Re: [WSG] Table versus 4 floated divs

2005-07-27 Thread Bert Doorn
te fit (horizontally) at 800x600 (on my system). Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsg

Re: [WSG] image + title

2005-07-26 Thread Bert Doorn
t right to me. You might also want to add margin-right to .lfigure so text that wraps around the float has a little "breathing space". Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, us

Re: [WSG] image + title

2005-07-26 Thread Bert Doorn
be it should be a div rather than a p(aragraph). To float the paragraph (or div), add a width to .lfigure and give it a float:left or float:right as appropriate. HTH -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly web

Re: [WSG] link ?

2005-07-25 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day I'd say your problem is here: #navwrapper li a:link, a:visited { See the a:visited? That affects ALL links on the page. I think you meant to say: #navwrapper li a:link, #navwrapper li a:visited { Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.co

Re: [WSG] Large Top Margin

2005-07-25 Thread Bert Doorn
k at the resources section of the webstandardsgroup website - there's plenty of resources there for two column css layouts. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ***

Re: [WSG] Large Top Margin

2005-07-25 Thread Bert Doorn
. The browser tries to balance the table cell heights and in so doing makes the "header" cell taller than you want it. You may be able to fix this by setting a height (in CSS) on the header. Better still, as David hinted, don't use a table for layout. Regards -- Bert

Re: [WSG] Site Check: Broadleaf

2005-07-25 Thread Bert Doorn
but I think we're far enough off-topic already. But how about cutting down the size of your emails and making them plain text? No need to repeatedly quote 40k of text with all that Micro$oft formatting in it. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fa

Re: [WSG] headings and accessibility norms

2005-07-21 Thread Bert Doorn
#x27;s my opinion anyway. I do think a page should have only one main heading (H1) but that's another much debated issue and I'm neither an expert nor an authority on the subject. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebd

Re: [WSG] Body tag background color changes

2005-07-18 Thread Bert Doorn
y.section2 { background-color: #fff } etc with and etc Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgrou

Re: [WSG] what tag will work here

2005-07-18 Thread Bert Doorn
priate Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hint

Re: [WSG] web stanards detection - is it possible?

2005-07-13 Thread Bert Doorn
ive them a plain-vanilla site. They'll get used to it as more and more sites go down that path. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for

Re: [WSG] IE vs MF ~ Image padding, bullets & numbers missing

2005-07-07 Thread Bert Doorn
But I still recommend fixing the 65 validation errors... Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See htt

Re: [WSG] paragraph indent

2005-07-03 Thread Bert Doorn
z. I tested my solution in MSIE6 and Firefox before sending it too. They both behaved per spec, indenting only the first line of each paragraph. If the intention was to indent the whole paragraph, my suggestion would have been along the lines of p { margin-left: 1em } Regards -- Bert Doorn, Be

Re: [WSG] paragraph indent

2005-07-03 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day I wanted to get my paragraphs to indent on a site so I tried the most intuitive thing: p:first-line{padding:1em} How about p { text-indent: 1em } Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly web

Re: [WSG] Constraining images

2005-06-30 Thread Bert Doorn
the images are loaded. Could be a problem if there's a lot of them, especially on dial-up. If the image is to be replaced on hover, you'll probably need javascript (someone correct me if it can be done with CSS) HTH -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fa

Re: [WSG] Playing a MIDI

2005-06-30 Thread Bert Doorn
itors who have not already installed Flash WILL have to install something for this to work. Besides, going back to Angus' original post: "I also chose MIDI because WAV and/MP3 would take to long to download." How does this "player" change that? Regards -- Bert Do

Re: [WSG] Playing a MIDI

2005-06-29 Thread Bert Doorn
be able to use the object element for it. Give it a type="audio/midi" and see what happens. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discu

Re: [WSG] looking for an accessibility reference on why text-only is bad

2005-06-29 Thread Bert Doorn
"...Before resorting to an alternative page, reconsider the design of the original page; making it accessible is likely to improve it for all users." ...Last resort... Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebd

Re: [WSG] FOUC Safari 2.0

2005-06-15 Thread Bert Doorn
he page is then displayed properly. See http://www.bluerobot.com/web/css/fouc.asp Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup

Re: [WSG] CSS List Separator

2005-06-15 Thread Bert Doorn
inside the dt (for the number) and give it a width? And put a margin on the dd equal to that span? Or what about simple normal every-day headings? We can go up to 6 levels deep with them... I guess it all depends on the application. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.be

Re: [WSG] CSS List Separator

2005-06-15 Thread Bert Doorn
... How will assistive technology "render" it? What about browsers without CSS support? My guess is that some or all of them will double up on the numbering and cause a great deal of confusion, especially when the lists are nested. Plus I foresee formatting problems (indented tex

Re: [WSG] Standards and ADS

2005-06-14 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day Jad Madi wrote: Will ADS break web standards in any mean ? such as Google ads, and Amazon ads? Not if they use standards compliant markup. Easiest way to check is to get a page to validate, then insert the ad and see if it is still valid. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web D

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

2005-06-10 Thread Bert Doorn
I'd be able to reproduce the symptoms you described would be with a nested table (old school, not recommended) The inner table would then inherit the 0.7em from the first table and further reduce it with its own font size setting. You'd end up with 0.7em * 0.7em = 0.49em. Regards -- Bert

Re: [WSG] resizing problem

2005-06-07 Thread Bert Doorn
get too big (in browsers that support max-width and max-height) There are still a lot of people with browser windows that are 760px or less in width. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-f

Re: [WSG] alt tags and image captions

2005-06-06 Thread Bert Doorn
ons under the photo, I think it's perfectly reasonable to use an empty alt attribute. Doesn't the caption take its place anyway? Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-frie

Re: SV: Re: [WSG] CSS problems in IE (weird font-size)

2005-06-02 Thread Bert Doorn
ld put it online somewhere for us to look at, we may be able to spot the problem and steer you in the right direction. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ***

Re: [WSG] CSS problems in IE (weird font-size)

2005-06-02 Thread Bert Doorn
if you have set the font on the body element, try adding the table to that rule there. The following example assumes your menu table has an id of "menu": body, #menu { font: normal 90%/1.4 Helvetica,sans-serif } Hope this helps -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebde

Re: [WSG] CDATA and html tidy

2005-06-01 Thread Bert Doorn
n there. I just don't see that it is necessary here (per http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/diffs.html#h-4.8) as you're using an external style sheet and there's no entities that can cause confusion to x(h)ml in the import method used. But I may be missing something. Regards --

Re: [WSG] CDATA and html tidy

2005-06-01 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day When I run HTML tidy on a file (XHTML strict), it always wants to add "/* in any of my (valid xhtml1.0 Strict) sites. Avoid the characters that make it necessary and/or usually use external style sheets (and external javascript files). Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web D

Re: [WSG] Exporting inline CSS

2005-05-31 Thread Bert Doorn
head section, you could use the same method to replace it to use an imported style sheet. Biggest question is: how consistent is the site's layout? Will it work with an overall style sheet or two? Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loa

Re: [WSG] Where to start?: Need to make a really junk code page to standards-compliant

2005-05-30 Thread Bert Doorn
transitional) HTML, you might try to remove further presentational attributes and aim for HTML4.01 strict. I note the site uses some CSS, but it's full of proprietary attributes too, has a lot of duplication and doesn't seem to do anything. Ditch it :-) Regards -- Bert D

Re: [WSG] multi-lingual

2005-05-30 Thread Bert Doorn
US English --> <-- For speakers of British English --> <-- For speakers of French --> -- Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ***

Re: [WSG] multi-lingual

2005-05-30 Thread Bert Doorn
l element to lang="en" and put lang="pt" only on the elements (divs or whatever you're using) with portuguese content. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites *

Re: [WSG] style sheet set up

2005-05-29 Thread Bert Doorn
t for developers too, but why feed it to every visitor? Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See htt

Re: [WSG] valid flash?

2005-05-25 Thread Bert Doorn
be better, as IE users with high security settings still get alternative content. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup

Re: [WSG] CSS list spacing: margin or line-height?

2005-05-18 Thread Bert Doorn
I don't think semantics come into it. But I may be wrong. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See ht

Re: [WSG] Playing a sound file - what is the best way?

2005-05-17 Thread Bert Doorn
tools/plug-ins, at least provide a fall-back mechanism, so your site doesn't fail accessibility standards/guidelines. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussio

Re: [WSG] search field image alignment

2005-05-15 Thread Bert Doorn
rth... http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/objects.html#adef-align-IMG The align attribute is deprecated and should be avoided if possible. In addition, align="absmiddle" is a Microsoft Invention/Extension, which is why it works in MSIE. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://

Re: [WSG] IE not displaying a link as a block level element

2005-05-11 Thread Bert Doorn
background:#0b73c1; } Try adding a width. If a fixed width nav block, fix the width, otherwise play with "100%" (but you might need a hack to hide that from browsers other than Windows IE) Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, us

Re: [WSG] site check/comments please

2005-05-10 Thread Bert Doorn
uot; list. So why don't you use a list element? I note you don't want to add complexity. Is an unordered list more complex than the code in the splash page (which is not valid HTML4.01 Transitional, let alone Strict as suggested by the DTD)? Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web

Re: [WSG] Form Validation error

2005-05-04 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day element "form" which is not open You're self-closing the form Remove the / from the end of the form element and (as long as that's the only typo) all should be well. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fa

Re: [WSG] The mother of all html references?

2005-05-03 Thread Bert Doorn
e XHTML and CSS references) is www.zvon.org It even shows which elements and attributes are appropriate for each DTD (and I use strict 99.9% of the time) Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-fr

Re: [WSG] Jumping text in FF and Netscape

2005-05-01 Thread Bert Doorn
for the image. FWIW, spare a thought for people on dial-up with 800x600 display (nothing to see unless they scroll down or wait a minute or more for the huge image to load). Also consider people with MSIE who can't read the text and can't enlarge it because you specify the font size

Re: [WSG] best practice?

2005-04-29 Thread Bert Doorn
tent of any and every div, list item and what have you. Best to just put it on body... Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://websta

Re: [WSG] BIIIIIIIG white space in Firefox not IE6

2005-04-28 Thread Bert Doorn
I haven't got time to analyse all those nested divs and the corresponding CSS. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://web

Re: [WSG] new mycareer.com.au design

2005-04-26 Thread Bert Doorn
ox, if I click on the dropdown for maximum salary, it does not let me select (it appears, then disappears immediately). I have to hold my mouse down and drag to make a selection. Annoying. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ F

Re: [WSG] Web calendar

2005-04-26 Thread Bert Doorn
ySQL is actually server side scripting.... Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/

Re: [WSG] Nested Links?

2005-04-24 Thread Bert Doorn
side by side (preferably with a separator other than a space). Cool link here or there ... Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webst

Re: [WSG] Drop Down Menu Hack for IE

2005-04-19 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day I cannot seem to isolate the IE Hack to just work on my menu DIV, and not work on the whole page. Suggest you validate and fix the xhtml, then check for cascading issues. With invalid xhtml it's anyone's guess what a browser will do. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better

Re: [WSG] Unexpected underlines and div wierdness in FF and NS

2005-04-06 Thread Bert Doorn
none; } } See anything wrong here? Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.or

Re: [WSG] Really strange results

2005-04-04 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day I am really having a difficult time understanding why some browsers see the stylesheet, while others don't? The link to the page: http://www.deafvision.net/projects/btw/revised/indexx.html. Try making that "stylesheet" (all lower case) and see if it makes a differen

Re: [WSG] Styling Forms

2005-04-04 Thread Bert Doorn
There's also a "small" matter of accessibility... A quick scan of the webstandardsgroup.org resources section shows this link: http://www.webcredible.co.uk/user-friendly-resources/web-accessibility/accessible-forms-1.shtml Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.better

Re: [WSG] Scrolling layout problem

2005-04-03 Thread Bert Doorn
ople can still scroll with the mousewheel in Gecko based browsers Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://

Re: [WSG] Rounded corner and IE Win help needed

2005-03-28 Thread Bert Doorn
y on hover), put a background image on li.last a ...and... li.last a:hover Incidentally, you might ass more contrast - there's not enough of it, especially on hover, making the (tiny) link text very hard to read. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fas

Re: [WSG] Style part of form field

2005-03-28 Thread Bert Doorn
r:red;color:white } Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some

Re: [WSG] A web page crashing FireFox 1.01

2005-03-25 Thread Bert Doorn
r separators allowed ...p://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd" /> I suggest you remove the space and / from the end of the DTD (it should not be there) and see if the problem persists. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-load

Re: [WSG] you've been framed! - Pt2 : overflow

2005-03-25 Thread Bert Doorn
browsers (scrolling with mouse scroll wheel doesn't work) but does what it's supposed to do in MSIE6 (built it quite some time ago, when I basically built for MSIE). Works in Opera 7 I'll see if I have some more examples (that validate) Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://w

Re: [WSG] you've been framed!

2005-03-24 Thread Bert Doorn
n't remember where I found it (anyone ?) Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] CSS/Font size query

2005-03-23 Thread Bert Doorn
box_lesson/font/index.html Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelin

Re: [WSG] Website Review

2005-03-22 Thread Bert Doorn
nuisance is a non-issue for me with Firefox. I have it set to not allow scripts to hide the status bar or change status bar text, resize windows, etc. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-frie

Re: [WSG] Standards compliant site, clients wants to make updates themselves

2005-03-21 Thread Bert Doorn
what not to do. They still make a mess of things, especially when they use M$ FontPlague. So... I'll stick with "I will update for you as and when needed and charge for it. If you want CMS, I can't help you". Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.bette

Re: [WSG] Standards compliant site, clients wants to make updates themselves

2005-03-20 Thread Bert Doorn
sites (I've got it, but don't use it much - prefer hand-coding). And if they can't figure out how to use it, they can come back and pay for updates... Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites *

[WSG] Standards compliant site, clients wants to make updates themselves

2005-03-20 Thread Bert Doorn
n the server (or a database driven site), all of which increases the cost. What other options are there, apart from complex, expensive CMS setups (or forgetting about standards)? Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ F

Re: [WSG] Horizontal scrollbar issue

2005-03-20 Thread Bert Doorn
cify your left margin and padding as 4% and 1%, but MSIE PC does not recognise max-width. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://websta

Re: [WSG] Dilemma: Useful, additional attributes in elements, invalidating HTML

2005-03-19 Thread Bert Doorn
rs (haven't tested that - I always use the standard DTDs). Still, it would be nice to have additional input types, like "integer", "email" or "currency", to go along with the existing types. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web

Re: [WSG] absolute positioning in IE

2005-03-17 Thread Bert Doorn
't see why you would use a table for such a simple layout, and the inline styles should really go into the external style sheet. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites *

Re: [WSG] Site Review - coylemedical.com

2005-03-17 Thread Bert Doorn
) and at resolutions above 1024x768 it sticks out on the left. Stats vary, but this site will have the formatting problem for a sizeable portion of visitors (perhaps half), The absolute positioning you mentioned is the cause of your problem. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.b

Re: [WSG] Writing with a markup language

2005-03-03 Thread Bert Doorn
loading (too many images?) 8. No Headings (h1..h6)? If you're going to tell people about markup and accessibility, at least present it on a page which actually uses that markup properly and is accessible. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-l

Re: [WSG] is rgb(255,255,255) better than #ffffff or white?

2005-03-02 Thread Bert Doorn
othing there that says we *have to* use the long-winded rgb(255,255,255) approach. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://websta

Re: [WSG] IE Image vertical height oddity

2005-03-01 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day Salon ... I naturally looked for overriding CSS styles but could find none: Haven't looked at the page, but the snippet you sent shows: #block .subimgl img, #block .subimgr img { margin: 0 0 .5em 0; height: 1%; } What happens if you remove that height setting? Regar

Re: [WSG] XHTML 1.0, Tables and Firefox

2005-02-27 Thread Bert Doorn
irst place when it's just "text buttons". I'd use a simple ul. Even a paragraph, separating links with pipe ( | ) characters is cleaner. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites *

Re: [WSG] Help centering footer IE6

2005-02-24 Thread Bert Doorn
tandards mode (as with Firefox and Opera), left and right padding is added to that figure, for a total width of 728px. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites **

Re: [WSG] Help centering footer IE6

2005-02-24 Thread Bert Doorn
developer toolbar in Firefox) and it made no visible difference to the layout. Perhaps this is causing issues in some versions of MSIE 6 - it's trying to float things that are full width and gets confused. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loadi

Re: [WSG] vertical drop-down menu

2005-02-24 Thread Bert Doorn
ou think it matters. Browsers that have neither js nor css support (e.g. lynx) will see a standard nested bullet list with ALL the links. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] table background images with CSS

2005-02-23 Thread Bert Doorn
parent gif or PNG so the table cell background colours show through). Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandard

Re: [WSG] table background images with CSS

2005-02-22 Thread Bert Doorn
ot; and "header" ID's as well. With the above CSS rule you would need a very tall background image if you want it shown the full length *height) of the table/page. If it is an image that can and should tile, remove the no-repeat from your background rule (or replace it with the s

Re: [WSG] setAttribute not working on Firefox

2005-02-21 Thread Bert Doorn
ngine so it should work. windowdiv.setAttribute("className",wclass); windowdiv.setAttribute("id",name); the classname is not being set any suggestions? Have you tried class instead of className? Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fa

Re: [WSG] Subtractive Box model

2005-02-18 Thread Bert Doorn
a and only worked at some resolutions in MSIE. Rounding issue. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] Summaries in blockquotes and the cite attribute

2005-02-17 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day Terrence Wood wrote: why? So that the summary is semantically different from the rest of the content. ... Bert Doorn wrote: Question: *why* do you want to use blockquote in the first place? If it is purely for presentational purposes (indented block) I agree that you are abusing the m

Re: [WSG] Summaries in blockquotes and the cite attribute

2005-02-16 Thread Bert Doorn
use of or and cite attribute (and perhaps the element) would be appropriate, since I am QUOTING, verbatim, from another document and referring to the (external) source for reference :-) Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign

Re: [WSG] Form field validation query

2005-02-15 Thread Bert Doorn
ot;selected" to the appropriate option (in the example below, option "2" is selected) Date 1 2 3 Can't tell you HOW to do that in PHP because I don't "speak" PHP and it would be off-topic for this list. HTH -- Bert Doorn,

Re: [WSG] UL menu - gap and firstlink

2005-02-12 Thread Bert Doorn
he same to the nav lists at the bottom of the page, so the page doesn't suffer from spanitis and classitis. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The di

Re: [WSG] Links not working in MAC

2005-02-10 Thread Bert Doorn
)HTML, the result is unpredictable. The problem may not disappear if the page validates, but it should be the first step in trying to find the cause of the problem. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly web

Re: [WSG] Browser Checks

2005-02-07 Thread Bert Doorn
ercentage of visitors with old browsers (on old computers)? What if you were selling software that can only be operated by expert users with the latest equipment? Different audience. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly we

Re: [WSG] Thumbnail Image overlapping container DIV - Help Please

2005-02-04 Thread Bert Doorn
their container. Simplest way to fix it is to add this rule to your CSS: .TeaserContainer:after { clear:right; display:block; height:0; content: ""; } See http://www.positioniseverything.net/easyclearing.html for more info. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better

Re: [WSG] Question about vertical CSS navigation

2005-02-03 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day Is there an alternative to the one I use now at http://www.iamu-edu.org , that is(/was?, can't find it anymore) listed on Russ http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/listamatic/ page? Son of Suckerfish: http://www.htmldog.com/ptg/archives/50.php Regards -- Bert Doorn,

Re: [WSG] Disappearing input boxes in Firefox1.0

2005-02-02 Thread Bert Doorn
The issue has been resolved. Thanks to all who replied (you know who you are). It was a faulty installation of Firefox, not faulty CSS or XHTML. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

[WSG] Disappearing input boxes in Firefox1.0

2005-02-01 Thread Bert Doorn
about it, otherwise it could just be there's something wrong with his browser setup. Please send replies (of the "I see it" kind) direct to me (bert at bwdzine dot com), but if you do not see the inputs and you know what the cause is, perhaps share with the other members :-)

Re: [WSG] Quick h1,h2 etc question

2005-02-01 Thread Bert Doorn
f the main h1. Each h3 belongs to a sub-sub-section under the h2. And so on. You can have multiple h2's each with multiple h3's etc. That means... Your second version. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-fr

Re: [WSG] Indented text

2005-01-27 Thread Bert Doorn
r img { display:block; float:left; width: 200px; } div.whatever p { margin-left: 220px; /* image width + a little extra */ } Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion

Re: [WSG] ID and class case sensitivity - potential CSS hack?

2005-01-26 Thread Bert Doorn
ers I should be aware of? (I don't have a Mac or Linux system) Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] a train wreck of css

2005-01-25 Thread Bert Doorn
of what my mother said about someone who had to take 17 different types of pills every day - about 12 of them were prescribed to combat side-effects of the others Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user

Re: [WSG] Floats dont float - can you see what i've got wrong please?

2005-01-25 Thread Bert Doorn
the following from #content: clear:left; That should fix it. I won't comment on the use of tables... OK, I did :-) Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The di

[WSG] ID and class case sensitivity - potential CSS hack?

2005-01-25 Thread Bert Doorn
css file. Newer browsers would see no matching class or id in the (x)HTML so they would not use it. Thoughts, anyone? Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] Text wrapping and background images

2005-01-24 Thread Bert Doorn
k box, which itself is flowed as a single inline box, similar to a replaced element. The inside of an inline-block is formatted as a block box, and the element itself is formatted as an inline replaced element. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ F

Re: [WSG] Future XHTML Proposals?

2005-01-23 Thread Bert Doorn
rong... I do not nest tables (except to put a table with tabular data inside the single "layout table"). I cringe when I see sites that nest their tables just to get some spacing etc that can be achieved easily with CSS. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebd

Re: [WSG] yet more valid table tags for xhtml strict

2005-01-20 Thread Bert Doorn
SS (better in Firefox and Opera than in MSIE, because MSIE does not support the CSS "border-spacing"). The bottom line for me is... If it can be done with CSS, use CSS. If it can't be done reliably and the lack of browser support is a critical issue, use (still valid) Strict att

Re: [WSG] valid table tags for xhtml strict

2005-01-20 Thread Bert Doorn
#x27;t need such attributes because CSS can take care of it, keeping the (x)HTML document nice and clean. I thought the whole point behind (x)HTML strict was separation of content and presentation. Keeping "align" attributes does not seem to fit in. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web

Re: [WSG] meta tag standards

2005-01-20 Thread Bert Doorn
ntax for empty elements, e.g. , as the alternative syntax allowed by XML gives uncertain results in many existing user agents. So yes, I'd say there is something wrong with , just like there is with and HTH -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fas

Re: [WSG] valid table tags for xhtml strict

2005-01-20 Thread Bert Doorn
" http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/index/attributes.html indicates that the "align" attribute it is *NOT* deprecated for COL, COLGROUP, TBODY, TD, TFOOT, TH, THEAD and TR. Neither is valign. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.bette

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