Re: [WSG] page break up

2005-11-28 Thread Terrence Wood
Lachlan Hunt said: I did mention that whitespace could not follow the MDO. My apologies you did indeed say that. The fact remains, that while it may be malformed and bad pratice becuase it invites errors - comments can be terminated early or not at all, a comment in this format is not invalid

Re: [WSG] page break up

2005-11-28 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Terrence Wood wrote: a comment in this format is not invalid HTML: !-- this is a valid comment ending in 2 hyphens.-- -- If it's not followed by another '--' later in the document with no extra '--' in between, then yes it is an invalid comment declaration. Where on earth did you get the

Re: [WSG] page break up

2005-11-28 Thread Alan Trick
On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 00:25 -0400, Jay Gilmore wrote: Lori, I am going to suggest that you download Firefox or Mozilla to develop with. You will find that IE is too forgiving and allows errors to fall through the cracks by trying to render the page vs. not parsing invalid code. IE is

Re: [WSG] page break up

2005-11-28 Thread Terrence Wood
Lachlan Hunt said: Terrence Wood wrote: a comment in this format is not invalid HTML: !-- this is a valid comment ending in 2 hyphens.-- -- If it's not followed by another '--' later in the document with no extra '--' in between, then yes it is an invalid comment declaration. Where on

Re: [WSG] page break up

2005-11-27 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Lori Cole wrote: Hi-I am new to CSS and strict. The URL I am having trouble with is http://members.cox.net/loricole.newhome.html. The style sheet is at http://members.cox.net.loricole/newtext.css. Please make sure you type the URIs correctly in the future and use '.' and '/' appropriately.

RE: [WSG] page break up

2005-11-27 Thread Scott Swabey - Lafinboy Productions
Hi Lori Your issue with the tabs can be quickly fixed by switching the order in your css of the #menu a:visited and #menu a:hover, so the hover is 'above' the visited declaration. The page break up looks like a guillotine bug. Need to dig more to find the cause for that! Regards Scott Swabey

RE: [WSG] page break up

2005-11-27 Thread Lori Cole
page. Lori -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Swabey - Lafinboy Productions Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2005 9:20 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] page break up Hi Lori Your issue with the tabs can be quickly fixed

Re: [WSG] page break up

2005-11-27 Thread Jay Gilmore
Of Scott Swabey - Lafinboy Productions Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2005 9:20 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] page break up Hi Lori Your issue with the tabs can be quickly fixed by switching the order in your css of the #menu a:visited and #menu a:hover, so the hover is 'above

Re: [WSG] page break up

2005-11-27 Thread Terrence Wood
Lachlan Hunt said: !--tab is an invalid HTML comment how so? Please make sure you type the URIs correctly in the future and use '.' and '/' appropriately. minor typos are easy to ignore, and really don't warrant being commented on kind regards Terrence WOod.

Re: [WSG] page break up

2005-11-27 Thread Jay Gilmore
Lori, I am going to suggest that you download Firefox or Mozilla to develop with. You will find that IE is too forgiving and allows errors to fall through the cracks by trying to render the page vs. not parsing invalid code.It is better to learn to make it right and then tweak it for IE. I

Re: [WSG] page break up

2005-11-27 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Terrence Wood wrote: Lachlan Hunt said: !--tab is an invalid HTML comment how so? In SGML, the comment syntax is as follows: ! (Markup declaration open (MDO)) -- first comment --(Zero or more comments.) -- second comment -- (Markup

Re: [WSG] page break up

2005-11-27 Thread Christian Montoya
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RE: [WSG] page break up

2005-11-27 Thread Peter Williams
From: Terrence Wood Lachlan Hunt said: !--tab is an invalid HTML comment how so? Perhaps not by strict definition, but the following reference explains where Lachlan is probably coming from. http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/wilbur/misc/comment.html I like to stick with the !--

Re: [WSG] page break up

2005-11-27 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Jay Gilmore wrote: 2. When styling your the a pseudo classes, hover, active, visited. The way to ensure that the cascade works is through the LoVe HAte a:link, a:visited, a:hover (a:focus), a:active. I read somewhere that there was is a Star Wars reference that takes the

Re: [WSG] page break up

2005-11-27 Thread Terrence Wood
Lachlan Hunt said: In SGML, the comment syntax is as follows: I believe your original comment was that it was invalid HTML. While similar, the SGML rule differs from HTML in it's treatment of whitespace, and the example you provided is, in fact, invalid HTML. The recommendation[1] goes on to say

Re: [WSG] page break up

2005-11-27 Thread Jay Gilmore
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Re: [WSG] page break up

2005-11-27 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Terrence Wood wrote: Lachlan Hunt said: In SGML, the comment syntax is as follows: I believe your original comment was that it was invalid HTML. While similar, the SGML rule differs from HTML in it's treatment of whitespace, There is no formal difference between HTML4 and SGML comments, as