Re: [WSG] IE bug

2004-02-21 Thread Martin Chapman
Hi I've actually had a crack at fixing this problem for the guy, over at macosx.com. I originally thought that it may have been the 'ol IE whitespace bug (I asked him to try, but didn't get round to it myself). I then tried to use horizontal rules (which worked great on every browser except IE

Re: [WSG] horizontal floated lists

2004-02-21 Thread Cameron Adams
Most of the time I "display: inline" the li's in a horizontal menu. -- Cameron W: www.themaninblue.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools * The

Re: [WSG] IE bug

2004-02-21 Thread James Ellis
Chris Have you tried : #id form { margin : 0; padding : 0; } ? It's always good to do this so as not to leave the margin and padding size to the user agent. Every UA will default to it's own spec if not told otherwise. Hopefully they'll listen to us. Cheers James Chris Stratford wrote: Is tha

Re: [WSG] horizontal floated lists

2004-02-21 Thread James Ellis
Hi Cameron- Setting a list item to display inline can possibly cause some problems with breaking items over a line. Using floats can help push longer list items to the next line (if the containing block width is less than the sum of the list item widths) and retain the general structure of the

[WSG] A Little Off Topic - But A Real Question...

2004-02-21 Thread Chris Stratford
Hey WSG, I have recently been thinking, there are a lot of browsers out there. Thats understandable... But why do they all have a different rendering engine! Couldn't they standardise the rendering engine - and build around that. I mean, they have their own methods of loading images & the HT

[WSG] A few links for reading...

2004-02-21 Thread russ weakley
http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2004/02/icapture_see_yo.html iCapture is a great tool for Windows-based web developers who don't have access to a Mac. Just enter a URL and wait 30 seconds to see a screenshot of that URL as seen in Safari (thanks to Alan Palmer for the link). http://www.9rules.com/wh

[WSG] A Little Off Topic - But A Real Question...

2004-02-21 Thread Chris Stratford
Hey WSG, I have recently been thinking, there are a lot of browsers out there. Thats understandable... But why do they all have a different rendering engine! Couldn't they standardise the rendering engine - and build around that. I mean, they have their own methods of loading images & the H