Re: [WSG] horizontal nav bar nightmare

2004-02-10 Thread Paul Ross
Roger, I am getting a 404 page not found with that URL. Regards PAUL ROSS SkyRocket Design Co Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Here is the site: www.desertstandard.net/YV/ - This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp

[WSG] CSS/XHTML NavBar and IE6

2004-02-12 Thread Paul Ross
and bottom of the navbar of maybe 5px. Any ideas why? Also, there is a significant delay on mouseover depending on the browser used. The rollover state doesn't seem to load until a user rolls over the button hot spot. Can this be sped up somehow? Any help appreciated. Regards PAUL ROSS SkyRocket

[WSG] IE 6 not behaving (again)

2004-02-16 Thread Paul Ross
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[WSG] IE6 and 3 pixel out

2004-02-25 Thread Paul Ross
the graphics and the right edge of the div. You can also see this happening over on the left hand side on the shot of the building. Can someone with better knowledge of how to hack for IE see what is going on? Many thanks from Mr Exasperated. Regards PAUL ROSS SkyRocket Design Co

[WSG] turning back to the dark side...

2004-03-04 Thread Paul Ross
to the conclusion that IE does not like the pixel perfect dimensions and is (for some reason) saying the graphics are too big for the container. I have tried the Tan Hack and the Holly Hack which fix half the issues but am still seeing errors. Regards PAUL ROSS SkyRocket Design Co http

Re: [WSG] font-family : what fonts do you set as default?

2004-03-07 Thread Paul Ross
this as I work at the Font Factory in my day job. Verdana and Georgia were developed by Matthew Carter (commissioned by Microsoft) and were specially designed to be readable on screens/monitors. For that reason alone they should be first choice in style sheets IMO. Regards PAUL ROSS SkyRocket

Re: [WSG] Accessibility checkers for Mac (OS X)

2004-03-08 Thread Paul Ross
still as it also includes a link to Cynthia Says. Regards PAUL ROSS SkyRocket Design Co http://www.skyrocket.com.au - This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ * The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] turning back to the dark side...

2004-03-08 Thread Paul Ross
). Regards PAUL ROSS SkyRocket Design Co http://www.skyrocket.com.au - This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *

RE: [WSG] Purpose of this mailing list

2004-03-09 Thread Paul Ross
implode in on itself and the noise traffic become too much to handle. I would suggest that you think of switching to a forum based website much like the excellent http://forums.australianinfront.com.au/Default.aspx Regards PAUL ROSS SkyRocket Design Co http://www.skyrocket.com.au

Re: [WSG] New CSS site

2004-03-11 Thread Paul Ross
too. Great work. Regards PAUL ROSS SkyRocket Design Co http://www.skyrocket.com.au Quoting Universal Head [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all Just about to be officially announced, my new fully CSS/XHTML 1.0 Trans site, and the smoothest experience I've had with css so far: http

Re: [WSG] small screen rendering tools (plus other useful things)

2004-03-14 Thread Paul Ross
Thanks for posting that James. Further info: you can do this if you are using Opera 7. Just go View Small Screen. You'll get a simulation of how the page looks on a handheld PDA device. Regards PAUL ROSS SkyRocket Design Co \\Quoting James Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED]: quote: Disruptive

[WSG] CSS version of onfocus onblur for form fields

2004-04-19 Thread Paul Ross
and onblur commands but was wondering if there was a better, more accessible (?) way using just CSS. Regards PAUL ROSS SkyRocket Design Co * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] Dropdowns in IE

2004-04-28 Thread Paul Ross
have to do some tweaking but that will fix most of your IE problems. Regards PAUL ROSS SkyRocket Design Co http://www.skyrocket.com.au - This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp

Re: [WSG] Urgent Help, why is site flaking out on Mac 5.2?

2004-10-17 Thread Paul Ross
. Regards PAUL ROSS SkyRocket Design Co http://www.skyrocket.com.au On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 17:38:39 -0500 (CDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you look at a site for me and tell me why it's degrading so badly under Mac 5.2? Working well on most other browsers that I've checked

[WSG] Suckerfish owning li ul tags

2004-10-21 Thread Paul Ross
Hello folks, I've used the infamous Suckerfish dropdown menu on a couple of sites and have come across one glaring issue. The suckerfish CSS owns the ul and li tags so you can't style them anywhere else on the page. Anyone else had the same problem and what is the best solution? I haven't tried

Re: [WSG] How exactly does IE fall short and where do I find standards-compatibility charts?

2004-11-29 Thread Paul Ross
That was the case but I use Firefox (and Safari) with no problems with my bank here in Australia (Westpac) Regards PAUL ROSS SkyRocket Design Co http://www.skyrocket.com.au Just to add on, I'd been using Firefox since 6 months ago and it's my primary browser for everything except internet

Re: [WSG] Banking sites working (or not) with Firefox

2004-11-30 Thread Paul Ross
Can any WSG UK members confirm the situation for banks over there (Nat West, Barclays, Lloyds etc...). Contact me offlist if this is OT and I will post the results. Regards PAUL ROSS SkyRocket Design Co http://www.skyrocket.com.au

[WSG] Placing a link text on top of BG image

2005-01-19 Thread Paul Ross
.html Can anyone point me in the right direction? Regards PAUL ROSS SkyRocket Design Co ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list

[WSG] Son of Suckerfish and IE 6 (SP2)

2005-04-05 Thread Paul Ross
down/across - so you only see the home navlinks and nothing happens on rollover. You have to click on the message saying IE has blocked the script and then agree to have the code run in the browser. This didn't happen with SP1. Painful :/ Regards PAUL ROSS SkyRocket Design Co http

Re: [WSG] Templates with Content at Top

2005-04-14 Thread Paul Ross
Looks fine on my iMac (OS X 10.2.8) and Firefox 1.0/Safari 1.0.3 ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help

Re: [WSG] HTML Codes - Characters and symbols

2005-07-13 Thread Paul Ross
Won't be long before someone builds an HTML Cheat Sheet Widget (for OSX 10.4). There's already a handy a href=http://bw.watchtan.com/article/132/css-cheat-sheet;CSS cheat sheet... /a Regards PAUL ROSS a href=http://www.skyrocket.com.au;Web Design Sydney

[WSG] Longhorn Avalon - seismic shift for web standards?

2005-07-14 Thread Paul Ross
seems to have asked this question to the list before? What are peoples thoughts...? Regards PAUL ROSS SkyRocket Design Co http://www.skyrocket.com.au ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] Target sued over non-accessible site

2006-02-11 Thread Paul Ross
I saw the Target Sued story over on Cnet (http://tinyurl.com/b3u29). What was amazing to me was the response from a Mr Troy Gaddis in the talkback section (bottom of above page under the title This is Absurd. Here's a highlight: Why do people with disibilites think they DESERVE compensation for