Re: [WSG] testing in different versions of IE

2007-02-18 Thread Matthew Cruickshank
http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads/ies4linux-latest.tar.gz tar zxvf ies4linux-latest.tar.gz cd ies4linux-* ./ies4linux .Matthew Cruickshank http://docvert.org << Convert Word Processing files to HTML for free. Open and exte

Re: [WSG] Growing height and changing colspan when using display none/block in FF and Saf

2007-01-15 Thread Matthew Cruickshank
lt) is a standard though it appears to work in all browsers. .Matthew Cruickshank http://docvert.org/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] History of CSS Question

2007-01-11 Thread Matthew Cruickshank
wn weird-ass syntax. My personal opinion is that when CSS2 came out it should have been XMLised because CSS1 wasn't a significant legacy (even then, browsers could have been instructed to parse both). CSS1 didn't even have layout, aside from floats, and people hadn't invested nearl

Re: [WSG] display:none; property and screenreaders

2007-01-08 Thread Matthew Cruickshank
Hi Mihael, Is it true that if we use like , that div could be invisible for screenreader software? Yes, here's an article with a table of affected screen readers (scroll down to the table) http://alistapart.com/articles/fir/ Joe Clark seems to claim that Jaws does read it. .Ma

Re: [WSG] XML driven websites

2007-01-05 Thread Matthew Cruickshank
ges. If you're using XML and XSLT on the server though and only send out HTML then the user will never know and there won't be any problems. "XML driven websites" presumably also include ones that just use XML internally. Server-side XML processing can either be ad-hoc trans

Re: [WSG] getting XUL response from servlet

2006-12-20 Thread Matthew Cruickshank
Hi Nisha, XUL is just a set of tags so make your Java code produce XUL tags instead of HTML tags. Ajax is not required. Try this forum instead of this web standards list, you'll get better help there: http://www.xulplanet.com/forum2/ .Mathew Cruickshank http://docvert.org << Convert your

Re: [WSG] getting XUL response from servlet

2006-12-20 Thread Matthew Cruickshank
you), http://plutoblog.onesquared.net/2006/08/10/bear-patrol-2/ .Matthew Cruickshank http://docvert.org << MSWord to Open Standards (HTML, DocBook) *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubs

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

2006-09-04 Thread Matthew Cruickshank
and XHTML. My CSS classes are exception names for machines to parse (though I should also include them as http X-something headers; and it would probably be better to send XML+client-side-XSLT rather than XHTML). .Matthew Cruickshank http://docvert.org/ <&

[WSG] [OT] GIFs that have more than 256 colours

2006-08-20 Thread Matthew Cruickshank
understand this too. These days I'd use png for lossless but hey maybe if you're not allowed that format due to policy this would be a nice hack. See http://jimmac.musichall.cz/weblog.php/Oops_Dept/MightyGIF .Matthew Cruickshank http://docvert.org << Converts Words Documents to

Re: [WSG] xul - smil - abbr - questions

2006-08-17 Thread Matthew Cruickshank
around Python, XML Pipelines, and XSLT. It converts XML source files into HTML+Javascript and -- for Firefox -- XUL+Javascript. Here's a company blog entry about this... http://plutoblog.onesquared.net/2006/08/10/bear-patrol-2/ .Matthew Cruickshank http://docvert.org << Convert yo

Re: [WSG] i want my svg

2006-08-11 Thread Matthew Cruickshank
nd SVG for everything else, as I believe you can overlay text with that MS-only format. i thank you for the time you spent on this issue with me. you'll always be a knight in my book. Awesome. .Matthew Cruickshank http://holloway.co.nz/ ***

Re: [WSG] i want my svg

2006-08-10 Thread Matthew Cruickshank
tion to each other, and please also lobby government to make "helping some dude on a mailing list" worthy of a knighthood. .Matthew Cruickshank http://docvert.org/ << MSWord to OpenStandards ** The discussio

Re: [WSG] i want my svg

2006-08-10 Thread Matthew Cruickshank
it needs to display, and this may mean displaying scrollbars. You cannot expect to control that while it's in the HTML. However, if you want the text to scale with an SVG sized the same as the screen, then put the text _in_ the SVG. .Matthe

Re: [WSG] i want my svg

2006-08-09 Thread Matthew Cruickshank
efox for following standards / praising Opera for disobeying. .Matthew Cruickshank http://docvert.org << Opensource .DOC to HTML converter ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/m

Re: [WSG] i want my svg

2006-08-08 Thread Matthew Cruickshank
ce. oh well, i understand that a lot of catch up has to be done by the browser industry. it's just frustrating at the moment. i must be patient and continue my work and research, but i want it NOW! ;^) What Firefox is doing is the correct thing, so IMO you're blaming

Re: [WSG] i want my svg

2006-08-08 Thread Matthew Cruickshank
(causing scrollbars for this element), and the text immediately follows it. Your "-33em" margin then pulls the text up over the SVG, but it's not in the scrolling area. .Matthew Cruickshank http://holloway.co.nz/ *

Re: [WSG] Xforms

2006-07-26 Thread Matthew Cruickshank
s of hacking on support for old browsers). .Matthew Cruickshank http://docvert.org/ << MSWord to HTML or any XML **The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints o

[WSG] Anyone know of an S5 editor?

2006-06-27 Thread Matthew Cruickshank
Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. Cheers Mark Harris Technology Research and Consultancy Services Ltd Wellington, New Zealand .Matthew Cruickshank http://holloway.co.nz/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See h

Re: [WSG] Linux and Mac eyes please

2006-06-08 Thread Matthew Cruickshank
Joseph R. B. Taylor wrote: Can I ask you linux and mac users to take a look at this design please? No problems here on Linux (Ubuntu 5.10, Gnome 2.12.1). No horizontal scrollbars at 1024x768 and it looks consistent in both Firefox 1.5.0.3 and Konqueror 3.4.3. .Matthew Cruickshank http

Re: [WSG] selling web standards

2006-06-08 Thread Matthew Cruickshank
Here's a friendly site to help make the case for standards... http://www.hotdesign.com/seybold/everything.html .Matthew Cruickshank http://docvert.org << MSWord to Open Standards ** The discussion list for http://webstandar

[WSG] Oasis OpenDocument to HTML

2006-06-07 Thread Matthew Cruickshank
n%20heading1/pipeline.xml It involves making some that string together some inbuilt processes and your XSLT to make any XML or HTML. The end result is controllable down to the tag and attribute, so and it can make clean DocBook 5.0 too :) .Matthew Cruic

Re: [WSG] OS detection.

2006-03-23 Thread Matthew Cruickshank
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