Re: [WSG] books

2008-02-19 Thread Joe Ortenzi
Designing with Web Standards - Jeffrey Zeldman Getting Real - 37Signals ... On Feb 19 2008, at 06:58, dwain wrote: On 2/19/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody can suggest me some good books or other resources for · Webstandards · css technics css

Re: [WSG] long words not wrapping inside DIV

2008-02-19 Thread Sagnik Dey
Hi, Try using the whitespace property -Sagnik On Feb 19, 2008 12:58 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Its not helping rajib. The text is bigger than the div width. The div is 150px width and the text width is coming around 190px.What I need to do for wrapping the text? -Original

Re: [WSG] books

2008-02-19 Thread Rick Lecoat
On 19 Feb 2008, at 06:58, Naveen Bhaskar Menon wrote: Anybody can suggest me some good books Among the books that live on my desk (as opposed to the less-honoured position on the bookcase) are: Web Standards Solutions by Dan Cederholm; Bulletproof Web Design by Dan Cederholm; CSS: The

RE: [WSG] long words not wrapping inside DIV

2008-02-19 Thread Rajib Mukherji
Can you send me the portion of the div that's creating the problem as by defaults words wrap once they get blank space between words , another alternative is to declare style=overflow:hidden as inline style inside the Menu div. Thanks Rajib --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Its not helping rajib.

Re: [WSG] books

2008-02-19 Thread Paul McCann
I would also reccomend the Sitepoint books. Work well as a reference when your working too, or just forgot something like i usually do :) Paul willdonovan wrote: I would also recommend the Sitepoint collection of books on javascript, CSS, SEO and many other titles. Particularly the 'Art

[WSG] Problem with folio online | IE

2008-02-19 Thread Laert Jansen
Hello, I'm fighting with IE/Firefox for solving a css-problem(I believe). I´ve just finished my online folio http://www.laertjansen.com/site2/ but it looks like the way I want only with FF . I don´t know where´s the mistake. You can see the difference: With IE the line height is different, the

Re: [WSG] books

2008-02-19 Thread John Faulds
And now you don't even need to buy Sitepoint reference material: http://reference.sitepoint.com/css On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:50:59 +1000, Paul McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would also reccomend the Sitepoint books. Work well as a reference when your working too, or just forgot something

Re: [WSG] * { display: inline; }

2008-02-19 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
On Mon, February 18, 2008 12:06 am, Tim White wrote: On Feb 17, 2008 6:00 PM, Katrina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So in the header of my document, I included style type=text/css * { display: inline; } /style OK, I just tried it and got the exact same effects. So, I tried

Re: [WSG] Problem with folio online | IE

2008-02-19 Thread David Laakso
Laert Jansen wrote: I'm fighting with IE/Firefox for solving a css-problem(I believe). I´ve just finished my online folio http://www.laertjansen.com/site2/ but it looks like the way I want only with FF . I don´t know where´s the mistake. You can see the difference: With IE the line height

Re: [WSG] * { display: inline; }

2008-02-19 Thread Tim White
On Feb 19, 2008 5:35 AM, Nick Fitzsimons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not so very odd... If you hunt around through Firefox's files you'll find one named html.css which specifies the default styling of all HTML elements. It includes the following: Thank you Nick. I sorta kinda knew about the

Re: [WSG] Problem with folio online | IE

2008-02-19 Thread Laert Jansen
Hi David Thanks. The margin on the top is working much better now. About the line height I tried a raw number but it´s not working. Firefox is ok but IE has a lot of white space between the lines...strange... The description is something like Client: Jacob Ferreira Role. Website

Re: [WSG] repeating background png support ie6

2008-02-19 Thread Thomas Thomassen
Screenshots sent. Not sure how gracefully degrade. I think once when I used a translucent image it was an even colour and IE6 should simply degrade to display the colour solid. That worked fine for my use. Your case might be different though. - Original Message - From: kevin

[WSG] repeating background png support ie6

2008-02-19 Thread kevin mcmonagle
Hi, Whats the standards way to handle or degrade ie6 png support for a repeating background img? Im having problems solving this-ies4mac doesn't seem to do well with conditional comments and png hacks-so i cant tell whats working. Im thinking about putting the wrapper div with the repeating

Re: [WSG] repeating background png support ie6

2008-02-19 Thread Christian Snodgrass
Instead of that, you could just use a CSS hack. Something like: #background_div { background-image: url(background.png); } * html #background_div { background-image: url(background.gif); } The * html will make it so only only versions of IE will look at it (IE6), while modern browsers

RE: [WSG] long words not wrapping inside DIV

2008-02-19 Thread Thierry Koblentz
On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 10:23 PM I have a dropdown menu with a width of 150px. while localization some texts are too long   and it is not wrapping inside the DIV and going outside the div. Is there any way to wrap long words. I don’t want to use

Re: [WSG] Problem with folio online | IE

2008-02-19 Thread David Laakso
Laert Jansen wrote: The margin on the top is working much better now. About the line height I tried a raw number but it´s not working. Firefox is ok but IE has a lot of white space between the lines...strange... The description is something like Client: Jacob Ferreira Role.

Re: [WSG] repeating background png support ie6

2008-02-19 Thread Tony
Hey Kevin, I have the same problem with my ies4linux, so I just use an online tester. For quick checks of IE6/7 I use the netrenderer: http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/ and for more advanced checks use browsershots: http://browsershots.org/ Cheers, Tony kevin mcmonagle wrote: Hi, Whats the

Re: [WSG] repeating background png support ie6

2008-02-19 Thread kevin mcmonagle
Tony I was using browsercam.com but these sites are far handier and free-thanks. also the star selector hack works very well for this issue, thanks christian. -best kevin Tony wrote: Hey Kevin, I have the same problem with my ies4linux, so I just use an online tester. For quick checks of

Re: [WSG] Problem with folio online | IE

2008-02-19 Thread Laert Jansen
Hey David! Thanks a lot!! It´s working now!!! :))) Thanks!! On Feb 19, 2008 4:40 PM, David Laakso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Laert Jansen wrote: The margin on the top is working much better now. About the line height I tried a raw number but it´s not working. Firefox is ok but IE has a

Re: [WSG] Problem with folio online | IE

2008-02-19 Thread dwain
On Feb 19, 2008 4:40 PM, David Laakso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS /Landing/ on a page with mousetype an 116dpi laptop ain't no picnic for those of us without your Superman vision. Then having it frozen in IE, only adds insult to injury. the main text on the pages are frozen in firefox

Re: [WSG] Problem with folio online | IE

2008-02-19 Thread David Laakso
dwain wrote: PS /Landing/ on a page with mousetype an 116dpi laptop ain't no picnic for those of us without your Superman vision. Then having it frozen in IE, only adds insult to injury. the main text on the pages are frozen in firefox as well. can't

Re: [WSG] Problem with folio online | IE

2008-02-19 Thread Laert Jansen
:D sure sure. I have to do something about this... On Feb 19, 2008 11:42 PM, dwain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 19, 2008 4:40 PM, David Laakso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS /Landing/ on a page with mousetype an 116dpi laptop ain't no picnic for those of us without your Superman

Re: [WSG] Problem with folio online | IE

2008-02-19 Thread dwain
On Feb 20, 2008 12:05 AM, David Laakso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dwain, The text proper is not frozen in Firefox. I think you are having difficulty with the image text. you're absolutely correct. i didn't realize at first they were images. dwain -- dwain alford The artist may use

Re: [WSG] Problem with folio online | IE

2008-02-19 Thread Laert Jansen
not frozen in Firefox.sure On Feb 20, 2008 12:05 AM, David Laakso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dwain wrote: PS /Landing/ on a page with mousetype an 116dpi laptop ain't no picnic for those of us without your Superman vision. Then having it frozen in

RE: [WSG] books

2008-02-19 Thread Naveen_Bhaskar
Thanks for the suggessions ... :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Faulds Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 5:42 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] books And now you don't even need to buy Sitepoint reference

Re: [WSG] books

2008-02-19 Thread Joe Ortenzi
you mean Dont make ME think, right? ;-) you made me think about it... ;-) On Feb 19 2008, at 07:29, Thomas Thomassen wrote: Don't make the think -- A Common Sence Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug Joe Ortenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.joiz.com

Re: [OBORONA-SPAM] RE: [WSG] Best Practice to Offer Different Formats of Documents

2008-02-19 Thread Alexey Novikov
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Re: [WSG] books

2008-02-19 Thread Thomas Thomassen
Aye! A case of my own head not thinking... ;) - Original Message - From: Joe Ortenzi To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 7:57 AM Subject: Re: [WSG] books you mean Dont make ME think, right? ;-) you made me think about it... ;-) On