Re: [WSG] User Interface Design Standards Template

Some useful links for general UI Design: http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/index.html http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Essentials/AquaHIGuidelines/ http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnwue/html/welcome.asp I haven't taken the time (yet) to go through some of these to

Re: [WSG] linking a

Hi Amit, >My reasoning in doing this is that I donot wish users to download the >graphic everytime. I may be missing something - but just using an img tag would have the same effect as the image will remain in the users cache. Cheers, Mark ** T

Re: [WSG] Embedding Flash

Hi Ian, I'm not a big fan of that approach - while it will allow your pages to validate - after the javascript has run then the page will still be invalid XHTML. Unless there is a major reason to be XHTML then I normally use HTML 4.01 - even if only on the pages with flash included. Mark Stanton

Re: [WSG] Embedding Flash

Hi Ian, A bit late maybe but I recently did some browser testing on this: http://markl.f2o.org/experiments/flashvars/ http://markl.f2o.org/experiments/FlashTransparent/ Mostly looking at functionality - but if you are using either flashvars or transparency neither work properly. Hope it helps.

Re: [WSG] DOM setAttribute in IE?

Hi Justin, You can also use the simpler event model and add the event as follows: anchor.onclick = function(){ alert('anchor with rel clicked'); } This works in both IE and Mozilla. For more info on events in javascript the best resource I've found is http://www.quirksmode.org Cheers, Mark

Re: [WSG] Smooth fonts with CSS

The smoothing of fonts is outside the scope of CSS - it is a Operating System setting. Different operating systems handle it differently - for example: - OSX handles fonts beautifully and can make sites far easier to read. - Linux handles fonts almost as good as OSX but not quite - but it is defin

Re: [WSG] reproducing valign=bottom [Virus checkedAU]

Test paragraph Test paragraph Test paragraph Test paragraph Test paragraph Test paragraph Test paragraph Test paragraph Test paragraph Test paragraph Test paragraph Next paragraph Regards, Mark Lynch Development Manager - Business Innovation Online Ernst & Young - Australia http://w

[WSG] Standards compliant HTML and flashvars don't mix [Virus checkedAU]

I did today to confirm my guesses that Mac browsers have problems standards compliant flash (Satay or Hixie). http://markl.f2o.org/blog/2004/06/flashvars-and-valid-html-dont-mix.html Cheers, Mark Lynch PS - if the blog page looks messed up just reload it and it should fix it. ---

Re: [WSG] alternate style sheets expert here? [Virus checkedAU]

d but when switching the core (untitled) should still apply. Here's a snippet I've done a very quick test in IE6 and Mozilla and doesn't seem to have any problems. Cheers, Mark Lynch Development Manager - Business Innovation Online Ernst & Young - Australia http://www.eywa

Re: [WSG] title question [Virus checkedAU]

. The error messages from the validator can be a bit cryptic at times. Regards, Mark Lynch Development Manager - Business Innovation Online Ernst & Young - Australia http://www.eyware.com/ http://www.eyonline.com/ Direct: +612 9248 4038 Fax: +612 9248 4073 Mobile: +61 421 050

Re: [WSG] :hover and accessibility [Virus checkedAU]

This email is to be read subject to the disclaimer below. Hi Rob, One of the things I tend to use wherever I use a :hover is a similar :focus (Not supported in IE) - this gives a similar effect when you are tabbing over elements - For an example see http://markl.f2o.org/ and keep hitting tab

Re: [WSG] Auto Width [Virus checkedAU]

This email is to be read subject to the disclaimer below. Hi Sam, > the (default) setting of width:auto should make the box only large enough to contain it's elements, right? This is not correct - when the width is set to auto the box will fill out to until it is limited by margins or the par

Re: [WSG] Drop Caps [Virus checkedAU]

aven't tested) Cheers Mark Lynch NOTICE - This communication contains information which is confidential and the copyright of Ernst & Young or a third party. If you are not the intended recipient of this communication please delete and destroy all copies and telephon

Re: [WSG] Next Sydney meeting - a fantastic guest presenter

Wow - really looking forward to this - it's something that many of us try to support without ever having used screen reader or even knowing a blind person. I expect there will be a lot of learningand changes in the aftermath. On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 01:11, Tim Lucas wrote: > Thanks Russ, Peter

Re: [WSG] z-indexing

ginal Message - > From: "Mark Lynch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 6:10 AM > Subject: Re: [WSG] z-indexing > > > > > > Hi Simon, > > > > I had a play with the page you put up and h

Re: [WSG] CSS Menu like on Dev-Edge - tutorial anywhere? [Virus checkedAU]

splay of the submenu from 'none' to 'block' which cause the appropriate submenu to display. Another good example of the menus are at gazingus.org - http://www.gazingus.org/html/Using_Lists_for_DHTML_Menus.html Cheers, Mark Lynch Development Manager - Business Innovation Onl

Re: [WSG] z-indexing

Hi Simon, I had a play with the page you put up and have no solution (on Mozilla for Linux anyway) but just thought I'd point out that the z-index property is only valid for positioned elements - absolute, fixed and relative - and should be ignored on static elements. The code in your example

Re: [WSG] a horizontal drops the numbers..? [Virus checkedAU]

s that you must specify the same width for each element. Regards, Mark Lynch Development Manager - Business Innovation Online Ernst & Young - Australia http://www.eyware.com/ http://www.eyonline.com/ Direct: +612 9248 4038 Fax: +612 9248 4073 Mobi

Re: [WSG] CSS Filter (Alpha Opacity) on MZ/NS [Virus checkedAU]

acity and all will be hunky dory. However, the IE method will effectively exlude the use of an filter attribute in the CSS standards as if it (or something like it) is ever implemented then it may not work the same way as IE has implemented it. Regards, Mark Lynch Development Manager - Bus

Re: [WSG] Mark's article is taking off

ple. Goes to show that the WSG list is getting a very wide distribution - well done Russ and Peter, and have good christmas all. Cheers, Mark russ weakley wrote: A few weeks ago, Mark Lynch posted a great article to this list. It has now spread to a number of high profile places: Digital

Re: [WSG] Validated [Virus checkedAU]

the margin property. If dreamweaver is suggesting it then it's a DW bug. Cheers, Mark Lynch Development Manager - Business Innovation Online Ernst & Young - Australia http://www.eyware.com/ http://www.eyonline.com/ Direct: +612 9248 4038 Fax: +612 9248 4073 Mobi

RE: [WSG] Browser Engine Standard??? [Virus checkedAU]

ave a much easier job. Cheers, Mark Lynch Development Manager - Business Innovation Online Ernst & Young - Australia http://www.eyware.com/ http://www.eyonline.com/ Direct: +612 9248 4038 Fax: +612 9248 4073 Mobile: +

Re: [WSG] Advanced Tables Tutorial [Virus checkedAU]

This email is to be read subject to the disclaimer below. Hi Mike, No doubt about it - that is a thorough article on tables - I think I'll put a link to it for further reading. Thanks for the feedback. Mark Lynch Development Manager - Business Innovation Online Ernst & Young -

[WSG] Advanced Tables Tutorial

As we haven't had a Russ Weaklyorial this week I thought I'd contribute this little tutorial I created. The reason I created it was that I have never seen any articles discussing tables and there is a lot of useful and information that I believe is relatively unknown. Please forgive any mist

Re: [WSG] form input [Virus checkedAU]

e is the way you are proposing - unless you can refer to it another way - i.e. does it sit in another div that is referencable? Mark Lynch Development Manager - Business Innovation Online Ernst & Young - Australia http://www.eyware.com/ http://www.eyonline.com/ Direct: +612 9248 4038 Fax: +612 9

Re: [WSG] contextual

Just in case it is not clear from Ben's post - it's something that is not entirely obvious - to get the positioning as you wish you need to make the containing block be position: relative. This will leave it in the normal flow of the document but make it a containing block. Regards, Mark Ben B

Re: [WSG] Browser Test [Virus checkedAU]

This email is to be read subject to the disclaimer below. Just realised there's at least one mistake in my email - feel free to let me know if there are more ;-) With the HTML I have provided #navigation ul{} is not useful as #navigation{} refers to the ul element anyway. Cheers, Mark

Re: [WSG] Browser Test [Virus checkedAU]

stutorial/ and contextual selectors http://css.maxdesign.com.au/selectutorial/ . Mark Lynch Development Manager - Business Innovation Online Ernst & Young - Australia http://www.eyware.com/ http://www.eyonline.com/ Direct: +612 9248 4038 Fax: +612 9248

RE: [WSG] Re: Image float and text wrap [Virus checkedAU]

nchor () tag. Cheers, Mark Lynch Development Manager - Business Innovation Online Ernst & Young - Australia http://www.eyware.com/ http://www.eyonline.com/ Direct: +612 9248 4038 Fax: +612 9248 4073 Mobile: +61 42

Re: [WSG] Safari support for border-collapse?

on of Safari this will be included in. Cheers, Mark Mark Lynch wrote: Hi James, I've just been playing around with this on Konqueror and it doesn't seem to be supported. I'm writing a bit of a tutorial on the two border models for tables and when I am finished it I will post i

Re: [WSG] Safari support for border-collapse?

Hi James, I've just been playing around with this on Konqueror and it doesn't seem to be supported. I'm writing a bit of a tutorial on the two border models for tables and when I am finished it I will post it online and submit some bug reports to kde to see if we can get it supported. If you

Re: [WSG]Targetting CSS at IE 5 and 5.5 only

That's a lot neater. One thing I did notice about your browser targeting was that it picks Konqueror as Mozilla - I think that was with 3.1.4 and 3.2 alpha which includes lots of the Safari fixes. Anton Andreasson wrote: http://tantek.com/CSS/Examples/midpass.html I'm using: * html p { color

[WSG]Targetting CSS at IE 5 and 5.5 only [Virus checkedAU]

This email is to be read subject to the disclaimer below. Came across this on Simon Willison's weblog - http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2003/10/06/targetIE5 http://tantek.com/CSS/Examples/midpass.html Should be helpful - but a very ugly hack! Mark Lynch Development Manager - Bus

Re: [WSG]WSG "Digest mode" [Virus checkedAU]

r the wallflowers. Cheers, Mark Lynch Development Manager - Business Innovation Online Ernst & Young - Australia http://www.eyware.com/ http://www.eyonline.com/ Direct: +612 9248 4038 Fax: +612 9248 4073 Mobile: +61 42

RE: [WSG]Want a little controversy in your life? [Virus checkedAU]

This email is to be read subject to the disclaimer below. Nice analogy and I totally agree ;-) Mark Lynch "Mark St

Re: [WSG]Want a little controversy in your life?

Hi Russ, I would totally agree with that statement in regards to the "success" of a website (unless it's a governement website - where as a contractor you have to comply to thier standards - which are generally pretty good web standards). It's also important to know what the definition of "suc