Re: [WSG] PDA Viewer

2004-07-02 Thread scott parsons
However a point to note is that this also activates the opera small screen rendering mode which does mean that this view is really only useful for simulating opera browser. Really any simulator you get will just be an apporximation... perhaps the best way would be to try and find people with va

Re: [WSG] hand coding versus code generators

2004-07-05 Thread scott parsons
I gotta say that with the tools available these days anyone who prefers to use a plain text editor must be somewhat masochistic... ;-) of course that is just my wee opinion. I use dreamweaver MX 2004 for my front end coding and it is great. The days of dreamweaver mangling the code you had carefu

Re: [WSG] title, can it be used on a label

2004-07-14 Thread scott parsons
It is probably worth mentioning that not all user agents will represent your title in the same way (if at all), safari f'rinstance puts the title text in the status bar rather than a tooltip... I do like patrick's visual indicator idea, that dotted line is fast becoming an accepted method for ma

Re: [WSG] title, can it be used on a label

2004-07-14 Thread scott parsons
ok, my bad... I'm outa the office at the mo' . My version of safari is 1.0 and I remember that effect, I'll have to test later s Sage Olson wrote: On Jul 14, 2004, at 4:46 PM, scott parsons wrote: It is probably worth mentioning that not all user agents will represent your title

Re: [WSG] Flash in different browsers

2004-07-15 Thread scott parsons
personally I think you should use an embed tag as provided by macromedia when you publish the .swf... but since you seem to be using hixie's conditionals... here is the original article from hixie http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1081798064&count=1 Gavin Cooney wrote: Hi All, I have a page with a flash

Re: [WSG] Flash in different browsers

2004-07-15 Thread scott parsons
ooops, hit send too soon... I was going to go on to say that the only obvious differences were your lack of width and height attributes... you could try putting them back in... s scott parsons wrote: personally I think you should use an embed tag as provided by macromedia when you publish the

Re: [WSG] Flash in different browsers

2004-07-16 Thread scott parsons
27;t really changed since the days of Aftershock - pg 175 of the Flash 3 manual! (thems were the days). Cheers James scott parsons wrote: personally I think you should use an embed tag as provided by macromedia when you publish the .swf... but since you seem to be using hixie's condit

Re: [WSG] About the standard Price for our website design .

2004-07-21 Thread scott parsons
While in some countries it imay be considered illegal to even discuss prices for services, unless laws have changed in the last few years it is not illegal in Australia or the EU. Actual price fixing may be, but professionals discussing how to work out what to charge and what to charge for is n

Re: [WSG] Hacks

2004-07-30 Thread scott parsons
We've got a site going live next tuesday, or possibly wednesday if copy doesn't get approved. This site we have been working on for a massive 4 days, including intergration with reasonably complex .net backend, and several flash components. Out of some 25 pages there are maybe 9 unique templates

Re: [WSG] Are wireframes necessary when using web standards?

2004-08-05 Thread scott parsons
While I think this approach has a real basis for fairly simple sites, once you start getting into more complex sites, and web applications the time taken to step back and plan is usually well worthwhile. This is where I like to have good clear wireframes which have been thought out clearly to c

Re: [WSG] applying style to the 3rd column of a table?

2004-08-12 Thread scott parsons
you can but only in IE due to IE having some weirdness occuring in the way they layout the page. BUT if you style the columns using the IE method, and style the third td (td+td+td etc) which will be understood by most modern browsers you should be able to get the column styled for everybody. pe

[WSG] imode and chtml

2004-08-30 Thread scott parsons
Hey there, so... does anyone have any experience with chtml and in particular imode? We are currently looking into what we need to do to make a site we have made work well on imode... The site is valid xhtml 1.0 and I am wondering what will happen if we just let the imoders use that site. Which w

[WSG] site check...

2004-08-31 Thread scott parsons
Hi there... We have recently put out a new site, it was built by my junior so is a little rougher than I'd like in places. But I think she did a great job all in all. Especially since the client was a pain and the time was oh so tight! anyway, tell us what you think http://www.rachelandjen.telst

Re: [WSG] box model hack question

2004-10-11 Thread scott parsons
I would also add D. Longevity of design - if the site is only going to be live for 9 weeks you can be pretty sure that future browsers will not have time to choke on any hacks. E. Tight design timelines - If your boss comes to you on wednesday telling you that this new site needs to be delivere

Re: [WSG] Legal numbering with

2004-10-14 Thread scott parsons
there is provision for this in css 2 but I don't know if it is supported anywhere, except maybe opera http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/generate.html s Amit Karmakar wrote: People, any good pointers on legal numbering using 's in xhtml I am looking for 3 levels of nesting as in: 1.0 1.1 1.1.1 TIA

Re: [WSG] Targeting IE5

2003-10-09 Thread scott parsons
Maybe I'm misunderstanding you but I think it is a terrible idea to have multiple content streams. This can and often does lead to multiple headaches... Personally I favour having one content stream, but possibly multiple style/display streams. These could be assigned via server controls, or by

Re: [WSG] Icon and Aura

2003-10-21 Thread scott parsons
um, lindsay you must be half asleep today... put the hover on an a tag a:hover { color: #00; background: #66; } and it works fine in the pita browser, else v cute s Lindsay Evans wrote: Only tested in FB 0.6.1, IE 6 on XP (I'm lazy today). Suggestions welcome. Oh, a

Re: [WSG] Firebird bug?

2003-10-22 Thread scott parsons
tis a float issue, put clear:both; in the h2 definition, or add some other device to clear the dl however there is also some other interesting stuff going on with the collapsing top margin of the h2, and also where the border of the dl would seem to indicate it is. s Mark Stanton wrote: Hey ev

Re: [WSG] New site launch by 37 Signals - SRA

2003-11-04 Thread scott parsons
Well to me those css errors just look like the kind of last minute thing that we all know can easily sneak through As for the html... well some of that stuff will make it easier for legacy browsers to understand and not feck up the site. But if this was the reason for their inclusion it rather beg

Re: [WSG] Style to create input field look?

2003-11-09 Thread scott parsons
which OS? your request makes sense... but most OSs have different defaults for form elements s Taco Fleur wrote: What I meant was, how to recreate the default look of the input field. For example take a input field and do not apply any CSS to it, that it the look I want to recreate exactly the sa

Re: [WSG] Re: Image float and text wrap

2003-11-12 Thread scott parsons
too many divs! text text text ... a p{width:200px;margin-left:120px;} a img{float:left} just keep it simple, and add a descendent selector if this is just for one section of your page