RE: [WSG] WCAG Samurai Errata
The Samurai Errata have no official status so there are no certificates or validators. They have "authority tone" because that's Joe Clark's style, not because they have any authority. They are some good ideas written by some clever people (or one clever person if you believe some of the theories). I suspect they are hoping that the W3C adopt the Errata, which would be a good thing in my opinion. If they do not, I suspect the Errata will have about zero uptake in the commercial world. It's hard enough to explain the need for accessibility without explaining that you're going to ignore the only globally accepted set of guidelines in favour of an unofficial set written by a self-appointed group of people, all but one of whom are unknown. I have submitted my comments to the Samurai, and they can be seen at http://www.accessibility.co.uk/wcag_samurai_errata.htm The process for commenting is a bit shambolic, and it is not clear that comments are particularly welcome. There is no stated process, so people have been commenting in various places in the blogs of the two peer reviewers so they are very fragmented. Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tee G.Peng Sent: 11 June 2007 07:12 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] WCAG Samurai Errata On Jun 7, 2007, at 10:22 PM, Kane Tapping wrote: > > I have been reading with interest the WCAG Samurai Errata ( http:// > wcagsamurai.org/errata/intro.html ) and am suprised to have not found > it discussed on WSG as of yet. > Hi, I finally got a chance to read the WCAG Samurai Errata. Maybe something to do with my understanding in English, I see there is autority tone in there. Overall impression is it's a good thing, it seems the standard is higher (maybe it was because I am always so confused with the WCAG ambiguous used of language thus never able to fully understand) in claiming an accessible site. Curious, is there an entity to issue certificate or safegaurd what sites can really claim to be WCAG Samurai Errata compliance? Will the validators be update to cater for Samurai Errata? Or just our judegement with human eyes and best parctise be the call? Lastly, I did not aware we can do this ? Did a brief reading in CSS 3 spec and I tried testing it in Safari, Firefox and Opera (thought one of the browsers has already supported some of CSS3 elements) but none of them work. " If images must be used for list bullets, do so only using CSS, as with ul { list-style: url("arrow.gif") disc }" tee *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
[WSG] resizing text via graphics/text?
Good Morning/afternoon/evening, Further to recent discussions on text size, and in particular, using graphics sized in ems so that they resize, I've pondered the use of graphical text when wanting to use an uncommon font. So, I put a heading into a simple graphic (using the required text), but I've noticed that when the font is a thin, light font (sometimes called 'spidery'), the quality falls through the floor on enlargement when sized in ems. However, if the heading using the font is produced in Flash, the quality is maintained when resizing. You can see an example, comparing 3 approaches ( flash, graphics in ems and graphics in pixels) here: http://www.marscovista.fsnet.co.uk/newtemplate/flashtext.htm I dare say this is nothing new, but I'd like to know if there are any (simple) improvements to be made to the approach I've used, and I'd be grateful for any useful comments. Many thanks, -- Bob www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] resizing text via graphics/text?
Designer wrote: Good Morning/afternoon/evening, Further to recent discussions on text size, and in particular, using graphics sized in ems so that they resize, I've pondered the use of graphical text when wanting to use an uncommon font. So, I put a heading into a simple graphic (using the required text), but I've noticed that when the font is a thin, light font (sometimes called 'spidery'), the quality falls through the floor on enlargement when sized in ems. However, if the heading using the font is produced in Flash, the quality is maintained when resizing. You can see an example, comparing 3 approaches ( flash, graphics in ems and graphics in pixels) here: http://www.marscovista.fsnet.co.uk/newtemplate/flashtext.htm I dare say this is nothing new, but I'd like to know if there are any (simple) improvements to be made to the approach I've used, and I'd be grateful for any useful comments. Many thanks, Hello, being able to resize the flash text is pretty sweet. I don't know if you've ever seen sifr (http://www.mikeindustries.com/sifr/) but it's a well put together accessible solution for putting nice anti-aliased fonts on a page. If you can extend it to be re-sizable too it would be perfect. All the best, Rob *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] WCAG Samurai Errata
Steve Green wrote: The process for commenting is a bit shambolic, and it is not clear that comments are particularly welcome. There is no stated process, so people have been commenting in various places in the blogs If you check the various blogs, you'll see Joe has been following them closely (probably via technorati), and he will take in comments by email as well (his name @joeclark.org). I've also been looking through things, and will post some more comments on the reviewsamurai blog. Cheers, -Alastair *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] resizing text via graphics/text?
Robert O'Rourke schreef: Hello, being able to resize the flash text is pretty sweet. I don't know if you've ever seen sifr (http://www.mikeindustries.com/sifr/) but it's a well put together accessible solution for putting nice anti-aliased fonts on a page. If you can extend it to be re-sizable too it would be perfect. If I'm correct sIFR does resize, but only after a refresh. There is an aspect of sIFR though that makes it potentially not accessible at all (unless they've fixed it recently). On some computers Quicktime player is set to act as the default Flash player. This can cause problems as it does not return the correct version number or something like that. Therefore it may pass the sIFR support tests although it does not support the required features for sIFR. If so, the headers will not be replaced by their pimped Flash version, but by the broken Q-icons that Quicktime likes to show when things go bad. Unless your headers were all 'Q' this is defenitely not what you want. As I said, I don't know whether this is fixed already or what the percentages are of users that have Quicktime as their main Flash player. I assume this potentially only affects a tiny fraction of the people on the web, but perhaps we'll never really know as it seems very hard to detect. cheers, Sander *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] WCAG Samurai Errata
Oops, Joe's just posted the comments email address: samurai at the domain wcagsamurai.org Apologies, -Alastair *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] resizing text via graphics/text?
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:36:11 +0100, Designer wrote: > Good Morning/afternoon/evening, > > Further to recent discussions on text size, and in particular, using graphics > sized in > ems so that they resize, I've pondered the use of graphical text when wanting > to use > an uncommon font. So, I put a heading into a simple graphic (using the > required text), > but I've noticed that when the font is a thin, light font (sometimes called > 'spidery'), > the quality falls through the floor on enlargement when sized in ems. > > However, if the heading using the font is produced in Flash, the quality is > maintained > when resizing. You can see an example, comparing 3 approaches ( flash, > graphics in > ems and graphics in pixels) here: > > http://www.marscovista.fsnet.co.uk/newtemplate/flashtext.htm > Sweet. It falls back to an image if Flash is disabled, even in IE! 8-O Now if only it increased with font size in IE... Cordially, David -- *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
[WSG] I need to ask a non-web design question from Aussie
Hello Australians , I am so so so sorry I have to post this to ask you kindly write me offlist so that I can ask the question - (without 'but') this is the only list I know full of Aussie that can give me the information I needed. It is a non-web web standards no web design question so I will refrain myself from asking publicly. Thank you and very truly sorry for the OT! tee *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
[WSG] Safari now on Windows
This will be interesting... Safari 3 Public Beta: http://www.apple.com/safari/ == The information contained in this email and any attachment is confidential and may contain legally privileged or copyright material. It is intended only for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you are not permitted to disseminate, distribute or copy this email or any attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this email from your system. The ABC does not represent or warrant that this transmission is secure or virus free. Before opening any attachment you should check for viruses. The ABC's liability is limited to resupplying any email and attachments == *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Safari now on Windows
Just left a comment about this on 456 Berea St - seems to be working OK for me although other Windows users seem to find it pretty much unusable. On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:26:24 +1000, Geoff Pack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This will be interesting... Safari 3 Public Beta: http://www.apple.com/safari/ == The information contained in this email and any attachment is confidential and may contain legally privileged or copyright material. It is intended only for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you are not permitted to disseminate, distribute or copy this email or any attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this email from your system. The ABC does not represent or warrant that this transmission is secure or virus free. Before opening any attachment you should check for viruses. The ABC's liability is limited to resupplying any email and attachments == *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** -- Tyssen Design www.tyssendesign.com.au Ph: (07) 3300 3303 Mb: 0405 678 590 *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Safari now on Windows
I recommend it to all those developers that are stuck in a Windows environment - I have already fixed a few bugs I would have had to use my bosses Mac to find! My only concern is that at the moment, I can get away with "It might not look 100% in Safari, but it still works..." With Safari on Iphone, something which is almost guaranteed to be a raging success, I'm pretty sure I wont be able to use that defense forever. On 6/12/07, Geoff Pack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This will be interesting... Safari 3 Public Beta: http://www.apple.com/safari/ == The information contained in this email and any attachment is confidential and may contain legally privileged or copyright material. It is intended only for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you are not permitted to disseminate, distribute or copy this email or any attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this email from your system. The ABC does not represent or warrant that this transmission is secure or virus free. Before opening any attachment you should check for viruses. The ABC's liability is limited to resupplying any email and attachments == *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
RE: [WSG] Safari now on Windows
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Re: [WSG] Safari now on Windows
I recommend it to all those developers that are stuck in a Windows environment - I have already fixed a few bugs I would have had to use my bosses Mac to >find! My only concern is that at the moment, I can get away with "It might not look 100% in Safari, but it still works..." With Safari on Iphone, something which is >almost guaranteed to be a raging success, I'm pretty sure I wont be able to use that defense forever. I bought a second-hand Mac G4 from a friend last year so I could test with Mac browsers. On most things I checked I did not see much difference in the rendering of pages in Safari compared to Firefox... I normally have much more trouble with IE. iPhone might be a different thing altogether .. just because a page renders nicely in Safari on a desktop machine doesn't necessarely mean it is going to be very usable on a tiny screen! (I haven't yet seen an iPhone but I assume the screen would be small like a mobile phone screen...?) Speaking of Mac browsers - a friend called me on the weekend and said he can't find anything newer than IE5 for OS9 but won't upgrade to OSX because it would be way too slow on his G3. (and he doesn't have the money to buy a new machine) now that is something to think about! *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
RE: [WSG] Safari now on Windows
> a friend called me on the weekend and said he can't find anything newer than > IE5 for OS9 but won't upgrade to OSX because it would be way too slow on his > G3. (and he doesn't have the money to buy a new machine) > now that is something to think about! Ah, nothing like a good bit of hardware AND software lock-in to make the user smile *ducks* *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Safari now on Windows
-- Lucien Stals Multimedia/Web Developer Academic Development and Support Swinburne University of Technology PO Box 218 Hawthorn, 3122, Australia email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] telephone: +61 3 9214 4474 office: AD223 >>> On 12/06/2007 at 12:21 pm, "Michael MD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > iPhone might be a different thing altogether .. > just because a page renders nicely in Safari on a desktop machine doesn't > necessarely mean it is going to be very usable on a tiny screen! > (I haven't yet seen an iPhone but I assume the screen would be small like a > mobile phone screen...?) I think the price alone will keep uptake slow and low. > > Speaking of Mac browsers - > a friend called me on the weekend and said he can't find anything newer than > > IE5 for OS9 but won't upgrade to OSX because it would be way too slow on his > > G3. (and he doesn't have the money to buy a new machine) > now that is something to think about! > MS no longer support IE for Mac. Even the MS web site recommend people switch to safari (for Mac). I wonder what they will say now a Win version is available. You friend is caught in a marketing trap :( > > > > *** > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *** Swinburne University of Technology CRICOS Provider Code: 00111D NOTICE This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and intended only for the use of the addressee. They may contain information that is privileged or protected by copyright. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution, printing, copying or use is strictly prohibited. The University does not warrant that this e-mail and any attachments are secure and there is also a risk that it may be corrupted in transmission. It is your responsibility to check any attachments for viruses or defects before opening them. If you have received this transmission in error, please contact us on +61 3 9214 8000 and delete it immediately from your system. We do not accept liability in connection with computer virus, data corruption, delay, interruption, unauthorised access or unauthorised amendment. Please consider the environment before printing this email. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 X-GWTYPE:USER FN:Lucien Stals TEL;WORK:4474 ORG:;Academic Development and Support EMAIL;WORK;PREF;NGW:[EMAIL PROTECTED] N:Stals;Lucien END:VCARD *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Safari now on Windows
I normally use the university macs for testing, the scary thing is they still have IE 5.5 as the default browser *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
RE: [WSG] Safari now on Windows
Michael MD wrote: > Speaking of Mac browsers - > a friend called me on the weekend and said he can't find anything > newer than IE5 for OS9 but won't upgrade to OSX because it would be > way too slow on his G3. (and he doesn't have the money to buy a new > machine) > now that is something to think about! I ran into this problem a year or two ago, and the local sys admin explained that my best bet would probably be to use Netscape for Mac OS 9 instead. I ended up installing IE, Netscape and iCab and then switched back and forth depending on which site would work with which browser. It looks like you can actually get Netscape 7.02 for OS 9 (Mac PowerPC), which, while buggy, would still probably be better than IE5 in most cases: http://browser.netscape.com/downloads/archive/ Phil. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Safari now on Windows
Main problem I have with safari is on win xp sp2 none of the fonts it wants to use render at all. Makes life very interesting. It would be nice if there was a way of reporting the bugs you get. At present there appears not to be a way of doing this. Its fine on the Mac -- Gary Barber Blog - http:/manwithnoblog.com John Faulds wrote: Just left a comment about this on 456 Berea St - seems to be working OK for me although other Windows users seem to find it pretty much unusable. On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:26:24 +1000, Geoff Pack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This will be interesting... Safari 3 Public Beta: http://www.apple.com/safari/ == The information contained in this email and any attachment is confidential and may contain legally privileged or copyright material. It is intended only for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you are not permitted to disseminate, distribute or copy this email or any attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this email from your system. The ABC does not represent or warrant that this transmission is secure or virus free. Before opening any attachment you should check for viruses. The ABC's liability is limited to resupplying any email and attachments == *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Safari now on Windows
On the tool bar there is a big "bug" button, try that. :) Jake On 12/6/2007, "Gary Barber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Main problem I have with safari is on win xp sp2 none of the fonts it >wants to use render at all. Makes life very interesting. > >It would be nice if there was a way of reporting the bugs you get. At >present there appears not to be a way of doing this. > >Its fine on the Mac > >-- >Gary Barber >Blog - http:/manwithnoblog.com > > > >John Faulds wrote: >> Just left a comment about this on 456 Berea St - seems to be working >> OK for me although other Windows users seem to find it pretty much >> unusable. >> >> On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:26:24 +1000, Geoff Pack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >>> This will be interesting... >>> >>> Safari 3 Public Beta: >>> http://www.apple.com/safari/ >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> == >>> >>> The information contained in this email and any attachment is >>> confidential and >>> may contain legally privileged or copyright material. It is >>> intended only for >>> the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient >>> of this >>> email, you are not permitted to disseminate, distribute or copy this >>> email or >>> any attachments. If you have received this message in error, please >>> notify the >>> sender immediately and delete this email from your system. The ABC >>> does not >>> represent or warrant that this transmission is secure or virus >>> free. Before >>> opening any attachment you should check for viruses. The ABC's >>> liability is >>> limited to resupplying any email and attachments >>> == >>> >>> >>> >>> *** >>> List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm >>> Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm >>> Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> *** >>> >> >> >> > > > >*** >List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm >Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm >Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >*** > *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Safari now on Windows
On 2007/06/12 12:21 (GMT+1000) Michael MD apparently typed: >> http://www.apple.com/safari/ > Speaking of Mac browsers - > a friend called me on the weekend and said he can't find anything newer than > IE5 for OS9 but won't upgrade to OSX because it would be way too slow on his > G3. (and he doesn't have the money to buy a new machine) > now that is something to think about! If all you use it for is running Safari or IE5 or Camino, a G3 is way more than plenty fast enough to run OS X. I have one, and it doesn't seem at all slow with 4 browsers open at once compared to W2K at 50% higher MHz. Just make sure it has plenty RAM, at least double a measly 128M. -- "Respect everyone." I Peter 2:17 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Safari now on Windows
Michael MD wrote: Speaking of Mac browsers - a friend called me on the weekend and said he can't find anything newer than IE5 for OS9 but won't upgrade to OSX because it would be way too slow on his G3. (and he doesn't have the money to buy a new machine) now that is something to think about! Speaks volumes for the longevity of Macs, if you ask me. It's equivalent to saying, 'I can only run IE 4.x because I only have a 386 (486? What do I know?) processor and Win 95.' Or whatever. How many 386/486 machines do you still see out there? Tell your friend he should be able to run Netscape 7 without too much fuss. Cameron Singe wrote: > I normally use the university macs for testing, the scary thing is they still have IE 5.5 as the default browser Nope. IE for Mac stopped at 5.2.3 - and don't make the mistake of comparing IE 5.x/Mac with IE5.x/Win. They're completely different programs; they just happen to have similar names. Felix Miata wrote: > If all you use it for is running Safari or IE5 or Camino, a G3 is way more than plenty fast enough to run OS X. Yes, but Michael didn't say his friend was 'just' looking to use a browser. I got the impression he's still using his G3 for all his computing needs. There again, at least you can dual boot a G3. Stiil a pain to have to reboot just to surf the web... N ___ omnivision. websight. http://www.omnivision.com.au/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Safari now on Windows
On 2007/06/12 14:40 (GMT+1000) Nick Gleitzman apparently typed: > Felix Miata wrote: > > If all you use it for is running Safari or IE5 or Camino, a G3 is way > more than plenty fast enough to run OS X. > Yes, but Michael didn't say his friend was 'just' looking to use a > browser. I got the impression he's still using his G3 for all his > computing needs. My point was that a 20th century G3 is perfectly adequate for a web developer on a limited hardware budget to use for Mac testing his web design work. Puters with GHz+ processor speeds simply aren't necessary to use web browsers and their plugins. -- "Respect everyone." I Peter 2:17 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Safari now on Windows
Press that and it hangs.. a bug activating a bug reporting tool, sweet! I know its beta, but at least apple could have a link to an online bug reporter.. -- Gary Barber Blog - http:/manwithnoblog.com Jake Badger wrote: On the tool bar there is a big "bug" button, try that. :) Jake On 12/6/2007, "Gary Barber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Main problem I have with safari is on win xp sp2 none of the fonts it wants to use render at all. Makes life very interesting. It would be nice if there was a way of reporting the bugs you get. At present there appears not to be a way of doing this. Its fine on the Mac -- Gary Barber Blog - http:/manwithnoblog.com John Faulds wrote: Just left a comment about this on 456 Berea St - seems to be working OK for me although other Windows users seem to find it pretty much unusable. On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:26:24 +1000, Geoff Pack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This will be interesting... Safari 3 Public Beta: http://www.apple.com/safari/ == The information contained in this email and any attachment is confidential and may contain legally privileged or copyright material. It is intended only for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you are not permitted to disseminate, distribute or copy this email or any attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this email from your system. The ABC does not represent or warrant that this transmission is secure or virus free. Before opening any attachment you should check for viruses. The ABC's liability is limited to resupplying any email and attachments == *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Safari now on Windows
It took a while, but it worked for me. Not that I'm claiming it's not buggy as anything. On 12/6/2007, "Gary Barber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Press that and it hangs.. a bug activating a bug reporting tool, sweet! > >I know its beta, but at least apple could have a link to an online bug >reporter.. > >-- >Gary Barber > >Blog - http:/manwithnoblog.com > > >Jake Badger wrote: >> On the tool bar there is a big "bug" button, try that. :) >> >> Jake >> >> On 12/6/2007, "Gary Barber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> Main problem I have with safari is on win xp sp2 none of the fonts it >>> wants to use render at all. Makes life very interesting. >>> >>> It would be nice if there was a way of reporting the bugs you get. At >>> present there appears not to be a way of doing this. >>> >>> Its fine on the Mac >>> >>> -- >>> Gary Barber >>> Blog - http:/manwithnoblog.com >>> >>> >>> >>> John Faulds wrote: >>> Just left a comment about this on 456 Berea St - seems to be working OK for me although other Windows users seem to find it pretty much unusable. On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:26:24 +1000, Geoff Pack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This will be interesting... > > Safari 3 Public Beta: > http://www.apple.com/safari/ > > > > > > > > == > > The information contained in this email and any attachment is > confidential and > may contain legally privileged or copyright material. It is > intended only for > the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient > of this > email, you are not permitted to disseminate, distribute or copy this > email or > any attachments. If you have received this message in error, please > notify the > sender immediately and delete this email from your system. The ABC > does not > represent or warrant that this transmission is secure or virus > free. Before > opening any attachment you should check for viruses. The ABC's > liability is > limited to resupplying any email and attachments > == > > > > *** > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *** > > >>> >>> *** >>> List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm >>> Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm >>> Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> *** >>> >>> >> >> >> *** >> List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm >> Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm >> Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> *** >> >> >> > > > >*** >List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm >Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm >Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >*** > *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Safari now on Windows
iPhone might be a different thing altogether .. just because a page renders nicely in Safari on a desktop machine doesn't necessarely mean it is going to be very usable on a tiny screen! (I haven't yet seen an iPhone but I assume the screen would be small like a mobile phone screen...?) Point taken, however I am not just referring to visual appearance. More interested in functionality differences for web applications (AJAX and Javascript in general). I think Apples approach with the safari on the iphone is that it will "work the same" on all platforms, even XP/Vista now too. That 'hopefully' means that developing with testing for Safari in the present, *should* mean that it will "just works" on the iphone in the future... Just have to wait and see if that happens or not I guess. If you ask me, I think that the Iphone is probably the major reason for porting Safari to Windows in the first place. Developers will have less excuses not to develop sites capable of running on the latest apple gadget. If more sites work, more people will like the iphone and it will sell better. Im certainly in no hurry to pick one up - even knowing its going to be a few years before it gets off the ground here in Australia. Karl *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Safari now on Windows
Speaks volumes for the longevity of Macs, if you ask me. It's equivalent to saying, 'I can only run IE 4.x because I only have a 386 (486? What do I know?) processor and Win 95.' Or whatever. win95 on a 386 - forget it! you are probably talking about win3.1 :-) I had a 386 in the early 90s my first web pages were created using qEdit (dos text editor) and to see them I had to upload them to the server and use lynx to view them - with 2MB RAM I could not use Mosaic or Netscape1.1 and Arachne (home.arachne.cz) did not exist yet , which is why I didn't use images on anything until I got a pentium in about 1995 - lynx was for me the browser of choice for about 2 years! How many 386/486 machines do you still see out there? probably not many in this part of the world ... but elsewhere who knows? You still see heaps of Russian fidonet discussions gated to usenet... so who knows what people might still be using in that part of the world! regarding the friend using OS9... I think there may be other reasons he won't upgrade - such as other software he uses. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Safari now on Windows
Hi Come October or thereabouts there will be another KHTML browser in the form of Konquerer 4 on Windows. All good news for implementing web standards. Now I don't have to buy a Mac... Cheers James On 6/12/07, Geoff Pack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This will be interesting... Safari 3 Public Beta: http://www.apple.com/safari/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] I need to ask a non-web design question from Aussie
Tee G. Peng wrote: Hello Australians , I am so so so sorry I have to post this to ask you kindly write me offlist so that I can ask the question - (without 'but') this is the only list I know full of Aussie that can give me the information I needed. It is a non-web web standards no web design question so I will refrain myself from asking publicly. Thank you and very truly sorry for the OT! tee What was the question? Kat *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
RE: [WSG] Safari now on Windows
James Ellis wrote: > Now I don't have to buy a Mac... Then how will you test for Safari 1, 2, IE 5 Mac, etc? Geoff. == The information contained in this email and any attachment is confidential and may contain legally privileged or copyright material. It is intended only for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you are not permitted to disseminate, distribute or copy this email or any attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this email from your system. The ABC does not represent or warrant that this transmission is secure or virus free. Before opening any attachment you should check for viruses. The ABC's liability is limited to resupplying any email and attachments == *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***