[WSG] Multiple class names in older browsers
I need to find out if multiple class names, like this:
Heading level 1
.
h1.blue {
background-color: purple; }
h1.orange {
font-size: 500%; }
Were supported in older browsers, in particular IE5 and IE5.5.
Is anyone able to just take a quick look at the following page in
either or both those browsers and let me know?
http://www.westciv.com/07/index.html
Regards
Maxine
Maxine Sherrin
web : westciv.com
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[WSG] Any Safari 1.0 users out there?
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[WSG] Unicode-bidi and direction
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Re: [WSG] Comment before the DOCTYPE?
On 24/01/2005, at 1:40 PM, JohnyB wrote: I think it is a lot easier to treat all IE/win (5+) as one and the same, so I always use the OK, will prolly do this, Although being the postmodernist that I am, I'm quite enjoying the doc as it is now, with a comment which refers to the fact that "this is a comment" :-) thx for everyone's directions though - very much appreciated Maxine http://westciv.typepad.com/standards/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help **
[WSG] Comment before the DOCTYPE?
I'm going through all the templates which came from our design competiton which will be used in Style Master 4, knocking them into shape. I've found one which puts a comment *before* the DOCTYPE declaration. And of course, when you remove this comment the layout breaks in IE6. Contrary to what I would have thought, the document still validates (as XHTML strict) even with this comment there. A little bit of guessing and research tells me that obviously the comment is making the browser drop into quirks mode. But I want to document this for people who ultimately use the template. Does anyone have any good info on: 1. how/why this particular trick works. 2. whether the document really is valid or not. I mean, it validates, but there's no shortage of places in the spec where it says "the DOCTYPE declaration has to come before anything else" 3. any good reasons why using a comment like this is bad in some way - you know, will I start growing hair on the back of my hands or something like that? Thx in advance Maxine http://westciv.typepad.com/standards/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help **
[WSG] Font size, and how large is large enough?
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