Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-12 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 22:38 -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:13:11PM +1100, clanc...@cybec.com.au wrote: On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:18:18 +, a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk (Ashley Sheridan) wrote: On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 10:16 +1100, Ross McKay wrote: ...

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-12 Thread Nathan Rixham
Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 22:38 -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:13:11PM +1100, clanc...@cybec.com.au wrote: On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:18:18 +, a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk (Ashley Sheridan) wrote: On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 10:16 +1100, Ross McKay wrote:

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-12 Thread Andrew Ballard
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 5:18 AM, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: There's a good reason for OpenOffice having some difficulties with MS Office documents. Back when MS rushed through getting their document standard ratified by ISO (which itself is a whole other story) they

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-12 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 16:03 -0500, Andrew Ballard wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 5:18 AM, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: There's a good reason for OpenOffice having some difficulties with MS Office documents. Back when MS rushed through getting their document standard

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-11 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 10:16 +1100, Ross McKay wrote: On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:12:01 -0500, Robert Cummings wrote: I'm doing quite a bit more work in public sector these days. Recently ne department finally did away with IE6 and moved to IE7. Here's what I had to do to accomodate this

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-11 Thread clancy_1
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:18:18 +, a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk (Ashley Sheridan) wrote: On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 10:16 +1100, Ross McKay wrote: ... There's a good reason for OpenOffice having some difficulties with MS Office documents. Back when MS rushed through getting their document

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-11 Thread Paul M Foster
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:13:11PM +1100, clanc...@cybec.com.au wrote: On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:18:18 +, a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk (Ashley Sheridan) wrote: On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 10:16 +1100, Ross McKay wrote: ... There's a good reason for OpenOffice having some difficulties

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-10 Thread Shawn McKenzie
Lester Caine wrote: Since a large section of our USER base is still tied to W2k and does not have access to install other software, the call for IE6 to die is STILL somewhat premature! What is needed is someone to kick M$ to sort the mess out by at least allowing IE8 to install on W2k

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-10 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 07:02 -0600, Shawn McKenzie wrote: Lester Caine wrote: Since a large section of our USER base is still tied to W2k and does not have access to install other software, the call for IE6 to die is STILL somewhat premature! What is needed is someone to kick M$ to sort

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-10 Thread Richard Quadling
On 10 February 2010 13:02, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: I've not had any personal experience with the public sector, but I have heard stories from those who have. By all accounts, it seems that most of the public sector is still stuck in the dark ages with regards to

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-10 Thread tedd
At 7:02 AM -0600 2/10/10, Shawn McKenzie wrote: Lester Caine wrote: Since a large section of our USER base is still tied to W2k and does not have access to install other software, the call for IE6 to die is STILL somewhat premature! What is needed is someone to kick M$ to sort the mess out

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-10 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 09:41 -0500, tedd wrote: At 7:02 AM -0600 2/10/10, Shawn McKenzie wrote: Lester Caine wrote: Since a large section of our USER base is still tied to W2k and does not have access to install other software, the call for IE6 to die is STILL somewhat premature!

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-10 Thread Robert Cummings
Lester Caine wrote: James McLean wrote: On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:26 PM, clanc...@cybec.com.au wrote: On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:39:03 +0100, joc...@iamjochem.com (Jochem Maas) wrote: as for using IE6 ... WTF ... you do realise this is essentially a web developers mailing list right? The

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-10 Thread Robert Cummings
Ashley Sheridan wrote: I've not had any personal experience with the public sector, but I have heard stories from those who have. By all accounts, it seems that most of the public sector is still stuck in the dark ages with regards to technology, which could go some way to explaining the abysmal

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-10 Thread Robert Cummings
Richard Quadling wrote: On 10 February 2010 13:02, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: I've not had any personal experience with the public sector, but I have heard stories from those who have. By all accounts, it seems that most of the public sector is still stuck in the dark ages

RE: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-10 Thread Bob McConnell
From: Robert Cummings Lester Caine wrote: James McLean wrote: On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:26 PM, clanc...@cybec.com.au wrote: On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:39:03 +0100, joc...@iamjochem.com (Jochem Maas) wrote: as for using IE6 ... WTF ... you do realise this is essentially a web developers mailing

RE: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-10 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 10:17 -0500, Bob McConnell wrote: From: Robert Cummings Lester Caine wrote: James McLean wrote: On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:26 PM, clanc...@cybec.com.au wrote: On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:39:03 +0100, joc...@iamjochem.com (Jochem Maas) wrote: as for using IE6 ... WTF

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-10 Thread Robert Cummings
Bob McConnell wrote: From: Robert Cummings Lester Caine wrote: James McLean wrote: On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:26 PM, clanc...@cybec.com.au wrote: On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:39:03 +0100, joc...@iamjochem.com (Jochem Maas) wrote: as for using IE6 ... WTF ... you do realise this is essentially a

RE: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-10 Thread Bob McConnell
From: Ashley Sheridan On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 10:17 -0500, Bob McConnell wrote: From: Robert Cummings Lester Caine wrote: James McLean wrote: On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:26 PM, clanc...@cybec.com.au wrote: On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:39:03 +0100, joc...@iamjochem.com (Jochem Maas) wrote: as for

RE: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-10 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 11:20 -0500, Bob McConnell wrote: From: Ashley Sheridan On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 10:17 -0500, Bob McConnell wrote: From: Robert Cummings Lester Caine wrote: James McLean wrote: On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:26 PM, clanc...@cybec.com.au wrote: On Thu, 04 Feb 2010

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-10 Thread Michael A. Peters
Bob McConnell wrote: Our SOP is to generate standards compliant pages, validate them with Firefox and the HTML Validator add-on, then deal with the deviant browsers. It's a lot less work than trying to do it the other way around. There are a few minor issues, such as W3C still refusing to

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-10 Thread Michael A. Peters
Ashley Sheridan wrote: The W3C validator rejects that autocomplete attribute because it still isn't in any valid standard. Some browsers have introduced it, and PCI requires it to be there for browsers that recognise it, but it's not a good security feature, as browsers don't have to honor it

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-10 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 10:20 -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote: Bob McConnell wrote: Our SOP is to generate standards compliant pages, validate them with Firefox and the HTML Validator add-on, then deal with the deviant browsers. It's a lot less work than trying to do it the other way

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-10 Thread Robert Cummings
Michael A. Peters wrote: Bob McConnell wrote: Our SOP is to generate standards compliant pages, validate them with Firefox and the HTML Validator add-on, then deal with the deviant browsers. It's a lot less work than trying to do it the other way around. There are a few minor issues, such as

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-10 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 13:25 -0500, Robert Cummings wrote: Michael A. Peters wrote: Bob McConnell wrote: Our SOP is to generate standards compliant pages, validate them with Firefox and the HTML Validator add-on, then deal with the deviant browsers. It's a lot less work than trying

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-10 Thread Robert Cummings
Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 13:25 -0500, Robert Cummings wrote: Michael A. Peters wrote: Bob McConnell wrote: Our SOP is to generate standards compliant pages, validate them with Firefox and the HTML Validator add-on, then deal with the deviant browsers. It's a lot less

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-10 Thread Michael A. Peters
Ashley Sheridan wrote: What about search engines? Will there be any impact on these, particularly with regards to semantic content? I expect semantic markup to (eventually) improve how pages are indexed. Also, are there any browsers that would fall over with unknown tags? I know IE

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-10 Thread Michael A. Peters
Robert Cummings wrote: Just a word of thought... if you're doing styling... use classes and not IDs. Use of IDs for styling is very often indicative of inexperience, inability, or lack of understanding with respect to CSS. I use ID when there will only be one element that needs to be

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-10 Thread Paul M Foster
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 02:56:36PM +1100, clanc...@cybec.com.au wrote: snip The interesting things in my websites go on behind-the-scenes, in the PHP, and produce relatively straightforward HTML. I have avoided the well-known bugs in IE6, and think my webpages display correctly on any of

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-10 Thread Michael A. Peters
Michael A. Peters wrote: Robert Cummings wrote: Just a word of thought... if you're doing styling... use classes and not IDs. Use of IDs for styling is very often indicative of inexperience, inability, or lack of understanding with respect to CSS. I use ID when there will only be one

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-10 Thread Robert Cummings
Michael A. Peters wrote: Robert Cummings wrote: Just a word of thought... if you're doing styling... use classes and not IDs. Use of IDs for styling is very often indicative of inexperience, inability, or lack of understanding with respect to CSS. I use ID when there will only be one

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-10 Thread Robert Cummings
Michael A. Peters wrote: Michael A. Peters wrote: Robert Cummings wrote: Just a word of thought... if you're doing styling... use classes and not IDs. Use of IDs for styling is very often indicative of inexperience, inability, or lack of understanding with respect to CSS. I use ID when

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-10 Thread Lester Caine
Shawn McKenzie wrote: Lester Caine wrote: Since a large section of our USER base is still tied to W2k and does not have access to install other software, the call for IE6 to die is STILL somewhat premature! What is needed is someone to kick M$ to sort the mess out by at least allowing IE8 to

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-10 Thread Michael A. Peters
Robert Cummings wrote: Many government documents have the concept of aside as appearing through the document and contextually near to the information to which the aside relates. The entire sidebar seems a bit gratuitous as an aside. Sure it's aside, but it's not exactly the semantic meaning

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-10 Thread Robert Cummings
Michael A. Peters wrote: Robert Cummings wrote: Many government documents have the concept of aside as appearing through the document and contextually near to the information to which the aside relates. The entire sidebar seems a bit gratuitous as an aside. Sure it's aside, but it's not

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-10 Thread Nathan Rixham
Michael A. Peters wrote: Robert Cummings wrote: Many government documents have the concept of aside as appearing through the document and contextually near to the information to which the aside relates. The entire sidebar seems a bit gratuitous as an aside. Sure it's aside, but it's not

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-10 Thread Michael A. Peters
Nathan Rixham wrote: Michael A. Peters wrote: Robert Cummings wrote: Many government documents have the concept of aside as appearing through the document and contextually near to the information to which the aside relates. The entire sidebar seems a bit gratuitous as an aside. Sure it's

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-10 Thread Nathan Rixham
Michael A. Peters wrote: Nathan Rixham wrote: Michael A. Peters wrote: Robert Cummings wrote: Many government documents have the concept of aside as appearing through the document and contextually near to the information to which the aside relates. The entire sidebar seems a bit gratuitous

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-10 Thread Robert Cummings
Michael A. Peters wrote: Nathan Rixham wrote: Michael A. Peters wrote: Robert Cummings wrote: Many government documents have the concept of aside as appearing through the document and contextually near to the information to which the aside relates. The entire sidebar seems a bit gratuitous

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-10 Thread Nathan Rixham
Robert Cummings wrote: Michael A. Peters wrote: Nathan Rixham wrote: Michael A. Peters wrote: Robert Cummings wrote: Many government documents have the concept of aside as appearing through the document and contextually near to the information to which the aside relates. The entire sidebar

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-10 Thread Robert Cummings
Nathan Rixham wrote: Robert Cummings wrote: Michael A. Peters wrote: Nathan Rixham wrote: Michael A. Peters wrote: Robert Cummings wrote: Many government documents have the concept of aside as appearing through the document and contextually near to the information to which the aside

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-10 Thread Andrew Ballard
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Robert Cummings rob...@interjinn.com wrote: Nathan Rixham wrote: The most common misconception of how this element should be used is for the standard sidebar. - see: http://html5doctor.com/understanding-aside/ Unfortunatley I examined that side quite

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-10 Thread Nathan Rixham
Robert Cummings wrote: Nathan Rixham wrote: Robert Cummings wrote: Michael A. Peters wrote: Nathan Rixham wrote: Michael A. Peters wrote: It took very little work since I was essentially doing that already. aside is the most logical html 5 layout tag for describing the sidebar in a two

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-10 Thread Michael A. Peters
Andrew Ballard wrote: On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Robert Cummings rob...@interjinn.com wrote: Nathan Rixham wrote: The most common misconception of how this element should be used is for the standard sidebar. - see: http://html5doctor.com/understanding-aside/ Unfortunatley I examined

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-10 Thread Nathan Rixham
tedd wrote: At 1:38 PM -0500 2/10/10, Robert Cummings wrote: Agreed. Those make sense to demarcate the structure layout of the document... but still, for styling the class makes more sense since it keeps the specificity low and easy to override (especially true for skinnable apps). In my

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-09 Thread clancy_1
On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:39:03 +0100, joc...@iamjochem.com (Jochem Maas) wrote: Op 2/4/10 1:32 AM, clanc...@cybec.com.au schreef: Recently I have frequently found, especially in the morning (GMT 2200 - 0200), that I can open a bookmark in the manual, for example

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-09 Thread James McLean
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:26 PM, clanc...@cybec.com.au wrote: On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:39:03 +0100, joc...@iamjochem.com (Jochem Maas) wrote: as for using IE6 ... WTF ... you do realise this is essentially a web developers mailing list right? The interesting things in my websites go on

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-09 Thread Lester Caine
James McLean wrote: On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:26 PM, clanc...@cybec.com.au wrote: On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:39:03 +0100, joc...@iamjochem.com (Jochem Maas) wrote: as for using IE6 ... WTF ... you do realise this is essentially a web developers mailing list right? The interesting things in my

[PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-03 Thread clancy_1
Recently I have frequently found, especially in the morning (GMT 2200 - 0200), that I can open a bookmark in the manual, for example http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.image.php. But if I then do a search of any type I get 'The page cannot be displayed'. I then cannot reach any page, including

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-03 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 11:32 +1100, clanc...@cybec.com.au wrote: Recently I have frequently found, especially in the morning (GMT 2200 - 0200), that I can open a bookmark in the manual, for example http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.image.php. But if I then do a search of any type I get 'The

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-03 Thread Jochem Maas
Op 2/4/10 1:32 AM, clanc...@cybec.com.au schreef: Recently I have frequently found, especially in the morning (GMT 2200 - 0200), that I can open a bookmark in the manual, for example http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.image.php. But if I then do a search of any type I get 'The page cannot be