Re: [WSG] Duplicate navigation?

2004-10-31 Thread Neerav
As long as you use classes and not id's for the div and content within it, than its easy to display it twice using a server side include - http://www.wdvl.com/Authoring/SSI/ Neerav Bhatt http://www.bhatt.id.au Web Development & IT consultancy http://www.bhatt.id.au/blog/ - Ramblings Thoughts htt

Re: [WSG] Duplicate navigation?

2004-10-31 Thread Kay Smoljak
On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 17:11:38 +1000, Ben Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm wondering if this is possible: to have content inside of a div > displayed in two places on my page? Not with CSS. You sound like you need some kind of server-side scripting include - either SSI, PHP, ColdFusion, ASP

[WSG] Duplicate navigation?

2004-10-31 Thread Ben Hamilton
Hi all, I'm wondering if this is possible: to have content inside of a div displayed in two places on my page? That is, to specify some content once only, but have it display twice on a single page? Is it possible? If so, is it sematicly correct? My use for this is navigation. It would mean

RE: [WSG] CSS drop-down menus

2004-10-31 Thread Stephen Cheshire
That's correct - embeded (with the tag) content does always appear on top. However, for browsers that make use of the tag - IE for example, you can do this by including an extra param tag in your object tag as follows: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

[WSG] using em widths in IE 5.5

2004-10-31 Thread Andreas Boehmer
Hi guys, I have been using em-units for different widths in one of my latest websites (203.17.179.45 - you have to click past the initial CM3 screen) and everything worked fine in IE 6 as well as Opera and Mozilla, until I went and checked it in IE 5.5. It seems 5.5 interprets the width of an EM s

Re: [WSG] Margin Madness

2004-10-31 Thread Chris Kennon
Hi, I was hoping this one would work, as I gave it a try also. :) On Sunday, October 31, 2004, at 03:55 PM, Andrew Krespanis wrote: border:1px solid transparent; "Imagination is more important than knowledge." -Albert Einstein

Re: [WSG] Observing Users Who Work With Screen Readers

2004-10-31 Thread Jorge Laranjo
Thanks Steven. This is a great Weekend article :D Read it and like it. -- Atentamente, Jorge Laranjo email > [EMAIL PROTECTED] site > http://lesi.host.sk/fueg0/ msn > [EMAIL PROTECTED] aim > [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > On 2004-11-01 12:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In

Re: [WSG] Observing Users Who Work With Screen Readers

2004-10-31 Thread Terrence Wood
Thanks Steven, this is a great resource. cheers, Terrence Wood. On 2004-11-01 12:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting observational study of screen reader users (PDF)

Re: [WSG] Margin Madness

2004-10-31 Thread Andrew Krespanis
> Another is to add a 1px border of the same colour as the container - depends > on your need. Or even border:1px solid transparent; Andrew http://leftjustified.net/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.

Re: [WSG] Margin Madness

2004-10-31 Thread Lea de Groot
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 15:05:01 -0800, Chris Kennon wrote: > After removing the border the problem returned. So included a > padding-top of 5em; on the container div, is this the correct course > of action, as it seemed to work in accordance to the article. I don't know how hacky it is as a hack, b

Re: [WSG] Margin Madness

2004-10-31 Thread russ - maxdesign
There are a few ways around it. That is one (although it should be 7.5em?). Another is to add a 1px border of the same colour as the container - depends on your need. > Hi, > > After removing the border the problem returned. So included a > padding-top of 5em; on the container div, is this the co

Re: [WSG] Observing Users Who Work With Screen Readers

2004-10-31 Thread Steven . Faulkner
sorry forgot to say that it is a big file - 904kb Interesting observational study of screen reader users (PDF) with regards Steven Faulkner Web Accessibility Consultant National Information & Library Service (NILS) 454 Glenferrie Road Kooyong Victoria 3144 Phone: (613) 9864 9281 Fax: (613) 9864

[WSG] Observing Users Who Work With Screen Readers

2004-10-31 Thread Steven . Faulkner
Interesting observational study of screen reader users (PDF) Guidelines for Accessible and Usable Web Sites: Observing Users Who Work With

Re: [WSG] Margin Madness

2004-10-31 Thread Chris Kennon
Hi, After removing the border the problem returned. So included a padding-top of 5em; on the container div, is this the correct course of action, as it seemed to work in accordance to the article. C On Sunday, October 31, 2004, at 02:02 PM, russ - maxdesign wrote: The red border will highlight t

Re: [WSG] Margin Madness

2004-10-31 Thread Chris Kennon
Hi, Thanks! all is well now. "The elusiveness that is often simplicity"ck On Sunday, October 31, 2004, at 01:57 PM, russ - maxdesign wrote: Haven't looked closely but have you tried adding a border to the following rule set to see if it is actually working, just not showing properly: div#cont

Re: [WSG] Margin Madness

2004-10-31 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 1 Nov 2004, at 8:43 AM, Chris Kennon wrote: In the following css snippet each attempt at giving div#header a margin-top of 7.5em from the container; results in the container div moving an additional 7.5em from the top of the viewport, what am I missing? Is this the margin collapsing gremlin a

Re: [WSG] Margin Madness

2004-10-31 Thread russ - maxdesign
> The red border will highlight the div#container and possibly show that the > margin is working on div#header I forgot to add that if this is the case, you are seeing margin trapping at work. Previously discussed on-list: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg06982.html R ***

Re: [WSG] Margin Madness

2004-10-31 Thread russ - maxdesign
Haven't looked closely but have you tried adding a border to the following rule set to see if it is actually working, just not showing properly: div#container { margin: 10px auto; width: 600px; height: 700px; text-align: left; background: #5A6995 url

[WSG] Margin Madness

2004-10-31 Thread Chris Kennon
Hi, In the following css snippet each attempt at giving div#header a margin-top of 7.5em from the container; results in the container div moving an additional 7.5em from the top of the viewport, what am I missing? Is this the margin collapsing gremlin at work?
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[WSG] Accessibility evaluation practices - online survey

2004-10-31 Thread Dey Alexander
And now I will engage my brain and include the URL to the survey: http://deyalexander.com/survey.html Cheers, Dey ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on

[WSG] Accessibility evaluation practices - online survey

2004-10-31 Thread Dey Alexander
[Apologies for cross-posting] I'm interested in learning more about the ways in which accessibility practitioners (of all shapes and sizes) approach web accessibility evaluation. To this end I've set up an online survey that I hope those of you working in this area will take the time to complete.

Re: [WSG] Float causing footer text to drop?

2004-10-31 Thread Michael Allan
Hi Lyn, It's not the float which is causing the footer to drop, it's this rule: p { margin-top: 5em;} Set that to 0 and you'll find the footer text moves right back to where you want it. Cheers, Mike On Sunday, October 31, 2004, at 07:00 PM, Lyn Patterson wrote: Have added a floated box to main

[WSG] Re: IE6 + float bug

2004-10-31 Thread Conversant Studios
apologies to bother thee crew... was just an extra float in the center column that was throwing it out. have a great sunday night! Benvlio p.s. the silent is the master of the hasty Ben Webster Conversant Studios www.conversantstudios.com.

[WSG] IE6 + float bug

2004-10-31 Thread Conversant Studios
Hey there crew, hope you're all well. I'm gettin a strange manifestation of an IE6 (Win 200 // Win XP) bug with a site I'm recoding for some organic SEO. Go here for the damage: http://conversantstudios.com.au/wn/v12/index_03.html Anyone got any ideas? Let me know, Benvolio --

Re: [WSG] CSS drop-down menus

2004-10-31 Thread Florin Cojitza
Or you can try: See param name wmode! In action at teste.iqmp.ro/romdata/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting

[WSG] Float causing footer text to drop?

2004-10-31 Thread Lyn Patterson
Have added a floated box to main content area and this seems to have caused the footer text to drop out of the footer and sit beneath it. I can't see where to correct this. Have tried to clear it but obviously not putting it in the right place. Any advice would be appreciated. www.mwg.green.

Re: [WSG] Absolute/relative/FQDN references

2004-10-31 Thread Natalie Buxton
Use absolute FQDN when referencing an external resource, use relative paths when referencing internal resources. There are many disadvantages to using absolute paths and none to using relative paths. (That I can think of anyway). To a search engine or web browser, the root is added the beginning