Re: [WSG] Dreamweaver8

2008-04-07 Thread John Hancock

Please, please, please everyone.

Discuss web standards on the web standards group mailing list, and "my  
text/WYSIWY editor is better than yours" on the HTML Editors mailing  
list...


If there isn't one, feel free to set it up.

thanks,

Grumpy John.



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Re: [WSG] Why is deprecated?

2008-03-26 Thread John Hancock

Hi Kepler,

In many ways,  has been deprecated in favour of  and  in 
favour of  (emphasis).  (underline) has been deprecated because 
it shouldn't be part of structural markup, but instead part of styling, 
so it would be replaced by  or similar.


The reason  (bold) and  italic haven't actually been deprecated is 
that the HTML working group were worried it would lead to the misuse of 
other presentational tags, indeed such as  and , which 
should be considered whenever you use these 'newer' tags!


cheers,

John

Kepler Gelotte wrote:

Hi,

I am just curious if anyone can explain why the  tag has been deprecated
while  and  are still allowed.

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,
Kepler Gelotte
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Re: [WSG] IE 8 and grey

2008-03-17 Thread John Hancock
CSS is a US-spec language. If we suddenly start seeing 'colour:  
#123456;' then I'll be delighted - but I don't think the CSS authors  
are so interested in global standards ;)


On 18/03/2008, at 1:04 PM, Chris Broadfoot wrote:


Keryx Web wrote:

Quick question.
I have not got IE 8 beta 1 myself... Does it understand "grey",  
spelled with an e - as it should be ;-)

Lars Gunther


Probably not. "grey" isn't a css colour.


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Re: [WSG] SEO, fact or fiction

2008-03-17 Thread John Hancock
I'd use flash. http://www.gothamsounddesign.com/ is a fairly good  
example of an 'unobtrusive' flash player.



On 18/03/2008, at 3:10 AM, kevin mcmonagle wrote:


hi,
Im doing a site for a nightclub.  So im doing a hybrid.
The owner has demanded a music track playing continuously.
What would you lot do if you had to put in a continually playing  
music track?
I mean the only solution that  is a frameset right but i just want  
some feedback of the dangers of this.


-thanks in advance
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RE: [WSG] SEO, fact or fiction and myths

2008-03-09 Thread John Hancock
Hi Michael,

That seems incredibly arbitrary when a robots.txt is purely optional -
especially as the default spider behavior is to index all unless told
otherwise. So you're penalizing people by having your robot behave in the
opposite manner? And regarding PICS labels, most people don't know how to
set them or don't have the requisite server access. How do you justify
these?

Cheers,

John

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>> I didn't know robots text
>> was important for accessibility, however I learned from the
>> accessites team that it is.

Tee,

The reasons we (Accessites) look for a robots.txt file is because it keeps 
honest bots from wasting their time and your bandwidth indexing 
directories/files you don't want indexed. We don't look at this as part of a

web accessibility requirement. Our focus is on quality sites for which 
accessibility must be an integral part. Thus, we like to see things like a 
robots.txt file, PICS label, semantics, good looks, and more, of course.

Regarding a site map, that we like to see for accessibility and not for bots

at all. A site map is important to accessibility as some user will seek out 
a site map right away to grasp a site's overview and offerings. For some 
users, this is the best way to begin the exploration of a site. In my 
opinion, html site maps don't have anything to do with indexing other than 
just being another indexable page.

It is my understanding, though, that an XML site map can help indexing but 
being that I've never used one or looked into it much, I can neither confirm

or deny this.

Sorry for the misunderstanding.

Respectfully,
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RE: [WSG] IE8 news - stats

2008-03-09 Thread John Hancock
Consider that a fairly significant proportion of IE6 users cannot upgrade as
they're using  illegal copies of Windows XP. One of my clients did a fairly
large study (anonymous) where 18% of 10,000 users were using cracked copies
of Windows - I'm just wondering how much that'd sway the stats. For myself,
I'd be unwilling to support people who steal rather than go to linux-based
operating systems. Unfortunately, it's impossible to tell the difference!

John Hancock
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Well, if you'd like some stats from a .au site with very much 
non-technical, typically Australian-sourced traffic:

1.  Internet Explorer / Windows 44,549  80.32%  

1.  7.0 23,965  53.77%  
2.  6.0 20,507  46.01%  
3.  5.5 47  0.11%   
4.  5.0117  0.04%   
5.  5.0 16  0.04%   
6.  5.2311  0.02%   
7.  4.5 3   0.01%   
8.  4.012   > 0.00% 
9.  5.222   > 0.00% 
10. 4.0 1   > 0.00%

2.  Firefox / Windows   6,581   11.86%  
3.  Safari / Macintosh  2,352   4.24%   
4.  Firefox / Macintosh 828 1.49%   
5.  Mozilla / Linux 623 1.12%   
6.  Opera / Windows 150 0.27%   
7.  Firefox / Linux 121 0.22%   
8.  Mozilla / Windows   48  0.09%   
9.  Konqueror / Linux   37  0.07%   
10. Internet Explorer / Macintosh   24  0.04%

So, 80% Windows IE, split between 7 & 6 - I too expect to see most of 
the IE7 users migrate to an IE8 Gold release quite quickly, but that 
IE6 will hang around for much longer.

warmly,
Lea
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Re: [WSG] SEO, fact or fiction

2008-03-06 Thread John Hancock

Hi Michael,

I take the perspective that a site built to web standards provides a  
framework for content which doesn't have any 'points' deducted from  
it. SEO in my experience is divided up into the main sections


1) inbound links and references
2) linking structure
3) page build quality
4) content

1 and 4 are unfortunately, 'King' (we've all heard that content is  
king, but inbound links certainly count for as much on Google). If you  
imaging a point scale where the search engine gives points based on  
content, and then takes them away based on the problems or  
inadequacies with a website build (i.e. home page not linked to as  
"/", no lang="en/fr/etc" tag, links in tables instead of ul's or a  
separate div), you have the manner in which web standards affect SEO  
issues. As such, there should be no SEO issues in a standards- 
compliant website - think of google as a plain text reader where the  
content:code ratio should be as high as possible.


Other issues include not using ?id as a query string as this is how  
google did it, so a lot fail to rank if you don't use ?pid/?cid etc,  
and suchlike, but I'd say these are more language-based or protocol  
based and that's a pretty small niche in web standards.


I feel that more on the subject would take my response away from Web  
Standards, so feel free to contact me off-list if you want to discuss  
further.


best wishes,

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Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-03 Thread John Hancock
How can you disagree with a capability? Isn't it a feature to be used  
if you so choose? For intranets etc that you can force this behaviour  
can actually be a good thing, but if you don't like it, you don't have  
to use it! Microsoft has certainly responded here, but in my opinion  
we shouldn't be criticising the for offering optional extras.


On 04/03/2008, at 3:23 PM, Tate Johnson wrote:

Microsoft is actually responding to their customers (and the  
community). Wow, I'm impressed.


While I still disagree with the capability to render in "IE7 Strict  
Mode", at least this is no longer the default in IE8.





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RE: [WSG] Screen Standards - was alachu

2008-02-27 Thread John Hancock
Hi David,

There are actually standard screen sizes, which is why screens like HP's
1280x768 14" screen and Apple's 15" screen were retired quietly. They were
new and different, then different, then became non-standard when 14.1" and
15.4" devices preserved a 16:10 aspect ratio. The manufacturers of LCD (and
CRT) panels have been sitting down and working out what sizes they should
all work to, to make things easy, predominantly, for gaming and windows
driver manufacturers. And they've been doing this for about 15 years or so -
so there are standards. 

That there isn't a 'standard' screen size is agreed in terms of 'everyone
uses a different screen', but that's why we all seem to design to the lowest
(common) common denominator, whatever our definition of that is. 

In terms of internet browsing, many professionals have been using the HTC
devices for a while, such as the Universal, TyTn etc. These typically have
320x240 (either aspect) or 640x480 screens and as such some websites really
struggle - alistapart is a great example of one. Many seem to be of the
opinion that these screen sizes don't matter at all in terms of design - my
method is usually to build a /mobile site for mobile users.

John.


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On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:42:07 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2008/02/27 18:39 (GMT+1100) John Hancock apparently typed:
>
>> Just a thought, but a moderately high resolution environment to me is a
setup of over
>> 3mpx. For instance, dual 20" TFTs, dual 19" CRT or single 30" etc. A high
resolution
>> environment for me is about 7.5mpx. While I'm aware that your mileage may
vary, a
>> 1680 x 1200 pixel screen size is certainly not a standard one!
>>
[...]
>> Thus I'm really curious about
>> your definition of a standard one!
>>

There is clearly no "standard" screen size or resolution, despite 
assumptions too often made by designers. Please consider that the
web is no longer only available on PCs. I read recently that 30-40%
of Internet traffic in Europe comes from mobile phones. There are
hand-held devices, game boxes, and doubtless more to come as well.
The advent of the iPhone in N. America is already changing Internet
browsing habits over here.

I agree with Felix that we should get away from the idea that CSS
can deliver a better experience by significantly changing the text
size.

FWIW my 15" laptop display is 1400 x 1050 running at 120 DPI.
With "large fonts" I find the defaults very comfortable. I use Opera
as my default browser, so text delivered as 10 pixels is easily
increased.

Age seems relevant to some who discuss this issue, for some reason
I can't fathom, so I'll mention that I am 72.

Cordially,
David
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Re: [WSG] Site review - alachua co library

2008-02-26 Thread John Hancock

Hi Felix,

Here's a screenshot of a typical moderately high resolution  
environment:

http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/SC/sc-alaclib1.jpg
and the setup source:
http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/tmp/sc-alaclib1.html



Just a thought, but a moderately high resolution environment to me is  
a setup of over 3mpx. For instance, dual 20" TFTs, dual 19" CRT or  
single 30" etc. A high resolution environment for me is about 7.5mpx.  
While I'm aware that your mileage may vary, a 1680 x 1200 pixel screen  
size is certainly not a standard one! Thus I'm really curious about  
your definition of a standard one! The Standard Panels Working Group  
(SPWG) isn't the fastest moving of organisations, admittedly, but  
you'll find that they're usually ratifying 16:10 aspect ratios as  
standard - something to consider when designing sites.


Additionally, those of us with extremely large working areas should  
usually have a 17" TFT or lower to test on for 'the great unpixeled'.


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RE: [WSG] hello - [OT]

2008-02-15 Thread John Hancock
Please can this be closed? It's far off any standards related topic.

 

Possibly the only thing I can see as a relevant part of the 'Web 2.0
movement' is the abstraction of the presentational information from data on
a page, which isn't being discussed here.

 

If posting an off-topic message, please at least mark it as such so the rest
of us can hit the delete button without checking it first for relevant
information!

 

Kind regards,

 

John Hancock

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That's art, Kat, design is different.

And design is a significant part of the web.

 

 

On Feb 12 2008, at 22:52, Katrina wrote:

 

kevin mcmonagle wrote:

yes its a buzzword mostly but from a design standpoint its also a genre.

That's an interesting thought. Is Web 2.0 larger than the web itself? Has it
become an art movement/period, in the same way as Modernism, Post-Modernism,
Humanism, Impressionism, etc?

 

Kat

 

 

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[WSG] Developing for Mixed Browsers - Form Buttons

2008-01-13 Thread John Hancock
This is why most of us are now using default form styling or a very  
simple approach (fieldset, legend, and possibly submit button).


Cameron Adams makes a few good points at: http://www.themaninblue.com/writing/perspective/2004/04/28/ 
, and of course - remember that his example button looks different in  
IE, Safari and Firefox! While this article is old, it covers most  
salient points and provides a simple approach that works well. Having  
said that, his 'Submit/Go' button is labelled as '>>', and the page  
options as \/, and these have two different effects (one shows a menu,  
one takes you to another page). Consistency is key - but remember that  
users usually browse in only one browser at a time.


John Hancock
identity.net.au

PS. On a side-note, can we keep platform discussion to standards and  
implementation? 'My computer is bigger/better/faster/stronger' is  
fairly non-relevant to WSG and most of us aren't on the list to  
receive that kind of post. The cheapest way of getting a Mac testing  
environment is an older tower running OS X, and a G3 (or older)  
running IE5.5 if you care about these things. Personally I run an  
older mac for Safari 2 testing and older Firefox versions (1.5), and a  
newer one running Safari 3 and Firefox 2, alongside a PC running  
Safari, Opera, Firefox and IE7, with IE6 in the usual VPC, and also on  
an older box with remote desktop. If you're retentive about testing,  
then you may also wish to run a suite with flash turned off, a suite  
with javascript turned off and one with CSS turned off - not to  
mention the usual



On 14/01/2008, at 12:47 PM, John Horner wrote:


can I safely develop in non Mac versions and expect
my web sites to behave the same on the Mac?


Behave? Yes. But...

I don't think anyone's made this point yet -- one key difference  
between

the platforms is the display of form elements.

Elements like buttons and select menus and checkboxes, etc., pretty  
much

belong to the operating system and the browser is only borrowing them.
If your design has an expectation that those elements can be finely
controlled, cross-platform, then you might get an unpleasant surprise.

For instance, if you have documentation which says "click on the  
button
which looks like this [image of the button from a Windows browser]"  
then

Mac users may not have a button which looks like that.

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RE: [WSG] Do we just throw out the img tag

2007-12-16 Thread John Hancock
Personally, I think the img tag has the correct semantics (and attributes) for 
an image. I'd just keep them for images in paragraphs and use css background 
for everything else.

An object is just that!

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Now that I have mastered putting an image in a site using CSS do we just 
throw out the img tag in standards based xhtml.  And how does the use of 
css compare with use of the object tag 
http://www.webstandards.org/learn/articles/askw3c/jun2004/ I found in my 
google searches on the issue.


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RE: [WSG] list image not showing properly

2007-12-06 Thread John Hancock
Hi Taco,

Have you got a link to the page you're trying to fix this on?

Regards,

John Hancock
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Subject: [WSG] list image not showing properly 

Hello all,

I have a problem where the list image is not showing properly

form#search-main .li1 {
background: url(/_resource/image/form/step_1.gif) top left
no-repeat;
}

I realize this is not exactly assigning an image to the list item, but I
went down that path before, and it didn't work out either.

The problem I am having now is that in IE7 it doesn't display well when I
specify a height of 3em (see below) and the content is larger than that.

form#search-main li {
height: 3em; <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
padding: 0.5em 0 0.5em 50px;
clear: left;
}

The css is on
www.clickfind.com.au/_resource/style/layout/search/default.css

In the end I'll accept any suggestion that displays the numbered icons in
the same position they are now, but not causing problems elsewhere.

Thanks in advance..



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Re: [WSG] Iframe navigation accessibility question

2007-11-21 Thread John Hancock


On 22/11/2007, at 1:31 AM, James Leslie wrote:


Hi Folks,

I have just inherited a bands website which places all of the  
navigation (both top and bottom links) in iframes. I don't 100%  
understand why the developer chose to do this unless it is emulating  
php includes in static html, anyway, it seems like a bad idea to me  
and is high on my list of things to sort out on the site.


My question is: Is this as inaccessible as I fear it is?


Yes, at least in my own (real world) testing.


Will a screen reader be likely to have issues with it?


Mine does, and my father-in-law's partner's does (older Jaws version).

I have to do a new version of the site around Easter next year when  
a new album comes out, I'm wondering whether I should spend the time  
fixing this version up in the meantime or whether it's issues are  
not as harmful as I fear.


I would fix it now, you can always mention it as a SEO problem if you  
need to provide a business case for it.


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Re: [WSG] Site check

2007-11-16 Thread John Hancock

I fear for their welfare.

Best,

~dL

--  
http://chelseacreekstudio.com/


Me too. Personally I like seeing  tags have only text content in  
them, and to at least have text content in them. Hey, are we in a  
timewarp? I have an issue that a lot of the content is inaccurate (eg.  
Ajax isn't a programming language) and lots of the rest is hard to  
use, or feels unfinished, from the Web button that when clicked, does  
nothing but float and return, via the 'web gallery wheel of doom' to  
the Work links' flash of unstyled content (FOUC) which is very  
avoidable.


Kenny, you've got some fairly big issues with the site. I suggest  
reading a good book, maybe something like 'Designing with Web  
Standards', or alternatively 'Foucault's Pendulum'.


If you want I can guide you through fixing some of the more obvious  
ones off-list, stuff like the empty (and useless) s in  
the nav. Although XHTML 1.1 valid, a cursory glance at webxact would  
show your site fails some of the basic accessibility standards and  
quality checks.


John



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Re: [WSG] Navigation - Pseudo Standards?

2007-11-15 Thread John Hancock

Hi Christie,

The 'average joe/average jane' site visitor would expect the site  
navigation at the top (and possibly some links at the bottom), with  
the product navigation usually on the left. The exceptions to this  
usually involve multi-level, drop-down or drop-line menus which are  
under the header section of the page. Amazon has been a good example  
of this. Is there an overriding reason for using two side columns?  
This would usually cut out 800x600 viewers unless you want to do some  
really nifty javascript style switching to turn it into a bottom/top  
column for smaller screen resolutions.


kind regards,

John Hancock
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On 15/11/2007, at 5:02 PM, Christie Mason wrote:

We're having an internal discussion about the placement of site  
navigation
(Contact Us, etc) vs Product Navigation (Search, Category 1,  
Category 2,

etc) in a 3 column layout with

| Navigation |Content | Navigation |

Some feel the site navigation should be in the left column with  
products in

the right column, others feel the opposite.







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Re: [WSG] Javascript Dropdown Problems

2007-11-12 Thread John Hancock

Hi James,

This might sound like a stupid idea - it's late and I haven't thought  
it through fully, but can't you hide it the relevant nodes by  
triggering something through onLoad on the body tag - that way if JS  
is disabled the page will load with the lists expanded rather than  
invisible.


I would place only physical links in the href function, and use the  
onClick/onMouseOver/ + on(whateverkey) event instead.


Diego beat me to most of this, it seems.



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