[WSG] Numbered paragraphs

2006-10-12 Thread lucian
Hi guys, I work for a government organisation in Singapore and one of the practices is numbering paragraphs on press releases. I'd use an ordered list, but where headers are inserted, I am forced to do an ol start=n, which I understand is deprecated. What other more semantic alternatives

Re: [WSG] Numbered paragraphs

2006-10-12 Thread Mike at Green-Beast.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I work for a government organisation in Singapore and one of the practices is numbering paragraphs on press releases. I'd use an ordered list, but where headers are inserted, I am forced to do an ol start=n, which I understand is deprecated. What other more

Re: [WSG] Numbered paragraphs

2006-10-12 Thread Lachlan Hunt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I work for a government organisation in Singapore and one of the practices is numbering paragraphs on press releases. I'd use an ordered list, but where headers are inserted, I am forced to do an ol start=n, which I understand is deprecated. Many people have argued

Re: [WSG] programmmer said: difination list not a standard practise

2006-10-12 Thread Paul Novitski
At 10/11/2006 07:08 PM, Thierry Koblentz wrote: I'd agree it is rare to see more than one DT but not to see multiple DDs. Come on, you guys, revisit the spec: ___ W3C HTML 4.01 Specification 10 Lists 10.3 Definition lists: the DL, DT, and DD elements

Re: [WSG] programmmer said: difination list not a standard practise

2006-10-12 Thread russ - maxdesign
Come on, you guys, revisit the spec: Or for those who have spec-aversion: http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/definition/ :) Russ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

RE: [WSG] Getting the layout to work and with all browsers

2006-10-12 Thread michael.brockington
I can't find the reference now, but I saw a report recently by someone of the likes of Gartner, that reckoned it would take a year or so before IE7 overtook IE6. All the same, no other browser release will have such an immediate impact. Mike -Original Message- Kevin Murphy wrote:

RE: [WSG] Getting the layout to work and with all browsers

2006-10-12 Thread Patrick Lauke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] I can't find the reference now, but I saw a report recently by someone of the likes of Gartner, that reckoned it would take a year or so before IE7 overtook IE6. At least part of that will be that a lot of organisations (ours included) are working towards blocking the

[WSG Announce] Ten questions for Peter-Paul Koch

2006-10-12 Thread russ - maxdesign
** This is a one-way list for WSG Announcements ** Peter-Paul Koch has lived in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, all his life. He is a freelance web developer - which means you

Re: [WSG] programmmer said: difination list not a standard practise

2006-10-12 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Paul Novitski wrote: At 10/11/2006 07:08 PM, Thierry Koblentz wrote: I'd agree it is rare to see more than one DT but not to see multiple DDs. Come on, you guys, revisit the spec: Revisit my post :) I said it was less common than a succession of DDs Out of Russ's 7 examples [1] there is not

Re: [WSG] programmmer said: difination list not a standard practise

2006-10-12 Thread Christian Montoya
On 10/12/06, Thierry Koblentz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Revisit my post :) I said it was less common than a succession of DDs Out of Russ's 7 examples [1] there is not one with 2 DTs following each other ;) [1] http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/definition/ My problem with this

[WSG] Extra space in IE

2006-10-12 Thread Tom Livingston
Title: Extra space in IE Hello list, http://66.155.251.18/mlinc.com/06/ In IE6 (havent checked 5.5 or 7) I am getting extra space below my footer. Anyone see why? TIA -- Tom Livingston | Senior Multimedia Artist | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com

RE: [WSG] Extra space in IE

2006-10-12 Thread Tim Palac
Title: Extra space in IE Tom,After playing around with the CSS and XHTML, it appears that your footer is not clearing your content.I noticed you added br style="clear:right;" / on top of the page and I pasted that in between the main and footer div - the space in the footer is gone now.In fact,

Re: [WSG] Extra space in IE

2006-10-12 Thread ~davidLaakso
Tom Livingston wrote: http://66.155.251.18/mlinc.com/06/ In IE6 (haven’t checked 5.5 or 7) I am getting extra space below my footer. Anyone see why? This should close it : #main{margin:0 auto/* 2em auto*/; } Best, ~dL -- http://chelseacreekstudio.com/

Re: [WSG] Extra space in IE

2006-10-12 Thread Tom Livingston
Title: Re: [WSG] Extra space in IE On 10/12/06 2:30 PM, Tim Palac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom, After playing around with the CSS and XHTML, it appears that your footer is not clearing your content. I noticed you added br style=clear:right; / on top of the page and I pasted that in

Re: [WSG] Extra space in IE

2006-10-12 Thread Tom Livingston
Title: Re: [WSG] Extra space in IE On 10/12/06 2:54 PM, Tom Livingston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom, After playing around with the CSS and XHTML, it appears that your footer is not clearing your content. I noticed you added br style=clear:right; / on top of the page and I pasted that in

[WSG] Using my Image replacement technique to create graphic menus

2006-10-12 Thread Thierry Koblentz
I'd appreciate any comment that would help me improve this article: Article: http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/TJK_tipMenu_demo.asp Demo: http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/TJK_tipMenu_demo.asp Also, I'd like to hear opinions about the real value of *text* vs. alt attributes. I know some say

Re: [WSG] Extra space in IE

2006-10-12 Thread Tom Livingston
Title: Re: [WSG] Extra space in IE On 10/12/06 3:09 PM, Tom Livingston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One other thing, In IE6 again. When I resize the window, the footer slides right doubling the left margin. Refreshing brings back my correct left margin. Anyone? OK. Answered my own question.

Re: [WSG] Using my Image replacement technique to create graphic menus

2006-10-12 Thread Kenny Graham
I know some say images are *as good as* text as long as they have the proper ALT attribute. I like text better because I think that putting an image of text into markup is equivalent to putting your font, text color, background, etc, into markup. Both make those attributes impossible to change

Re: [WSG] Using my Image replacement technique to create graphic menus

2006-10-12 Thread David Dorward
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 04:39:32PM -0400, Kenny Graham wrote: markup is equivalent to putting your font, text color, background, etc, into markup. Both make those attributes impossible to change in the CSS (which makes alternate/user stylesheets REALY fun). Are user style sheets normally

Re: [WSG] Using my Image replacement technique to create graphic menus

2006-10-12 Thread Thierry Koblentz
David Dorward wrote: At least with regular images a user can turn them off and get the alt text (which can be styled in at least some browsers, Firefox being the test case I just ran though). But these *are* regular images; and if you turn images off you should get *real* text. --- Regards,

Re: [WSG] Using my Image replacement technique to create graphic menus

2006-10-12 Thread John Faulds
Article: http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/TJK_tipMenu_demo.asp That should actually be: http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/using_real_images_in_menus.asp ;) -- Tyssen Design Web print design services www.tyssendesign.com.au Ph: (07) 3300 3303 Mb: 0405 678 590

Re: [WSG] Using my Image replacement technique to create graphic menus

2006-10-12 Thread Thierry Koblentz
John Faulds wrote: Article: http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/TJK_tipMenu_demo.asp That should actually be: http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/using_real_images_in_menus.asp Thanks John, That's because I'm cut-and-paste-challenged. But sometimes it gets worst, I post things like:

[WSG] Firefox print style sheet bug

2006-10-12 Thread Pierre-Henri Lavigne
Howdy, I got the same problem in css as the following example page : http://www.getphuture.com/i/google.jpg The qualified persons on the mozilla IRC were busy at the moment I asked support. If someone has an idea about fixing it... I'll forward you answers if I find out more about it.

Re: [WSG] Firefox print style sheet bug

2006-10-12 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Oct 13, 2006, at 8:14 AM, Pierre-Henri Lavigne wrote: I got the same problem in css as the following example page : http://www.getphuture.com/i/google.jpg The qualified persons on the mozilla IRC were busy at the moment I asked support. If someone has an idea about fixing it... I'll

RE: [WSG] Firefox print style sheet bug

2006-10-12 Thread Adam Burmister \(DSL AK\)
I've found it doesn't affect the printed page, just the print preview. - A From: listdad@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pierre-Henri Lavigne Sent: Friday, 13 October 2006 12:14 p.m. To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject:

RE: [WSG] Firefox print style sheet bug

2006-10-12 Thread Joshua Briley - Para-Diddle Design
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Re: [WSG] programmmer said: difination list not a standard practise

2006-10-12 Thread Tee G. Peng
On Oct 11, 2006, at 1:13 PM, Patrick H. Lauke wrote: What I'm saying is: the definition list is fine, the additional proposed use of a DL and a UL is probably fine as well, and you could even treat it as a small table (as long as appropriate headings are given for both columns and

[WSG] SiteAdvisor.com

2006-10-12 Thread Dan Johnson
Greetings Fellow Standardistas, Tonight, My colleague and I had to remove all links to the WebStandardsGroup.com web site from our own site. Why, might you ask? Here are the nasty details. McAfee has created a tool called SiteAdvisor which rates whether or not pages are good, bad, or

Re: [WSG] Getting the layout to work and with all browsers

2006-10-12 Thread Navjot Pawera
working towards blocking the automatic update - does this also mean that such businesses won't be upgrading to vista On 10/12/06, Patrick Lauke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can't find the reference now, but I saw a report recently by someone of the likes of Gartner, that reckoned