Ian Hickson wrote:
On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, Bill Mason wrote:
3) The back button is not considered reliable as a navigation aid if
target=_blank is not in use.
Can you elaborate on why this is?
I don't particularly believe that this is true. I made that statement in
accepting for the sa
where altgroup is defined but required in all other cases.
I think it would be more logical for the specification to support the
common, existing, reasonable authoring practices than go through the
expense of introducing both a new attribute and a new element.
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Smylers wrote:
Bill Mason writes:
Simon Pieters wrote:
For instance it would be reasonable to use two images -- a filled
star and an unfilled star -- to represent a rating of something:
Rating:
You'd want the text version to be:
Rating: 3/5
There would probably b
src=0 alt>
Or
Rating: alt=★>
Rating: alt>
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ing alone or has a surrounding context
of other logos is not relevant to whether or not it is performing a
representation function.
Even if your assessment is correct, I believe my suggestion for
clarifying 'equivalent representation' would apply to your situation in
any event.
[
lement, but the [note: omitting the word 'lesser' that
appears in the current spec language] textual version must still be
given," [etc, rest of current spec paragraph follows]
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hand, all these browsers do not in my testing:
IE 3, 4, 5.0, 5.5, 6, 7 (Windows)
IE 5.2 (Mac)
Netscape 4, 8 (Windows)
Netscape 6, 7 (Mac)
Mozilla 1.7, Firefox 1.5, Firefox 2 (Mac)
Opera 3, 4, 5 (Windows)
Opera 6, 7, 8, 9 (Mac)
Safari 2.0.4 (Mac)
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Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
On Apr 28, 2007, at 5:29 PM, Bill Mason wrote:
...
I can tell you my experience at the company I'm currently working for,
as to why they mandate using "_blank" in some circumstances.
(Disclaimer: I don't endorse the policy, I just have to live w
keeping
_blank, but just to offer an example from "real life" about its use.
[1] Example: http://www.applyweb.com/apply/oxyt/
[2] As I recall them, anyway. This discussion hasn't been had
internally for awhile because we in web development are simply not going
to win the argument w
s the final
say
That falls into the realm of the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines,
which already cover this topic:
http://www.w3.org/TR/UAAG10/guidelines.html#tech-limit-viewports
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Elliotte Harold wrote:
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/ seems to be down and
has been for at least an hour now. Can someone take a look at it?
Other pages on the site seem unaffected.
The whole site appears fine to me, including the HTML5 spec.
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if you
were demonstrating a font via markup that a user doesn't happen to have
installed. The browser could wind up defaulting to a completely
different font than what you were attempting to illustrate.
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However the newest one is from
January 2007, so the problem still crops up.
[1] http://tinyurl.com/2evdox
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esignated by the src attribute, the exception being for left or
right-aligned images that are "floated" out of line."
IMG elements do not meet the distinctions for block-level as described
in http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#didx-inline
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of the specification needs to more clearly state if
one legend element is required, or if zero is acceptable.
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