Re: [WSG] Headings within ul Navigation

2005-05-05 Thread James Ellis
HI While h1 is allowed in li according to http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/block/h1.html, it's not the same way that you are suggesting.. if you want to markup text to be emphasised used em or strong. h1-h6 are headings for content You would be better of using descendant selectors here to

Re: [WSG] liquid 3-column layout - my head is spinning

2005-05-05 Thread soft tester
Is there any standard for browsers like web standards ? Is there Any idea to standardise web browser lik web standard websites or limit the browser to solve these web standard problems? Jalal www.future-internet.com Lea de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 04 May 2005 22:47:45 +0200, Gunlaug

RE: [WSG] Headings within ul Navigation

2005-05-05 Thread Jamie Mason
Title: RE: [WSG] Headings within ul Navigation Thanks all, I've been doing it purely for strucural reasons rather than presentational. The thought behind it was (all invented in my head); + hey, maybe it'll help give some more things for search engines to grab onto + maybe screen reader

[WSG] font list?

2005-05-05 Thread john
Hello, everybody. Not specifically related to standards, but I hope this is a simply enough question that somebody can respond. No matter how hard I try to explain, one of my clients just cannot understand that fonts are taken from the user's computer when they view the page. Basically, he

Re: [WSG] font list?

2005-05-05 Thread Neerav
what you need is: http://www.visibone.com/font/tests.html http://www.visibone.com/font/FontResults.html :-) -- Neerav Bhatt http://www.bhatt.id.au Need a Sydney based web standards contractor? You need my services. Recent projects for Glassonion, Freshweb, Cogentis, Ceneka ...

Re: [WSG] font list?

2005-05-05 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 5 May 2005, at 8:30 PM, john wrote: What I need is a site that shows the different fonts that are recommended for web design. It would be nice if there were some kind of PDF I can print, but I can also go to his office and show him online if need be. Google: web-safe fonts N

Re: [WSG] liquid 3-column layout - my head is spinning

2005-05-05 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
soft tester wrote: Is there any standard for browsers like web standards ? Think that was the idea behind W3C standards -- originally. Is there Any idea to standardise web browser lik web standard websites or limit the browser to solve these web standard problems? None working. regards

Re: [WSG] background image size in future CSS

2005-05-05 Thread Rob Mientjes
On 5/5/05, Julián Landerreche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just curiosity: Will it be possible (in CSS3) to change the dimension (width, height) of a background image directly from the stylesheet? There's work on 'stretch'. Read the draft to know more. So, you can use a tiny image to create a

Re: [WSG] font list?

2005-05-05 Thread Shane Shepherd
Hello John, I frequently use CodeStyle as a reference: http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/index.shtml Shane john wrote: Hello, everybody. Not specifically related to standards, but I hope this is a simply enough question that somebody can respond. No matter how hard I try to

Re: [WSG] font list?

2005-05-05 Thread Thierry Koblentz
john wrote: No matter how hard I try to explain, one of my clients just cannot understand that fonts are taken from the user's computer when they view the page. Basically, he can't shake the distinctions between print design and web design. You may want to look into sIFR:

Re: [WSG] background image size in future CSS

2005-05-05 Thread Jan Brasna
In what possible way can you stretch an image, keep it looking good and save bandwidth? SVG ;) -- Jan Brasna aka JohnyB :: www.alphanumeric.cz | www.janbrasna.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

Re: [WSG] background image size in future CSS

2005-05-05 Thread Rob Mientjes
On 5/5/05, Jan Brasna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SVG ;) Jan, I thought we try to pursue a goal here: working stuff in IE too ;) But seriously, I have no idea what the use _can_ be. -- Cheers, Rob. http://zooibaai.nl | http://digital-proof.org | http://chancecube.com

RE: [WSG] background image size in future CSS

2005-05-05 Thread Patrick Lauke
Rob Mientjes But seriously, I have no idea what the use _can_ be. If the resized image is smoothed by the browser before being displayed, and the original image is only meant to be an abstract, mood type background, then this could be useful within reason. But yes, only useful in a few limited

Re: [WSG] background image size in future CSS

2005-05-05 Thread Jan Brasna
But seriously, I have no idea what the use _can_ be. Well, I can't make anything up at the moment, but it could be something like em-sized vecor logotype etc. -- Jan Brasna aka JohnyB :: www.alphanumeric.cz | www.janbrasna.com ** The discussion

[WSG] Any good color spies?

2005-05-05 Thread Greg Morphis
You guys know of any good tools which has a color spy and also shows similar colors (colors that go well with the color you spied)? Free would be best.. -- Auxilium meum a Domino ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

Re: [WSG] Any good color spies?

2005-05-05 Thread Jan Brasna
I use ColorZilla + http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html -- Jan Brasna aka JohnyB :: www.alphanumeric.cz | www.janbrasna.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

[WSG] IE CSS Gap Problem? Anybody have a solution?

2005-05-05 Thread Josef Dunne
Hi everyone, I have a CSS/IE problem I am trying to create a list on the left of this page. But as you can see in Firefox it works fine, but in IE it creates spaces below each li tag? Does anybody know why this is happening in IE? http://dev.blumedia.co.uk/pp/- Problem Page (View in

Re: [WSG] Any good color spies?

2005-05-05 Thread Greg Morphis
Yeah, I really like that one too. I can use a color spy and get a hex value and plug it into that and get a few difference variances. Thanks! On 5/5/05, Jan Brasna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use ColorZilla + http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html -- Jan Brasna aka JohnyB ::

Re: [WSG] IE CSS Gap Problem? Anybody have a solution?

2005-05-05 Thread Parker Torrence
Try setting margin and padding to 0 in #btmain parker http://webdesign.parkertorrence.com On 5/5/05, Josef Dunne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I have a CSS/IE problem I am trying to create a list on the left of this page. But as you can see in Firefox it works fine, but

Re: [WSG] IE CSS Gap Problem? Anybody have a solution?

2005-05-05 Thread Jan Brasna
Transform ul li../li li../li /ul into ulli../lili../li/ul -- Jan Brasna aka JohnyB :: www.alphanumeric.cz | www.janbrasna.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for

Re: [WSG] Any good color spies?

2005-05-05 Thread john
I use one at http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html -- recommended recently on this list, I believe. ~john _ Dr. Zeus Web Design http://www.DrZeus.net content without clutter on 5/5/2005 5:16 PM Greg Morphis said the following: You guys know of any good tools which has

Re: [WSG] Any good color spies?

2005-05-05 Thread Krassy
--- Jan Brasna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use ColorZilla + http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html That's a good one... I believe I had posted my Color Scheme Tools links to the list before, but since you asked, here it is again:

RE: [WSG] IE CSS Gap Problem? Anybody have a solution?

2005-05-05 Thread Josef Dunne
Hi this never worked, neither did closing up all the whitespace. Thanks though, does anyone else have a solution to this problem? Thanks Joey -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Parker Torrence Sent: 05 May 2005 17:44 To:

Re: [WSG] Any good color spies?

2005-05-05 Thread Leslie Riggs
Colorschemer Studio isn't free, but it's not real expensive either, and it does a very nice job with several options of color scheme selections, such as monochromatic, triad, tetrad, analogous, etc. Very visual, and schemes can be saved for use later. http://www.colorschemer.com Leslie You

RE: [WSG] Any good color spies?

2005-05-05 Thread Drake, Ted C.
Don't forget the free version for those quick color samples. www.colorschemer.com/online Combine this with the colorzilla extension for firefox and you've got some nifty color tools at your hand. http://www.iosart.com/firefox/colorzilla/ And, go to the library and read J. Itten's color theory

Re: [WSG] IE CSS Gap Problem? Anybody have a solution?

2005-05-05 Thread Jan Brasna
Hi this never worked, neither did closing up all the whitespace. Hm, then it might be something with line-height. #btmain ul { padding: 0; margin: 0; list-style-type: none; line-height: 1em; } -- Jan Brasna aka JohnyB :: www.alphanumeric.cz | www.janbrasna.com

RE: [WSG] IE CSS Gap Problem? Anybody have a solution?

2005-05-05 Thread Josef Dunne
I tried changing the line-height but it never worked? Hmm still no luck unfortunately. Anybody else have a solution? Thanks though Jan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jan Brasna Sent: 05 May 2005 18:55 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] IE CSS Gap Problem? Anybody have a solution?

2005-05-05 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Josef Dunne wrote: Does anybody know why this is happening in IE? It's reserving space for something that isn't there. http://dev.blumedia.co.uk/pp/ li {display: inline;} regards Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no ** The discussion list for

Re: [WSG] IE CSS Gap Problem? Anybody have a solution?

2005-05-05 Thread Stuart Homfray
Josef Dunne wrote: Thanks though, does anyone else have a solution to this problem? I would HOPE that someone could come up with a cleaner solution, but I could only do it by feeding IE alternate declarations for your 'span' rule: span { display:none; _text-indent: -999px; _display:inline;

Re: [WSG] IE CSS Gap Problem? Anybody have a solution?

2005-05-05 Thread Andrew Hawthorne
try this out, Add this: #btmain a { text-indent:-9000px; text-decoration:none; } and remove this: span { display:none; } you can remove the spans from your markup as well. This works in IE6, Moz, and FF. The problem is the span rule. Why? IE is crazy... ;) You can see this by commenting the span

[WSG] Any User Interface Developer out there?

2005-05-05 Thread Chmielewski, Michael \(AU - Melbourne\)
Title: Message Hello all, I posted a employment opportunity in the resources section of the WSG site a few weeks ago and haven't heard a peep. So I thought I'd send out a posting as wellto see if anyone knew of a UI developer that is looking for work. We're looking forsomeone in

Re: [WSG] IE CSS Gap Problem? Anybody have a solution?

2005-05-05 Thread russ - maxdesign
There are a range of methods of removing whitespace in IE: 1. border-bottom li { border-bottom: ?; } 2. display: inline - works well if the a element is set to display: block: li { display: inline; } 3. float li { float: right; } li { float: left; } 4. vertical align li a  { vertical-align:

Re: [WSG] Headings within ul Navigation

2005-05-05 Thread heretic
Does anyone know whether it's correct to use headings in your navigation? I'd say it's not correct; although I'd counterpoint by saying that nested lists imply the sort of structure I think you're trying to define. That is... the nested lists are one level down from the containing LI. So

Re: [WSG] font list?

2005-05-05 Thread Zulema
john wrote: What I need is a site that shows the different fonts that are recommended for web design. It would be nice if there were some kind of PDF I can print, but I can also go to his office and show him online if need be. Does such a chart exist? I like this neat table:

RE: [WSG] Validation error question for XHTML Strict

2005-05-05 Thread Kwok Ting Lee
input has to be wrapped in a block level tag of some sort, e.g. p, div, fieldset etc. So you'd use: pinput/p or divinput/div or fieldsetinput/fieldset (very simplified) Kwok-Ting ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/