[WSG] Safari and table row id

2006-03-27 Thread Kevin Futter
ndex.php#ip_40 to achieve this, where #ip_40 is the ID of the tr element in question. I've Googled everywhere but can't work out whether this is correct behaviour (ie, anchor functionality not valid for tr element) or a bug in Safari. Anyone know for sure? -- Kevin Futt

Re: [WSG] Safari and table row id

2006-03-27 Thread Kevin Futter
On 28/3/06 4:39 PM, "Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: listdad@webstandardsgroup.org >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Futter >> Sent: Tuesday, 28 March 2006 2:16 PM >>

Re: [WSG] Safari and table row id

2006-03-28 Thread Kevin Futter
or those of you who may be curious about this, the latest nightly build of Webkit actually solves this issue completely, so clearly it's a bug in Safari that they're aware of and have fixed (though not in the public release). -- Kevin

Re: [WSG] getting an "a"

2006-03-29 Thread Kevin Futter
On 30/3/06 12:17 PM, "russ - maxdesign" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Russ > HTML element family councillor Of course, Russ means "family counsellor" :-) -- Kevin Futter Webmaster, St. Bernard's Colleg

[WSG] BBC: " Government sites fail web tests"

2006-03-30 Thread Kevin Futter
Just came across this link on the BBC website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4853000.stm Some mainstream attention for web standards! -- Kevin Futter Webmaster, St. Bernard's College http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/ *

Re: [WSG] Linking to Multiple JavaScript Files

2006-04-02 Thread Kevin Futter
tely on the page concerned. -- Kevin Futter Webmaster, St. Bernard's College http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/

Re: [WSG] Definition List for Products/Items with Image

2006-04-04 Thread Kevin Futter
> Did I just over-geek the whole scenario? > > R :o) I think that was about the best logical breakdown of the problem and solution I've seen. No gut feelings, no personal preferences or coding biases, just plain ole problem-solving logic. You even made me change my own personal vie

Re: [WSG] Single or Double Quotes

2006-04-19 Thread Kevin Futter
#x27;);   or   background-image: url("image.jpg");     And here's the real question: why?   Cheers  :o) Richard No quotes at all is the best option. -- Kevin Futter Webmaster, St. Bernard's College http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/

Re: [WSG] Pixel to Em conversion.

2006-04-26 Thread Kevin Futter
t be missing the ‘h’ key too ... -- Kevin Futter Webmaster, St. Bernard's College http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/

[WSG] Styling tbody?

2006-04-27 Thread Kevin Futter
rent element). If I apply a border style to the individual s, it negates the border altogether. Let's just say that I'm confused and frustrated :-) -- Kevin Futter Webmaster, St. Bernard's College http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/ **

Re: [WSG] Styling tbody?

2006-04-27 Thread Kevin Futter
On 28/4/06 1:38 PM, "Steve Olive" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 01:22 pm, Kevin Futter wrote: >> >> a de facto heading. I'd hoped to be able to group them via the >> element, but find myself completely unable to style them. I'

Re: [WSG] Custom bullets not showing in IE

2006-05-01 Thread Kevin Futter
ch more reliable to use root-relative paths wherever possible, rather than document-relative paths. So, instead of background-image:url(../c/download_icon.jpg), try background-image:url(/c/download_icon.jpg) - assuming of course that ‘c’ is a directory at the site root level. -- Kevin Futt

Re: [WSG] Copyright Question

2006-05-09 Thread Kevin Futter
+ 70 years. It's more complicated than that of course (the results of collective endeavours like films for example, are seriously more complicated), but that's the general rule. The only significant change that I'm aware of is the extension to 70 years from 50, to fall in line with US p

Re: [WSG] duplicate id

2006-05-09 Thread Kevin Futter
ultiple elements? -- Kevin Futter Webmaster, St. Bernard's College http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/

Re: [WSG] The Name Attribute??

2006-05-14 Thread Kevin Futter
h more intimate knowledge of the spec than me can probably shed more light on the status of name in the strict doctypes. -- Kevin Futter Webmaster, St. Bernard's College http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/ ** The discussion list for http://

Re: [WSG] "Tables - you can still use them in web design" article

2006-05-16 Thread Kevin Futter
On 17/5/06 10:57 AM, "Andrew Cunningham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This ability can be used to develop a template which is direction > neutral, ie the same template can be used irregardless of directionality > of the page. "irregardless"? Surely you jest

Re: [WSG] "Tables - you can still use them in web design" article

2006-05-16 Thread Kevin Futter
On 17/5/06 11:35 AM, "Peter Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> From: Kevin Futter >> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> ...the same template can be used irregardless of directionality >> >> "irregardless"?

Re: [WSG] Question about naming CSS elements

2006-06-13 Thread Kevin Futter
ever see a camel with a hump on its arse?). -- Kevin Futter Webmaster, St. Bernard's College http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/ -- This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential. You must not disclose or use the information in this e-mail if you are not

Re: [WSG] Question about naming CSS elements

2006-06-14 Thread Kevin Futter
calCase, though I probably should be – it’s my daughter’s name! -- Kevin Futter Webmaster, St. Bernard's College http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/ -- This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential. You must not disclose or use the information in this e-

Re: [WSG] Question about naming CSS elements

2006-06-14 Thread Kevin Futter
ns ‘passover’ in Hebrew apparently. We just thought it was a cool name, even though I failed to find it in any of the W3C specs ... -- Kevin Futter Webmaster, St. Bernard's College http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/ -- This e-mail and any attachment

Re: [WSG] Question about naming CSS elements

2006-06-14 Thread Kevin Futter
Title: Re: [WSG] Question about naming CSS elements On 15/6/06 11:13 AM, "James Laugesen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Oooo very cool. Is the last 'a' pronounced long or short? On 15/06/06, Kevin Futter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]   > wrote: On 15/6/06 10:43 AM, &q

Re: [WSG] Opera 9 and standards support

2006-06-25 Thread Kevin Futter
with my sites in Opera 9. Did anybody manage to catch his email address? -- Kevin Futter Webmaster, St. Bernard's College http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/ -- This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential. You must not disclose or use the in

Re: [WSG] Opera 9 and standards support

2006-06-27 Thread Kevin Futter
with my sites in Opera 9. Did anybody manage to catch his email address? -- Kevin Futter Webmaster, St. Bernard's College http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/ -- This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential. You must not disclose or use the in

Re: [WSG] access keys

2006-07-10 Thread Kevin Futter
ppear atop >> the screen. > > You can safely use :focus without it causing > problems for sited users ... You mean people with their own web sites? -- Kevin Futter Webmaster, St. Bernard's College http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/

[WSG] Web Standards press in The Age

2006-07-18 Thread Kevin Futter
Good to see some of our own get a mention too: http://www.theage.com.au/news/biztech/calling-all-australian-web-designers/2 006/07/17/1152988468304.html -- Kevin Futter Webmaster, St. Bernard's College http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/ -- T

Re: [WSG] Hungarian notation for JavaScript and ActionScript?

2006-07-23 Thread Kevin Futter
; http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Reference:Operators:S > pecial_Operators:typeof_Operator This is precisely why JavaScript is known as a weakly-typed language, rather than a 'typeless' one. -- Kevin Futter Webmaster, St. Bernard's College http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/ --

Re: [WSG] Support for IE5/Mac? (was Browser stats)

2006-08-01 Thread Kevin Futter
hat 400MHz G3 to Panther or better will significantly improve performance. My daughter's iMac (350) runs 10.3.9 quite happily, and it's a known fact that every revision of OS X up to Panther ran faster on the same hardware. Perhaps replies should come directly to me, as we're a wee b

Re: [WSG] Support for IE5/Mac? (was Browser stats)

2006-08-02 Thread Kevin Futter
tp://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx > > I haven't had time to play with it though > > Ben The upgrade to WinXP Pro required to run it, is, unfortunately, not free. -- Kevin Futter Webmaster, St. Bernard's College http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/

Re: [WSG] Screen Readers, and

2006-08-14 Thread Kevin Futter
e fragments. Surely and , which are already semantically loaded for emphasis, are not really ideal here? -- Kevin Futter Webmaster, St. Bernard's College http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/ -- This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential. You m

Re: [WSG] target=_blank

2006-08-15 Thread Kevin Futter
reading this thread (mainly because I use tabs in preference to new windows). Forgive me if that makes me "stupid". I think perhaps you shouldn't assume *anything* about your users, period. You probably shouldn't equate a particular skill- or knowledge-se

Re: [WSG] target=_blank

2006-08-15 Thread Kevin Futter
sends the data and stores it in the session or POST > arguments and retains them when you choose the form view again. No.6 sounds sensible to me. I like No.2 as well. -- Kevin Futter Webmaster, St. Bernard's College http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/ ---

Re: [WSG] How do they do this?

2006-09-03 Thread Kevin Futter
S, but I seem to remember someone (Eric Meyer?) detailing how to do it with pure CSS. -- Kevin Futter Webmaster, St. Bernard's College http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/ -- This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential. You must not disclose or u

Re: [WSG] p:first-line

2006-09-05 Thread Kevin Futter
ormaton? Call it p.important then. Is it the first line of a paragraph? Call it p.firstLine (or some variation) would be a more semantically-meaningful name. p.indent is really not much different from p.bold or p.blue. -- Kevin Futter Webmaster, St. Bernard's College http://www.sbc.melb.cathol

Re: [WSG] p:first-line

2006-09-05 Thread Kevin Futter
akes more semantic sense. Even p.altColour is more semantically-neutral than p.red, since it doesn't tie it to presentational specifics. Better again might be p.altDisplay, or p.variation (dodgy maybe). I'm really just trying to keep the class names short, as I'm not keen on things like

Re: class names and IDs (was Re: [WSG] p:first-line)

2006-09-06 Thread Kevin Futter
ghtColAboveThatThing. Ironically, I actually *do* use #topNav a lot, but I selected this name in the context of top *level* nav, rather than top *positioned* nav. It never occurred to me that this might be semantically ambiguous. I guess #primaryNav becomes the better ch

Re: [WSG] Re: [css-d] Double space after a period]

2006-10-17 Thread Kevin Futter
felt that a second space was needed after full-stops (periods, as you state-side folk insist on calling them – my wife certainly applies a very different definition there), as sentence breaks were not clearly enough defined. -- Kevin Futter Webmaster, St. Bernard

Re: [WSG] Forget about Opera and Mac (and Windows Vista) ??

2006-10-26 Thread Kevin Futter
27;re stuck. And even if you do, it's hardly free anymore, is it? Still cheaper and more efficient than a physical box though. -- Kevin Futter Webmaster, St. Bernard's College http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/ -- This e-mail and any attac

Re: [WSG] Flash is more accessible than CSS?

2006-10-29 Thread Kevin Futter
ake text in Flash selectable. It's just not the default. Perhaps someone who uses it more regularly than I do these days can confirm (or deny) this. -- Kevin Futter Webmaster, St. Bernard's College http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/ -- This e-m