[WSG] IE, alpha transparency and sliding doors...

2007-08-21 Thread minim
Hi all - I've been set what I believe to be an impossible challenge, but before I admit defeat I thought I should cast it out into the wilds of the internet and see if others agreed or could suggest a solution. The challenge is this: to create a flexible (vertical and horizontal) content-

Re: [WSG] Usability & Accessibility Over Design?

2007-08-14 Thread minim
Hi James, On 14 Aug 2007, at 13:43, James Jeffery wrote: Web Standards, Accessibility and Usability needs to be put right at the top of the list, way before design. Focus on the users and the people, and it will help to create and bring the internet up to a better standard. I agree whol

Re: [WSG] Standards and Blogs

2007-08-13 Thread minim
Rick, PHP shouldn't affect IE at all because it gets calculated on the server, so by the time the page gets to the browser, it's 100% HTML/XHTML/whatever - no PHP is seen on the client-side at all. Cheers, C Caitlin Rowley, B. Mus. (Hons), Gr. Dip. Design Composer, musicologist, web designe

Re: [WSG] setting fontsize in body

2007-08-07 Thread minim
It's all starting to sound to me like the only way to deal with all the ifs and maybes is to set up our own options - use the browser default size as a base and provide a switch for the user to set their own preferences for your site in case they haven't fathomed the mysteries of their brow

Re: [WSG] Please help! CSS/IE Link Color Problem

2007-08-04 Thread minim
In the light of the pseudoclass and class having the same name and smart-alec browsers trying to correct perceived errors, could this then be a case of misinterpretation by IE6? Might it not be better to avoid using 'reserved' words for class/id names in case this sort of thing happened (I