Re: [WSG] Help (another topic)
If you only want to show the user there IP address, something as simple as ?php print $_SERVER[''REMOTE_ADDR] ? ... would work. On Nov 10, 2007 3:30 PM, Bob Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks James, Only one minor problem, I know nearly nothing about PHP. How would I write this up?
Re: [WSG] Help (another topic)
OK thanks, having just had my wrists slapped by another, I'll drop this off topic thread. Bob If you only want to show the user there IP address, something as simple as ?php print $_SERVER[''REMOTE_ADDR] ? ... would work. On Nov 10, 2007 3:30 PM, Bob Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Re: [WSG] Help IE
Georg, Found the problem. I still had some empty divs (class clearit divs) after I put a comment in them, all is rosy in IE land. Thanks a lot for your help. Bob Bob Schwartz wrote: I'm still getting a problem with the area under the tabs, IE is showing about 25px of the content
Re: [WSG] Help IE
Hi Bob Not related to your IE issues, but if you need some help with testing in IE (including multiple IEs), here's a fairly successful workflow to follow as a write up in the WSG resource section: http://webstandardsgroup.org/manage/resource_display.cfm?resource_id=896 I've found this makes a
RE: [WSG] HELP with CSS
Hi Olajide Your page suffers from a common ailment. You are approaching CSS before structural markup. You need to re-build your page with semantic markup and then apply the CSS. Here are some common problems that you have. Multiple h1 elements. The H1 should only appear once and should define
Re: [WSG] HELP with CSS
Thanks everyone but i fixed it with the clear: left;.. lol... On 7/26/07, WebMaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Olajide, Actually yuors is a pretty simple fix. Lose the blockquotes and p tags and include your text and graphix inside your div with your thumbnail. Create a class called
RE: [WSG] HELP with CSS
Hello Olajide, Actually yuors is a pretty simple fix. Lose the blockquotes and p tags and include your text and graphix inside your div with your thumbnail. Create a class called .leftimg { float:left; } In your style and then call it from yourimage tag class=leftimg A working example
Re: [WSG] Help with css cascade problem from external style to internal style
The magic of asking for help. 17 seconds after I sent the email, I saw the problem and fixed it. Thanks for just being here. ;) *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:
Re: [WSG] Help with css cascade problem from external style to internal style
style type=text/css #every_page #index, #every_page #index:hover { color: #4F; background: #003173; cursor: default;} /style should do it (you're also missing the # from index:hover). On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:40:35 +1000, JS Bracher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #every_page -- Tyssen
RE: [WSG] Help with css cascade problem from external style to internal style
On Behalf Of JS Bracher #every_page li a { display: block; height: 1em; padding: .6em; font-size: small; text-decoration: none; color: #999; background-color: #4F; } #every_page li a:hover { background-color: #999; color: #000; } This works just fine. So in the internal
Re: [WSG] Help with css cascade problem from external style to internal style
Thanks John. Once I realized the problem was a specificity issue, I changed the internal style block to: li#index a, li#index a:hover ... Which is not quite what you did, but it's similar. Yours is better, it's more explicit about what is being styled. John Faulds wrote: style
Re: [WSG] Help with css cascade problem from external style to internal style
On 7 Jun 2007, at 2:25 PM, JS Bracher wrote: Once I realized the problem was a specificity issue, I changed the internal style block to: li#index a, li#index a:hover ... Hopefully you changed the HTML as well, because the sample you originally posted had the id of 'index' on the a, not
RE: [WSG] Help with css cascade problem from external style to internal style
On Behalf Of JS Bracher Once I realized the problem was a specificity issue, I changed the internal style block to: li#index a, li#index a:hover ... Which is not quite what you did, but it's similar. Actually, the above should *not* work as index is not the ID of an LI, but an A ---
Re: [WSG] Help needed
On 11 May 2007, at 05:52:58, John Faulds wrote: You really only need a dimension on the anchors to overcome an IE/ Windows bug when they're set to display: block so you can either use * html #nav a { height: 1% } or conditional comments. You can probably ignore my other comment about the
Re: [WSG] Help needed
1. In the lefthand nav I would have liked to have some of the 2nd level Œlink¹s not links. But my code is up the creek and I can¹t make them line up or be the same font size unless they¹re all links. Any clues on what I¹m doing wrong here? Are these IE problems? If so, it's because the
Re: [WSG] Help needed
On 11/5/07 12:30 PM, John Faulds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. In the lefthand nav I would have liked to have some of the 2nd level Œlink¹s not links. But my code is up the creek and I can¹t make them line up or be the same font size unless they¹re all links. Any clues on what I¹m doing
Re: [WSG] Help needed
Can't help you with your Mac problems, I can only tell you what I see in Windows (and the suggested fixes will still apply), but for the footer problem, remove */ from just above /* FOOTER STYLE */ - it's closing a comment that's not opened. On Fri, 11 May 2007 13:00:49 +1000, Susie
Re: [WSG] Help needed
Thanks John. I found the errant */ and the footer is working as it should, so thanks for that. I don't know where my brain is this afternoon - frozen up I think! Would you mind explaining what the fixes actually are? If I give the anchor (link) styles a width, I'm not clear how to do that and
Re: [WSG] Help needed
You really only need a dimension on the anchors to overcome an IE/Windows bug when they're set to display: block so you can either use * html #nav a { height: 1% } or conditional comments. You can probably ignore my other comment about the hasLayout issue because I assumed it was an IE
Re: [WSG] help with page...
the reason for this. Everything between... div id="menu" and !-- MENU DIV --/div!-- MENU DIV -- Thankstg - Original Message - From: Paul Bennett To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 8:27 PM Subject: RE: [WSG] help with page... Well, as
Re: [WSG] HELP
http://pear.php.net/package/HTML_TreeMenu At 07:17 PM 1/03/2006, Al Kendall wrote: Can anyone point me in the right direction not out the door please :) to finding a good PHP Menu / Navigation script? -- Thanks! Al Kendall Best Regards Ray Cauchi Manager/Lead Developer ( T W E E K ! )
Re: [WSG] HELP
http://pear.php.net/package/HTML_TreeMenu At 07:17 PM 1/03/2006, Al Kendall wrote: Can anyone point me in the right direction not out the door please :) to finding a good PHP Menu / Navigation script? -- Thanks! Al Kendall Best Regards Ray Cauchi Manager/Lead Developer ( T W E E K ! )
Re: [WSG] help with jello mold
sorry fixed it..been up to long ** 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] help with jello mold
Hello, having big problems with the jello layout again, It works exactly how i want in firefox but breaks in ie... cant fix it..tried hard. PLEASE help. http://www.mcmonagle.biz/finalsite/jello2.html http://www.mcmonagle.biz/finalsite/final.css http://www.mcmonagle.biz/finalsite/theme.css
Re: [WSG] help with jello mold
green-beast.com/http://accessites.org/ - Original Message - From: kvnmcwebn To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 8:21 AM Subject: Re: [WSG] help with jello mold Hello,having big problems with the jello layout again,It works exactly h
Re: [WSG] help with jello mold
Looking with Firefox 1.0.7, I get a horizontal scroll bar. It looks broken but I don't know the layout you're trying to achieve. I was looking at the source and I noticed your body tag is broken. Could that be causing problems? thanks mike, now i know that its only working in ff 1.5 i
Re: [WSG] Help with CSS ul
Thank you very much Steve it really works, you were right it just needed that i put that line thanks again - Original Message - From: Steve Clason [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2005 10:45 PM Subject: Re: [WSG] Help with CSS ul On 12/17
Re: [WSG] Help with CSS ul
Jose - Probably a margin padding issue. Try reducing the padding margin and position the bullets with the xy positioning on the background rule for the li or a:li. I'm not that great with css, you'll probably get some better answers. Have a nice holiday. Matt Hello, Does anyone can help me?
Re: [WSG] Help with CSS ul
José Kusunoki Gutiérrez wrote: I want to know why in IE my side bar is wrong i mean the bullets are not in the rigth place, and when i see it in Firefox its ok... is there a css hack that i need for IE? No-one can possibly offer you any useful advice on how to solve this problem because you
Re: [WSG] Help with CSS ul
I think that is http://www.constantconcept.com/ On 18/12/05 1:25, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No-one can possibly offer you any useful advice on how to solve this problem because you haven't provided a link, we can't see the problem for ourselves, we don't know what styles you have
Re: [WSG] Help with CSS ul
Jorge Laranjo wrote: On 18/12/05 1:25, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No-one can possibly offer you any useful advice on how to solve this problem because you haven't provided a link, we can't see the problem for ourselves, we don't know what styles you have applied and thus have no
Re: [WSG] Help with CSS ul
Hey Jose, It seems that you are referring to the li elements within the #contentright div? I don¹t have IE in front of me but there is a known whitespace bug to do with IE and list items. There are a range of methods that can be used to fix it including: 1. floating the li 2. setting the a
Re: [WSG] Help with CSS ul
On 12/17/2005 5:36 PM José Kusunoki Gutiérrez wrote: I want to know why in IE my side bar is wrong i mean the bullets are not in the rigth place, and when i see it in Firefox its ok... is there a css hack that i need for IE? Hi José, I don't think you need a hack for IE, just to set the line
Re: [WSG] Help with CSS ul
José Kusunoki Gutiérrez wrote: Hello, Does anyone can help me? I want to know why in IE my side bar is wrong i mean the bullets are not in the rigth place, and when i see it in Firefox its ok... is there a css hack that i need for IE? Thanks for your help. José, Before you try to fix the
RE: [WSG] Help FF v1.5 and Flash on a Mac
I need some help urgently. Just downloaded the latest release v1.5 and Flash Player v8. Now my Flash audio stream buttons no longer display, just macromedia's f. What's happened? It appears perfectly on my PC version. http://bangersandmashed.com The Macromedia site reports The Flash Player as
Re: [WSG] Help FF v1.5 and Flash on a Mac
On Thu, 01 Dec 2005 12:31:27 -0500, Mike Foskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now my Flash audio stream buttons no longer display Confirmed -- Tom Livingston Senior Multimedia Artist Media Logic www.mlinc.com Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/
Re: [WSG] Help with menu
As a reminder, at this point you cannot safely apply widths to any elements that have a border, padding or a margin. In the case you need to apply width adn one of the others mentioned, safest best is to insert a nested div/span with the padding applied etc to break it up. This has long
Re: [WSG] Help with menu
Joseph: Interesting. Do you have something that I can reference for this? Thierry: I will take a look at that tonight. Thanks guys!On 11/15/05, Joseph R. B. Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a reminder, at this point you cannot safely apply widths to any elements that have a border, padding or
Re: [WSG] Help with menu
I'm not sure...about a physical reference but here's an example: http://sitesbyjoe.com/box_examples.htm It seems to work flawlessly, and its simplicity makes me feel good about using this approach. It also frees me from having to stick hacks in to try and please the browsers. Joe Taylor
Re: [WSG] Help with menu
I'm confused at your suggestion, why add extra markup when you just need to use the box model hack in the css http://tantek.com/CSS/Examples/boxmodelhack.html Joseph R. B. Taylor wrote: I'm not sure...about a physical reference but here's an example: http://sitesbyjoe.com/box_examples.htm
Re: [WSG] Help with menu
; border:1px solid #00; background-color:#FF; } - Original Message - From: Joseph R. B. Taylor To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 10:05:24 -0500 Subject: Re: [WSG] Help with menu I'm not sure...about a physical reference but here's an example: http
Re: [WSG] Help with menu
Because it is a hack, I tend to use the same technique as Joesph, I think its best to avoid hacks wherever possible. Charlie http://www.bartlettdesign.co.uk On 11/15/05, The Visual Process [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm confused at your suggestion, why add extra markup when you just needto use the
Re: [WSG] Help with menu
Hmmm I disagree, with the hack you can change it from the one css file in the future, with your method you add unnecessary markup to the xhtml. I'd rather use a hack than have bloated markup. (Although these days I use the conditional comment to separate out style sheets when needed which
Re: [WSG] Help with menu
The elaborate on Charlie's statement, the hacks will at some point bite us on the rear end. There's a huge possibility we'll be going back and re-fixing those fixes. I'm too lazy to put myself in that position, which is why I chose this profession in the first place. Joe Taylor
Re: [WSG] Help with menu
Charlie Bartlett wrote: Because it is a hack, I tend to use the same technique as Joesph, I think its best to avoid hacks wherever possible. But using an extra DIV like this is also a hack. And not better IMO, since it mixes structure and presentation. My approach is to *not* mix dimensions
Re: [WSG] Help with menu
The reason I use this technique rather that the box model hack, is because we cannot guarantee that the box model hack will work in future browsers, I know its probably not going to be a big deal to fix it, knocking out a couple of lines of css shouldn't take long, but I prefer not to have clients
Re: [WSG] Help with menu
Charlie Bartlett wrote: The reason I use this technique rather that the box model hack, is because we cannot guarantee that the box model hack will work in future browsers, I know its probably not going to be a big deal to fix it, knocking out a couple of lines of css shouldn't take long, but
Re: [WSG] Help with menu
On Nov 15, 2005, at 12:20 PM, Thierry Koblentz wrote: It is a matter of moving down the padding declaration. This is essentially the same as adding the extra div. div pfoo/p /div Apply the padding to the p instead of hacking the div. It's the same difference. Right Thierry? ;-)
Re: [WSG] Help with menu
Tom Livingston wrote: This is essentially the same as adding the extra div. div pfoo/p /div Apply the padding to the p instead of hacking the div. It's the same difference. Right Thierry? ;-) Exactly! It's about constructing the box, not fixing it ;-) Thierry |
Re: [WSG] Help with menu
James O'Neill wrote: I am having problems with a menu that is similar to the Alistapart's hybrid menu. I can not get the width to be consistantly even with the rest of the site and it is not workig in IE or Opera. It works fine in Firebird. I have been beating my head against this for quite a
Re: [WSG] Help with a javascript menu
2005-11-09
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Marko Mihelcic - founder of mcville.net (http.//www.mcville.net)|(http://board.mcville.net)
hm try to work a bit more on the header and under the footer the diclamer text is hurting my eyes , try to add font color=black to that text cheers ! 2005/11/9, Charla Nicol | Quirk [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi there, I wonder if anyone can help me, My site :
Re: [WSG] Help with a javascript menu
Don't you mean color : #000;? Or are you asking her to add a font tag.. Samuel Marko Mihelcic - founder of mcville.net (http.//www.mcville.net)|(http://board.mcville.net) wrote: hm try to work a bit more on the header and under the footer the diclamer text is hurting my eyes , try to add
RE: [WSG] Help with a javascript menu
Hi Carla, Add the following style after your hover as shown below. Regards Graham Cook www.uaoz.com #nav li:hover ul, #nav li.sfhover ul { left: auto; } * html #nav li:hover ul,* html #nav li.sfhover ul { margin-left: 5em; }
Re: [WSG] Help needed with IE drama...
We've worked out that the issue was caused by the comments in the HTML file. Has anyone had this sort of issue before? If there a solution other then removing the comments? Cheers D On 11/4/05, Darren Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello fellow standardites, I'm losing hair over a very
Re: [WSG] Help needed with IE drama...
Hi Darren, I haven't reviewed the bug, however if its anything like the issue we've come across with comments [1] then you could try an alternative method of commenting the code. (This goes somewhat to the concept of semantic markup also.) Rather than: !-- begin footer -- div id=footer ...
RE: [WSG] Help needed with IE drama...
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Kirkwood|Motive Sent: Friday, 4 November 2005 3:53 p.m. To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Help needed with IE drama... Hi Darren, I haven't reviewed the bug, however if its anything like the issue we've come
RE: [WSG] help on making this link validate
You could just try hex encoding the address. There are several utilities available that will convert an email (or any other address) to its hexadecimal value. It's not bulletproof but, then, what is. And it validates. FYI, Smarty (PHP template system) has this built-in. From: [EMAIL
Re: [WSG] help on making this link validate
thanks,the way its written im not sure if i can or not, i will try though :)From: "Patrick H. Lauke" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 6:30 PMTo: wsg@webstandardsgroup.orgSubject: Re: [WSG] help on making this link validatecsslist wrote: I need to get this email link to v
Re: [WSG] Help with accessible horizontal menu
From: Colin Meerveld [EMAIL PROTECTED] I' am building an accessible horizontal menu. I have some problems with tabbing the menu. I tested the menu in IE 6.0, Firefox 1.05 and opera 8.0. IE and Opera doesn't support it at all and firefox only with javascript. It does navigate to the menu but the
Re: [WSG] Help with accessible horizontal menu
Sorry I read the article partly and look at the main menu. I hadn't read the following part. If your vision is perfect, but you cannot use a mouse, your experience could be similar. Imagine having to use your tab key, and each time you tab into the menu, you must keep tabbing until you tab
Re: [WSG] Help with IE giving me a big white space - FIXED
never mind, my brain finally kicked in - fixed now Cheers *** Helen Rysavy Web Designer Teaching Learning Development Group Charles Darwin University, Northern Territory 0909 Tel: 8946 7779 Mobile: 0403 290 842 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] CRICOS
Re: [WSG] Help with IE giving me a big white space - FIXED
with an idea would be very helpful. Thanks all. Jason C ---Original Message--- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] Help with IE giving me a big white space - FIXED Sent: 16 Sep '05 06:24 never mind, my brain finally kicked in - fixed now Cheers
Re: [WSG] Help with a simple (?) problem
Hi, Extremely helpful; I owe you a pint :) C On Aug 20, 2005, at 1:39 AM, Edward Clarke wrote: There are some interesting articles on default stylesheets. http://www.robertnyman.com/2005/07/15/the-most-important-css-rule/
Re: [WSG] Help with a simple (?) problem
On 20 Aug 2005, at 8:39 PM, Edward Clarke wrote: Global selectors may offer performance disadvantages There is no evidence to support this... it is a factoid. kind regards Terrence Wood. ** The discussion list for
Re: [WSG] Help with a simple (?) problem
Hi man Just try to write height: 100%; on the BODY on the css file and you're done. At least it work for me. Christian Robertson wrote: Hi all, I am new to the list, and this is my first posting so please be gentle ;-) I have a task I am trying to accomplish which is not going to plan.
Re: [WSG] Help with a simple (?) problem
One step further, just add this: html, body{ height:100%; } Remember that HTMLand BODY are valid elements that wrap all of your content. To varying extents they can be styled like any other element on your page. In firefox, HTML and BODY inherit their height and width from the browser window
Re: [WSG] Help with a simple (?) problem
Hi, Should this rule: html, body{ height:100%; } be a default on each page, like * { margin:0; padding: 0; } Has become on my core style sheet? On Aug 19, 2005, at 10:14 AM, Patrick Ryan wrote: One step further, just add this: html, body{ height:100%; } Remember that
Re: [WSG] Help with a simple (?) problem
Hi Partic / Alejandro, Works perfectly. Many thanks! Chris Patrick Ryan wrote: One step further, just add this: html, body{ height:100%; } Remember that HTMLand BODY are valid elements that wrap all of your content. To varying extents they can be styled like any other element on your
Re: [WSG] Help with a simple (?) problem
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 11:14:46 -0700, Chris Kennon wrote: Should this rule: html, body{ height:100%; } be a default on each page, like * { margin:0; padding: 0; } What a great Friday afternoon question! I haven't yet had to use that on my pages and I, too, am interested in
Re: [WSG] Help with a simple (?) problem
Hi, I meant on a core style-sheet, and what does bump mean? C On Aug 19, 2005, at 3:55 PM, Lea de Groot wrote: On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 11:14:46 -0700, Chris Kennon wrote: Should this rule: html, body{ height:100%; } be a default on each page, like * { margin:0; padding: 0; }
RE: [WSG] Help with a simple (?) problem
Chris Kennon wrote: Should this rule: html, body{ height:100%; } be a default on each page, like * { margin:0; padding: 0; } Lea de Groot wrote: What a great Friday afternoon question! I haven't yet had to use that on my pages and I, too, am interested in people's opinion. (In other
RE: [WSG] Help with a simple (?) problem
From: Chris Kennon I meant on a core style-sheet, and what does bump mean? Lea de Groot wrote: (In other words 'bump' ;)) Bumping the topic back to the top, used more in web forums that email lists. -- Peter Williams winmail.dat
RE: [WSG] Help with navigation
Don't forget to change the spelling of Cross cutltural awareness Craig Rippon Brisbane, Australia -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 17 August 2005 10:50 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Help with navigation Hi The
RE: [WSG] Help with navigation
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The subnav in my site: http://learnline.cdu.edu.au/wip/tog/background/introduction.html should look like this: http://learnline.cdu.edu.au/wip/tog/navtest.html. but I cannot get it to work. Helen, It is working nicely for me in IE6/Win and FF1.06/Win. What
RE: [WSG] Help with navigation
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can't see the currenttopic i.e. introduction being highlighted.. Ahhh, Now I see what you mean. You're missing the class=currenttopic from the item you want highlighted as the current position. Your example page has: lia href=introduction.html
Re: [WSG] Help with navigation
On 17 Aug 2005, at 1:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't see the currenttopic i.e. introduction being highlighted.. remove :link or adding :link:visited from the following declaration: #navCircle a.currenttopic:link becuause when it is the current page it becomes a visited page. kind
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Re: [WSG] Help with navigation
On 17 Aug 2005, at 1:36 PM, Terrence Wood wrote: remove :link or adding :link:visited from the following declaration: oops, I mean replace it with :visited T. ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See
Re: [WSG] help with colour switcher
It's on-topic as a js question. No guarantees but I think you need to link to both stylesheets in the document head and give them the titles you use in your javascript. And finally turn off the alternate stylesheet. so the code should look something like: link rel=stylesheet type=text/css
Re: [WSG] help or web - THREAD CLOSED
@webstandardsgroup.org Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 15:06:18 +1000 To: Web Standards Group wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] help or web - THREAD CLOSED Maybe enough said on this THREAD CLOSED There has been a lot of good input here, so thanks for bringing it up and for the following
Re: [WSG] help or web - THREAD CLOSED
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 23:14:13 -0700, tee wrote: Forgive me Russ, while I was writing this email, your THREAD CLOSED came in but I have an urge to finish my message. Hello Tee, Thank you for your heart-felt message to the group. I'm so glad you squeezed it in. It reflects my sentiments, too.
Re: [WSG] help or web standards group?
Mike Whitehurst wrote: is this mailing list for anything other than helping novice designers with their hacks? [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a pretty much catch-all for web/html/php/sql/asp/apache.javascript/flash help. sign up. http://www.evolt.org
Re: [WSG] help or web standards group?
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 21:30:24 +0100, Mike Whitehurst wrote: is this mailing list for anything other than helping novice designers with their hacks? This is definitely a mailing list for discussing all aspects of web standards. Any technical list is going to have a large proportion of 'newbie'
Re: [WSG] help or web standards group?
to the fine efforts of the moderators and members themselves). Perhaps it's time to evolve the list? Just a thought :o) Richard - Original Message - From: Lea de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 7:07 AM Subject: Re: [WSG] help or web
Re: [WSG] help or web standards group?
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 09:26:22 +1000, Richard Czeiger wrote: Perhaps there should be two lists - one for discussing standards/accessibility/best practice and one for how do I fix my float/site check please. I like the concept, but my experience of multiple lists for the one group is that
Re: [WSG] help or web standards group?
Lea de Groot wrote: On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 09:26:22 +1000, Richard Czeiger wrote: Perhaps there should be two lists - one for discussing standards/accessibility/best practice and one for how do I fix my float/site check please. Having multiple lists also starts lots of flame threads on
RE: [WSG] help or web standards group?
I totally concur with Lea (which happens with amazing regularity). We have discussed this matter in the past (along with creating online fora to move some of the newbie stuff off the list) but the general consensus was that this was and still is the best way to do it to cover all levels. If
Re: [WSG] help or web standards group?
It's a huge Help when the Subject line clearly defines the topic, that way you can quickly identify threads where you may want to participate. It also helps when browsing archives. Russ has covered this in the intro, and most lists do, but people still persist with Help Needed and equivalent
Re: [WSG] help or web standards group?
Jason Foss wrote: If I can chip in too - I don't have a problem with newbie posts, nor more advanced posts. But I don't even open Help Needed type subject lines. A descriptive subject line is all that's needed; you can quickly decide if you want to read or get involved in the thread. My 2c,
Re: [WSG] help or web standards group?
On 7/11/05 4:51 PM Lea de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent this out: I think the flip side is that a) newbies need to see the 'advanced' stuff to learn by osmosis and b) its really good for gurus to see the newbie questions (and maybe occasionally answer them? Hint, hint people ;)) to keep them
Re: [WSG] help or web standards group?
But I don't even open Help Needed type subject lines. And I never read HTML/RTF email either. Text is too small. Rick ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for
Re: [WSG] help or web standards group?
On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 12:02 +1000, Jason Foss wrote: But I don't even open Help Needed type subject lines. A descriptive subject line is all that's needed; you can quickly decide if you want to read or get involved in the thread. There's a minor problem with this, though I agree with your core
Re: [WSG] help or web standards group?
Joshua Street wrote: There's a minor problem with this, though I agree with your core argument. Newbie posts requesting site reviews can't very easily bear a descriptive subject line when all they want is advice on semantics/markup and best practises. There isn't a core problem they want
Re: [WSG] help or web - THREAD CLOSED
Maybe enough said on this THREAD CLOSED There has been a lot of good input here, so thanks for bringing it up and for the following discussion... I think we can wrap it up now. A few points to recap: 1. At this stage we will not be going to two or more lists. 2. Please use a subject line
Re: [WSG] help or web standards group?
Please don't forget, while forking, to build a third mediocres/average list, for those who squint at being a guru and tend to forget the years they were soo newbie. or, alternatively: Raise the level of the input in this list by more quality postings and answers. The quality of the
Re: [WSG] Help Me Switch From Tables to CSS Divs
Hi, deconstruct and redo: http://www.456bereastreet.com/lab/developing_with_web_standards/ csslayout/2-col/ G/L C On May 31, 2005, at 12:11 PM, Olajide Olaolorun wrote: I know so many people have asked for this and at one point i left the emails on the topic in my inbox but then i
RE: [WSG] help, please!!
-Original Message- From: Rachel Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 25 April 2005 7:50 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] help, please!! Hello all, I've been developing a site based on the Ruthsarian layouts and it's working ok except in IE 6.0,
Re: [WSG] help, please!!
Rachel Campbell wrote: I've been developing a site based on the Ruthsarian layouts and it's working ok except in IE 6.0, where there's a problem which is leaving me baffled, so I'm hoping that someone will be able to help. ... There isn't a problem if you set IE's options to refresh on every
Re: [WSG] help, please!!
Rachel Campbell schrieb: The problem is that the header doesn't always display at all on some pages, such as http://www.ely.anglican.org/parishes/camgsm/new_site/activities/music/index.html. There isn't a problem if you set IE's options to refresh on every visit to the page, but that's not