Re: [WSG] CSS and PHP

2005-11-14 Thread Tim Burgan
Just a quick note that'll help: In the URL, the special characters (such as ampersands, question marks, etc) need to be converted to html character entities. You can find entity codes from: http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm For example: ampersand can be #38; or amp; question mark is #63;

Re: [WSG] CSS and PHP

2005-11-14 Thread Lea de Groot
On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 12:09:42 +, designer wrote: I've been having a little bother with validation of my PHP generated pages. I'm new to PHP/mySQL and I'm finding that some peculiar things happen, such as /body and /html appear in the middle of the code. (???) Also, I find that

Re: [WSG] CSS and PHP

2005-11-14 Thread Bert Doorn
Tim Burgan wrote: Just a quick note that'll help: In the URL, the special characters (such as ampersands, question marks, etc) need to be converted to html character entities. Question marks do not need to be converted. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design

Re: [WSG] CSS and PHP

2005-11-14 Thread designer
Thank you Gentlemen, Very helpful as always! (I mean it!) -- Best Regards, Bob McClelland Cornwall (UK) www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

Re: [WSG] CSS and PHP

2005-11-14 Thread Katrina
designer wrote: H All, I've been having a little bother with validation of my PHP generated pages. I'm new to PHP/mySQL and I'm finding that some peculiar things happen, such as /body and /html appear in the middle of the code. (???) Also, I find that submitting a URL such as:

Re: [WSG] CSS and PHP

2005-11-14 Thread Alan Trick
Another issue: this may be caused by ussing sessions. When PHP manages sessions using GET queries as opposed to Cookies it might do this to your. What it does is appends PHPSESSION=w/e to the end of your urls, by default the is *not* escaped. There's a way (in php.ini I think) to fix it. Check

Re: [WSG] CSS and PHP

2005-11-14 Thread James Ellis
Hi This has been discussed on the list before but the quick answer to URL's generated by PHP automatically (like its session handler) is to use ini_set(arg_separator.output, amp;);See : http://php.mirrors.ilisys.com.au/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.arg-separator.outputIf you generate URL's

RE: [WSG] CSS filesize and selector names

2005-11-11 Thread Geoff Pack
Anders Nawroth wrote: Mixing lower/uppercase enhances readability, just remember to write it the same way everywhere, class names and ID's are case sensitive. I tend to prefer hyphens, like #btn-save hyphens? bah! .realCoders use #camelCase

[WSG] CSS filesize and selector names

2005-11-10 Thread jorgen
Hey folks! I'm working on a project where nearly every web page differs from each other in layout. Due to the nature of the project, it is a blend of admin and report system, with a lot of configurations and various styled reports. This has made my CSS file nearly 10kb large and consists of

Re: [WSG] CSS filesize and selector names

2005-11-10 Thread felix . zapata
hi, about your first question sometimes I do some css files; one with de principal layout and the other with the specific of each page. About the second question, i think that there is no problem about use underscore in the name, but sometimes css validator tell me warnings about that.

Re: [WSG] CSS filesize and selector names

2005-11-10 Thread Anders Nawroth
Hejsan! [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: This has made my CSS file nearly 10kb large and consists of nearly 600 rows of CSS code. Is this a problem in general? No. Are there any issues regarding large CSS files? Any recomendations for CSS file sizes both in KB and rows. When hitting 40 KB I

Re: [WSG] CSS filesize and selector names

2005-11-10 Thread Vishwam Annam
You could use, these CSS optimizers to reduce the file size a little bit, http://cdburnerxp.se/cssparse/css_optimiser.php http://flumpcakes.co.uk/css/optimiser/ Vishwam Anders Nawroth wrote: Hejsan! [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: This has made my CSS file nearly 10kb large and consists of

[WSG] css instead of JS(ajax)

2005-11-08 Thread Jad Madi
Hi, any idea if it's possible to create menu like this one pure css without JS ? http://dojotoolkit.org/~alex/dojo/trunk/demos/widget/Fisheye.html if yes, please shot a kickstart -- Regards Jad madi Blog http://EasyHTTP.com/jad/ Web standards Planet http://W3planet.net/

Re: [WSG] css instead of JS(ajax)

2005-11-08 Thread Carolyn Diaz
The closest I've seen in css can be found at http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menus/expand.html. Good luck! CarolynOn 11/8/05, Jad Madi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,any idea if it's possible to create menu like this one pure css without JS

[WSG] css instead of JS(ajax)

2005-11-08 Thread Jad Madi
Hi, any idea if it's possible to create menu like this one pure css without JS ? http://dojotoolkit.org/~alex/dojo/trunk/demos/widget/Fisheye.html if yes, please shot a kickstart -- Regards Jad madi Blog http://EasyHTTP.com/jad/ Web standards Planet http://W3planet.net/

Re: [WSG] css instead of JS(ajax)

2005-11-08 Thread Wayne Douglas
That has about as much to do with AJAX as my mother does. Whats wrong with using the fisheye widget? Dojo code is standards compliant, effiecientJS. Why would you try to do something like that in _pure_ CSS? If your going to do that you might as well try to do it in plain text aswell. HTH w

Re: [WSG] css instead of JS(ajax)

2005-11-08 Thread Marko Mihelcic - founder of mcville.net (http.//www.mcville.net)|(http://board.mcville.net)
My point exactly why not use JS ? 2005/11/8, Wayne Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED]: That has about as much to do with AJAX as my mother does. Whats wrong with using the fisheye widget? Dojo code is standards compliant, effiecient JS. Why would you try to do something like that in _pure_ CSS? If

RE: [WSG] css instead of JS(ajax)

2005-11-08 Thread Paul Noone
AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] css instead of JS(ajax) Hi, any idea if it's possible to create menu like this one pure css without JS ? http://dojotoolkit.org/~alex/dojo/trunk/demos/widget/Fisheye.html if yes, please shot a kickstart -- Regards Jad madi Blog http://EasyHTTP.com

Re: [WSG] css instead of JS(ajax)

2005-11-08 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Paul Noone wrote: Using a PNG you could achieve a similar effect. Did you mean SVG? -- Patrick H. Lauke __ re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively [latin : re-, re- + dux, leader; see duke.] www.splintered.co.uk |

RE: [WSG] css instead of JS(ajax)

2005-11-08 Thread Paul Noone
Damn these infernal acronyms. ;) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick H. Lauke Sent: Wednesday, 9 November 2005 9:10 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] css instead of JS(ajax) Paul Noone wrote: Using a PNG you could

Re: [WSG] css instead of JS(ajax)

2005-11-08 Thread Samuel Richardson
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jad Madi Sent: Wednesday, 9 November 2005 6:17 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] css instead of JS(ajax) Hi, any idea if it's possible to create menu like this one pure css without JS ? http://dojotoolkit.org/~alex

Re: [WSG] css instead of JS(ajax)

2005-11-08 Thread Richard Czeiger
. R :o) - Original Message - From: Marko Mihelcic - founder of mcville.net (http.//www.mcville.net)|(http://board.mcville.net) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 6:40 AM Subject: Re: [WSG] css instead of JS(ajax) My point exactly why

Re: [WSG] css title styles

2005-11-05 Thread Andy Kirkwood|Motive
Hi Sarah, I was just looking for a way to give the user immediate feedback about each reference, and thought the title may be useful. The problem with linking back and forth is that there are *so* many references on each page, sometimes two or three to each quote, so it gets a bit messy.

Re: [WSG] css title styles

2005-11-05 Thread Sarah Peeke (XERT)
Hi Andy Thank you for your input. Unfortunately the exact wording of the content (in this client's case) is legally required, and so the possibility of editing it, or the references, in any way is out of the question. I like the idea of linking back to the content once the reader has read the

Re: [WSG] css title styles

2005-11-05 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day I like the idea of linking back to the content once the reader has read the relevant footnote, but there are many instances when more than one footnote is attributed to a portion of the content (see example below). Also, the same footnote reference is referred to in different portions of

Re: [WSG] css title styles

2005-11-05 Thread Andy Kirkwood|Motive
Hi Sarah, Unfortunately the exact wording of the content (in this client's case) is legally required, and so the possibility of editing it, or the references, in any way is out of the question. Moving the title of the reference to the fore of the title attribute value wouldn't be changing the

[WSG] css title styles

2005-11-04 Thread Sarah Peeke (XERT)
Hi all I am trying to find a web standards compliant way of styling a title for a description of references within an article. Eg: sup title=Ernster L, Forsmark P amp; Nordenbrand K. (1992) The mode of action of lipid-soluble antioxidants in biological membranes. Relationship between the effects

Re: [WSG] css title styles

2005-11-04 Thread Dustin Diaz
I had created a pretty nifty library for displaying titles just not too long ago called Sweet Titles which had became quite a hit: http://www.dustindiaz.com/sweet-titles/ They were tested to work across IE6, Moz1.0+, Opera 7+, Safari 1.3 Hope this helps, Dustin On 11/4/05, Sarah Peeke (XERT)

Re: [WSG] css title styles

2005-11-04 Thread Sarah Peeke (XERT)
Dustin Thanks for your link - impressive titles! Just wondered, is it possible to have them degrade when javascript is disabled, so that at least in IE WIN (for eg) the user sees the normal title? At present, if I disable javascript in FF (mac) I don't get any titles at all. Regards Sarah --

Re: [WSG] css title styles

2005-11-04 Thread Joshua Street
I honestly don't think this is the best solution for you, especially if you're doing academic papers. For two reasons: 1) because it's impossible to get titles to display in a normal browser without JavaScript, and; 2) if someone prints out your page they don't get any citations at all. Well, you

Re: [WSG] css title styles

2005-11-04 Thread Sarah Peeke (XERT)
Hi Josh Thanks very much for your reply. I should have mentioned that we will also be listing the entire references in the footer as well. I was just looking for a way to give the user immediate feedback about each reference, and thought the title may be useful. The problem with linking back

[WSG] CSS Block for menu buttons Active Area in IE.

2005-10-24 Thread Gareth Houston
Hi Everyone, I have created a very basic CSS Menu. I am having a problem with the active area for the link. In Firefox the block acts as the link and a rollover effect is given when the cursor is over any part of the block, which is what i want. In IE the text only is active part and not the rest

Re: [WSG] CSS Block for menu buttons Active Area in IE.

2005-10-24 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Gareth Houston wrote: Hi Everyone, I have created a very basic CSS Menu. I am having a problem with the active area for the link. In Firefox the block acts as the link and a rollover effect is given when the cursor is over any part of the block, which is what i want. In IE the text only is

Re: [WSG] css for ie4/ie5

2005-10-15 Thread Mordechai Peller
Geoff Pack wrote: Sure. But if you are only testing your own sites, and not surfing the web with them, then it shouldn't be much of a risk. Assuming the site hasn't been hacked, there should be ZERO additional risk beyond just being connected.

Re: [WSG] css for ie4/ie5

2005-10-15 Thread Mordechai Peller
Peter Ottery wrote: fwiw, I forgot about testing in IE4 about 3 years ago. I still like to make things look ok in IE5.0 but if some text is butting up against the edge of a container due to it not supporting some float issue or something, i dont worry about it. Its usually a better story with

Re: [WSG] css for ie4/ie5

2005-10-14 Thread Mark Harris
Peter Ottery wrote: Peter Firminger wrote: Not at all recommended on any machine you care about. Just for my own peace of mind tho - they're only a security issue when you have launched the program right? so if i'm launching them (old standalone IE5 5.5) once a month to *only* test pages

Re: [WSG] css for ie4/ie5

2005-10-14 Thread Mark Harris
Mark Harris wrote: I can think of 2 secure ways to use IE/windows to test webpages: 1 run a webserver on a separate box _inside_ your firewall and install your pages there for testing - stack a firewall between the systems if you need to test that. 2 run VirtualPC (or some other windows

[WSG] css for ie4/ie5

2005-10-13 Thread Rhys Burnie
I am interested in the current opinion of the relevance of css hacks for explorer 4.0.x 5.0.x specifically in regards to the Box Model Hack. I understand the problem associated with the box model in ie4 5 but have begun to question the need for hacks in your css for these browser versions. In

RE: [WSG] css for ie4/ie5

2005-10-13 Thread Geoff Pack
: Friday, 14 October 2005 1:52 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] css for ie4/ie5 I am interested in the current opinion of the relevance of css hacks for explorer 4.0.x 5.0.x specifically in regards to the Box Model Hack. I understand the problem associated with the box model

Re: [WSG] css for ie4/ie5

2005-10-13 Thread Peter Ottery
Rhys wrote: But with the implementations in ie6 and the ones to come in ie7 perhaps its time to finally stop worrying about ie 4/5 you're the only one that can take on that issue and make a decision for *your* site. Different sites require different decisions. Examine your logs and weigh them

RE: [WSG] css for ie4/ie5

2005-10-13 Thread Peter Firminger
But they may make your system vulnerable as they are not patched. There's a very good reason Microsoft doesn't publish these for developers or anyone else. Not at all recommended on any machine you care about. P Standalone versions of IE 4 and IE 5 are available at

RE: [WSG] css for ie4/ie5

2005-10-13 Thread Geoff Pack
@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] css for ie4/ie5 But they may make your system vulnerable as they are not patched. There's a very good reason Microsoft doesn't publish these for developers or anyone else. Not at all recommended on any machine you care about. P Standalone versions of IE

Re: [WSG] css for ie4/ie5

2005-10-13 Thread Peter Ottery
Peter Firminger wrote: Not at all recommended on any machine you care about. Just for my own peace of mind tho - they're only a security issue when you have launched the program right? so if i'm launching them (old standalone IE5 5.5) once a month to *only* test pages that I've created - I'm

Re: [WSG] css for ie4/ie5

2005-10-13 Thread Joshua Street
Yeah, the main risk is in the OS/Browser integration thing. And, since those versions are standalone, they're safer than IE6... plus your usage patterns for it will be different.On 10/14/05, Peter Ottery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just for my own peace of mind tho - they're only a security issue

[WSG] Css fluid but accurate positioning

2005-10-05 Thread Adam Morris
Is there a way to accurately and seamlessly position this image over the background? At the moment, a percentage left position doesn't quite do the job. Or am I barking up the wrong tree? http://www.janelehrer.co.uk/uwish/girls.html ** The

Re: [WSG] Css fluid but accurate positioning

2005-10-05 Thread Adam Morris
Sorry to seemingly use this group to have a conversation with myself but I have been working on my problem and floated the image within the wrapper and then used relative positioning! Is this a valid method? The site works in IE for PC and Safari and Firefox for Mac. In Mac IE, though, the

Re: [WSG] Css fluid but accurate positioning

2005-10-05 Thread Adam Morris
BTW the floated page is here: http://www.janelehrer.co.uk/uwish1/girls.html On 05/10/05, Adam Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry to seemingly use this group to have a conversation with myself but I have been working on my problem and floated the image within the wrapper and then used

Re: [WSG] Css fluid but accurate positioning

2005-10-05 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Adam Morris wrote: Is there a way to accurately and seamlessly position this image over the background? http://www.janelehrer.co.uk/uwish/girls.html .tornpic { width:350px; height:316px; float: right; margin: -113px -24px 0 0; background: url(tornpic0.jpg) no-repeat; position: relative; }

Re: [WSG] Css fluid but accurate positioning

2005-10-05 Thread Adam Morris
That's great! Using margins instead of relative positioning has placed the image in IE Mac too! What is this bug in IE/Win that you need position: relative; for? On 05/10/05, Gunlaug Sørtun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adam Morris wrote: Is there a way to accurately and seamlessly position this

Re: [WSG] Css fluid but accurate positioning

2005-10-05 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Adam Morris wrote: What is this bug in IE/Win that you need position: relative; for? Parts of the float that's overflowing the outer container when pulled like this, will become invisible. -- http://www.gunlaug.no ** The discussion list

RE: [WSG] Css fluid but accurate positioning

2005-10-05 Thread Drake, Ted C.
If all heck is breaking loose on your floated objects in IE. Add position:relative and it may cure the problem. Sure, it is better to break it all down and try a more bullet-proof design. But sometimes its better to just go with the quick fix. Ted -Original Message- Adam Morris

Re: [WSG] css variables

2005-10-03 Thread Mordechai Peller
Drake, Ted C. wrote: Here’s the deal. I have a main navigation css. I’d like to create an alternate template and instead of replacing the nav.css with a new flavored nav.css, I’d like to put my color rules in a theme css file. Since I've only glanced at the solutions referred to in some of

Re: [WSG] CSS class and id naming conventions

2005-09-30 Thread Alan Trick
If at all possible don't use class names that describe the way something looks, but more what the thing actually is. I find that using names that discribe the style of something will almost always come back to bite you. And depending on how large you project is, it can bite pretty hard. I was

RE: [WSG] CSS class and id naming conventions

2005-09-30 Thread Glen Wallis
@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] CSS class and id naming conventions Hi all, Does anyone know of a set of naming conventions for css classes and ids? Should they have semantic meaning? I.E. address rather than bottom. How should you go about naming the right column div. div id=right-col

Re: [WSG] CSS class and id naming conventions

2005-09-30 Thread Paul Sturgess
I like to opt for naming conventions that work across all pages of the site and all layouts where possible. The suggestions mentioned by others of nav and navSub are ones I always use. Be careful though not to get carried away with content specific naming. Giving a column an id of 'news' rather

[WSG] CSS class and id naming conventions

2005-09-29 Thread James Oppenheim
Hi all, Does anyone know of a set of naming conventions for css classes and ids? Should they have semantic meaning? I.E. “address” rather than “bottom”. How should you go about naming the “right column” div. div id=”right-col”/div div id=”right_col”/div div id=”right-column”/div div

Re: [WSG] CSS class and id naming conventions

2005-09-29 Thread James Gollan
Whilst it won't affect accessibility or usability for the end user (afaik) the class and id names should have semantic meaning indicating there logical function - rather than id=rightColumn you might use id=localNavColumn if the function of the column was to contain local nav. This means if

Re: [WSG] CSS class and id naming conventions

2005-09-29 Thread Nick Gleitzman
James Oppenheim wrote: I tend to use underscore for class and id, try very much to stay away from two word file names. This is a question (discussion?) that comes up every couple of months here on the list - ultimately, I reckon you'll get as many 'conventions' in use as you've offered

Re: [WSG] CSS class and id naming conventions

2005-09-29 Thread Irina Ahrens
James, Read this: http://www.westciv.com/courses/free/week_05/managing_files.html and Tantek's presentation today at WE05, especially meaningful class names part http://tantek.com/presentations/2005/09/elements-of-xhtml/ Cheers, Irina. On 9/30/05, NickGleitzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James

Re: [WSG] css variables

2005-09-29 Thread Alan Trick
Hassan Schroeder wrote: Terrence Wood wrote: Constants and variables are not going to part of CSS any time soon, so you will need some kind of server side solution ... AFAIK they all use seom form of regex to do the replacement Well, no -- I frequently use variables in style sheets

[WSG] css variables

2005-09-28 Thread Drake, Ted C.
Hi everyone There was a recent spat of posts about using variables in CSS. I looked at them and thought I need to look at these later. Well, now Im working on a very complicated CSS file and would like to replace #f60 in several million places with {selectedlink}. Its not several

Re: [WSG] css variables

2005-09-28 Thread Terrence Wood
Drake, Ted C. said: There was a recent spat of posts about using variables in CSS.[snip] Ouch, my 4 rule css file now grows to 54,056 lines of rules re-writing the #f60 code. Wouldn't it be lovely if I just had {selectedlink} : #ffcfcf ? There's no point using a slegehammer to drive in a

Re: [WSG] css variables

2005-09-28 Thread Steve Clason
On 9/28/2005 2:33 PM Drake, Ted C. wrote: I'm not sure If I asked the question right. I'm not looking to do a search and replace. I'm hoping to set a variable in the CSS, such as This is the color of all selected links in the navigation. Then, the css would just set that variable. All of the

RE: [WSG] css variables

2005-09-28 Thread Rebecca Cox
@webstandardsgroup.org' Subject: RE: [WSG] css variables Hi Terrence I'm not sure If I asked the question right. I'm not looking to do a search and replace. I'm hoping to set a variable in the CSS, such as This is the color of all selected links in the navigation. Then, the css would just set that variable. All

RE: [WSG] css variables

2005-09-28 Thread Rebecca Cox
' Subject: RE: [WSG] css variables Hi Terrence I'm not sure If I asked the question right. I'm not looking to do a search and replace. I'm hoping to set a variable in the CSS, such as This is the color of all selected links in the navigation. Then, the css would just set that variable. All

RE: [WSG] css variables

2005-09-28 Thread Drake, Ted C.
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WSG] css variables Hi Ted, You're not thinking of these? http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2005/08/31/the-constants-gardener/ Cheers -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Drake

RE: [WSG] css variables

2005-09-28 Thread Terrence Wood
yeah, I thought you meant you were using 56K lines of code to replace 4 lines of CSS... sounded like overkill to me when a one line regex can do the same thing. Constants and variables are not going to part of CSS any time soon, so you will need some kind of server side solution - a few are

Re: [WSG] css variables

2005-09-28 Thread Hassan Schroeder
Terrence Wood wrote: Constants and variables are not going to part of CSS any time soon, so you will need some kind of server side solution ... AFAIK they all use seom form of regex to do the replacement Well, no -- I frequently use variables in style sheets built in JSP, especially early

Re: [WSG] css variables

2005-09-28 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Hassan Schroeder wrote: Terrence Wood wrote: Constants and variables are not going to part of CSS any time soon, so you will need some kind of server side solution ... AFAIK they all use seom form of regex to do the replacement Well, no -- I frequently use variables in style sheets built

Re: [WSG] css variables

2005-09-28 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day Thierry Koblentz wrote: And as a side note, with MSIE, it is possible to give an ASP extension to the styles sheet to use scripting logic within that file. ASP, PHP or whatever server side language you use, as long as you set the appropriate content type on (in) the file (be it

Re: [WSG] css variables

2005-09-28 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Bert Doorn wrote: ASP, PHP or whatever server side language you use, as long as you set the appropriate content type on (in) the file (be it css.asp, css.php or whatever) it should work in more browsers than just MSIE. I just ran a test and it worked fine in Opera 8, Firefox, MSIE6 and

[WSG] CSS selector builder

2005-09-26 Thread tee
Got this from a friend. it comes in handy as I am taking a CSS 2.1 class right now and the first and second week assignments are selectors. http://disruptive-innovations.com/zoo/selectorBuilder/ selectorBuilder.xul It can only open in Firefox by the way. tee

[WSG] CSS validator updated?

2005-09-26 Thread Bert Doorn
Has the CSS validator (the W3C one) just become a whole lot more pedantic? Sites that previously came out with a clean slate now throw up lots of warnings. I mean.. You'd expect sites made by people in the Features section of the WSG site to be perfect. I checked a few of them at random.

Re: [WSG] CSS validator updated?

2005-09-26 Thread Kenny Graham
The CSS validator has a few new bugs mentioned recently on here. It's throwing errors where it shouldn't be, like on some integers that don't have .0 after them. Hopefully it'll get fixed soon. ** The discussion list for

[WSG] CSS Validator Bug

2005-09-22 Thread Andy Budd
It would seem that the CSS validator has a bug in its handling of number values. The CSS spec says that: A number can either be an integer, or it can be zero or more digits followed by a dot (.) followed by one or more digits. So 1 and 1.0 are both valid numbers. However if you run the

Re: [WSG] CSS Validator Bug

2005-09-22 Thread John Allsopp
Andy, It would seem that the CSS validator has a bug in its handling of number values. I've been doing a lot of checking with the validator of late (results next week at WE05) The last few days or so they clearly made some big changes to the validator, and there appear to be some

Re: [WSG] CSS Validator Bug

2005-09-22 Thread Andy Budd
Might be worth reporting this to the validator people I did that straight off, but it turns out its already a known bug. Yours Andy Budd http://www.andybudd.com/ 01273 241355 07880 636677 ** The discussion list for

Re: [WSG] CSS Mobile Buttons

2005-09-08 Thread Andrew Krespanis
On 9/8/05, russ - maxdesign [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dunno about that but I know of two silly alternatives: A remote control device done in CSS: http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/remote/remote-new.htm An IPod emulator: http://www.podsites.com/emulator-result.cfm ...and if you

[WSG] CSS Mobile Buttons

2005-09-07 Thread Richard Czeiger
Does anyone remember on this list an example someone put together of an XHTML/CSS page feature a picture of a mobile phone where you could 'click' on the buttons (which were positioned via CSS)? Tried looking in the archive, but can't find it. Cheers :o) Richard

Re: [WSG] CSS Mobile Buttons

2005-09-07 Thread russ - maxdesign
Dunno about that but I know of two silly alternatives: A remote control device done in CSS: http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/remote/remote-new.htm An IPod emulator: http://www.podsites.com/emulator-result.cfm :) Russ Does anyone remember on this list an example someone put together

Re: [WSG] CSS 3 color module and deprecation of system colors

2005-09-06 Thread Alan Trick
Patrick H. Lauke wrote: Apologies for cross posting, but: could anybody shed some light as to why system colors have been deprecated in the CSS 3 color module? This is a bit OT, and correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't system colors be a big security threat as far a phishing and spoofing, and

Re: [WSG] CSS 3 color module and deprecation of system colors

2005-09-06 Thread Robin Berjon
Alan Trick wrote: Patrick H. Lauke wrote: Apologies for cross posting, but: could anybody shed some light as to why system colors have been deprecated in the CSS 3 color module? This is a bit OT, and correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't system colors be a big security threat as far a

Re: [WSG] CSS 3 color module and deprecation of system colors

2005-09-05 Thread Robin Berjon
Rowan Lewis wrote: Sure no browsers support the appearance property, or most of CSS3 for that matter, but thats fine as its not even complete yet. There really is no point in keeping the system colours if when CSS3 is ready all browsers will support the appearance property. The appearance

Re: [WSG] CSS 3 color module and deprecation of system colors

2005-09-04 Thread Rowan Lewis
So they are wrong?Sure no browsers support the appearance property, or most of CSS3 for that matter, but thats fine as its not even complete yet. There really is no point in keeping the system colours if when CSS3 is ready all browsers will support the appearance property. On 9/4/05, Robin Berjon

RE: [WSG] css buttons only hot over text in ie

2005-09-03 Thread kvnmcwebn
'That declaration *resets* the first one and you end up with anchors that are block elements, but *not* floats. That would be fine with most of the browsers, but feeding IE with a height declaration makes it *expand* the anchors full width (unless they are floats).' Hello, that explans why the

[WSG] CSS 3 color module and deprecation of system colors

2005-09-03 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Apologies for cross posting, but: could anybody shed some light as to why system colors have been deprecated in the CSS 3 color module? http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-css3-color-20030514/#css-system In my recent testing on Windows browsers, I found them to be fairly well supported and would

Re: [WSG] CSS 3 color module and deprecation of system colors

2005-09-03 Thread Robin Berjon
Patrick H. Lauke wrote: Apologies for cross posting, but: could anybody shed some light as to why system colors have been deprecated in the CSS 3 color module? The CSS WG believes erroneously that they can be replaced by the new appearance property (which is not at all widely supported, to

Re: [WSG] css buttons only hot over text in ie

2005-09-02 Thread Thierry Koblentz
kvnmcwebn wrote: hello, that did the trick it would be nice if it worked with the width: auto; but its a lot better now if the whole buttons hot. I guess you meant *without* the width:auto... so I think I have good news for you ;) Try display:inline-block instead of width:auto HTH, Thierry |

Re: [WSG] css buttons only hot over text in ie

2005-09-02 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Thierry Koblentz wrote: I guess you meant *without* the width:auto... so I think I have good news for you ;) Try display:inline-block instead of width:auto Or, better, remove the *extra* float declaration you have for these anchors ;-( That declaration *resets* the first one and you end up

[WSG] css buttons only hot over text in ie

2005-08-31 Thread kvnmcwebn
Hello, Whats the best way to make the bellow css buttons hot for the entire height in ie? Right now there just hot over the text. I tried adding a fixed pixel height to the a: rule but that didnt work so well. I've seen this solution online somewhere before but im on a tight deadline so i thought

Re: [WSG] css buttons only hot over text in ie

2005-08-31 Thread Thierry Koblentz
kvnmcwebn wrote: Hello, Whats the best way to make the bellow css buttons hot for the entire height in ie? Right now there just hot over the text. I tried adding a fixed pixel height to the a: rule but that didnt work so well. I've seen this solution online somewhere before but im on a

Re: [WSG] css buttons only hot over text in ie

2005-08-31 Thread Terrence Wood
Not sure what you mean. The CSS works as expected (horizontal navbar) with the follwing HTML: ul id=drNav lia href=#item/a/li lia href=#item/a/li lia href=#item/a/li lia href=#item/a/li lia href=#item/a/li /ul kind regards Terrence Wood. Whats the best way to make the bellow css buttons hot

Re: [WSG] css buttons only hot over text in ie

2005-08-31 Thread Sam Brown
--- kvnmcwebn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whats the best way to make the bellow css buttons hot for the entire height in ie? Right now there just hot over the text. I tried adding a fixed pixel height to the a: rule but that didnt work so well. I've seen this solution online somewhere before

RE: [WSG] css buttons only hot over text in ie

2005-08-31 Thread kvnmcwebn
its supposed to look http://www.mcmonagle.biz/nav.htm also-thanks for the response terrance. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Thierry Koblentz Sent: 31 August 2005 20:18 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] css buttons only hot

Re: [WSG] css buttons only hot over text in ie

2005-08-31 Thread Thierry Koblentz
kvnmcwebn wrote: Hello Thierry, Thanks for the solution but maybe theres something in the struture of my html that dosnt work with that method. Check it if you have a minute. Both pages work fine in firefox. http://www.mcmonagle.biz/nav2.htm It blows out the nav bar, fixes the hotspot

RE: [WSG] css buttons only hot over text in ie

2005-08-31 Thread kvnmcwebn
22:25 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] css buttons only hot over text in ie kvnmcwebn wrote: Hello Thierry, Thanks for the solution but maybe theres something in the struture of my html that dosnt work with that method. Check it if you have a minute. Both pages work fine

[WSG] css ads

2005-08-19 Thread Jad Madi
hi, i'm trying to the logo over the main-nav any suggestions? http://easyhttp.com/css/css-ads.html -- Regards Jad madi Personal Blogger http://EasyHTTP.com/jad/ Web standards Planet http://w3planet.info/site/ EasyHTTP Network http://EasyHTTP.com

Re: [WSG] css ads

2005-08-19 Thread Jorge Laranjo
Em 19/ago/2005, às 12:00, Jad Madi escreveu: hi, i'm trying to the logo over the main-nav any suggestions? http://easyhttp.com/css/css-ads.html Hi there Jad. Just make it all a image. or split that banner in two in the vertical Just see what i did here http://estacaoshopping.com.pt/ Just

[WSG] CSS rollover with dynamic drop down menu

2005-08-15 Thread Stuart Sherwood
I'm trying to combine a CSS image rollover with a drop down menu. Everything is working fine bar the css image rollover. For some reason the a:hover is not being read. I've probably missed something very simple but just can't see it. http://www.re-entity.com/Menu/index.htm

Re: [WSG] CSS rollover with dynamic drop down menu

2005-08-15 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day I'm trying to combine a CSS image rollover with a drop down menu. Everything is working fine bar the css image rollover. For some reason the a:hover is not being read. I've probably missed something very simple but just can't see it. Your HTML: lia id=Home title=Home

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