RE: [WSG] is html done? [was semantics]

2007-02-09 Thread Frank Palinkas
If I'm on the same track, then the spec you're speaking of is an xml schema (.xsd) file which takes care of defining your xml elements. etc? Kind regards, Frank M. Palinkas Microsoft M.V.P. - Windows Help M.C.P., M.C.T., M.C.S.E., M.C.D.B.A., A+ Senior Technical Communicator Web Standards

Re: [WSG] is html done? [was semantics]

2007-02-09 Thread Breton Slivka
A schema is only part of the story. A schema can only help determine whether a given file is valid. It does not contain any instructions about what the data means. In fact, I don't believe that anyone has discovered a way to really teach a computer what any information means. It's all just

Re: [WSG] is html done? [was semantics]

2007-02-09 Thread Designer
Dan Dorman wrote: [snip] Just because I feel headerone or mysupercoolheadinglevela1abeachfrontavenue is a better way to specify a heading than h1, is it reasonable to expect a browser maker to cater to my linguistic whim? And by extension, to anyone's linguistic whim? Browsers don't handle any

Re: [WSG] is html done? [was semantics]

2007-02-09 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Designer wrote: I'm going back to my original wishlist of yesterday: Wouldn't it be nice if we could get browsers to interpret ^ (or something) as meaning 'div id=' (and something else for 'class='). Then we could have, xml style code, such as: ^pageborder ^content blah blah

Re: [WSG] Keyboard accessible DHMTL navigation

2007-02-09 Thread ailing
It is very important that the character encoding of any XML or (X)HTML document is clearly labeled, so that clients can easily map these encodings to Unicode. This can be done in the following ways: a.. Send the 'charset' parameter in the Content-Type header of HTTP. Example:

Re: [WSG] is html done? [was semantics]

2007-02-09 Thread Andrew Maben
This is *excellent*! Can I quote you, or will you make it publicly available? Andrew 109b SE 4th Av Gainesville FL 32601 Cell: 352-870-6661 http://www.andrewmaben.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a well designed user interface, the user should not need instructions. On Feb 9, 2007, at 3:34

Re: [WSG] is html done? [was semantics]

2007-02-09 Thread Designer
Lachlan Hunt wrote: Designer wrote: I'm going back to my original wishlist of yesterday: Wouldn't it be nice if we could get browsers to interpret ^ (or something) as meaning 'div id=' (and something else for 'class='). Then we could have, xml style code, such as: ^pageborder ^content

Re: [WSG] is html done? [was semantics]

2007-02-09 Thread Barney Carroll
Breton Slivka wrote: [everything that needed explaining] Brilliant, Breton. If people could just read that post properly we could kill the thread here and now. Regards, Barney *** List Guidelines:

Re: [WSG] CSS and non-standard properties

2007-02-09 Thread Mordechai Peller
Paul Bennett wrote: Isn't this the 2007 equivalent of the blink and marquee tags we all know and hate? Another difference, besides what Nick wrote, at least in the case with Opera, is that they advise not using the their vendor specific properties for real world applications. The two tags you

[WSG] Books - CSS/Standards/Accessibility

2007-02-09 Thread Andy Woznica
Sorry if this has been done before. If so please point me in the right direction. If hypothetically we were thinking of running a course covering CSS design techniques, Standards and Acessibility, is there a top five book list to complement such an undertaking. I have found the following and

Re: [WSG] Books - CSS/Standards/Accessibility

2007-02-09 Thread Christian Montoya
On 2/9/07, Andy Woznica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry if this has been done before. If so please point me in the right direction. If hypothetically we were thinking of running a course covering CSS design techniques, Standards and Acessibility, is there a top five book list to complement

Re: [WSG] Books - CSS/Standards/Accessibility

2007-02-09 Thread Christian Montoya
On 2/9/07, Andy Woznica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry if this has been done before. If so please point me in the right direction. If hypothetically we were thinking of running a course covering CSS design techniques, Standards and Acessibility, is there a top five book list to complement

[WSG CMS] SilverStripe 2.0.0 stable released

2007-02-09 Thread sigurd
Hi everyone, Just a short sweet notice to mention that SilverStripe 2.0.0 (open source) CMS has been released after many months of beta, so I hope you enjoy! It is poised to handle sites more flexibly and larger than blogs (or quasi-blogs like ExpressionEngine), but without the confusion and

[WSG CMS] Out of Office AutoReply: digest for cms@webstandardsgroup.org

2007-02-09 Thread Fernando Longo
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Re: [WSG] is html done? [was semantics]

2007-02-09 Thread Breton Slivka
Sure, so long as you use the version with minor punctuation corrections below. On 09/02/2007, at 11:49 PM, Andrew Maben wrote: This is *excellent*! Can I quote you, or will you make it publicly available? Andrew 109b SE 4th Av Gainesville FL 32601 Cell: 352-870-6661

Re: [WSG] slightly OT?: Web 2.0 explained in a short, moving video

2007-02-09 Thread Jonathan O'Donnell
Hi Professor Wesch, Matthew and the Web Standards Group Jesper Rønn-Jensen and Claude Almansi have made the complete transcript of Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us available at: http://justaddwater.dk/2007/02/08/web-20-video-complete-transcript/ Professor Wesch, I suspect that you

Re: [WSG] Coding for Chinese

2007-02-09 Thread Kazuhito Kidachi
I'm not sure what kind of concern you have, but you can find good resources about I18N at w3.org. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm