Re: [WSG] CSS not playing nice in Gecko browsers (PC Mac)

2006-03-10 Thread Bert Doorn
(or at least fewer of them) if you use th elements for your row and column headings (which would make it more accessible too). Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] Quick Site Check - CSS Problem?

2006-02-20 Thread Bert Doorn
increased gives something very similar. 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

Re: [WSG] site check: FONT sizes

2006-02-18 Thread Bert Doorn
are not changing the defaults, they are probably comfortable with those defaults and therefore we should not mess with it. You can't please everybody all the time, but perhaps there's a middle ground somewhere. If you're going to change font sizes, do it in moderation. Regards -- Bert Doorn

Re: [WSG] site check: FONT sizes

2006-02-17 Thread Bert Doorn
too. And yes, I find that I often have to adjust my browser settings (usually making text larger as my vision is not that good) because other designers have gone even further than I have in this regard. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading

Re: [WSG] CSS DIV problem, as weird as simple

2006-02-10 Thread Bert Doorn
: #Example img { vertical-align:top } /* or bottom or middle */ 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] IE7 Compatibility Team

2006-02-10 Thread Bert Doorn
support for standards? 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

Re: [WSG] Vertical align

2006-02-10 Thread Bert Doorn
; margin: -5em 0 0; padding:0; background-color:#ccc; color:#000; } #contentbar div { margin:1em } (x)HTML: div id=contentbar divContent here/div /div Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] Call for a new (scalable) business case for web standards.

2006-02-06 Thread Bert Doorn
business owner's point of view. I think that's what this whole thread is about... The majority of their customers/visitors to their website will not know the difference, so why should the business owner care? Sorry, I'm out of 1 and 2 cent coins. -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http

Re: [WSG] [Fixed div elements] - Having troubles with IE

2006-01-31 Thread Bert Doorn
saw many that do. I am still on top of this. Kinda like www.sure-kleen.com ? Don't ask me how I did it - I forgot. But if it does what you want, feel free to reverse-engineer. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] The dilemma: tabular data with sublevels

2006-01-28 Thread Bert Doorn
of the page in question. 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

Re: [WSG] New to Standards.

2006-01-04 Thread Bert Doorn
at the Resources section of the Group's site. 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

Re: [WSG] CSS Rollover Flicker

2005-12-27 Thread Bert Doorn
the latter option. 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

Re: [WSG] Negative margins questions

2005-12-27 Thread Bert Doorn
; } #Container h1 { background-color:#999; font-size:1.5em; margin:0; padding:.6em; } #Container p { margin:0; padding:1em .8em; border-top:1px solid #999; } Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading

Re: [WSG] Negative margins questions

2005-12-27 Thread Bert Doorn
size of the h1, not its parent's text size. Hope that makes sense - it does to me :-) Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] Slight margin problems in IE

2005-12-26 Thread Bert Doorn
). 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 hints

Re: [WSG] best way to style addresses

2005-12-22 Thread Bert Doorn
is a record and each column in that row a field (name, address, phone no. etc). Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] xhtml DTD

2005-12-22 Thread Bert Doorn
? Might be some page outside W3C (since the standards move quite slowly, i may use them for a few years :) http://www.zvon.org/xxl/xhtmlReference/Output/index.html Or the download version: http://www.zvon.org/download2.php/xhtmlReference?title=XHTML+Reference Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web

Re: [WSG] Dropped DIV dilemma

2005-12-19 Thread Bert Doorn
that's about the only thing I can figure out. 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] weird IE6 doctype switching question

2005-12-18 Thread Bert Doorn
that behaviour would be if you insert a document (with quirks mode trigger) into an iframe (or object) on the compliant page. Note: just a theory - I haven't tested it. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] IE float quest

2005-12-18 Thread Bert Doorn
? It's valid CSS [1], Mozilla ignores it and it ~may~ do what you want it to in MSIE. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#propdef-display Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] IE float quest

2005-12-18 Thread Bert Doorn
it a bit of slack - maybe some of your problems will be solved by removing some of the widths. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] Frames ?

2005-12-15 Thread Bert Doorn
post. Just another point to consider (apart from the other valid points raised about this practice), if my browser window is 750 pixels wide and you're using a 200px frame on the left, you don't leave much room for the other site to display in. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http

Re: [WSG] CSS in IE Help needed.

2005-12-14 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day Al Kendall wrote: Can anyone please tell me how to fix the following script to get the div the stay in the center of the page in IE. It works fine in Firefox, but stay left in IE. Add this to your existing CSS: body { text-align:center } #content { text-align:left } Regards -- Bert

Re: [WSG] CSS in IE Help needed.

2005-12-14 Thread Bert Doorn
. 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 hints on posting

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-13 Thread Bert Doorn
these discussions before, so I'll leave it there :-) 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] Abbreviations and Acronyms

2005-12-13 Thread Bert Doorn
on abbr in MSIE (Windows), since it does not understand abbr. 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] CSS and the University Syllabus

2005-12-13 Thread Bert Doorn
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Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-12 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day Miles Tillinger wrote: Could CSS be used to display that two-column table layout as a single column? td { display:block; } Works in Firefox and Opera (Windows). Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] italic and validator

2005-12-11 Thread Bert Doorn
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 hints on posting

Re: [WSG] italic and validator

2005-12-11 Thread Bert Doorn
debate), we can save more bandwidth by omitting html, head and body? Interesting. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] Problems styling dl's

2005-12-09 Thread Bert Doorn
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Re: [WSG] *Why* doesn't Google validate? was New logo scheme was talking points for standards

2005-12-08 Thread Bert Doorn
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Re: [WSG] problems!!!

2005-12-08 Thread Bert Doorn
? 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 hints

Re: [WSG] problems!!!

2005-12-07 Thread Bert Doorn
presentational id and class names. 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

Re: [WSG] Valid alternative to textarea WRAP

2005-12-07 Thread Bert Doorn
mentioned before. If it doesn't do anything (other than invalidate the pages), I'd just remove it. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] Valid alternative to textarea WRAP

2005-12-07 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day Sarah Peeke (XERT) wrote: Hi Bert So remove *wrap=soft* entirely? Yep - I agree with Lachlan (for a change :-) Soft is the default value, so it's completely unnecessary. Remove it. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user

Re: [WSG] *Why* doesn't Google validate? was New logo scheme was talking points for standards

2005-12-07 Thread Bert Doorn
-12 HTML elements (html, title, meta, body, table, tr, td, center, font, img and maybe a couple more). Yes, I know there are exceptions... Just thinking Google may fall into this category as it's obviously script driven. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http

Re: [WSG] A floating menu that keeps folding where it shouldn't (repost)

2005-12-06 Thread Bert Doorn
be the cause of the problem. All I can think of is that it's related to the mix of left and right floats, absolute and relative positioning in your #prinav, with the ul having no width specified. Maybe IE is not expanding the container to make room for the fourth list item. Regards -- Bert

Re: [WSG] getElementById() always returns null

2005-12-05 Thread Bert Doorn
() { onoff.style.display = block } toggle.onmouseout = function() { onoff.style.display = none } } window.onload=init; Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] talking points for standards

2005-12-05 Thread Bert Doorn
design in Google (pages from Australia only). The top 3 (non sponsored) sites used tables for layout, none of them validated and only one had a doctype. They all used some CSS but only in addition to the tagsoup. So where are the benefits? Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http

Re: [WSG] editor

2005-12-01 Thread Bert Doorn
Before we get a flood of posts along the lines of my favourite editor is and mine too ... Have you looked at the resources section of the WSG website? http://webstandardsgroup.org/resources/ Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user

Re: [WSG] XHTML Issues

2005-12-01 Thread Bert Doorn
the benefits of X(HT)ML later, when browsers support it. 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] :after, IE, and link text wrapping

2005-11-23 Thread Bert Doorn
=externalBlahspan /span/a FWIW, I don't like the idea of adding extra, non semantic markup for presentational purposes. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion

Re: [WSG] :after, IE, and link text wrapping

2005-11-23 Thread Bert Doorn
. 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 hints on posting

Re: [WSG] starting ordered lists from a number other than 1

2005-11-22 Thread Bert Doorn
the document valid. Using divs to insert the numbers is IMO worse than using a (for transitional DTDs) valid, though deprecated attribute. In theory, you could use counters in CSS, but as far as I know very few browsers actually support it at this point in time. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design

Re: [WSG] A little help with a charity site please

2005-11-21 Thread Bert Doorn
attributes on a number of images. If they don't need alt text (i.e. they are just for visual effect), consider putting them in the css as background images. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] Inline link padding in IE6

2005-11-18 Thread Bert Doorn
use { display: inline-block } instead. At least that's defined in the CSS2.1 working draft. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] snug a border around diff sized pix

2005-11-16 Thread Bert Doorn
be 100% of its parent's inner width. 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

Re: [WSG] CSS and PHP

2005-11-14 Thread Bert Doorn
Tim Burgan wrote: Just a quick note that'll help: In the URL, the special characters (such as ampersands, question marks, etc) need to be converted to html character entities. Question marks do not need to be converted. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http

[WSG] Accessibility: Default placeholders

2005-11-13 Thread Bert Doorn
tick marks from various automated tools), given I use properly coded labels and (where needed) fieldsets for the inputs? It seems crazy to repeat the label text (or slightly amended info) in the input for people to overwrite (and some will perhaps leave it in there!) Regards -- Bert Doorn

Re: [WSG] Accessibility: Default placeholders

2005-11-13 Thread Bert Doorn
had a grey background. It wasn't until I clicked in one of them that I realised the field was not disabled. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list

Re: [WSG] Accessibility: Default placeholders

2005-11-13 Thread Bert Doorn
do gymnastics to move my mouse to the beginning of the box), it's a good point. Not everybody is like me (which is just as well :-) Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] Bridging the gap in IE

2005-11-07 Thread Bert Doorn
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Re: [WSG] css title styles

2005-11-05 Thread Bert Doorn
you get a similar effect in other browsers) would be an option? Yes, I used a table for layout back in 2002. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list

Re: [WSG] form hidden field ?

2005-10-29 Thread Bert Doorn
you see the line - your hidden input will be given display:block, with that border. Removing display:block should fix it. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] Couple of question - Image Map etc.

2005-10-16 Thread Bert Doorn
that the validator is spot on with its possible cause. Let me re-write it to suit: - The cause for this message is that you have attempted to put a block-level element (h2) inside an inline element (span). -- Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http

Re: [WSG] Firefox caption madness

2005-10-11 Thread Bert Doorn
problems stem (at least in part) from this invalid coding. 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] Header text problem

2005-10-05 Thread Bert Doorn
Not sure what exactly you're asking, but: http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1uri=http%3A//www.zachinglis.com/ZachInglis.html It's broken code, which may explain why you are having problems. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user

Re: [WSG] Header text problem

2005-10-05 Thread Bert Doorn
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Re: [WSG] Top Ten Web Design Mistakes - yeah, right!

2005-10-04 Thread Bert Doorn
be different for someone who went there looking for something this site has to offer (whatever that might be - I can't see it at a glance). Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] Flexible Font sizes in tables in ie

2005-10-04 Thread Bert Doorn
/filters to stop Mac IE from using the rule above. 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] css variables

2005-09-28 Thread Bert Doorn
(be it css.asp, css.php or whatever) it should work in more browsers than just MSIE. I just ran a test and it worked fine in Opera 8, Firefox, MSIE6 and MSIE5 PC. If it's served as text/css and the output is valid css, it shouldn't matter what the extension is. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design

[WSG] CSS validator updated?

2005-09-26 Thread Bert Doorn
or was it too lenient before? Should we ignore the warnings? 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] Need help on css positioning

2005-09-24 Thread Bert Doorn
to the right but it is always positioned under the banner. A couple of things you might try: 1. Float the sidebar left instead of right 2. Don't float the sidebar at all. 3. Give the sidebar a little less than 25% width (e.g. 24%), Some browsers cannot add up Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better

Re: [WSG] Semantics of address?

2005-09-23 Thread Bert Doorn
@webstandardsgroup.org/msg17576.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

Re: [WSG] 3px Space problems

2005-09-22 Thread Bert Doorn
for images in a certain section) Firefox (and perhaps other browsers too) have a default image alignment of baseline which leaves that gap at the bottom. Incidentally, you might want to have a look at the site with images disabled. Or load it over a dial-up connection. Regards -- Bert

Re: [WSG] Click here--reference

2005-09-19 Thread Bert Doorn
-- either on its own or as part of a sequence of links. Link text should also be terse. For example, in HTML, write Information about version 4.3 instead of click here. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] The Big Lie about CSS

2005-09-18 Thread Bert Doorn
it and had to resort to Ctrl+F5 to see the update (in various browsers). That might just be a server setting, but I don't know. Changing the css filename is not a good idea as you would then need to edit every html file to point to the updated file? Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web

Re: [WSG] The Big Lie about CSS

2005-09-18 Thread Bert Doorn
I wrote: Changing the css filename is not a good idea as you would then need to edit every html file to point to the updated file? Unless like you (John) mentioned, one uses an include (I missed that bit). Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast

Re: [WSG] images in html or css

2005-09-15 Thread Bert Doorn
. 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 hints

Re: [WSG] Style a parent element based on an id selector of the child element

2005-09-14 Thread Bert Doorn
table or is part of a navigation list? If the latter, I'd use a list (ul or ol) rather than a table. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list

Re: [WSG] braindead - iframes???

2005-09-07 Thread Bert Doorn
as text/html. Don't know about IE5.x If you're serving application/xhtml+xml it's not going to work in IE because IE doesn't like application/xhtml+xml. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon

2005-09-07 Thread Bert Doorn
in the browsers that most people use. Horses for courses. History teaches us that such things, regardless of their present usefulness, we usually come to regret. I am sure history has plenty of examples of quite the opposite too :-) Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http

Re: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon

2005-09-07 Thread Bert Doorn
://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-WCAG20-HTML-TECHS-20050630/#layouttables-avoid It is *recommended* that authors not use the |table| element for layout purposes *unless the desired effect absolutely cannot be achieved using CSS*. I rest my case. -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http

Re: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon

2005-09-07 Thread Bert Doorn
, depending on how you interpret them :-) 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] Tables and divs and soon

2005-09-07 Thread Bert Doorn
awfully complex css based designs. Anyway, I've said enough. I'm happy to dwell in the middle ground, doing what I can with what I know. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] td != div

2005-09-07 Thread Bert Doorn
=header and just style the h1 element. Unless you use more than one h1 per page... Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon

2005-09-06 Thread Bert Doorn
documents?Nah! Anyway, ICSS is not a religion to me and I will use a simple layout table if it helps me achieve what I need to achieve :-) And yes, it will validate! Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] braindead - iframes???

2005-09-06 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day What's out there that displays the contents of a URI and validates? object type=text/html data=whatever.html id=Something Alternative content here /object Give the object a width and height with CSS #Something { width: 40em; height: 30em; } Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web

Re: [WSG] Expanding height of left column to fill space

2005-09-05 Thread Bert Doorn
to use one occasionally especially if the non table approach adds unnecessary weight to the design. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list

Re: [WSG] Expanding height of left column to fill space

2005-09-05 Thread Bert Doorn
the means available to me to deliver what I am paid to deliver in the most efficient way I can. To me that means CSS based layouts *most* of the time. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] tabbed content within content pages

2005-09-01 Thread Bert Doorn
on a tab 2. The links (in the tabs) are to different urls. 3. There's no (i)frame, object or JavaScript anywhere in the source Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] Two column left navigation

2005-08-30 Thread Bert Doorn
(unordered) list? Since (as I read it) all the images are the same size (width AND height?) you can float the image left. Something like: ul#nav li { height: 100px; } /* add whatever else you need */ ul#nav img { float:left; width:100px; height:100px; } Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web

Re: [WSG] Suckerfish nav moving page background image

2005-08-30 Thread Bert Doorn
option or plug-in? I do get the jumping horizontal scrollbar, which is a direct effect of the content expanding with the long text on submenu items. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] Site which only works in IE?

2005-08-27 Thread Bert Doorn
. But maybe I'm mistaken.. 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

Re: [WSG] weird three menu on IE 5

2005-08-23 Thread Bert Doorn
to fix it, the auto left margin on the ul and problems with the IE5 box model may be part of the reason for it (no guarantees). Note for YW Webmaster: a 34kB email to say Can you describe what its doing wrong in IE 5 and 5.5? seems a little over the top. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web

Re: [WSG] Need recomendations for CMS system

2005-08-17 Thread Bert Doorn
I thought this thread was CLOSED? 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] html design - best practices

2005-08-16 Thread Bert Doorn
, I believe we *should* avoid these (and other) presentational elements and attributes in our (x)html, whether deprecated or not. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] CSS rollover with dynamic drop down menu

2005-08-15 Thread Bert Doorn
to #Home:hoverSame goes for the other links. Hope this makes sense. -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

Re: [WSG] Forcing Display of Block

2005-08-15 Thread Bert Doorn
not add padding-bottom:1em (or whatever you need) to the div? If it's there for another reason, you could try giving it a height (through CSS) Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] Spacing Issue

2005-08-13 Thread Bert Doorn
from potential customers, or is it important information they came to the site for? Spare a thought for visitors who use MSIE (which likely will be most of them) and don't have perfect eyesight (which may be many of them). Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http

Re: [WSG] Firefox JS Image function

2005-08-02 Thread Bert Doorn
. document.getElementById(randomimage).src=imageArray[picknum]; (and just put the file names and paths into the array) Note: I haven't tested it, but it should work in theory (except in very old, pre DOM browsers) Regards -- Bert Doorn, Web Developer Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au Regards

Re: [WSG] background images fluid

2005-08-01 Thread Bert Doorn
trickery (absolute positioning, z-index etc) to make it appear behind other objects. Hope this answers your question -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list

Re: [WSG] Site Check: VVE

2005-08-01 Thread Bert Doorn
- a number of links with the same text [read more] going to different URL's. (Checkpoint 13.1) And there's a couple of errors and warnings in the CSS. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Web Developer Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au

Re: [WSG] Table versus 4 floated divs

2005-07-27 Thread Bert Doorn
). 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 hints

Re: [WSG] link ?

2005-07-27 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.com.au/ Fast

Re: [WSG] image + title

2005-07-26 Thread Bert Doorn
{ display:block } p class=lfigureimg /Caption/p And maybe 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

Re: [WSG] image + title

2005-07-26 Thread Bert Doorn
that it looks about 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, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] Site Check: Broadleaf

2005-07-25 Thread Bert Doorn
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/ Fast-loading

Re: [WSG] Large Top Margin

2005-07-25 Thread Bert Doorn
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 Doorn, Better Web Design http

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