Re: [WSG] Recommendations for books to take one to the next level

2007-03-22 Thread Jermayn Parker
>- Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability > by Steve Krug Excellent book. Sorry but I woul dhave to disagree with you hear. I found the book boring, old information and overall uniformative and a waste of time and money. If your an intemediated web designer you sho

Re: [WSG] centring and viewport size

2007-03-22 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Designer wrote: Aw, flip! I look forward to seeing what you come up with! :-) These two: #3: mode-independent conditional IE-expression for container sized in 'em'... #4: mode-independent conditional IE-expression for container sized in '

Re: [WSG] Recommendations for books to take one to the next level

2007-03-22 Thread SRT Services Mail
Mordechai, - Building Accessible Websites by** Joe Clark I have this one. It is also syndicated online, http://joeclark.org/book/sashay/serialization/ , if budget is a concern. The coding is a bit dated if you wish to code to the latest standards but other than that I found it a great re

Re: [WSG] centring and viewport size

2007-03-22 Thread Designer
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Designer wrote: http://www.rhh.myzen.co.uk/gam/sandbox/index_cc.html The window being too small to display the top of the page is not a problem using this approach, as there isn't any absolute positioning.. Yes, it is. Check again. You get a neg

Re: [WSG] centring and viewport size

2007-03-22 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Designer wrote: http://www.rhh.myzen.co.uk/gam/sandbox/index_cc.html The window being too small to display the top of the page is not a problem using this approach, as there isn't any absolute positioning.. Yes, it is. Check again. You get a negative margin-top half

Re: [WSG] Recommendations for books to take one to the next level

2007-03-22 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
On 22 Mar 2007, at 17:23:47, Mordechai Peller wrote: Some books which I've had my eye on include: - Prioritizing Web Usability by Jakob Nielsen , Hoa Loranger Well worth reading, although some would argue that Nielsen can be overly strict in his approach to web usability. - Don't M

Re: [WSG] Recommendations for books to take one to the next level

2007-03-22 Thread Matthew Pennell
On 3/22/07, Mordechai Peller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - Pro JavaScript Techniques by John Resig I'd recommend this [1] to intermediate to pretty good JavaScripters - it's very good. Matthew. [1] http://www.digital-web.com/articles/pro_javascript_techniques/ *

[WSG] Recommendations for books to take one to the next level

2007-03-22 Thread Mordechai Peller
I know book recommendation have been discussed before, but most of the recommendation have been focused mostly on beginners. While that's very, very important, so much so that it probably deserves to be discussed many more times, what I'm currently interested in are books ranging from intermedi

Re: [WSG] centring and viewport size

2007-03-22 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Designer wrote: http://www.rhh.myzen.co.uk/gam/sandbox/index_cc.html to see the action. It all validates. I've used standard code to include display : table and display : table cell for compliant browsers, and the conditional comment for IE. Works in FF, Opera 9, IE6 and IE7. Safari is doi

Re: [WSG] centring and viewport size

2007-03-22 Thread Designer
Nick Fitzsimons wrote: Use an IE conditional comment [1] to feed the expression to IE, and all shall be well - or, at least, validate :-) Cheers, Nick. Hi Nick, Georg, Done that - works fine. See http://www.rhh.myzen.co.uk/gam/sandbox/index_cc.html to see the action. It all validates

[WSG] Re: digest for wsg@webstandardsgroup.org

2007-03-22 Thread Ben Athey
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