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

2010-08-19 Thread Grant Bailey
Lyn, If you need to cover IE6 then you might need to make adjustments as it does not recognise max-width. I think the Dean Edwards JavaScript solution helps here. Regards, Grant Bailey -Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Ly

RE: [WSG] Video Accessibility Help

2010-08-19 Thread Erickson, Kevin (DOE)
Hi all, Has anyone heard of Sorenson Communications? They handle free communications for deaf, etc. - http://www.sorensonvrs.com/svrs. From what I can tell, it looks like a good way to try out. Did I mention it's free??? Kevin -Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:l

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

2010-08-19 Thread Lyn Smith
Thanks everyone - the media queries look interesting and I will definitely take on max-width. -- Lyn Smith www.westernwebdesign.com.au Affordable website design Perth WA *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/

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

2010-08-19 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, Ben Davies wrote: I prefer liquid layouts, but I use a max-width property to control how wide my content is allowed to get. That's what I do, too. On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Lyn Smith wrote: Good morning Was wondering what the latest opinions are on using

Re: [WSG] Getting my feet wet in HTML5

2010-08-19 Thread Rob Crowther
David Storey wrote: maybe, but any is not backwards compatible so not really an option to use any time soon, and is (AFAICT) a Mozilla only extension that is not in any specification. As it isn't even in any spec, even if it does get accepted by the CSS working group, it will take ages to be

Re: [WSG] Getting my feet wet in HTML5

2010-08-19 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
On 19/08/2010 11:51, Rob Crowther wrote: Patrick H. Lauke wrote: Also worth pointing out that, to my knowledge, no AT/screen reader currently supports it either, so this may cause some issues for these users at present. Similarly the native semantics of elements like header and nav don't yet h

Re: [WSG] Getting my feet wet in HTML5

2010-08-19 Thread David Storey
On 19 Aug 2010, at 11:51, Rob Crowther wrote: Patrick H. Lauke wrote: On 19/08/2010 10:13, David Storey wrote: So the section or article elements could be taken out of context and displayed elsewhere but retain their headings. You could, but I still use the h1 to h2 inside the sections

Re: [WSG] Getting my feet wet in HTML5

2010-08-19 Thread Rob Crowther
Patrick H. Lauke wrote: On 19/08/2010 10:13, David Storey wrote: So the section or article elements could be taken out of context and displayed elsewhere but retain their headings. You could, but I still use the h1 to h2 inside the sections because no browser uses the sectioning algorithm for

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

2010-08-19 Thread Ben Davies
I prefer liquid layouts, but I use a max-width property to control how wide my content is allowed to get. *Ben Davies* On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Lyn Smith wrote: > Good morning > > Was wondering what the latest opinions are on using fixed width or liquid > design in light of the ever

Re: [WSG] Getting my feet wet in HTML5

2010-08-19 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
On 19/08/2010 10:13, David Storey wrote: So the section or article elements could be taken out of context and displayed elsewhere but retain their headings. You could, but I still use the h1 to h2 inside the sections because no browser uses the sectioning algorithm for thing like styling. Al

Re: [WSG] Getting my feet wet in HTML5

2010-08-19 Thread David Storey
On 18 Aug 2010, at 23:40, Rob Crowther wrote: 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 and elements then you can use just everywhere: Monday Fi