RE: [WSG] positive-discrimination === not positive and IMG properties

2005-12-13 Thread Jonathan Bloy
On Tuesday, December 13, 2005 2:31 PM Nathan wrote: I'd just like to point out that the alt text does benefit everyone in situations like providing tooltip content You mean everyone who uses Internet Explorer. That's the only browser that treats alt attributes as a tool tip. Modern browsers,

RE: [WSG] Horizontal CSS based Navigation

2005-11-23 Thread Jonathan Bloy
/articles/sprites/ It's a standards-based technique to replace image maps. --- Jonathan Bloy Web Services Librarian Edgewood College Library Madison, Wisconsin http://library.edgewood.edu winmail.dat

RE: [WSG] DW 8 standards

2005-10-11 Thread Jonathan Bloy
be fantastic. My favorite editor is TSW Webcoder. http://www.tsware.net/ It includes autocomplete. And is very customizable. For example, you can create your own toolbar buttons for whatever tags you want. Plus it's free (as long as you register). --- Jonathan Bloy Web Services Librarian Edgewood

RE: [WSG] AOL browser bug

2005-09-17 Thread Jonathan Bloy
to the instructions and the files you need. http://www.skyzyx.com/archives/94.php --- Jonathan Bloy Web Services Librarian Edgewood College Madison, Wisconsin http://library.edgewood.edu ** The discussion list for http

RE: [WSG] Online Resources for HTML Beginners

2005-08-29 Thread Jonathan Bloy
understanding of more complex concepts. As an aside, A List Apart now sports a classy new design. --- Jonathan Bloy Web Services Librarian Edgewood College Madison, Wisconsin http://library.edgewood.edu ** The discussion list for http

RE: [WSG] Hiding styles from IE5?

2005-06-22 Thread Jonathan Bloy
On Wednesday, June 22, 2005 12:22pm, Roberto Gorjão wrote: I really think, in my very humble opinion, that it's hard to make a website to function in IE 5.0, unless my multiple IE testing method provides me with snip It's a shame that the @import doesn't hide styles from these versions of IE. It

RE: [WSG] Skip Navigation Visibility

2005-04-14 Thread Jonathan Bloy
On Wednesday, April 13, 2005 9:50pm, Lea de Groot wrote: I've seen a couple of sites with a very nice tab interface whereby the 'skip' link became visible on the first tab, but was hidden if that didnt happen. I think Mike Pepper does it at http://www.seowebsitepromotion.com/ That's the method I

RE: [WSG] Web standards as a selling point?

2005-04-12 Thread Jonathan Bloy
On April 12, 2005 4:01 AM, Nick Gleitzman wrote: I find this simple question works really well to couch Standards in terms that clients can understand: 'Do you want your site to work yesterday, or tomorrow?' Guess what the answer is, 100% of the time. You can elaborate a little by explaining

RE: [WSG] Extra hidden content

2005-04-01 Thread Jonathan Bloy
Stevio wrote: How do you handle the situation of hidden elements becoming displayed when the normal stylesheet is not used? Patrick wrote: Pages should make sense when stylesheets are disabled (for users of screenreaders, text-only browsers, users with css disabled, search engine spiders,

RE: [WSG] 3 cols width any column longest and no div clear

2005-03-16 Thread Jonathan Bloy
criteria, but there are a lot of three column examples on the css-discuss wiki. http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=ThreeColumnLayouts HTH --- Jonathan Bloy Web Services Librarian Edgewood College, Madison Wisconsin ** The discussion list for http

RE: [WSG] Redundant Code

2005-03-14 Thread Jonathan Bloy
On Monday, March 14, 2005 5:44pm, Sigurd Magnusson wrote: Don't know the maximum number of pixels a page can have; it very likely depends on the user agent. I would have thought the most robust way is to have a fluid design; which led me to an idea--having a fluid design only in the print media