[WSG] Re: WSG Digest

2009-12-18 Thread nathan
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[WSG] Re: WSG Digest

2009-12-19 Thread nathan
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[WSG] Re: WSG Digest

2009-12-20 Thread nathan
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Re: [WSG] *DETECTED* Online User Violation

2005-05-31 Thread Nathan Wheatley
Hey, what is this? it seems to have been mailed to the list and not specifically to me? Spam? -- Nathan Wheatley On 31/05/2005, at 6:47 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We regret to inform you that your account has been suspended due to the violation of our site policy, more info

Re: [WSG] Sydney and Melbourne WSG meetings tonight

2005-06-08 Thread Nathan Wheatley
8! This is going to be some night :P I am sure it will be great, no matter who comes. More food for us anyway! -- Kind Regards, Nathan Wheatley p. 0438457557f. 97743470e. [EMAIL PROTECTED]w. www.skoap.com On 09/06/2005, at 11:46 AM, Peter Firminger wrote:I only have 8 RSVPs for Sydney so far

Re: [WSG] more definition list lovin' - the lh tag.

2005-07-06 Thread Nathan Rutman
Looks like it's in the HTML 3.0 draft: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/deflists.html You're right - no mention of it in 4.01, although both IE and FF support it. I wonder why they got rid of it. -Nate Nathan Rutman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Corporate Communications Designer Solvepoint

Re: [WSG] Accessible Flash?

2005-07-06 Thread Nathan Rutman
Rachel, See question #6 on WSG's own Ten Questions for Russ Weakley. He addresses that very issue: http://webstandardsgroup.org/features/russ-weakley.cfm#flash Hope that helps, -Nate *Nathan Rutman* ([EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Corporate Communications Designer *Solvepoint

Re: [WSG] Strange IE behavious that doesn't make sense

2005-07-07 Thread Nathan Rutman
Whenever a background is disappearing, try to give layout to the parent of the element via the Holly hack. What does that mean? You want to give a height:0 to the parent element? I don't get it... -Nate *Nathan Rutman* ([EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Corporate Communications

Re: [WSG] Strange IE behavious that doesn't make sense

2005-07-07 Thread Nathan Rutman
Oh, that IS interesting! And very helpful. Thanks for sharing! -Nate Ingo Chao wrote: Nathan Rutman schrieb: Whenever a background is disappearing, try to give layout to the parent of the element via the Holly hack. What does that mean? You want to give a height:0 to the parent

Re: [WSG] Siteproblem... IE off course

2005-07-08 Thread Nathan Rutman
anyway). Are there other differences occurring? -Nate *Nathan Rutman* ([EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Corporate Communications Designer *Solvepoint Corporation* 882 South Matlack Street, Suite 110 West Chester, PA 19382 800.388.1850 x1208 484.356.0990 (fax) www.solvepoint.com http

Re: [WSG] image height and width question which is better CSS or inline

2005-07-08 Thread Nathan Rutman
, that is one more step you'd have to take if you ever updated the image in the future with one that isn't the same dimensions. Hope that helps, Nate *Nathan Rutman* ([EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Corporate Communications Designer *Solvepoint Corporation* 882 South Matlack Street, Suite 110

[WSG] Element Jump (IE) and Full Width Problems

2005-07-08 Thread Nathan Rutman
-floated content (Other Content) to get FireFox to display the background image on the containing DIV. Is there anyway to display a background image behind floated elements? Thanks for any help, Nate -- *Nathan Rutman* ([EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Corporate Communications

Re: [WSG] Getting in a muddle

2005-07-11 Thread Nathan Rutman
In that case, perhaps using an EM size would be more effective than a percentage. It would still be resizable for accessibility, but it might not throw 5.5 for a loop... -Nate *Nathan Rutman* ([EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Corporate Communications Designer *Solvepoint

Re: [WSG] sprites to the right of me

2005-07-11 Thread Nathan Rutman
Don't use pixel values, use percentages or keywords: .spritely { background: transparent url(bg-icons.png) no-repeat right center; padding-right: 65px; min-height: 15px; } Hope that helps, Nate *Nathan Rutman* ([EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Corporate Communications

Re: [WSG] sprites to the right of me

2005-07-11 Thread Nathan Rutman
the left, if the font is scaled it will overlay the background image. Hope that helps, Nate *Nathan Rutman* ([EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Corporate Communications Designer *Solvepoint Corporation* 882 South Matlack Street, Suite 110 West Chester, PA 19382 800.388.1850 x1208

Re: [WSG] HR - Presentation or Structure?

2005-07-12 Thread Nathan Rutman
want a web that can store content from those other mediums. What are your thoughts? Did I convince you? ;-) -Nate *Nathan Rutman* ([EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Corporate Communications Designer *Solvepoint Corporation* 882 South Matlack Street, Suite 110 West Chester, PA 19382

Re: [WSG] HR - Presentation or Structure?

2005-07-12 Thread Nathan Rutman
that they have relevance to content. Therefore, if we want to easily portray that content (books, articles, journals, etc.) on the web, something like the HR tag is needed, otherwise we loose some document portability. Let me know if I can clarify further, -Nate *Nathan Rutman* ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [WSG] HR - Presentation or Structure?

2005-07-12 Thread Nathan Rutman
I believe it was renamed from hr because (like hr) it is not necessarily horizontal. Oh, that's an interesting point. I hadn't considered that implication. -Nate *Nathan Rutman* ([EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Corporate Communications Designer *Solvepoint Corporation* 882

Re: [WSG] HR - Presentation or Structure?

2005-07-12 Thread Nathan Rutman
of bloviating. -Nate P.S. If XHTML 2.0 wants to replace HR with a more meaningful tag name, that's fine. I'm just saying that I think we need the functionality of that kind of element. *Nathan Rutman* ([EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Corporate Communications Designer *Solvepoint

Re: [WSG] HR - Presentation or Structure?

2005-07-12 Thread Nathan Rutman
the sites I build, but the idea that X/HTML lends itself to auditory users as much as it lends itself to visual users I don't find very convincing. Let me know if you have any other thoughts! I've got to get to work. :-) -Nate *Nathan Rutman* ([EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Corporate

Re: [WSG] HR - Presentation or Structure?

2005-07-12 Thread Nathan Rutman
), and if that's what you meant, I'd be interested to hear how you'd differenciate between the two in an X/HTML document. I can't think of a difference, but that certainly doesn't mean that there isn't one. Thanks for your thoughts! -Nate *Nathan Rutman* ([EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [WSG] HR - Presentation or Structure?

2005-07-12 Thread Nathan Rutman
/marketing 101 resource will tell you that. X/HTML seems better tailored to presenting the content visually than anything else. Again, we'll see what the future gives us. Thanks for the stimulating conversation. I have enjoyed it. -Nate *Nathan Rutman* ([EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [WSG] HR - Presentation or Structure?

2005-07-12 Thread Nathan Rutman
it...and if it's not that cut and dry, one has to ask whether the model implemented in X/HTML is truly universal. -Nate *Nathan Rutman* ([EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Corporate Communications Designer *Solvepoint Corporation* 882 South Matlack Street, Suite 110 West Chester, PA

Re: [WSG] HR - Presentation or Structure?

2005-07-12 Thread Nathan Rutman
Laura, I understand that HTML certainly can be interpreted on other mediums. You don't think it caters to one medium over another? -Nate *Nathan Rutman* ([EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Corporate Communications Designer *Solvepoint Corporation* 882 South Matlack Street, Suite

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

2005-07-15 Thread Nathan Rutman
Isn't it funny that we were having these kinds of discussions about Netscape in '96? Why design for anything other than Netscape? We are finally getting standards that aren't tied to a particular browser implementation/build and we have to ask ourselves whether we want to use them? Give me

[WSG] IE: Suckerfish Popping Under

2005-07-20 Thread Nathan Rutman
can provide, -Nate -- *Nathan Rutman* ([EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Corporate Communications Designer *Solvepoint Corporation* 882 South Matlack Street, Suite 110 West Chester, PA 19382 800.388.1850 x1208 484.356.0990 (fax) www.solvepoint.com http://www.solvepoint.com

[WSG] Re: digest for wsg@webstandardsgroup.org

2005-10-16 Thread Nathan Abood
I will be out of the office on Monday the 17th October, but will return on Tuesday 18th. If you have an urgent request then please contact Karen or Mark on 03 9602 1123 (or 07 3634 8200 for Brisbane clientele). Regards, Nat. ** The

[WSG] li background image

2005-12-10 Thread Nathan Wheatley
Hello World, I wish to make a horizontal unordered list, in which each li has a background image. I am having trouble getting the image to display properly, and I was wondering if you guys could lend a hand. Below is the html and css I used for the unordered list. I have no idea if it is valid

Re: [WSG] li background image

2005-12-10 Thread Nathan Wheatley
Right. I set up a page with what I am after, and implement all your suggestions as they come in. Starting with yours. http://www.chiefcodemonkey.com/awbn2/ There is the address. I made the changes you stated. It now throws the allignmenat all out of whack. Can I assume that you were expecting

Re: [WSG] li background image

2005-12-11 Thread Nathan Wheatley
. On 12/11/05, Nathan Wheatley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right. I set up a page with what I am after, and implement all your suggestions as they come in. Starting with yours. http://www.chiefcodemonkey.com/awbn2/ There is the address. I made the changes you stated. It now throws the allignmenat all

Re: [WSG] li background image

2005-12-11 Thread Nathan Wheatley
that goes. Cheers, Nathan Wheatley ** 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] li background image

2005-12-13 Thread Nathan Wheatley
I did a little mor elooking around, and I found the following means of achiving what I am after. Here does: CSS CODE #navcontainer ul { margin: 0; padding: 0; list-style-type: none; text-align: center; } #navcontainer ul li { display: inline; } #navcontainer ul li a { text-decoration: none;

Re: [WSG] li background image

2005-12-13 Thread Nathan Wheatley
Thanks Elton. I have tried this however, and it does not work. I can't see why it does not, but after measuring the pixel height of the buttons the above outputs, the height is only 15px. Is there a way to force the 26px height? Cheers, Nathan Wheatley On 12/14/05, Elton Okada [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [WSG] li background image

2005-12-13 Thread Nathan Wheatley
I was just told not to use Pixel values in line heights? I will try anything at this point though. On 12/14/05, Nick Gleitzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 14 Dec 2005, at 11:19 AM, Nathan Wheatley wrote: it does not work. I can't see why it does not, but after measuring the pixel height

Re: [WSG] li background image

2005-12-14 Thread Nathan Wheatley
] wrote: On 12/14/05, Nathan Wheatley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just told not to use Pixel values in line heights? I will try anything at this point though. LOL, yes, I recommended not to use pixel line heights. Try a value like: line-height:2; and see if that is the equivalent

RE: [WSG] Frames ?

2005-12-16 Thread nathan bredenkamp
i know they would probably say no, but it is not worth finding out, if the sites you are linking to, can add a little image on their site if they get a referral from you ? this would allow the 'branding' to stay with you. and maybe these sites would be more likely to do so if they got alot of

Re: [WSG] Site Critic

2005-12-21 Thread Nathan Wheatley
hints on posting to the list getting help ** -- -- Nathan Wheatley ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some

RE: [WSG] User testing results to reinforce 'no popup' recommendation [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2008-06-18 Thread Ward, Nathan
Hi Brad, I don't have any test data that shows this, however, below are a two articles from Digital Web Magazine that mention the topic. I'm also fairly sure that AGIMO has some research on the topic but I couldn't find it this afternoon. You could also check out the Vision Australia website

[WSG] Layering Images

2009-02-11 Thread Nathan Wheatley
src=image.png alt=description /a href=h3spanNo. 01/spanTask Description/h3/a/li What I am trying to do is add the completed label to some of the items, which I am having trouble with. What is the best way to approach this? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. -- -- Nathan Wheatley

Re: [WSG] firefox treatment of wrapper overflow height

2008-08-11 Thread Nathan de Vries
On 18/07/2008, at 7:45 AM, David Hucklesby wrote: Of course, there are several other ways to enclose floats that do not require that extra DIV. I would have thought that the method described by PIE [1] would be the only sane way to do this. -- Nathan de Vries [1] http

Re: [WSG] Code for Firefox, hack for IE

2008-09-01 Thread Nathan de Vries
On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 22:09 +1000, willdonovan wrote: I do find that Opera can give a good idea of what might be happening with Safari if your a PC user... Safari has been available for Windows for a little while now. -- Nathan de Vries

Re: [WSG] Frames/iFrames [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-01-12 Thread Nathan de Vries
Javascript, I don't see this as a problem at all. There's no hard-and-fast rule, though. Frames and/or iFrames in some situations might be wildly inappropriate. Cheers, -- Nathan de Vries *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] Marking up news

2009-02-19 Thread Nathan de Vries
On 20/02/2009, at 7:05 AM, Essential eBiz Solutions wrote: I'm making a news plugin but I'm un-sure what the best/most accesible way is to mark it up? Try http://microformats.org/wiki/hatom#Examples_in_the_wild Cheers, Nathan de Vries

Re: [WSG] add to favorites?

2009-03-25 Thread Nathan de Vries
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Re: [WSG] add to favorites?

2009-03-25 Thread Nathan de Vries
*and* proprietary features of browsers (with a preference towards standards) is my definition of someone who takes standards seriously. Surprisingly (and unfortunately for many users of their software), some of the more vocal on this list seem to disagree. Cheers, Nathan de Vries

Re: [WSG] add to favorites?

2009-03-25 Thread Nathan de Vries
in positive ways, more often than not leading to standardisation. If vendors sat around holding hands trying to reach consensus before releasing features in their browsers, innovation would halt altogether. Nathan de Vries

Re: [WSG] add to favorites?

2009-03-25 Thread Nathan de Vries
and vendors, and contrary to (in my not so humble opinion) the spirit of the WSG mandate. Nathan de Vries On 26/03/2009, at 10:59 AM, Stuart Foulstone wrote: The Web Standards Group is for web designers developers who are interested in web standards (HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, XSLT etc

Re: [WSG] add to favorites?

2009-03-25 Thread Nathan de Vries
on anyone when used appropriately. Appropriately being the key word there, and where people such as you and I may sometimes disagree. Cheers, Nathan de Vries *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] Safari background image problem with transparent PNGs

2009-03-31 Thread Nathan de Vries
On 30/03/2009, at 5:46 PM, Christian Montoya wrote: Any ideas? Not really helpful, but the example works fine in Safari 4. Could mean this is a bug specific to Safari 3. Cheers, Nathan de Vries *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] Ecomm using Paypal

2009-06-21 Thread Nathan de Vries
On 19/06/2009, at 4:17 PM, Rohini Goyal wrote: ...where can i find the right list of the attributes... Not really a web standards question, but if you do a search on the PDN you'll find this page [1] which outlines all the variables available and the expected values. Cheers, Nathan de

Re: [WSG] Outlook 2010

2009-06-24 Thread Nathan de Vries
? I agree with you that Microsoft not being allowed to package their own browser with their operating system is a farce, but it's a bit of a stretch to say that it's driven their decision to switch to using Word as the rendering engine for Outlook. Cheers, Nathan de Vries

Re: [WSG] Outlook 2010

2009-06-24 Thread Nathan de Vries
versions of Outlook. Cheers, Nathan de Vries *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***

Re: [WSG] Outlook 2010

2009-06-24 Thread Nathan de Vries
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Re: [WSG] DIV Javascript Problem

2009-06-29 Thread Nathan de Vries
that client that they should find someone who is a little more proficient with Javascript and HTML to solve the problem. Cheers, Nathan de Vries *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe