Re: [WSG] CSS Icon
On 16 Jan 2006, at 12:15, Svip wrote: I thought that per standard you inserted the favicon.ico file in the parent directory to the site, and thus browsers would ask for it, and get it as they requested! The HTML is just if you specific pages on a site that needs their own favicons! As far as I can tell from looking through the W3C's site, the HTML standard doesn't touch upon the issue of page icons: there are just various methods people have hacked onto the existing standards. The hard-coded “look-in-the-root-directory” version seems to me the hackier and far less flexible version, although strictly speaking one should declare a profile in the tag if one wishes to define alternative link types with the method. Oh, and if we're still going by the book, the “rel” attribute of is specified to be a space-separated list, so requiring ‘rel="shortcut icon"’ doesn't conform to the proper specifications (not really surprising, it being a Microsoft invention); in fact, Mozilla browsers (and probably others too) only require ‘rel="icon"’. The approach also allows you to specify alternate image formats for your page icon, such as PNG. -- Dave ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help **
Re: [WSG] the correct use.
On 13 Jan 2006, at 22:33, Paul Novitski wrote: This is one of those points we'll never all agree on but love to argue. Personally I think the use of BR to separate address lines is problematic, is functioning as a presentational element, and should Most Properly be replaced by individually tagged elements. I think here is probably a good time to start pimping Microformats. If you really want to tag the elements properly, you could use the hCard format (http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard). For example: Anthony Blair Work: 10 Downing Street London SW1A 2AA United Kingdom Then you can use CSS to add in the line breaks as appropriate. (Disclaimer: I haven't intimately studied hCard, so I might have got a couple of points a bit wrong in the example. I could also have added “The Right Honourable Anthony Charles Lynton Blair”, but that would just have been silly.) -- Dave ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help **
Re: [WSG] pdf graphics
On 13 Jan 2006, at 14:50, Joseph R. B. Taylor wrote: This may be a bit off-topic, but I saw a few people mentioning GIMP. I'm a long time Photoshop user (since version 5.0), and Photoshop has been one of the excuses for staying a Windows user. The GIMP is a very capable program with a pretty heavy feature set, but I find the usability (especially compared to something like Photoshop) almost laughably bad. This is particularly noticeable when using it on a Mac. However, it is indispensable if you can't afford (or don't want to buy) Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro (not available for Mac anyway) or Fireworks. -- Dave ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help **
Re: [WSG] OT: Need recomendations for a JavaScript/DOM book
On 22 Nov 2005, at 16:50, Ted Drake wrote: I would recommend starting with Domscripting by Jeremy Keith. Then, follow with DHTML Utopia, I don't remember the author of DHTML Utopia. Stuart Langridge. ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help **
