[WSG] your best practise for CSS sprites for elements that have no height declared

2008-11-23 Thread tee
I am trying to optimize a site, though the file sizes of the overall images aren't so much of a problem but the http requests. So I am attempting to put 10 icons in one gif file, the individual icon size is merely 600b and the dimension is 18px by 12px. I made a 18px by 150px to hold 10

[WSG] Out of Office AutoReply: WSG Digest

2008-11-23 Thread Helen McGee
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Re: [WSG] your best practise for CSS sprites for elements that have no height declared

2008-11-23 Thread Johan Douma
I often have sprites that are 800px or even more, I usually use 100px in between the images. But I think there's a limit on earlier versions of Opera that dont take images bigger than 2000px (not sure at all might be more). So I generally use 2 or 3 sprites if they get big, I still save a lot of

[WSG] Web governance

2008-11-23 Thread Andrew R
I realise the list is very much about nuts and bolt of standards. So this might not be the right place for this posting and might be deemed to be ‘off topic’. If it is please ignore! I work in a large (lumbering) Australian federal government agency. My colleges in the web publishing

RE: [WSG] Web governance

2008-11-23 Thread Tony Paterson
Ladies and Gents I am seeking JV partners for some of our company's websites If you have any interest please call or email me Cheers Tony Paterson Tel. 03 5981 4457 Our other great sites now include:- www.DirectoryAustralia.com- Can you be found?- are you listed? Why Not it's free!

RE: [WSG] Web governance

2008-11-23 Thread Dave Hall
On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 16:58 +1100, Tony Paterson wrote: Ladies and Gents I am seeking JV partners for some of our company’s websites If you have any interest please call or email me And how is that even vaguely related to web standards, let alone the question posed? None of your site

Re: [WSG] Web governance - IGNORE POST

2008-11-23 Thread russ - maxdesign
ADMIN Please ignore this post. Focus on the initial question post by Andrew. For those wondering, this post is wrong for two reasons: 1. totally unrelated to list purpose 2. hijacked an existing thread for totally unrelated topic. Thanks Russ on 24/11/08 4:58 PM, Tony Paterson at wrote:

THREAD CLOSED (well, the off topic part) Re: [WSG] Web governance

2008-11-23 Thread Lea de Groot
On topic? no way! Tony is no longer with us. Bye bye Tony! Don't let the door hit you on the way out! But - please continue discussion of the 'web governance' topic. 'How to move to Web Standards' is certainly on topic :) What do you think of the issues Andrew is facing? What have you done in

Re: [WSG] Web governance

2008-11-23 Thread lisa . kerrigan
Hi Andrew When you have the answer, can you email through to me. Nice/horrible to see the federal gov has the same issues as the state govs... Lisa Kerrigan Manager Content User Experience www.business.vic.gov.au www.diird.vic.gov.au 03 9651 9176