Re: [WSG] Chrome mystery with width of element

2010-03-11 Thread Jermayn Parker
brilliant! Thanks mate. On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 3:22 PM, tee weblis...@gmail.com wrote: http://d3895.mysite.westnethosting.com.au/ In other browsers it works ok. I see it in Safari too. Version 4.0.4 (6531.21.10) Giving a width to testimony does the trick. Speaking of Chrome, I find

Re: [WSG] Chrome mystery with width of element

2010-03-11 Thread David McKinnon
Hardly surprising Tee, it's still very much in beta. We'll just have to be patient :) On 11/03/2010, at 6:22 PM, tee wrote: Speaking of Chrome, I find the Mac version quite buggy. *** List Guidelines:

Re: [WSG] NVDA-screen reader software for windows

2010-03-11 Thread Lorrie Laskey
Hello all, Do screen readers exist for Linux operating systems? L On 03/10/10 23:45, Sam Dwyer wrote: Another good alternative at a pinch for testing is the SA2GO screenreader which is also free http://satogo.com/ And if you just want very basic accessibility checking then the firefox

Re: [WSG] NVDA-screen reader software for windows

2010-03-11 Thread Lesley Lutomski
There's one called Orca, which run on a GNOME desktop - I don't know if it's available for other desktops. I've never actually tried it - it's on my to-do list! I'd be interested to hear how you get on with it - e-mail me off-list. Lesley Lorrie Laskey wrote: Hello all, Do screen readers

Re: [WSG] NVDA-screen reader software for windows

2010-03-11 Thread Rob Crowther
Lorrie Laskey wrote: Do screen readers exist for Linux operating systems? Yes, there's Orca for GTK/Gnome: http://projects.gnome.org/orca/ Rob *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

[WSG] Using a dot . in a class name

2010-03-11 Thread Jens-Uwe Korff
Hi all, I've noticed that YouTube uses a dot for its star rating: button class=[...] ratingL ratingL-4.5 It seems to work in browsers, but I'd like to know if this character is valid and if it might have future implications if used that way. Thanks, Jens The information contained in this

[WSG] RE: Using a dot . in a class name

2010-03-11 Thread Sam Dwyer
Stanards indicate that class is a cdata type (http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#h-7.5.2) which, as defined here, http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-cdata accepts any sequence of characters (unlike the id and name attributes which have to begin with z-zA-Z). Cheers, S

[WSG] RE: Using a dot . in a class name

2010-03-11 Thread Tatham Oddie
Hi Jens, It would cause a conflict in CSS because of multiple class selectors: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/selector.html#class-html For example: div class=class1 class2This has two classes/div can be targeted with: div.class1.class2 { color: red; } Using a dot in the class name

Re: [WSG] Using a dot . in a class name

2010-03-11 Thread Chris Knowles
I would have thought the problem would be when you want to use it in a stylesheet... .ratingL-4.5 {...} presumably a browser will read this as two classes. But if it's purely there for something like javascript to grab hold of and interpret it should be ok -- Chris Knowles Jens-Uwe