Re: [WSG] Using target=_blank

2007-07-25 Thread ron zisman
hey steve, without going into pros and cons on the target attribute, roger johansson has an interesting article on the subject with a javascript solution the degrades to opening in the same window if java is turned off or pop ups blocked. some clients want what they want and won't be

Re: [WSG] Re: Where did I come from?

2008-01-19 Thread Ron Zisman
way out of my league On Jan 19, 2008, at 12:43 PM, Michael MD wrote: Are we agreed that the back button *should* take one to the previous page? yep .. speaking of which... Is there a good way to fix up back button behaviour (so it behaves as expected) on pages that do stuff like loading data

Re: [WSG] Re: Where did I come from?

2008-01-19 Thread Ron Zisman
sorry about mylast response, i was having an email blitz with my brother whose name is mike.. --ron On Jan 19, 2008, at 12:43 PM, Michael MD wrote: Are we agreed that the back button *should* take one to the previous page? yep .. speaking of which... Is there a good way to fix up back

[WSG] positioning problems

2008-02-01 Thread Ron Zisman
hey all, i posted this on css-d this morning and couldn't get any takers. both file validate. http://www.ricochet.org/ricochet2/company_principal.html original page (above) validates and goes cross browser fairly well, i think. it has some scaling issues on fonts, messing badly with

Re: [WSG] making a menu bar hug the right

2008-02-05 Thread Ron Zisman
On Feb 5, 2008, at 8:51 PM, Michael Horowitz wrote: Sorry for the flurry of questions but I've traditionally done my sites with tables and am doing my first completely css site now http://terrorfreeamerica.us/ Just setting up the menu on the left and I'm wondering how to get my menu

Re: [WSG] First Attempt

2008-11-24 Thread Ron Zisman
kate, thought i'd throw in my two cents. firstly i was in your position a couple years ago, using dreamweaver. at a certain point i realized i didn't know what i was doing or what was going wrong when things didn't view properly. i hadn't heard anything about box models, didn't know what

[WSG] embedding quicktime .mov cross-platform

2009-01-14 Thread Ron Zisman
anybody know of a solid way to embed quicktime movies cross-platform-- in a standards sort of way. i've googled around and haven't found what i need. i'm told my current method hates IE. surprise. test page here: http://www.ricochet.org/test_flippin/georg_tampered.html thanks in advance

Re: [WSG] embedding quicktime .mov cross-platform

2009-01-15 Thread Ron Zisman
-platform Firefox 2 asked for quicktime plugins. My company won't allow you to install quicktime on their pcs. Nancy On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Ron Zisman ronzis...@mac.com wrote: anybody know of a solid way to embed quicktime movies cross-platform--in a standards sort of way. i've

Re: [WSG] embedding quicktime .mov cross-platform

2009-01-15 Thread Ron Zisman
On Jan 15, 2009, at 3:52 PM, Christian Montoya wrote: My recommendation is that you convert the movies to FLV and use a standard Flash FLV player. You'll find better support that way, and you can do things like basic streaming, rather than just putting the videos on the page with object or

[WSG] positioning help, please

2012-05-16 Thread ron zisman
http://ricochet.org/new_floradise/arrangements.html http://ricochet.org/new_floradise/plants.html hey all, i'm having trouble positioning a background image. on the arrangements page, the two arrows have a blue border. the first problem i'm having is that bbedit, safari, firefox and opera (on

Re: [WSG] positioning help, please

2012-05-16 Thread ron zisman
the position. it is positioning that i'm having trouble with. rgds, ron On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 7:00 PM, ron zisman ronzis...@mac.com wrote: http://ricochet.org/new_floradise/arrangements.html http://ricochet.org/new_floradise/plants.html hey all, i'm having trouble positioning

Re: [WSG] positioning help, please

2012-05-16 Thread ron zisman
On May 16, 2012, at 2:11 PM, Kepler Gelotte wrote: the first problem i'm having is that bbedit, safari, firefox and opera (on a mac) all position it in a different location (#pre-nex). Hi, Try 'position: relative' for #main (the containing div of #pre_nex). Best regards, mercy,