way to do this with the W3C-DOM in such a way that works in
all the main engines (Gecko, Trident, Presto, KHTML/WebCore)
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Wow, the Panic one looks good.
But when I changed the UA string to IE, it didn't execute at all in
Firefox.
So I'm guessing it didn't employ the W3C-DOM then :/
I guess I could compromise, but I'll have to look into it further.
Anyhoo *bookmarks*
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working with me on a one-off comic book (distributed on the 'net)
focused on web-standards and the adventures of the fictional character
as he battles the evils of tabular layout and non-semantic-ism.
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Let the user open links in a new window. Saves on development time.
HTH
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As well as being good-practice :)
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Hey Nick,
The customised DTD simply allows: target=_blank
Thats all.
Stick with XHTML1.1 and use the rel=external hook to apply some
ECMAScript to open the new window
Below is the code I use:
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if
Genau Lopes Jr. wrote:
Hi,
I am developing some different advertising and would like to know, how
can i create a slide layer that appears on righr side of browser, only
when the screen resolution is more than 1024x768 pixels.
My layer should be 150 px x 600 and will be layered at right side of
Question:
What's more in-spec:
div id=hello/div
Or
div id='hello'/div
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to have it more compatible if there
was a problem with older browsers)
Oh... great.
I just chastised someone on a HTML Help forum for using single-quotes to
delimit attributes.
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or page meta telling the
spider that the page is semantic and doesn't use any tricks.
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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:33:51 -0500
I'm wondering if any of you have any tips
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote:
You could do something like this:
http://dev.l-c-n.com/disp-table/equal-H-nav.php
Internet Explorer doesn't support display: table-cell;
Can someone remind me why we use the additive box-model? It seems stupid
to me, there's no real advantage.
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Jan Brasna wrote:
Maybe once when we'll all be old and CSS3 support will be common thing
among the browsers, we'll be able to tell our children how this was
complicated in our times... ;)
In MY day we had to recreate FOUR DIVS to get rounded corners! *spits*
YOU don't appreciate the HARD WORK
attribute values it
must be written in entity form: quot;
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couldn't find anything about it in XHTML1.1, but imho, I wouldn't risk it.
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if they're on Windows XP.
However, watch out if a large % of your site visitors are corporate or
academic (K-12), many schools and companies don't update their WWW
software unless its like 6 months overdue. I'm sure we all have
experiences with schools and the like still running Flash 5.
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Just out of curiosity...
Is the CSS3.0 Spec finalised, or are they still accepting suggestions
and comments?
Because I really want to suggest multiple background images for CSS3.0
(provided it isn't suggested already)
Where do I find the Suggestion Box for the W3C? ;)
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-reserved characters? (ie: )
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...Straight from Scoble's blog:
http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2005/02/15.html#a9441
This should prove interesting
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for strict and XHTML doctypes whilst
maintaining non-compliant sites who continue to use the HTML4.01 (and
prev) DTDs.
Of course, adding support for the application/xhtml+xml MIME-type
wouldn't do any harm.
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/ won't validate because I'm still debugging my
CMS... I've been having database issues
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relevant information
...However, Googlebot is known to trawl the web with the IE6 UI string
and they compare returned results (supposedly), so I don't really
recommend said action.
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Lea de Groot wrote:
This is offtopic
Can I ask anyone with something to add to reply offlist?
But you'd all figured that out already, hadn't you? ;)
Lea
Whops... I just got this message after I sent a reply to the thread
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wondering if this broke anything?
Comments?
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it on his site AFAIK/IIRC
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with ASP.Net come from
the System.Web.UI.WebControl classes, provided you stay away from those,
you retain complete control.
The only exceptions being the WebControl.Repeater and WebControl.Literal
classes, which are perfectly fine
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for the client or
browser, all that matters is that the appropriate MIME/ContentType is sent.
Of course, if you want custom extensions, just use Apache's mod_rewrite
or IIS' ISAPI_Rewrite().
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-height, etc... that Trident IV doesn't support. (Trident
IV is the name of the current MSHTML rendering engine)
...But best to keep extensions in an IE-only stylesheet hidden by
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help this
site, not by clicking the adverts (because there arn't any), but by
linking back to me for free googlejuice
...Its worth a shot
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Ryan Sabir wrote:
Hey all,
Does anyone have a definitive answer on whether search engines take
any notice of CSS?
We have known
to check to see if it
works, of course, but that should work in browsers that interpret the
object tag appropriatley
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The Bo$$ wrote:
What about frames? Use ID too?
#1: Don't use frames untill XFrames comes out and gets supported
#2: You don't need to give any element an ID attribute unless you're
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dtTitle/dt
dd link /dd
dd link2 /dd
dd link3 /dd
/dl
I thought that the dt and dd elements had to come in pairs?
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4GB of
XHTML, CSS, and images a month, imho.
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support two spaces after periods, so I'm guessing that some
obscure country uses this system.
I do have a relevant question relating to this problem: Is there any
advantage in word-wrapping markup'd paragraphs?
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Jeroen Visser [ vizi ] wrote:
The most important situation in which word-wrapping is useful is with
justified text. Good word-wrapping prevents awkward word spacing in such
text, rendering
have any suggestions for getting elements to clear
floating boxes?
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my use of my proposed universal closing tag '/'
Just out of curiosity... how do I get things like these formalised into
an RFC Document and sent to the W3C for review?
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this way people with JavaScript disabled can access the menus, and the
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text for each menu item.
The total overhead is usually around 40KB+, add 500 bytes for each menu
item you add as well
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Alternativly, if you're running IIS, the ISAPI bindings are on the
ISAPI-Extensions tab of the Dir/Virtual property sheet. You can also
manage these from the Site property sheets.
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Dave Elkan wrote:
You have to edit your httpd.conf file to process files of the .html
suffix.
Look
? They will remain optional attributes, imo, with their
use at the discretion of the author of the page or of the developer of
the plugin/applet.
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Kevin Francis wrote:
Hi Ted
The width/height aren't a requirement in XHTML Transitional/Strict. I
don't think this means the W3C don't want us
perspective this can be quite
confusing. (A feedback cue that suggests interaction is possible when it
is not).
This is why a:link:hover and a:visited:hover are preferable over simple
a:link
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backimage=sumtilinimage.imgtdimg src=spacer.gif///tr
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...Not that I'd ever write anything like that ;)
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something urgently, I'd use HomeSite... it comes with Dreamweaver MX
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benefit
from it in some way.
Personally, I don't see the point in JavaScript-powered style switchers
when Server-Side works better... more people have first-party cookies
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What URI? ;)
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Chris Kennon wrote:
Hi,
At the following url would someone suggest additional accessibility
features for an audience with varying physical and emotional
disabilities. My concern is that the current features will not be as
flexible as desired.
CK
provider and your common-or-garden CounterStrike clan.
The former do tend to be better designed and coded, however.
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'Lo
I'm in a pickle...
I've got an ol, and one of the ol's li's contains another ol
Like so:
ol
liHello/li
liWorld!/li
lih2Sublist/h2
ol
liHello/li
liAgain/li
/li
liEnd.../li
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Thing is, I need the ol li ol element to start at a specified number.
The HTML4.01 spec says I can use the
? Could we email them
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would
probably be limited to users of Windows XP, which still only account for
66% of WWW users.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This site seems to do it
http://www.qrow.com/home.php
div id=banner
a href=home.php style=display: block;height: 198px;width:700px/a
/div
How about this ALA article?
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/imagemap/
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Thanks for the tips, I think I'll opt for the show/hide region option.
Just one more thing...
For when you ever have links that open in a new window, it helps to have
that little image, would this be appropriate: ?
a href=# onclick=newwindow() rel=external/a
a[onclick=newwindow()] {
back from my colleagues, and
unfortunately, I'm afraid we are unable to participate in this
particular opportunity at this time. I apologize for the inconvenience.
Best regards,
Brian
Ah well...
Say next time we all gang up and pose as C|Net? ;)
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render the content.
Can we call this resolved now?
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All are equally valid!
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that automatically gets the logfiles every 4 days. Saves me a lot of
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Lori Leach wrote:
David -- Thanks for that.
I am mailing offlist as I don't want my head bitten off for being off topic
I DO have the logs set
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margin: 1.5em;
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of providing EVERYTHING those trackers did, plus
loads more besides But depending on how your server is configured,
of course.
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Yet another of 'those' threads
Yep!
In a quickie... here's my document structure:
ol class=list-tiles
lia href=#img src=image.png alt= title= //a/li
/ol
The li Element is repeated by the server. And Image.png has index-like
transparency.
And the appropriate CSS (for IE... Standards Compliant
it
only affects systems with an ICC profile on a monitor.
convert the gradient to a JPEG and it should render fine, as well as in
much older browsers.
JPEG is better suited to gradients anyway, PNG is GIF's replacement.
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the bottom... and
please, no cynical remarks about leaving the least to the last)
There was another page with more information, but I've since lost the URI
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austrailian legal stature is very similar.
But I'd definatly raise it with them. I can't stand web'masters' who
create javascript popups telling me I have a downlevel browser. Since
when was IE ever superior to Firefox, Konqueror, or Safari?
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the development of IE, and more specifically, IE7
which may, or may not, come with Longhorn (before... if we're lucky)
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The fact is the onclick is misnamed; a more
accurate name would be onactivate since it's triggered by both the
mouse and keyboard.
Indeed, considering the W3C's push of XHTML as a truly platform agnostic
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is to minimize use of traditional HTTP GET
querystrings, as many engines ignore URLs beginning with them, which is
to say... use negociated URLs (such as
www.domain.tld/pages/somepage/somequery rather than
www.domain.tld/pages.cfml?somepagesomefield=somequery)
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Collin Davis wrote:
Google can, and others are going to be joining them soon. It's a simple
matter of using the Flash Search Engine SDK - it includes an application
called swf2html which dumps out text and links from .swf files and returns
as html.
When I put Flash in my documents, I am guilty of
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Actually, IE loads the CSS along with the HTML and pauses content
rendering untill the CSS is downloaded.
What you saw is actually Flash of Unstyled Content, there's more info
here:
http://www.bluerobot.com/web/css/fouc.asp
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I'm wondering if anyone has any DOM JavaScript for Select inputs.
Specifically, the ones where your choice in one Select box, calls some
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Jamie Mason wrote:
Hi all,
Does anyone know how to remove the indentation of options within
optgroups in IE?
It works fine in Firefox as you'd expect but is it possible to alter it
in IE? I've tried margin, padding and text-indent with no luck on both
the optgroup and option, have I missed
Whats more appropriate for form submission?
Quite frankly, I can't see any advantage of input type=submit/reset
over button type=submit/reset, for one... its more semantic... I
wans a button, not an input field... right there
Also, most UI button widgets are used to submit forms themselves,
href=http://www.e-oddie.com/mylife/;My Life /a/dt
ddcoming soon/dd
dta title=Geeky Stuff - c# and other tech bits
href=http://www.e-oddie.com/blog/professional/;Geeky Stuff /a/dt
ddc# and other tech bits/dd
/dl
/div
/body
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-introspanIntroduction/span/h1
[/code]
Or change visiblity: none; to some indent and set the h1 element to
hide overflow content
Simple and effective, and it doens't annoy me in the process :)
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#heading-%# DataBinder.Item(HeadingName) % {
background: %# DataBinder.Item(ImageName) %
}
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I'd go into more detail about generating the contents of the DataSet,
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Replace the pdivimg/img//div/p with:
pspanimg/img//span/p
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Bert Doorn wrote:
giving body a display:table and panelContainer
a display of table-cell and vertical-align:middle. Doesn't have
vertical centering in MSIE but should still be usable otherwise. I can
email you a sample file off-list if you like.
MSIE (all Windows versions, and possibly Mac
Bennie Shepherd wrote:
Would like any comments on making the new version better.
Well, from a code-end viewpoint... I'd convert the nav-links into an
unordered list (ulli)
Hmm, the code could be indented better, whilst this has no effect on the
rendering, the code is easier to see and maintain
Tatham Oddie wrote
If you look at the homepage - http://www.e-oddie.com/ - I'm having problems
laying the content out. I'm trying to centre the image on the page both
horizontally and vertically. Then, within the panel, I'm trying to
vertically centre the text. Unfortunately I'm not achieving
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Kay Smoljak wrote:
I'm feeling like this whole week is one big Friday afternoon, and that
somehow sounds rather lame. Can anyone recommend any other reasons or
throw in some kick-arse buzzwords to make me look good?
Quote the pointy hairded boss:
Lets improve our existing services by
existing (and much simpler) JavaScript libraries
that enable :hover, :focus, and :active for non anchor tags for IE?
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Kornel Lesinski wrote:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~peterned/csshover.html
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in tarnation do some of
you guys manage to maintain so many of them.
Simple answer:
I don't :)
I use http://www.browsercam.com, its got practically every UA and
platform under the sun, the Remote Access feature is particularly useful
HTH
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Mordechai Peller wrote:
From what I read, the port
of IE 5/Mac to OSX didn't go well; it's almost a different browser.
Indeed, you cannot compare IE5/Mac to IE5/Win, they were both developed
independenly of each other... they use different rendering engines, and
IE5/Mac was the first browser
Mordechai Peller wrote:
Doesn't help it you need to test JavaScript or :hover.
I use their Remote Access (custom version of VNC tied to their
Terminal Server) tool, granted... there is some lag for updates, its
good for most tasks
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But there's quite a number of thread-breaking out of office
autoresponders and return receipts going around.
Can the mods of this ML put a filter up to prevent these messages from
being redistributed?
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