Re: [WSG] How do they do this?

2006-09-04 Thread Tony Crockford
Susie Gardner-Brown wrote: Ok – here’s the Eric Meyer link - http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/popups/demo2.html I’ve used that for text only, but he has an image that changes. based on that and various other examples I did something similar here: http://www.bclm.co.uk/ ;o)

[WSG] Site Features Overload

2006-09-04 Thread Mike at Green-Beast.com
Hello Group, I wrote an article [1] in which I mention something I feel is a site usability mistake and I'm soliciting the opinions of others. Please feel free to lend me your thoughts and insights, or tell me about your pet peeves (you, too, Felix... it's an opportunity to state your case as

Re: [WSG] How do they do this?

2006-09-04 Thread Susie Gardner-Brown
Title: Re: [WSG] How do they do this? Nice one! I like that!! - susie On 4/9/06 4:25 PM, Tony Crockford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Susie Gardner-Brown wrote: Ok heres the Eric Meyer link - http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/popups/demo2.html Ive used that for text only, but he has an

Re: [WSG] Site Features Overload

2006-09-04 Thread TuteC
I totally agree. We have not only to create technically correct web sites, but also usable. We have to think if what do will make it easier for the surfer to get what he needs, or what we are trying to say. See the site as a big, but unique, thing, that has to by useful. I think that when we do

Re: [WSG] REST HTTP error codes and responses for form/parameter validation

2006-09-04 Thread Matthew Cruickshank
Tim Lucas wrote: Any RESTafarians around? Yep, I've got a REST interface for my conversion software. Is there any convention or standard for this? Not that I've found. The Yahoo's web services API documentation says that 400: Bad request. The parameters passed to the service did not match

Re: [WSG] Site Features Overload

2006-09-04 Thread Terrence Wood
Wow - big topic. I'm in agreement with you on the title attribute and here are my pet peeves from sites I have visited today: 1. Poor forms markup - especially not explicitly associating labels with controls. The worst case: using an empty label in an obvious attempt to pass a validator

Re: [WSG] Site Features Overload

2006-09-04 Thread Mike at Green-Beast.com
Thanks Terrence and Eugenio. I paraphrased quotes of your response as a comment [1] to the article on my blog. I know I have a number of readers that aren't members here and I want them to see it. I did link back to the WSG so maybe some will join. @Terrence: I removed links from the comment

[WSG] XHTML X-Browser Standard for MP3

2006-09-04 Thread Sarah Peeke (XERT)
Hi all, I have designed a site for some friends at: http://www.freefalljazz.com/ which has a sampler mp3 embedded on the homepage (bottom left). Apparently it's not working in FF WIN or IE6 WIN. I've tried to follow some sort of standard as per:

Re: [WSG] XHTML X-Browser Standard for MP3

2006-09-04 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Sep 5, 2006, at 2:01 PM, Sarah Peeke (XERT) wrote: http://www.freefalljazz.com/ which has a sampler mp3 embedded on the homepage (bottom left). Apparently it's not working in FF WIN or IE6 WIN. It is not working for me on Camino (or other browser) Mac. I just see the words 'life is a