Re: [WSG] Layout Problem: Floating Elements with different heights breaks the flow.

2007-02-23 Thread Shlomi Asaf
what do you think suppose to be in tables? does a list represent better a list of cloths and there details, ordered in a gallery layout? does a table represent a tabular data. what is that exactly? only numbers or maybe also cloths and there details? On 2/23/07, Christian Montoya [EMAIL

Re: [WSG] alternative to target=_blank in xhtml 1.1

2007-02-23 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Gallagher, Robin wrote: Users of the search engine on my intranet site wold like to have the results open in a new page. Can anyone suggest a valid method to do this in xhtml 1.1? This solution requires no extra markup: http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/popup_window_with_no_extra_markup.asp

Re: [WSG] Layout Problem: Floating Elements with different heights breaks the flow.

2007-02-23 Thread Shlomi Asaf
Ive uploaded a page describing my approach to table list design: http://www.webcssdesign.34sp.com/me/aTableLikeList.htm i think a List would be a much more semantic way to describe this kind of layout UL{ list-style:none; margin:0; padding:0; display:table; width:80% } DIV{

Re: [WSG] layout - choices?

2007-02-23 Thread Barney Carroll
TuteC wrote: and a screen reader can read the contents. Eugenio, screen readers have no problem with tables. What you are talking about is a myth. Bob, remember that tables have all sorts of properties that are not down to style. For instance, there is the artificial (in that it isn't

Re: [WSG] layout - choices?

2007-02-23 Thread Designer
Barney Carroll wrote: But at the end of the day, {display: table} is just as ridiculous as div{display:inline} or span{display:block}. Besides, when I made table-based designs I often found myself nesting tables within tables, and I ended up with horribly deep code (a bit like Google ads,

Re: [WSG] layout - choices?

2007-02-23 Thread Martin Heiden
Bob, on Friday, February 23, 2007 at 12:19 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote: grid gridcellcontent/gridcell gridcelldifferent content/gridcell /grid This can then be CSS'd of course, in the normal way. The important point though, is that the number of cells in a grid

Re: [WSG] layout - choices?

2007-02-23 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
One of the (many) things I wish for is a grid tag. Something along the lines of the following (made up as I go along, so don't nitpick too much :-)): grid gridcellcontent/gridcell gridcelldifferent content/gridcell /grid This can then be CSS'd of course, in the normal way.

Re: [WSG] layout - choices?

2007-02-23 Thread Designer
Rimantas Liubertas wrote: One of the (many) things I wish for is a grid tag. Something along the lines of the following (made up as I go along, so don't nitpick too much :-)): grid gridcellcontent/gridcell gridcelldifferent content/gridcell /grid This can then be CSS'd of

Re: [WSG] layout - choices?

2007-02-23 Thread Designer
Martin Heiden wrote: Bob, on Friday, February 23, 2007 at 12:19 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote: grid gridcellcontent/gridcell gridcelldifferent content/gridcell /grid This can then be CSS'd of course, in the normal way. The important point though, is that the number of

Re: [WSG] layout - choices?

2007-02-23 Thread Matthew Pennell
On 2/22/07, Designer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, my (genuine) question is, is this really so wrong? So long as it's kept really simple, which way is easier to read in a screen reader? (Include the floated and hacked to death standards version as a third alternative too). It seems to me that

Re: [WSG] Internationalization for hindi (data getting corrupted while sendng from jsp to action)

2007-02-23 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
On 23 Feb 2007, at 06:55:01, Nisha Kumari wrote: Hi I have done all following changes in my jsp page. I am using struts and even have saved my Hindi text in a application recourse file and have save that file in a UTF-8 encoding format. I can see in browser the encoding is getting set to

Re: [WSG] alternative to target=_blank in xhtml 1.1

2007-02-23 Thread Minh D. Tran
Hi Robin, Another way to open a new window is a href=http://www.anotherlink.com; onclick=window.open(this); return false; title=Sample Link/a Let me know if this works. Minh Tran Gallagher, Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sec: u alternative to target=_blank in xhtml 1.1 Users

Re: [WSG] alternative to target=_blank in xhtml 1.1

2007-02-23 Thread L. Robinson
*/Gallagher, Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED]/* wrote: Users of the search engine on my intranet site wold like to have the results open in a new page. Can anyone suggest a valid method to do this in xhtml 1.1?

[WSG] fun with web standards

2007-02-23 Thread Rolf SF
Someone just sent me this youtube link, titled The machine is us/ing us - it's actually a celebration of web standards in a sense, so I thought I'd pass it on. For those that prefer to separate fun from work, in addition to separating content from presentation, you could save it for later

Re: [WSG] fun with web standards

2007-02-23 Thread TuteC
And the link is... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE It's been sent, anyway. Best regards; Eugenio Costa. On 2/23/07, Rolf SF [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone just sent me this youtube link, titled The machine is us/ing us - it's actually a celebration of web standards in a sense, so

Re: [WSG] Problem with Navigation in IE 6

2007-02-23 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Carolyn Diaz wrote: http://netprojx.com/STU/facts.htm. The problem is the left navigation in IE 6. The sub elements or 2nd level of the navigation loses its background, sometimes the color, sometimes the image...in other words, extremely buggy behavior! Add... li {height: 1%;} ...or another

Re: [WSG] Problem with Navigation in IE 6

2007-02-23 Thread Carolyn Diaz
Thanks so much! I should have seen that right off. Isn't that also known as the Holly hack or some such thing? On 2/23/07, Gunlaug Sørtun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Carolyn Diaz wrote: http://netprojx.com/STU/facts.htm. The problem is the left navigation in IE 6. The sub elements or 2nd

[WSG] Please Help! Hover not working to trigger display:block in FF

2007-02-23 Thread Cole Kuryakin
Hello All - I've done this successfully in one previous project, but can't for the life of me understand what I'm doing wrong now. I've got a UL nav bar with a number of li's. I've set one of the li's as css trigger (via a class name) in order to show a drop-down menu (a UL) that has a

Re: [WSG] Please Help! Hover not working to trigger display:block in FF

2007-02-23 Thread John Faulds
The dropdown menu's s'posed to be nested within the li from which it's to drop down from - it can't be a completely separate ul. On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 11:08:30 +1000, Cole Kuryakin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All - I've done this successfully in one previous project, but can't for the

Re: [WSG] Please Help! Hover not working to trigger display:block in FF

2007-02-23 Thread 'Scott Swabey'
Cole Kuryakin wrote: Hello All – Hi Cole I’ve set one of the li’s as css trigger (via a class name) in order to show a drop-down menu (a UL) that has a default value of display:none. Unfortunately, nothing I try will initiate the declaration containing the display:block. You will need

Re: [WSG] Layout Problem: Floating Elements with different heights breaks the flow.

2007-02-23 Thread Shlomi Asaf
Please ignore my last email the layout i sent is not valid the one Tee presented to us is the correct one. A Question: using the layout above VS. the same layout except the row divs now will clear the Row. clear:both. what do you think is the better correct layout? a table like or a clearing

Re: [WSG] Problem with Navigation in IE 6

2007-02-23 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Carolyn Diaz wrote: Thanks so much! I should have seen that right off. Isn't that also known as the Holly hack or some such thing? That's right... http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?page=2cid=C37E0 -- http://www.gunlaug.no