Re: [css-d] Site check - cristi

2008-06-13 Thread Cristian Palmas
2008/6/13 Felix Miata [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 2008/06/12 17:09 (GMT+0200) Cristian Palmas apparently typed: The link is http://www.cristianpalmas.it. Classic example of web users' biggest complaint: http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/SC/sc-crispa1.jpg http://www.useit.com/alertbox/designmistakes.html

Re: [css-d] Site check - cristi

2008-06-13 Thread Bill Brown
Hi Felix, Thanks for the useful links and for the advice. I overrode the default font-size settings in order not to break the graphic layout. Anyway, I will study as soon as possible solution to the home and blog links image problems and font-size problems. And I will see whether to change

Re: [css-d] Site check - cristi

2008-06-13 Thread David Laakso
Bill Brown wrote: Hello Cristian (Felix, et al), This recent email leaves me with a few philosophical questions, however: 1. If we can expect a user to know how to set their own default font size, can we (should we) expect them to know how to resize the font on a given page? I think

Re: [css-d] Site check - cristi

2008-06-13 Thread Felix Miata
On 2008/06/13 04:20 (GMT-0400) Bill Brown apparently typed: This recent email leaves me with a few philosophical questions, however: 1. If we can expect a user to know how to set their own default font size, can we (should we) expect them to know how to resize the font on a given page? 2.

Re: [css-d] Site check - cristi

2008-06-13 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Bill Brown wrote: 1. If we can expect a user to know how to set their own default font size, can we (should we) expect them to know how to resize the font on a given page? What the user knows is unknown to us, and what s/he does with what s/he knows or doesn't know, is also unknown. What

Re: [css-d] Control clicks in Firefox and borders on elements

2008-06-13 Thread Wellington Fan
Thanks, all. I did hack a workaround so that 'default' border did not interfere with my custom border. I did this by explicitly *deselecting*, or rather, *collapsing* the Selection object: line 29:window.getSelection().collapse($$('body')[0],0); -- Wellington

[css-d] Can someone take a look for me, please?

2008-06-13 Thread Michelle Cole
Hey all, I'm working on a site that's overdue, and I cannot figure out why in the world this isn't working for me. (For the record, we've had lots of heat this week, and my air conditioner busted on the first day of this heat wave - so I've been stupid all week long! That's my excuse,

Re: [css-d] Can someone take a look for me, please?

2008-06-13 Thread David Laakso
Michelle Cole wrote: http://www.actingforreal.com/wordpress/ ~Shelly I don't know how to make a table much less how to fix one. Sorry. -- http://chelseacreekstudio.com/ __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [css-d] Can someone take a look for me, please?

2008-06-13 Thread Chris Akins
What does your reply mean? I see no tables in the source code. On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 9:19 AM, David Laakso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michelle Cole wrote: http://www.actingforreal.com/wordpress/ ~Shelly I don't know how to make a table much less how to fix one. Sorry. --

Re: [css-d] Can someone take a look for me, please?

2008-06-13 Thread Bobby Jack
--- On Fri, 6/13/08, Michelle Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.actingforreal.com/wordpress/ it's validating just fine, but for some reason, the main content is dropping (on the left side) below the sidebar on the right. Now, *normally* this would be due to some clearing

Re: [css-d] Can someone take a look for me, please?

2008-06-13 Thread David Laakso
Chris Akins wrote: What does your reply mean? I see no tables in the source code. http://www.actingforreal.com/wordpress/ ~Shelly I don't know how to make a table much less how to fix one. Sorry. My mistake. Downloaded Shelly's files from Opera and opened the wrong

[css-d] Validation Warning: Byte-Order Mark found in UTF-8 File?

2008-06-13 Thread Elli Vizcaino
Hello, I think this might be a little off topic but it's related to validating CSS. As of late, my documents have been validating but I get this warning: Byte-Order Mark found in UTF-8 File - I'm clueless as to what this really means. Can someone please elaborate? I think the default settings

Re: [css-d] Validation Warning: Byte-Order Mark found in UTF-8 File?

2008-06-13 Thread Michelle Cole
I don't know *exactly* what it means, but I know that you have to have a really good text editor to see it, because usually it won't show up. It appears *before* even the doctype in the head of your document. It'll be the very first thing you see. I can't tell you what kind of text editor

Re: [css-d] Validation Warning: Byte-Order Mark found in UTF-8 File?

2008-06-13 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Elli Vizcaino wrote: I think this might be a little off topic but it's related to validating CSS. As of late, my documents have been validating but I get this warning: Byte-Order Mark found in UTF-8 File - I'm clueless as to what this really means. Can someone please elaborate? See e.g.

Re: [css-d] Validation Warning: Byte-Order Mark found in UTF-8 File?

2008-06-13 Thread Melbeach
I think this might be a little off topic but it's related to validating CSS. As of late, my documents have been validating but I get this warning: Byte-Order Mark found in UTF-8 File - I'm clueless as to what this really means. Can someone please elaborate? I had this problem when I started out

Re: [css-d] Validation Warning: Byte-Order Mark found in UTF-8 File?

2008-06-13 Thread David Laakso
Elli Vizcaino wrote: Hello, I think this might be a little off topic but it's related to validating CSS. As of late, my documents have been validating but I get this warning: Byte-Order Mark found in UTF-8 File - I'm clueless as to what this really means. Can someone please elaborate? I

[css-d] Stretch question

2008-06-13 Thread Luc
Good afternoon list, First of all, my question is a theoretical one, meaning i don't have a mock-up to show, just a question for future reference. I was wondering, if you have a basic 2 column set-up, with an outer wrapper and a contentwrapper: div id=wrapper div id=contentwrapper div

Re: [css-d] Validation Warning: Byte-Order Mark found in UTF-8 File?

2008-06-13 Thread liorean
On 13/06/2008, Melbeach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think this might be a little off topic but it's related to validating CSS. As of late, my documents have been validating but I get this warning: Byte-Order Mark found in UTF-8 File - I'm clueless as to what this really means. Can someone

Re: [css-d] Validation Warning: Byte-Order Mark found in UTF-8 File?

2008-06-13 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Elli Vizcaino wrote: I think this might be a little off topic but it's related to validating CSS. It is off-topic, since it relates to validating markup (XHTML in your case), not CSS validation. As of late, my documents have been validating but I get this warning: Byte-Order Mark found in

Re: [css-d] Validation Warning: Byte-Order Mark found in UTF-8 File?

2008-06-13 Thread Rob Emenecker
With UTF-8 a byte-order mark is not necessary. However, Dreamweaver CS3 allows you to include one in your files. Check your PREFERENCES - NEW DOCUMENT settings and DESELECT the Include Unicode Signature (BOM) option. It is only required with UTF-16 and UTF-32. Now, as far as the files you have

Re: [css-d] Validation Warning: Byte-Order Mark found in UTF-8 File?

2008-06-13 Thread Elli Vizcaino
Thank you all for your input. I must admit the info provided on UTF-8 is still way over my head but I did manage to figure out how to change the settings in dreamweaver so the meta content type in newly created documents is now automatically set to: meta http-equiv=Content-Type

[css-d] (no subject)

2008-06-13 Thread E McMahon
Hello - I was wondering if anyone has tripped over this... I do believe it's a CSS issue, but included jquery details as that is what I'm using to change display properties. I'm using jquery and the tablesorter plug-in (along with a tablesorter updated module to accomodate child rows -

Re: [css-d] Site check - cristi

2008-06-13 Thread David Hucklesby
Bill Brown wrote: 3. What do YOU say to a client who asks you to make the default font size smaller? Georg Sørtun replied: You can say: OK, but it may not work as you want at the visitor's end, no matter what. If the client insists; just do it. From a design standpoint, I'd say

[css-d] toggling visibility using onmouseover

2008-06-13 Thread Steve Brantley
Hi, brand new member here. I have a javascript function that changes the visibility of a set of stacked divs so that when an onclick action fires, all but one of the stacked divs will become visibility:hidden. I grabbed it from the javascript forum here: http://www.developer.be/forums/index.cfm

Re: [css-d] toggling visibility using onmouseover

2008-06-13 Thread Wellington Fan
Steve Brantley wrote: Hi, brand new member here. Welcome! window.document.getElementById(framed-love).style.visibility=hidden; window.document.getElementById(framed-starsong).style.visibility=hidden; window.document.getElementById(framed-babysbath).style.visibility=visible; Without

[css-d] CSS Tables

2008-06-13 Thread Juanita
Hi, We're redesigning our recently redesigned (1 year old) site from a 2 column to a 3 column site. Here is the current site, www.kcsm.org in which the main content is database generated into tables, and then the tables are styled with CSS. My co-worker and I are trying to decide if this

Re: [css-d] (no subject) table cells

2008-06-13 Thread Nancy E. Sosna Bohm
From: E McMahon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there any way for me to display the parent row with equal height cells while the child row is set to display none? http://thequarrygroup.com/table_row_alignment/tablesorter1.htm Unless I'm misunderstanding the problem, this is an html issue, not css or

Re: [css-d] Validation Warning: Byte-Order Mark found in UTF-8 File?

2008-06-13 Thread Bill Brown
Rob Emenecker wrote: With UTF-8 a byte-order mark is not necessary. However, Dreamweaver CS3 allows you to include one in your files. Check your PREFERENCES - NEW DOCUMENT settings and DESELECT the Include Unicode Signature (BOM) option. It is only required with UTF-16 and UTF-32. Now, as

Re: [css-d] CSS Tables

2008-06-13 Thread Chris Akins
I don't consider anything on that page to be tabular really. I think you should go with CSS and no tables. On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Juanita [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, We're redesigning our recently redesigned (1 year old) site from a 2 column to a 3 column site. Here is the

Re: [css-d] [OT] toggling visibility using onmouseover

2008-06-13 Thread Rob Emenecker
Steve, Can you post a link to a live page? Also, the issue -- whatever the solution might be -- is not a CSS issue as far as I can see. It is an issue with JavaScript/DHTML in response to passive events (mouseover as opposed to enter, focus, blur, click, etc.). ...Rob E.

Re: [css-d] Stretch question

2008-06-13 Thread David Laakso
Luc wrote: First of all, my question is a theoretical one, meaning i don't have a mock-up to show, just a question for future reference. Putting a repeating background image on the content division (faux-column technique) or is there some other x-browser method? To sum it up, i

Re: [css-d] [OT] toggling visibility using onmouseover

2008-06-13 Thread Michael Geary
Steve, Can you post a link to a live page? Also, the issue -- whatever the solution might be -- is not a CSS issue as far as I can see. It is an issue with JavaScript/DHTML in response to passive events (mouseover as opposed to enter, focus, blur, click, etc.). ...Rob E. It is

Re: [css-d] CSS Tables

2008-06-13 Thread Jens Nedal
Chris Akins wrote: I don't consider anything on that page to be tabular really. I think you should go with CSS and no tables. On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Juanita [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, We're redesigning our recently redesigned (1 year old) site from a 2 column to a 3 column

Re: [css-d] Stretch question

2008-06-13 Thread Luc
Good evening David, It was foretold that on 13/06/2008 @ 16:19:31 GMT-0400 (which was 17:19:31 where I live) David Laakso would write: Any column longest can be acheived using the faux column method (repeating image on y-axis) [1]. Equal height columns using CSS is sometimes done this way

Re: [css-d] toggling visibility using onmouseover

2008-06-13 Thread Jens Nedal
Hi Steve, A link to the site would help alot in resolving your scripting problem. The guidelines by Michael i can only recommend with more emphasis! Using Firebug to debug your Javascript and Web Developer Toolbar for your CSS is something that will help you alot and you will learn alot too. At

Re: [css-d] Stretch question

2008-06-13 Thread Jens Nedal
David Laakso wrote: [1] http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fauxcolumns/ Faux columns has proved best for me when i have had the need for designs that always go down to the bottom. If you the top of the design should not pass up to the very top, you can just assign a container div with the

Re: [css-d] Stretch question

2008-06-13 Thread Luc
Good evening Jens, It was foretold that on 13/06/2008 @ 23:35:10 GMT+0200 (which was 18:35:10 where I live) Jens Nedal would write: snipped a bit The only issue with faux columns is, that the with of your design basically has to remain fixed, as the background image has a fixed with. So

Re: [css-d] Validation Warning: Byte-Order Mark found in UTF-8 File?

2008-06-13 Thread Jens Nedal
Elli Vizcaino wrote: Hello, I think this might be a little off topic but it's related to validating CSS. As of late, my documents have been validating but I get this warning: Byte-Order Mark found in UTF-8 File - I'm clueless as to what this really means. Can someone please elaborate? I

Re: [css-d] (no subject)

2008-06-13 Thread Jens Nedal
E McMahon wrote: Hello - I was wondering if anyone has tripped over this... I do believe it's a CSS issue, but included jquery details as that is what I'm using to change display properties. I'm using jquery and the tablesorter plug-in (along with a tablesorter updated module to

Re: [css-d] (no subject)

2008-06-13 Thread Jens Nedal
Hi, The problem is related to the rowspan of the td element. Since the tr below that needs to be expanded is still there, and only the td elements are hidden, this effect appears. Best would be to only add the rowspan via Javascript when the actual expansion occurs. regards, Jens

Re: [css-d] Stretch question

2008-06-13 Thread johnnie
On 6/13/08 4:42 PM, Luc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good evening Jens, It was foretold that on 13/06/2008 @ 23:35:10 GMT+0200 (which was 18:35:10 where I live) Jens Nedal would write: snipped a bit The only issue with faux columns is, that the with of your design basically has to remain

Re: [css-d] Stretch question

2008-06-13 Thread Jens Nedal
...there ARE some solutions using faux along with liquid: http://www.prairiegraphicdesign.com/CSSMastery/Chapter07/faux-3-col-liquid.h tm -this is taken from Andy Budd's CSS Mastery book, which I recommend... -john petroshius Hi John, That's a nice solution for faux columns. Thanks

[css-d] :: CSS vs jQuery ::

2008-06-13 Thread Amrinder
Hi! I am working with jQuery plugin: Coda Slider on my redesign: www.awayback.com/realign and there I have put a link at bottom of the page which takes me to the top (named as TOP). Now its working fine at homepage: www.awayback.com/realign but not here at work page