Re: [WSG] blockquote

2010-04-04 Thread T. R. Valentine
in a p and give a class 'blockquote'? Blockquotes are not supposed to have quotation marks. -- T. R. Valentine Your friends will argue with you. Your enemies don't care. 'When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.' -- Erasmus

Re: [WSG] blockquote

2010-04-03 Thread T. R. Valentine
will be following by a new paragraph, but sometimes the paragraph continues so I wanted to close up the space between the last paragraph (blockquote and div) of the block and the following p. Using an adjacent sibling selector solved that nicely. Thanks for all the information. -- T. R

[WSG] unbalanced q tags for extended quotations?

2009-09-30 Thread T. R. Valentine
the UA to stop treating each paragraph as a new nested quote? -- T. R. Valentine Your friends will argue with you. Your enemies don't care. 'When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.' -- Erasmus

[WSG] Ordered list start value

2009-09-28 Thread T. R. Valentine
What is the proper way to start an ordered list at a value other than '1' in XHTML? I had ol start=9 flagged because 'there is no attribute start' TIA -- T. R. Valentine Your friends will argue with you. Your enemies don't care. 'When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I

Re: [WSG] My best practice HTML sheet

2009-06-25 Thread T. R. Valentine
2009/6/25 Keryx Web webmas...@keryx.se: Known issue: The checkmarks (✓) do not work in MSIE or Webkit based browsers. What?! Something doesn't work in MSIE? I'm shocked. Seriously, when will the Calc version be available? -- T. R. Valentine Your friends will argue with you. Your enemies

Re: [WSG] HTML special characters coding

2008-06-18 Thread T. R. Valentine
characters (hex) 81-9F / (dec) 129-159 which includes stuff like 151; for an em dash and 150; for an en dash. Instead, either use the character directly or use #8212; and #8211; for the em dash and en dash respectively. -- T. R. Valentine Your friends will argue with you. Your enemies don't care

Re: [WSG] HTML special characters coding

2008-06-17 Thread T. R. Valentine
never use zeta;omega;eta; -- I'd just type ζωη -- not only is it easier to read the markup, it takes a /lot/ less space. -- T. R. Valentine Your friends will argue with you. Your enemies don't care. *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] Page veiwing

2006-02-24 Thread T. R. Valentine
leashes) when they were in vogue. I don't need -- or want -- to be available every moment of the day. -- T. R. Valentine Use a decent browser: Safari, Firefox, Mozilla, Opera (Avoid IE like the plague it is) N���.�Ȩ�X���+��i��n�Z�֫v�+��h��y�m�쵩�j�l��.f���.�ץ�w�q(��b��(��,�)උazX����)��

Re: [WSG] Plain text v HTML on this list

2006-02-22 Thread T. R. Valentine
-mail that isn't plain text. -- T. R. Valentine Use a decent browser: Safari, Firefox, Mozilla, Opera (Avoid IE like the plague it is)

Re: [WSG] :before and :after for code tag

2006-02-22 Thread T. R. Valentine
, No version of Internet Exploder will generate content. Unfortunately. -- T. R. Valentine Use a decent browser: Safari, Firefox, Mozilla, Opera (Avoid IE like the plague it is) N���.�Ȩ�X���+��i��n�Z�֫v�+��h��y�m�쵩�j�l��.f���.�ץ�w�q(��b��(��,�)උazX����)��

Re: [WSG] XML Declaration

2005-12-03 Thread T. R. Valentine
it is XHTML) appears to be identical to the former example when viewed in IE. Based on what has been written, I figure I must be misunderstanding something. TIA. -- T. R. Valentine Use a decent browser: Safari, Firefox, Mozilla, Opera (Avoid IE like the plague

Re: [WSG] XML Declaration

2005-12-03 Thread T. R. Valentine
opening the .html file in a browser, no server involved? Even there I do not see a difference in IE between the two forms. -- T. R. Valentine Use a decent browser: Safari, Firefox, Mozilla, Opera (Avoid IE like the plague it is) ** The discussion

Re: [WSG] Text choices on our own sites

2005-10-30 Thread T. R. Valentine
to get the answers from the friend.) (Disclaimer: I avoid using JavaScript because many people will not use it.) -- T. R. Valentine Use a decent browser: Safari, Firefox, Mozilla, Opera (Avoid IE like the plague it is) ** The discussion list

Re: [WSG] avoid Verdana - I cant get the whole point.

2005-10-04 Thread T. R. Valentine
there is not a reliable means of providing fonts to web users.) I would very much appreciate suggestions. -- T. R. Valentine Use a decent browser: Safari, Firefox, Mozilla, Opera (Avoid IE like the plague it is) N�ŠÇ.²È¨žX¬µú+†ÛiÿünËZ�Ö«vÈ+¢êh®Òyèm¶ŸÿÁæ쵩Ýj·l‚º.¦Šàþf¢—ø.‰×¥Šw¬qùŸ¢»(™èbžÛ(žš,¶)උazX¬¶­¶)à

Re: [WSG] self-counting list items

2005-08-08 Thread T. R. Valentine
/testing/counters.html It works in Opera 7+. It is supposed to work with the *next* version of Firefox. It does not work in IE. -- T. R. Valentine The only excuse for using IE is ignorance (or testing) (stupidity is a reason, _not_ an excuse

Re: [WSG] IE question - user style sheets

2005-08-04 Thread T. R. Valentine
easier than Firefox or Mozilla.) -- T. R. Valentine The only excuse for using IE is ignorance (or testing) (stupidity is a reason, _not_ an excuse). ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] Site Check Win 2000

2005-07-21 Thread T. R. Valentine
On 21/07/05, Dean | eCreate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday, July 21, 2005 at about 2:04 PM, from [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...T. R. Valentine entreated: | Needed Task Manager to kill it. Thanks for all the replies. I have pulled all the minimum width javascript off the page. Can you

Re: [WSG] Site Check Win 2000

2005-07-21 Thread T. R. Valentine
. The above URI locked up IE6/Win2k Server. However, http://www.stthomasaquinasacademy.org did not. -- T. R. Valentine The only excuse for using IE is ignorance (or testing) (stupidity is a reason, _not_ an excuse). ** The discussion list

Re: [WSG] Unicode in Visual Studio? For xhtml, css ?

2005-07-21 Thread T. R. Valentine
that as a first line? I normally save my files in UTF-8 format, do not use that as a first line, and have never experienced problems with my CSS files (I regularly use a meta tag charset=UTF-8 in my (X)HTML). Am I missing something? -- T. R. Valentine The only excuse for using IE is ignorance