Re: [WSG] Webpatterns and WebSemantics

2005-11-17 Thread Chris Blown
On 11/18/05, John Allsopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Very interested in people's thoughts,Interesting and challenging idea John. I'll be keeping a keen eye on the site as it develops. We've tried for years to organise a similar ideal within our own crew here and while I'm sure a pattern exists,

Re: [WSG] disabling autocomplete and validation

2005-11-08 Thread Chris Blown
I'd have to agree with Patrick. Poking into the DOM and adding the autocomplete attribute is clean enough for the sort of thing you are doing. I look at it this way.. the markup is what the web server sends. The DOM gives us hooks into the document once its loaded into the browsers memory. I'm su

Re: [WSG] Current practices in Australian web development

2005-10-29 Thread Chris Blown
Thanks John,  Really appreciate your work on this. Cheers Chris B

Re: [WSG] DW 8 & standards

2005-10-12 Thread Chris Blown
We tested DW8 recently, Contribute 3 also uses this latest renderer. Its CSS support is a big improvement over the previous version. It still has a way to go yet. We picked up some issues with negative margins and other issues regarding floats. But if you keep these little issues in mind when bui

[WSG] Criticisms of Internet Explorer

2005-10-07 Thread Chris Blown
G'day Came across this the other day; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticisms_of_Internet_Explorer Cheers Chris

Re: [WSG] Clearleft.com

2005-09-20 Thread Chris Blown
Fluid, simple, clean, valid, green yet warm, big fonts ( like big hair ) Nice work Andy. I like it.

Re: [WSG] Fallback elements inside Object - should they be available in the DOM?

2005-09-20 Thread Chris Blown
Form input elements that are -  alternative - content within an should not be submitted to the webserver via a post or get, I agree with Vlad, its a bug. However whether the element is available from the DOM is another question. Once the document strcuture has been passed by the browser and the D

Re: [WSG] The Big Lie about CSS

2005-09-19 Thread Chris Blown
On 9/19/05, Martin Heiden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: on Montag, 19. September 2005 at 11:01 you wrote:> CSS or you can change the HTML output to > become some_text and define .red in the CSS as> well. Simplified example maybe but it explains things a little bit.But you mix structure and visual disp

Re: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon

2005-09-06 Thread Chris Blown
On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 12:39, Al Sparber wrote: > From: "John Allsopp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > So the use of tables appears to be associated strongly with invalid > > documents (and not only through poorly formed documents, but also > > through the use of invalid attributes associated with td and

Re: [WSG] flash satay firefox bug

2005-05-22 Thread Chris Blown
On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 16:32, Chris Blown wrote: > > I can tab fine through that page. Using FF v1.0.4 under Linux. > Correction.. I can't tab through this. :| http://www.splintered.co.uk/experiments/archives/flash_satay_fir

Re: [WSG] flash satay firefox bug

2005-05-22 Thread Chris Blown
On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 11:38, Patrick H. Lauke wrote: > > Check out the example page in firefox. > > http://www.splintered.co.uk/experiments/76/ I can tab fine through that page. Using FF v1.0.4 under Linux. ** The discussion list for http

RE: [WSG] Text flow and two bottom aligned floats?

2005-05-12 Thread Chris Blown
ipsum dolor sit > amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, > sed diam nonumy eirmod. > > > > cheers > Geoff. > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Behalf Of Chris Blown > > Sent: Thursday, 12

[WSG] Text flow and two bottom aligned floats?

2005-05-12 Thread Chris Blown
Just a quick question.. I am wondering what techniques people would use to layout a paragraph of text with two right floated images and have the text wrap around the images as shown. The main thing is the two images need to both be bottom aligned to each other ;) I have a couple of ideas, but t

Re: [WSG] Styling Forms

2005-04-04 Thread Chris Blown
I'd be pointing you towards styling and elements rather than using or Good examples http://www.themaninblue.com/experiment/InForm/ Cheers Chris On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 13:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Good evening all, > > I know there's two schools of thought regarding forms where one uses

Re: [WSG] Standards compliant site, clients wants to make updates themselves

2005-03-20 Thread Chris Blown
Kay Smoljak wrote: What other options are there, apart from complex, expensive CMS setups (or forgetting about standards)? I've had a lot of success with Macromedia Contribute. You can pick up a copy for around AUD $220 from Harvey Norman or Harris Technology, it totally resp

Re: [WSG] Parent Selectors

2005-03-02 Thread Chris Blown
Um.. Sorry I see what you are trying to do now.. I read that a bit too fast the first time ... Good question! Chris Blown wrote: how about a img { ... } though i'd rather see #nav a img { ... } See for more info ---> http://www.westciv.com/style_master/academy/css_tutorial/s

Re: [WSG] Parent Selectors

2005-03-02 Thread Chris Blown
how about a img { ... } though i'd rather see #nav a img { ... } See for more info ---> http://www.westciv.com/style_master/academy/css_tutorial/selectors/descendant_selectors.html Cheers Chris RMW Web Publishing wrote: I trying do solve a selector (see http://css.maxdesign.com.au/selectutoria

Re: [WSG] IE7 may ship ahead of Longhorn

2005-02-15 Thread Chris Blown
> On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 10:03, John Allsopp wrote: > > > > Being the eternal naysayer that I am, I'll say, um, nay. > > On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 11:35, Bruce Morrison wrote: > > Also it should be noted that IE7 will only be for Longhorn and XP SP2. > Older IE browsers will be with us for a while ye

[WSG] IE7 may ship ahead of Longhorn

2005-02-15 Thread Chris Blown
This doesn't appear to have been posted to the list yet. Sorry in advance if it has. http://news.com.com/Reversal+Next+IE+update+divorced+from+Windows/2100-1032_3-5577263.html Good news for web standards? Chris ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] Default state of radio buttons. (Maybe OT?)

2005-02-02 Thread Chris Blown
digilander.libero.it/chiediloapippo/Engineering/iarchitect/shame.htm Regards Chris Blown ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help **

Re: [WSG] Default state of radio buttons. (Maybe OT?)

2005-02-01 Thread Chris Blown
I hesitantly suggest a good place for this discussion would be on Justin French's Interface list. http://lists.indent.com.au/mailman/listinfo/interface Cheers Chris Blown ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

RE: [WSG] Should we be thankful for IE's non-development?

2005-01-18 Thread Chris Blown
curity angle is the only one that seems to get the point through at the moment. I strongly believe that Microsoft are fully aware of their strangle hold and until something like Firefox becomes a significant threat, they will sit by idle without a care in the world and claim that IE is everything th

Re: [WSG] A quick breakdown of some code today

2004-12-07 Thread Chris Blown
the value has been updated the CSS is not applied. [1] I wonder if switching stylesheets would force an update? Regards Chris Blown [1] http://www.hinterlands.com.au/testing/attribute_selectors.html ** The discussion list for http://w

[WSG] VoiceXML promises voice-to-Web convergence

2004-11-24 Thread Chris Blown
hopefully enable us to create far more accessible websites in the near future [3]. The more developers out there who know about vxml and its associated technologies will help it move into the mainstream [4]. Take a look.. Cheers Chris Blown [1] Working Draft - http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD

Re: [WSG] video standards?

2004-11-16 Thread Chris Blown
uld be nice, so that you could build flash into you own custom application, but for most Linux users the pre-built Flash plugin is fine and MM provide builds for most browsers. Opera under Linux for example can happily use the firefox flash plugin. Regards Chris Blown [1] http://mplayerplug-in.so

Re: Underscores and multiple class names (WAS: Re: [WSG] colgroup alignment issue)

2004-11-14 Thread Chris Blown
arkup to get it straight. Though there is a case for this in relation to reducing CSS redundancy. Regards Chris Blown ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help **

Re: Underscores and multiple class names (WAS: Re: [WSG] colgroup alignment issue)

2004-11-14 Thread Chris Blown
ad, I can't recall.. ;) "and look to make it blue all you do is change the class name to from red to blue, pretty cool eh?" *shivers* Regards Chris Blown ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webst

[WSG] Microsoft says Firefox not a threat to IE [OT?]

2004-11-11 Thread Chris Blown
Thought this might be a worthwhile link for WSG members. Please send flames off list ;) Microsoft says Firefox not a threat to IE http://news.com.com/Microsoft+says+Firefox+not+a+threat+to+IE/2100-1032_3-5448719.html ** The discussion list for

[WSG] sliding faux columns

2004-11-02 Thread Chris Blown
tâs always struck me as one of the biggest missed opportunities of CSS." Its a damn shame really. Regards Chris Blown ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] should you refuse to support IE?

2004-10-18 Thread Chris Blown
On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 22:14, Dean Jackson wrote: > .. > Would you intentionally build a car park that stopped Toyotas from > entering? > If there was a lot of Toyotas parking in my building and being that they all leaked oil in my car park and often their drivers scratched other peoples cars beca

Re: [WSG] thoughts of external links in new window?

2004-10-05 Thread Chris Blown
rrgh! I think the points raised here, very much hit the nail on the head. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2004Sep/0074.html Regards Chris Blown ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgro

Re: [WSG] DOM setAttribute in IE?

2004-08-19 Thread Chris Blown
On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 16:22, Justin French wrote: > Can anyone either: > - suggest an alternate way to achieve this, or This might help http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/methods/attachevent.asp if (anchor.attachEvent) anchor.attachEvent("onClick", ); **

Re: [WSG] RE: Image replacement techniques for linked elements

2004-08-16 Thread Chris Blown
On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 23:44, James Ellis wrote: > What I've done is probably not done often but it is worth considering. > Firefox ships with its minimum font size turned off. > I also use the very same setting. It can be a common adjustment for people who use XFree86 or X.org under unix ( and

Re: [WSG] forms and SSL

2004-08-11 Thread Chris Blown
ugh it seems a perfectly secure practise, visitors might be reluctant entering sensitive data into their browser without the closed little pad lock icon appearing ;) Cheers Chris Blown ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/

[WSG] forms and SSL

2004-08-10 Thread Chris Blown
post request. Or does it? One example is www.americanexpress.com.au which happily accepts members password from the ( http ) front page and posts to a https server. I guess the next question is can you post a clear text request to a https server without complaint? Regards Chris Blown

Re: [WSG] Hacks

2004-07-30 Thread Chris Blown
Andy Budd wrote: So I'm interested to hear what you folks think. Do you hack or are you hack free? If you hack, what methods do you use, why do you use that method, and more importantly, why do you need it in the first place? I try to avoid them. Just this week I had some really good results ha

Re: [WSG] Why do web developers user Firefox?

2004-07-28 Thread Chris Blown
On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 10:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Why is the Firefox browser used by Web Developers? What does it have that > makes it a good tool? - over other browsers? Why not Opera? DOM Inspector Venkman Javascript Debugger Edit CSS Browser Session Saving Open Bookmark Groups in T

Re: [WSG] XHTML 1.0 Transitional and autocomplete

2004-07-26 Thread Chris Blown
Hi All I just noticed that our discussion on "XHTML 1.0 Transitional and autocomplete" went off list. I've posted this in hopes that others may benefit from the info. Cheers Chris Blown On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 13:00, Peter Asquith wrote: > Chris > > Thanks for the ti

Re: [WSG] XHTML 1.0 Transitional and autocomplete

2004-07-26 Thread Chris Blown
access to these IE settings for certain user groups so they can't go and turn it back on. Regards Chris Blown On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 11:08, Peter Asquith wrote: > Hi all > > I'm in the process of validating the markup in a suite of on-line > assessment tools, which includes an

Re: [WSG] id or class on html or body

2004-07-09 Thread Chris Blown
CSS signatures ? Here http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/13291 On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 17:55, Mordechai Peller wrote: > Putting an id or class on the html or body tags is a useful way of > targeting slight variations in style rules with resorting to a second > style sheet. > > I r

Re: [WSG] What do browsers download?

2004-06-30 Thread Chris Blown
by your browser then the best method is to use a local proxy like proximitron. Of course under Firefox you can use the "Live HTTP headers" extension which is awesome. Regards Chris Blown http://hinterlands.com.au On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 22:44, Chris Stratford wrote: > Im not 100%

Re: [WSG] Site Deconstruction, those crafty Germans

2004-06-24 Thread Chris Blown
Thats _really_ bad Browser checking is a thing of the past and should be gladly forgotten. Something that we can all thank the web standards project for. Is there a valid reason to do browser checking? I can't think of one... Regards Chris Blown On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 10:30, Neerav

Re: [WSG] web standards related rss feeds?

2004-06-23 Thread Chris Blown
http://www.sitepoint.com/syndication/ On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 10:45, Neerav wrote: > I have recently become a fan of RSS feeds as an efficient way to trawl > the net for interesting news and articles, and would appreciate knowing > which web standards related rss feeds you read > > Here are 3 go

Re: [WSG] overflow: auto;

2004-06-14 Thread Chris Blown
Some good reading / opinions on this here. ( esp. in Comments ) http://www.9rules.com/whitespace/design/iframes_vs_overflow.php Regards Chris Blown On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 15:10, Chris wrote: > Hi, > > I the process of a design that begs overflow: auto; what is theopinion > on th

RE: [WSG] Standard Hacks?

2004-06-09 Thread Chris Blown
That is true, however already knowing of such hacks enables you to make this kind of judgement. So for the purpose of education these should help you out John http://diveintomark.org/safari/csshacks/ http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=CssHack Enjoy or not ;) On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 18:15, Ka

Re: [WSG] Min-Width IE Workaround ?

2004-06-07 Thread Chris Blown
Thats funny Mark.. I happened to hit Froogle by accident after following that link and look what I found.. http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=min-width%20IE&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wf Good to see Westciv in there. eh John? Regards Chris Blown On Mon, 2004-06-07 at

RE: [WSG] Ten Questions for whomever

2004-06-01 Thread Chris Blown
Yeah, I second that... Russ should be on the list too.. ;) On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 11:12, Kay Smoljak wrote: > you know who I'd like to see interviewed? That Russ guy who runs that cool > site... > > :) > > -- > Kay Smoljak > Senior Developer/QC Leader/Search Optimisation > PerthWeb Pty Ltd - http

Re: [WSG] Ten questions for Simon Willison

2004-06-01 Thread Chris Blown
Nice work again.. Thanks Russ! On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 14:00, russ - maxdesign wrote: > > Read Ten Questions for Simon Willison here: > http://webstandardsgroup.org/features/simon-willison.cfm > * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgro

Re: [WSG] Re: Hybrid layouts

2004-05-28 Thread Chris Blown
tter of it... :) Chris Blown PS. I only just realised that the original thread had no subject, I completely missed that one.. I need a beer.. Alan Milnes wrote: I think part of this debate is because many developers have years of experience and know all the tricks of getting tables laid out how

Re: [WSG]

2004-05-28 Thread Chris Blown
often lead to compromises. I'd rather have as much presentation in CSS as possible with one table than the horrible mess shown in that article. Its an easy choice really. Regards Chris Blown Jamie Mason wrote: Tables are for tabular data only, not for use for layouts as a positional grid

Re: [WSG]

2004-05-28 Thread Chris Blown
I would like to see a third version that uses a combination of the two, the best of each method merged.. The Hybrid Approach. Regards Chris Blown On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 17:41, Gary Menzel wrote: > > Sergio Villarreal has written 'Tables Vs. CSS - A Fight to the > Death', >

Re: [WSG] Browsers Emulator - On open source [OT]

2004-05-26 Thread Chris Blown
Sorry, I just couldn't let this one go.. Its a common misconception that you cannot sell open source software. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html ;) On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 11:56, Justin French wrote: > Screw opensource -- I would pay serious cash for such a tool! This is > MUCH better

RE: [WSG] Browsers Emulator

2004-05-25 Thread Chris Blown
That's true, running IE6 under Linux via wine [1] even introduces extra quirks and bugs, which I sometimes falsely blame IE for until I go an actually check on XP. It does work relatively well though, and its handy for quick testing. Regards Chris Blown [1] http://www.winehq.com On Wed,

Re: [WSG] naming a form so it validates?

2004-05-23 Thread Chris Blown
Ooops, that should of been ;) if ( document.getElementById("name").value == "" ) { alert("Please enter a name"); } On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 11:26, robert e. lee wrote: > I have had a form up for a long time and it vallidates as xhtml 1.0 > transitional. But I have to wonder why it is that

Re: [WSG] naming a form so it validates?

2004-05-23 Thread Chris Blown
You should be able to do all your client side checking using DOM access methods. The name attribute in form is no longer needed nor desirable. Rough example if ( document.getElementById("name") == "" ) { alert("Please enter a name"); } Cheers Chris On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 11:26, robert

Re: [WSG] Safari on x86

2004-05-21 Thread Chris Blown
That's what we did. We have one little lonely eMac in our office for browser testing and other Mac related development projects. It was a necessary upgrade since the old Power PC 7200/120 just couldn't cope anymore. Chris On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 16:19, Michael Donnermeyer wrote: > You'd be better

Re: [WSG] Tables are bad because... Crazy idea for validation.

2004-05-19 Thread Chris Blown
At some stage, but that does look different to what I recall. Certainly a step in the right direction. On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 14:22, Mark Stanton wrote: > Hi Chris > > Have you tried turning on verbose output? This can be done by going to > the extended interface at http://validator.w3.org/detaile

RE: [WSG] Tables are bad because... Crazy idea for validation.

2004-05-19 Thread Chris Blown
Good point Jamie. Just a way out thought.. Imagine if the w3c validator went that extra mile and perhaps, given the recommendations offered in the standard, provided some extra feedback on problem areas of a document. eg. Warning : Line 100 to 150 : Document contains heavy element nesting Wh

Re: [WSG] Tables are bad because...

2004-05-19 Thread Chris Blown
es and it seems easy now, but here read this, and get back to me" hand them a good book on modern markup authoring techniques. If they see the light then great, otherwise .. well tough. The popular response to Andy's article that using the odd table without

Re: [WSG] CSS support table?

2004-05-17 Thread Chris Blown
For Mozilla based browsers, have a look here. http://devedge.netscape.com/toolbox/sidebars/ Though no mention of browser support, links into the correct section of the w3c are very helpful. Chris On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 01:46, Razvan Pop wrote: > !!blue wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > >Where can I fi

Re: [WSG] Application of web standards in real life (new thread)

2004-05-12 Thread Chris Blown
ou managed to do it ;) Regards Chris Blown http://hinterlands.com.au On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 10:14, James Ellis wrote: > Sorry about this everyone, flames to my address if you want. Trying again from > scratch. > > Cheers > James > > > > >

RE: [WSG] csscreator.com multimenu

2004-05-09 Thread Chris Blown
vertical-align : bottom; On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 15:54, theGrafixGuy wrote: > A CSS question - I have some centered text formatted via a class in id=""> and I need it at the bottom of the div but still HORIZONTALLY > centered - how? > > Thanks for the help in advance > > Brian > > **

Re: [WSG] Question on javascript

2004-05-07 Thread Chris Blown
rt.com/articles/tableruler/ I used to think reliability was an issue, but that changed one I realised that most modern browsers all maintain a standard DOM interface. Now if I could only poke into the DOM with CSS... ;) Regards Chris Blown http://hin

Re: [WSG] WYSIWYG editor

2004-05-06 Thread Chris Blown
I am correct in saying that xstandard doesn't support Linux and Mac OS? On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 13:34, Vlad Alexander (XStandard) wrote: > Hi David, > > One way to pick the right editor for your needs is to go to the Web sites of > WYSIWYG vendors and check the quality of the code they generate fo

Re: [WSG] Question on javascript

2004-05-06 Thread Chris Blown
ask them to upgrade, offering some of the benefits. Surprisingly most people upgrade when provided a link. Regards Chris Blown http://hinterlands.com.au On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 09:19, Mark Stanton wrote: > I agree with Ryan - coding for specific browsers is a futile excerise. > > We do use

Re: [WSG] CSS: writing-mode / MS runs W3C?

2004-05-03 Thread Chris Blown
You've caught me out Simon! I might of let that statement play devils advocate, so I could get up on the soap box for a bit. ;) Regards Chris Blown On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 00:58, Simon Jessey wrote: > I'm afraid you've misinterpreted what I was trying to say, Chris. What > I

Re: [WSG] CSS: writing-mode / MS runs W3C?

2004-05-02 Thread Chris Blown
is already happening ) Microsoft might just sit up and take notice. The real issue is, Microsoft have the power, resources and money to free these features to the world and truth be told they don't care... Regards Chris Blown * Th

Re: [WSG] marquee text

2004-04-21 Thread Chris Blown
Have a look at http://devedge.netscape.com/toolbox/examples/2001/stock-ticker/ Regards Chris Blown http://hinterlands.com.au On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 16:22, Jackie Reid wrote: > My client has asked me for a section of scrolling text dammit! > > > Have searched online...cant f

Re: [WSG] Ten Questions for Eric Meyer - a WSG interview

2004-04-20 Thread Chris Blown
Nice work Russ.. keep them coming! Eric's level headed attitude never fails to impress. Regards Chris Blown http://hinterlands.com.au On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 13:01, russ - maxdesign wrote: > Hi all, > Announcing an exciting addition to the WSG site. I have been interviewing a >

Re: [WSG] Yarr, I think IE hates me :(

2004-04-13 Thread Chris Blown
Yep, I hear you.. IE on Mac, has a real disdain for me. The site looks great BTW. I'd get the content validating on the w3c and then see if the IE problems continue. For example, the missing on line 114. Regards Chris Blown http://hinterlands.com.au On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 13:45, Ben

Re: [WSG] Footer on the very bottom of the viewing port

2004-04-08 Thread Chris Blown
Hey Mike, Check here http://scott.sauyet.name/CSS/Demo/FooterDemo2.html Regards Chris Blown http://hinterlands.com.au On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 17:01, Mike Kear wrote: > I want to have a footer stuck to the bottom of the browser window, but > if the window reduces in size, the footer goes ov

Re: [WSG] New CSS site

2004-03-11 Thread Chris Blown
You can put the favicon.ico file in the webroot. This works without the need for any markup. However this doesn't work for IE. Works fine other browsers. IE is also picky about the file format. Cheers Chris Blown http://hinterlands.com.au On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 13:35, Universal Head

Re: [WSG] New CSS site

2004-03-11 Thread Chris Blown
Very nice Peter. Smooth and clean is all good. I used to play around with Cinema 4D on the go ole Amiga. Heh, that brings back some fond memories. ;) Cheers Chris Blown http://hinterlands.com.au On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 11:49, Universal Head wrote: > Hi all > > Just about to be o

Re: [WSG] Cascading background colors

2004-03-10 Thread Chris Blown
Thank you.. Mr Weakley. :D > > Does all of this make sense? If not, there is more on specificity here: > http://css.maxdesign.com.au/selectutorial/advanced_conflict.htm > > Forgive me for sounding like a school teacher :) > Russ > > * Th

Re: [WSG] Dynamically populating stylesheets?

2004-03-09 Thread Chris Blown
he members choice of colours it does stop members from setting the text and background colours both to black. I've seen this sort of thing before and it goes something like this "Why can't I see anything its all black?" Regards Chris Blown http://hinterlands.com.au On Wed, 2

Re: [WSG] Purpose of this mailing list

2004-03-09 Thread Chris Blown
rrent activity high volume by a long shot, if you want volume join something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] :| Pushing the idea of reading and searching the WSG mail archive before posting is a good way to reduce lots of repeat questions. Overall I think the list is great. Regards Chris Blown

RE: [WSG] turning back to the dark side...

2004-03-04 Thread Chris Blown
That's good advice. BTW. Using tables doesn't automatically make your markup invalid. You can happily use tables and still get 100% compliant markup. Chris Blown http://hinterlands.com.au > Why not just relax a little and do a table for the part that's giving you > all th

Re: [WSG] SimpleBits ripped - is this for real?

2004-03-04 Thread Chris Blown
Yeah, sorry I should of mentioned that Dan Cederholm is well aware of it. On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 12:57, Michael Zeltner wrote: > oops, it has already been reported... > > too late... * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *

[WSG] SimpleBits ripped - is this for real?

2004-03-04 Thread Chris Blown
I cannot not believe this.. How can someone be so dumb and lazy to do such a blatant rip off. Is this for real? I just had to post this, it boils my blood to see this sort of thing! http://www.simplebits.com/ http://ranada.com/home.xhtml Cheers Chris Blown http://hinterlands.com.au

Re: [WSG] He said she said :-) FIR and other such techniques

2004-03-03 Thread Chris Blown
tion of said content. Regards Chris Blown On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 15:57, scott parsons wrote: > OK, I have a question then with most image replacement techniques for > headings the content remains in the html > eg. title here please > > But is an image of this text in a pretty font or

Re: [WSG] Nicely styled Hx tags

2004-03-03 Thread Chris Blown
but presentation. I agree with the idea that using the content property for adding content is a bad idea, but using content for replacement is not so bad as everyone is making out. Anyway since only a couple of browsers support this, its not a real alternative, yet... Cheers Chris Blown > Per

Re: [WSG] Nicely styled Hx tags

2004-03-03 Thread Chris Blown
users who don't have this font. From my experience with Linux "Times" is the most common. font-family : Times New Roman, Times, serif; Regards Chris Blown > Dave Shea has some nice examples of using Times New Roman, half way > through the article at: > http://www.mezzobl

Re: [WSG] Nicely styled Hx tags

2004-03-02 Thread Chris Blown
Also http://www.hinterlands.com.au/testing/css_image_replacement.html http://www.hinterlands.com.au/testing/css/css_image_replacement.css Chris On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 14:55, Scott Mebberson wrote: > I'm not sure about any font examples like the Visibone one, however, did > you ever see this at

[WSG] CSS3 Hyperlink Presentation Module - Working Draft

2004-02-29 Thread Chris Blown
right direction. Any thoughts? Cheers Chris Blown * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *

RE: [WSG] Styleswitching

2004-02-26 Thread Chris Blown
The "menus" div is overlapping "sidemenu" causing the top entry in the menu to miss its hover selector ( at least in FireFox here ) Regards Chris Blown On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 15:18, Chris Blown wrote: > Good stuff.. Mike. > > Not sure if its just me, but I no

RE: [WSG] Styleswitching

2004-02-26 Thread Chris Blown
Good stuff.. Mike. Not sure if its just me, but I noticed that the Acoustic Emission Instrumentation link only hovers when my mouse is over "Instrumentation" Linux FireFox 0.8 ( gtk2 / xft ) Cheers Chris Blown On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 13:45, Michael Kear wrote: > Whooh! I

Re: [WSG] silly question about meta tags

2004-02-25 Thread Chris Blown
this technique, very handy for checking keywords. Cheers Chris Blown On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 15:16, Universal Head wrote: > Dumb question but ... > > Do you repeat your META tags on every page of your site, or only the > index page? &g

Re: [WSG] silly question about meta tags

2004-02-25 Thread Chris Blown
meta tags should generally be added to each page, listing keywords that are accurately relevant to the content on the page. Keep the list short and precise. Cheers Chris Blown PS. Not all search engines read nor care about meta keywords On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 15:16, Universal Head wrote

[WSG] W3C 1st draft of the CSS media type "reader"

2004-02-25 Thread Chris Blown
The first draft of the 'reader' media type. Published to get some early feedback, especially on whether 'reader' is necessary and implementable. http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-css3-reader-20040224/ * The discussion list for http://webstandardsg

Re: [WSG] Debrief and thanks to Russ & Peter

2004-02-23 Thread Chris Blown
Sorry I missed it guys, looks like I missed a good one.. damn! Thanks for posting the presentation slides.. Regards Chris Blown On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 22:50, t.lucas wrote: > Tonight was my first WSG meeting and I'd just like to say a big thanks to > Russ and Peter for organising s

RE: [WSG] Aural Property in CSS2???

2004-02-18 Thread Chris Blown
used in CSS. http://www.voicexml.org/specs/multimodal/x+v/11/examples/ Still a long way to go... Regards Chris Blown > Another interesting point is that (AFAIK) screen readers have some of the > worst CSS support out of any of the browsers barring lynx (which doesn't > support C

[WSG] Patents and Open Standards

2004-02-17 Thread Chris Blown
3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/ http://xml.coverpages.org/patents.html [ Warning : Super Long ] Regards Chris Blown * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *

RE: [WSG] Cache Tutorial

2004-02-17 Thread Chris Blown
matted "Last-Modifed". Thanks Chris Blown On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 13:41, Mark Stanton wrote: > I really don't think this is OT at all. HTTP is the basis of everything we > do and is very much a "web standard". > > I think that if you put the following line o

Re: [WSG] Cache Tutorial

2004-02-16 Thread Chris Blown
server responds with a "304 Not Modified" response when the image is cached, so that the browser doesn't bother to reload the image. I cannot seem to emulate this behaviour via a fpassthru() PHP call. Regards Chris Blown On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 10:04, Mark Stanton wrote: > Ve

Re: [WSG] Friday Afternoon Funny

2004-02-12 Thread Chris Blown
s on how ~430px (whats the em?) is > about the right line length - @ alistapart although where it is I don't > know as the search function has disappeared from that site. > > Cheers > James > > > Chris Blown wrote: > > >Thought I'd share this one w

[WSG] Friday Afternoon Funny

2004-02-12 Thread Chris Blown
their eyes" LOL! Cheers Chris Blown * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *

Re: [WSG] label for multiple elements

2004-02-10 Thread Chris Blown
or="car0" id="car0" for="car1" id="car1" and still happily use name="cars[]" Regards Chris Blown On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 15:03, James Ellis wrote: > This also reminds me of a question I've been meaning to ask: > > When submitt

[WSG] W3C Recommendations RDF & OWL

2004-02-10 Thread Chris Blown
rdf-syntax-grammar-20040210/ Regards Chris Blown * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *

Re: [WSG] code for a form

2004-02-09 Thread Chris Blown
If you need something quick then http://www.hotscripts.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?bool=AND&query=contact+form&catid=all On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 18:02, Universal Head wrote: > I don't know if this is on-topic or not, but can anyone direct me to a > simple way of creating a form that has a few fields t

Re: [WSG] RE: Opening pages in new windows... [We're done here] [OT]

2004-02-08 Thread Chris Blown
. Cheers Chris Blown > A bit of protocol. Might be best to start a new thread (and paste in any > quotes) rather than changing the subject if changing the topic completely. > Makes it easier for people that view the list via threads on > mail-archive.com. Much of the recent discussi

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