Re: [WSG] IE7 zoom collapses horizontal tab navigation

2007-06-22 Thread Miles Tillinger
Hi Paul, Its ok when using the View > Text Size > options, but if I use the Zoom tool in the bottom right hand corner to set a percentage zoom, that's when the problem occurs. Is it the Zoom tool you tried? If so, then I'm even more confused! Cheers, Miles. IMPORTANT: This e-mail, includin

[WSG] IE7 zoom collapses horizontal tab navigation

2007-06-21 Thread Miles Tillinger
This is a centered tab menu based on Alistapart's Sliding Doors concept. The IE7 zoom tool is making the anchor text in the tabs 'collapse' away from the tab background images. See example: http://www.streetdaddy.com/temp/ce/ It only happens when the li is display: block (needed to center the ul

RE: [WSG] AIMIA Awards

2006-02-27 Thread Miles Tillinger
Further investigation shows that there are a few finalists that have somewhat adhered to standards, but hardly to the level of satisfaction that many WSG regulars would want. I think they're missing a category: BEST ACCESSIBILITY -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [WSG] AIMIA Awards

2006-02-27 Thread Miles Tillinger
I am going to the Awards ceremony at the Adelaide Convention Centre as my work was given some invites. I'm interested to see what sort of role standards has played in the finalists projects and I'll be sure to ask lots of annoying questions if I get the chance! Sifting through the finalists doesn

RE: [WSG] new yahoo user interface library

2006-02-14 Thread Miles Tillinger
I am in awe!  I'm yet to score a commercial excuse to implement an AJAX solution, but I've been playing around with scriptaculous and other frameworks.  This offering from Yahoo is just amazing and looks to provide yet more functionality.  I'm sure this will be appreciated by everyone who is

[WSG] 3 column layout - centre column forced below side columns in IE at low resolution

2006-02-08 Thread Miles Tillinger
I recently launched an overhaul of the interface of www.education.gov.au. Its been a bit of a battle trying to get the client to sacrifice things for the sake of accessibility and standards-compliance, not to mention the state of the legacy content and CMS templates, battles still raging a

RE: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-12 Thread Miles Tillinger
Could CSS be used to display that two-column table layout as a single column? Say. for small screen devices like PDA's or XDA's? Seems to be a flaw of table-based layouts and crosses platform-independence off the list... correct me if I'm wrong (I usually am)... Regards, Miles. > As for a

[WSG] Friday fun with Suckerfish dropdowns

2005-08-25 Thread Miles Tillinger
Has anyone been able to successfully right align the Suckerfish horizontal dropdown menu without defining the width of the container or UL? Preferably would work in Opera and Mac IE5 if possible. I am using the following example: http://www.htmldog.com/articles/suckerfish/bones/ MT. ***

RE: [WSG] 100% width table inside a DIV [SOLVED]

2005-08-17 Thread Miles Tillinger
ne! Regards, Miles. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Miles Tillinger > Sent: Wednesday, 17 August 2005 3:27 PM > To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org > Subject: [WSG] 100% width table inside a DIV > > Hi, &g

[WSG] 100% width table inside a DIV

2005-08-16 Thread Miles Tillinger
Hi, Consider the following example: http://www.streetdaddy.com/temp/index.html http://www.streetdaddy.com/temp/index.css I am developing a site based around this structure, however something in the complicated CSS of my site is causing it to not behave the same as this simple example. The basic

RE: [WSG] how to use external fonts with css?

2005-04-06 Thread Miles Tillinger
I can't remember for sure, but I think font embedding is an IE only thing... IMHO it's for the best anyway coz I'd hate to try and read a page of content written in some crazy Matrix font or similar! Regards, Miles. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROT

RE: [WSG] naughty horizontal unformatted list in OSX IE 5.2 - Mac-addicts needed!

2005-03-10 Thread Miles Tillinger
ite, > http://www.hopkinsprogramming.net/, it works fine in IE 5 on > Mac. Try adding *float:left* to the navigation items. > > --Zachary > > Miles Tillinger wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > >I've managed to get this horizontal menu working in most > brow

[WSG] naughty horizontal unformatted list in OSX IE 5.2 - Mac-addicts needed!

2005-03-10 Thread Miles Tillinger
://career.uat.edna.edu.au/career/Jahia/news CSS http://career.uat.edna.edu.au/styles/acdsScreen.css I'm running out of hair trying to get a nice solution, so before I give in and use a hack to hide the styles from OSX IE 5.2, has anyone been able to fix a similar problem? Regards, Miles Till

RE: [WSG] Has news.com.au redesigned to Standards?

2005-01-23 Thread Miles Tillinger
A lot less tables than before 8D but plenty of validation errors... It scares me to think of how difficult it would be to keep all of the content compliant when there's so much 3rd party shite plugged into every page. Definitely a step in the right direction, thumbs up! Mt. > -Original Mes

RE: [WSG] IE 5

2005-01-03 Thread Miles Tillinger
In regards to the links ppl have given you to the 'Multiple Internet Explorer versions' downloads, you should be aware of the potential issues. There is no evidence either way that says this method is a true representation of older versions of IE and all inherent issues with Javascript, CSS, DOM,

[WSG] Unordered list as Path won't wrap

2004-12-22 Thread Miles Tillinger
Hi, I'm trying to represent the path as an unordered list, e.g. Home > Level One > Level Two > Level Three > etc. Home Level One Level Two Level Three etc. However in situations where the path is extremely long the list will not wrap and breaks my layout, so I've had to float the di

[WSG] 4-column layout

2004-07-29 Thread Miles Tillinger
Title: 4-column layout I've been able to find a few 4-column CSS layouts but they're all either 4x fixed divs or 4x fluid divs.  Before I embark on my own voyage of discovery/pain, is there any examples that allow for a mixture of fluid and fixed divs?  I've thought a bit about it and I'm env

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

2004-07-28 Thread Miles Tillinger
That's not the first vulnerability to be found in Firefox and whilst it may be ammunition for IE-zealots it's nothing compared to all of the exploits that IE is vulnerable to... As Firefox gains popularity I don't doubt more holes will appear, but that's the price of fame! Mt. > -Original M

RE: [WSG] Good radio station sites?

2004-07-14 Thread Miles Tillinger
Driving to work yesterday I heard JJJ talking about the site redesign. I was really hoping that I'd find something standards-based but it wasn't to be... Doesn't validate at all and even things as simple as alt parameters are nowhere to be found. I thought that, being a radio station, they might

RE: [WSG] What CMSs are Developers Using

2004-07-04 Thread Miles Tillinger
I'm using Jahia CMS at work (www.jahia.org), however commercial license is pricey. Jahia allows you to develop templates from scratch so the site and content can be as standard as you want to make it. The admin and content management interface would not be classed as standards-based or accessible

RE: [WSG] Ordered List numbering format

2004-06-09 Thread Miles Tillinger
> > Neerav Bhatt > > http://www.bhatt.id.au > > Web Development & IT consultancy > > Mobile: +61 403 8000 27 > > > > Miles Tillinger wrote: > >> Is there an accepted number format for ordered lists? > When using ordered > >> lists in a

[WSG] Ordered List numbering format

2004-06-09 Thread Miles Tillinger
Is there an accepted number format for ordered lists? When using ordered lists in a structured document, e.g. a Policy or Standards document, I'm using the following numbering format: ol li { list-style-type: decimal; } ol li li { list-style-type: lower-alpha; } ol li li li {

RE: [WSG] How to Make Your Web Site Work with Windows XP Service Pack 2

2004-06-09 Thread Miles Tillinger
Hi Neerav, Thanks for the link :) Very useful to know... Just another good reason to build accessible interfaces... I now know a few of my older sites will have problems due to SP2 but I wouldn't have realised if not for those checkpoints! Cheers, Mt. > -Original Message- > From: N

RE: [WSG] www.seoed.com - Please review

2004-06-08 Thread Miles Tillinger
I think the design is great, very clean and easy to read. My only thought as far as standards go is that for the title 'SEOed.com' you could use: Seoed.com instead of an image and format the text with CSS, using some spans to create the desired effect. Just my $0.02... Mt. > -Original M

RE: [WSG] new to the list

2004-05-27 Thread Miles Tillinger
Because you've declared XHTML doctype for your page (see first line of your code) you need to use parameter="value" pairs in all cases. So for valid XHTML you'd need Select a page For more XHTML syntax rules see http://www.w3schools.com/xhtml/xhtml_syntax.asp If you don't really need to use XH

RE: [WSG] Definition list formatting problem in IE

2004-05-27 Thread Miles Tillinger
> } > > Should be enough. > > Patrick > > > -Original Message- > > From: Miles Tillinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 27 May 2004 08:09 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: [WSG] Definition list formatting problem in IE > >

RE: [WSG] Definition list formatting problem in IE

2004-05-27 Thread Miles Tillinger
Update! Added width: 50em; to dd and it stopped it from floating to the right. But now the dd wraps at a fixed width! I want it to go 100% but it won't play ball... Mt. > -Original Message- > From: Miles Tillinger > Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 3:26 PM > To: Web S

[WSG] Definition list formatting problem in IE

2004-05-26 Thread Miles Tillinger
Surprise! A formatting problem in IE... In IE5+ and Opera, the second dd, which contains the Category links, is jumping up and floating to the right of the first dd with the URL. It displays fine in Firefox and Netscape 7. html/css is at http://www.streetdaddy.com/wsg/index2.html Thanks in a

[WSG] Mozilla and lack of URL wrapping

2004-05-23 Thread Miles Tillinger
IE6 wraps long URL's at spaces ( ), hyphens (-), question marks (?) and percent signs (%), whereas Mozilla doesn't wrap unbroken strings at all. In the crazy world of CMS's and unpredictable 'cowboy' content editors this can be a bit of a problem for multi-column portal sites. Is there any way

RE: [WSG] should I track down this problem?

2004-05-19 Thread Miles Tillinger
In some cases that 'damn friend' could be an important stakeholder. It also might be a matter of personal pride for the owner of the site if they have friends or users who will have a particular browser or OS. If either of these situations arise then browser stats won't help you, even though b

RE: [WSG] should I track down this problem?

2004-05-19 Thread Miles Tillinger
how big is the problem?  Does it make content unreadable or navigation unusable?  Is offering a slightly less visually pleasing site to Mac IE5 an option?  Everyone draws the line somewhere different...   Mt.  -Original Message-From: Universal Head [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Se

RE: [WSG] Is a degree necessary?

2004-05-13 Thread Miles Tillinger
Having the degree is one thing, but enjoying what you do is another thing completely.  I don't think you'll find many ppl who are successful at what they do but totally hate doing it...  If you get into an IT job before you finish then you'll have a headstart on everyone else. -Origi

RE: [WSG] Is a degree necessary?

2004-05-13 Thread Miles Tillinger
My short answer: A uni degree is more than just a piece of paper, its a statement that you were determined and dedicated enought to finish what you'd started. I dropped out in 3rd of 4 years and even though it hasn't affected me yet, I worry that I'll be wishing I had finished it when I apply

RE: [WSG] centering an element

2004-05-12 Thread Miles Tillinger
www.quirksmode.org/css/centering.html seems that you need to use a table if you want vertical alignment that is consistent across recent browsers. I haven't been able to do it without using a table either... HTH. > -Original Message- > From: glenn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thur

RE: [WSG] centering an element

2004-05-12 Thread Miles Tillinger
and then in finding the quirksmode url I found this! http://vmalek.murphy.cz/ Has anyone discovered any issues with this method? > -Original Message- > From: glenn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 11:35 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [WSG] centering an elem

RE: [WSG] reply from ACA

2004-05-06 Thread Miles Tillinger
Seems like they glazed over when reading the accessibility information in your original email.  This is all to familiar for me as there are ppl you can explain the benefits of standards to 10x a day and they still forget what it all means by the next day...  In most cases if it's a small sit

RE: [WSG] Australian Communications Authority

2004-05-05 Thread Miles Tillinger
Three cheers for Web Standards evangelism! Kudos for making the effort to spread the gospel, but I don't know if I agree with the approach. Fair enough that you'd like to win the job, but the end of the email starts sounding like marketing spam. A political approach might be more effective fo

RE: [WSG] IE mystery whitespace

2004-04-30 Thread Miles Tillinger
___ > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Miles Tillinger > > Sent: Friday, 30 April 2004 3:42 PM > > To: Web Standards Group (E-mail) > > Subject: [WSG] IE mystery whitespace >

RE: [WSG] IE mystery whitespace

2004-04-29 Thread Miles Tillinger
n Pty Ltd > > Tel: 02 9299 9462 > Fax: 02 9299 9463 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Web: http://www.gruden.com > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mile

[WSG] IE mystery whitespace

2004-04-29 Thread Miles Tillinger
I've found a few references to mystery whitespace in IE but they're all related to space above and below elements. I've got mystery whitespace on the left of an element. In exhibit A in IE, the image (blue border) has a 3px gap on the left between it and the paragraph (red border). Firefox has

RE: [WSG] Org Charts

2004-04-29 Thread Miles Tillinger
omplicated that it's as inaccessible as flash anyway. Just thinking about it makes my brain hurt... Mt. > -Original Message- > From: Geoff Bowers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 12:27 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [WSG] Org Charts >

RE: [WSG] Aligning two DIVs horizontally

2004-04-29 Thread Miles Tillinger
Its now lined up ok and I increased the size of the submit image to fill the space. Looks ok in IE as well, until I stuff something else further down the page... Thanks Tim and Lachlan for the advice :) Miles. > -Original Message- > From: Lachlan Hardy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent:

RE: [WSG] Aligning two DIVs horizontally

2004-04-29 Thread Miles Tillinger
IL PROTECTED] > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Miles Tillinger > Sent: Friday, 30 April 2004 11:24 AM > To: Web Standards Group (E-mail) > Subject: [WSG] Aligning two DIVs horizontally > > I thou

RE: [WSG] Org Charts

2004-04-29 Thread Miles Tillinger
How well does the solution degrade for older browser and screen readers? I'm trying to come up with a topic mapping solution that degrades nicely. It's to replace an existing Flash-based topic structure, however solutions seem to be just as inaccessible as Flash anyway? The difficult bit to r

[WSG] Aligning two DIVs horizontally

2004-04-29 Thread Miles Tillinger
x27;t necessary, however I'm sure there must be a simple way to align the two divs! Am I even close? Regards, Miles Tillinger Web Developer education.au limited 178 Fullarton Road Dulwich SA 5065 Ph. (08) 8334 3247 Fax. (08) 8334 3211 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please visit our websites: <

RE: [WSG] Browser testing across Windows OS's

2004-04-20 Thread Miles Tillinger
ie's side by side on the pc were > working as they should be I had 98 and 2000 boxen set up and > there were > no differences I could see. > > happy browser testing > > Benjamin > Life through a polaroid > > www.lifethroughapolaroid.com > > > h

RE: [WSG] Browser testing across Windows OS's

2004-04-20 Thread Miles Tillinger
hmm, nobody wants to help or give away their secret strategies? or nobody does browser testing? Or do I smell? Mt. > -Original Message- > From: Miles Tillinger > Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 4:42 PM > To: Web Standards Group (E-mail) > Subject: [WSG] Browser testing

[WSG] Browser testing across Windows OS's

2004-04-16 Thread Miles Tillinger
Hi all, I'm working on improving the site testing procedures here at work. I'm trying to gauge the need to test browsers on the different Windows (and other) OS's. I'm using the standalone IE's under Windows XP and I'm wondering if the IE5.5 standalone is behaving exactly the same as an inte

RE: [WSG] best method for columns inside a column

2004-03-30 Thread Miles Tillinger
> On Monday, March 29, 2004, at 11:57 PM, Miles Tillinger wrote: > > > As far as the IE hacks go, ...go to the web site of Dean > Edwards and I > think your find the best solution. http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/intro/ > His script [ie7-xml.css] changes IE to a standar

RE: [WSG] best method for columns inside a column

2004-03-30 Thread Miles Tillinger
suggestions, I'll try them out :) MT. > > > Tim Hill > Computer Associates > Graphic Artist > tel: +612 9937 0792 > fax: +612 9937 0546 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Be

RE: [WSG] best method for columns inside a column

2004-03-30 Thread Miles Tillinger
> On Tuesday, March 30, 2004, at 03:57 PM, Miles Tillinger wrote: > > > I've managed to get it basically perfect in IE6, but there is small > > 2-3 pixel discrepancy in Mozilla and Opera (haven't had a chance to > > check on Safari yet *shudder*) down th

RE: [WSG] New site - looking for feedback

2004-03-29 Thread Miles Tillinger
Very nice indeed James, thanks for passing me the links otherwise I would've missed out on seeing it... The first word bold, second word normal thing seems to be gaining momentum amongst the various CSS sites I've seen lately, understandably as it is a nice effect for titles. The first thing I

[WSG] best method for columns inside a column

2004-03-29 Thread Miles Tillinger
Finally a chance for my first attempt at a 100% CSS positioning site and besides using the deprecated align parameter for an input:image, the site validates ok! http://streetdaddy.gotdns.com/astute/index.html http://streetdaddy.gotdns.com/astute/main.css http://streetdaddy.gotdns.com/astute/astut

[WSG] [OT] Outlook error: Can't open this item. Your Digital ID name ... etc

2004-03-29 Thread Miles Tillinger
Firstly, apologies for the OT repost and I'm not even sure if anyone else worries about this, but... First list member I started having the problem with was Mark Stanton back in January, now James Silva and Gary Greer as well (and another one-off from Dominique something or other). I'm using M

RE: [WSG] dreamweaver

2004-03-17 Thread Miles Tillinger
add to that the ability to use regular expressions in the search and you've got a very powerful (albeit dangerous) find and replace!  No more jumping from one program to another :) there aren't many things that DW can't do for me on a day to day basis...   Miles. -Original Message

RE: [WSG] New CSS site

2004-03-11 Thread Miles Tillinger
Nice one yet again Peter!  All of your recent sites have been a pleasure to look at and the simple yet beautiful designs are the perfect partner for table-less layouts...   Miles. -Original Message-From: Universal Head [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 11:20

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

2004-03-04 Thread Miles Tillinger
yeah that is just ridiculously blatant and so comical with his copyright notices at the bottom! No 'permission given' information anywhere, be it the About page or at least some commenting in the HTML or CSS! I can accept that sometimes designers see a CSS layout that they want to base their

RE: [WSG] Nicely styled Hx tags

2004-03-02 Thread Miles Tillinger
For the ultimate in accessibility, all websites should include a 1800-human-screen-reader option... -Original Message-From: Universal Head [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 3:26 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [WSG] Nicely styled Hx tags The que

RE: [WSG] Table style definition lists

2004-03-01 Thread Miles Tillinger
That's kinda risky though if the content is dynamic because one long line could break the layout. I try to avoid using nowrap's or non-breaking spaces wherever possible. Just my $0.02... MT -Original Message- From: James Ellis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 4:

[WSG] OT: Digital signatures on list emails

2004-02-15 Thread Miles Tillinger
Using MS Outlook 2000 SP3 on XP Pro I am unable to read some emails from ppl on the list, in particular James Silva and Mark Stanton. Their emails come up with a different icon, I can't view the email in the preview pane and if i try to double-click open the mail I get an error about digital I

RE: [WSG] XHTML: Labels, Image Maps, and Flash

2004-01-22 Thread Miles Tillinger
IMHO it's ok to use a table to layout an accessible form as long as you use labels. In a table, even if a form field is in a cell adjacent to its label's cell, a screen reader will still have trouble associating them. However if you use then the screen reader is happy. -Original Message

RE: [WSG] more usable forms

2004-01-22 Thread Miles Tillinger
My current job has a big responsibility to ensure Priority 1, 2 and in some cases 3 levels are satisfied. Accessible forms are especially cool coz you can click a label to give focus to its corresponding form element, just like a good GUI should ;) MT. -Original Message- From: Mark St

RE: [WSG] URL Encoded

2004-01-22 Thread Miles Tillinger
For CF, a bit of googlin' returned: if you are running MX or have java installed on there you could try... function getImageDimensions(sFile) { var strRtn = StructNew(); var oImage = createObject("java","javax.swing.ImageIcon").init(sFile); strRtn.Width = oImage.getIconWidth();

RE: [WSG] OT: damn I feel old

2004-01-18 Thread Miles Tillinger
Hi Gary, Actually that would've been a much better way to ask the question without actually asking an OT subject... e.g. "Please check out this CSS layout at http://blah.com, and while ur there why not submit your age..." So much for my creative thinking! MT. -Original Message- From

[WSG] OT: damn I feel old

2004-01-18 Thread Miles Tillinger
There is really no other way of finding this out other than posting to the list, so here goes some OT goodness: A couple of 'youngsters' posted today, one 17 (from Plone.org) and one 16, both must be pretty competent web designers from the links they've posted, especially Plone, i love what th

RE: [WSG] big trouble...still!

2004-01-14 Thread Miles Tillinger
If the css is in a linked file, change the filename to prevent users getting the cached version. -Original Message- From: Chris Blown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 1:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] big trouble...still! This may be a caching

RE: [WSG] Big trouble!

2004-01-12 Thread Miles Tillinger
yes, that's the culprit for IE6 for me as well... works fine without that definition. -Original Message- From: Alastair Weakley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 4:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Alastair Weakley Subject: Re: [WSG] Big trouble! HI It crashes s

RE: [WSG] Subject headings (was: ?)

2004-01-12 Thread Miles Tillinger
oh man, I'm such a luser! Good stuff though, at least now I understand why I get ignored a lot... mt. -Original Message- From: Ben Bishop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 1:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] Subject headings (was: ?) Taco Fleur w

RE: [WSG] entities

2004-01-11 Thread Miles Tillinger
I'm definitely interested to hear the theories behind this, because I have had problems using   where   fixes the problem in particular web servers. -Original Message- From: Universal Head [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 1:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WS

RE: [WSG] PDA Browser Testing

2004-01-08 Thread Miles Tillinger
AvantGo only allows you to sync with various websites that provide an AvantGo feed. AvantGo is not a browser, it just uses the browser on your devices OS to display your AvantGo channels, AFAIK. -Original Message- From: Beau Lebens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 09, 20

RE: [WSG] PDA Browser Testing

2004-01-08 Thread Miles Tillinger
There is the MS Pocket PC development kit which includes an emulator, but I'm not sure if that is going to help you. What you need is something that emulates Pocket IE and Palm OS browsers etc. and I've never been able to find one. Maybe you could rent a PDA for a little while? gl. Miles.

RE: [WSG] Small bug

2004-01-05 Thread Miles Tillinger
Title: Small bug The confidentiality issue would be a problem for many ppl who want help on this list.  But its a bit of an annoyance to strip all the identifying logo's and text from a design so I can safely post the URL to this list... -Original Message-From: Universal Head [

[WSG] Help needed with IE problem!

2004-01-05 Thread Miles Tillinger
Hi all and Happy New Year :) I'm currently implementing a new design for an existing site. The existing site doesn't use any CSS for layout, but I have tried to use a 3-column layout generated by Layoutomatic. The CSS files are a bit messy at this stage, so apologies to anyone who ventures i

RE: [WSG] Hiding LEGEND in Netscape 4

2003-12-14 Thread Miles Tillinger
DOH, I did a fantastic job of writing this email! Let me try again: Title legDefault { display: none; } This works fine in IE4+ and Mozilla flavours. But not NS4... -Original Message- From: russ weakley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 12:45 PM To: Web Standa

RE: [WSG] Hiding LEGEND in Netscape 4

2003-12-14 Thread Miles Tillinger
before you say it, yes, i did actually use a . in the declaration, e.g. legDefault { default: none; } -Original Message- From: Miles Tillinger Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 12:42 PM To: Web Standards Group (E-mail) Subject: [WSG] Hiding LEGEND in Netscape 4 I'm developi

[WSG] Hiding LEGEND in Netscape 4

2003-12-14 Thread Miles Tillinger
I'm developing an accessible form template that uses fieldsets. I'm hiding the legend using display:none so it doesn't appear, which keeps the form accessible. Problem is that the legend still displays in Netscape 4, but I thought display:none was supported? e.g. Title class is legDefault

RE: [WSG] Fixed Width Design

2003-12-11 Thread Miles Tillinger
If I had a dollar for everytime that I had given some a www-less URL verbally and they've just entered www. blah out of habit, I'd be a millionaire! Ubergeek: "Ok, enter the URL 'news.google.com'" N00b: [enters www.news.google.com] Ubergeek: "No, no no, no WWW!" N00b: "news.google.com, withou

RE: [WSG] OT: Opening documents in _blank window

2003-12-11 Thread Miles Tillinger
, but other browsers ignore it. Then again, other browsers generally behave better with attachments/mime-types in general. Miles Tillinger wrote: >Just a question about how other developers handle opening documents e.g. PDF, DOC, in >a new window. > >At the moment I am using _blank ta

RE: [WSG] Re: px em pt ???

2003-12-09 Thread Miles Tillinger
ms lower down the tree. EG. > Nested lists set with 80% will inherit and be reduced to 80% x 80% = 64%. > > To solve this problem, place your relative font declarations at one level of > the document tree or pay attention to how they can cascade and affect your > content. It is easy to reve

RE: [WSG] Re: px em pt ???

2003-12-09 Thread Miles Tillinger
Peter, I know its a bit of a cop-out and less of a 'learning experience', but I'd love to get my hands on a generic CSS template that I can use as a starting point... Has anyone been nice enough to make one available anywhere? -Original Message- From: Peter Firminger [mailto:[EMAIL PRO

RE: [WSG] Re: px em pt ???

2003-12-09 Thread Miles Tillinger
touché Mark ;) It is a problem that Windows buries its accessibility options so deep. I think it would be better that he could walk into a net cafe and be able to easily changes the OS font-size. However since this isn't the case, the ability to change it in the browser IS the next best thin

RE: [WSG] Re: px em pt ???

2003-12-09 Thread Miles Tillinger
bject: RE: [WSG] Re: px em pt ??? thats a good one... It makes sense what you are saying, to me anyway. -Original Message- From: Miles Tillinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 10 December 2003 1:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WSG] Re: px em pt ??? I definitely

RE: [WSG] Re: px em pt ???

2003-12-09 Thread Miles Tillinger
I definitely agree that relative sized fonts provide a more accessible design but I wonder about how sight-impaired users themselves use the web and their PC's in general? For instance, my grandfather has coke-bottle-thickness glasses and as such uses a 19" monitor in 800x600 resolution, which

[WSG] OT: Opening documents in _blank window

2003-12-09 Thread Miles Tillinger
Just a question about how other developers handle opening documents e.g. PDF, DOC, in a new window. At the moment I am using _blank targets. Scenario 1: User is using IE with Word configured to open inside the IE window. When the user clicks on a link to the Word doc a new IE window opens and

[WSG] OT: XSL editing

2003-12-04 Thread Miles Tillinger
Hi, I am editing XSL templates and want a simple way to preview the output by combining the XSL with a sample XML packet. So far the best I have found is this ASP app at http://www.chriswetherell.com/editor/home.asp. However it is a bit slow and I'd prefer a win32 app of some kind. Any sugg

RE: [WSG] A Little CSS Help

2003-12-03 Thread Miles Tillinger
more here...   http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/fonts.html#generic-font-families -Original Message-From: Chris Stratford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 5:28 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [WSG] A Little CSS Help Hey Everyone!   Well I h

RE: [WSG] A Little CSS Help

2003-12-03 Thread Miles Tillinger
You have only specified tahoma as the font in your stylesheet.  (I think) the error is telling you to add a generic font such as 'sans-serif' or 'serif' ?  This way if the user doesn't have Tahoma the browser will use the system's default san-serif font...   E.g.   font-family: Tahoma, sans-

RE: [WSG] IE whitespace issues

2003-11-18 Thread Miles Tillinger
IE do the right thing? Unfortunately no URL as the page is behind a firewall. Thanks James Miles Tillinger wrote: >>From an earlier post ('[WSG] relative positioning of nested lists') that sounds >>similar problem: > >"The extra linebreak vanishes if you s

RE: [WSG] IE whitespace issues

2003-11-18 Thread Miles Tillinger
>From an earlier post ('[WSG] relative positioning of nested lists') that sounds >similar problem: "The extra linebreak vanishes if you specify padding-bottom or border-bottom." HTH. -Original Message- From: James Ellis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 2:42

RE: [WSG] Preparing for DOCTYPE

2003-11-13 Thread Miles Tillinger
One of the problems that is really annoying is the font-size. With a DOCTYPE the text shrinks to an unreadable size. From looking around at other good examples of accessible sites it seems that some use em's, and some use a mixture of px and % values. The current css for the site is a jumble

RE: [WSG] Preparing for DOCTYPE

2003-11-13 Thread Miles Tillinger
Thanks Russ, link has some useful points for where to start. A daunting task, but hopefully 99% achievable! -Original Message- From: russ weakley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 11:23 AM To: Web Standards Group Subject: Re: [WSG] Preparing for DOCTYPE Miles,

RE: [WSG] Preparing for DOCTYPE

2003-11-13 Thread Miles Tillinger
? Do you have a link to the relevant page? Regards, David McDonald Web Designer Melbourne, Australia http://www.davidmcdonald.org ICQ:11814164 - Original Message - From: Miles Tillinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, November 14, 2003 11:18 am Subject: [WSG] Preparing for D

RE: [WSG] Preparing for DOCTYPE

2003-11-13 Thread Miles Tillinger
The live version is www.edna.edu.au, but this currently has no DOCTYPE. However I am testing different DOCTYPEs internally on a version of the site templates that have had a lot of issues fixed. I have been instructed to apply as many Priority 1 and 2 accessibility requirements as possible, a

[WSG] Preparing for DOCTYPE

2003-11-13 Thread Miles Tillinger
Hi, I am trying to add a DOCTYPE declaration to a site that never had it. I've tried lots of different declarations but they all seem to cause various problems from one browser to another! In particular, in Mozilla/Netscape 6+ the fonts shrink to an unreadable size. Where is the best place

RE: [WSG] Re: html encryption tool

2003-11-13 Thread Miles Tillinger
ge- From: James Ellis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 9:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] Re: html encryption tool You're joking aren't you? Couldn't find that reference on their site Miles Ti

RE: [WSG] Re: html encryption tool

2003-11-13 Thread Miles Tillinger
Actually, its even BETTER than that! Its a 'feature': http://www.mtopsoft.com/ Dec 28, 2003, Encrypt HTML Pro V2.1 Released: Encrypt and protect your web source code, including HTML source code, JavaScript, VBScript, text, links and graphics, from being viewed and reused by others. .. Disable o

RE: [WSG] RE: Image float and text wrap

2003-11-12 Thread Miles Tillinger
ssage- From: Irapuan Martinez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 11:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WSG] RE: Image float and text wrap At 11:09 13/11/2003 +1030, Miles Tillinger wrote: >The reason I wanted to do it was because the image and the text both >l

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

2003-11-12 Thread Miles Tillinger
t and text wrap Miles : Put your text in in a block set its margin-left to x pixels (.eg 170) should be wider than the image (.eg 160).. The margin will run from the left of the containing block. This will work for fixed width images. Cheers James Miles Tillinger wrote: >Oops, my finger

[WSG] Re: Image float and text wrap

2003-11-12 Thread Miles Tillinger
Oops, my fingers slipped onto the send shortcut... so, as I was saying: - text text text | | text text text | | text text text | | text text text | image| text text text | | text text text | | text text text |

[WSG] Image float and text wrap

2003-11-12 Thread Miles Tillinger
I want to have an image with text on the right, but when the text goes beyond the bottom of the image I don't want it wrap, but rather to keep the consistent margin: - | | | | | | | | | | Regards, Miles ***

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