Re: [WSG] Bobby question

2004-03-05 Thread Justin French
On Saturday, March 6, 2004, at 11:28 AM, Martin Chapman wrote: Just a quick question regarding the Bobby accessibility site. I am currently working on a site to convert to standards/validation specs. However, 99% of the site is user/password protected. I get round W3C validating the protected

Re: [WSG] css bug & sites css critique

2004-03-05 Thread Neerav
thanks Russ and Andy, I forgot about having to tell browsers to style body{} , all pages displaying properly and flush with browser window edges now :-) -- Neerav Bhatt http://www.bhatt.id.au russ weakley wrote: Andy is correct. Browsers all have their own default margin or padding that must be

Re: [WSG] Open critique?

2004-03-05 Thread russ weakley
Some interesting comments already: http://www.webstandardsawards.com/previous/aiga_atlanta.html#comments The first comment is simply opinion on the design, but the second comment mentions some good accessibility issues that should be considered. Russ > > Forget CSS Vault, I already awarded it on

Re: [WSG] Open critique?

2004-03-05 Thread Cameron Adams
Forget CSS Vault, I already awarded it on Web Standards Awards! :-] http://www.webstandardsawards.com/ -- Cameron W: www.themaninblue.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what youre looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com ***

RE: [WSG] A few questions needing answers

2004-03-05 Thread Michael Kear
I run a small hosting company, and for the life of me I can’t see what difference it makes to them whether you have absolute or relative links.   They provide the disk space and bandwidth and you fill it with your own files.  What does it matter to them how you arrange your links?  I don't

Re: [WSG] A few questions needing answers

2004-03-05 Thread Tim Lucas
Peter Firminger spoke the following on 6/03/2004 12:26 PM EST: Relative vs Absolute Links I agree with James first answer. Change hosts! I can see absolutely no reason for this apart from an idiot ISP. Speaking of idiot ISPs... Was it TPG (http://www.tpg.com.au/help_desk/activate.html - This form i

Re: [WSG] Open critique?

2004-03-05 Thread russ weakley
Hi Nate, Welcome to the list. Open critiques on this list are great - as long as feedback is helpful rather than abrasive. :) Criticism or praise? How about some praise: I have only looked at the front page but I think it's an excellent example of a web standards based portal. The main page has

RE: [WSG] A few questions needing answers

2004-03-05 Thread Peter Firminger
And I'll add a bit: > > Forms on Websites > > Is there a good place that explains/makes available the coding > > involved for putting simple forms on sites? My programming > knowledge > > doesn't go beyond css, xhtml and using JavaScript nuggets, but I've > > always wanted to be able to put contac

RE: [WSG] Email Standards?

2004-03-05 Thread Peter Firminger
> > Hyperlinking URIs and email addresses in plain text emails is > handled by the > client (e.g. Outlook) so there is no need. > Let me add to that. With a URI , starting with http:// or www. should kick in a link. For a site like webstandardsgroup.org (which doesn't ever use www.) you would need

Re: [WSG] A few questions needing answers

2004-03-05 Thread James Ellis
Hello Peter Here's my thoughts: Universal Head wrote: Forms on Websites Is there a good place that explains/makes available the coding involved for putting simple forms on sites? My programming knowledge doesn't go beyond css, xhtml and using JavaScript nuggets, but I've always wanted to be a

RE: [WSG] Email Standards?

2004-03-05 Thread Peter Firminger
Hyperlinking URIs and email addresses in plain text emails is handled by the client (e.g. Outlook) so there is no need. HTML or Rich text email is a real problem. If you get a digest version of most lists you get the raw code in the digest version as it is mixed format and text takes precedence (m

Re: [WSG] Email Standards?

2004-03-05 Thread James Ellis
Carl You should be able to do a blah://blah.blah.tld in the text and the client *should* be smart enough to pick up that this is hyperlink and display it as "hot". The Mozilla clients and Eudora do this. Additionally adding mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *should* be rendered by the browser as a mail

Re: [WSG] Before I start

2004-03-05 Thread James Ellis
Kim In what way do you want to float it vertically? If you want to sit a box in the vertical middle of another box, set its top and bottom margin to be the same: -- top margin box --- bottom margin - margin : 30px 0px; vertical-align : midd

[WSG] Bobby question

2004-03-05 Thread Martin Chapman
Hi All Just a quick question regarding the Bobby accessibility site. I am currently working on a site to convert to standards/validation specs. However, 99% of the site is user/password protected. I get round W3C validating the protected pages with Firefox's Web Developer extension (Validate L

[WSG] A few questions needing answers

2004-03-05 Thread Universal Head
Hello fellow pit miners! I have a couple of questions that have plagued me lately - feel free to ignore these if they are too OT, but if not, perhaps someone can shine a lamp into the dark corners of my ignorance ... so to speak ... Forms on Websites Is there a good place that explains/makes avai

Re: [WSG] css bug & sites css critique

2004-03-05 Thread russ weakley
Andy is correct. Browsers all have their own default margin or padding that must be removed if you want your content butting hard against the browser window edges. B aware that different browsers use different methods. More here: http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/body/ Russ > >> Any idea

[WSG] Before I start

2004-03-05 Thread Kim Kruse
Hi, Before I start out on a project I would like to know if it's possible to float a mainwrapper vertical? If so... what about browser support (Version 5+ browsers) Thank you and have a nice weekend Kim * The discussion list for http://websta

[WSG] Open critique?

2004-03-05 Thread Nate Cook
Hi all -- I'm new here, and curious if opening up a site to critique is inside the purview of this list. Having recently launched the AIGA Atlanta site, trying to rely completely on standards and semantic markup, I'm still working on figuring out all the "best practices" and what kind of trade-off

Re: [WSG] Email Standards?

2004-03-05 Thread Carl Reynolds
I understand your saying that you should use text as much as possible when generating e-mails. Is it possible to send links in a text e-mail and have them be "hot"? That seems to be the main thing I use HTML in an e-mail for. James Ellis wrote: ... Use of plain text is highly recommended.

R: [WSG] Email Standards?

2004-03-05 Thread CIRILLO NICOLA (MPS - 06265)
Lorenzo r u italian? Your name sounds like an italian name. I need to know someone in italy who concern with ws. :-) nicola -Messaggio originale- Da: Lorenzo Gabba | Quirk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: venerdì 5 marzo 2004 15.32 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: Re: [WSG] Email S

Re: [WSG] css bug & sites css critique

2004-03-05 Thread Andy King
Any ideas why? Im puzzled because the CSS & XHTML 1.0 transitional code validates and all widths are set to 100% with no margins or padding on the top, left, right of any of the page layout DIV's If you set the margin on the body to zero everything goes the way you want it to go, I think. All t

Re: [WSG] Email Standards?

2004-03-05 Thread Lorenzo Gabba | Quirk
On Friday 05 March 2004 09:37, Peter wrote: > Hi Lorenzo, > > Firstly thanks for joining! You wrapped up one of the two continents we > were missing in our members. Only Antarctica to go now (I think?). Thanks a bunch James/Peter. I'll take your recommendations to heart. Actually, I'm a big prop

Re: [WSG] Semantic vs Accessibile markup

2004-03-05 Thread Tonico Strasser
Manuel González Noriega wrote: FWIW, yesterday we put kalsey's tabs to work at http://derallyes.com (homepage,top box) The site's in spanish, but that shouldn't make checking the tabs functionality any harder ;) Great work. Now, what we'd really like to have is to enhance the tabs for js enabled U

[WSG] css bug & sites css critique

2004-03-05 Thread Neerav
I would appreciate any css/design tips for 2 sites I have just revamped from table & css layouts to pure css & almost pure css layouts respectively Graphics, colours, style & creative layouts etc are not my speciality but i've tried to make the sites look different from the run of of the mill colum

Re: [WSG] Semantic vs Accessibile markup

2004-03-05 Thread Tonico Strasser
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Tonico, I guess they don't use lists for the top navigation because it is horizontal and they want to keep it simple. Well, why ever they did it, it's not an argument for or against lists, I think. (Also, they don't use subnavigations) You're right it's not an ar

Re: [WSG] re: inexplicable blank line at top screen

2004-03-05 Thread Neerav
thanks Stefan .. turned out that adding "float: left" to the "content" div did the trick as well as setting margin:0; at #pagecontainer -- Neerav Bhatt http://www.bhatt.id.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Neerav, try to add margin:0; at #pagecontainer Greetings Stefan

RE: [WSG] turning back to the dark side...

2004-03-05 Thread Michael Kear
G'day Peter Thanks a lot for your comments. It's hard to find anyone who'll talk bluntly to you when you work alone like I do. You caught me being insufficiently careful with my language. But my point was at this stage, does it really matter that much if there's a part of the site that's not

Re: [WSG] re: inexplicable blank line at top screen

2004-03-05 Thread StBlanz
Hello Neerav, try to add margin:0; at #pagecontainer Greetings Stefan * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *

Re: [WSG] Semantic vs Accessibile markup

2004-03-05 Thread Manuel González Noriega
El vie, 05-03-2004 a las 00:54, Hugh Todd escribió: > > Tonico, > > > I need to support IE/Mac, so what would you recommend me to do? > > Did you have a look at this one, posted by Manuel González Noriega? It > seems to work in IE 5 Mac, for whatever reason: > > http://kalsey.com/tools/csstab

[WSG] re: inexplicable blank line at top screen

2004-03-05 Thread Neerav
Hi Can anyone figure out why http://www.bhatt.id.au/testindex.php and http://www.bhatt.id.au/testcontactme.php display perfectly in IE, Opera, and but in Firefox 0.8, Mozilla 1.7a, and Safari 1.2 display with a blank line above the horizontal navbar the relevant stylesheet is at http://www.bhat

RE: [WSG] Member country count

2004-03-05 Thread Verhoeve, ing. T.A.C.
> -Oorspronkelijk bericht- > Van: Peter Firminger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Verzonden: vrijdag 5 maart 2004 8:38 > > PS: While I'm at it a quick member country count... > [...] > Netherlands 1 > [...] > The Netherlands 2 > [...] Mmm... :) > Total 309 members in 35 countries Tom Verh