Re: [WSG] WSG design competition voting time

2004-05-17 Thread Aaron DC
- Original Message - From: russ - maxdesign [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Web Standards Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 3:20 PM Subject: [WSG] WSG design competition voting time Hi all, The design competition closed last week. Those who submitted entries - thank you!

[WSG] back to basics

2004-05-17 Thread Justin French
Hi all, I feel incredibly inept for even asking this question, but I can't find a solution. I have an application that widely uses single quotes for tag attributes, which is perfectly valid XHTML, eg: input type='text' name='surname' value='French' / However, I can't find a way of escaping a

Re: [WSG] WSG design competition voting time

2004-05-17 Thread Universal Head
Now I see how few entries came in I'm thinking I should have somehow found the time to enter ... I suppose it would be unbelievably bad form to ask for a time extension would it? (he says in tiny mouse-like voice) ... Congrats to those who did take make effort to enter. Peter On 17/05/2004, at

[WSG] Using XHTML 1.1

2004-05-17 Thread Ryan Christie
Just wrote an article addressing XHTML 1.1 and wanted some feedbacks. My site just changed URLs and direction, so my current readership is somewhere around zero. :) Please just leave comments on-site. Don't want to clog the list with a self-promo. -- Ryan Christie| e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[WSG] Please take a look at this page.

2004-05-17 Thread Kevin McMonagle
Hi, The css navbar is'nt working in netscape 6 mac. The regular a link state is the problem, for some reason the text color is not what it should be in netscape 6mac. http://www.mcmonagle.biz/finalone.html thanks in advance -Kevin _

[WSG] decendant selector nav problem

2004-05-17 Thread Kevin McMonagle
Hi, I had sent a post earlier regarding trouble that I was having with a navbar in ns 6 mac. Well i solved the problem. For the nav bar links i created a decendant selector like this: #nav a:link {...} #nav a:hover {...} But i also had the regular link states specified in the style sheet, like

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2004-05-17 Thread Razvan Pop
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Re: [WSG] WSG design competition (OT)

2004-05-17 Thread LC 55
Hi all...well I cast my vote and was sorry I was unable to enter the comp; myself - due to travel/work commitments. I was also surprised that there were only four entries, given the membership of the group! Anyhow, (hope you don't mind this comment Russ), I thought your own design was great

Re: [WSG] back to basics

2004-05-17 Thread James Ellis
Justin French wrote: My first reaction (after years of PHP scripting) was to escape it with a slash: input type='text' name='surname' value='O\'Riley' / -- doesn't work. Adding to this - try htmlspecialchars() in PHP with ENT_QUOTES set - this will special character all the XML reserved

[WSG] Ten questions for Andy Budd

2004-05-17 Thread russ - maxdesign
Andy Budd talks about web design, web standards, the Web Standards Awards and Skillswap. http://webstandardsgroup.org/features/andy-budd.cfm Thanks Russ * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

[WSG] CSS support table?

2004-05-17 Thread !!blue
Hi all, Where can I find some sort of table that lists the CSS attributes and the browsers that support each attribute? I've found a few here and there, for example: -- www.westciv.com/style_master/academy/browser_support/basic_concepts.html or -- www.w3schools.com/css/css_reference.asp are

Re: [WSG] JS Percentages?

2004-05-17 Thread YoYoEtc
Thank you. This is a very helpful answer. At 12:08 AM 5/10/2004, Ryan Christie wrote: YoYoEtc wrote: And if some users do indeed disable it, what sort of code do you put it as an alternative to get the site to do what you want it to do? Server-side languages such as PHP or ASP. JS is a client

Re: [WSG] CSS support table?

2004-05-17 Thread Razvan Pop
!!blue wrote: Hi all, Where can I find some sort of table that lists the CSS attributes and the browsers that support each attribute? I've found a few here and there, for example: -- www.westciv.com/style_master/academy/browser_support/basic_concepts.html or --

[WSG] Tables are dead?

2004-05-17 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day I've read the comments regarding table-less design and have looked at the resources given. I agree that it would be ideal to consign tables for layout to the trash can and have built some sites that way already. I have experimented for days, but have come to a grinding halt on a project

Re: [WSG] Tables are dead?

2004-05-17 Thread Tonico Strasser
Bert Doorn wrote: G'day I've read the comments regarding table-less design and have looked at the resources given. I agree that it would be ideal to consign tables for layout to the trash can and have built some sites that way already. I have experimented for days, but have come to a grinding

RE: [WSG] Tables are dead?

2004-05-17 Thread Mike Pepper
Hi Bert, Take a look at http://www.english-sofas.co.uk/contemporary_leather_sofas_0.htm. It's a list block, like you need, the contents of which can be constrained by a width statement. It may help. As to the rights and wrongs ... make it an accessible list and you're fine. If you get really

[WSG] Tables are dead?

2004-05-17 Thread Mike Pepper
Hi Bert, Take a look at http://www.english-sofas.co.uk/contemporary_leather_sofas_0.htm. It's a list block, like you need, the contents of which can be constrained by a width statement. It may help. As to the rights and wrongs ... make it an accessible list and you're fine. If you get really

Re: [WSG] CSS support table?

2004-05-17 Thread tony
Hi Zulema, I developing a list of CSS properties that contains a description and browser support. It is still very much under construction, more content needed. http://www.csscreator.com/attributes/ Hope that helps. Quoting !!blue [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, Where can I find some sort of

RE: [WSG] Tables are dead?

2004-05-17 Thread P.H.Lauke
Off topic really, insofar as it doesn't directly solve your problem...but your post actually made me think the other way around, if you will...how to display a table, containing tabular data, in a more sexy way. A first attempt, still riddled with bugs, can be seen here

Re: [WSG] WSG design competition voting time

2004-05-17 Thread Neerav
IMHO ... I like Hugh Todd's the best http://webstandardsgroup.org/design/hugh-todd.jpg The Lindsay Evans Russ Weakley designs were OK but too derivative of the current look the yelloe in the Susan Gossman design was too bright One possible flaw in voting is that we cant tell what code been

Re: [WSG] WSG design competition voting time

2004-05-17 Thread Neerav
Thx for mentioning that Mordechai. I did exactly that expecting the User inferface default of left - right increase in vote ranking. off to change my vote ... -- Neerav Bhatt http://www.bhatt.id.au Web Development IT consultancy Mordechai Peller wrote: Aaron DC wrote: tongue location=cheek

Re: [WSG] WSG design competition voting time

2004-05-17 Thread Gary Menzel
One possible flaw in voting is that we cant tell what code been used in each site, in terms of efficiency, page weight (size in kb) and which is most compatible across browsers. It's a design. There shouldn't be any code behind it at all (for the moment). But, if code was used to produce

RE: [WSG] WSG design competition voting time

2004-05-17 Thread Peter Firminger
Hi, I really don't think we want to discuss people's voting reasons on list. That can be done on http://discuss.webstandardsgroup.org/archives/12.htm if you really want to. They are flat graphic mock-ups so there is no code at this stage. The chosen design will be built correctly. When

Re: [WSG] CSS support table?

2004-05-17 Thread Chris Blown
For Mozilla based browsers, have a look here. http://devedge.netscape.com/toolbox/sidebars/ Though no mention of browser support, links into the correct section of the w3c are very helpful. Chris On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 01:46, Razvan Pop wrote: !!blue wrote: Hi all, Where can I find some

[WSG] Tables redux

2004-05-17 Thread John Allsopp
Hi all, just posted a response to this whole table thingy going on right now on my blog. http://westciv.typepad.com/dog_or_higher/2004/05/the_right_tool_.html It's a parable. Thanks, john John Allsopp :: westciv :: http://www.westciv.com/ software, courses, resources for a standards

Re: [WSG] WSG design competition voting time

2004-05-17 Thread Aaron DC
When voting remember that it's a two step process. Pick the one you want in the first column and then rate each design (reading the column header to see which column is 2 or -2) in the others. Oh boy. Thanks for the heads up on that one :) Aaron

[WSG] MovableType virgin

2004-05-17 Thread Andy Clarke
Hoping someone can help... My first try with MovableType (www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk) is proving interesting... :( Regular posts seem fine, but when I try to add headings MT wraps them in p tags. How can I stop this from happening? For an example, see

Re: [WSG] back to basics

2004-05-17 Thread wsg
I can't find a way of escaping a single quote inside the attribute, The simple answer seems to be use double quotes for all attributes, so that at least the nested double quotes can be replaced with a quot; entity, but I can't believe this is my only option -- am I missing something??

Re: [WSG] back to basics

2004-05-17 Thread Rev. Bob 'Bob' Crispen
The voices are telling me that [EMAIL PROTECTED] said on 5/17/2004 8:26 PM: I can't find a way of escaping a single quote inside the attribute, ... b ) declare an entity in an inline DTD declaration at the top of the document to signify a single quote. eg: ?xml version=1.0? !DOCTYPE html [

[WSG] Out of Office AutoReply: digest for wsg@webstandardsgroup.org

2004-05-17 Thread Romanna Flores
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Re: [WSG] CSS support table?

2004-05-17 Thread Chris Bentley
Here is Safari's http://developer.apple.com/internet/safari/safari_css.html Cheers, chris * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting

Re: [WSG] CSS support table?

2004-05-17 Thread Cameron Muir
This is Konqueror's CSS 2.1 support in khtml 3.1 http://www.konqueror.org/css/ Chris Bentley wrote: Here is Safari's http://developer.apple.com/internet/safari/safari_css.html Cheers, chris * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/

Re: [WSG] MovableType virgin

2004-05-17 Thread Mark Stanton
Hi Andy No offence, but discussion of specific server side products is off topic. Please check out the some the MT resource sites (http://www.google.com/search?hl=enlr=ie=UTF-8q=moveable+type+%28resources+OR+tutorial+OR+learning%29btnG=Search) or the MT homepage

Re: [WSG] Please take a look at this page.

2004-05-17 Thread Mark Stanton
Hi Kevin I don't have a access to NS6 on a mac, but just a friendly word of advice: Please try to be more descriptive if you really want to get your problem solved. Firstly use a nice descriptive subject line so that people can quickly decide whether or not they are able to assist - I would

[WSG] Extra border/padding on a checkbox

2004-05-17 Thread Sameer Kekade
Hey all, I am trying to get rid of the extra border/ padding on a checkbox in an IE browser. Please help!! Warm Regards, Sameer S. Kekade. QUATRO FOUR RETAIL The right connections for your business Tel. direct +61 2 9370 2775 Fax direct +61 2 9370 1200 Mobile 0411 566 650 [EMAIL PROTECTED]