chicgeek — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 02:57:26 +0000

I had my DOCTYPE, but demonhale is right, I had to remove it because some scripts didn't function with it in place.

And I'm not too worried about compatibility in this case. My audience is 700 students and faculty at my university's music faculty. I've been keeping an eye out as to what browsers they use and what capabilities they have. Thanks kindly for the concern, though. Maybe someday I'll be forced to learn about all the compatibility issues, but my schedule's too tight for that right now.

demonhale — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 02:50:50 +0000

Hey Jeeves read my thread above, she must not put a DOCTYPE there, Strict or Loose coz its gonna mess up her page effects, she better redo the effects, she said theres no problem with the JavaScript, yes theres no code error but then theres a code there that doesnt allow that particular js to show in opera... (with respect to laura)

JeevesBond — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 21:55:43 +0000

Ahhh, doesn't matter though. You're still not using semantic markup, the problem isn't the actual color you're using or how many imes it appears on the page it's that you have the word: "grey" as a class at all.

You're XHTML markup should never describe the formatting of the site, that's what CSS is for and why XHTML (and indeed XML - am sad enough to be reading a book on the subject at the moment) is known as a semantic markup language.

And where's your DOCTYPE (I'm trying hard to look stern, and generally failing )?

chicgeek — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:27:27 +0000

Actually, grey just describes the surrounding container that has a grey background, top and bottom borders, and vertical but no horizontal margins. I use it more than once in my template. Take a look, if you wish. If it was a one-time thing, I wouldn't have bothered to make a class for it.

Thanks for your concern, though.

JeevesBond — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 12:40:15 +0000

Heyup, I know this problems been solved but thought - as I'm a pedant - I'd point something out regarding your use of CSS...

You're using a class called grey - this is bad practice, the advantage of CSS is that the XHTML and layout are seperated, but by calling a class "grey" you're describing formatting.

This might sound overly pedantic but what would happen if you wanted to change that scrolling bit to pink, or yellow or some other colour?

I know, I'm a pain, but you'll see in the long term.

chicgeek — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 07:17:28 +0000

IE has more than just spacing problems... but nevermind about that for now.

Thanks kindly. It was an aesthetic problem that has been driving me nut for days. Now and I can move on. And sleep.

demonhale — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 07:16:12 +0000

You copied paste my first code I posted which has a different JS file coz I saved yours from the net, so it truncates it...
The one below has the same modified code as the one before but the JS is yours now directly...
I just redeclared the one thing IE dont understand and FF does... IE has spacing problems...

chicgeek — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 07:12:07 +0000

Works fine now, great! What was changed? It's too late (early?) for me to tell.

demonhale — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 07:06:41 +0000

Oh and by the way dont copy paste the onw above from here coz the js mentioned is not the same as yours... Heres the way yours is... you can copy paste this on the html... again I can see it fine in mine...

Quote:

<script language="JavaScript" src="dhtmllib.js"></script>
<script language="JavaScript" src="scroller.js"></script>
<script language="JavaScript" src="scrollercontent.js"></script>

chicgeek — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 07:02:32 +0000

I checked using both FF and IE and it's definitely not showing... I'll confirm this tomorrow on my brother's computer, when he is awake though.

And with that and the chime of 3am, I'm off to sleep.