RE: Re[2]: [WSG] CSS and Flash

2006-02-24 Thread ByteDreams
I like your test page. I find it quite useful. I've bookmarked it to share it with some friends. Eileen Russell http://www.bytedreams.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 4:05 PM To: wsg

[WSG] Flash as background (Was: CSS and Flash)

2006-02-24 Thread nic stage
On 2/24/06, kvnmcwebn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: your prob right but what about that flash as a css background someone wasposting about here a while back??this sounds interesting  if it is possible.  i was just working on something where this would have been useful, but i wasn't on the list  when i

Re: [WSG] Fluid layout

2006-02-24 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Felix Miata wrote: Speaking of sizing things in px, particularly line lengths, when discussing fluid layouts, makes no sense to me. I find an 800px line length perfectly fine, and a 500px line length rather short, when I'm using a 28px default. Line lengths are better set relative to text size:

Re: [WSG] Fluid layout

2006-02-24 Thread Felix Miata
On 06/02/24 16:04 Gunlaug Sørtun apparently typed: Personal preference: I don't think text-lines should be wider than 600 - 800px on any monitor, as long lines are generally harder to follow and read than somewhat width-limited ones. Max-width might work for you. Speaking of sizing things in p

Re: [WSG] Fluid layout

2006-02-24 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Adam Morris wrote: http://www.megustalatelevision.com/uwish Observation: Fine, 840 - 3800. ...looks like any other fixed-width pages around. http://www.megustalatelevision.com/uwish/index1.html Observation: Main column drops below 1000px. OK (more or less), 1024 - 1600. Background-problems (b

Re: Re[2]: [WSG] CSS and Flash

2006-02-24 Thread sharron
http://www.designbyatfb.com/test/swftest2.html Don't wuite understand what you are asking, but lol, asked several questions recently myself about valid swf files and why one worked in IE and not in FF. Here is my test page with several examples. - Original Message - From: "Martin Hei

Re[2]: [WSG] CSS and Flash

2006-02-24 Thread Martin Heiden
Sean, Friday, February 24, 2006, 8:08:57 PM, you wrote: SJ> scroll down to the section on embed multimedia, it has info on how to embed SJ> flash using CSS. I really doubt that it is possible to embed flash by CSS. All these methods use the (X)HTML object tag. And this is mandatory to embed flas

Re: [WSG] Fluid layout

2006-02-24 Thread Tom Livingston
Title: Re: [WSG] Fluid layout On 2/24/06 2:18 PM, "Adam Morris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: it's not quite there yet. Or try a look at 800 wide... Sorry, no time to peek at it. Just an FYI... -- Tom Livingston Senior Multimedia Artist Media Logic www.mlinc.com

Re: [WSG] CSS and Flash

2006-02-24 Thread Mark Arnold
Good deal Sean, Jesse, et al.On 2/24/06, Sean Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi i'm not a hundred percent sure on this but there's a website which may beof use:http://www.dezwozhere.com/links.htmlscroll down to the section on embed multimedia, it has info on how to embed flash using CSS.hope this

[WSG] Fluid layout

2006-02-24 Thread Adam Morris
Hi everyone!Been trying to make this site I'm building fluid after seeing it on a huge monitor in my local Mac store and marvelling at how teeny weeny it looked!The site is at http://www.megustalatelevision.com/uwishMy attempts at getting fluid is this:http://www.megustalatelevision.com/uwish/index

Re: [WSG] CSS and Flash

2006-02-24 Thread Sean Jones
Hi i'm not a hundred percent sure on this but there's a website which may be of use: http://www.dezwozhere.com/links.html scroll down to the section on embed multimedia, it has info on how to embed flash using CSS. hope this helps _

Re: [WSG] Min-Width, IE, Fluid Content and Hair Loss

2006-02-24 Thread Darren West
If you werent worried about users without JavaScript enabled you could use this http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/, alternatively have a fixed size for IE. Daz On 24/02/06, Joseph R. B. Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings all, > > I'm working on getting a site launched - http://mcdowell.site

Re: [WSG] Min-Width, IE, Fluid Content and Hair Loss

2006-02-24 Thread Joseph R. B. Taylor
Thank you Project VII! I could of sworn I had looked at that... Joseph R. B. Taylor Sites by Joe, LLC http://sitesbyjoe.com (609)335-3076 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Martin Heiden wrote: Joseph, Friday, February 24, 2006, 5:06:39 PM, you wrote: JRBT> I have a min-width applied to my wrapper div of 842

Re: [WSG] Introduction and first submission

2006-02-24 Thread sharron
I don't know, ignorance I could claim. Was unaware that this site or list even existed until doing a wee bit on investigating. I'm so glad I happened across you'all (Texas talk) however. Smile I belong to another forum with some great folks who have helped me tremendously in the past year to g

Re: [WSG] Min-Width, IE, Fluid Content and Hair Loss

2006-02-24 Thread Martin Heiden
Joseph, Friday, February 24, 2006, 5:06:39 PM, you wrote: JRBT> I have a min-width applied to my wrapper div of 842px, and a width set JRBT> to 95%. That way it doesn't squish up (in small resolutions) too much JRBT> and force floats downward. You can try the javascript-solution that Al Sparber

[WSG] Min-Width, IE, Fluid Content and Hair Loss

2006-02-24 Thread Joseph R. B. Taylor
Greetings all, I'm working on getting a site launched - http://mcdowell.sitesbyjoe.com - and was hoping to make it completely fluid in all directions. One problem, IE (surprise!) I have a min-width applied to my wrapper div of 842px, and a width set to 95%. That way it doesn't squish up

Re: [WSG] Breadcrumb as Section Heading H1

2006-02-24 Thread Stephen Stagg
you're right of course. I should use an OL and put the breadcrumb text as a heading. However I found this method to be the most compliant and easiest to implement, and it is understandable in most browsers. On 23 Feb 2006, at 20:55, Patrick H. Lauke wrote: Stephen Stagg wrote: For the

Re: [WSG] CSS and Flash

2006-02-24 Thread kvnmcwebn
Pls forgive my ignorance on this subject matter, I am seeking the wisdom from the list regarding CSS and objects, flash in this case. Can I leverage CSS to show common flash content across all pages of a site or am i barking up the wrong tree? Jesse said You can't embed Flash using CSS, yo

Re: [WSG] CSS and Flash

2006-02-24 Thread jesse
> Pls forgive my ignorance on this subject matter, I am seeking the wisdom > from the list regarding CSS and objects, flash in this case. > Can I leverage CSS to show common flash content across all pages of a > site or am i barking up the wrong tree? You can't embed Flash using CSS, but you may f

RE: [WSG] Should logo not link to the homepage?

2006-02-24 Thread Patrick Lauke
> Ian Anderson > Great minds and all that? If you reread the previous bit of my post > you'll see: > > 'So, the logo should say something like "MSNBC home page"' Yes, but you seemed to suggest having that as the ALT, whereas I'd say it's more appropriate to just have "MSNBC" as the ALT and have

[WSG] CSS and Flash

2006-02-24 Thread Mark Arnold
Pls forgive my ignorance on this subject matter, I am seeking the wisdom from the list regarding CSS and objects, flash in this case.Can I leverage CSS to show common flash content across all pages of a site or am i barking up the wrong tree? -- Chrs,Mark 617-259-6124 (m)617-249-1539 (f)"to him be

Re: [WSG] Should logo not link to the homepage?

2006-02-24 Thread Darren West
It definatly should, relax and think of home ;-) On 23/02/06, John S. Britsios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear co-members, > > I would like to ask your opinion here, if a web site logo should or not > link to the homepage. > By the way, see for example what Jesper Tverskov wrote about this: > ht

Re: [WSG] Page veiwing

2006-02-24 Thread Tom Livingston
On 2/24/06 12:29 AM, "SunUp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > looks just fine to me. And that's good enough for me. Like everyone on this list says - if you made your pages 'right', everyone will be able to use them no mater what they are using. To each his/her own. I feel like everyone on this

Re: [WSG] Should logo not link to the homepage?

2006-02-24 Thread Ian Anderson
Patrick Lauke wrote: How about a dual approach of using ALT that describes the image (MSNBC) and a title on the link to provide additional advisory information of where the link is going to ('MSNBC home page'), i.e. Great minds and all that? If you reread the previous bit of my post you'll se

Re: [WSG] AP div problem... please!

2006-02-24 Thread Kim Kruse
Thanks a lot Soeren. That did the trick. Soeren Mordhorst wrote: I set in #textbox the positioning from 'absolute' to 'relative', gave a little 'lesser of px' in the #TJKul and it worked fine. Maybe you have to fix some bugs in IE5x... #textbox{ position:relative; display:block; left:30px; to

Re: [WSG] AP div problem... please!

2006-02-24 Thread Soeren Mordhorst
I set in #textbox the positioning from 'absolute' to 'relative', gave a little 'lesser of px' in the #TJKul and it worked fine. Maybe you have to fix some bugs in IE5x... #textbox{ position:relative; display:block; left:30px; top:72px; height:20px; width:50px; background:url(http://www.mouseride

Re: [WSG] Page veiwing

2006-02-24 Thread T. R. Valentine
On 23/02/06, SunUp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >What is it about low quality that keeps you attracted? > > It's not that I'm "attracted" to it, I simply don't really care about it. > I see those huge fancy flat screen monitors on high res, with all > their kiddie-safe rounded corners and pastelly

RE: [WSG] Should logo not link to the homepage?

2006-02-24 Thread Patrick Lauke
> Ian Anderson > To consider two extreme examples if the MSNBC logo was linked to the > home page, alt text of "MSNBC" would be the least helpful, although that is the exact equivalent of what happens visually for sighted users, and they then use their acquired knowledge to understand that it li

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Re: [WSG] Should logo not link to the homepage?

2006-02-24 Thread Ian Anderson
Justin Owens wrote: * the img alt text read 'logo' but the link went to home Your alt attribute should be modified to correctly represent the actual image. IMHO, 'logo' is not descriptive enough to be used as alternative text for a linked image. In my opinion, it is important for linked image