Re: [WSG] Web Standards Knowledge Structure Map : Call for help with MSC final project!

2005-06-23 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 23 Jun 2005, at 11:35 PM, Lee Jorgensen wrote: For example, a knowledge component might be Know how to Validate pages using the W3C validation service, others could be might be Know how to produce semantically correct code, Know the benefits of using Web Standards, Positioning Page

Re: [WSG] Strange font-family behavior on Mac

2005-06-21 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 21 Jun 2005, at 9:43 PM, Marcello Cerruti wrote: I have the same strange problem that you can see on this Apple site page: http://guide.apple.com/index.lasso If you look at the left side column with IE (Mac) or Firefox (Mac) the font is different from the one that you can see on Safari,

Re: [WSG] WSG Meetings for the rest of us

2005-06-12 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 12 Jun 2005, at 4:03 PM, Andrew Krespanis wrote: I know the film quality will be bad because I'll probably end up holding the camera; but who cares, we've got to start somewhere. One word of encouragement: goodonya. And one of advice: tripod. Looking forward to it! N

Re: [WSG] Site Check - brunotorres.net

2005-05-19 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 19 May 2005, at 4:36 PM, Bruno Torres wrote: Hello. I'd appreciate mush if you take a look at my weblog (http://www.brunotorres.net/) and tell me your opinions. I did some changes in the layout and want to know if others like it as I do. I'd also like if mac users tested it on safari and

Re: [WSG] Problem with print friendly and name anchor

2005-05-13 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 14 May 2005, at 8:02 AM, Lily Miu wrote: Second is the name anchor I placed at the bottom of the page, it also worked only on IE.  For other browsers, the anchor was going to the very bottom of the page instead of going up. Your 'top' link is contained within a div with id='top': div id=top

Re: [WSG] whats this

2005-05-12 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 12 May 2005, at 10:44 PM, Tom Livingston wrote: Could be an Ooops. No, not at all. Even if there's no CSS that references it, it provides a hook if you *do* want to style that element individually later on... I always give my nav links unique IDs for that purpose. N

Re: [WSG] OFF-List -Form Validation error

2005-05-09 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 9 May 2005, at 6:07 PM, tee wrote: [p/s. The reason I write you offlist is because I don't want WSG moderator post another 'no more discussion on this topic' reminder :) ] Duh. N ___ Omnivision. Websight. http://www.omnivision.com.au/

Re: [WSG] Background Image

2005-05-09 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 10 May 2005, at 3:26 AM, Chris Kennon wrote: http://www.ckimedia.com/ep_site/index.htm At the url listed is a solution for a large textured background, against a gradient. Can someone offer a critique of this method, and if possible another solution? Using one large image as bgrd to

Re: [WSG] font list?

2005-05-05 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 5 May 2005, at 8:30 PM, john wrote: What I need is a site that shows the different fonts that are recommended for web design. It would be nice if there were some kind of PDF I can print, but I can also go to his office and show him online if need be. Google: web-safe fonts N

Re: [WSG] liquid 2-3 column layout

2005-05-04 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 4 May 2005, at 4:59 PM, Neerav wrote: I believe you mean To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism to steal from many is research :-) In practical terms this means don't just copy sitepoints (or anyone else's) code directly because this is neither ethical or legal and you wont learn how

Re: [WSG] [Possibly OT] Conundrum between attribution VS disclosure for results of work

2005-05-02 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 2 May 2005, at 4:41 PM, Neerav wrote: Since this is Possibly OT Possibly?! ___ Omnivision. Websight. http://www.omnivision.com.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

Re: [WSG] Regarding Position This! CSS Positioning Demystified

2005-04-24 Thread Nick Gleitzman
Ah - did you wait for the ad to load? It was slow coming for me, and until it did, it *looked* like bad line wrapping - but was in fact OK... N ___ Omnivision. Websight. http://www.omnivision.com.au/ (Safari 1.3 / OS X 10.3.9) On 24 Apr 2005, at 4:05 PM, Rick Faaberg

Re: [WSG] IE7 update

2005-04-23 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 23 Apr 2005, at 8:53 PM, Lea de Groot wrote: Wouldn't be a strange world if we didn't curse developing for IE? 'Scuse me if I don't hold me breath... N ___ Omnivision. Websight. http://www.omnivision.com.au/ ** The

Re: [WSG] web design presentation: advice?

2005-04-13 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 13 Apr 2005, at 1:16 PM, Zulema wrote: ps: butterflies in my stomach means that my tummy gets grumbly as if I'm hungry but it's from being nervous; it's a common saying in the States. As far as it being an in-code joke? No, at least i don't think so :-p Uh - I know... but your original post

Re: [WSG] web design presentation: advice?

2005-04-12 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 12 Apr 2005, at 12:35 PM, info wrote: Hi all, I'm going to make a presentation to art students on an introduction to web design and would like some advice (besides how to deal with the butterfiles in the stomach). Butterfiles. I love it. Is that a code in-joke? Seriously, the other answerers

Re: [WSG] Web standards as a selling point?

2005-04-12 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 12 Apr 2005, at 3:39 PM, tee wrote: What is the incentive for us to tell potential clients that web standards is important and how many people in this group successfully using web standards as selling point for their web design service. Do you increase your ballpark as a result? I find this

Re: [WSG] margin:auto not working on MAC

2005-04-06 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 7 Apr 2005, at 4:23 AM, Paul wrote: Hi, Have a page that seems to be lining up fine everywhere I am checking ( Opera, Firefox, IE ), validates fine but is a little off on a MAC, seems like a margin is pushing the grey box in the middle, towards the right. Sorry no screenshot but the page is

Re: [WSG] Horizontal scrollbar issue

2005-03-21 Thread Nick Gleitzman
Bert is spot on. The horiz scrollbar disappears at 837 - 838 px wide, inc chrome. 800px + 32px + 8px = 840px (assuming that 1em = 16px). QED. What does 'full on' mean? N ___ Omnivision. Websight. http://www.omnivision.com.au/ On 21 Mar 2005, at 1:19 PM, Chris Kennon

Re: [WSG] Horizontal scrollbar issue

2005-03-21 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 22 Mar 2005, at 1:38 AM, Chris Kennon wrote: When the browser is at 1024 X 768, Safari 1.0.3 still renders a horizontal scroll bar. Thanks for looking. Ah. Then I'd say it's a bug in 1.0.3. I was checking in 1.2.4 / OS X 10.3.8. N ___ Omnivision. Websight.

Re: [WSG] problems with nodetype

2005-03-11 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 12 Mar 2005, at 12:23 AM, Alan Trick wrote: I was tying to use nodeType to make sure that a node was an element in my javascript, but it wasn't working. Then when I did alert(aNode.nodeType); I got undefined, I was really confused so I tried alert(document.nodeType); and I got undefined

Re: [WSG] overflow: hidden not working...

2005-03-07 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 8 Mar 2005, at 12:08 AM, Chris Stratford wrote: BTW forums are odd. What is the CSS equivalent which closes all tags... eg, you can have a table cell with this in it: td bTEST /td td TEST /td only the 1st cell is BOLD... Weird. Not weird at all. Look up reference on 'correct nesting of tags' -

Re: [WSG] 2 questions: antispam code Doc type...

2005-03-07 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 8 Mar 2005, at 11:12 AM, Darren Wood wrote: I use the following bit of code that seems to validate fine (also - lightweight): script type=text/javascript !-- emailE=('darr' + 'en' + '@' + 'webd' + 'eveloper.co.nz') document.write('a href=mailto:' + emailE + '' + emailE + '/a') //-- /script

[WSG] valid code in forums (WAS overflow: hidden not working...)

2005-03-07 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 8 Mar 2005, at 11:31 AM, Chris Stratford wrote: It is GOOD because in a forum situation, I don't need to worry about closing tags that people forget to. Easier to code :) Yeah, but your code won't validate... N ___ Omnivision. Websight. http://www.omnivision.com.au/

Re: [WSG] Internet Explorer - Whats going on here!!!

2005-03-04 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 5 Mar 2005, at 1:35 PM, Chris Stratford wrote: My website - www.simplyrewarding.net looks great in FireFox. Yet IE has this little bug: http://www.simplyrewarding.net/media/ie_dumb.jpg I am not sure WHICH bug it is, so I can fix it! Any help?? I stopped looking as soon as I saw the custom DTD -

Re: [WSG] Accessibility Features[Revision-URL Included]

2005-01-19 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 20 Jan 2005, at 4:19 AM, Chris Kennon wrote: additional accessibility features for an audience with ... emotional disabilities Accessibility for the emotionally disabled? A new direction for WS? What's next - accessibility for the mildly schizophrenic? Additional features for chronic

Re: [WSG] Brazilian Portal site Review. Opinions Welcomes

2005-01-19 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 20 Jan 2005, at 8:16 AM, Genau Junior wrote: I would appreciate all comments and suggestions about interface, design and usability standards. The temporary address is: http://meucarronovo.locaweb.com.br Images in Noticias section are not loading - they're missing a leading slash in the

Re: [WSG] Convert uppercase file names to lower case

2005-01-19 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 20 Jan 2005, at 10:17 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question - is there any program or a way of converting all the file names to lower case without doing it manually? BBEdit on Mac has case sensitive, sitewide search replace, and a powerful pattern-matching tool within search using grep.

Re: [WSG] Positioning in IE/Win -- Dependent on Doctype Switching?

2005-01-12 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 13 Jan 2005, at 8:35 AM, Charlie Barr wrote: Hey gang, here's a question for you. I'm working on converting a page location picker for our CMS from tables to something more standards-compliant. I found something interesting I wanted more information about:

Re: [WSG] I really need MAC people to check out my CSS Zen Garden submission ... Please and Thank You!

2005-01-02 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 3 Jan 2005, at 4:26 AM, Mani Sheriar wrote: If anyone on a Mac cares to check this out for me and just report any issues (or, hopefully, the lack of issues) and on what browser you looked I would GREATLY appreciate it. www.ManiSheriar.com/zengarden Hi Mani on OS X 10.3.7: Safari 1.2.4 - OK;

Re: [WSG] Tables inside a div

2004-12-21 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 21 Dec 2004, at 9:11 PM, Javier Leyba wrote: How could I set table width to be a 90% of div width size ? If I set a table width=90% it takes a 90% of whole page instead of div... How about div#whatever table { margin: 0 10% ;} But beware... some browsers (IE5Mac comes to mind) need the longhand

Re: [WSG] My Site

2004-12-21 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 22 Dec 2004, at 8:10 AM, Anthony Timberlake wrote: I do have one set of head, body and html tags. I have validated my CSS and HTML. Don't see how your HTML can validate. Adding a DOCTYPE of XHTML Strict will not magically convert an HTML document to XHTML. The syntax of your code is entirely

Re: [WSG] My Site

2004-12-21 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 22 Dec 2004, at 9:04 AM, Anthony Timberlake wrote: I am not new at this, just haven't done it for a while now. I thought by being on this list, I could get the help I needed. I appologize if I offended you. I'm not in the least offended. But if you'd like help from this list (and this advice

Re: [WSG] expand divs height with content

2004-12-20 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 21 Dec 2004, at 3:44 PM, Jeffery Fernandez wrote: Hi all, I am trying to get a Div to expand its height when the content grows. Site development url is http://www.hotshot.com.au/dev/fpaa/ As you can see the middle colum has some extra content and it is not forcing the increase of the height

Re: [WSG] pop quiz: calculating specificity of group selectors

2004-12-14 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 15 Dec 2004, at 9:46 AM, John Allsopp wrote: which has the higher specificity h1 {} or h1, h2 {} (don't worry about the order in the style sheet, just in an absolute sense) Relevant part of the CSS specification is here http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/cascade.html#specificity FWIW, I think it is

Re: [WSG] Video Files

2004-12-14 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 15 Dec 2004, at 9:47 AM, Mordechai Peller wrote: 30 meg is pretty slow even with broadband. Even with a T1 at maximum utilization it would take around 3 minutes; slightly more than the recommended 8 seconds for a page load. To apply the '8 second rule' to *every* page on the web is patently

Re: [WSG] New Zealand Web Standards??

2004-12-06 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 7 Dec 2004, at 2:19 PM, Darren Wood wrote: I get _very_ depressed when i see high profile[1] new zealand sites completely drop the ball[2]... So, jump in with irresistable proposals for redevelopment, and plan on retiring early! N ___ Omnivision. Websight.

Re: [WSG] Safari Users / Layout Issue / Not Clearing

2004-12-03 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 3 Dec 2004, at 10:47 PM, Sam Hutchinson wrote: Version: 1.0.3 (v85.8) to be precise. Apparently. Is this the latest version? No, AFAIK the latest is 1.2.4 (v125.11) - at least that's what I have, running on OS X 10.3.6. Version 1.0.x came with 10.1/10.2, and now that I've upgraded to 10.3 I

Re: [WSG] site review please (esigma)

2004-12-03 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 4 Dec 2004, at 5:08 AM, maggie galbraith wrote: url: http://www.esigma.com Any feedback, suggestions etc are greatly appreciated! In addition to Hugh's relevant comments, I notice that you're making using of nbsp; and br / extensively as layout/presentation tools. Using CSS to set

Re: [WSG] Site Checking

2004-12-02 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 2 Dec 2004, at 9:19 PM, Phil Baines wrote: web standards complaint sites Cool. Is this for complaining about sites that aren't compliant? N ___ Omnivision. Websight. http://www.omnivision.com.au/ ** The discussion list

Re: [WSG] Using small in a p

2004-12-02 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 3 Dec 2004, at 1:37 PM, The Man With His Guide Dog At The Tent Store wrote: I have a line of text placed in a p//p that I would like to shrink. Can I use small//small? if so, how? I'd advise wrapping the text you want to shrink in a span, giving that span a class or id, and contolling the

Re: [WSG] Siter Review Please

2004-12-01 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 2 Dec 2004, at 1:47 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just want to get some feedback about aesthetics and design on my site if possible please and also the funcionality. Yes it is designed in tables but still I would like some criticism please.   J.LinasDesign Graphic Designer

Re: [WSG] Siter Review Please

2004-12-01 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 2 Dec 2004, at 4:42 PM, Cook, Graham R wrote: In one word - crap! Nah, don't stuff around... tell us what you think! N ___ Omnivision. Websight. http://www.omnivision.com.au/ ** The discussion list for

Re: [WSG] help with CSS

2004-11-30 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 1 Dec 2004, at 11:39 AM, Kym Parry wrote: Hi,   I am a new member to WSG and am hoping someone can help me with a problem I'm having. I'm only new to web design and CSS, and am learning as I go along.   I'm trying to create a site but it is displaying differently in Firefox and IE and I'm

Re: [WSG] Mac IE (and Safari, too) testing on a PC and emulator info.

2004-11-25 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 25 Nov 2004, at 5:48 PM, Mordechai Peller wrote: As the only proper way to test to to actually run the software (screen shots don't help much with JavaScript), and while any standards based code which works properly in Firefox stands a good chance of also working in Safari, IE, on the other

Re: [WSG] why oh why

2004-11-24 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 25 Nov 2004, at 12:24 AM, GALLAGHER Kevin S wrote: Interesting, between IE6 and FF the image behind the menu is different It's random. Reload the page and see... N ___ Omnivision. Websight. http://www.omnivision.com.au/

Re: [WSG] Drop Shadow

2004-11-24 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 25 Nov 2004, at 1:51 PM, Matt McCallum wrote: I have a visual example of what I am trying to achieve here: http://220.233.11.63/Misc/Drop-Shadow-Wireframe.png I just wondered if any of you could steer me in the right direction with this. Its probably a very simple solution that I am missing!

Re: [WSG] IE5/Mac Help

2004-11-22 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 23 Nov 2004, at 12:12 PM, Jonathan T. Sage wrote: If someone on IE5/Mac could shoot me a screenshot of this, I would be forever grateful. trying to create a IE5/Mac safe layout. Only about 1.5% of my audience base seems to use IE5/Mac, but I know the current stylesheet makes it a bit unhappy.

Re: [WSG] Persistent page indicator (page id) when you have two lists of navigation

2004-11-09 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 10 Nov 2004, at 3:31 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have given each page a body id and each list item in DIV sidebar an id as well but it breaks when I use the following: I will be creating different templates for the two areas Staff and Students so am not concerned about that list.

Re: [WSG] MSIE 5.2 Mac problem

2004-11-06 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 6 Nov 2004, at 11:15 PM, Marco van Hylckama Vlieg wrote: Hello folks, I have created a new personal site about 1.5 weeks ago. My pages are valid XHTML and they display fine in MSIE 5.5-6 on PC, Safari, Opera, Firefox but MSIE 5.2 on MacOS X cuts off the page at the bottom. I have no idea why

Re: [WSG] Confirming Java Script tag

2004-11-06 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 7 Nov 2004, at 9:26 AM, The Man With His Guide Dog At The Tent Store wrote: script language=Javascript type=text/javascript src=AccessKeyJavaScript.js/script Yup, that's fine - for HTML4. You might, however, like to look at standardising your tags in lower case - you currently have a mix of

Re: [WSG] Firebird / Mozilla

2004-11-02 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 2 Nov 2004, at 11:38 PM, Sam Hutchinson wrote: Hi all,   Fairly new here and been monitoring list for a day or so, all very useful stuff.   Anyway, i'm having a bit of trouble with hanging images - my right image hangs into the footer on Mozilla - any ideas?

Re: [WSG] Firebird / Mozilla

2004-11-02 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 2 Nov 2004, at 11:38 PM, Sam Hutchinson wrote: Hi all,   Fairly new here and been monitoring list for a day or so, all very useful stuff.   Anyway, i'm having a bit of trouble with hanging images - my right image hangs into the footer on Mozilla - any ideas?

Re: [WSG] Firebird / Mozilla

2004-11-02 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 3 Nov 2004, at 9:34 AM, Kevin Futter wrote: I've noticed this about Firefox too - it appears that the status bar belongs to the parent window, and child tabs open in the same window will inherit any status bar wrangling that is applied to that window. IMHO this is a minor flaw in the way

Re: [WSG] A little CSS question

2004-10-29 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 29 Oct 2004, at 6:07 PM, Indranil Dasgupta wrote: Another question, is there a float:middle or center? No. Use {margin:auto} for left right; whatever you need for top bottom. Be aware that auto vertical centering is one of the few things that CSS won't do. Try a Google search on 'CSS

Re: [WSG] A little CSS question

2004-10-28 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 29 Oct 2004, at 11:03 AM, Indranil Dasgupta wrote: But my XHTML validation says something weird about the ul tags. Can you say what I need. XHTML Validation is showing 5 errors only. 3 of them can be fixed by adding 'alt' attributes to these files: img

Re: [WSG] Broken In Safari/IE Mac

2004-10-26 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 26 Oct 2004, at 9:37 AM, Natalie Buxton wrote: Woe is me. It's busted big time. And for the life of me I cannot work out which CSS rules Safari and IE Mac are refusing to honour. Two things: In IE the navigation bar is sitting wrong. In Safari it's the entire layout is busted big time. Natalie,

Re: [WSG] Broken In Safari/IE Mac

2004-10-25 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 26 Oct 2004, at 9:37 AM, Natalie Buxton wrote: Despite what I say on my site, I do not hate mac users, I am merely envious of them. Who doesn't want such a pretty and fast machine? Mmm. Maybe '...asking you rich bastards...' rather than 'telling' might get you a little more sympathetic

Re: [WSG] Semantic indentation

2004-10-24 Thread Nick Gleitzman
Joshua Street wrote: What's the recommended practice with indentation? Uh - is there any reason not to use pre? What you're talking about is really visual presentation, isn't it? I'd respectfully suggest that the indentation is not adding anything to the semantics of the content or the code. A

Re: [SPAM] Re: [WSG] CSS - How the max size of a .css file

2004-10-21 Thread Nick Gleitzman
John Wells wrote: Which begs the question, when a stylesheet is loaded up by a browser, will that browser automatically attempt to load every referenced image, regardless of it being called by the HTML file? This question's come up before - and the answer is... (of course) it varies from

Re: [WSG] site layout problems, specifically in Mac IE

2004-10-21 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 22 Oct 2004, at 12:17 AM, Craig Millman wrote: This is my first post, I have been silently gobbling up info. I have designed a website for a friend www.pacifichomeloans.com.au which seems to look ok in IE on Windows, however not in Mac IE. The css is at

Re: [WSG] Combining in css

2004-10-21 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 22 Oct 2004, at 9:59 AM, Lyn Patterson wrote: #[name of page] #container #floatimgleft {background-color: #dff;} but it didn't work. Only the last mentioned (#floatimgleft) worked and (#container) reverted to general background color. Is there a way to combine them - have I left out commas

Re: [WSG] select as form label

2004-10-21 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 22 Oct 2004, at 10:15 AM, Nick Lo wrote: p label class=blank for=input_phone_1 select name=input_phone_1_type id=input_phone_1_type option value=Please Select/option option value=work selected=selectedwork/option option value=homehome/option option

Re: [WSG] Appreciate browser check, please

2004-10-17 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 18 Oct 2004, at 12:33 AM, Jorge Laranjo wrote: Looks good in Safari 1.2.3 (v 125.9) in the Mac OS X. In Attach i send you a Shoot of that look... Jorge - please, no attachments to this list. 100KB+ for a message is too big. If you would like to help out with screenshots, send them off-list to

Re: [WSG] Validator error

2004-10-17 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 18 Oct 2004, at 6:05 AM, Mordechai Peller wrote: Let me start by saying that I have enough experience with syntax checker to know that the error message doesn't always point to the right place and that one error can generate many messages. But that being said, I think this one takes the cake.

Re: [WSG] my site works on Mac, not PC :: suggestions???

2004-10-16 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 16 Oct 2004, at 3:13 PM, Shane Helm wrote: I'm not sure where I've gone wrong, but I must get a PC to check from now on. Must go shopping. Oh no, will I actually own a PC. Dreadful... Just teasing you PC folks. :) I'm with you, Shane - I'd never use anything but a Mac as my main

Re: [WSG] Print styles for IE - Document too wide

2004-10-14 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 15 Oct 2004, at 9:31 AM, Mark Stanton wrote: Yeah everything is as low as it can go. Considering each column has a minimum of 1 character+padding+margins I cant see any possibility of all 80 columns fitting on 1 A4 page I don't expect it to, but it would be nice if IE would allow stuff that

Re: [WSG] CSS Validation query

2004-10-13 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 13 Oct 2004, at 6:13 PM, Jackie Reid wrote: Hi everyone im a bit confused here - trying to validate my css and i get this warning Line : 0 font-family: You are encouraged to offer a generic family as a last alternative what do they mean... i always do that and get the no errors or warnings

Re: [WSG] DL Formatting Issue (IE again!)

2004-10-12 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 12 Oct 2004, at 11:57 PM, Golding, Antony wrote: In Firefox, Opera, etc the layout appears perfectly as required. In IE6 however, below the final image some of the dd definition is repeated. At present, the final dd contains '21/09/2004 at 13:05:02' and beneath that, '5:02' appears. The

Re: [WSG] Div Away The Day

2004-10-12 Thread Nick Gleitzman
Chris Kennon wrote: The four programs across have started a chain of DIVS that seem more cumbersome than table cells. How would one recommend recreating this in semantically correct CSS, without the tangled mess of DIVS I've birthed. Chris, before anything else, you have a fundamental error in

Re: [WSG] CSS TAB MENU - A new version with problems

2004-10-12 Thread Nick Gleitzman
Genau Junior wrote: Can anyone explain me why this browser freezes, when the mouse sets over the css menu tab?   PS:   My css file still no validated and some classes  are repeated, but on final version, that will be fixed.   Rule #1 for problem-solving: eliminate variables. In this case:

Re: [WSG] Div Away The Day

2004-10-12 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 13 Oct 2004, at 11:43 AM, Chris Kennon wrote: Can you point me to this section in the w3.org specification. I'm not doubting your expertise, but I'm confused why a class and id cannot have the same name. On Tuesday, October 12, 2004, at 04:01 PM, Nick Gleitzman wrote: Chris, before anything

Re: [WSG] help with fixed positioning in IE

2004-10-11 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 12 Oct 2004, at 1:27 PM, Focas, Grant wrote: I've solved the Mac scrollbar problem. http://www.homebass.info/fixedPosTest/ Now the only issue left (besides that it uses CSS hacks) is that the back to top link only takes you to the top of the content div minus the height of the header. Grant

Re: [WSG] help with fixed positioning in IE

2004-10-11 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 12 Oct 2004, at 2:55 PM, Focas, Grant wrote: Using a body id will not work because the top of the page is alsways in view. It is the top of the content div which is hidden. Well, in that case I've misunderstood what you're trying to do with the link. In all my Mac browsers (IE5.2, Safari 1.2,

Re: [WSG] top of page link class not taking effect

2004-10-08 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On Friday, Oct 8, 2004, at 23:37 Australia/Sydney, Richard Lake wrote: I've added a top of page link as follows: div class=topla href=#headerTop of page/a/div and related CSS, as follows: .topl { float: right; font-size: .75em;} a.topl { color: #660; text-decoration: none;}

Re: [WSG] Help. 2 extra words breaks the page

2004-10-08 Thread Nick Gleitzman
Paul, your CSS doesn't validate. This is failing: div.sidebar {border-left: 1px solid #ccc; width: 200px; float: right; padding-left: 5px; padding-vertical-align:text-top;} Error: Property padding-vertical-align doesn't exist : text-top Remember to validate! The problem with IE5 lies with your

Re: [WSG] hidden list background issues, etc.

2004-10-07 Thread Nick Gleitzman
Lorenzo wrote: URL: http://196.36.166.35/tower CSS: http://196.36.166.35/tower/s/tower.css CSS: http://196.36.166.35/tower/s/navDropdown.css 1. In IE6, the border/background of the top list in the #steps layer appears hidden. Is there a way to fix this? 2. There's also a major gap on the left of

Re: [WSG] Semantics vs Light Code

2004-10-05 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On Tuesday, Oct 5, 2004, at 14:50 Australia/Sydney, Luke Moulton wrote: So on one hand there's smaller file sizes, uncomplicated CSS (with fewer hacks) but imperfect semantics, and on the other there's perfect semantics bloated CSS with a few hacks thrown in for good measure. Where does one draw

Re: [WSG] LI VS Tables - A Tabular data fight

2004-10-05 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On Tuesday, Oct 5, 2004, at 22:31 Australia/Sydney, Genau Junior wrote: I Would like to know about your oppinion for using tabular data with DIV> LI> or to use table> to show them. I´ve been researching on the web about this discussion but i didn´t found an answer really straight. I am

Re: [WSG] IE5 Mac factors

2004-10-05 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On Wednesday, Oct 6, 2004, at 03:26 Australia/Sydney, Ted Drake wrote: I visit all of the sites and read all of the blogs about css design. I've seen the use of filters and hacks to make IE5 mac work. But I'm looking for a place to see what IE5 mac does differently. Do you know of a good

Re: [WSG] OL or UL? It´s rigth?

2004-10-04 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On Tuesday, Oct 5, 2004, at 05:33 Australia/Sydney, Manuel González Noriega wrote: Genau Junior wrote: Hello, My friend is asking me if i can use tags ul ol/ol /ul No. Make it ul li ol liLong live lists!/li /ol /ul Close, but no cigar. Make that ul liI love nested lists! ol

Re: [WSG] OL or UL? It´s rigth?

2004-10-04 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On Tuesday, Oct 5, 2004, at 10:19 Australia/Sydney, Parker Torrence wrote: Yes you can http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/lists.html section 10.2 see DEPRECATED EXAMPLE: ~parker OK, maybe so... but deprecated means it's not a good idea to use it (just because it 'works' doesn't mean you should).

Re: [WSG] Semantically creating 'pipes' for footer links

2004-10-04 Thread Nick Gleitzman
I have to say I'd use an extra class on the first li over that big chunk o' Javascript any day. Apart from the extra code, what if I have Javascript disabled? My 2c... N ___ Omnivision. Websight. http://www.omnivision.com.au/ On Tuesday, Oct 5, 2004, at 13:55

Re: [WSG] best tags for FAQs

2004-10-03 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On Monday, Oct 4, 2004, at 10:31 Australia/Sydney, Andreas Boehmer wrote: I am in the process of creating a FAQ section in one of my websites and I was wondering what would be the best tags to use for the questions/answers? Perhaps there is no standard, but I was wondering whether a

Re: [WSG] heading background continues across container width

2004-10-02 Thread Nick Gleitzman
Uh - no... the point is that the markup doesn't change *regardless* of what you do with it the css. Separation of content and presentation - right? That's how come we can use ul's for horiz navbars, vertical buttons, or whatever. Neerav, in any case... What if you leave the Hx as block

Re: [WSG] heading background continues across container width

2004-10-02 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On Saturday, Oct 2, 2004, at 19:32 Australia/Sydney, russ - maxdesign wrote: That does not take into account headings of different character length. From what I understand, the underline must be under the content only, no matter how long the content is. Oh, OK - the bg image is being tiled,

Re: [WSG] css syntax question

2004-10-02 Thread Nick Gleitzman
I've never seen such 'nesting' listed anywhere in any CSS how-to info, and I presume that (a) if it were possible, the technique would have been published, and (b) it hasn't been published because it doesn't work. Having said that, I haven't ever tested it, so I don't know for sure... What

Re: [WSG] shrinking p whitespace

2004-09-28 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On Tuesday, Sep 28, 2004, at 20:29 Australia/Sydney, Rick Faaberg wrote: At here: http://www.lucernemedia.com/ I'm trying to shrink the whitespace after the video titles (.video_title is the relevant style I'm pretty sure). See anything obvious that's keeping the whitespace so big after the

Re: [WSG] Can I use frames AND css?

2004-09-23 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On Friday, Sep 24, 2004, at 10:40 Australia/Sydney, Daniela Meleo wrote: NOW, the client has decided that after handover he will need the ability to easily add new pages whenever he needs to (as additional topics not yet know become required.) He's an open source techie type and will hand code

Re: [WSG] background image on a horizontal list.

2004-09-01 Thread Nick Gleitzman
Hi Lennart - welcome. Your buttons are only visible for the width of the word used for your links, plus its padding - so a bigger (wider) word reveals more of your button. Try this: #navlist li { list-style: none; margin: 4px; float: left; } #navlist li a { display: block; ...etc }

Re: [WSG] Sliding doors and Mac IE5.2

2004-08-29 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On Sunday, Aug 29, 2004, at 17:08 Australia/Sydney, Kim Kruse wrote: I'm using the ALA tab menu (sliding doors) as my main nav. Now I've been told that it breaks in Mac/IE5 into something like this... left tab img - the link - right tab img. Is it possible to get it right in Mac/IE5.2? Hi Kim

Re: [WSG] Can someone help me figure out some semantic mark-up, please?

2004-08-28 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On Sunday, Aug 29, 2004, at 09:09 Australia/Sydney, Seona Bellamy wrote: Well, I've found a way around the problem (used an incrementing counter instead of the ID-number from the database, so each item has a unique ID) so this question isn't exactly pressing any more. I'd still love to know the

Re: [WSG] Can someone help me figure out some semantic mark-up, please?

2004-08-27 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On Friday, Aug 27, 2004, at 18:20 Australia/Sydney, Seona Bellamy wrote: I know this sounds like a lot of extraneous steps, but it is on the Admin side of the site and it to allow them to easily administer a list of something like 50,000 line items without having to scroll forever or keep going

Re: [WSG] CSS - select list

2004-08-27 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On Friday, Aug 27, 2004, at 15:37 Australia/Sydney, Zaac Woodhead wrote: Is it possible to apply css to a select drop down/multiple select list. Have a design on my desk with a fully formatted selectl list - including the arrows, etc. Iknow it does not meet standards, but is this possbile?  

Re: [WSG] Absolute positioning vs floats

2004-08-25 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On Wednesday, Aug 25, 2004, at 18:49 Australia/Sydney, Mike Foskett wrote: Have you considered the documents appearance on a 160px wide PDA? How about a Braille reader? Surely you wouldn't deliver the layout CSS to either of these devices... semantically structured text and (for the PDA)

Re: [WSG] Div-based design example

2004-08-23 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On Tuesday, Aug 24, 2004, at 14:27 Australia/Sydney, John Horner wrote: What would members recommend? Does this design, for instance, require relative, not absolute positioning? I haven't closely checked the the CSS, but in principal, yes - absolutely (umm... yuh.). I think your friend needs to

Re: [WSG] Unaccessible - NY Attorney General busts two big name sites

2004-08-22 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On Sunday, Aug 22, 2004, at 09:48 Australia/Sydney, Michael Kear wrote: I was interested that the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission uses tables for layout in their web site at: http://www.hreoc.gov.au/disability_rights/index.html

Re: [WSG] list item markers disappear behind floated image

2004-08-17 Thread Nick Gleitzman
Pete, that's not a drawback - that's what list-style-position: inside is intended to do! N ___ Omnivision. Websight. http://www.omnivision.com.au/ On Wednesday, Aug 18, 2004, at 09:45 Australia/Sydney, Peter Ottery wrote: the only drawback i can see from that is that

Re: [WSG] Form fields in navbar causing IE to expand size of bar

2004-08-17 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On Wednesday, Aug 18, 2004, at 10:18 Australia/Sydney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, putting in the form field into my global nav div cause the brown bar (especially in IE) to become quite wide and not look right. I do recall reading somewhere some time ago that the form tag causes some

Re: [WSG] Can someone reproduce these issues for me please?

2004-08-16 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On Tuesday, Aug 17, 2004, at 09:38 Australia/Sydney, Seona Bellamy wrote: I have a couple of issues with the site I'm working on. They have been reported by the client, and I'm having trouble reliably replicating any of them so I can't work out how to fix them. Can someone please take a look

Re: [WSG] Image size--where should it be?

2004-08-12 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On Friday, Aug 13, 2004, at 09:59 Australia/Sydney, Edd Hale wrote: I am new to CSS and I am not sure if the image size (width and height) should appear in the HTML or be handled by CSS. Thank you. Edd Aside from the validity/informational/decorative issues, the inclusion of width and height

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