Re: [WSG] Catch 22 list problem

2007-10-14 Thread Tim White
Going back to the original post: >Pick your poison: > >1. Invalid code >2. Use a transitional DOCTYPE >3. Set value with DOM-script I'm surprised that no one has said #2; just fall back to a transitional doctype. You can still write your markup with standards in mind, use the deprecated attrib

Re: [WSG] POSH article question

2007-11-02 Thread Tim White
>On 11/1/07, Tom Livingston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you are writing a book title, the you shouldn't use >either, but rather something like a with your >styling of choice. And don't forget, for something like a book there is always (which italicizes by default). The overall idea is to a

Re: [WSG] POSH article question

2007-11-02 Thread Tim White
>On 2/11/07 (12:36) Tom said: > >>Another question though... do you have an example of proper, semantic >>use of vs ? Is it just just a tag to allow you to style >>your own visual emphasis? How about vs. - what's the >>semantic difference? Rick actually provides a great example in his response.

Re: [WSG] POSH article question

2007-11-02 Thread Tim White
> >Well done! That was perfect. Thanks. You're welcome. >Although for me personally, I'd prolly use and for bold and >italic text, vs. a span with a class and related style. I don't see >how the later is more semantic. Even if the design called for red text >as opposed to bold face, I could at

Re: [WSG] * { display: inline; }

2008-02-17 Thread Tim White
On Feb 17, 2008 6:00 PM, Katrina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So in the header of my document, I included > > > * { > display: inline; > } > OK, I just tried it and got the exact same effects. So, I tried combinations and body * works (and I see Patrick just posted the same thing). My

Re: [WSG] * { display: inline; }

2008-02-19 Thread Tim White
On Feb 19, 2008 5:35 AM, Nick Fitzsimons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not so very odd... > > If you hunt around through Firefox's files you'll find one named > "html.css" which specifies the default styling of all HTML elements. It > includes the following: Thank you Nick. I sorta kinda knew abou

Re: [WSG] Shorthand rule for border?

2008-04-17 Thread Tim White
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Cole Kuryakin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is something that I've been wondering about for a long time – a > shorthand rule for borders. David's link is a good starting spot -- but I'll move you up a couple of paragraphs: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/box.html#b

Re: More than one H1? (was [WSG] Out of Office AutoReply: WSG Digest)

2009-10-16 Thread Tim White
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 4:23 AM, Marilyn Langfeld wrote: > ... > > H1 is reserved for the title of the page. In a document, at least, there's > only one title, while there may be many first level headings. > ... > > So H1 is, IMHO, not the first level header, but the T1, or main title of > th

Re: More than one H1? (was [WSG] Out of Office AutoReply: WSG Digest)

2009-10-16 Thread Tim White
tell you to use one H1 per page, but the spec is not > the be all and end all of guidelines. > > Thanks, > > Jason > > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Tim White wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 4:23 AM, Marilyn Langfeld >> wrote: >> >>> ..

Re: [WSG] attribute selectors and validation

2010-07-02 Thread Tim White
> In a recent "links for light reading"  reference was made to a very > interesting article by Chris Coyier on attribute selectors such as 'rel'. > > At the very basic level, the article exemplifies h1[rel="external"]{color : > red;} used with the html: > > Attribute Equals As others have said, t

Re: [WSG] attribute selectors and validation

2010-07-02 Thread Tim White
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Thierry Koblentz wrote: > > Regarding performance, using a class may be a better choice: > > https://developer.mozilla.org/en/writing_efficient_css Interesting article. I wonder if it is still true -- the last update was 2000 for that page. It also says "Avoid th

Re: [WSG] list style with inline image issue

2010-10-14 Thread Tim White
Tee, Just a quick test I came up with this: li { padding-bottom: 5px; clear: both; list-style-type: disc; padding-left: 75px; margin-bottom: 50px; position: relative; } li img { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; bo

Re: [WSG] images against color backgrounds

2010-12-09 Thread Tim White
Or, try the CSS3 box-shadow http://www.css3.info/preview/box-shadow/ Tim On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Stuart Foulstone wrote: > > Might get some ideas from CSS Drop Shadows @ > > http://www.alistapart.com/articles/cssdropshadows/ > > > On Wed, December 8, 2010 9:01 pm, cat soul wrote: >> I

[WSG] Re: browser snapshot services?

2005-01-26 Thread Tim White
I've never used a snapshop service, but it seems an un-necessary expenditure. You can easily test all PC variations. I've got the latest versions of Opera, Firefox (and Mozilla); all flavors of Netscape (4.x - 7.0); and IE 4 - 6 on my PCs at home and work. There is a handy tutorial for how to inst

Re: [WSG] XHTML Strict alternative to

2005-02-08 Thread Tim White
Without getting into the debate on the "correct" semantics of the , I have one general problem with using it (and tables) for this case: sequential numbering. Placing his list in a or and manually numbering them works, but what about when a new item needs to be added to the list somewhere in the

Subject: RE: [WSG] email client css suport

2005-03-30 Thread Tim White
I hear "Hotmail, yahoo, and most web mails tend to strip so you need to use inline styles" all the time, however, it's not entirely true. I don't use inline styles on my e-mails and they work just fine. I create HTML e-mails as full-blown table-based HTML pages with a style block in the header. T

Subject: Re: [WSG] Quirks mode vs Standards mode

2005-04-16 Thread Tim White
>From Georg: "I'm asking because after 2 years of studies on the subject, I still haven't found anything useful in IE6' "standard" mode, but I may have missed something." My first experience with putting IE6 into standards mode involved a simple table-based layout. I had an image followed by a hea