Re: [WSG] any good for yahoo UI Grid CSS?

2007-02-15 Thread Peter Ottery
re - I did a site, now client's client was wondering if I can update the markup I did to YUI. Very strange request to me. agreed, if you're a wizz at css you can achieve all the same benefits that the YUI GRID CSS gives you as a headstart. But from a clients point of view - the main attraction

Re: [WSG] PNGs in CSS background images in IE6

2006-11-27 Thread Peter Ottery
Geoff wrote: - Yeah. Position relative doesn't seem to work. can you break it down to a basic stripped down version and post it somewhere for us to check out? I wrestled with it for ages on my site (http://c41.com.au) and eventually arrived at applying position:relative to the links

Re: [WSG] MS Staff Blogs not W3C compliant...

2006-09-23 Thread Peter Ottery
Dave wrote: - I sent messages to the Microsofties whose blogs - I tested, alerting them in a friendly tone to - this rather embarrassing faux pas Spare a thought for a team of pro-active developers that are probably working within a massive organisation complete with business dependencies and

Re: [WSG] How does CSS handle it's references

2006-06-13 Thread Peter Ottery
Veine wrote: - if a stylesheet has a reference to three classes, each of which has an image - as background that is 50K - when that stylesheet is used in another page, - does that image get loaded before the page is displayed? i think the question was less about caching and more about css

[WSG] Compromising markup for performance

2006-05-28 Thread Peter Ottery
So we know that some really big sites have some awful markup right? View source on amazon, gmail or google calendar and you'll find things like iframes and inline css js. stuff like td style=white-space: nowrap; class=cornerBookmarksdiv style=overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; float:

Re: [WSG] [Fwd: RE: [gawds_discuss] Expression Web Designer]

2006-05-18 Thread Peter Ottery
-- Has anyone not associated with Microsoft reviewed this product yet? I had a play with it (probably a beta) at a conference a couple of months ago - and had 2 observations: 1) the intuitive visual way that it depicted margins and padding on elements was awesome. you could drag out the right

Re: [WSG] Accessibility and Browsers (N4.x)

2006-05-15 Thread Peter Ottery
Rob wrote: - it would still remain 'accessible'... just maybe not very usable because of the way things were visually rendered. i gotta disagree with that one. accessibility, to me, is about visual stuff aswell. scenario: a site viewed in NS4 has the css layout all screwed up, and dark grey

Re: [WSG] Web Standards Speech

2006-04-02 Thread Peter Ottery
hi Alvaro, re: - maybe someone with a little more experience in this matter could point - me some subjects I should/should not talk about. I've found 2 things that will keep people interested, 1) relate the situation with web standards to something offline, in the real world. I sometimes tell a