Re: [WSG] W3C standards in Denmark

2004-03-17 Thread James Ellis
Hi Don't be put off by the 3% figure -- It would be interesting to see the results of a moving to standards based poll. This would be more reflective of the current status of web standards around the globe, I feel - it's what a lot of us are trying to do at the moment. Remember that the

RE: [WSG] Only IE or Actual CSS Rule

2004-03-17 Thread marco della pina
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Chris Stratford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 17. März 2004 11:21 An: Web Standards Group Betreff: [WSG] Only IE or Actual CSS Rule Hey People, I dont know where to begin looking, but is this a rule, or has IE just invented this...

[WSG] Hiding styles message to certain browsers

2004-03-17 Thread Jaime Wong
How do I provide a message to users of selected browsers which I hid my stylesheets from like for e.g. http://www.rad-e8.com/ does it? With Regards Jaime Wong ~~ SODesires Design Team http://www.sodesires.com ~~

Re: [WSG] Only IE or Actual CSS Rule

2004-03-17 Thread russ weakley
If I could just cover my butt here... Patrick is correct! The info I posted below is the RECOMMENDATION from W3C, but as we all know, browsers interpret this stuff in their own way. So, it's always best to assume the worst and take off margins if that is what you require - this will fix the issue

Re: [WSG] Hiding styles message to certain browsers

2004-03-17 Thread russ weakley
These guys use the following CSS rule: .hide { height: 0; width: 0; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; } HTML: div class=hide p If you are reading this on a mobile device browser or a text browser, you can safely a href=#maincontent skip to the content/a. ... Russ

Re: [WSG] Only IE or Actual CSS Rule

2004-03-17 Thread James Ellis
Marco Setting a form to display inline will negate the use of blocks inside it (i,e fieldset, p, div, label). It would be more feasible to allow the form element to be displayed as default and be explicit about the margin. References: http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/forms/form.html

RE: [WSG] Only IE or Actual CSS Rule

2004-03-17 Thread P.H.Lauke
From: russ weakley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] Did I cover myself :) Yup, your behind is safe for now ;) P * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on

Re: [WSG] dreamweaver

2004-03-17 Thread Kay Smoljak
Hugh Todd wrote: I'm not sure why this should be so, because I have an idea the rendering engine is now Opera. Just for the record Hugh, Dreamweaver uses it's own custom rendering engine. Macromedia Contribute uses Opera's rendering engine on the Macintosh, which is where you might be getting

Re: [WSG] Hiding styles message to certain browsers

2004-03-17 Thread Jeremy Flint
you can also use .hide { display: none } div class=hideMessage to non-stylesheet browsers/div russ weakley wrote: These guys use the following CSS rule: .hide { height: 0; width: 0; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; } HTML: div class=hide p If you are reading this on a

Re: [WSG] Hiding styles message to certain browsers

2004-03-17 Thread Matthias
Hi list! Jaime: How do I provide a message to users of selected browsers which I hid my stylesheets from like for e.g. http://www.rad-e8.com/ does it? Well, It's not just the hide-style... Opera7.23/Win2000 gets no design as well. After a quick view-scource I found that he doesn't link the

Re: [WSG] Hiding styles message to certain browsers

2004-03-17 Thread Nate Cook
There's actually a good reason for this difference. (I can't find the reference right now, but I think it's in Zeldman's Designing With Web Standards.) Some screenreaders (Jaws?) observe the display:none CSS rule, even though it's a visual thing -- therefore, the rule Jeremy cited won't be

Re: [WSG] Accessibility in HFE programs?

2004-03-17 Thread Leo J. O'Campo
Susan Usability and accessibility are integral parts of many reputable upper level media programs, not just per se human factors. Dedicated human factors programs branch from psychology as ergonomics or computer science as interface building. Here at the University at Buffalo most dedicated

Re: [WSG] Hiding styles message to certain browsers

2004-03-17 Thread russ weakley
Nate, First of all, that wasn¹t my technique, just the one used by the site mentioned by Jaime. A good articles on hiding content is Joe Clark's: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fir/ This article details the difference between display: none and display: hidden. It seems clear that any

[WSG] A rave about h1's

2004-03-17 Thread russ weakley
I've been thinking about a post from a few days ago that has been bothering me. The comments in this post highlight the difference between valid markup and structurally-sound markup: Question: ...you have the headings of these as h1s I'm not sure if you should have more than one h1 a page? is

Re: [WSG] Hiding styles message to certain browsers

2004-03-17 Thread Jeremy Flint
would it also depend on the method used to include the stylesheet: @import vs. link? russ weakley wrote: Nate, First of all, that wasn¹t my technique, just the one used by the site mentioned by Jaime. A good articles on hiding content is Joe Clark's: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fir/

Re: [WSG] A rave about h1's

2004-03-17 Thread Leo J. O'Campo
On Wednesday, March 17, 2004, at 03:35 PM, russ weakley wrote: While using multiple h1's are valid, you should also think about the underlying page structure - and think about how other devices will interpret this structure. Russ Your point is well taken and needs to be implemented more.

Re: [WSG] Hiding styles message to certain browsers

2004-03-17 Thread James Ellis
Hi Is that visibility : hidden; ? - display : none will cause a box to not be rendered, visiblity : hidden (CSS2 11.2) will just make it invisible, like Kevin Bacon in that really bad movie. Another point to pick up on this discussion was seen with Peter's cinema site - doing something like

Re: [WSG] dreamweaver

2004-03-17 Thread Jeremy Flint
I assume that everyone mentioning how great DW is for them is using it mainly in the coder (homesite) version. how many are successfully using the WYSIWYG on a consistent basis and doing standards compliant work? Sooner or later, you have to get into the code. Jeremy Flint www.jeremyflint.com

Re: [WSG] Hiding styles message to certain browsers

2004-03-17 Thread russ weakley
Correct! My mistake. Change my original sentence to: This article details the difference between display: none and visibility: hidden. :) Russ Hi Is that visibility : hidden; ? - display : none will cause a box to not be rendered, visiblity : hidden (CSS2 11.2) will just make it

Re: [WSG] A rave about h1's

2004-03-17 Thread Gyrus
At 07:35 18/03/2004 +1100, you wrote: I've been thinking about a post from a few days ago that has been bothering me. The comments in this post highlight the difference between valid markup and structurally-sound markup: Question: ...you have the headings of these as h1s I'm not sure if you should

Re: [WSG] Hiding styles message to certain browsers

2004-03-17 Thread Jeremy Flint
as well as the media setting for the stylesheet screen, print, etc - Jeremy Flint www.jeremyflint.com Jeremy Flint wrote: would it also depend on the method used to include the stylesheet: @import vs. link? russ weakley wrote: Nate, First of all, that wasn¹t my technique, just the one

Re: [WSG] A rave about h1's

2004-03-17 Thread Gyrus
At 07:35 18/03/2004 +1100, you wrote: I've been thinking about a post from a few days ago that has been bothering me. The comments in this post highlight the difference between valid markup and structurally-sound markup: Some more thoughts after a chat with a friend here: - Web pages can

Re: [WSG] dreamweaver

2004-03-17 Thread Hugh Todd
Kay, Your reply sent me off to the web for a search. Couldn't find much, but this is what Creativepro.com's review says: Macromedia decided to license the Opera HTML-rendering engine just as they did with Contribute 2 to provide more faithful layout rendering than before, although this does

Re: [WSG] dreamweaver

2004-03-17 Thread scott parsons
In my opinion in order to do css and html professionally you have to get into the code But many people use DW (or contribute) who do not code html etc professionally (eg. content managers, IAs, GDs, java developers), and this is where the design view comes in very handy. Luckily if you get

[WSG] Accessibility Headache Starting

2004-03-17 Thread Jackie Reid
Is this OT? if it is sorry but I sat here last night reading up on accessibility after reading the article at http://www.ergoboy.com/news/uk_user_friendly_website_disabled.phpabout new legislation in the UK. I frankly don't know if I can cope with all this! After the trauma of trying to

Re: [WSG] A rave about h1's

2004-03-17 Thread Ian Main
Sorry OT, but Jeremy is there anywhere I can find the keynotes to this statement. This is pretty big news, we all knew about the problems [http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fir/]but to officially deprecate! So which one [http://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2003/12/12/accessible_i/index.php] do

Re: [WSG] Accessibility Headache Starting

2004-03-17 Thread Jackie Reid
Thanks to Manuel and Mike... that gives me loads to get started with. Jackie Reid Mock Orange Web Site Development 1st Floor 92 Victoria Street MACKAY Q 4740 Ph: 07 4953 4035 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Manuel González Noriega [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [WSG] Relative font sizes - resizing in IE

2004-03-17 Thread Neerav
AFAIK the most common method is to use percentage values for font sizes as this method is most compatible -- Neerav Bhatt http://www.bhatt.id.au James Silva wrote: Hi guys, Can anyone point me to a good article regarding relative font sizes and IE? I'm trying to avoid large font size point

Re: [WSG] A rave about h1's

2004-03-17 Thread russ weakley
There are heaps of images-for-heading options described at this page that get around the problems associated with FIR: http://www.mezzoblue.com/tests/revised-image-replacement/ The FIR has been on the way out since Joe Clark wrote this: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fir/ The big issue is

RE: [WSG] Relative font sizes - resizing in IE

2004-03-17 Thread Lea de Groot
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 20:43:08 -0500, Kim Buttery wrote: Please explain your acronym AFAIK. Thanks. As Far As I Know http://www.geek2geek.org/ is one place to look up unknown acronyms. There are plenty of others. warmly, Lea -- Lea de Groot Elysian Systems Brisbane Australia

Re: [WSG] Relative font sizes - resizing in IE

2004-03-17 Thread James Ellis
Hello Kim To decrease email traffic this kind of request should be directed to Google. * http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?p=dictString=exactAcronym=afaik Best regards James * Kim Buttery wrote: Please explain your acronym AFAIK. Thanks.

Re: [WSG] dreamweaver

2004-03-17 Thread Leo J. O'Campo
Jeremy how many are successfully using the WYSIWYG on a consistent basis and doing standards compliant work? I've used DW for 5+ years and always used the design view first and then I'd have to clean up DW's verbose code by hand, but back then it was as standard as standards were. i would say

RE: [WSG] Relative font sizes - resizing in IE

2004-03-17 Thread James Silva
The following links should help. http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/typography/ incremental_differences.html http://www.alistapart.com/articles/sizematters/ http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/box_lesson/font/index.html Cheers Leo, very thorough.

[WSG] Scroll bars

2004-03-17 Thread 7 sinz
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