Re: [WSG] unobtrusive js, document.submit & IE

Hi Chris, Perhaps your question is more suited to a JS/DOM list/blog (e.g. evolt.orgor others [1]) than WSG? More JS-type guys there, but I'll give it a go: An example page would be helpful (I've mocked-up a quickie at [2])... but I wonder if the probem is your assumed DOM structure? On 04/03/0

Re: [WSG] two column equal width fixed centred layout

On 8/19/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a best practice for having two columns of equal width side by side > in a fixed width layout? I mean, is it better to float both columns left, > or one left and one right etc. > Are there any examples of this somewhere? You could

Re: [WSG] Printed web pages with text cut in half at the bottom of the page?

Hi Bennie & [EMAIL PROTECTED], On 8/11/05, Bennie, Jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone encountered the problem, when printing a web page, where the last > line of text is being cut in half? > By this I mean that the top half of the letters print on one page and the > bottom half print on

Re: [WSG] Firefox JS Image function

Hi Ben & all @WSG: On 8/2/05, Ben Logan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The following website uses a Javascript function and a target layer to > display a new image every time the page refreshes. > > http://www.theleadsgroup.co.uk/ > > This works fine in IE browsers and in Firefox/Mozilla browsers

Re: [WSG] javascript/DOM resources

Hi Ted & [EMAIL PROTECTED], Just trawling through list emails & this seems to have had no replies so my 2p: I'm sure I remember Jeremy Keith (http://adactio.com/) proposing a central archive of modern JS scripts but can't quite find it right now ... try starting from e.g. http://adactio.com/jour

Re: [WSG] AJAX and accesibility

Check out Derek Featherstone's follow-up to his talk at @media for some interesting viewpoints: http://www.boxofchocolates.ca/archives/2005/06/12/javascript-and-accessibility#more-72 1. You probably always have to do the "back end" stuff anyway, even if you can process lots of stuff that used to b

Re: [WSG] Blockquote or Q?

Apologies for being a bit slow on the uptake but the always informative Roger Johansson (456bereastreet) has this useful article [1] which supports what's been said and provides useful links to the HTML4 spec. James [1]

Re: [WSG] DOM tutorials/books?

On 5/3/05, Zulema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are there any good books or tutorials that I can read/follow to learn all > about > the DOM? If you're looking for a book my favourite is Flanagan's "JavaScript: The Definitive Guide" (O'Reilly) James

Re: [WSG] Imaginary Borders

Hi Chris & [EMAIL PROTECTED], On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:39:42 -0800, Chris Kennon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the following code the tr#n rules are not taking. I've looked > around and have no reason for this failure. Would someone assist? This has been discussed on css-discuss before, e.g. [1]

Re: [WSG] DOM and Standard

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 16:33:27 -0500, berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, but I already found this link. What I was looking for was theory. I'd heartily recommend the O'Reilly "JavaScript: The Definitive Reference" by David Flanagan -- it has a good section on HTML4 events as well as DOM (Gec

Re: [WSG] QuickTime and XHTML validation

Hi Antonio & all @ WSG, On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 09:28:24 +0100, Antonio wrote: > Could someone tell me what to do to get validated an XHTML page with a > QuickTime video embedded? Here is the page : > http://www.temposi.com/index.html The validator doesn't like the tag as it's not in the XHTML DOCTYP

Re: [WSG] heading background continues across container width

On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 16:16:43 +1000, Neerav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Im experimenting with some techniques from dan cederholms book "Web > Standards Solutions" and found that setting a background image like so > > h1 , h2 , h3 , h4 , h5 > { >text-align : left; >padding-bottom: 14px; >

Re: [WSG] New website launch

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 08:08:29 -0400, Ryan Christie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This seems weird to me as the layout uses a fixed width centred div of > > 700px and html has min-width:700px specified + there's an extra > > div#mozscroll which is also 700px so the browser really ought to add > > sc

Re: [WSG] New website launch

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 00:20:04 +0100, Ian Fenn wrote: > I've launched my first website using web standards for a client: > http://www.housedoctor.co.uk/ > Checking the website in browsercam: > http://www.browsercam.com/public.aspx?proj_id=98657 > ...it doesn't seem to be rendering quite right in IE5

Re: [WSG] So stuck.. Nested UL's and IE 6

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 15:01:25 -0400, J Rodgers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why is IE 6 doing what it does to the left nav on this page? > http://pole.uwaterloo.ca/cpadev/engtest/howdoesitwork.html > I want it nested, I know li id= would save me a load of grief. IE 6 seems to > take the line from th

[WSG] Comments + browser tests sought for web page & (novel?) scripting

Dear [EMAIL PROTECTED], I'm a newbie to the list but a fan of standards-based design and am hopefully beginning to get the hang work of some accessibility issues. I'm currently experimenting with some scripting ideas in an existing site. The old site is at but I'

Re: [WSG] Browsing without images

On Sat, 04 Sep 2004 14:16:26 +0100, Patrick H. Lauke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You just realised it, but this has been a huge part of the whole image > replacement discussion from the beginning. > http://www.google.com/search?q=accessibility+image+replacement+css > No, there's no way to test if