Re: [WSG] Support for IE5/Mac? (was Browser stats)

2006-08-04 Thread L-J Lacey
I know it seems incredible, but there are many large businesses that I know of that will only allow IE to be used. I was as shocked as you but on further investigation into one such organisation it seemed to be a matter of cost as the users didn't have permission to download any programmes/software

Re: [WSG] Support for IE5/Mac? (was Browser stats)

2006-08-04 Thread dwain . alford
L-J Lacey wrote: I know it seems incredible, but there are many large businesses that I know of that will only allow IE to be used. I was as shocked as you but on further investigation into one such organisation it seemed to be a matter of cost as the users didn't have permission to download any

Re: [WSG] Support for IE5/Mac? (was Browser stats)

2006-08-04 Thread Mark Harris
L-J Lacey wrote: I know it seems incredible, but there are many large businesses that I know of that will only allow IE to be used. I was as shocked as you but on further investigation into one such organisation it seemed to be a matter of cost as the users didn't have permission to download any

Re: [WSG] Support for IE5/Mac? (was Browser stats)

2006-08-04 Thread L-J Lacey
Mark, I agree with you 100%. I understand why the IT teams have to do it, but wish they'd have a little leeway at times (ie when a non pleb wants to use something a lot better than IE). > The IT managers who have my respect are the ones who > recognize that not > all users are created equally and

Re: [WSG] Semantic usage of th

2006-08-04 Thread Seb Frost
So are you suggesting that scope should only be used in that case?  Or should we be putting scope on all of our s to spell it out as best we can? On 04/08/06, Ben Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I understand the tag should be used on the items in the top row, butI'd describe it a bit differe

Re: [WSG] Semantic usage of th

2006-08-04 Thread Ben Buchanan
So are you suggesting that scope should only be used in that case? Or should we be putting scope on all of our s to spell it out as best we can? No, I'd recommend using them all the time. It's a simple habit change, really. Ben -- --- --- The future has arrived;

[WSG] Float Clearing Problem - First item clears sidebar???

2006-08-04 Thread Richard Lake
Help needed See http://www.pricklypair.co.nz/rocket1/products.php?dept=cakes All works well as long as the first product's height pushes it past the sidebar. Where this doesn't occur the second product doesn't start until after the sidebar. I've experienced this problem id IE6, FF1.5 and O8.5 Th

Re: [WSG] Float Clearing Problem - First item clears sidebar???

2006-08-04 Thread Ian Pouncey
Richard Lake wrote:> Help needed > > See http://www.pricklypair.co.nz/rocket1/products.php?dept=cakes > > All works well as long as the first product's height pushes it past the > sidebar. Where this doesn't occur the second product doesn't start until > after the sidebar. I've experienced this p

RE: [WSG] Float Clearing Problem - First item clears sidebar???

2006-08-04 Thread Richard Lake
Thanks Ian, works a treat in everything that I can test on! -Original Message-From: listdad@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Ian PounceySent: Saturday, 5 August 2006 12:47 a.m.To: wsgSubject: Re: [WSG] Float Clearing Problem - First item clears

Re: [WSG] Support for IE5/Mac? (was Browser stats)

2006-08-04 Thread Ross Bruniges
very true indeed - thankfully our IT manager let me have admin rights on my first day :> lets be honest the first thing I did was download iTunes and y! messenger but AFTER that I got the important stuff. definately can't let anyone download anything they want though - that would be chaos! --

Re: [WSG] Css menu (not navigation)

2006-08-04 Thread Kim Kruse
Just what I was looking for. Thanks a lot :) Have a great weekend Kim Janette Girod wrote: Hi Kim, Here's a nice use of definition lists to style a menu: "How to style a restaurant menu with CSS" http://web-graphics.com/mtarchive/001622.php It looks like there's also some microformat menu ac

Re: [WSG] proper image-content-image markup

2006-08-04 Thread Marko Mrdjenovic
use Title and you also gain by adding permalinks to section headers :) if you can use pauls solution (with only 2 images) you can use h2 and a and you don't even have any meaningless markup... otherwise just use spans inside h2 elements surrounding the text. Marko Mrdjenovic friedcellcollect