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Hello,
I have just joined the group and I must say I have enjoyed
the posts I have read through so far today (being the first day of membership
and all). I hail from across the sea in Portland, Oregon and even y'all are
Aussie's (one could say that is far better than beinga
e to think of collapsed side
bars,etc.Better to err on the side of
narrowness.--Cameron AdamsW: www.themaninblue.com---
theGrafixGuy [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
When a screen resolution is 800 x 600 - what is the Actual width of
the browser viewing area (taking the window borders into
On Sunday, March 21, 2004, at 08:08 PM, theGrafixGuy
wrote:
and
even y'all are
Aussie'sThis list might
be based in AU but it is international. Like myself (New York) there are over 50
members in the USA represented on this list.Leo
I use this tool a lot when I am optimizing my code to see how much I saved
(every byte adds time!).
Using this tool, you can see just how much fat there is in your code. I have
literally shaved off 50% off of some pages.
Unfortunately, while it is possible to build a web page that will get
I think the reason for that is that the structure of the page is built and
the images can d/l while the the content is in place and the reader can
begin seeing something atleast.
This tool (which I discovered last month as part of a plug-in for Mozilla
and Firefox) sold me the rest of the way on
From what I can tell, IT IS NOT limited to paired hexes - See
http://www.december.com/html/spec/color3hex1.html - this pages lists 512
colors, the next another 1024 colors, the next another 1024, and the last
yet another 1024 for a total of 3584 colors
That is more than the paired sets I believe
Somewhere out there, I lost my link to it in an old HDD crash, there is a
site that allows you to test your site using the various perceptions people
with various types of color blindness suffer from - it was actually quite
handy. But there is other sites out there now that atleast let you choose
I like this idea! It adds a creative flair to the purpose of the group and
as an artist/programmer instead of a pure programmer it gives others like me
a chance to show the world This is how I would've done it.
Brian
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.
Simple things get so hard sometime :-)
Brian
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From: theGrafixGuy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 12:52 PM
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Subject: [WSG] Centering one box in the center of the page with a footer
attached
Hello,
I am trying to figure out
Yep, that is what I was looking for - Thank you!
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From: russ weakley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 1:11 PM
To: Web Standards Group
Subject: Re: [WSG] Centering one box in the center of the page with a footer
attached
Hi Brian,
Hard to tell
Used macs running IE 5 are dirt cheap, I just bought two 6500s for $35, each
with 160MB RAM and a 2GB HDD - at that price, ya just can't go wrong as far
as having one to check stuff on.
Brian
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From: Jaime Wong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004
Anyone have ideas on how to do a drop cap in CSS?
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Hello,
I am working on a build for a client and am having a devil of a time
figuring out why the follwing is happening.
In the footer section, I have various links set up and two W3C buttons made
from CSS (pretty nice completely customizable buttons I might add that were
shared with me from
I actually decided to look in detail at my logs over the past month after
people brought up the Browser compatibility issues:
This is what I have for my site www.thegrafixguy.com and I get an average of
1 unique visitors a month.
MSIE all versions 74.9%
Netscape 1.8% (Man they Seriously
www.google.com is just as valid in e-mail as http://www.google.com or even
http://google.com.
In fact I'd be surprised to find a web browser or e-mail program that does
not support it.
I guess it is like the word ain't. Remember ain't ain't a word cause it
ain't in the dictionary. Well sorry to
I just downloaded the latest NS 7.01 and it is nothing more than Mozilla
with NS's skin on it, even my installed Mozilla plug-ins are present in NS.
But that doesn't explain the complete loss of market share!
Brian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
James,
Breaking the Netscape down to versions we have the following:
NS 7.1 1.1%
NS 7.02 0.2%
NS 7.01 0.01%
NS 7.0 0.1%
NS 6.23 0.05%
NS 5 0.0003%
NS 4.8 0.0002%
NS 4.78 0.08%
NS 4.77 0.01%
NS 4.76 0.018%
NS 4.74 0.0007%
NS 4.7 0.05%
NS 4.51 0%
NS 4.5 0.0001
NS 4.04 0%
NS 4.0 0%
NS ? 0%
Just
http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/auth/fonts-face-index.html
This link brings up an interesting question - what fonts are supported by
what platforms and OS's?
Now I should clarify this with the duh part, any font is supported so long
as the viewer has it installed on their system. I guess a
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From: theGrafixGuy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 7:32 PM
Subject: RE: [WSG] Browser Stats - What a shock!
I just downloaded the latest NS 7.01 and it is nothing more than
Mozilla with NS's skin on it, even my installed Mozilla plug
Trimming excess fat off of the code does add up over time - both in storage
and in transfer/bandwidth - granted, I'll admit whether your CSS stylesheet
can be transferred in a single packet or if it is 4kb in size is not going
to make much of a difference; but sitewide - getting rid of the extra
Ooh, that might be just what the doctor ordered!!!
Thanks.
Brian
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From: Tim Lucas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 10:26 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [WSG] Trimming the fat
Quoting theGrafixGuy [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Now, my site
Working on a navigation menu and it works great in everything BUT IE.
http://www.purplecart.com/main.php - any help would be appreciated! I know
it is likely staring me in the face but I am blind to it.
Thanks
Brian
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Thanks to Darian, the extra spaces was the issue - doh! Been a long day,
been coding three different sites for 18 hours straight today!
Thanks for the feedback Leo, nice to know the Mac side is working right!
Brian
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Try replacing the graphic - I had a similar thing happen today - image in a
header viewed fine in all other browsers and evenen Mozilla on other
computers. But would not display for the life of me on the one machine. I
even replaced and upgraded Mozilla to 1.6 from 1.5 to no avail - rebooting
I am far from an expert yet, but your
display issues are very similar to what I got the first time around using CSS
I discovered IDs rather than classes fro layers provides more precision.
Also, you might want to try dropping the
p/p and running block level text.
Brian
Title: CSS issue in Opera (Win)
Hi all,
I am building Zen Cart, and thanks for the suggestion!!!
I have noticed a problem though in the footer every cart I have seen using a footer with a border, the right border disappears on the footer and footer top.
Here are 7 example sites and you
Looks good!
Though for sake of presentation style, I'd have it layout the results in a
more formatted manner. The results page looks ad-hoc if you know what I
mean.
Also, if easily done, I'd like to see header examples as well as bold and
italic - but that is just me.
Brian
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no one say we don't listen at AFP Webworks!!
http://afpwebworks.com/colourschemer/
Cheers
Mike Kear
Windsor, NSW, Australia
AFP Webworks
http://afpwebworks.com
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Behalf Of theGrafixGuy
Sent: Wednesday, 31 March 2004
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From: theGrafixGuy
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April
15, 2004 1:57 PM
Subject: RE: [WSG]
Constructive Criticism please
Looks good overall thought you have a at
least one spelling error - ability
I happen to be one of those people and I can say that the practice is
under utilized by the programming industry as a whole. And I am neither anal
nor ANAL, it is simply the method of coding I like to use once I have a page
developed to a point I no I will only be touching it up here and there.
and kick them in the butt. And if it doesn't MSIE
surely would. Remember the quotes in the old days.
Leo
On Thursday, April 15, 2004, at 02:13 AM, Hugh Todd wrote:
theGrafixGuy said,
You do not need the ; after the last attribute in each style
I know this is technically true (browsers
Criticism please
theGrafixGuy
Good coding practice is for classroom, real world you want lean with as
little waste as possible. I look at it like a space mission to the
moon and
every byte is weight - the less weight I have for the structure of the
rocket (framework for the site)and still have
, 2004, at 03:20 AM, theGrafixGuy wrote:
I HATE bloat
You know Brian, for a person who hates bloat, you sure are full of it.
;-) lol
Leo
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I am having a bit of an issue with Mozilla and IE:
.main_page
{
width:100% !important;
background-color:#d6aef1;
border-right:1px solid #609;
border-left:1px solid #609;
border-bottom:1px solid #609;
padding:4px;
}
Does what I need it too in IE: However to do what I want it to do in
Looks fine on Server 2k3 and IE6
Brian
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From: Nelson Ford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 10:24 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [WSG] Looking for a little peer review
Hi all, this will be my first time posting to this group.
Someone just told
Cancel that - figured it out - CAPS on the meta :-) time to go to bed :-/
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From: theGrafixGuy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 5:08 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [WSG] compliant version of the following
I am working on my site and am
What is the recommended replacement when using a textarea?
Thanks
Brian
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I am trying to do an image rollover - easy enough yes - but heres the
problem
We are talking about images that are hard coded into a template system.
What I am thinking is doing a class where the rollover would simply change
the directory that the image is located in rather than the image name
Yeah, that was what I was afraid of. I am looking at in the wrong way -
Okay, is there a method of perhaps adding an effect to the image that could
be turned on or off - like for example a border effect where top and left
are one color and bottom and right another color and on a mouse over they
Here is what we are dealing with
?php echo my_back_link() . my_image_button('button_back.gif',
IMAGE_BUTTON_BACK) . '';?
The calls are as follows:
function my_image_button($image, $alt = '', $parameters = '') {
global $template, $current_page_base;
return
in
your CMS and one rule in your CSS applying to the hover state for your
anchor element. The full details on this technique are at
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/sprites/
Cheers,
James
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Hello,
I got the rollover image effect working - thanks for the help there guys! -
it still needs refinement in tying in with and or replacing parts of the
hardcoded calls in the overall code but I know I am on the right track at
least! And even better (heh heh) is I have reduced the nuber of
Hello,
I am trying to add a back to top of page link to PHP dynamically generated
pages. The header and footers for these page never change so the anchor is
in the header and the link in the footer.
Header Anchor:
a name=top/a
HARD CODE link used in the body of the static pages (which I want
using a href=#top.../a ?
--Ben
http://www.daemon.com.au/
theGrafixGuy wrote:
I am trying to add a back to top of page link to PHP dynamically generated
pages. The header and footers for these page never change so the anchor is
in the header and the link in the footer.
a href=index.php
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Subject: Re: [WSG] Trying to add a back to top link
Hi Brian
I think this subject is OT, but I think Ben is right; I have a dynamic
php-side, and I am using Ben's solution.
Regards
Anders
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday
-0700, theGrafixGuy wrote:
Yes and that goes back to the root index page - as mentioned these pages
are
dynamic!
(This is really OT, but it should be quick and easy -)
Have you put a base statement in your HTML?
That'll point the #... to the wrong page.
If you really want to specify the current
keep seeing references to some XML:lang variation but am unable to find
anything further on how to implement this.
Thanks as always!
Brian Grimmer
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, what in XHTML 1.1 can
I use to replace the lang=en-US attribute? I keep seeing references
to some XML:lang variation but am unable to find anything further on how to
implement this.
Thanks as always!
Brian Grimmer
theGrafixGuy
No DTD?
No DTD, page no validate!?!
Brian Grimmer
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From: Nick Cowie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 7:47 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [WSG] Where am I missing
I am working on a new look for a site and while it displays as desired in IE
6.0. It goes the hades in a hand basket in Moz.
What am I missing here?
http://www.mosincorporated.com/site2/index.php
Thanks in advance for the help!
Brian Grimmer
theGrafixGuy
Fixed now - Found out I needed to add some padding
Part of the prob was that things weren't lining up and were dropping down.
Brian Grimmer
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From: Jackie Reid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent
A CSS question - I have some centered text formatted via a class in div
id= and I need it at the bottom of the div but still HORIZONTALLY
centered - how?
Thanks for the help in advance
Brian
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Yes, I tried that initially and no go - hence the stupid question that is
turning out to not be so stupid after all :-)
Right now I got it faked using a few br / but I don't wanna do that as it
just feel to go against the clean code I am trying to create here.
Brian Grimmer
theGrafixGuy
http
, but it still
isn't at the level of DW.
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for my design.
Brian Grimmer
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From: Taco Fleur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 5:26 PM
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Subject: RE: [WSG] Is a degree necessary? THREAD CLOSED - Open
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From: Neerav [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 12:12 AM
To: WSG
Subject: [WSG] Web safe colours - still relevent ?
Is the opinion of list members that only using web safe colours
subject being active, yes this in on-topic but
perhaps waver on the edge in regards to the SPAM issue if one does not
consider the new laws in effect as a sort of web standard for communication.
I apologize in advance for this.
Sincerely,
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wouldn't you just build a WAP
site???
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://www.mosincorporated.com/site2/main.php
and its css is http://www.mosincorporated.com/site2/s.css
Thank you for the help.
Brian Grimmer
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Can't we do SOMETHING about these Out of office replies? Sheesh!
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for whatever reason in your
personal closet.
It is this same issue that is seriously making me reconsider the groups
value overall.
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situation! You look good and so does the client!
Sincerely,
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of others. It is NOT hard at all to do as you said, unsubscribe or
simply set up a filter - better yet, DON'T EVEN USE AUTO-REPLY.
Just my two cents on the matter :-/
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