Re: [WSG] Yes or No? HTML5 FOR WEB DESIGNERS

2010-08-18 Thread jeffrey morin
It's a good starter book to introduce you to HTML5. It's not a reference manual just a good starter book. You still should read the W3C spec and get the other book Introduction to HTML5. I will disagree with Jason Grant that it's too early to start using HTML5. Because HTML5 supports the

Re: [WSG] Yes or No? HTML5 FOR WEB DESIGNERS

2010-08-18 Thread tee
On Aug 18, 2010, at 7:06 AM, jeffrey morin wrote: It's a good starter book to introduce you to HTML5. It's not a reference manual just a good starter book. You still should read the W3C spec and get the other book Introduction to HTML5. I will disagree with Jason Grant that it's too

Re: [WSG] :: opera mini 5.1 ::

2010-08-18 Thread tee
On Aug 6, 2010, at 6:59 PM, David Storey wrote: On 7 Aug 2010, at 00:44, tee wrote: On Aug 5, 2010, at 4:23 PM, David Storey wrote: Not strictly true. First of all Opera Mini compresses the content and images (which is one of the reasons for the image quality setting - it will

Re: [WSG] Yes or No? HTML5 FOR WEB DESIGNERS

2010-08-18 Thread David Storey
On 18 Aug 2010, at 20:45, tee wrote: On Aug 18, 2010, at 7:06 AM, jeffrey morin wrote: It's a good starter book to introduce you to HTML5. It's not a reference manual just a good starter book. You still should read the W3C spec and get the other book Introduction to HTML5. I will

Re: [WSG] Yes or No? HTML5 FOR WEB DESIGNERS

2010-08-18 Thread Prisca schmarsow
Hi ;) as the subject has expanded to HTML5 - use it or not yet - I thought I might throw in a sample site. This is a new site for a webdesign course I run and teach, recently put live, setup in WordPress, and using some HTML5. (I will not teach next year's students HTML5 yet - but will introduce

Re: [WSG] Yes or No? HTML5 FOR WEB DESIGNERS

2010-08-18 Thread David Storey
On 18 Aug 2010, at 21:17, Prisca schmarsow wrote: Hi ;) as the subject has expanded to HTML5 - use it or not yet - I thought I might throw in a sample site. This is a new site for a webdesign course I run and teach, recently put live, setup in WordPress, and using some HTML5. (I will not

Re: [WSG] Yes or No? HTML5 FOR WEB DESIGNERS

2010-08-18 Thread Prisca schmarsow
Thanks, David :) I read up on a few different angles on this - one as you write, hgroup should contain 2 headings, and h1 and h2 tags. But when I initially read about it - and then confirmed for this site - it could also contain the main header with a strapline, therefore include a p See this

Re: [WSG] Getting my feet wet in HTML5

2010-08-18 Thread Rob Crowther
On 18/08/10 17:51, tee wrote: This example doesn't look very semantic to me :-) Is there a tag that can replace or substitute the use of headings? If you properly nest your section and article elements then you can use just h1 everywhere: section h1Monday/h1 article h1First post/h1

Re: [WSG] Yes or No? HTML5 FOR WEB DESIGNERS

2010-08-18 Thread Rob Crowther
On 18/08/10 21:16, Prisca schmarsow wrote: See this HTML5 doctor's site article: http://html5doctor.com/the-hgroup-element/ The example with the strapline that article links to is this: hgroup h1a href=http://miniapps.co.uk/; title=Home pagespanMiniApps/span/a/h1 h2HTML5 apps for Apple

[WSG] Current thinking on fixed width/liquid design ?

2010-08-18 Thread Lyn Smith
Good morning Was wondering what the latest opinions are on using fixed width or liquid design in light of the ever increasing size of monitor screens. Having just got a new computer with a 24 screen, I was not happy with the look of some of my liquid design sites. While they are OK in

Re: [WSG] Current thinking on fixed width/liquid design ?

2010-08-18 Thread David Laakso
Lyn Smith wrote: Was wondering what the latest opinions are on using fixed width or liquid design in light of the ever increasing size of monitor screens. Media Quires [1] [2] seems to open some doors [if not windows]... [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-mediaqueries/ [2]

Re: [WSG] Video Accessibility Help

2010-08-18 Thread Spellacy, Michael
Every little bit helps, John. These look like good places to start. Thank you. If anybody else has anything to share please keep it coming. I stumbled upon a site called subply.com which will create caption files (in various flavors) based on the audio track in video. It seems like a