RE: [WSG] newbie with popup menus question

> -Original Message- > From: The Bo$$ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, 22 January 2005 2:59 PM > To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org > Subject: Re: [WSG] newbie with popup menus question > > Well, as they say, "if you have to use dropdowns you should probably > rethink your site stru

Re: [WSG] newbie with popup menus question

Well, as they say, "if you have to use dropdowns you should probably rethink your site structure". The ALA article Andreas mentioned is actually not that good, since it is still totally inaccessible to IE users with Javascript turned off. There are no good alternatives on the web (yet), so I don't

RE: [WSG] newbie with popup menus question

Welcome to the group and the world of web standards. Hope you will enjoy. I guess the best place to first direct you to in regards to popup menus would be this page: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dropdowns/ Here we are dealing with a dropdown menu that is build in web standards, and theref

Re: [WSG] xHTML style guide/ coding guidelines

> . Anyone know of a nice style guide (or guidelines)for > writing xHTML/HTML. > I think what you're asking about is a best practices guide, and most development departments have them. One example is here: http://developer.apple.com/internet/webcontent/bestwebdev.html -- Susan R. Grossman

RE: [WSG] xHTML style guide/ coding guidelines

Rob, Let's rework your example: abc You really ought forget about nesting tables, in fact you might want to read up on using containers - divs - to create elements in the markup and CSS to control their display. Not what you want to hear, I know but take a long, determined look at tableless des

[WSG] xHTML style guide/ coding guidelines

. Anyone know of a nice style guide (or guidelines)for writing xHTML/HTML. . What I mean is, how code should be specifically formatted, indents, wraps, placement of comments, treatment of long lines, suggestion for nesting tables etc. Example: abc is far LESS readable than:

[WSG] newbie with popup menus question

Title: Message Hello   I am a newbie (to web standards) and have been inspired by Zeldman's "Designing with Web Standards".   Till now I have been using Fireworks to create popup menus for web sites. Would welcome feedback from this group on: 1- How do the popup menus from Fireworks corr

Re: [WSG] Accessibility Features[Revision-URL Included]

> > cognitive disabilities / learning difficulties / etc > > > Features like: Distinct headings with simple to the point text Links that use standard phrases, not something you thought sounded unique Simplified text where appropriate for your site Offering a site map that is set up well for

[WSG] Online Accessibility Event

I'm forwarding an announcement/invitation to participate in an accessibility forum event I'm hosting starting Monday. Attend as an interested party, an expert with information to share or an Assistive Technology user with input to give. The topic on laws and standards uses the policies of the US,

[WSG] OT? working with yahoo stores

Hi All I'm sorry if this is off topic. I'm looking into building an online store for a local museum using the yahoo store platform. I built one in my table days and that was a long time ago. I'm just wondering if anyone has some experience building a standards-based template with the yahoo

RE: [WSG] Review of website please

Your site has general accessibility issues, that probably need to be corrected if your firm wants to be considered 'a good corporate citizens' when providing access to web sites to people with disabilities. Running your site through a speech reader makes your site very annoying, some simple things

Re: [WSG] The Content Generation[2nd Post]

To keep the user informed of the number of pages remaining out of n http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/CR-css3-page-20040225/#pg-based-extensions "A UA MUST act as if there was a counter with the name of 'pages' and its initial value was set to the total number of pages." AFAIK currently no browser supports

Re: [WSG] Review of website please

On 1/21/05 1:22 AM "Terrence Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent this out: > 380k+ flash animation on the home page is just obnoxious... but > following that up with 220k+ on the next page... I'm lost for words. > > Terrence Wood. In the Americas somewhere on broadband, I can't even get the page to l

Re: [WSG] The Content Generation[2nd Post]

Hi, I was hoping to use something to the effect: H1:before { content: "Chapter " counter(chapter) ". "; counter-increment: chapter; /* Add 1 to chapter */ counter-reset: section; /* Set section to 0 */ } H2:before { content: counter(chapter) "." counter(section) " "; count

Re: [WSG] Background does not show up

Ah gee, after having this in the back of my head for two days I get a solution the second after I posted this (I'll wait three days in the future). Unless somebody has a more solid solution (like exactly why it does that) this does the trick and doesn't get in the way of the design. ;) Change

[WSG] Print Stylesheet Bug Using IE Conditional Expressions

I'm using a print stylesheet on http://www.seowebsitepromotion.com/ which worked fine ... until I used an HTC conditional expression as max-width emulation in IE. Now the printed output is cropped on page right. Any width adjustment is ignored by IE (FF et al work just fine). It's the expression ca

RE: [WSG] Help - newbie text editors

Might as well chuck my recommendation in, for windows ultraedit @ http://www.ultraedit.com/ I normally stick to dreamweaver and notepad on my windows machine and skedit,stylemaster and terminal on my mac but played around a little bit with ultra edit and worth a look. :) It got PC Magazine Editors

[WSG] Background does not show up

Sorry, this is on an internal server that's not accessible to the outside. I'm having a strange little bug that is showing up in Safari 1.2.4 (oddly, it works fine in IE). I have a container div and then a content div inside of that. The content div has a margin at the top of 150px. When I

Re: [WSG] Help - newbie text editors

> BB does XHTML, PHP, CSS etc.. built in FTP, HTML Tidy, FTP etc... You name > it, it's got it. I use one called Editpad Pro. It has downloadable syntax for a number of different languages, a dictionary, tabs which allow you to work on multiple items at once, a "project" feature that allows to sa

Re: [WSG] The Content Generation[2nd Post]

I'm not sure I understand what you want done, are you saying something like haveing a differently generated css depending on the number of pages? If so Chris Stratford is probably right I think (don't quote me on this though) that is valid as long as the generated file is formated properly.

Re: [WSG] The Content Generation[2nd Post]

Hey Chris, AFAIK - you wouldnt be able to have CSS count the number of pages you have... That would require server side coding... UA Support would be minimal (in terms of PEOPLE, in terms of browsers, probably every browser except IE) - Cheers Chris Kennon wrote: Sorry for the double post, but t

Re: [WSG] when xhtml2?

Five to ten years I think... It's a concept of a direction ve should lead to, but it's just a subject of discussion now. -- Jan Brasna :: alphanumeric.cz | webcore.cz | designlab.cz | janbrasna.com Stop IE! - | ***

[WSG] The Content Generation[2nd Post]

Sorry for the double post, but this got lost behind the site review. Hi All, At: http://working.ckimedia.com/questionWar/qw_account_01.htm You'll notice: Page 1 of n The goal is dynamic changes based upon the total number of pages. I hoping to use generated content, but then shuddered when thinkin

[WSG] when xhtml2?

I was wondering if anyone here had any clue when xhtml2 will become a w3c recomendation and when browsers are planing on developing support for XForms and XMLEvents? Alan Trick ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http:

Re: [WSG] IE 6 will not pick up background image

Okay I have a page (http://www.m5i.com/m5hr/new/test.php), when I cross-browser check IE will not pick up the background image. Is this a syntax error, do you have to declare the background object a couple different ways ? about syntax errors ask here: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?

[WSG] IE 6 will not pick up background image

Okay I have a page (http://www.m5i.com/m5hr/new/test.php), when I cross-browser check IE will not pick up the background image. Is this a syntax error, do you have to declare the background object a couple different ways ? Paul ** The discussion

Re: [WSG] Review of website please

Hey Miles, Wow, i live in WA but never heard of you guys, good to see a company in WA that likes standards :) Im not so sure about the flash like others have said on this site, big size to load and not so sure about the animating bomb sparks, started to annoy me after a lil while. The rest ai

Re: [WSG] Review of website please

380k+ flash animation on the home page is just obnoxious... but following that up with 220k+ on the next page... I'm lost for words. Terrence Wood. ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/g