lated main subsection. Site maps and search utilities are also
a good way to ensure that people will get to the info or goal.
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Lori Cole wrote:
Thanks Scott,
The correct order of those elements is doing the trick. Yellow appears.
I
esheets but can
cause layout problems on screen.
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Lori Cole wrote:
Hi-I am new to CSS and
Christian Montoya wrote:
Lord Vader's Former Handle, Anakin
link, visited, focus, hover, active
Always in that order!
Yeah -- that's it!
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Matt Harris wrote:
Just re-worked my photography site: www.focusontheclouds.com
and wanted
to get your opinions. I've strayed into new territory - opting
for a slightly-risky, dark background instead of sticking with a
classic white background. I'm interested to hear if you think it
works...
and apply a width to create the same
size. It the uneven grey backgrounds are a little distracting.
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only 3 didn't update or function.
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The one extension set that no longer works and I haven't found a
solution is the libraries for Spellbound. I am not sure where to find
the libraries. They are available at for Thunderbird. I really do use
it alot for blogging and forum posting.
-best.
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Stephen Stagg wrote:
Is it just me or does the
‘Disable Images’
option on the Web Developers Toolbar not work with FF1.5?
Stephen
Isn't working on mine either. Images disappear for 2 seconds and reload.
Jay Gilmore
I wanted to know if there are resources like HotScripts etc. that
provide code that is standards oriented, semantic and use valid and/or
strict doctypes? I hate always having to hack the hell out of scripts
etc to remove tables and replace semantics etc.
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tored passwords data and now I have to remember all my
passwords. Darn.
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I am honestly looking for resources. Any help in this would be great.
Jay
Jay Gilmore wrote:
I wanted to know if there are resources like HotScripts etc. that
provide code that is standards oriented, semantic and use valid and/or
strict doctypes? I hate always having to hack the hell
or of choice for me is Notepad++.
There are many editors out there find and try as many as you can,
choose the ones you like and find the efficiencies in them and start
writing great code faster and better than you ever could in a
WYSIWYG-BIS(But It's Poo[family friendly version]) editor.
Lori Cole wrote:
I think I will start attending a local user group rather than using this
list as I think people behave differently face to face and maybe some women
will be there. Thanks for those of you that have commented constructively
about IE and tidy. I took an HTML II online course wi
sidebar in a
pagewrapper and then do as above. The numbers are different though. I
have the sidebar width of 180px and the left margin of the content box
is 220px which gives me a simple space without having to ad padding.
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ient I let them know. I don't know if you will ever be
able promote standards to small business. You will have better luck
with larger companies.
I think I may take some of the suggestions in this article and
formulate a case for standards adoption for publication on my site.
All the best,
Ja
sions with clients
though because my local competitors can't even make good looking tag
soup -- so I win be default. That will eventually change.
All the best,
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Robert O'Neill wrote:
If I wanted new windows in my house I'd buy from the BS Standard
compliant company every time, wouldn't you ?
Well I dunno? I am in Canada and I am assuming this might be the same
as the Canadian Standards Association (CSA). In North America BS stands
for Bul
to style the larger text of the
article titles. You are also using spans for the article date where you
could use the classes on paragraphs.
All the best,
Jay
BTW: My own site is not perfect so go ahead and rip it apart. When I
finish my next few projects I will be revamping it.
Jay Gilmore
kvnmcwebn wrote:
pretty cool jay,
what about the top links bottom border disapearing on the hover though?
-kvnmcwebn
kvnmcwebn,
Are you talking about my site: http://www.smashingred.com or Joe's
site: http://www.sitesbyjoe.com ?
All the best,
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This is a standards group and as such I think it would be best if you
checked your sites in a browser that was more standards compliant than
IE6 both of these layouts break in Firefox 1.5. On top of it all this
is a tables based layout that doesn't even work cross browser. There is
nothing in
Felix Miata wrote:
snip>
In fact, most must have done
at least some personalization, since most hit statistics that say the most
common screen resolution is 1024x768 even though old versions of doze
default to 640x480 and newer to 800x600, and signicant numbers are above
the median.
It migh
Barrie North wrote:
Hi all,
I have a fluid layout and
for the life of me can’t get
the image to be “cropped” as the screen adjusts.
Here is the link:
http://www.compassdesigns.net/joomlashack/
If you resize the window
the image will stay on top. I h
Semantics in mark-up.
Minimize Div's and Span use.
Still looking for a valid replacement to the IE CSS, display:
inline-block; thing...
All the best,
Jay
Paul Noone wrote:
It's a God-send. If only it had been properly explained sooner.
Fortunately my recent conversion to virtually table
Rimantas Liubertas wrote:
2005/12/22, Jay Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
<...>
Still looking for a valid replacement to the IE CSS, display: inline-block;
thing...
What am I missing? display: inline-block is perfectly valid in CSS2.1
Is your problem that C
have made out of ignorance,
Issues of semantics etc, and
Accessibility (not required by client but I want to get better at this).
All opinions are welcome. If there are mistakes out of ignorance please
point me to a reference for correction.
Sincerely,
Jay Gilmore
Kenny Graham (thoughtfully) wrote:
With larger text sizes, your sidebar headings become white on white.
I'd suggest vertically expanding that background image, or setting a
similar background color along with the image. That and a few things
like empty paragraph elements and stray on some o
right.
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standards.
Thanks to Russ,
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that are backward compatible or is the only way the method
suggested by IE team which is to use conditional comments in the *head*
and use a separate stylesheet?
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S right). There are
two places I have found issues. One relates to display:table-cell and
display: table. In addition I have some odd margins/padding issues with
one site that doesn't exist in other sites with similar layout.
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Paolo Dodet wrote:
Lachlan wrote:
The
problem is that many people see the issue as "what will happen if I
don't follow standards?"; whereas the questions they should be asking
are "what are the benefits of following standards?", "how much
easier/faster is it to develop wit
I've known Norton Internet Security to cause problems with pages before,
which are fixed by disabling it, though I've never been able to work out
exactly why it causes problems at all.
Lachlan,
I encountered this with one of my sites and it is because I used an
image in a folder that was
Todd Baker wrote:
Thats a big call Ted.
Ill be happy to see that back of IE6 as much as anyone but I think it
will be well into next year before IE7 overtakes IE6, even if they do
roll it into XP SP3.
Your right tho... We need to start planning for it.
On 02/02/06, Ted Drake <[EMAIL PROTECT
tates. This way the whole nav loads
at the same time and there is no need for _javascript_ preloads.
This makes me think that I should put all my background images on one
image for an entire site. That might be a cool experiment. Has any one
tried this?
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acceptance (I sound like some
sort of human rights activist) is to make business demand it because
they will not be competitive without standards based design.
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semantics, logical content markup (SEO is a good argument here).
Maybe I am making too much of it and trying to over theorize the issue.
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Christian Montoya wrote:
On 2/
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On
2/3/06, Jay Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I
want to go beyond the
argument of separation of information and presentation markup.
What sort of resistance are you facing here? I.e. why are you arguing
in the first place?
The definition of argumen
endering development and bug fixes is done -- hence the beta release.
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Ted Drake wrote:
Hi everyone
I posted a hack to IE7 today. I know I'm not the first
I am coming to realize that there is little real business case for small
business. Total cost of operation of a website for a small business
might be marginal.
My reasoning for this thread was to formulate a position statement that
could be communicated to small business leaders to have them c
Jan Brasna wrote:
" I want a standards based website -- can you deliver?"
This premise is wrong. When I'm buying a house I also do not
explicitly state that I want it to be built with standards, however I
anticipate it's not going to fall on my head soon.
I don't agree with this analogy
Hey Tierry and Terrance,
This is a respectful suggestion. Since Jakob Nielsen is not dead and
Useit.com is not the King James Bible, Talmud, Torah, Quaran etc., why
not email him and get his opinion on this. In fact, I asked his opinion
on this recent adlinks phenomena just today, where site
is still a bunch of people out there who are ex graphic
designers or visual developers who know only Dreamweaver or StopDead
(GoLive) who are asked to teach because they have won some prize or
worked for a big company.
All the best,
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documents
where possible and even then I have to fix all the windows charset
issues. Damned smart quotes and auto mdashes.
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Designer wrote:
Jay Gilmore wrote:
. . . I usually paste as plain text into HTML-Kit and I have a plugin
that converts line breaks into and also can turn text lists
into 's or 's.
Hey Jay,
Can you tell us more? What plugin? Sounds very handy!
Thanks
Bob McClelland
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7;t tried it so don't know)
standalone of 7 so that its conditionals work.
http://blog.skyzyx.com/2006/02/02/internet-explorer-70-beta-2-standalone-is-available/
and
http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2005/12/28/434132.aspx for the
batch file for launching.
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the book came out, the "home" is no longer
on the logo and they are using a top level breadcrumb trail to get you
there as well as a clickable logo.
I would argue that their current use of the bc-trail actually makes it
harder to figure out how to get back home. Ah well -- designers
nts? Is this countering the effect in FF?
Don't beat yourself up over the XHTML thing -- it is called working in
the real world.
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n and safe mode off.
Of list responses are fine but I think others may be interested in a
possible resource.
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Lukasz Grabun wrote:
Fulfills, AFAIK, all or most of your requirements.
After peeking at the site and looking at the demo code I think you have
hit the nail on the head.
I am open to other suggestions from members though.
ATB,
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Maybe I'm not defining strict correctly. Here is a test page which works
in FF,IE6: http://urbits.com/_/test.php
I checked the response headers using webdevtoolbar and your server is
sending this as "text/html" and not "application/xhtml+xml".
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ese issues are but why invite trouble. I think many standards oriented
people have moved or stayed with HTML 4.0X and those who are using XHTML
are either using it incorrectly and unknowing of its proper application
or the minute few who are actually serving it as "application/xhtml+xml&q
haven't suffered any list stoppages or slowdowns though. There might
have been some DNS issue that may have caused it to go invisible. In
certain areas. It'd be worth investigating.
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}
I have created a valid test page at
http://www.smashingred.com/test/floated_org_chart.html please let me
know if that helps. If anyone wants to ad to this please let me know and
I will make the changes.
All the best.
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gestion is to have the outer list as an as there is an
explicit order of value/importance and it could be indicated when the
list is unstyled. But this solution looks great.
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solution that I am using has a batch file that fixes a registry entry
that will screw up your IE 6 when they are run on the same machine.
I would strongly suggest that you switch back to IE6 and use a SA
version of the IE7 release that is out now.
Just my opinion.
All the best,
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standalone try here:
http://www.sitepoint.com/newsletter/viewissue.php?id=5&issue=18
Scroll down for the instructions.
I also found a link that has both above links included on the same
article here:
http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/02/12/standalone-ie7-the-fix/
ATB,
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ll under a number of circumstances. What we are looking for is not
some ultimate format or way but solutions that might be better than our own.
Wikipedia: "The term best practice generally refers to the best possible
way of doing something;..."
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border: 0px solid green;
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It seems to work fine. This way, even if you make the #sidebar or
#maincontent huge, the footer stays put.
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Stevio wrote:
Hi Jay,
Thanks for that, but floating the
footer left instead of setting position to absolute, means that the
footer is not at the browser window, which is one of the requirements.
Thanks,
Stephen
I see what you mean. I think that you will have to either ne
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