29 September 2005 8:33 a.m. To:

RE: [WSG] css variables

2005-09-28 Thread Rebecca Cox
Ted, You're not thinking of these? http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2005/08/31/the-constants-gardener/ Cheers -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Drake, Ted C. Sent: Thursday, 29 September 2005 8:33 a.m. To: 'wsg@webstandardsgroup.org'

RE: [WSG] Page templates submitted for review (discard previous mail)

2005-09-28 Thread Pat Boens
Terrence, Many thanks for the comments. 1) We shall change the order the links to put the Skip to content link consistent across the templates. Should Home and Skip to content be the two first links? 2) We are going to modify the 2 column layout to use div only. Thanks for mentioning it. 3) We

RE: [WSG] css variables

2005-09-28 Thread Drake, Ted C.
Hi Rebecca That's it. Thanks I see it needs php. Hm back to the drawing board. I think we need to make it work with static html. Oh well. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rebecca Cox Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 2:06 PM To:

RE: [WSG] Page templates submitted for review (discard previous mail)

2005-09-28 Thread Pat Boens
The best place where you can have an explanation of the table trick works is http://www.apromotionguide.com/tabletrick.html. That's where we found this trick originally. Pat From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of kvnmcwebn Sent: mercredi 28

RE: [WSG] Page templates submitted for review (discard previous mail)

2005-09-28 Thread Tatham Oddie \(Fuel Advance\)
Pat, The New York design shows up like this in a screen reader: Page has twelve links Kraainem dash NewYork dash Mozilla Firefox Summary colon Layout table Table with one column and one row Table end List of six items bullet This page link Home alt plus 1 bullet This page link News

[WSG] Very strange IE glitch :(

2005-09-28 Thread Kenny Graham
After a few days, I've almost given up on working around this bug in IE. I've never seen it before, but hopefully one of you has: http://www.kennygraham.net/projects/newsite/bug.html Short version: IE doesnt draw certain background colors/borders. But draws them if you move another window over,

[WSG] Resizing issues in IE

2005-09-28 Thread Darren Wood
Hello, This is something i remember having to deal with years ago...although it was a Netscape issue not an IE on. I have a nasty 3 column design that falls apart when the window is resized (IE ONLY). I'm hoping one of you lovely people would have come across this problem before and perhaps

Re: [WSG] Very strange IE glitch :(

2005-09-28 Thread Nils Kr. Falch
On 9/29/05, Kenny Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After a few days, I've almost given up on working around this bug in IE. I've never seen it before, but hopefully one of you has: http://www.kennygraham.net/projects/newsite/bug.html [...] Please help? Think this is the Peek-a-boo bug you

RE: [WSG] Very strange IE glitch :(

2005-09-28 Thread Drake, Ted C.
Hi Kenny This sounds like some of the odd background painting bugs that happen with IE. Here's my advice. Start adding position:relative and/or height:1% to the targeted elements and their parents one at a time. It goes back to the ever popular haslayout issue. Look at

RE: [WSG] Page templates submitted for review (discard previous mail)

2005-09-28 Thread Terrence Wood
Pat Boens said: 3) We shall be more cautious about the claim of WCAG indeed. You're totally right on this. Thanks for spotting it. Do you mind if we use a somewhat close statement as Project Seven's? I don't mind at all, but then it's not my content =) kind regards Terrence Wood.

RE: [WSG] css variables

2005-09-28 Thread Terrence Wood
yeah, I thought you meant you were using 56K lines of code to replace 4 lines of CSS... sounded like overkill to me when a one line regex can do the same thing. Constants and variables are not going to part of CSS any time soon, so you will need some kind of server side solution - a few are

Re: [WSG] Page templates submitted for review (discard previous mail)

2005-09-28 Thread Kenny Graham
semi-related: your main site (fastwrite.com) scrolls horizontally forever in firefox ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting

Re: [WSG] Resizing issues in IE

2005-09-28 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Darren Wood wrote: I have a nasty 3 column design that falls apart when the window is resized. http://fullcompass.netconcepts.com/ I've noticed the error only in IE. You may try adding: #pageWrapper {position: relative; _height: 0;} Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no

Re: [WSG] Page templates submitted for review

2005-09-28 Thread Stuart Sherwood
From a general readability point of view, the justified text spoils your layouts. This page is a good example: http://www.fastwrite.com/dvlonly/web/paradeigma/Veritas/Veritas.html Regards, Stuart ** The discussion list for

Re: [WSG] css variables

2005-09-28 Thread Hassan Schroeder
Terrence Wood wrote: Constants and variables are not going to part of CSS any time soon, so you will need some kind of server side solution ... AFAIK they all use seom form of regex to do the replacement Well, no -- I frequently use variables in style sheets built in JSP, especially early

Re: [WSG] css variables

2005-09-28 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Hassan Schroeder wrote: Terrence Wood wrote: Constants and variables are not going to part of CSS any time soon, so you will need some kind of server side solution ... AFAIK they all use seom form of regex to do the replacement Well, no -- I frequently use variables in style sheets built

Re: [WSG] css variables

2005-09-28 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day Thierry Koblentz wrote: And as a side note, with MSIE, it is possible to give an ASP extension to the styles sheet to use scripting logic within that file. ASP, PHP or whatever server side language you use, as long as you set the appropriate content type on (in) the file (be it

Re: [WSG] css variables

2005-09-28 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Bert Doorn wrote: ASP, PHP or whatever server side language you use, as long as you set the appropriate content type on (in) the file (be it css.asp, css.php or whatever) it should work in more browsers than just MSIE. I just ran a test and it worked fine in Opera 8, Firefox, MSIE6 and

Re: [WSG] Page templates submitted for review (discard previous mail)

2005-09-28 Thread Al Sparber
From: Pat Boens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1) We shall change the order the links to put the Skip to content link consistent across the templates. Should Home and Skip to content be the two first links? 2) We are going to modify the 2 column layout to use div only. Thanks for mentioning it. 3) We

Re: [WSG] Page templates submitted for review (discard previous mail)

2005-09-28 Thread Christian Montoya
LOL, I can't help but laugh on this one. There's two tiny little links with absolute positioning placing them thousands of pixels to the RIGHT... and somehow they aren't lost on the page. They ought to be placed thousands of pixels to the TOP, so that they won't make a scrollbar appear. On