Re: [WSG] The F-word (frames that is)

2004-08-06 Thread Brian Foy
Ted Drake wrote: I'm putting together our new web site css-layout. There are a few web sites that put our site into their frameset. If they take my lovely css-formatted page and stick it in their ugly, poorly styled web page built with nasty frames... Could their stylesheet over-ride my style

Re: [WSG] Adopting Web Standards - Free briefing for Education and Government

2004-08-06 Thread Brian Foy
Sounds great I can see this being very beneficial, especially if done on a wide scale. In the spirit of spreading the knowledge and advocating standards in Gov't, it would be excellent if once you are done, you could post all of your slides/notes on the net. If you can go the extra mile and get us

Re: [WSG] 'It Works in Gecko Browsers ...'

2004-05-19 Thread Brian Foy
I know IE is a *huge* market leader, and I *do* make sure my sites work in IE... I agree fully with the design for compliant browsers first, then go back and fix IE* way of doing things. From my own personal experience I can tell you it is in fact easier that way. I think it's ill advised

Re: [WSG] 'It Works in Gecko Browsers ...'

2004-05-19 Thread Brian Foy
One more thing will be required: Web pages need to be better on compliant browsers. So in an effort to coax standards compliance out of MS we should all make sites look *beter* in non IE browsers? I've yet to run across a client who loves standards and MS arm twisting so much that they would

Re: [WSG] Help with Float

2004-05-19 Thread Brian Foy
Hi Sean, Looks like you have to clear those floats. Try adding a div with clear: both; just below the last column. Brian Sean Sullivan-Daley wrote: I am trying to float 3 columns next to each other. This appearas to be OK in IE6 but is broken in FireFox. The columns break out of the container in

Re: [WSG] css and accessibility question

2004-05-12 Thread Brian Foy
Hi Luc, It's my understanding that if you want the page to validate and pass some basic 508 stuff, ALT tags must be present for any images that are included in the page markup. I have seen before (perhaps ALA?) that if the image is decorative a simple null would surfice as an ALT tag. I think

Re: [WSG] IE5 v Mozilla

2004-05-12 Thread Brian Foy
Hi Alan, Try: table width=100% Brian Alan Milnes wrote: Can anyone tell me what causes the table under Latest Results not to take the whole 100% width of the div?? http://www.gameplan.org.uk/ http://www.gameplan.org.uk/styles/gplan.css Thanks Alan