First of all, a big thank you to all who turned up tonight to the WSG Sydney meeting. We had 23 people attend - our biggest crowd yet.
Basic minutes are here (with links to the two presentations): http://webstandardsgroup.org/go/resource105.cfm If you mentioned a URL tonight that you think may be of value to the group, please feel free to post it to the list - with a short explanation. Here are a few to start... PEEKABOO ------------------ Peekaboo IE bug - Causes errors in IE's interpretation of floats and "clear": http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/peekaboo.html Position is everything - a great site for explnations on CSS bugs and layouts: http://www.positioniseverything.net/ XML PROLOG ------------------ Tantek Celik on why the XML prolog is not needed: "According to XML 1.0 , the <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> XML prolog is optional" http://tantek.com/XHTML/Test/minimal.html#withorwithoutxmlprolog Rendering Mode and Doctype Switching - Holly Bergevin. (Page 2 quote) "Internet Explorer has an unfortunate bug involving the xml prolog. If there is anything on the first line before the doctype, IE6 will switch into "quirks" mode. This means that using an xml prolog (<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>) will cause the behavior. An HTML comment, even an empty one, will do the same." http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=E2F258C46D285FEE Info on box model, as well as chart showing IE, doctypes and standards/quirks modes (including prolog and missing prolog): http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/about-boxmodel.htm Thanks Russ ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *****************************************************
