Re: [WSG] The Relative Position story and the browser Incompatibility

2004-12-27 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 23:58:34 -0500, berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I presume the right behavior is that the margin don't dependent of their parents margin isn't it? (Taking off position relative change nothing). ... You may want to check this:

Re: Re: [WSG] The Relative Position story and the browser Incompatibility

2004-12-27 Thread mwege
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RE: [WSG] Why style to IE?

2004-12-27 Thread Collin Davis
Mordechai, I can't speak for everybody, but as the person responsible for designing and creating websites whose sole purpose is to bring new business into the company; my main focus is the majority that comes to our sites. The overwhelming majority (about 70%) of visitors use MSIE 5/6. If I have

Re: [WSG] Why style to IE?

2004-12-27 Thread Mathias Bynens
As a person, you can of course say fuck you to IE, but as a web professional I find it impossible to ignore it. [ Ben de Groot - http://mathibus.com/archives/2004/10/02/phpss/#comment-3 ] On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 09:52:46 -0600, Collin Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mordechai, I can't speak for

Re: [WSG] Why style to IE?

2004-12-27 Thread Rob Mientjes
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 17:46:56 +0100, Mathias Bynens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a person, you can of course say fuck you to IE, but as a web professional I find it impossible to ignore it. [ Ben de Groot - http://mathibus.com/archives/2004/10/02/phpss/#comment-3 ] It's totally true. IE is a

Re: [WSG] Content box not stretching as expected

2004-12-27 Thread Jonathan T. Sage
the relative positioning did the trick wonderfully. as for the background color, this is maybe fixed? I'm not sure what you are seeing exactally. What browser / platfrom / color depth? Maybe you could shoot me a screenshot if this proplem persists? thanks very much! ~j On Mon, 27 Dec 2004

Re: [WSG] Why style to IE?

2004-12-27 Thread Kornel Lesinski
If you make commercial sites you must live with the fact that it is mainly for IE. Loudest f. you I can tell to IE is Firebar: http://hpstudios.homeip.net/Firebar.html Usually I don't have to trash the code with conditional comments. * html {} and * {} css hacks are enough. I try to make pages

Re: [WSG] Why style to IE?

2004-12-27 Thread Mordechai Peller
Collin Davis wrote: I can't speak for everybody, but as the person responsible for designing and creating websites whose sole purpose is to bring new business into the company; my main focus is the majority that comes to our sites. As I though I explained before, and as I'll try to clarify some

RE: [WSG] Why style to IE?

2004-12-27 Thread Collin Davis
The point I was trying to make was that my audience primarily uses IE (as I dare say, so do most commercial web audiences). As such, I design my sites to work first and foremost *for* IE. The bashing of head against the proverbial brick wall comes from trying to make my standards-compliant sites

Re: [WSG] Why style to IE?

2004-12-27 Thread David Laakso
Right on, Vicki. Additionally, conditional comments are not blocked in IE --as is JavaScript-- if the user has her Security setting at High. David On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 01:15:12 +0800, Vicki Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't believe Mordechai was suggesting anyone ignore IE -- rather

RE: [WSG] Why style to IE?

2004-12-27 Thread Collin Davis
Mordechai Pellar wrote: So you limit yourself to what NN4.x and can handle? It was NN4.x and older browsers that the phrase unstyled or lightly styled was directed, unless you consider CSS dumb down to IE standards (admittedly, that usually amounts to no more than a slight margin, but a

Re: [WSG] The Relative Position story and the browser Incompatibility

2004-12-27 Thread berry
Thank you for the information. After reading the article and the CSS 2 specification. I can say that only Mozilla have the right way Netscape 7.0 doesn't work like CSS 2 specification. I think If the css2 remove the collapsing problem for the horizontal margin why don't they do it for the

Re: [WSG] Why style to IE?

2004-12-27 Thread berry
Mordechai Peller wrote: I know there's a certain degree of revulsion to using JavaScript, but that's because it wasn't used properly. It's a very powerful language, and when combined with the DOM, and used responsibly, it can do many wonderful things. -- I agree with you

Re: [WSG] The Relative Position story and the browser Incompatibility

2004-12-27 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 13:16:52 -0500, berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Why all this fuss just for having headhache? Without it we would have a headache how to have consistent margins between different elements ;) Regards, Rimantas ** The

RE: [WSG] Why style to IE?

2004-12-27 Thread standards
Good day all, I have to concur with Collin about designing for IE first and foremost. I run a design firm in Dallas, and the dominate browser is the US is certainly IE therefore it would be less then prudent or rational to design for FF/Opera/NN/Safari etc. I also understand and take advantage

[WSG] learning CSS

2004-12-27 Thread designer
Hi All, two comments fascinated me: [1] - Original Message - From: Vicki Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org [snip] My own method of preference in these circumstances is the use of conditional comments for IE. [2] - Original Message - From: Kornel Lesinski

Re: [WSG] Why style to IE?

2004-12-27 Thread Mordechai Peller
Collin Davis wrote: The bashing of head against the proverbial brick wall comes from trying to make my standards-compliant sites work the same in FF/Opera/NN/Safari as they do in IE. I first make sure the sites look and perform the way I want in both MSIE 5 and 6. After that is successful, I

Re: [WSG] Why style to IE?

2004-12-27 Thread Mordechai Peller
Collin Davis wrote: Since IE doesn't recognize :hover apart from anchor tags, I only use :hover on anchor tags. As I have done as well. Though now I'm wondering why not just use an onmouseover, hidden by either conditional comments or conditional compilation, as well? However, if NN4.x was

Re: [WSG] Why style to IE?

2004-12-27 Thread Kornel Lesinski
I think it is important *not to* buildtest in IE first. You have to avoid building your code on top of some IE bug/quirk. It is much less work to force IE to behave well, than making all other browsers misbehave like IE. For that matter I build and test pages for Firefox and Opera7 first (having

RE: [WSG] Why style to IE?

2004-12-27 Thread Collin Davis
Mordechai Peller wrote: And there's your mistake. As has been discussed many times on this list and elsewhere, it's much easier and faster to first code to standards and then correct for IE. I may be a duck out of water here, but I don't find it to be so. I've done it both ways, and marking

RE: [WSG] Why style to IE?

2004-12-27 Thread Collin Davis
You have to avoid building your code on top of some IE bug/quirk. The only bug/quirk with IE that I've come across that needed my attention was the big one: box model. I prefer to use the box in a box sort of workaround, rather than tantek, SBMH, modified SBMH or alternate BMHs, simply because I

Re: [WSG] Why style to IE?

2004-12-27 Thread Kornel Lesinski
The only bug/quirk with IE that I've come across that needed my attention was the big one: box model. I prefer to use the box in a box sort of workaround This needs excessive divs and without IE support for '' selector requires them additionally messed with lots of id/classes. Why serve any

[WSG] Web Design Theory Question: CSS only or Illustrator/Photoshop to CSS?

2004-12-27 Thread Anthony Zeoli
Hi all: I'm fairly new to the CSS game and have been playing with the CSS tool, Stylemaster, which is pretty easy to use and has been a great help to me in learning how to layout a CSS web site. What I'm wondering though, is now that a large number of web producers/designers are using CSS for

RE: [WSG] Web Design Theory Question: CSS only or Illustrator/Photoshop to CSS?

2004-12-27 Thread Collin Davis
Coming from a design background, I still feel most comfortable doing all mockups and design work in editing programs. I do all preliminary work on paper, transfer into Photoshop and finish all logo work in Illustrator. One of the things you have to remember is unless you're doing a personal

Re: [WSG] learning CSS

2004-12-27 Thread Kornel Lesinski
I am learning CSS tricks (I know the star hack) but where can I find out about Vicki's 'conditional comments' and Kornel's *{} ?? Where is this stuff documented? http://positioniseverything.net/explorer.html is a great resource for IE bugs and hacks. Conditional Comments:

Re: [WSG] Why style to IE?

2004-12-27 Thread David Laakso
re: and even not all stylesheets are 'pure', take this one: Name: Lim Yuan Qing Age: 14 DOB: 25th January 1990 Location: Singapore Yuan Qing is an alumnus of Temasek Secondary and Ngee Ann Primary. Come 2005 he will attend school at Temasek Junior College in its Integrated Programme (IP). On

[WSG] putting code into a web page

2004-12-27 Thread Ted Drake
Hi All I want to put some code into a page for people to cut and paste. for example, I'd like the page to say Simply add this code to your site: a href=http://www.csatravelprotection.com; title=Purchase travel insurance from CSA Travel Protection Travel Insurance/a - CSA Travel Protection Or

RE: [WSG] why is IE showing bullets?

2004-12-27 Thread Graham
Took your code, ran it in IE6, no bulklets Graham -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted Drake Sent: Tuesday, 28 December 2004 9:06 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] why is IE showing bullets? Ok, I've got some inheritance

Re: [WSG] why is IE showing bullets?

2004-12-27 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Can't seem to get to the URL you provided (or it's being particularly slow), but looking at the CSS you have in your email, there's a stray double quote border: 0; Remove that , and see if that cures it. Patrick Ted Drake wrote: Ok, I've got some inheritance problems. I keep waiting for my rich

Re: [WSG] putting code into a web page

2004-12-27 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Ted Drake wrote: I want to put some code into a page for people to cut and paste. for example, I'd like the page to say Simply add this code to your site: a href=http://www.csatravelprotection.com; title=Purchase travel insurance from CSA Travel Protection Travel Insurance/a - CSA Travel

[WSG] ADMIN - Swearing on the WSG list

2004-12-27 Thread russ - maxdesign
WSG members, It is completely unacceptable to swear/use profane language on the WSG list. This has been mentioned many times on list including the last time we had this sort of incident, when Peter Firminger (listdad) wrote: I can be blue to people I know in person but profanity... is simply not

[WSG] Non-validation and web standards

2004-12-27 Thread Lyn Patterson
Good morning I have the following hacks in a stylesheet which validates except for the hacks. /*hide from MacIE\*/ * html #content { height: 1%; }/*end hide*/ *html ul li {height: 1em;} *html#footer{/*for ie */ \height: 3.25em; /*for ie5*/ he\ight: 3.2em;/*for ie6*/ } *html #content

Re: [WSG] putting code into a web page

2004-12-27 Thread Rene Saarsoo
Well, code comes especially useful compared to pre when you need to reference some code inline. For example: pUse codelen(varA/var);/code do determine the size of an array varA/var./p Like you see, I have used the var element to denote variables - actually I've never seen this being done

RE: [WSG] Why style to IE?

2004-12-27 Thread ByteDreams
Title: RE: [WSG] Why style to IE? Thanks for the Dean Edwards link! ByteDreams -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mordechai Peller Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 2:01 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Why

RE: [WSG] Why style to IE?

2004-12-27 Thread ByteDreams
Title: RE: [WSG] Why style to IE? One other thing... Have you not used this method yourself for any particular reason, other than the opportunity just didn't present itself? Just curious. ByteDreams -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On

[WSG] Please remove...

2004-12-27 Thread Ray Dickman
Please remove me...thank you ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help

Re: [WSG] Web Design Theory Question: CSS only or Illustrator/Photoshop to CSS?

2004-12-27 Thread Lea de Groot
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 15:13:28 -0500, Anthony Zeoli wrote: Are designers still designing full site templates in Illustrator, then porting them over to Photoshop to tweak the graphics, exporting Fireworks for slicing and saving to .gif and .jpg/png, then placing those images using CSS