[WSG] RE: CSS Validator problem:= SOLVED

2005-03-21 Thread Andrey Stefanenko
Thanx to Sigurd Magnusson, Peter J. Farrell, who take time to answer the question. Special Thanx to: Juergen Auer, Ben Curtis and Jalenack (for info about Mac IE5 and Safary) Juergen and Ben was absolutely right - the trouble was in first line (empty), which was generated becouse

Re: [WSG] Standards compliant site, clients wants to make updates themselves

2005-03-21 Thread Juergen Auer
Hi Bert, I do not exact know, if you know Xml/Xsl: But using them could help a lot. I am using this to create the inner window without the navigation. Look at http://www.sql-und-xml.de/xml/index.xml - there is no navigation defined. Matching all these Xml-Files with the associated Xsl

[WSG] IE trouble with CSS calendar

2005-03-21 Thread john
Hello, good people. :) I'm working on a css-based calendar, and have it almost as I'd like it, but I noticed it doesn't work in IE. I admit that the code may be sloppy, because I've pieced it together from a few sources. Can I please get some help on this? It'll be obvious what doesn't work

Re: [WSG] Draggable Items

2005-03-21 Thread Joe Leech
Does anyone know the best way to create draggable container elements? Dean Edwards (him of IE7 fame) has put something together that works in IE and FF: http://dean.edwards.name/my/examples/moz-behaviors/ ** The discussion list for

Re: [WSG] Website Review

2005-03-21 Thread Olajide Olaolorun
It is from Google. My host requires me to put it there in exchange for the free hosting :) On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 17:13:09 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can I get some opinions on the practice of hiding link targets? When I hover near the sponsored links in

RE: [WSG] Standards compliant site, clients wants to make updates themselves

2005-03-21 Thread Trusz, Andrew
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bert Doorn Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 10:22 PM To: Web Standards Group Subject: [WSG] Standards compliant site, clients wants to make updates themselves I design sites to be standards compliant (usually

Re: [WSG] Horizontal scrollbar issue

2005-03-21 Thread Nick Gleitzman
Bert is spot on. The horiz scrollbar disappears at 837 - 838 px wide, inc chrome. 800px + 32px + 8px = 840px (assuming that 1em = 16px). QED. What does 'full on' mean? N ___ Omnivision. Websight. http://www.omnivision.com.au/ On 21 Mar 2005, at 1:19 PM, Chris Kennon

Re: [WSG] Horizontal scrollbar issue

2005-03-21 Thread Chris Kennon
Hi, When the browser is at 1024 X 768, Safari 1.0.3 still renders a horizontal scroll bar. Thanks for looking. C On Monday, March 21, 2005, at 05:00 AM, Nick Gleitzman wrote: Bert is spot on. The horiz scrollbar disappears at 837 - 838 px wide, inc chrome. 800px + 32px + 8px = 840px

Re: [WSG] Standards compliant site, clients wants to make updates themselves

2005-03-21 Thread =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Juli=E1n_Landerreche?=
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:22:29 +0800, Bert Doorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What other options are there, apart from complex, expensive CMS setups (or forgetting about standards)? Why not use a simple, free CMS like Wordpress or Textpattern? Both are free (as in speech and as in beer), fairly

RE: [WSG] Standards compliant site, clients wants to make updates themselves

2005-03-21 Thread Peter Flaschner
Another enthusiastic endorsement of Textpattern. I've used it a number of times in scenarios where the client wants to update the site themselves (see www.fluidwav.com as an example). I've also used it to manage more complex sites, where static pages would just be way too difficult to maintain

Re: [WSG] Standards compliant site, clients wants to make updates themselves

2005-03-21 Thread Dave Elkan
I've run into this problem quite a bit (in one way or another). I've found in the end is that the simple most effective way to fix it is to simply put instructions in the code with comments and do your best to instruct them on the details. If you don't work for a company and it's a private

Re: [WSG] Standards compliant site, clients wants to make updates themselves

2005-03-21 Thread Dennis Murphy Anderson
So... I'll stick with I will update for you as and when needed and charge for it. If you want CMS, I can't help you. The best advice in the thread seemed to be using comments in the markup. Unless they intend extreme updates, the ability to quickly locate and change their business

[WSG] nesting in list

2005-03-21 Thread Alan Trick
Does anyone know what is allowed to be nested under a list (ul,ol,dl) in XHTML? I read one resource, but all it said is that ul and ol require 1 li, and dl requires at least one dt, and one dl. Alan Trick

Re: [WSG] nesting in list

2005-03-21 Thread Jonathan T. Sage
at the very least, I believe any inline element can be nested. Some block-level elements may be as well I think. ~j On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 12:32:33 -0500, Alan Trick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know what is allowed to be nested under a list (ul,ol,dl) in XHTML? I read one resource,

Re: [WSG] Standards compliant site, clients wants to make updates themselves

2005-03-21 Thread Tom Livingston
So... I'll stick with I will update for you as and when needed and charge for it. If you want CMS, I can't help you. Or more like this?: I will update for you as and when needed and charge for it or you can try it yourself and I'll charge you to fix it later which may cost more than if I did

Re: [WSG] nesting in list

2005-03-21 Thread Sigurd Magnusson
Looking at the W3C for XHTML 1.1; http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/abstract_modules.html#s_listmodule It says that LI and DDs both are part of the Flow content model, which is the same as DIV, so this looks to confirm what my feeling was... they can contain any nested element, including

[WSG] Transparent gif renders wrong colours in Netscape7.0

2005-03-21 Thread Duncan Stigwood
For some reason Netscape has rendered a few div backgrounds in the wrong colour. This only occurs on some of the divs and only if it's a gif with transparency. A gif with no transparency or a jpg renders fine. When I scroll image off the screen and back on again it is rendered correctly, but

Re: [WSG] Standards compliant site, clients wants to make updates themselves

2005-03-21 Thread Sarah Peeke (XERT)
Hi Bert The people I am trying to help want simple buttons to format text on static pages, not learn a new language (otherwise I'd teach them HTML). I haven't used this, but looked into it a while back, but it might provide a solution for some of your clients. Visit

RE: [WSG] Standards compliant site, clients wants to make updates themselves

2005-03-21 Thread Sarah Peeke (XERT)
Hi Peter I am really interested in Textpattern, but like many others want to retain XHTML/CSS validation when clients make changes. Another enthusiastic endorsement of Textpattern. I've used it a number of times in scenarios where the client wants to update the site themselves (see

Re: [WSG] Standards compliant site, clients wants to make updates themselves

2005-03-21 Thread Iva Koberg
Bert Doorn wrote: What other options are there, apart from complex, expensive CMS setups (or forgetting about standards)? Check out liveSTORYBOARD CMS (http://www.livestoryboard.com/): * standards based CMS and standards compliant output * completely separates look and feel, business logic and

Re: [WSG] Standards compliant site, clients wants to make updates themselves

2005-03-21 Thread Kay Smoljak
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 00:28:47 +0800, Bert Doorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Contribute sounds like a good idea, but it means I have to learn to use Dreamweaver and its template system. Plus the customer needs to learn how to use Contribute. Too hard. You don't have to use DW templates - that's

[WSG] A HREF around a Flash Object?

2005-03-21 Thread Matt
Hi Everyone, hope you are well. I am currently developing a website for a customer who requires certain animated tiles which link through to other pages - they have decided to use Flash for these. I know in Flash hyperlinking to other pages is handled in the flash file itself. However, I

Re: [WSG] A HREF around a Flash Object?

2005-03-21 Thread Richard Czeiger
Use JavaScript to communicate to flash's command and arguments. Look up how to do this in Google. :o) Richard - Original Message - From: Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:14 AM Subject: [WSG] A HREF around a Flash Object? Hi

Re: [WSG] Horizontal scrollbar issue

2005-03-21 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 22 Mar 2005, at 1:38 AM, Chris Kennon wrote: When the browser is at 1024 X 768, Safari 1.0.3 still renders a horizontal scroll bar. Thanks for looking. Ah. Then I'd say it's a bug in 1.0.3. I was checking in 1.2.4 / OS X 10.3.8. N ___ Omnivision. Websight.

[WSG] Re: [css-d] columns of equal height - a different problem?

2005-03-21 Thread David Laakso
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 18:55:47 -0800, Don Hinshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] The left column needs to have the light blue color continue to the bottom of the page if the main column is longer than the left. [...] Make a gif the appropriate color and width, and use something like this in

RE: [WSG] Css Floating Image

2005-03-21 Thread M M
Thank you that solved the problem in IE. Matt From: Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] Css Floating Image Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 19:12:31 +1100 -Original Message- From: M M