[css-d] FW: Webstock Conference

2005-11-08 Thread Rebecca Cox
http://www.webstock.org.nz Web Standards New Zealand is extremely pleased to announce the launch of Webstock - a web experience and conference - to be held 23-23 May 2006 in Wellington, New Zealand. Among the speakers appearing with an accessibility focus Joe Clark and Darren Fitler. We thin

RE: [css-d] What's this hack for?

2005-09-26 Thread Rebecca Cox
Hides CSS from IE5 Mac - called commented backslash hack I think. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gavin Jackson Sent: Tuesday, 27 September 2005 1:26 p.m. To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: [css-d] What's this hack for? I have a p

[css-d] Mozilla and floats problem

2005-09-26 Thread Rebecca Cox
prob/css/global.css All the browsers I'm working with are fine with this, but versions of Mozilla (Windows) don't cope with the hanging #primarynav or weirdly floated rightbar. The latest version Mozilla 1.7.12 is fine. Any ideas about a workaround for old Moz very gratefull

RE: [css-d] Compliant Browser displaying "upgrade browser message"

2005-09-14 Thread Rebecca Cox
{ position: absolute; top: -5000px; left: -5000px; } See http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fir - a bit old now but has results from some screen reader tests. Cheers, Rebecca Cox -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craddock, Melissa Sent: Th

RE: [css-d] Syntax question

2005-09-01 Thread Rebecca Cox
Have a look at these on http://www.selectoracle.com No spaces > means an item which has all the attributes (buggy on IE win) useful if you want to get at something with an ID and a class combination, eg would be selected by #sectionlead.punk { Color: red; } Etc - you get probs in IE Win if yo

RE: [css-d] converting to tableless- quick question

2005-08-14 Thread Rebecca Cox
Its not perfect, but I found the book Stylin with CSS (Charles Wyke-Smith) covers a lot of ground and gives good summaries of current practice. Its not 100% accurate - lots of typos etc but overall very useful. Cheers -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[css-d] htc / son of suckerfish type dropdowns, iE probs

2005-08-10 Thread Rebecca Cox
Hi there, I've been fiddling with a sort of combo of the htc-enabled dropdowns (http://www.bbd.com/stylin/) and suckerfish II (http://www.htmldog.com/articles/suckerfish/dropdowns/example/) and have it all sweet except for a problem with, err, IE6 / Win;( See http://www.reb.net.nz/htc/ It appe

[css-d] one more for list of IE CSS nastys ?

2005-07-27 Thread Rebecca Cox
Grr IE, you know how you can use an ID & class selector together on same element? Eg .resources .stories#banner { background: #666; } .resources .know#banner { background: #ccc; } All fine & valid etc but IE6 Win will only apply the first such style in the CSS file - so in this

[css-d] BIR Bob Image Replacement - (z-index & stack order probs)

2005-07-27 Thread Rebecca Cox
Hi folks, A colleague has pointed me to another image replacement technique by the name of BIR (Bob's Image Replacement) - it is pretty simple and just involves giving a negative z index to the text you want to hide behind a background image. I have found it OK as long as you don't want to specif