Re: [WSG] Yahoo CSS'ing

2004-09-30 Thread Mugur Padurean
Nick Lo wrote: I agree it appears that way now but I think it's a little too easy/early to suggest it is and will end up that way. In that respect it'll be interesting to watch it develop. On a site of this massive scale I'd be very surprised if there are not a bunch of pretty screwed on heads

Re: [WSG] IE problem with CSS tabs

2004-09-30 Thread john
Thanks, David, for the suggestions (and for the code). I implemented the changes, however nothing seems to have changed. I don't understand why that would be, as everything you said makes perfect sense. However, I'm still not the getting the you are here active tab in IE. Any other possible

Re: [WSG] Yahoo CSS'ing

2004-09-30 Thread Tony Crockford
I'm a bit confused, if I go to http://www.yahoo.com/ I'm still seeing the tabled version. have they got some clever locale sniffing going on or what? (I'm in the UK) -- listening to: background noise http://wiki.workalone.co.uk http://www.xebit.net

Re: [WSG] Yahoo CSS'ing

2004-09-30 Thread Mugur Padurean
Tony Crockford wrote: I'm a bit confused, if I go to http://www.yahoo.com/ I'm still seeing the tabled version. have they got some clever locale sniffing going on or what? (I'm in the UK) Here you go: http://www.yahoo.com/?r=1096530966 I have no clue if there is some selection going on there

RE: [WSG] Yahoo CSS'ing

2004-09-30 Thread Patrick Lauke
Weird indeed. From home, I see the new table-less design. From work here, it's still the old one... Patrick -Original Message- From: Tony Crockford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 September 2004 09:15 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] Yahoo CSS'ing I'm a bit

Re: [WSG] Yahoo CSS'ing

2004-09-30 Thread Tony Crockford
At 09:34 on Thursday, 30 Sep 2004, Mugur Padurean wrote: Tony Crockford wrote: I'm a bit confused, if I go to http://www.yahoo.com/ I'm still seeing the tabled version. have they got some clever locale sniffing going on or what? (I'm in the UK) Here you go: http://www.yahoo.com/?r=1096530966

RE: [WSG] Yahoo CSS'ing

2004-09-30 Thread Joshua Street
Are you behind a caching proxy or something at work? -Original Message- From: Patrick Lauke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 30-Sep-04 6:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject:RE: [WSG] Yahoo CSS'ing Weird indeed. From home, I see the new table-less design. From

RE: [WSG] Yahoo CSS'ing

2004-09-30 Thread Edwart Visser
Try using the URL: www.yahoo.com/beta , should work from work and home ;-) Grz, Edwart Visser Designer Wisdom TMLC W www.wisdomtmlc.com Online onderzoek? Kijk op www.surv-e.nl! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Crockford Sent:

RE: [WSG] Yahoo CSS'ing

2004-09-30 Thread Dan Webb
Try: http://www.yahoo.com/beta or just click the BETA link on the homepage just under the search box on the right hand side. It appears to be a bit fussy about what browsers it lets see it though. Cheers, Dam Quoting Patrick Lauke [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Weird indeed. From home, I see the new

Re: [WSG] Yahoo CSS'ing

2004-09-30 Thread Bryan Davis
I had the same problem. However, if you go to http://www.yahoo.com/beta you should have more luck. Have viewed source, it seems somewhat over-complicated to me but it is good to see one of the big boys taking the step towards standards at all. Bryan Davis www.bryandavis.info - Original

Re: [WSG] Yahoo CSS'ing

2004-09-30 Thread Mugur Padurean
Tony Crockford wrote: At 09:34 on Thursday, 30 Sep 2004, Mugur Padurean wrote: Tony Crockford wrote: I'm a bit confused, if I go to http://www.yahoo.com/ I'm still seeing the tabled version. have they got some clever locale sniffing going on or what? (I'm in the UK) Here you go:

Re: [WSG] Yahoo CSS'ing

2004-09-30 Thread john
Finally! Thanks! ~john _ Dr. Zeus Web Development http://www.DrZeus.net content without clutter Dan Webb wrote: Try: http://www.yahoo.com/beta or just click the BETA link on the homepage just under the search box on the right hand side. It appears to be a bit fussy about

[WSG] Web Essentials Today

2004-09-30 Thread Amit Karmakar
People, Probably this is slightly OTbut... Can't help share the beautiful presentations from the Speakers from Day1 of the WE04 Presentation. Enjoy! I would hopefully have more information up there by Saturday. http://www.karmakars.com/weblog/ -- Regards, Amit Karmakar

Re: [SPAM] [WSG] Are empty divs okay?

2004-09-30 Thread John Wells
Shane-- Hmm, well I tend to consider empty divs akin to a spacer.gif in the land of tables--if it is present solely for the purposes of presentation, then you're falling short of the pursuit of separating style from content. Particular to the header3, perhaps you could instead place that image

Re: [WSG] Web Essentials Today

2004-09-30 Thread Neerav
I see that Amit has beaten me to posting a summary of events for WE04 Day 1 at Karmakars.com , and it most certainly isnt OT :-) I personally found the 3 Ds of CSS most useful * Dan Cederholm (http://www.simplebits.com) - whose book I won in a promotion run by John Allsopp for early WE04

Re: [WSG] Yahoo CSS'ing

2004-09-30 Thread brian cummiskey
Tony Crockford wrote: At 09:34 on Thursday, 30 Sep 2004, Mugur Padurean wrote: Tony Crockford wrote: I'm a bit confused, if I go to http://www.yahoo.com/ I'm still seeing the tabled version. have they got some clever locale sniffing going on or what? (I'm in the UK) Here you go:

Re: [WSG] Yahoo CSS'ing

2004-09-30 Thread XStandard
Let's give Yahoo our feedback. They provide a way to receive feedback using the link under the search box. True, our comments may fall on deaf ears, or they may not. But from my experience, numbers do matter, so I filled out the feedback form and voiced my option on their partial move to

Re: [WSG] Yahoo CSS'ing

2004-09-30 Thread brian cummiskey
Vlad Alexander (XStandard) wrote: Let's give Yahoo our feedback. They provide a way to receive feedback using the link under the search box. True, our comments may fall on deaf ears, or they may not. But from my experience, numbers do matter, so I filled out the feedback form and voiced my

Re: [WSG] IE problem with CSS tabs

2004-09-30 Thread Isabel Santos
John: Try moving up the priority of the css rule for your active link. I believe making #tabmenu li a.active { ... } shall work, but I didn't teste it. Isabel Santos - Original Message - From: john [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 9:00 AM

[WSG] DIV Container Closing prematurely

2004-09-30 Thread MORGAN CRAFT
Hey, I made my first website for the ohio senate and I used CSS-positioning for most of the website. The webpage views fine under IE, but in Firefox my News Room section does not display correctly. The container_frame class(the tan block - added the color so you can see which divblock I'm

Re: [WSG] IE problem with CSS tabs

2004-09-30 Thread john
Isabel, Forgive me, but could you please clarify your suggestion? I tried moving the #tabmenu a.active code up one, but it didn't do anything. I'm really a newbie with CSS, so please bear with me. ~john _ Dr. Zeus Web Development http://www.DrZeus.net content without

Re: [WSG] IE problem with CSS tabs

2004-09-30 Thread Leslie Riggs
I hope it's okay if I jump in here. Typically, to code links in CSS you'd use colons after the a, and in LVHA (link, visited, hover, active) order. For example, #tabmenu a:link { whatever } #tabmenu a:visited { whatever } #tabmenu a:hover { whatever } #tabmenu a:active { whatever } The

[WSG] Images without float

2004-09-30 Thread Nancy Johnson
How canone have an image on the left with a caption below the image, and text on the right. I don't want to text to float around the image and I don't want to use a table. Thanks, Nancy Johnson Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers!

RE: [WSG] Images without float

2004-09-30 Thread Trusz, Andrew
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 11:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WSG] Images without float How canone have an image on the left with a caption below the image, and text on the right. I don't want to text to float around the image and I don't want to use a

Re: [WSG] Yahoo CSS'ing

2004-09-30 Thread Meraj Rasool Khattak
--- brian cummiskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vlad Alexander (XStandard) wrote: Let's give Yahoo our feedback. They provide a way to receive feedback using the link under the search box. True, our comments may fall on deaf ears, or they may not. But from my experience, numbers do matter,

RE: [WSG] DIV Container Closing prematurely

2004-09-30 Thread Scott Reston
Admittedly, I haven't taken a look at your CSS, but my initial gut response is that you're floating the 2 column divs. Applying float to a div pulls it out of the flow of the document, so Firefox is actually behaving correctly. IE makes containing divs expand to hold their content, but

[WSG] Help with this layout

2004-09-30 Thread Olajide Olaolorun
Hi guys can you please check out this layout and tell me what you all think... The link is http://www.jccihouseofglory.org/2.jpg I want the content area to extend in height when the content is long... I'm using css divs and uses the x and the y variables... how do I make it extend when there

RE: [WSG] Images without float

2004-09-30 Thread Ted Drake
The dl tag to the rescue. put the image and caption in dd tags, the text in the dt. float the dt to the left or the dd's to the right or some other variation. An example can be seen here: http://v4.csatravelprotection.com/csa/asalescontact.do Each of the account reps sits in their own dl

Re: [WSG] IE problem with CSS tabs

2004-09-30 Thread Isabel Santos
John, Forgive me, I should explain myself better. By moving the priority up I meant increasing the priority of the rule, and that is specifying it more deeply. I really do not know if that is what's happening, but if it is, increasing the specificity of the rule will increase its priority. So

[WSG] MT hacked into by a spammer

2004-09-30 Thread groups
http://www.elise.com/mt/archives/000767hacked.php ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04 http://we04.com/ Web standards, accessibility, inspiration, knowledge To be held in Sydney,

[WSG] doctypes, quirks/standards mode and positioning

2004-09-30 Thread Nando
Hi all, I've been trying to get my head around the use of doctypes and their eventual influence on layouts via whether they force the browser into standards mode or not. What i've come to so far is if you use tables mixed with css for positioning you're better off staying with an HTML 4 doctype

RE: [WSG] MT hacked into by a spammer [Not necessarily]

2004-09-30 Thread Ian Fenn
http://www.elise.com/mt/archives/000767hacked.php There's no evidence here that MT was hacked. All the best, -- Ian ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04 http://we04.com/ Web

Re: [WSG] doctypes, quirks/standards mode and positioning

2004-09-30 Thread Neerav
The rule of thunb is that if you're going to use XHTML, than you have to get it 100% correct because XHTML is much more strict and unforgiving of little errors than html 4 so go for html 4 transitional validation if the clients tables will always be invalid Neerav Bhatt http://www.bhatt.id.au

[WSG] hta files and css

2004-09-30 Thread Debbie Riendeau
Hi, I'm new to the group. I just joined within the past week. I found you all through the cssd list. I'm self teaching myself web design. I'm in a class right now that is very lightly going over hta for css. If anyone can provide me with some links that would better understand this I would

Re: [WSG] hta files and css

2004-09-30 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Debbie Riendeau wrote: I'm self teaching myself web design. I'm in a class right now that is very lightly going over hta for css. If anyone can provide me with some links that would better understand this I would appreciate it. http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/hta/overview/htaoverview.asp

Re: [WSG] doctypes, quirks/standards mode and positioning

2004-09-30 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Neerav wrote: so go for html 4 transitional validation if the clients tables will always be invalid If you know for sure that the markup is going to be invalid, why bother with a doctype at all? It's a bit like putting a may contain nuts sticker on a bag of peanuts... Patrick H. Lauke

Re: [WSG] PNGs and IE windows

2004-09-30 Thread Wayne Godfrey
Patrick, Thank you for the both links and the explanation of PNGs. I got a bit overwhelmed in reading the link info and forgot my manners, so please forgive me, but I do thank you for the info, it's been a great help. Again, Thanks, wayne On 9/29/04 7:52 PM, Patrick H. Lauke [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [WSG] PNGs and IE windows

2004-09-30 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Hey, no worries. Glad it helped :) P Wayne Godfrey wrote: Patrick, Thank you for the both links and the explanation of PNGs. I got a bit overwhelmed in reading the link info and forgot my manners, so please forgive me, but I do thank you for the info, it's been a great help. Again, Thanks, wayne

RE: [WSG] IE problem with CSS tabs

2004-09-30 Thread David McKinnon
My very sincerest apologies, John. I made one small change to the HTML before I started fiddling with the CSS (but which I completely forgot to tell you about). I applied the active class to the list item, rather than the a link: ul id=tabmenu li class=activea href=./index.htmlhome/a/li I'm

Re: [WSG] IE problem with CSS tabs

2004-09-30 Thread Kevin Futter
Actually, I apply classes and styles to hrefs all the time - it's the only way to emulate button functionality on a text link. Cheers, Kevin On 1/10/04 9:23 AM, David McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My very sincerest apologies, John. I made one small change to the HTML before I started

RE: [WSG] doctypes, quirks/standards mode and positioning

2004-09-30 Thread David McKinnon
The argument I was swayed by was that XHTML was more future-proof, since in the future everyone will use XML (and drive atomic cars). This means that the designer coming after me won't have to do as much work to do on the next redesign (which is especially good if I'm the next designer). I

Re: [WSG] doctypes, quirks/standards mode and positioning

2004-09-30 Thread Nando
I'll be reworking the markup and the layout approach they've used ... it's just that i anticipate they'll have a reason for using the doctype ... cuz it doesn't jump up there by itself, that i'll need to intelligently and authoritively discuss with them. Much of the code is actually generated out

Re: [WSG] PNGs and IE windows

2004-09-30 Thread Rev. Bob 'Bob' Crispen
The voices are telling me Kevin Futter said on 9/29/2004 6:19 PM: My understanding is that while IE Win supports the display of PNG files, it doesn't support any of their transparency features. If you want to use transparency for images in a cross-browser safe way, GIF is really your only option.

Re: [WSG] IE problem with CSS tabs (solution)

2004-09-30 Thread Isabel Santos
John: (http://www.drzeus.net/redesign/cslewis/http://www.drzeus.net/redesign/cslewis/style.css) Allthought your xhtml is valid, the css wasn't validating, so I cleaned up some errors, I do not know if this works with the erros, but, after cleaning, making: #tabmenu a.active:link, #tabmenu li

Re: [WSG] increasing font size breaking layout

2004-09-30 Thread Brian Duchek
I use this web site for a quick preview in Safari: http://www.danvine.com/icapture/ On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 23:07:18 -0400, Albert Gedraitis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cesar - Web users interested in your services will not be able to get much help if their browser is Safari 1.2.3. Sorry, but

[WSG] A little help with Opera and more

2004-09-30 Thread Lori Leach
Hello all, I have read lots of helpful information here, so I am hoping that I can get some direction from you all. I have a design that I have just coded. I have validated the XHTML and CSS. It renders correct in PC versions of Mozilla, Firefox, Netscape and IE (NOT Netscape 4.7) I am sure it

[WSG] IE weird display problem

2004-09-30 Thread MirAGe01
I'm working on a page that will consist of 2 columns that will sit inside a wrapper div container. I set the left column to float left with a width of 400px. The right column is set with a margin-left of 400px and a width of 200px. The width of the wrapper container is 600px. The right

[WSG] Vertical Scrollbar on DIVs

2004-09-30 Thread Andrew Poulos
First, I have an absolutely positioned DIV that has its overflow set to auto. When the text in the DIV, which fits completely within the boundary of the DIV, is resized up or down from 100% a vertical scrollbar appears in MZ and FF even if the text still fits completely within the DIV

[WSG] IE5 Mac hanging on loading a page

2004-09-30 Thread Mike Brown
Help! This page: http://morst.signify.co.nz/templates/ig3-template.asp which validates as HTML 4.01 Strict, causes a consistent problem with IE5 Mac, whereby the page won't load or display. I end up having to Force Quit the browser. It's been replicated on another IE Mac outside of our

Re: [WSG] IE weird display problem

2004-09-30 Thread Isabel Santos
Michael: Simple but not perfect: if you can live with a 3px margin different in different browsers: #right {width:197px; /* if I put a unit here such as "px" then the column doesn't line up */margin-left:400px;} IE renders a 3px margin on adjacent divs in certain circunstances. This

RE: [WSG] IE weird display problem

2004-09-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I tried your code. What worked for me is giving the right div a float:right; It worked for both IE6 and FF. - regnard Original Message: - From: MirAGe01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 21:11:28 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WSG] IE weird display

RE: [WSG] IE weird display problem

2004-09-30 Thread MirAGe01
is all you did is add float:right to the stylesheet rule #right? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 10:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WSG] IE weird display problem Hello, I tried your code. What worked

RE: [WSG] IE weird display problem

2004-09-30 Thread MirAGe01
Thanks for the link. From: Isabel Santos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 10:05 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [WSG] IE weird display problem Michael: Simple but not perfect: if you can live with a 3px margin different in

Re: [WSG] IE5 Mac hanging on loading a page

2004-09-30 Thread Andrew Thompson
In Safari on the Mac it looks pretty much the same as it does in IE on the PC. If you're interested, you can see it at http://www.imagine-hosting.com/images/IG-3-template.gif My IE 5.2 on the Mac behaved as you report and I had to force quit. Thge only suspect I could see in your code was

RE: [WSG] IE weird display problem

2004-09-30 Thread Nick Cowie
IE renders a 3px margin on adjacent divs in certain circunstances. This will take that out; in other browsers, if you have different backgrounds for each div this solution isn't suitable. That will be the IE Three Pixel Text-Jog http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/threepxtest.html

[WSG] Navbar to foot of page?

2004-09-30 Thread Andrew Thompson
Does anyone know how http://www.smh.com.au got the lefthand nav bar to descend to the foot of the page, irrespective of the content? Nothing I try works. ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of Web

Re[2]: [WSG] IE5 Mac hanging on loading a page

2004-09-30 Thread Mike Brown
Andrew In Safari on the Mac it looks pretty much the same as Andrew it does in IE on the PC. If you're interested, you can see it Andrew at http://www.imagine-hosting.com/images/IG-3-template.gif Andrew My IE 5.2 on the Mac behaved as you report and I had to force quit. Andrew Thge only suspect