Thanks for your ideas everyone, I'll definitely add some of those
things. I have also pointed out that their existing site doesn't work
too well in Netscape 4 (or with Flash disabled, for that matter).
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 15:46:30 +0800, Nick Cowie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If it is a WA gov site
Hi,
This is probably a really easy one.
I am just setting myself up to tryPerl
scripting. My first job is to set the Character Set and MIME Typeto
besent in the header.
What test should I carry out to make sure that the
header is correct?
Regards,
Charlie
PERL questions should be directed to a PERL list as PERL is a
scripting language and NOT a web standard.
This is in accordance with the guidelines of the WSG email list.
If you have the answer to this question, please reply OFF LIST to the sender.
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On Tue,
Hi Charles
Download Firefox (if you haven't already) and then install the
LiveHTTPHeaders plug in (http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/). Restart
Firefox and LiveHTTPHeaders will then be under the tools menu and all
your headers will be revealed.
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On 12/21/04 12:38 AM Charles Slack [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent this out:
I am just setting myself up to try Perl scripting. My first job is to set the
Character Set and MIME Type to be sent in the header.
What test should I carry out to make sure that the header is correct?
Shouldn't your query be
Sorry - I did not think I was asking a Perl question - just asking how I see
an HTML header.
Thanks Mark for your rapid response.
Sorry everyone else.
Charlie
- Original Message -
From: Mark Stanton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 8:54 AM
From: Gary Menzel
PERL questions should be directed to a PERL list as PERL is a
scripting language and NOT a web standard.
The question was about HTTP and MIME, which - in my mind - do
fall under web standards...
Patrick
Patrick H. Lauke
Webmaster /
Trying to find examples, resources that define how StyleSheets should be
organised. There's been dicussion of how to arrange your classes and IDs and
I'm just wondering, what about base generic styles that don't need to be
referenced by class or ID... Does anyone out there start with a
Hi
I've a page with div layouts but inside a div I need to show some data
inside a table.
How could I set table width to be a 90% of div width size ?
If I set a table width=90% it takes a 90% of whole page instead of
div...
Thanks in advance
jl
Kay Smoljak wrote:
I'm feeling like this whole week is one big Friday afternoon, and that
somehow sounds rather lame. Can anyone recommend any other reasons or
throw in some kick-arse buzzwords to make me look good?
Quote the pointy hairded boss:
Lets improve our existing services by
Web design world cool-down:
http://www.molly.com/2004/12/18/web-design-world-cool-down/
Don¹t Care About Market Share:
http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/12/20/market-share-dont-care/
HTML tags:
http://lachy.id.au/blogs/log/2004/12/html-tags
ALT attribute (ALT tag, ALT tooltip)
About a month ago, Lachlan Hardy produced a slide show template (based on
Eric Meyers S5) for the WSG.
It is now online for all WSG members to use as they wish:
http://webstandardsgroup.org/go/resource367.cfm
More on S5:
http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/
Rather than clog the list, if you have
On 21 Dec 2004, at 9:11 PM, Javier Leyba wrote:
How could I set table width to be a 90% of div width size ?
If I set a table width=90% it takes a 90% of whole page instead of
div...
How about
div#whatever table { margin: 0 10% ;}
But beware... some browsers (IE5Mac comes to mind) need the longhand
Just remember - as far as I have found - if you dont set the width on
the DIV then the DIV will size to whatever the content is.
If you dont have a width on the DIV and say the TABLE is 90% - what
will it be 90% of? The closest bounding ancestor area that has a
width - which will be the body tag
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 09:50:28PM +1000, Gary Menzel wrote:
Just remember - as far as I have found - if you dont set the width on
the DIV then the DIV will size to whatever the content is.
Not unless floated - if you don't set a width on a non-floated
non-replaced block, it will have the
Hello all this is my first post so bear with me.
(if that 1st sentence didn't put you off please read on)
I have, what I think is a Float related issue, which is causing me
some layout problems.
The URL to the page is:
http://www.euromediatraffic.com/~daniel/pt/index.html and the
stylesheet is:
'lo guys
After experimenting with the IE7 javascript library for IE, I've noticed
some shortcomings with the scripts, that whilst solving one issue...
create another. (In this case, resolving the img:hover{} issue, but
messing up paddings for a:link/a:link:hover/a:hover)
Does anyone know of any
Does anyone know of any existing (and much simpler) JavaScript libraries
that enable :hover, :focus, and :active for non anchor tags for IE?
http://www.xs4all.nl/~peterned/csshover.html
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Hi Dan
Had a quick look at your page. Upon trying to validate found a few
errors including a couple of unclosed tags and a missing closing /div.
This is probably what is causing your problems. Fix those HTML errors
first and then come back to me if you've still got problems.
Merry Christmas
My site is http://www.dotradio.uni.cc. What can I do to improve my
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The color scheme is what I do not like. Can someone help me find a
better color scheme?
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 09:46:27 -0500, Anthony Timberlake
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My site is http://www.dotradio.uni.cc. What can I do to improve my
site? Is there anything wrong with it? Thanks for your
Try http://colorschemer.com/
Great tool, I think there's a 15 day trial.
Regards,
Hanni
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 10:00:00 -0500, Anthony Timberlake
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The color scheme is what I do not like. Can someone help me find a
better color scheme?
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 09:46:27
My site is http://www.dotradio.uni.cc. What can I do to improve my
site? Is there anything wrong with it? Thanks for your help.
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hmmm... eg. you can validate it, esp. change the to / (XHTML)
G'day
My site is http://www.dotradio.uni.cc. What can I do to improve my
site? Is there anything wrong with it? Thanks for your help.
Validate, fix, validate, fix, validate, ...
You might start by changing the Doctype to HTML 4.01 Transitional and
fix the 19 errors (as opposed to 154 with
http://www.paletteman.com/
Tom Livingston
Senior Multimedia Artist
mlinc.com
On Dec 21, 2004, at 10:34 AM, Hanni Ross wrote:
Try http://colorschemer.com/
Great tool, I think there's a 15 day trial.
Regards,
Hanni
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 10:00:00 -0500, Anthony Timberlake
Anthony Timberlake wrote:
My site is http://www.dotradio.uni.cc. What can I do to improve my
site? Is there anything wrong with it?
I don't mean to be rude but a token attempt at validation is probably in
order before asking for suggestions.
You may want to start by limiting yourself to one
Kornel Lesinski wrote:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~peterned/csshover.html
Thanks :)
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The W3 Spec for CSS2 has one for HTML4 but I don't see any ryhme or
reason in the way it's laid it out. They're recommending that all
developers use this stylesheet as a template. Can someone explain it to me?
Well, I will at least try to... This generic stylesheet is provided by
W3C to unify
I do have one set of head, body and html tags.
I have validated my CSS and HTML.
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 10:51:36 -0500, Al Sessions [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anthony Timberlake wrote:
My site is http://www.dotradio.uni.cc. What can I do to improve my
site? Is there anything wrong with it?
have validated my CSS and HTML.
This generally means you have fixed the errors the validator displays.
The page you linked to still has 130+ errors.
Johannes' suggestion
hmmm... eg. you can validate it, esp. change the to / (XHTML)
would fix quite a few.
Matt Hampel
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004
Morning list,
*Please respond to this request off-list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), once
we've compiled the results we'll get Russ to add a link to the
Resources section of the WSG website.*
E-GOVERNMENT IMPLEMENTATION GUIDELINES
We're attempting to compile a list of international e-government web
I went back and re-checked for CSS and HTML validation: You still have
some problems to fix. The CSS validator shows an error page. The HTML
validator clearly states your code is not valid XHTML 1.0 Strict, with
136 errors. You'll have to fix those first.
It looks to me like you'll have to
On 22 Dec 2004, at 8:10 AM, Anthony Timberlake wrote:
I do have one set of head, body and html tags.
I have validated my CSS and HTML.
Don't see how your HTML can validate. Adding a DOCTYPE of XHTML Strict
will not magically convert an HTML document to XHTML. The syntax of
your code is entirely
Andy Kirkwood | MOTIVE wrote:
E-GOVERNMENT IMPLEMENTATION GUIDELINES
We're attempting to compile a list of international e-government web
guidelines. (In NZ these standards have had a significant impact upon
the acceptance and perceived legitimacy of web standards.)
Andy
something along the
I am not new at this, just haven't done it for a while now. I thought
by being on this list, I could get the help I needed. I appologize if
I offended you.
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 08:53:26 +1100, Nick Gleitzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 22 Dec 2004, at 8:10 AM, Anthony Timberlake wrote:
I
Hello;
I see now that you have changed the doctype to 4.01 transitional which
still gives up 2 errors
and in the css there are still 8 errors and 1 warning.
In the html you are using self closing tags img src= blah blah blah /
you don't need that in 4.01 transitional. Plus you have td tags
It is now validated with HTML and CSS. Does anyone have anything else
that I can do to improve my site? Sites to read and gain more
knowledge, scripts?
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 14:32:14 -0800, haggis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello;
I see now that you have changed the doctype to 4.01 transitional
On 22 Dec 2004, at 9:04 AM, Anthony Timberlake wrote:
I am not new at this, just haven't done it for a while now. I thought
by being on this list, I could get the help I needed. I appologize if
I offended you.
I'm not in the least offended. But if you'd like help from this list
(and this advice
Hi
I just read the brilliant article on font sizing at Usable type that Russ
pointed us to (http://usabletype.com/styles/sizes/) and had a look at the
style sheet in use and was wondering what this meant.
#wrap {
padding:0;
text-align:left;
margin:10px auto
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 08:31:27 +0930, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
is a child selector:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/CR-CSS21-20040225/selector.html#child-selectors
html#wrap means element with id=wrap inside html (but not inside other
element inside html).
If its not body id=wrap (or head) then it
' ' is CSS for 'child of'. In this instance - html#wrap - it means
any element with an id of 'wrap' that is a child of the html element.
The reason they've used it here is probably because IE does not
understand that selector, so it will ignore the rule.
Hope that cleared it up a bit for you :)
' ' is CSS for 'child of'. In this instance - html#wrap - it means
any element with an id of 'wrap' that is a child of the html element.
The reason they've used it here is probably because IE does not
understand that selector, so it will ignore the rule.
Hope that cleared it up a bit for you :)
Hello;
You have said .
---
It is now validated with HTML and CSS.
Does anyone have anything else that I can do to improve my site?
Sites to read and gain more knowledge, scripts?
Hey
I'm still trying to figure out how to add modules
Is there any tutorial on what you need to do with the .dtd, .mod, etc...
documents and files?
Or, morerather...
How do I insert this module:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/dtd_module_defs.html#a_module_Iframe
Into an XHTML1.1 page?
Hi
The webstandardsgroup.org is able to be updated by all members. Feel
free to add relevant resources as you like!
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Kornel Lesinski wrote:
So, in this case it's CSS hack. AFAIK IE5/win ignores and + selectors
and iterprets it as html #wrap.
Still trying to find out which browsers mistakenly apply this. IE5/5.5/6
seem to rightly ignore the rule. The closest I came was the star-7 hack
Anthony Timberlake wrote:
My site is http://www.dotradio.uni.cc. What can I do to improve my
site? Is there anything wrong with it? Thanks for your help.
To me, the #3 stylesheet provides the least bothersome color
combination, but that produces a section of virtually invisible text at
the
Kornel Lesinski wrote:
So, in this case it's CSS hack. AFAIK IE5/win ignores and
+ selectors and iterprets it as html #wrap.
Still trying to find out which browsers mistakenly apply this. IE5/5.5/6
seem to rightly ignore the rule. The closest I came was the star-7 hack
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote:
Jeffery Fernandez wrote:
I am trying to get a Div to expand its height when the content grows.
Site development url is http://www.hotshot.com.au/dev/fpaa/
This: http://www.positioniseverything.net/easyclearing.html , or any
other clearing-method, should fix that problem.
Does anyone know of any existing (and much simpler) JavaScript libraries
that enable :hover, :focus, and :active for non anchor tags for IE?
Look it up in http://alistapart.com/articles/dropdowns
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Have a look at http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html
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I think that I have done a nice job with the new stylesheets.
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 01:58:20 +0100, JohnyB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Try http://colorschemer.com/
Have a look at http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html
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I think that I have done a nice job with the new stylesheets.
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 01:58:20 +0100, JohnyB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Try http://colorschemer.com/
Have a look at http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html
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dude that site bites !
Anthony Timberlake wrote:
I think that I have done a nice job with the new stylesheets.
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 01:58:20 +0100, JohnyB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Try http://colorschemer.com/
Have a look at http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html
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On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 01:58:20 +0100, JohnyB
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Try http://colorschemer.com/
Have a look at
http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html
A while back I had compiled a list of some good Color
Scheme Tools here:
Excuse me?
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 11:19:31 +1000, simon dodson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
dude that site bites !
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Well, it's getting there the html now validates but the css still does not.
It has the same errors as before only now they are on all three stylesheets.
You cannot list sizes or dimensions without the unit in other words padding:
2; is not valid however, padding: 2px (or em or %) is. and the
Back in July I made a very small experiment that calculates tints and
their respective complementaries based on hex values. To my surprise,
even Eric Meyer liked it enough to link to it at the time (ah, my 15 seconds
of fame).
It's basic, but it just arose out of an immediate need I had at the
How are you getting errors?
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dotradio.uni.cc%2Fstyles%2F1.cssusermedium=all
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dotradio.uni.cc%2Fstyles%2F2.cssusermedium=all
Nick Cowie wrote:
Get hold of their web logs or from a similar site, you should find the combined
IE4/NS4 and earlier browsers account for less than 0.5% of all vistors (it is
with our sites) and seeing a sizeable chunk ( a least a third) of those are
using NS3, IE3 or NS4.04 (bad javascript)
Anthony - you are validating the individual css files. Your inline
styles still leave a bit to be desired...
When you validate css using a site url it takes the css that page
accesses and runs . You are validating each file in isolation from
inline styles.
For example:
div
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 20:40:50 -0500, Anthony Timberlake
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry, see correction below--- sans-serif *not* serif
How are you getting errors?
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dotradio.uni.cc%2Fstyles%2F1.cssusermedium=all
Anthony;
You asked .
-
How are you getting errors?
-
I open your site in FF and use the developers toolbar to validate your html
and your css at the W3C ... when I
On 22 Dec 2004, at 9:25 am, Kornel Lesinski wrote:
Today I've ran into problems with IE5.01/win:
dt.active + dd {}
was applied to all dd elements, even changing to:
* dt.active + dd {}
didn't help - IE5 still stubbornly saw the rule.
If there is white-space around the '+', than IE5.0 applies the
I am anxious about the changements which is coming with the new standard.
Most of us have developped application using DOM which maybe will not be
valid with the new standard especially with XHTML 2.0 and DOM3.
I think standard doesn't take in consideration some attribute which was
being used
Hi Nick,
We successfully moved NN4 off our primary support list a couple of
years ago, despite the lingering in-house installs due to NN4 once
upon a time being the standard browser.
My thoughts on your situation
I have a requirements document here that I'm quoting for, that
mentions that
Hi Berry
A few points here:
- I doubt XHTML 2/DOM 3 will hit the main stream for a number of years
(at least 5). So I wouldn't start worrying about it now.
- I don't think XHTML 2/DOM 3 have be designed with developers in
mind. These guys are not thinking about our immediate needs - they are
Hi Berry,
I wouldn't be so anxious about the new xhtml standards for now. I really
don't think it'll be around in the next 4 to 5 years (if ever).
If browsers will follow standards... I think there is a hole new
awareness about standards and I think new browsers will follow
standards. Even IE
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