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[WSG] Dropdowns not working in IE

I've been to this board before with some dropdown issues, but I have a new one. I have one page where they want to provide a dropdown list of medical specialties that will take visitors to an anchor on another page. Rather than doing JavaScript and a form, I thought I'd just go with the old CSS d

[WSG] Out of Office AutoReply: WSG Digest

Hello, Thank you for emailing me. On Tuesday 14th August, I will be working from home. Wednesday 15th of August is scheduled as a public holiday for Brisbane Metro. I will be returning to the office on Thursday 16th of August. If you have any urgent matters that require my immediate atte

Re: [WSG] Standards and Blogs

On 13/8/07 (15:27) minim said: >Rick, PHP shouldn't affect IE at all because it gets calculated on >the server, so by the time the page gets to the browser, it's 100% >HTML/XHTML/whatever - no PHP is seen on the client-side at all. > >Cheers, > >C A ha. Good to know. Thanks. -- Rick Lecoat

Re: [WSG] Standards and Blogs

<...> > One question though: On your tutorial page, you appear to put some PHP > code above the doctype in order to remove any instance of self-closing > tags. Specifically: <...> > Does this not throw Explorer into quirks mode? I was under the > impression that anything (other than whitespace, may

Re: [WSG] Standards and Blogs

Rick, PHP shouldn't affect IE at all because it gets calculated on the server, so by the time the page gets to the browser, it's 100% HTML/XHTML/whatever - no PHP is seen on the client-side at all. Cheers, C Caitlin Rowley, B. Mus. (Hons), Gr. Dip. Design Composer, musicologist, web designe

Re: [WSG] Standards and Blogs

On 13/8/07 (13:01) Christian said: >You can even make a Wordpress blog (and probably the others) output >valid HTML 4 instead of XHTML. Tutorial: >http://www.christianmontoya.com/2006/02/13/serve-your-weblog-as-html-401/ That's a really useful tutorial Christian, thanks. One question though: On

Re: [WSG] Standards and Blogs

Rick, Yes, you can make a Wordpress, Expression Engine, Textpattern, MovableType, etc. blog COMPLETELY validate. Example: http://www.christianmontoya.com/ You can even make a Wordpress blog (and probably the others) output valid HTML 4 instead of XHTML. Tutorial: http://www.christianmontoya.com/2

Re: [WSG] Standards and Blogs

Most HTML tags get written into your template by you. There's only a few functions I can think of that output tags as well as a content and most of the time, it's perfectly valid HTML. On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:24:36 +1000, Rick Lecoat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 13/8/07 (11:57) John said

Re: [WSG] Standards and Blogs

On 13/8/07 (11:57) John said: >I've only used Expression Engine and Wordpress but they'll output whatever >HTML you put into your templates so how standards-friendly is entirely up >to the user and there is no limitations imposed by the CMS. That's good to know John, thanks. I was concerned

Re: [WSG] Standards and Blogs

I've only used Expression Engine and Wordpress but they'll output whatever HTML you put into your templates so how standards-friendly is entirely up to the user and there is no limitations imposed by the CMS. On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:01:32 +1000, Rick Lecoat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi;

[WSG] Standards and Blogs

Hi; Does anyone have any views regarding the best blogging tool (server- side, not hosted) from a web-standards perspective? I'm looking at setting up a business blog at the moment and although I'm wading through 'Blog Design Solutions' by Andy Budd et al I'm still not certain which one to settle