[WSG] Web Standards Meetup London July Meeting

2008-07-13 Thread Joe Ortenzi
Morning Standardistas I'd like to announce the next instalment in the Web Standards Meetup London July Meeting For those of you living and working in London UK, please check out: http://webstandards.meetup.com/130/calendar/8110079/ and hopefully come along for an evening of web chat and beer

RE: [WSG] Book ideas for updating skills to modern html xhtml standards

2008-07-13 Thread Kepler Gelotte
Michael Horowitz wrote: > Is there a good book (something like Oreilly's nutsshell series) that > works as a good desk reference for (x)html standards people recommend? I bought the 1998 (version 1) of Dynamic HTML (http://www.amazon.com/Dynamic-HTML-Definitive-Reference-Html/dp/0596527403/ ref=s

Re: [WSG] Encoding odities

2008-07-13 Thread Nikita The Spider The Spider
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Mordechai Peller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Hucklesby wrote: >> >> FWIW - The META content-type is only relevant to pages read from >> a local file-- for example, when someone saves your page to disk. > > Not true. I recently had some non-local UTF-8 files w

Re: [WSG] Book ideas for updating skills to modern html xhtml standards

2008-07-13 Thread Michael Horowitz
I'm looking over the description now but will note for anyone else the sitepoint book is alot cheaper on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-HTML-Reference-Ian-Lloyd/dp/0980285887/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215992940&sr=1-1 Michael Horowitz Your Computer Consultant http://yourcomput

Re: [WSG] Book ideas for updating skills to modern html xhtml standards

2008-07-13 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Michael Horowitz wrote: Is there a good book (something like Oreilly's nutsshell series) that works as a good desk reference for (x)html standards people recommend? A few suggestions would be Paul Haine's XHTML Mastery http://www.amazon.com/HTML-Mastery-Semantics-Standards-Styling/dp/159059765

[WSG] Book ideas for updating skills to modern html xhtml standards

2008-07-13 Thread Michael Horowitz
Is there a good book (something like Oreilly's nutsshell series) that works as a good desk reference for (x)html standards people recommend? Michael Horowitz Your Computer Consultant http://yourcomputerconsultant.com 561-394-9079 *

Re: [WSG] Re: Form (layout/accessibiity)

2008-07-13 Thread Stuart Foulstone
Incidentally, the second part of the postcode should have maxlength="3" (it is always three characters long). On Wed, July 9, 2008 9:49 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have created a form which acts as a interface to a system outside of my > control. This takes UK postcode in two parts (postcod

Re: [WSG] Encoding odities

2008-07-13 Thread Mordechai Peller
David Hucklesby wrote: FWIW - The META content-type is only relevant to pages read from a local file-- for example, when someone saves your page to disk. Not true. I recently had some non-local UTF-8 files where some special characters weren't displaying properly in IE6. When I added the missing