Re: [WSG] Mobile sites

2012-05-15 Thread Andrew Harris
ier above the dedicated site - the stand alone app - but that's another argument altogether :-) And while I've been rabbiting on writing this email Enid has come back and made a similar point far more economically than I. -- Andrew Harris and...@woowoowoo.com http://www.woowoowoo.com

[WSG] accessibility statements... what are they worth?

2011-09-04 Thread Andrew Harris
here some other sort of trigger that can be used to prompt them to action? After all, this isn't just some business selling widgets, it's a public transport ticketing system! -- Andrew Harris and...@woowoowoo.com

[WSG] spam in the site...

2010-12-12 Thread Andrew Harris
A query about the http://webstandardsgroup.org/ site. There's a heap of spammy stuff in it... eg: check the resources section! http://webstandardsgroup.org/manage/resource.cfm The decreasing signal to noise ratio just makes the site useless, is anyone maintaining/managing it? -- Andrew H

Re: [WSG] lazyweb://schema.agnostic.URLs

2010-11-10 Thread Andrew Harris
tp and https versions that are cached > even when moving from insecure to secure. I actually expect to see a cached version of each, not a single, shared object. We'll be doing a bit more testing, but at this stage, it looks like a thumbs up for our situation. Thanks again to all who contri

Re: [WSG] lazyweb://schema.agnostic.URLs

2010-11-09 Thread Andrew Harris
oh, thank you! On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Mathew Robertson wrote: > works fine. > http://www.no-http.org/ > http://www.webreference.com/html/tutorial2/3.html > cheers, > Mathew Robertson -- Andrew Harris and...@woowoowoo.com http://ww

[WSG] lazyweb://schema.agnostic.URLs

2010-11-09 Thread Andrew Harris
e source of the information now, or even whether it's correct usage - can anyone shed some light? or even offer an alternative solution! I'm vaguely thinking there might be an elegant apache solution for serving the right CSS. -- Andrew Harris and...@woowoowoo.com

[WSG] to submit or not to submit?

2010-09-07 Thread Andrew Harris
hose were all I had on my machine at the time so I haven't done any more tests, but I thought it was curious. Any ideas on what might be the 'standard' behaviour - if one is specified? failing that, how about just a 'desired' behaviour ;-) -- Andrew Harris and...@woowoowoo

[WSG] HTML5 offline storage question

2010-08-08 Thread Andrew Harris
HTML5 designed for this sort of heavy lifting? are there storage limitations? on an iPad? I've found a few examples of the tool in action and read bits and pieces, but it all seems to be about storing small chunks of data, not humunguous great whumps of it. -- Andrew Harris and...@woowoowo

[WSG] that old IE6 thing...

2010-06-29 Thread Andrew Harris
refox (all versions): 23% Blog 2: Audience: Students IE6: 9.8% Firefox (all versions): 40.5% Proving once again, that knowing your audience is key. (and perhaps that librarians are a bit slow to upgrade ;) -- Andrew Harris and...@woowoowoo.com http://www.woowoowo

Re: [WSG] Help with mobile MIME type always fails test

2010-04-16 Thread Andrew Harris
x CMS, it's just a matter of adding a line to the beginning of my mobile template, if you are running a CMS you may have a similar setting. I'm going to leave that until Monday when I've got time to back out

Re: [WSG] developing a web strategy...

2009-12-01 Thread Andrew Harris
ecommending themselves or submitting proposals etc? What > are you wanting out of this process? > > Cheers, > > Nathanael Boehm -- Andrew Harris and...@woowoowoo.com http://www.woowoowoo.com ~~~ <*>< ~~~

[WSG] developing a web strategy...

2009-12-01 Thread Andrew Harris
f web standards, so there's the tie-in! -- Andrew Harris and...@woowoowoo.com http://www.woowoowoo.com ~~~ <*>< ~~~ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstan

Re: [WSG] [OT] Google search/index/webmaster help

2009-11-01 Thread Andrew Harris
up the little slice of code I needed. Now, the sitemap.xml as well as the kml and gpx feeds are all served correctly as text/xml - did I say how I love this community? - and I've a grudging respect for MySource Matrix too! -- Andrew Harris

Re: [WSG] [OT] Google search/index/webmaster help

2009-11-01 Thread Andrew Harris
onkeys at google is really not an option. Still trying to convince our fine institution of that ;-) -- Andrew Harris and...@woowoowoo.com http://www.woowoowoo.com ~~~ <*>< ~~~ *** List Guidelines: htt

Re: [WSG] [OT] Google search/index/webmaster help

2009-10-30 Thread Andrew Harris
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Re: [WSG] [OT] Google search/index/webmaster help

2009-10-29 Thread Andrew Harris
ogle doesn't look at the metadata tags, but it makes me wonder. Funny how asking your peers to check your work suddenly makes you aware of basic things you'd missed... yes, my pages weren't valid - but they are now!!! ;-p -- Andrew Harris and...@woo

Re: [WSG] [OT] Google search/index/webmaster help

2009-10-29 Thread Andrew Harris
w.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd";> > > www.unimelb.edu.au/campuses/maps.html > > > www.unimelb.edu.au/campuses/maps2.html > > > then submit you new sitemap in google webmaster tools > Goodluck > Craig > > > Andrew Harris wrote: > > Yes,

[WSG] [OT] Google search/index/webmaster help

2009-10-29 Thread Andrew Harris
ts = pathetic!) http://go.unimelb.edu.au/6t6 (1 result = totally pathetic!) Hopefully, it's nothing completely bleeding obvious that will humiliate me in front of my peers ;-) -- Andrew Harris and...@woowoowoo.com

[WSG] legal list numbering

2009-08-25 Thread Andrew Harris
whether this is addressed in html 5. * BTW: I've read lots of legal documents and I reckon the text can mostly be replaced with blah blah blah without affecting their meaning. -- Andrew Harris and...@woowoowoo.com http

Re: [WSG] Chrome now higher traffic than IE

2009-03-02 Thread Andrew Harris
#x27; site. -- Andrew Harris and...@woowoowoo.com http://www.woowoowoo.com ~~~ <*>< ~~~ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscrib

Re: [WSG] Question on servers and Email campaign

2008-11-11 Thread Andrew Harris
me being paranoid. You did right! -- Andrew Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.woowoowoo.com ~~~ <*>< ~~~ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] Marking Up Poems

2008-06-19 Thread Andrew Harris
A poem is, essentially, a block quotation, is it not? I'd probably be throwing in a cite attribute too :-) http://reference.sitepoint.com/html/blockquote/cite -- Andrew Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.woowoowo

[WSG] making big selections

2008-05-01 Thread Andrew Harris
for a more user friendly representation. So, any thoughts? either on the problem, or suggested solutions / UI libraries / examples. -- Andrew Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.woowoowoo.com ~~~ <*>< ~~~ *** List G

Re: [WSG] Where did I come from?

2008-01-18 Thread Andrew Harris
break the behaviour or use unnecessary 'post' values that cause 'resubmit' problems. That being said, I think a back button is a bad idea as it only ingrains this behaviour... users end up believing if there is no button, they can't get back. -- Andrew Harris [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [WSG] Browser test: Construct

2007-12-08 Thread Andrew Harris
yum! that is excellent - FF2 on my mac loved it, but Safari 3 didn't respond to keyboard commands :-( > I just created a layout tool: http://lab.christianmontoya.com/construct/ -- Andrew Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.woowo

[WSG] Re: multilingual website advice

2007-11-01 Thread Andrew Harris
Wow, what can I say? Just three hours ago, I asked a question and have already received three careful, helpful replies, with exactly the sort of information I was seeking! Thank you so much, this list is brilliant! On 11/2/07, Andrew Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been as

[WSG] multilingual website advice

2007-11-01 Thread Andrew Harris
ying on babelfish ;-) Thanks in advance. -- Andrew Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.woowoowoo.com ~~~ <*>< ~~~ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://websta

[WSG] safari display issue : help please!

2007-08-23 Thread Andrew Harris
ake Safari display the form as it should. Thus far, I have had no luck - any takers? Worth noting that safari 3 displays the page correctly, but that's not much help in the here and now. cheers. -- Andrew Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ww

Re: [WSG] commenting javascript in script tags

2007-04-26 Thread Andrew Harris
n pages. The variable is pretty much unique to the page, so while an external file could be created, it's pointless for one line of code... especially when dealing with a large number of users of varying skill levels - copy and paste code samples into an editable area in the head is nice and

Re: [WSG] commenting javascript in script tags

2007-04-25 Thread Andrew Harris
sert a variable relevant to a particular page. So, abhorrent as it might be, the script snippet has to live in the head. -- Andrew Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.woowoowoo.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.or

[WSG] commenting javascript in script tags

2007-04-25 Thread Andrew Harris
are we talking? Has anyone ever seen this happen? Can't we safely leave behind what is essentially a hack? While I'm on the topic - what about the whole thing? Should I be using that? What are the possible consequences of ignoring it like the vast majority of page authors?

Re: [WSG] WANAU - anyone heard of them?

2007-04-10 Thread Andrew Harris
lid. These are not little systems - to upgrade or change vendor would cost many many millions of dollars. Not valid and therefore, strictly speaking, not accessible. Still, I couldn't be 100% certain, but I'd take a guess that no-one apart from the validator cared or even noticed. -- A

Re: [WSG] colour matching transparent png files

2007-04-10 Thread Andrew Harris
- not really interested in the javascript IE/hacks. -- Andrew Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.woowoowoo.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] colour matching transparent png files

2007-04-10 Thread Andrew Harris
r way. Saved me heaps of time and frustration though! -- Andrew Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.woowoowoo.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org

[WSG] colour matching transparent png files

2007-04-10 Thread Andrew Harris
I get it almost right in Firefox and IE7 goes crazy or pretty good in both and Opera and Safari fall off. It's cross browser incompatibility gone mad! Is it just my browsers? (I doubt it!) Has anyone got any experience or resources that they can ease my troubles with? -- Andrew