Nolan Winthrop wrote:
Thanks for the comments, Georg, Wybe. I've made some corrections to
it: notably shifting to percentages and ems for font-sizes; changing
to onfocus for the search form.
The use of small root-value for font-size (76% on body in your case) has
the negative side-effect of
Michael,
I understand that the Internet is an electronic medium, and I#8217;m quite
aware of all the
browser nuances and additional devices employed to render websites. However,
what I said was that
the Internet is also a visual medium, which is an important aspect of site
design that must be
Drake, Ted C. wrote:
Here’s the deal. I have a main navigation css. I’d like to create an
alternate template and instead of replacing the nav.css with a new
flavored nav.css, I’d like to put my color rules in a theme css file.
Since I've only glanced at the solutions referred to in some of
On 3 Oct 2005, at 5:47 pm, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote:
I do have one question that just came up while I was chatting with a
friend: Does the hreflang attribute on links do anything, really,
or is it just a cosmetic thing that no browser does anything with?
(I'm using it on links to materials in
On http://www.hopkinsprogramming.net/products/vbdoodle/ the text in the
'VB DOODLE' box is overfollowing. This is on Firefox 1.0.7 Gentoo Linux.
My guess is that this is an issue with fonts because my default font is
not that ugly monster (:P) known as Times New Romans. Fonts tend to be
quite an
Interesting,
Not really a problem with your site, but I just checked the headers of
the top 4 sites and they had Content-Type: text/html.
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Hi guys,
please check my new experiment.
A Xhtml Websites List Directory. Sorry but is in italian language.
Running the page through the translator at babelfish.altavista.com was
good enough to translate the text. Looks good.
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Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 4:16 PM
Subject: RE: [WSG] Check
Running the page through the translator at babelfish.altavista.com was
good enough to translate the text. Looks good.
@Alan - I'm still working on the subsequent pages. The home page is all ive updated at the moment.
Thx for the heads up.
@All - Still need suggestions on the WAI conundrum.
Thanks all!
---ZacharyOn 10/3/05, Alan Trick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On
Hi Joshua
Cite can be an attribute of a Blockquote or q tag. However, it is the uri of
the referenced quote.
Blockquote cite=http://www.libraryofcongress.gov/constitution;
We the people...
/Blockquote
It will not appear visually unless you use css to add the uri to the block
quotes presentation.
Hello,
I'm having a totally BIZARRE problem where I'm trying to style an
ordered list so that it displays in a horizontal line WITHOUT losing
the numbering.
The code and CSS I'm using is below:
div#sections_nav ol li {
float : left;
width : 80px;
}
div
Hi Angela
I was told of this issue recently and it is indeed a problem with ordered
lists. I don't remember what the solution was, but I think it involved
adding position:relative to the list items. You may also need to add
height:1%; with a * html filter to make IE give it layout.
See
JOB POSTING: Web Designer/Developer
Americans
United for Separation of Church and State is seeking a web
designer/developer to define and develop the online face of the
organization (www.au.org). The ideal candidate will have experience
with standards-based
I would be interested to hear suggestions on methods for improving
display across platformss / browsers
- IE Mac - OS9
- IE Mac - OSX
- other OS X broswers (I think everything works fine)
Mac IE is the only Mac browser you need to hack if you are concerned
about audiences
Hopkins Programming wrote:
@All - Still need suggestions on the WAI conundrum.
http://www.hopkinsprogramming.net/
Well, I think you should definitely put some descriptive text in those
links, as my text-only browsers can't even see that there are links
there at the moment. Don't think that
Hi all,
I have been reading few articles (like
http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/verdana.html) about avoiding
Verdana font.
But I cant get the whole point in this issue.
I mean: I understand that if you use a tiny font-size (like 10px or
0.64em or 64% applied to the body) you will
I'm not quite sure what's going on, but the fact that they use
document.write raises big flags:
EXd.write(img src='http:\/\/e0.ex...lots of nasty mess...dth='1');
document.write is not part of the DOM standard and will does not work on
XML pages (including XHTML). Your page is being sent as HTML
Julián Landerreche said:
I have been reading few articles (like
http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/verdana.html) about avoiding
Verdana font.
But I cant get the whole point in this issue.
So, please, can someone point me what am I missing about avoiding
Verdana?
Honestly, I pretty
Julián Landerreche said:
So, please, can someone point me what am I missing about avoiding
Verdana?
Verdana has a larger x-height than most fonts and thus *appears* larger
than other fonts at the same specified size. My guess is it is roughly one
or two pixels or a point size larger than, say
Hi Julián,
There's no reason to avoid Verdana. In the
example webpage you referenced, the author's
chief concern seems to be with what happens to
copy legibility if Verdana is *not* installed.
As Verdana comes bundled with a significant
number of Microsoft products and the Windows
Mike Brown said:
Thus a user without Verdana installed (not extremely likely currently)
I'm sure theres around 20% of people who disagree with you
on that one Mike ;-).
I think the real issue behind a lot of font sizing problems that articles
like this one are referring to stem from IE 5 days.
Julián Landerreche wrote:
I have been reading few articles (like
http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/verdana.html) about avoiding
Verdana font.
But I cant get the whole point in this issue.
I mean: I understand that if you use a tiny font-size (like 10px or
0.64em or 64% applied to
As Verdana comes bundled with a significant number of Microsoft products
and the Windows operating system [...]
With Mac OS X too.
The 'attractiveness' of Verdana is matter of preference [...] it was designed
specifically for onscreen legibility
Exactly. More info:
I would ignore this advice also. For a start, the general advice is to use a
sans-serif font for screen display - not a serif font such as Times New
Roman, Garamond, Century or Bookman. It is standard practice to specify the
fallback fonts or font families to use if one is not installed on the
Surely you would also specify sans-serif as a generic fallback from
Verdana rather then using a serifed font?
Samuel
Graham Cook wrote:
I would ignore this advice also. For a start, the general advice is to use a
sans-serif font for screen display - not a serif font such as Times New
Roman,
Yes - that was my point
Graham Cook
www.uaoz.com
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Sent: Tuesday, 4 October 2005 12:00 PM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] avoid Verdana - I cant get the whole point.
Surely
You should try to make sure you actually are using a header as a header.
This is quite a mess because many web pages don't really fit the simple
h1 h2 etc hierarchy. It works well for academic papers, but wenever
I go to to build a website I always find myself confused as to what
should be
On 10/3/05, Felix Miata [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Most Linux systems have neither Verdana
nor Arial installed, at least not by default.
True, but these days nearly every Linux distribution ships the free
Bitstream Vera font set, which includes a sans-serif with metrics
similar to Verdana. Also,
On Mon, 3 Oct 2005 23:09:58 -0400, James Bennett wrote:
Verdana, Bitstream Vera Sans, Lucida Sans, sans-serif
Now that is something useful to know! Thank you!
What specifically is the Lucida Sans addressing?
warmly,
Lea
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Lea de Groot
Elysian Systems - http://elysiansystems.com/
Brisbane,
On 10/3/05, Lea de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What specifically is the Lucida Sans addressing?
Most distributions these days ship the Bitstream Vera fonts, but not
all. Lucida Sans, however, is about as universal as you can get on
Linux and gives you one last fall-back to aim at before
I think there's something fundamentally wrong when a discussion about
what font you should and shouldn't use is brought up in the context of
web standards.
Web Standards is nice but to me it seems like its becoming this
'Eliteist' approach, and if you don't follow the guidelines exactly
I just looked at the page in a text browser (links) and there's a couple
of anoying issues.
1. This is not bad, but a bit of an anoyance. There is a notice about
not having javascript. This appears at the top of the page. I don't
think this is really neccisary. If you really want it, put it at
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Sent: Tue 4/10/2005 13:32
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] avoid Verdana - I cant get the whole point.
I think there's something fundamentally wrong when a discussion about what
font you should and
Hi Damien,
We recommend reserving the h1 to describe the page content. Perhaps on the
homepage and the 'About us' page this might be the same as the website name.
Should you want to include the site name on the page, we recommend appending it
to title text instead. For example, if the page is
Yea, I agree with you on all of those issues...I myself love the use of
css layout and try to choose the best fonts possible. But I guess what
i'm trying to get at; is that there is a threshold on how far a group
should take things in any direction. It seems that the big picture of
web
I noted that too, and I think that the issue may be in your
interpretation of header (well it was what confused me anyway until I
thought about it).
Using a div with class=header is fine when the div is actually a box
that contains for example your logo/menu etc. Other people call it the
Hi guys,
I have 2 divs inside a container.
1: a relatively positioned div to contain and position an image
2: another div, absolute position, to contain a submenu.
Image on left, menu on right.
For some reason, both divs are expanding horizontally to take up all the
available space, even when
Kara,
Block elements (like div) always expand to the full width by default.
By the sounds of it you're after an inline element, so either:
A) use a span instead
or
B) set display:inline; on the DIV
You might find it helpful to read up on the difference between block and
inline elements.
Hi Kara,
Check out tip 1 in the sitepoint Top Ten CSS Tricks article:
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/top-ten-css-tricks
As mentioned, block level elements default to 100% width unless
specified, so one (of many) ways to change this, would be to specify
display: inline;.
Cheers,
Daniel
You're a legend - thanks :)
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Advance)
Sent: Tuesday, 4 October 2005 1:00 PM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: RE: [WSG] Width defaulting to 100%?
Kara,
Block elements (like div)
Hi Kara,
Unlike a td, a div will expand to fill the available space (and not the
content it contains), if a width is not specified.
To achieve the layout you describe, you will need to:
-set widths on the divs, and/or
-set left or right margins to accommodate both divs, for example if div [A]
From: Buddy Quaid
But like a tree, some of these discussions go out on a
long limb and lose focus of the big picture.
Each member goes down a different branch at different times
on the various projects they work on. If we allow them and
others to extend that branch at that time, over time
James Bennett wrote:
On 10/3/05, Felix Miata [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Most Linux systems have neither Verdana
nor Arial installed, at least not by default.
True, but these days nearly every Linux distribution ships the free
Bitstream Vera font set, which includes a sans-serif with
At 08:32 PM 10/3/2005, Buddy Quaid wrote:
I'm not trying to offend anybody here at all but so many posts about
whether or not to use Verdana is just boring.
Boring! Holy smokes, every technical field is boring unless the
details happen to fascinate you. Boring isn't an attribute of
So if the Linux fallback for Verdana is Bitstream Vera Sans, what's the
Linux fallback for Arial?
Samuel Richardson
Buddy Quaid wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Most Linux systems have neither Verdana
nor Arial installed, at least not by default.
True, but these days nearly every
Am I the only one that
fills this way? Yes. Fonts are extremely important to web design and web standards. They have a lot to do with readability and user friendliness. It's not elitist.
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