RE: [WSG] OT? - spam in forms

2007-02-15 Thread Chris Taylor
I use the question/answer spam filter technique on my community blog site, but provide the answers with the question. For example: Is a banana yellow or red? What colour is the summer sky - green or blue? What is 3 + 1? Is it 823, 4 or 9117? That way people can make a guess even if they aren't su

Re: [WSG] OT? - spam in forms

2007-02-15 Thread James Crooke
I think it's safe to say that blind AND deaf people surfing with braille devices are a very small minority, and very aware of the limitations of their system. When you target this disabilities group, I guess you have to take the risk of spamming and NOT use CAPTCHA. Again, it comes down to the p

Re: [WSG] position:fixed weirdness IE7 IE5 mac

2007-02-15 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Bob Schwartz wrote: http://www.fotografics.it/test/ The orange div on the left is where a menu will go (without the orange background) and has position:fixed. In IE7 it shifts to the right invading the content div instead of resting just outside the light yellow content area. (Use any other

[WSG Announce] Some links for light reading (15/2/07)

2007-02-15 Thread russ - maxdesign
** This is a one-way list for WSG Announcements ** This email covers: - Links for light reading - WSG and Industry events - Web standards related jobs (1 job this week) If

[WSG] RE: OT? - spam in forms: use beyesian filters!

2007-02-15 Thread sigurd
Title: SilverStripe Newsletter I personally get very frustrated with captchas, especially really awkwardly hard to interpret ones. And the questions below are novel for a while but wear you down after 10-20 a day! One reason I get frustrated with them is that there are great be

Re: [WSG] OT? - spam in forms

2007-02-15 Thread Dennis Lapcewich
listdad@webstandardsgroup.org wrote on 02/15/2007 01:20:16 AM: > I think it's safe to say that blind AND deaf people surfing with > braille devices are a very small minority, and very aware of the > limitations of their system. > > When you target this disabilities group, I guess you have to take

Re: [WSG] OT? - spam in forms

2007-02-15 Thread Christian Montoya
On 2/15/07, James Crooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think it's safe to say that blind AND deaf people surfing with braille devices are a very small minority, and very aware of the limitations of their system. When you target this disabilities group, I guess you have to take the risk of spammin

[WSG] Site check raoset.com

2007-02-15 Thread Jason Pruim
Hello all, I think I'm finally ready to subject my site to a review of my peers (even though you all know WAY more then I do) I'm pretty happy with the overall design, I'm looking mostly for the semantics behind it, and if I've done anything that would prevent anyone with any disability f

[WSG] any good for yahoo UI Grid CSS?

2007-02-15 Thread Tee G. Peng
What benefit will one gains using YUI Grid CSS, especially for someone who is quite proficient in coding CSS layouts and who understands web standards and structural markups? http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/grids/ I did a site, now client's client was wondering if I can update the markup I d

Re: [WSG] any good for yahoo UI Grid CSS?

2007-02-15 Thread Andrew Ingram
Tee, This is an interesting question. My personal opinion is that the YUI Grid approach is wrong. Basically you end up choosing your markup and class/id values based on how you want it to appear. You can modify the Grid CSS to use semantically relevant selectors but at the end of the day I

Re: [WSG] Site check raoset.com

2007-02-15 Thread Dwain Alford
first thing you need to do is go here: http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=628 and get the color contrast analyzer and check your menu colors. it's not too easy on my eyes and fails the color blind test hands down. other than that the index page is easy to read. the menu though is

Re: [WSG] any good for yahoo UI Grid CSS?

2007-02-15 Thread Peter Ottery
re -> I did a site, now client's client was wondering if I can update the markup I did to YUI. Very strange request to me. agreed, if you're a wizz at css you can achieve all the same benefits that the YUI GRID CSS gives you as a headstart. But from a clients point of view - the main attraction w

Re: [WSG] Site check raoset.com

2007-02-15 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Dwain Alford wrote: first thing you need to do is go here: http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=628 and get the color contrast analyzer and check your menu colors. it's not too easy on my eyes and fails the color blind test hands down. Ditto. I'm partially colorblind, and while I

Re: [WSG] Site check raoset.com

2007-02-15 Thread lisa fox
Hi Jason You may want to rethink the 'Click here' link at the bottom of the page regarding signup for the newsletter. A contextual link would be better. Off topic would be setting up a 301 permanent redirect from http://raoset.com to http://www.raoset.com. Cheers Lisa On 2/16/07, Jason Pruim

Re: [WSG] any good for yahoo UI Grid CSS?

2007-02-15 Thread Matthew Pennell
On 2/15/07, Andrew Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's probably a useful tool for people inexperienced with CSS to get a design up and running, but anyone who actually knows CSS shouldn't be using the framework. Exactly. I don't think it was ever really designed to be a CSS library for eve

Re: [WSG] Site check raoset.com

2007-02-15 Thread ~davidLaakso
Jason Pruim wrote: I think I'm finally ready to subject my site to a review of my peers (even though you all know WAY more then I do) I'm pretty happy with the overall design, I'm looking mostly for the semantics behind it, and if I've done anything that would prevent anyone with any disabilit

Re: [WSG] any good for yahoo UI Grid CSS?

2007-02-15 Thread Christian Montoya
On 2/15/07, Peter Ottery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: re -> I did a site, now client's client was wondering if I can update the markup I did to YUI. Very strange request to me. so if in 18 months time your client hires a different web designer/developer to update their site they would have a LOT

Re: [WSG] RE: OT? - spam in forms: use beyesian filters!

2007-02-15 Thread Michael MD
SilverStripe Newsletter I personally get very frustrated with captchas, especially really awkwardly hard to interpret ones. And the questions below are novel for a while but wear you down after 10->20 a day! One reason I get frustrated with them is that there are great beyesian filters out th