RE: [WSG]Font support chart?

You can try the Code Style Font Sampler: http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/index.shtml 'Standard' is a funny term for fonts, too, as things like Office IE install heaps of additional fonts. -- Lindsay Evans. Developer, Red Square Productions. [p] 8596.4000 [f] 8596.4001 [w

RE: [WSG] Targeting IE5

(There are probably a number of flaws in this though (probably the biggest being that you'd have to write two versions of your presentation code), and I'll be stuufed if I can think of a single reason *to* do it apart from the 'hey, cool, I can do it' factor) /me should get back to work now... -- Lindsay

RE: Descendant Selectors was RE: [WSG] Icon and Aura

. -- Lindsay Evans. Developer, Red Square Productions. [p] 8596.4000 [f] 8596.4001 [w] www.redsquare.com.au -Original Message- From: James Ellis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 23 October 2003 9:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Descendant Selectors was RE: [WSG] Icon

RE: [WSG] css question and site test on Mac

black; arial, helvetica, geneva, sans-serif; } And, of course, you should remove the semicolon from after arial black, otherwise the alternate font-families won't get applied at all. -- Lindsay Evans. Developer, Red Square Productions. [p] 8596.4000 [f] 8596.4001 [w] www.redsquare.com.au

[WSG] webstandards.to

http://webstandards.to/ Seems to be a group in Toronto, CA. A few big names in there, too. -- Lindsay Evans. Developer, Red Square Productions. [p] 8596.4000 [f] 8596.4001 [w] www.redsquare.com.au * The discussion list for http

RE: [WSG] Site check: Listamatic entry (to-be)

out of unused mail aliases... ;( IE 6.0.2, 5.01, 5.5, XP Pro: - The 'THREE' part of item three wraps onto the next line on hover Otherwise all good. (Damn I love standalone IE :D) -- Lindsay Evans. Developer, Red Square Productions. [p] 8596.4000 [f] 8596.4001 [w] www.redsquare.com.au

RE: [WSG] OT: multiple IE versions

a KB article on multiple IE Plus the fact that IE is supposedly so tightly integrated with the operating system that it can't be a separate product :) http://news.com.com/2100-1001-204529.html?legacy=cnet -- Lindsay Evans. Developer, Red Square Productions. [p] 8596.4000 [f] 8596.4001 [w

RE: [WSG] safari and title attr

rant a while back on how stupid displaying things like this in the status bar is, it was mainly about displaying information relevant to menu items though - http://lindsay.f2o.org/blog/read?ObjectID:44; (yes, the semicolon is important) -- Lindsay Evans. Developer, Red Square Productions. [p

RE: [WSG] Russ strikes again

Mark Stanton wrote: I swear /. is next. http://www.webstandards.org/buzz/archive/2003_12.html#a000259 Can you spell T_tal W_rld D_mination? Well done Russ, keep up the mighty fine work. heh - Russ Weaklyorial Still no Russ Method though :) -- Lindsay Evans. Developer, Red Square

RE: [WSG] Small bug

;} if you're that way inclined) Much obliged y'all. Hey, and work in progress exhibited on this list is confidential, right? Well, considering that the list is archived at: http://www.mail-archive.com/wsg%40webstandardsgroup.org/ I'd guess not... -- Lindsay Evans. Developer, Red Square

RE: [WSG] Big trouble!

) Re. the initial page fulll of text, it's most likely the infamous Flash Of Unstyled Content bug: http://www.bluerobot.com/web/css/fouc.asp hth -- Lindsay Evans. Developer, Red Square Productions. [p] 8596.4000 [f] 8596.4001 [w] www.redsquare.com.au

[WSG] XSLT Presentation slides

://zvon.org/ http://xml.com/ http://ibm.com/developerworks/xml/ -- Lindsay Evans. Developer, Red Square Productions. [p] 8596.4000 [f] 8596.4001 [w] www.redsquare.com.au * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *

RE: [WSG] Standardize - simple explanation of web standards

Taco Fleur wrote: Are you sure this is their live site though? I have the feeling I have seen them before a long time ago.. Looks like it's live - it's linked from http://axisfive.net/portfolio.php so I'd imagine it is :) -- Lindsay Evans. Developer, Red Square Productions. [p] 8596.4000

RE: [WSG] Shorthand for Borders?

parsing rules for that sucker :p) -- Lindsay Evans. Developer, Red Square Productions. [p] 8596.4000 [f] 8596.4001 [w] www.redsquare.com.au * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *

RE: [WSG] Shorthand for Borders?

_padding.html Just for the hell of it, I whipped up a test page (http://lindsay.f2o.org/experiments/css/border-color.html), which works fine in MacIE5 for me. -- Lindsay Evans. Developer, Red Square Productions. [p] 8596.4000 [f] 8596.4001 [w] www.redsquare.com.au

RE: [WSG] reply to Safari question

of emails from customers telling them that they can't get into their site, then they're a lot more likely to make the change. That said, it's also handy to get into NYT articles without registering (hint, GoogleBot doesn't need to register... :) -- Lindsay Evans. Developer, Red Square Productions

[WSG] Spot the Error

The irony is just too much: http://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2004/02/06/spot_the_err/index.php -- Lindsay Evans. Developer, Red Square Productions. [p] 8596.4000 [f] 8596.4001 [w] www.redsquare.com.au * The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] Tenth AIMIA Awards announced

Lindsay Evans wrote: WSG Awards? :) Sheesh, didn't notice that TB was still downloading a bunch of emails before I replied :| The Web Standards Awards looks pretty interesting, gives me more incentive to get my redesign finished :) -- Lindsay Evans

RE: [WSG] Validating pages with password protection?

/wget.html) to automate the process. -- Lindsay Evans. Developer, Red Square Productions. [p] 8596.4000 [f] 8596.4001 [w] www.redsquare.com.au * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *

RE: [WSG] Image replace or ALT text?

whether the old skool method's usability outweighs its unfashionable unsemanticness. What are some of these techniques? I don't think I've seen any that do that around (not that I've looked very hard, mind you :) -- Lindsay Evans. Developer, Red Square Productions. [p] 8596.4000 [f

RE: [WSG] silly question about meta tags

, and 'MSSmartTagsPreventParsing' This page: http://vancouver-webpages.com/META/ gives a rather lengthy list, including a lot of proprietary stuff. -- Lindsay Evans. Developer, Red Square Productions. [p] 8596.4000 [f] 8596.4001 [w] www.redsquare.com.au

RE: [WSG] Nicely styled Hx tags

-based browsers :| -- Lindsay Evans. * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *

RE: [WSG] IE7 fixes CSS glitches for IE

://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdean.edwards. name%2Fmy%2Fbehaviors%2Fie7-xml.csswarning=2profile=css2usermedium=all -- Lindsay Evans. Developer, Red Square Productions. [p] 8596.4000 [f] 8596.4001 [w] www.redsquare.com.au

RE: [WSG] Dynamically populating stylesheets?

function in CF? Sure, use the cfheader tag: cfheader name=Content-type value=text/css/ Also, make sure you throw a cfsetting showdebugoutput=no/ so as not to include all the debugging info. -- Lindsay Evans. Developer, Red Square Productions. [p] 8596.4000 [f] 8596.4001 [w

RE: [WSG] Purpose of this mailing list

doesn't go over quota. Please don't ever request read receipts (I get most of them rather than you). Also, please temporarily unsubscribe (or is there a 'nomail' option?) from the list if you're going to have one of those annoying 'vacation' messages. -- Lindsay Evans. Developer, Red Square

RE: [WSG] New Colour Schemer - draft - any suggestions?

shorthand for colours in :) -- Lindsay Evans. Developer, Red Square Productions. [p] 8596.4000 [f] 8596.4001 [w] www.redsquare.com.au * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

[WSG] Thursday drinks in Sydney

of Guinness in my hand :) So if you happen to be in the Sydney CBD this evening, then come and join us! -- Lindsay Evans. Developer, Red Square Productions. [p] 8596.4000 [f] 8596.4001 [w] www.redsquare.com.au * The discussion list for http

RE: [WSG] Trimming the fat from CSS

I'd prefer to leave my CSS formatted as is and shave the k's off images used, etc. Then if I need to hand the stylesheets over to someone they are more usable. Nick -- Lindsay Evans. Developer, Red Square Productions. [p] 8596.4000 [f] 8596.4001 [w] www.redsquare.com.au

RE: [WSG] Constructive Criticism please - NOW IN DISCUSSION

there. Thanks. -- Lindsay Evans. WSG Core. * 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] Correct way to swap style sheets based on Browser?

There is a good table showing which browsers support which CSS 'hacks' here: http://centricle.com/ref/css/filters/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Ryan, I was not aware of the @import and that it's invisible to NN4 Are there any other browsers its invisible to? Anyone? -- Lindsay

RE: [WSG] quotes on q tag

will be forever in your debt! Makes googling difficult when you can't remember what the silly things are called Pull quotes? http://desktoppub.about.com/library/glossary/bldef-pullquote.htm -- Lindsay Evans. Developer, Red Square Productions. [p] 8596.4000 [f] 8596.4001 [w

RE: [WSG] lotus domino vs doctype

output by the server, might be of use to you. -- Lindsay Evans. Developer, Red Square Productions. [p] 8596.4000 [f] 8596.4001 [w] www.redsquare.com.au * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

Re: [WSG] forms and SSL

. Or does it? -- Lindsay Evans http://lindsayevans.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04 http://we04.com/ Web standards, accessibility, inspiration, knowledge To be held in Sydney

Re: [WSG] Semantically creating 'pipes' for footer links

exist. -- Lindsay Evans http://lindsayevans.com/ ** 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] WE04 Summary (blowing my own trumpet)

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:32:56 +1000, Jason Foss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did I miss anything imprtant? Yes. A 'z' in: http://www.mezoblue.com/ :) -- Lindsay Evans http://lindsayevans.com/ ** The discussion list for http

[WSG] The Lindsay Method, version 2

/ Yes, I am well aware of all of the validation errors, each weighs heavily upon my soul, but I wanted to get it live before I got bored with it started redesigning yet again. -- Lindsay Evans http://lindsayevans.com/ ** The discussion list

Re: [WSG] The Lindsay Method, version 2

, you're quite right. It *does* work in Firefox, I must've just left something important out, probably a height or something along those lines. That's what I get for throwing things together in a rush :) I'll fix when I get home. -- Lindsay Evans http://lindsayevans.com

Re: [WSG] The Lindsay Method, version 2

, Safari). If I would be a frantic typography guy, I'd use sIFR. ;-) -- Lindsay Evans http://lindsayevans.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints

Re: [WSG] The Lindsay Method, version 2

of validating against CSS 2.1. Anyone know when this is likely to happen? Although, I don't believe that would have any effect on use of -moz properties anyway -- Lindsay Evans http://lindsayevans.com/ ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] DOM and Standard

already found this link. What I was looking for was theory. -- Lindsay Evans http://lindsayevans.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting

Re: [WSG] Experimentations in XSLT

: BODYTEXT xmlns=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml; h1... -- Lindsay Evans http://lindsayevans.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list

Re: [WSG] Visual rendering in gecko with app/xhtml

element instead of the body element, but I just want to ask in general - is this difference a standard behavior and a standard interpretation of the XML parser? -- Lindsay Evans http://lindsayevans.com/ ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] accessible image form buttons

will submit. I usually just style a normal input type=submit with a background image. Netscape 4 etc. won't get the image, but it will still work. -- Lindsay Evans http://lindsayevans.com/ ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] getting two colums to be of the same height

? It would make the whole thing look a lot better. What I'd like is the shorter column to have extra empty space to fill it up to be just as high as the longer one. -- Lindsay Evans http://lindsayevans.com/ ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] Body tag background color changes

: Just wondering whether there was a way to include different body background colors (for different pages) within the same css file. -- Lindsay Evans http://lindsayevans.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

Re: [WSG] Body text disappears in IE when window is maximised

seems to occur in IE and happens when the window is maximised using the browser window's icon. I'd be very interested in knwoing if anyone else sees this or has a solution. -- Lindsay Evans http://lindsayevans.com/ ** The discussion list

Re: [WSG] Clearleft.com

would help. On 9/21/05, Andy Budd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks,We've just launched our new company website, and would love yourfeedback.http://www.clearleft.com/-- Lindsay Evans http://lindsayevans.com/

Re: [WSG] Accessibility: Default placeholders

On 11/18/05, Patrick Lauke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick Faaberg You have many valid thoughts, and you express them well. :-)So what, most of the ramblings of Geoff and I posted were invalidand badly expressed? ;) Yes, please validate your next ramble with one of the W3C's online tools please :pI

Re: [WSG] Testing multiple Flash Player versions...

Hi Paul,I use Flash Plugin Switcher:http://www.kewbee.de/produkte/PluginSwitcher.htmlsite is in German, but the help is in English: http://www.kewbee.de/FlashPluginSwitcher/Help/Macromedia/Adobe have a bunch of old versions of the player available for download which you can use with it:

Re: [WSG] some simple box problems

nested columns within it. Hi Kevin, Looks like you need to clear the floats: http://www.quirksmode.org/css/clearing.html Not too sure what's happening with the margins, only had a quick look, maybe try setting margin-top to 0 on the h2 elements. Hope this helps. -- Lindsay Evans http

Re: [WSG] Site Check - Streaming Media

. Oh, and displaying the stream information in a textarea seems like a bad idea to me. Otherwise it looks like a very useful service :) -- Lindsay Evans http://lindsayevans.com/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail