RE: [WSG] Flexible Font sizes in tables in ie

2005-10-04 Thread Kara O'Halloran - Eduka
Thanks everyone for your help, I have a few resources to check out now and some things to try :) Much appreciated, Kara ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some h

RE: [WSG] Flexible Font sizes in tables in ie

2005-10-04 Thread Peter Williams
> From: Kara O'Halloran - Eduka > > Either way I still have the problem of the table cell text > either appearing too large in ie, or too small in ff. > > Without resorting to setting text size in pixels in my table, > I can't find any other way to prevent this from happening, I > thought perh

Re: [WSG] Flexible Font sizes in tables in ie

2005-10-04 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On 5 Oct 2005, at 12:50 pm, Kara O'Halloran - Eduka wrote: Either way I still have the problem of the table cell text either appearing too large in ie, or too small in ff. Without resorting to setting text size in pixels in my table, I can't find any other way to prevent this from happening,

Re: [WSG] Flexible Font sizes in tables in ie

2005-10-04 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day Either way I still have the problem of the table cell text either appearing too large in ie, or too small in ff. Without resorting to setting text size in pixels in my table, I can't find any other way to prevent this from happening, I thought perhaps there might be a hack out there tha

RE: [WSG] Flexible Font sizes in tables in ie

2005-10-04 Thread Kara O'Halloran - Eduka
>>You'll have to set font-size on td, for IE/win. Either way I still have the problem of the table cell text either appearing too large in ie, or too small in ff. Without resorting to setting text size in pixels in my table, I can't find any other way to prevent this from happening, I thought p

RE: [WSG] avoid Verdana -> I cant get the whole point.

2005-10-04 Thread Webspace Works info
Hi Lisa, Peter, On 05-10-2005at 09:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Herrod, Lisa) wrote: > > Thanks for posting this to the list, I'm sure it will be > interesting to many > of us on list... > > -Original Message- > From: Peter Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > This may help with yo

Re: Ouch- was: [WSG] Top Ten Web Design Mistakes - yeah, right!

2005-10-04 Thread Nick Lo
Hi Terrence, My post was not a personal attack on Nick, nor was it dismissive of his POV. Admittedly, I got the impression he was struggling to come up with an example of how alertbox is difficult to use and perhaps that has tainted my message, but I was genuinely interested in whether he true

Re: Ouch- was: [WSG] Top Ten Web Design Mistakes - yeah, right!

2005-10-04 Thread Terrence Wood
Hi Ted, I'm not sure where you're coming from with this. I really don't see how my previous post connects to the bigger concept of what conscientious responsible web developer's should strive for, in fact I don't even understand what you by that. Should I take it that you consider me as not consc

Re: [WSG] Homepage Review: webnetdesignstudios.com

2005-10-04 Thread standards
Thank you Lea. I removed the tag, and added the tag with a rule applied to the cite element that bolds the authors name. Seems to be the best of both worlds. Kind regards, Mario > On Sun, 2 Oct 2005 22:58:19 -0400, Christian Montoya wrote: >> Isn't < b > still valid? If you want to have a weig

Re: [WSG] avoid Verdana -> I cant get the whole point.

2005-10-04 Thread Peter Johnson
Hi Lisa, The survey was not conducted by my company, it was done by Visibone who I imagine will probably make a whole lot of money off this post, but nevertheless. Check out their website http://www.visibone.com, they sell a whole lot of visual aids for web dev people. The Tests thats they u

Re: [WSG] Big Websites that turned Accessible

2005-10-04 Thread Peter Ottery
On 10/5/05, Zach Inglis wrote > For an article i'm writing I need a list who have turned their > website into Web Standard compliant websites. there are many lists scattered around already compiled - like this one: http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/redesignwatch/ hth, cheers, pete

Re: [WSG] Site Review: hopkinsprogramming.net/

2005-10-04 Thread Hopkins Programming
Thanks all for your assistance! :-) --ZacharyOn 10/3/05, Alan Trick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just looked at the page in a text browser (links) and there's a coupleof anoying issues.1. This is not bad, but a bit of an anoyance. There is a notice aboutnot having _javascript_. This appears at the

RE: [WSG] avoid Verdana -> I cant get the whole point.

2005-10-04 Thread Herrod, Lisa
Hi Peter, Thanks for posting this to the list, I'm sure it will be interesting to many of us on list... Can you tell us when you conducted the research, the duration of the study and how you collected the information? All the best, lisa -Original Message- From: Peter Johnson [mailto:[E

RE: [WSG] avoid Verdana -> I cant get the whole point.

2005-10-04 Thread Peter Williams
> From: T. R. Valentine > > On 04/10/05, Christian Montoya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > IMO arial isn't so hot for the web anyway. > > So my questions are: what is wrong with Arial (Arial Unicode MS in > particular)? are there better font alternatives? Typographers say it is "badly hinted". My

Re: [WSG] avoid Verdana -> I cant get the whole point.

2005-10-04 Thread Peter Johnson
Hi there, This may help with your font compatibility problem. http://www.visibone.com/font/FontResults.html Cheers, Peter Johnson --- Peter Johnson Macromedia Flash Developer Missing Link NZ Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- *

Re: [WSG] Big Websites that turned Accessible

2005-10-04 Thread Brent Edwards
On 10/4/05 2:46 PM, "Zach Inglis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For an article i'm writing I need a list who have turned their > website into Web Standard compliant websites. > > Such as Yahoo! > ** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsg

Re: [WSG] avoid Verdana -> I cant get the whole point.

2005-10-04 Thread Felix Miata
James Bennett wrote: > On 10/4/05, Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've installed a lot of Linux distros, and surprisingly few install Vera > > by default, though they usually include them on the installation media. > Weird. I've not had a Linux install anytime in the past couple of

Re: [WSG] Jello flexible layout

2005-10-04 Thread Jan Brasna
I have been trying to implement the Jello on my current project when I was just thrown a curve. The designer wants the page to be full height in the browser window, with a body bg pattern repeating for the area aoutside the page. Umm, is this related to Jello exclusively? I suppose it's ful

Re: [WSG] Big Websites that turned Accessible [final]

2005-10-04 Thread Zach Inglis
Fair doos. No, I am using Apple's Mail. Anyway, Jeremy ended up helping me. Cheers though. http://www.zachinglis.com/web-accessibility/web-standards-as-it-is/ On 4 Oct 2005, at 22:13, Paul Bennett wrote: (1) Trim your posts (2) That reply would be better off-list Tip to 'pay' for this post

RE: [WSG] Big Websites that turned Accessible

2005-10-04 Thread Paul Bennett
(1) Trim your posts (2) That reply would be better off-list Tip to 'pay' for this post (ala evolt.org): If, for any reason, you're using word-to-html conversion, here's a handy tool to help you clean up some of that gorgeous WORD 'markup': http://textism.com/wordcleaner/ :) Paul **

Ouch- was: [WSG] Top Ten Web Design Mistakes - yeah, right!

2005-10-04 Thread Drake, Ted C.
Hi Terrence I think your argument is against what we, as conscientious responsible web developers should strive for. Nick states he finds the list difficult to read. That is an honest reaction, frankly I agree with his analysis of a table would be better. But you defended the list by assuming a

Re: [WSG] Big Websites that turned Accessible

2005-10-04 Thread Zach Inglis
I am perfectly aware of that. On 4 Oct 2005, at 20:55, Patrick H. Lauke wrote: Zach Inglis wrote: For an article i'm writing I need a list who have turned their website into Web Standard compliant websites. Just a word of warning: "web standards compliant" and "accessible" are not syn

Re: [WSG] Jello flexible layout

2005-10-04 Thread Terrence Wood
Tom Livingston said: > The designer wants the page to be full height in the > browser window, with a body bg pattern repeating for the area aoutside > the page. This sticky footer solution might help: http://solardreamstudios.com/learn/css/footerstick/ Otherwise I have a js solution I can post la

Re: [WSG] Big Websites that turned Accessible

2005-10-04 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Zach Inglis wrote: For an article i'm writing I need a list who have turned their website into Web Standard compliant websites. Just a word of warning: "web standards compliant" and "accessible" are not synonyms. It is possible to create sites that formally validate to the syntax of web stan

[WSG] Big Websites that turned Accessible

2005-10-04 Thread Zach Inglis
For an article i'm writing I need a list who have turned their website into Web Standard compliant websites. Such as Yahoo! ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for som

Re: [WSG] Top Ten Web Design Mistakes - yeah, right!

2005-10-04 Thread Terrence Wood
Nick Lo said: > That enormous list of previous columns is visually very difficult to > scan. It is chronological so if you are browsing for a particular date > your eye must go in and out of the jagged right edge. The alertbox a title based listing not a date based one, hence why the title appears

Re: [WSG] Top Ten Web Design Mistakes - yeah, right!

2005-10-04 Thread Alan Gutierrez
* Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-10-04 11:25]: > Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] wrote: > > > Somebody pointed out this article by our friend Jakob Nielsen to me: > > > http://www.useit.com/alertbox/designmistakes.html > > > Let's start with this little comment at the beginning: >

Re: [WSG] Jello flexible layout

2005-10-04 Thread Buddy Quaid
I had these same requirements...after trying to do it in CSS alone I decided it wasnt possible since you can't use height:100% for a container and it work like a table does. I ended up using a hybrid layout with a table for the general stuff but all controlled by css. It works. Buddy Tom Liv

Re: [WSG] Jello flexible layout

2005-10-04 Thread Tom Livingston
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 12:43:42 -0400, Jan Brasna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Someone mentioned the Jello layout style during the clearleft thread (thank you who ever you are -- very cool!) You're more than welcome :) I was wondering if anyone has used this and if they ran into any problem

Re: [WSG] avoid Verdana -> I cant get the whole point.

2005-10-04 Thread T. R. Valentine
On 04/10/05, Christian Montoya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IMO arial isn't so hot for the web anyway. OK, I'd like to hear some opinions. A lot of the pages I produce need, for technical reasons, a Unicode font (especially the 0370–03FF, 0400–04FF, 0500–052F, 1F00–1FFF, and 2000–206F ranges). I

Re: [WSG] Background Alignment

2005-10-04 Thread morten fjellman
Sorry if this is way off, but i did'nt fully understand the question. Check this link out just in case: http://www.svendtofte.com/code/xp_css_quirk/It's a really weird bug which I encountered on my last project. RegardsFjellmanOn 10/4/05, Helmut Granda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ah, ok...The cont

Re: [WSG] Top Ten Web Design Mistakes - yeah, right!

2005-10-04 Thread Felix Miata
Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] wrote: > Somebody pointed out this article by our friend Jakob Nielsen to me: > http://www.useit.com/alertbox/designmistakes.html > Let's start with this little comment at the beginning: > "For this year's list of worst design mistakes, I decided to try som

Re: [WSG] Top Ten Web Design Mistakes - yeah, right!

2005-10-04 Thread Felix Miata
Terrence Wood wrote: > On 4 Oct 2005, at 11:30 PM, Nick Lo wrote: > > I always find it amazing that useit.com has such standing when it is > > itself such an awkward and unattractive site to use. > unattractive, maybe... Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Black on white without need to zo

Re: [WSG] Top Ten Web Design Mistakes - yeah, right!

2005-10-04 Thread Felix Miata
Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] wrote: > Oh, I do agree that he has got some good points in his article: all 10 > points are valid issues, but nothing we haven't really heard before. The We'll only hear it less when heed is paid it, or when the gummint steps in to force it. Which would you rat

Re: [WSG] Top Ten Web Design Mistakes - yeah, right!

2005-10-04 Thread Felix Miata
Nick Lo wrote: > I agree with Andreas to the degree that he is really saying this is not > THE "Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005" but rather "Top Ten Web > Design Mistakes of 2005 according to subscribers of a newsletter > directed at people interested in Jakob Nielsen's views on usability". >

Re: [WSG] Top Ten Web Design Mistakes - yeah, right!

2005-10-04 Thread Felix Miata
Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] wrote: > Exactly. So for something to go onto the Top Ten List of Usability Mistakes > for the general public it must be something that bugs them so much that they > don't want to adjust to it. Is small font size one of them? I think most > people adjust to it, e

Re: [WSG] Top Ten Web Design Mistakes - yeah, right!

2005-10-04 Thread Buddy Quaid
I had never been there until this thread popped and up and yes, you are correct, it's ugly. But I guess it's the content that makes it succeed? Buddy Nick Lo wrote: I agree with Andreas to the degree that he is really saying this is not THE "Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005" but rather "To

Re: [WSG] Top Ten Web Design Mistakes - yeah, right!

2005-10-04 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day Much as I hate to... and I'm trying hard not to but ...yes "awkward to use". Let me pick an example: All I see is an overwhelming mass of links, even on the home page. But then, I'm just a casual observer who stumbled on the site as it was mentioned on the mailing list. It may be di

Re: [WSG] Top Ten Web Design Mistakes - yeah, right!

2005-10-04 Thread Kay Smoljak
On 10/4/05, Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Somebody pointed out this article by our friend Jakob Nielsen to me: > http://www.useit.com/alertbox/designmistakes.html I'm not one of Jakob's fans... but in my limited experience, text size is one of the few things that a

RE: [WSG] Flexible Font sizes in tables in ie

2005-10-04 Thread Mike Foskett
Hi Kara, Don't know if I'm coming in late on this one but here goes anyway. I'd suggest using a font-size of either 100.01% in the body and adjusting content text accordingly or 76.1% as a minimum font-size. I normally do a global reset something like this: /* global reset */ * {margin:0;

Re: [WSG] Top Ten Web Design Mistakes - yeah, right!

2005-10-04 Thread Nick Lo
Much as I hate to... and I'm trying hard not to but ...yes "awkward to use". Let me pick an example: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/ That enormous list of previous columns is visually very difficult to scan. It is chronological so if you are browsing for a particular date your eye must go in a

Re: [WSG] Top Ten Web Design Mistakes - yeah, right!

2005-10-04 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] wrote: Major Usability Issues users cannot adjust to are: - Missing Information - Incorrect Information - Catastrophic Navigation - Websites that don't work - ... Ask a general person what they didn't like about a particular website and in the majority of t

RE: [WSG] Background Alignment

2005-10-04 Thread Helmut Granda
Ah, ok... The container is the BODY Tag itself so that the background image will fit nicely in the middle of the screen.. Any more suggestions? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Novitski Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 2:41 AM To: wsg

Re: [WSG] Top Ten Web Design Mistakes - yeah, right!

2005-10-04 Thread Terrence Wood
On 4 Oct 2005, at 11:30 PM, Nick Lo wrote: I always find it amazing that useit.com has such standing when it is itself such an awkward and unattractive site to use. unattractive, maybe... but awkward to use? kind regards Terrence Wood. **

Re: [WSG] Top Ten Web Design Mistakes - yeah, right!

2005-10-04 Thread Nick Lo
I agree with Andreas to the degree that he is really saying this is not THE "Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005" but rather "Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005 according to subscribers of a newsletter directed at people interested in Jakob Nielsen's views on usability". In that respect it's a

Re: [WSG] Flexible Font sizes in tables in ie

2005-10-04 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Kara O'Halloran - Eduka wrote: I think if I set a base of 1em in the body it would solve my problems, but then I have to apply font size 75% to make everything the size I want it, and that would cause much the same problem as it cascades down and potentially end up with really mini fonts through

Re: [WSG] Flexible Font sizes in tables in ie

2005-10-04 Thread Terrence Wood
There are no silly questions. body, table { font-size: 0.8em; } don't set the font-size as a % on your table declarations. kind regards Terrence Wood. On 4 Oct 2005, at 10:03 PM, Kara O'Halloran - Eduka wrote: I'm setting my font size at 0.8em in my body class. I think if I set a base

Re: [WSG] Top Ten Web Design Mistakes - yeah, right!

2005-10-04 Thread Terrence Wood
On 4 Oct 2005, at 10:32 PM, Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] wrote: Major Usability Issues users cannot adjust to are: - Missing Information - Incorrect Information - Catastrophic Navigation - Websites that don't work - ... Ask a general person what they didn't like about a particular website

RE: [WSG] Top Ten Web Design Mistakes - yeah, right!

2005-10-04 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
> -Original Message- > From: Gunlaug Sørtun [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 4 October 2005 7:09 PM > To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org > Subject: Re: [WSG] Top Ten Web Design Mistakes - yeah, right! > > Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] wrote: > > > I am not saying these problems

RE: [WSG] Top Ten Web Design Mistakes - yeah, right!

2005-10-04 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
> -Original Message- > From: Prabhath Sirisena [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 4 October 2005 6:59 PM > To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org > Subject: Re: [WSG] Top Ten Web Design Mistakes - yeah, right! > > On 10/4/05, Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: [WSG] Web Standards Charter - An Open Letter To WaSP

2005-10-04 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Kazuhito Kidachi wrote: I don't know how many WaSPs are in this list, but I send your proposal's URI to another mailing list, so that we all WaSPs can share your voice. I do not represent WaSP here at all, but I thank you for your suggestion. Molly's already replied to the blog post, so I assu

Re: [WSG] Top Ten Web Design Mistakes - yeah, right!

2005-10-04 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] wrote: People who subscribe to Jakob Nielsen's newsletter are *not* normal. We're not? Gosh, I didn't know that... :-) They are people who show interest in Usability, people who have got an above average understanding of Website Structure and Web Standards

Re: [WSG] Top Ten Web Design Mistakes - yeah, right!

2005-10-04 Thread Terrence Wood
On 4 Oct 2005, at 9:05 PM, Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] wrote: How useless is that?! People who subscribe to Jakob Nielsen's newsletter are *not* normal. They are people who show interest in Usability, people who have got an above average understanding of Website Structure and Web Standar

[WSG] Flexible Font sizes in tables in ie

2005-10-04 Thread Kara O'Halloran - Eduka
hi guys, Another possibly silly question but I've done quite a bit of searching on this now and found nothing. I'm setting my font size at 0.8em in my body class. In firefox this works fine across the site, but in ie, the text inside my table cells appears larger. I've tried setting a font size

Re: [WSG] Web Standards Charter - An Open Letter To WaSP

2005-10-04 Thread Kazuhito Kidachi
Vlad, I don't know how many WaSPs are in this list, but I send your proposal's URI to another mailing list, so that we all WaSPs can share your voice. I do not represent WaSP here at all, but I thank you for your suggestion. Best, Kazuhito , WaSP in Japan -- Kazuhito Kidachi mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [WSG] Top Ten Web Design Mistakes - yeah, right!

2005-10-04 Thread Prabhath Sirisena
On 10/4/05, Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Perhaps it'd make sense to mention what website usability issues that > > bug these users, rather than going by your gut feeling - atleast Jakob > > asked his subscribers. It'd be interesting to note how many people you

RE: [WSG] Top Ten Web Design Mistakes - yeah, right!

2005-10-04 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
> -Original Message- > From: Prabhath Sirisena [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 4 October 2005 6:33 PM > To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org > Subject: Re: [WSG] Top Ten Web Design Mistakes - yeah, right! > > I am not saying these problems don't exist - of course they > do. But I can

Re: [WSG] Top Ten Web Design Mistakes - yeah, right!

2005-10-04 Thread James Bennett
On 10/4/05, Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How useless is that?! People who subscribe to Jakob Nielsen's newsletter are > *not* normal. They are people who show interest in Usability, people who > have got an above average understanding of Website Structure and Web >

Re: [WSG] Top Ten Web Design Mistakes - yeah, right!

2005-10-04 Thread Prabhath Sirisena
It's not very usefull to troll on anything, and definitely not on something useful as useit.com. Please enlighten us on how you managed to say things like: > I am not saying these problems don't exist - of course they do. But I can > guarantee you the public (our real users) would vote completely

RE: [WSG] Top Ten Web Design Mistakes - yeah, right!

2005-10-04 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
> -Original Message- > From: Katrina [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 4 October 2005 6:29 PM > To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org > Subject: Re: [WSG] Top Ten Web Design Mistakes - yeah, right! > > > > > > If I went and asked my mom "what is the biggest usability > issue" would s

Re: [WSG] Top Ten Web Design Mistakes - yeah, right!

2005-10-04 Thread Bruce
Thank you Andreas, I had forgotten to read my newsletter from Jacob. As usual he hits the nails on the head. Another good article. And I thought I was normal...oh well. But that's only me 2 cents of course. Bruce Prochnau BKDesign Solutions Andreas Boehmer said > Somebody pointed out this articl

Re: [WSG] Top Ten Web Design Mistakes - yeah, right!

2005-10-04 Thread Katrina
If I went and asked my mom "what is the biggest usability issue" would she respond "Oh, Andreas, I hate those javascript popup windows when I click links. They are sooo non-standard and really confusing." CRAP! Of course she won't, because it doesn't bother her as much. It's interesting tha

[WSG] Top Ten Web Design Mistakes - yeah, right!

2005-10-04 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
Somebody pointed out this article by our friend Jakob Nielsen to me: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/designmistakes.html Let's start with this little comment at the beginning: "For this year's list of worst design mistakes, I decided to try something new: I asked readers of my newsletter to nomina

Re: [WSG] Background Alignment

2005-10-04 Thread Paul Novitski
Sorry, my misreading. What I ought to have said was, make sure that both the background image and its container are both an even number of pixels wide. Paul At 12:11 AM 10/4/2005, Rick Faaberg wrote: On 10/4/05 12:00 AM "Paul Novitski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent this out: >> Everything looks

Re: [WSG] Background Alignment

2005-10-04 Thread Rick Faaberg
On 10/4/05 12:00 AM "Paul Novitski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent this out: >> Everything looks fine the only difference is 1 pixel between IE and FF. Has >> anyone encounter a similar problem? >> >> Note: The background is 700px in width. > > > How wide is the background image? Perhaps it's simply

Re: [WSG] Background Alignment

2005-10-04 Thread Paul Novitski
At 11:45 PM 10/3/2005, Helmut Granda wrote: I have a background that is centered horizontally but tiled vertically. ... Everything looks fine the only difference is 1 pixel between IE and FF. Has anyone encounter a similar problem? Note: The background is 700px in width. How wide is the bac