Re: [WSG] CSS Drop down menu - Bugfix IE

2004-07-28 Thread Siteman DA - Bent Inge
Hi again and thanks for the replies from Nick and Phillipe! The {whitespace: nowrap;} advice from Nick, sadly, didn't work. No difference was displayed. The code from Phillipe: li {float:left; width:100%; clear:both} however did work :-) in some degree... But it's a problem with that code as

[WSG] divs and copying their content

2004-07-28 Thread Barry Beattie
hi all this might actually be something simple that I've forgotten but I'm noticing more div layed out sites are harder to accuratly select the text content. Select a word or two and next thing you know you've highlighted (and copied/pasted) half the page inc images. to see what I mean, see

Re: [WSG] divs and copying their content

2004-07-28 Thread Siteman DA - Bent Inge
Hi again! I've seen this problem appear before. But when I tested http://webstandards.org/ in Opera and Firefox - there was no problem in selecting the text I wanted. The problem seems only to appear in Internet Explorer. Just a note :-) Best regards, Bent Inge @ www.siteman.no - Original

[WSG] OT: Last call for interested young desgners

2004-07-28 Thread Michael Kear
Sorry for the kind-of off-topic post, so rather than compound my transgression please respond directly to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] rather than on the list. I have to make a decision in the next few days about how were going to design our new site, and if you want to be considered, nows

RE: [WSG] access keys and tab index

2004-07-28 Thread Laura Carlson
For those of you that have put together a chart of access keys for your sitewide navigation, do you have any good suggestions? From what I have gathered best practice is that IF accesskeys are used: - Always supply a legend that defines the accesskeys. - Make sure this legend is on or available

RE: [WSG] access keys and tab index

2004-07-28 Thread Geoff Deering
If find yourself in the accesskey bog, and you are trying to make your site WAI-AAA compliant, I would do what the W3C did back in 1999 on the WAI home page (http://www.w3.org/WAI/). They had a WAI-AAA logo on their main page, but with all the links, the only accesskey was a hidden c to access

RE: [WSG] divs and copying their content

2004-07-28 Thread Hill, Tim
I thought I remembered something about if you absolute position something, or have some weird float arrangement, IE has a hard time copying text, but sorry can't find URL for it. Tim Hill Computer Associates Graphic Artist tel: +612 9937 0792 fax: +612 9937 0546 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[WSG] Why do web developers user Firefox?

2004-07-28 Thread Helen . Rysavy
Hi I'm putting together a list of web development tools and am wondering about the following: Why is the Firefox browser used by Web Developers? What does it have that makes it a good tool? - over other browsers? Why not Opera? Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks

[WSG] CMS

2004-07-28 Thread Amit Karmakar
When we say CMS we mean Content Management, well in a nut shell managing the content, publishing etc. Content Management and Validation of code are 2 different things. What does the group think? Have a bit of an interesting conversation happening here

Re: [WSG] Why do web developers user Firefox?

2004-07-28 Thread Neerav
1. The web developer toolbar http://www.chrispederick.com/work/firefox/webdeveloper/ 2. Tabbed interface for multiple sites in one window 3. Opera has Ads which take up part of its interface -- Neerav Bhatt http://www.bhatt.id.au Web Development IT consultancy Mobile: +61 (0)403 8000 27

Re: [WSG] divs and copying their content

2004-07-28 Thread Mike Brown
Barry this might actually be something simple that I've Barry forgotten but I'm noticing more div layed out sites are harder Barry to accuratly select the text content. Select a word or two and Barry next thing you know you've highlighted (and copied/pasted) half Barry the page inc images. Barry

RE: [WSG] Why do web developers user Firefox?

2004-07-28 Thread Andrew Krespanis
Opera's support of form styling was (unitl recently) totally lacklustre. I'm not saying which side of the form styling is inherently wrong fence I sit on, but that combined with the ads is enough for me to choose Mozilla (full suite, not Firefox) as my dev browser.

Re: [WSG] Why do web developers user Firefox?

2004-07-28 Thread Peter Asquith
Hi Helen I use Firefox, in combination with Chris Pederick's Web Developer extension (http://www.chrispederick.com/work/firefox/webdeveloper/), as my primary development browser. Firefox renders my markup and CSS as I'd expect it to be rendered, gives me good page information and has a built

Re: [WSG] Why do web developers user Firefox?

2004-07-28 Thread Amit Karmakar
Although I support firefox this may work against Firefox thought. http://secunia.com/advisories/12160/ On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 14:29:41 +1200, Peter Asquith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Helen I use Firefox, in combination with Chris Pederick's Web Developer extension

RE: [WSG] Why do web developers user Firefox?

2004-07-28 Thread Miles Tillinger
That's not the first vulnerability to be found in Firefox and whilst it may be ammunition for IE-zealots it's nothing compared to all of the exploits that IE is vulnerable to... As Firefox gains popularity I don't doubt more holes will appear, but that's the price of fame! Mt. -Original

Re: [WSG] Why do web developers user Firefox?

2004-07-28 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Chris Blown wrote: On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 10:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is the Firefox browser used by Web Developers? What does it have that makes it a good tool? - over other browsers? Why not Opera? DOM Inspector Venkman Javascript Debugger Edit CSS Browser Session Saving

[WSG] tooltips

2004-07-28 Thread Justin French
Is there any way to disable tool tips for a certain element or class of elements? I've got my own hover content on a nav bar, but it gets obscured by the browser's tool-yip for the title attribute. And no, I can't leave the title element empty, because I'm using it's content for the hover :)

[WSG] Search Tool

2004-07-28 Thread amer amer
Hi Guys, I am a beginner in HTML and CSS, I need to include a Search Tool (by entering a keyword to search inside my website) in my new website, does anyone help me in that? Thank you in advance. Regards, Am _ Share a single photo

Re: [WSG] Why do web developers user Firefox?

2004-07-28 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Jul 29, 2004, at 11:53 am, Amit Karmakar wrote: Although I support firefox this may work against Firefox thought. http://secunia.com/advisories/12160/ For the sake of complete information: it should be noted that both bugs are already fixed.

[WSG] css help - convert from table to css - 3 tables

2004-07-28 Thread Hill, Tim
at this address: http://www3.ca.com/partners/channel/ At the bottom, there are 3 chips; an image on the left and text on the right inside a td. I want to convert this using CSS. I can nearly replicate it but it fails in ie5.0, where I can get a gap on the left. I wouldn't care about this but

Thread closed Re: [WSG] Search Tool

2004-07-28 Thread Lea de Groot
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 03:29:51 +, amer amer wrote: I am a beginner in HTML and CSS, I need to include a Search Tool (by entering a keyword to search inside my website) in my new website, does anyone help me in that? Amer, Thats not an on-topic post for this forum. Please restrict your

[WSG] Bottom Margin on IE/Mac

2004-07-28 Thread Lucian Teo
I'm using Dan Cedarholm's faux column's technique, but I can't get the footer to sit at the bottom of the page, so the columns stick out a little when viewed on IE/Mac. The site address is http://navmedia.com/ . Any reasons for this? I've looked through the list of IE/Mac bugs but can't seem