Re: [WSG] WSG Meetings for the rest of us
Hey, Sacramento here. Not to give Toronto a head start, but we're indeed working on it. I'm not sure if we've reached critical mass with 8 yet, but there's been enough interest that I'm confident we can do an informal meeting, at the very least. I'm hoping that if we can get a few bright people talking in the same room (looks easy enough), we can build from there. Work is keeping me busy, but I'm trying to get organized enough to set up a small meeting this month or early next. Anybody in SF want to get involved? I'm excited. Jason Anderson http://www.thenewjhp.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
[WSG] Up and down arrows using HTML entities
Hi, I'm setting up a table which will can be sorted by clicking on one of the headers, and I'd like to display the sort order (ascending or descending) by drawing a little arrow next to the column name. I thought about using an image, but of course it wouldn't scale with the text. Is there a good technique for drawing a text arrow in most browsers, which degrades nicely if it can't be displayed? I found a page which shows some HTML entity codes, including the arrows, at http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/entities/symbols.html I tried uarr; and darr; and they work great in Safari 1.2.1 and Firefox 0.9.1, but the page says browser support for those entities is generally very poor. I don't have a PC nearby to test with, and I have no idea what a screen reader would do. Am I out of luck? Thanks, -- Jason Anderson http://www.thenewjhp.com ** 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] Letting clients update their site
Hi Erwin, Maybe we can talk. I'm in the process of developing a service that would allow clients to do just that, without affecting the design. One of my main goals right now is a simple user interface, since all the CMS-type offerings I've see are far too complicated for many new users. It's not really ready for the general public, but I'm interested in getting some ideas from other designers about how to integrate it with existing projects. How do you store your pages? Are they plain .html files or are they generated dynamically? I'd like to avoid many of the problems I see in other CMS systems, and make something that's really pleasant for users (and designers) to work with. I've only been offering it to my clients up to now, but if you're interested, maybe there's some way I can help. Cheers! Jason Anderson www.thenewjhp.com On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 15:10:58 +0100, Erwin Heiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I¹m a one man operation and mostly do smaller sites. A lot of clients these days are requesting to be able to do their own updates on their sites, but haven¹t a clue when it comes to XHTML or CSS ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
