berry wrote:
I understand that it is not the uft-8 wich give the ability to render the
accent on the screen but the language content. meta
http-equiv=Content-Language content=fr
which tell the agent to render the accent using the UFT-8
also don't forget that meta alone is not enough. You need to
yeah thanks but I think its the firewall, I know that happens if you try a
local page. this is a live page we are talking about. looks like the php
snippets suggested earlier are the way forward.
thanks for averybody's support on this string. i'm now closing it.
ta
-Original Message-
UTF-8, a flavour of unicode, is an universal character set. You don't
define any codepage/language for it. You just simply use whatever
characters you like.
meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=UTF-8 /
This creates Content-Type header being http equivalent. Content is
Hi i am having problems with the positioning of the "Privacy Policy"
div tag element (id="privacy" in CSS) bottom right of the page.
it sits positioned 7px right and 7px bottom if there is no scroller,
but if you make the window small so that you get a scroller, then use
the scroller to scroll
Happy Birthday to W3C - ten years old today:
http://www.w3.org/News/2004#item192
One way to design a website
http://www.autisticcuckoo.net/archive.php?id=2004/11/29/one-way-to-design
This article has a very interesting comment:
An important detail, which most people forget, is to add rules for
Does that really matter?
In Firefox and IE there is a focus border anyway.
IE doesn't support :focus or outlines, so there isn't much you can help.
In Firefox Cursor-Mode (F7) uses small text-cursor that isn't good for bad
sighted people anyway.
Opera with spatial navigation always adds
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:09:23 -, Kornel Lesinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does that really matter?
In Firefox and IE there is a focus border anyway.
IE doesn't support :focus or outlines, so there isn't much you can help.
In Firefox Cursor-Mode (F7) uses small text-cursor that
Hi,
Where can I read up on these accessibility issues you've outlined?
C
On Tuesday, November 30, 2004, at 06:09 AM, Kornel Lesinski wrote:
Does that really matter?
In Firefox and IE there is a focus border anyway.
IE doesn't support :focus or outlines, so there isn't much you can
help.
In
Joey wrote:
Hi i am having problems with the positioning of the Privacy Policy
div tag element *(id=privacy in CSS)* bottom right of the page. it
sits positioned 7px right and 7px bottom if there is no scroller, but
if you make the window small so that you get a scroller, then use the
From: Kornel Lesinski
Does that really matter?
In Firefox and IE there is a focus border anyway.
Which is not always visible, depending on specific background colour and or
background pattern/image
IE doesn't support :focus or outlines, so there isn't much
you can help.
Well,
On Tuesday, November 30, 2004 9:09 AM, Kornel Lesinski wrote:
Does that really matter?
Yes, focus highlighting does matter. I come across this daily -- and I'm a
keyboard user by choice...
In Firefox and IE there is a focus border anyway.
Which isn't exactly prominent - it provides a
Sorry about that -- it appears that pressing enter while holding down the
control key sends the message ( a new keystroke I didn't know about...)
Here's the complete message I was trying to send:
On Tuesday, November 30, 2004 9:09 AM, Kornel Lesinski wrote:
Does that really matter?
Yes,
Hi all,
When would you (usefully) use dfntextdfn?
(enquiring minds like to know . . . :-)
Thanks,
Bob McClelland,
Cornwall (U.K.)
www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk
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russ - maxdesign wrote:
We are interested in getting your feedback about the Web Standards Group.
Your question on standards left out DOM. Unfortunately, I didn't realize
it until after I had finished.
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From: designer
When would you (usefully) use dfntextdfn?
Indicates that this is the defining instance of the enclosed term.
The way I understand it - and I may be wrong - would be something
like:
dfn title=This is the definitionterm/dfn
Semantically, a bit like an inline, single item
On Tuesday, November 30, 2004 10:19 AM, Patrick Lauke wrote:
And you can group the above and save yourself repetition. In one
of my stylesheets, for instance, I have
#navbar li a:focus,
#navbar li a:hover,
#navbar a:active {
background: #fbfbfb;
}
I seem to recall Tommy talking
Thanks for that reply,
Page: http://www.blumedia.co.uk/developments/o2/q01.htm
CSS: http://www.blumedia.co.uk/developments/o2/styles/f_o2.css
Yes "Privacy Policy" must always be
located bottom right of the page, even if there is alot of content on
the page which requires the user to scroll,
(cross-posted to css-d; apologies to those who see twice)
We're looking to scrap some unwieldy javascript menus and use
CSS-based ones instead. I have used suckerfish menus, so am familiar
with implementing and customizing them. However, this has me
challenged.
Attributes:
1. main items go
Ray Dickman wrote:
Does the charset provided over http take priority over the charset
specified in the html meta tags?
Server should win and does in Mozilla.
To sum up, conforming user agents must observe the following priorities
when determining a document's character encoding (from highest
Came across this today on QuirksMode and thought it might be useful to
list members:
'The Bug Report system is entirely dedicated to finding mending and
publishing CSS and JavaScript browse bugs. Anyone can report bugs, and I
hope that the existence of this system will lead to more and better
Hi,
Would you explain the abbreviation IR and what is the name, and where
can I read about this rule:
a[href]:focus {-moz-outline: 2px solid -moz-mac-focusring;}
On Tuesday, November 30, 2004, at 05:38 AM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote:
IR techniques.
a[href]:focus {-moz-outline: 2px solid
Is it an okay plan to take an existing English website programmed in
ColdFusion and basically duplicate it across a few other languages
(French, German, Italian, Spanish) either in their own directories like
/english and /espanol, or at localized domains like .com, .com.es,
etc... ?
What
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:30:11 -0500, Ketan Vakil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is it an okay plan to take an existing English website programmed in
ColdFusion and basically duplicate it across a few other languages
(French, German, Italian, Spanish) either in their own directories like
/english
Hello -
Lately, with all the discussion over UTF charsets, I've been
thinking, and I doubt that I'm alone, so I will post here in the hopes
of creating a nice, informative thread that we can all reference back
to in the future.
I administer a site that is written in english, will never be
If anyone knows of any sites that discuss the history and methods of the
web standards movement and what its future might hold I would be very
interested to know.
Please email me off list, and I will share the collection to avoid
clutter.
Dan Bowling
E: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
W:
Hi Dan,
I have just sent out a similar request to a different interest group.
Please let me know if you find something about this.
Mehdi
Mehdi Pourali
Phone: 978-264-7986
Fax: 978-264-9108
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Broadbus Technologies
80 Central St.
Boxborough, MA 01719
I'm not sure what IR refers to. Here's the the CSS rule explained:
a[href]:focus { /* select any anchor with an attribute href that has
focus */
-moz-outline: /* mozilla implementation of a non standard, or non
ratified CSS property. see below for explantion. Outline creates a
border around the
The only problem I'm aware of is that you lose the ability to provide
feedback the a link has been activated.
If this is important then send IE it's own active rule:
* html a:active{}
cheers
Terrence Wood.
On 2004-12-01 4:50 AM, Derek Featherstone wrote:
On Tuesday, November 30, 2004 10:19 AM,
In UTF-8 files you can use extra characters in their natural form
instead of HTML entities - like nbsp, shy, mdash, ndash. You may also use
quotes, elipsis, etc.
They take less space and are safer for string manipulations on server-side.
You don't have to worry about copying and pasting from
I interpreted 'IR' to stand for 'image replacement', such as FIR and sFIR et
al.
Cheers,
Kevin Futter
On 1/12/04 7:50 AM, Terrence Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not sure what IR refers to. Here's the the CSS rule explained:
snip
--
Kevin Futter
Webmaster, St. Bernard's College
Kornel LesiÒski is completly right that was my problem, hidden character,
but using Charset seems sometimes a nightmare and there are so much
information about, that at the end you ask your self if what you understood
is correct.
I tryed to analyse the charset and I reached out with this 3
Daniel Bowling wrote:
If anyone knows of any sites that discuss the history and methods of the
web standards movement and what its future might hold I would be very
interested to know.
Not to say that there wasn't any web standards movement before, but I'd
start
by looking as WaSP
On Tuesday, November 30, 2004 10:19 AM, Patrick Lauke wrote:
And you can group the above and save yourself repetition. In one
of my stylesheets, for instance, I have
#navbar li a:focus,
#navbar li a:hover,
#navbar a:active {
background: #fbfbfb;
}
I seem to recall Tommy
Andrew Krespanis wrote:
The problem with declaring all three in one is that IE 5 (possibly 5.5
also, can't remember which right now) for PC chokes on any declaration
that contains :focus. Combining your :active and :focus rules will
effectively cancel that entire declaration in dodgy old IE
One thing I was disappointed with in the survey: the question have you ever
attended a WSG meeting? only allowed three options and there was no other
option. So how could I say that I'd love to attend a WSG meeting and would
if it didn't always happen on a Monday when I have a regular prior
Same results here for IE (similar set up) on my own test page, and I
don't see any bugs in Opera 7PC, 7.5MAC normal and SSR mode.
Opera's SSR is pretty aggressive and not many styles (if any) stick, so
the lack of :focus support in this mode is to be expected as a feature,
not a bug.
Terrence
Hmm...it doesn't seem to affect IE 5 or 5.5 (admittedly using skyx' multiple
IE installations on a Win2k machine natively running 6) on
www.salford.ac.uk
though. Maybe just depends on a variety of factors, not sure...
Hmmm indeed ;)
When I get home from work I'll find the exact bug and link
I wasn't getting any problems with www.caexpo.com.au either (tabbing
thru still highlights, like hover), I was testing using multiple IE
installations on single PC as well though.
Tim Hill
Computer Associates
Graphic Artist
tel: +612 9937 0792
fax: +612 9937 0546
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The problem with declaring all three in one is that IE 5 (possibly 5.5
also, can't remember which right now) for PC chokes on any declaration
that contains :focus. Combining your :active and :focus rules will
effectively cancel that entire declaration in dodgy old IE.
oh, dodgy old IE :/
remember
On 1 Dec 2004, at 4:13 am, Chris Kennon wrote:
Would you explain the abbreviation IR and what is the name, and where
can I read about this rule:
a[href]:focus {-moz-outline: 2px solid -moz-mac-focusring;}
IR stands for Image Replacement - like the FIR or sFir methods, where
CSS (and/or Js) is
Hi all :o)
Would appreciate any comments.
PLEASE NOTE: Mac people - sorry not there yet, so don't even
bother. I've served you up a crappy print style sheet :o(
Here she is -
http://www.grafx.com.au/wip/withPassion/
Thanks in advance :o)
Richard
Hi,
I am a new member to WSG and am hopingsomeone
can help me with a problem I'm having. I'm only
new to web design and CSS, and am learning as I go along.
I'm trying to create a site but it is displaying
differently in Firefox and IE and I'm not sure why.
It is a two column template,
Sounds like double margin bug:
http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/doubled-margin.html
In Firefox, the left nav displays correctly, but in IE, the nav is moved
further to the right than it is supposed to be, so I've had to make the image
narrower than it should be to fit into the
Aloha,
Cosmetically, it looks okay. There's one bug where the top navigation
element sticks out of the left side, and doesn't reach the right side
completely.
Your dropdown menus function perfectly, but it would be better to make
those liks use the pointer cursor on mouseover, as to indicate
Kym
One thing I always do is use a Strict Doctype. I find then that the
rendering between browsers is much more consistent that a
Transistional Doctype.
I also try not to use CSS which will invoke the IE Box Model problem.
This involves using 'margin' a lot more than 'padding' where
applicable.
I
don't like the disconnect between the word pairs flowers plants and wedding
events. If they share the same drop down, they should look like they share the
same button.
In
ff1.0 the topnav sits about 10 pixels too far left, outside the main section.
Are
there hover effects on the
On 1 Dec 2004, at 11:39 AM, Kym Parry wrote:
Hi,
I am a new member to WSG and am hoping someone can help me with a
problem I'm having. I'm only new to web design and CSS, and am
learning as I go along.
I'm trying to create a site but it is displaying differently in
Firefox and IE and I'm
Agree with Ted completely on the disconnect on those word pairs. Like
the overall design. The 10px shift does exist in firefox, which,
actually, does seem a bit visual interesting to me, even if it was
unintended (naturally, cross browser uniformity would be good)
only nearly-bothersome thing I
Aloha,
I am currently messing around, and writing a simple template, and was
wondering if there is a way to lineup 5 divs on a single line without
using the left and right css properties.
The template i'm messing around with is here:
http://oxiserve.com/misc/test/ .
Thanks in advance.
Love,
mike bailey wrote:
I am currently messing around, and writing a simple template, and was
wondering if there is a way to lineup 5 divs on a single line without
using the left and right css properties.
In other words, you don't want to use absolute positioning. How's about:
.fiveInRow {
float :
Thanks Ted and John :o)
The disconnecting text is not something I can change as this design element
was specified by the client.
I've fixed the topNav -10px wierdness - only happened on the home page -
quelle bizarre! :o)
No hover effect on action items (yet)
Top Nav landing pages do not exist
Mordechai Peller wrote:
A possible problem you need to be aware of is that sometimes IE doesn't
seem to add correctly and:
20% + 20% + 20% + 20% + 20% 100%
remember that the above is also true for other browsers if margin, padding
and border are anything but zero (in the correct box model)
--
greg harrington wrote:
Hi, this is the first time here so I hope i do thinks right. I have as
part of a student group written a website for the school i work at. I'm
using IE6 and the site displays images in 800 by 600 fine but in 1024 by
768 the image displays a bit to the left until i hit
For me, the top nav is not only ten px to the left, it is also ten px up.
Leaves a brown gap between your sliced images of the wedding couple.
Not sure if that is fixed in your latest changes.
Cheers
Natalie
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 13:25:02 +1100, Richard Czeiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks
Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
remember that the above is also true for other browsers if margin,
padding
and border are anything but zero (in the correct box model)
In Firefox, last I checked, 5x(1%+18%+1%) will equal 100%, so margins,
etc, aren't a problem if you account for them.
Can any WSG UK members confirm the situation for banks over there (Nat
West, Barclays, Lloyds etc...). Contact me offlist if this is OT and I
will post the results.
Regards
PAUL ROSS
SkyRocket Design Co
http://www.skyrocket.com.au
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This link explains it all - http://dampsponge.com/layout/floattest.htm
AlrightI take a breath. I am trying to float 3 div's inside a container.
On the container i have a background image that is repeated down to make it
look like there are 3 columns.
I am trying to get the 3 nested div's
I went to check
out http://hmv.ninemsn.com.au using
Firefox and it gave me this:
"The site you have tried to enter requires Internet
Explorer 6 (or better) with Windows Media Player 7 (or better) on Windows XP,
2000, Me or 98. Click Here to use our Doctor Download application to
help you
Unbelievable!
On Nov 30, 2004, at 9:08 PM, Dave Rayner wrote:
I went to check out http://hmv.ninemsn.com.au using Firefox and it gave me this:
The site you have tried to enter requires Internet Explorer 6 (or better) with Windows Media Player 7 (or better) on Windows XP, 2000, Me or 98. Click
Hi Everyone,
I am setting up a sports website for a client, where all of the
content is in Article format which rotates regularly - essentially a
news type site. I am determined to build the site in valid XHTML/CSS.
I am debating with their designers about 2 things:
1. They want to use a full
I am sure if everyone on the list send HMV an email saying we wanted to
buy some CDs and DVDs but couldnt get on their site...
A good 200 customers they missed out on will probably get them whipping
their webdev team into shape...
I guess?
Dave Rayner wrote:
I went to check out
actually, firing up IE and taking a look at the source, not quite as
unbelievable. Enough stock dreamweaver and frontpage javascript in
there to choke a large horse.
~j
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 21:25:31 -0700, Shane Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unbelievable!
On Nov 30, 2004, at 9:08 PM,
I need everyone to take a look at my new website and give me some feedback if possible please. http://www.jlinasdesign.com Thanks guys
J.LinasDesignGraphic Designerhttp://www.jlinasdesign.com/
I would guess the reason for this has been well planned, and is
probably not to do with the website itself, - nineMSN is (as the name
suggests) part of the Microsoft Network. The music you download from
this site is in Windows Media format, and uses their licensing model,
this is very big business
I thought Firefox was the (or better)!
Regards
Lisa Herrod
Usability Analyst
02 9467 5047
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Access Testing Centre
Sydney Melbourne
112 Alexander Street28 Drummond Street
Crows Nest NSW 2065 Carlton South VIC 3053
P:
Matt -
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 15:23:49 +1100, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am setting up a sports website for a client, where all of the
content is in Article format which rotates regularly - essentially a
news type site. I am determined to build the site in valid XHTML/CSS.
excellent!
I
Use Andy King's article at
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/tweak/splash/ he definitely
isnt old school
In the end however, they may ignore you. Thats their choice. As long as
you've stated your objections in documentation they can't blame you
later when the problems you predict
Even worse, is that there is no way to view the site on the Mac. Now they've wiped out 10% of computer users. That's a good bit of the population.
Shane Helm
On Nov 30, 2004, at 9:08 PM, Dave Rayner wrote:
I went to check out http://hmv.ninemsn.com.au using Firefox and it gave me this:
The
like the background and logo.
On Nov 30, 2004, at 9:34 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
x-tad-biggerI need everyone to take a look at my new website and give me some feedback if possible please. /x-tad-biggerx-tad-biggerhttp://www.jlinasdesign.com/x-tad-biggerx-tad-bigger Thanks guys/x-tad-bigger
Yep. When has Microsoft showed any real concerns for Web Standards.
On Nov 30, 2004, at 9:35 PM, Matt wrote:
I would guess the reason for this has been well planned, and is
probably not to do with the website itself, - nineMSN is (as the name
suggests) part of the Microsoft Network. The music you
Ok - design critique. It's late, not looking at the code just yet.
Keep in mind, this is one designers opinion, and as in most critiques,
I have a tendancy to only mention the stuff I don't like, not the
stuff I do. Overall, looks really nice. (P.S. - test browser is
FF1.0) No comment on the
Hi guys,
I have a site I'm doing for a graphic designer friend of mine, and one of
the things I needed to do was to absolutely position each element of the
navigation because she wanted to have them follow the shape of the design.
So far so good, and I put together a working template on her Mac
Hi Guys
Having issues with a site just launched where the menu dissapears on
the Mac in IE.
Could anyone suggest what I've done wrong here?
Works great in Safari.
http://www.manufacturingbestpractice.com.au
The pertaining stylesheet is
Matt wrote:
1. If I add content to the left or right columns, the footer doesn't
push down, and the content overlaps - the layout breaks. I would like
for all 3 columns to be the same height, no matter which one has more
or less content.
All you need is to add clear: both; to #Footer. That is
I think its important to actually note that it is a ninemsn content
partner - not ninemsn itself - whose site is causing the problem. Note
the redirection http://sib1.od2.com Its a branded content partner
site.
Chris
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 21:50:26 -0700, Shane Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yep.
Short anwser: try and use 2 hacks.
I recommend developing for the best standards compliant browsers first:
Firefox, Opera, or Safari.
This will ensure that your CSS is clean and valid and should work well
with future standards compliant browsers.
Then I deal to/with IE/PC. I always use the *
Yes, ordinarily I do develop in Firefox first, but because I was at her
house and working on her computer, I had to make do with what I had. That
happened to be IE/Mac, since her install of Safari was acting oddly and kept
hanging up. *sigh*
Thanks for the code tips though. I'll have a play and
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