Re: [WSG] Ecomm using Paypal

2009-06-21 Thread Nick Lo
I am working on a very bad implementation of a site. My job is to improve it for the timebeing, while we are developing a new standard site. Now the issue is with the payment system with the Paypal. I need to put in shipping cost for the products bought from here.. http://www.netcomm.com.au/produc

Re: [WSG] Website Creation Documentation Standards

2009-05-03 Thread Nick Lo
Hi Lorrie, List, I am a web designer as a hobby and have run into a situation where I am not sure where to search. Does a standard exist for the creation of web site creation documentation? By this I mean documentation that would/might be turned over to the end user: 1. to allow the en

[WSG] Article: "Vocalize Firefox" (text-to-speech extensions for Firefox)

2007-12-05 Thread Nick Lo
I'm wondering if anyone has tried/tested the following potentially useful extensions and if so what their opinion was/is: "Two recently released text-to-speech extensions can transform Firefox into a talking Web browser suitable for users with visual impairments -- and anyone else who can

[WSG] Article: "Vocalize Firefox" (text-to-speech extensions for Firefox)

2007-12-04 Thread Nick Lo
I'm wondering if anyone has tried/tested the following potentially useful extensions and if so what their opinion was/is: "Two recently released text-to-speech extensions can transform Firefox into a talking Web browser suitable for users with visual impairments -- and anyone else who can u

Re: [WSG] Accessible likert scale (disagree/agree/strongly agree/etc) forms

2007-12-03 Thread Nick Lo
The problem with the code below is that the content of the will be read before every . That makes it very difficult for a screen reader user to read it fast. I would just have the question in a or possibly even a header element. Once the user has read through a few questions and realises

Re: [WSG] Accessible likert scale (disagree/agree/strongly agree/etc) forms

2007-12-03 Thread Nick Lo
On 04/12/2007, at 12:07 AM, russ - maxdesign wrote: Hi Nick, The sample code on this page you link to does not look ideal. As has been mentioned on this list a few times, title attributes are often ignored by screen readers. And the use of a table element to lay out the form is a little

Re: [WSG] Accessible likert scale (disagree/agree/strongly agree/etc) forms

2007-12-03 Thread Nick Lo
lto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Lo Sent: 03 December 2007 12:34 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Accessible likert scale (disagree/agree/strongly agree/etc) forms Hello All, I'm working on a Likert scale questionnaire (Strongly Agree/Agree/ Undecided/Disagree/Strongly Di

Re: [WSG] Accessible likert scale (disagree/agree/strongly agree/etc) forms

2007-12-03 Thread Nick Lo
Hi Patrick, Actually I had already prepared one as an alternative version to discuss with the client so glad you brought it up independently. Nick On 04/12/2007, at 5:10 AM, Patrick H. Lauke wrote: Steve Green wrote: I recommend using elements for each radio button and hiding them off-

[WSG] Accessible likert scale (disagree/agree/strongly agree/etc) forms

2007-12-03 Thread Nick Lo
Hello All, I'm working on a Likert scale questionnaire (Strongly Agree/Agree/ Undecided/Disagree/Strongly Disagree) with 20 questions and some Googling came up with the following approach... http://www.enterpriseaccessibility.com/articles/ AccessibleRadioButtons.html ...and I was wonderin

Re: [WSG] Idiot's guide to JavaScript

2007-11-27 Thread Nick Lo
From: "Breton Slivka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Of course if you don't feel like reading it, then don't. You have the reccomendations here for the books that have good information (Unless nobody has yet reccomended David Flanagan's "Javascript: The Definative Guide"). When you're ready for good informa

Re: [WSG] simplyaccessible.org

2005-10-11 Thread Nick Lo
Hi Graham, Producing a .doc may seem incongruous, but it is just one of around 150 documents covering all Telstra's online standards including wap, platform, styleguides information architecture etc. Yes, apologies for even alluding to that kind of hackneyed response. You now have me distra

Re: [WSG] simplyaccessible.org

2005-10-11 Thread Nick Lo
I first wanted to say thanks to Derek and Graham for providing all this really great info. Not that I'm fussed and purely playing devil's advocate but I cannot help but see some kind of irony in having an accessibility guideline document in .doc format. It's like the righteous word scribed on

Re: Ouch- was: [WSG] Top Ten Web Design Mistakes - yeah, right!

2005-10-04 Thread Nick Lo
Hi Terrence, My post was not a personal attack on Nick, nor was it dismissive of his POV. Admittedly, I got the impression he was struggling to come up with an example of how alertbox is difficult to use and perhaps that has tainted my message, but I was genuinely interested in whether he true

Re: [WSG] Top Ten Web Design Mistakes - yeah, right!

2005-10-04 Thread Nick Lo
a table headed Name, Description, Date. You could then scan down a column, e.g. for a date, much more rapidly and it would encourage a description for each column. Nick On 4 Oct 2005, at 11:30 PM, Nick Lo wrote: I always find it amazing that useit.com has such standing when it is itself

Re: [WSG] Top Ten Web Design Mistakes - yeah, right!

2005-10-04 Thread Nick Lo
I agree with Andreas to the degree that he is really saying this is not THE "Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005" but rather "Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005 according to subscribers of a newsletter directed at people interested in Jakob Nielsen's views on usability". In that respect it's a

Re: [WSG] Slashdot HTML 4.01 and CSS

2005-09-23 Thread Nick Lo
teous pillar of web standards. Nick Ahh... posting a section of an article from a site that posts sections of articles... and so the cycle continues. ;) On 9/23/05, Nick Lo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Slashdot HTML 4.01 and CSS "After 8 years of my nasty, crufty, hodge podged to

[WSG] Slashdot HTML 4.01 and CSS

2005-09-22 Thread Nick Lo
Slashdot HTML 4.01 and CSS "After 8 years of my nasty, crufty, hodge podged together HTML, last night we finally switched over to clean HTML 4.01 with a full complement of CSS. While there are a handful of bugs and some lesser used functionality isn't quite done yet, the transition has gone v

[WSG] Styling

2005-04-15 Thread Nick Lo
Hello all, Just wondering if anyone has had much success styling . I was picturing being able to do a rounded box in the style of A List Apart's mountaintop corners... http://www.alistapart.com/articles/mountaintop/ ...using the legend for the background top curves and the fieldset for the backg

[WSG] IE 7.0 "Details Begin to Leak"

2005-03-15 Thread Nick Lo
"Partner sources say Microsoft is wavering on the extent to which it plans to support CSS2 with IE 7.0. Developers have been clamoring for Microsoft to update its CSS support to support the latest W3C standards for years. But Microsoft is leaning toward adding some additional CSS2 support to IE

Re: [WSG] Standards and site structuring

2005-02-21 Thread Nick Lo
Hi Rick, To kick off with an example would anyone say to a client "We should probably call this "Contact Us" as everyone expects and homes in on that wording when they need make contact" I think that becomes absurd really quick, and ultimately leads to software creating websites with no human inte

Re: [WSG] Standards and site structuring

2005-02-21 Thread Nick Lo
Hi Rosemary, Ok, to answer your actual question not the one I thought you asked ... Actually I wasn't really asking a question as such, more opening up the discussion of what people thought, how they work, etc. So your first response was as correct as the second one. You basically said you do to

Re: [WSG] Standards and site structuring

2005-02-21 Thread Nick Lo
Well good question actually. I was initially just thinking of naming conventions (Title: About Us, file: about_us.html, etc) but that could well be extended. Common interface elements gets pretty in depth and likely well off on a tangent though. On the list we all spend a lot of time on what to

Re: [WSG] Standards and site structuring

2005-02-21 Thread Nick Lo
Ha ha, ok, welcome to the battle of the dictionaries. Yes I know it's not a formal standard as defined by any authority but it is a standard as established by it's common and accepted use. Anyway my question was what are people's thoughts about this. For example; I've heard developers complain

[WSG] Standards and site structuring

2005-02-21 Thread Nick Lo
Just out of interest what "standards" (in the sense of a generalised approach) are you all applying to site structuring? There is a well known article (that I cannot remember the URL for) that discusses the fairly accepted standards for a site like; Home, Contact Us, About Us, News, etc. So I w

Re: [WSG] GMail... Terrible!

2005-02-15 Thread Nick Lo
I think Scott touches on a good point here that GMail is really a web application and many of Google's current projects are really pushing into quite new areas, Google Maps in particular. I think the previous analogy from Andreas; "why do we still bother with these useless ramps infront of publ

Re: [WSG] Float problem (perhaps) in IE 5 on www.mccn.org.au

2004-12-15 Thread Nick Lo
Hi Gunlaug, That was pretty well it. Note in your example the width is applied to the ul#subscribe li a which when taken literally was pretty silly and IE 5 took it literally; widening just the link in the to 285px. All I needed to do was move that width setting to the ul and the column is bac

Re: [WSG] Float problem (perhaps) in IE 5 on www.mccn.org.au

2004-12-14 Thread Nick Lo
Hi Bert, Being a "minimalist", all those images for bullets do seem a little archaic. You should be able to achieve the same with css (non repeating background image and padding on the li/dd for instance). If nothing else, it cuts down on code and makes it easier to change the look of these lis

[WSG] Float problem (perhaps) in IE 5 on www.mccn.org.au

2004-12-14 Thread Nick Lo
I've just released... http://www.mccn.org.au/ ...and realised a little late that some last minute tweaks (possibly) have thrown out the "Stay Informed" column on the home page in PC IE 5. Usually I'd battle on and crack it but I'm a little battle weary and this seems to work fine in IE 6 PC, IE

Re: [WSG] Info on correct semantics

2004-12-03 Thread Nick Lo
I'd say the simplest solution would be to post the URL to any of his pages on the list and let us all point out where they fall short. Nick Some days ago I had a short discussion with a colleague about a display bug in (surprise) IE. The solution he found was to replace all tags (except html, hea

Re: [WSG] "Code" or "Markup"

2004-12-02 Thread Nick Lo
p.s. I won'r post on this (off)topic any more. I'm pretty well responsible for this so just to refer back to my question: During development when referring to HTML (and perhaps CSS) with a client do you use the term "code" or the more pedantically correct, though perhaps less recognised, term

Re: [WSG] "Code" or "Markup"

2004-12-01 Thread Nick Lo
Well having moved into this from print "markup" is really more document related. A word document is marked up when you specify margins, headers, bold, etc., it is not coded (excluding the really pedantic fact that these days there is application code doing the work). Nick I tend to use 'code',

[WSG] "Code" or "Markup"

2004-12-01 Thread Nick Lo
This seems a silly question but it bounces about enough that whilst discussing it with a client I thought I'd put it to the list. During development when referring to HTML (and perhaps CSS) with a client do you use the term "code" or the more pedantically correct, though perhaps less recognised

Re: [WSG] Use of

2004-11-29 Thread Nick Lo
Hi Patrick, On experimenting with it it also appears that address is an inline element so fails to validate if you put e.g. a inside it. From the XHTML 1.0 Transistional DTD: So while it may seem logical to give the internals some structure like... Contact Person Rod Someon

[WSG] Use of

2004-11-29 Thread Nick Lo
I'm curious if and how you are all using the address tag. The HTML 4 spec has this to say: -- The ADDRESS element may be used by authors to supply contact information for a document or a major part of a document such as a form. This element often appe

Re: [WSG] Applications that don't open in a new window

2004-11-25 Thread Nick Lo
Hi Priscilla, I develop in PHP (though the actual language is fairly irrelevant) and based on what you say it sounds like a fingers crossed approach to the problem. Not knowing the perspective of your developer I cannot say whether he is wrong or right, but I can say with absolute certainty the

Re: [WSG] It's so frustrating. Webstandars, accesibility and Firefox as a sales argument.

2004-11-25 Thread Nick Lo
What you are really getting at is not so much that you charge more because you know about building accessible standards based websites but because your experience is broader. For example you can say ...and because the site is built this way it has such and such benefits to vision impaired users

Re: [WSG] Sometimes you just cant help people ...

2004-11-24 Thread Nick Lo
To further that in a speech reader article passed on By Steven Faulkner ([WSG] Observing Users Who Work With Screen Readers ): http://www.redish.net/content/papers/InteractionsPaperAuthorsVer.pdf It says: 6. Many want to skip the navigation but do not do so. Many Web sites include a Skip Navigati

Re: [WSG] converting WORD text into clean XHTML

2004-11-22 Thread Nick Lo
I asked much the same question a little while back and what I got together was: First have the doc saved as "HTML (Filtered)" if it's coming from Word 2003 (earlier versions can get the filtered thingy someone else mentioned). Then in my case I wrote a filter for the content management system

[WSG] Convincing usability/standards arguments

2004-11-21 Thread Nick Lo
I think Felix has put in a lot of time and effort with his work at... http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/auth/wauth1.html ...and I found a lot of his demonstrations useful. So before I start I just wanted to thank him for his efforts before using his work as an example of perhaps part of why the font-

Re: [WSG] Font size

2004-11-17 Thread Nick Lo
Hi Felix, Nothing fundamentally wrong with your arguments but to balance them a little I had a client just recently ask for text to be made smaller (it wasn't in any way large) and they often ask for spacing to be reduced in order to get more content "above the fold". I think pointing the blame

Re: [WSG] Unwanted gaps between divs

2004-11-15 Thread Nick Lo
By the way it can be solved by adding padding to it's container: div#content { margin-left: 190px; margin-right: 200px; padding-top: 3pt; } However I'm still not clear why. Thanks, Nick I'm having a little brain drain with spacing that I'd like help with. The layout on a page I'm working in is ex

[WSG] Unwanted gaps between divs

2004-11-15 Thread Nick Lo
I'm having a little brain drain with spacing that I'd like help with. The layout on a page I'm working in is experiencing the same problem I can demonstrate better on Russ's example here: http://css.maxdesign.com.au/selectutorial/steps/step22.htm Imagine I want a background colour on the header "

Re: [WSG] 10,000 posts, we have a winner...

2004-11-13 Thread Nick Lo
lop PHP based web applications) ;-) Anyway cheers and here's to 20 000! Nick OK, we have decided to give the person who did the 10,000th post a prize (thanks to Core member David McDonald for the idea). Re: Web Standards Eye Candy: http://www.scottschiller.com/ By Nick Lo - Fri 12 Nov 2004 at 10:33

Re: [WSG] Web Standards Eye Candy: http://www.scottschiller.com/

2004-11-12 Thread Nick Lo
Hi Dave, From my experience Flash v's this/that arguments have been dragged up the hill and down again so many times that most participants could recite them backwards, plus they are likely to send people to their unsubscribe button. The point of my posting this site was not to suggest "who

Re: [WSG] Web Standards Eye Candy: http://www.scottschiller.com/

2004-11-12 Thread Nick Lo
I'm a Mac/Linux-on-occasion/PC-only-when-I-have-to user so I could be wrong but: Indicates Win32 which I thought referred to earlier versions of the Windows platform and therefore includes browsers less and less in the majority? Nick yes, true... but i was thinking in terms of browser

[WSG] Web Standards Eye Candy: http://www.scottschiller.com/

2004-11-12 Thread Nick Lo
Smells like Flash but isn't: http://www.scottschiller.com/ ** 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] Target Attributes

2004-10-25 Thread Nick Lo
I had the same question with the same use in mind: web applications. What you're presumably driving at is that pages look to need be either XHTML 1.0 Transitional or Frameset in order to allow the target attribute. The question that follows from that, albeit somewhat academic at this stage, is w

Re: [WSG] dublin core and search engines

2004-10-25 Thread Nick Lo
Correction: Before: The Australian Government has incorporated Dublin Core into it's AGLS Metadata Standard... http://www.naa.gov.au/recordkeeping/gov_online/agls/summary.html ...and I'd be surprised if there is no-one on this list that has had no dealings there. If there are perhaps they'd have

Re: [WSG] dublin core and search engines

2004-10-25 Thread Nick Lo
I've partly incorporated Dublin Core into an NGO site I'm working on so I'm very interested to hear how you go with this Ted. I'd say even though this is not the right place for an SEO discussion, if the discussion is in regards to being penalised for implementing what is the main metadata stan

Re: [WSG] as form label

2004-10-21 Thread Nick Lo
Hi Lea, have you looked a the fieldset tag? Its useful for grouping fields together. Yes, in fact that example is an excerpt from a larger form that is enclosed in a fieldset with a legend. Though what my example highlighted was the finer points of accessibility I wasn't capturing. Thanks, Nick

Re: [WSG] Solutions for testing in speech/text readers

2004-10-21 Thread Nick Lo
Hello again, Wow, I have to say I expected a short list but not as few as that. I know of course about JAWS but the pricing is quite prohibitive. It really is an area crying out for some open source input as in: http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/AT/Gnopernicus/ Sad, as although there are c

Re: [WSG] as form label

2004-10-21 Thread Nick Lo
Hi Steven, Yes that's a solution I'd considered and on thinking about it/reading that article I realised yet another point: I use the label class to indicate required elements. So if this part of the form was submitted but not filled in: Phone Type The user would be returned to the form with th

[WSG] Solutions for testing in speech/text readers

2004-10-21 Thread Nick Lo
Steven Faulkner just made me realise I've not yet seen or asked about set-ups for actually testing sites using speech/text readers. There are plenty of articles on browser testing but how would you go about setting up an environment for testing via speech/text readers. I use a Mac for developme

Re: [WSG] as form label

2004-10-21 Thread Nick Lo
Wow, so many responses... must type fast...just knocked up what must be a better solution: http://www.trikeinteractive.com/form_example.html However notice how the first is actually less laborious visually in terms of how we use desktop applications. I'm thinking of for example OS X Address Boo

Re: [WSG] as form label

2004-10-21 Thread Nick Lo
Thanks Nick, Well, no... but it needs to be used correctly. The element allows the text label for a form input to become 'live' (ie clickable) to enlarge the target for, say, a radio button - but it needs to wrap around the element it refers to. You have the label for id="input_phone_1" wrappe

Re: [WSG] as form label

2004-10-21 Thread Nick Lo
mobile other As I've just put at... http://www.trikeinteractive.com/form_example.html ...as an example. Note there is no actual text as would normally be within the label tags but instead another form element. Thanks, Nick Nick Lo wrote: So my question is really; is the

[WSG] as form label

2004-10-21 Thread Nick Lo
Hello, This example below... Please Select work home fax mobile other ...is currently in the admin section of a CMS I'm putting together. The point is to allow the admin user to specify what the type of phone is

Re: [WSG] Zeroing default padding/margin

2004-10-18 Thread Nick Lo
Hi Andrew, Thanks for posting the article in the first place, I should've known the writer would've been on this list! Anyway, I like the idea and I have a suspicion it'll work pretty well for my needs. I just tried it in a site I'm working on and it actually didn't break much and in fact I can

Re: [WSG] Zeroing default padding/margin

2004-10-17 Thread Nick Lo
Thanks for the reply Russ, I agree that it's really down to the situation. Some further thoughts from your points: Smaller sites would presumably have less people working on them and therefore the issue of confusion is possibly less relevant, though the problem of verbosity may be. On the other

[WSG] Zeroing default padding/margin

2004-10-17 Thread Nick Lo
I was just reading the article excerpted below and was curious as to how many on the list have used this technique of initially setting all padding and margins to 0 and if so how successful was it? "A big part of dealing with cross-browser differe

[WSG] Accessibility : Turing/CAPTCHA test

2004-10-14 Thread Nick Lo
A while ago I brought up the topic of the Turing/CAPTCHA test on forms and whether it restricted accessibility on forms. The general opinion was of course that it does. I just found this article: "My article about Turing Protection generated lots of comments about how using image CAPTCHAs restr

Re: [WSG] Another proper use of 's question

2004-10-07 Thread Nick Lo
er the moon say residents... Dish runs away with spoon The mystery continues as crockery takes to the streets... And also quite a bit more elegant, IMO. Cheers, Cam Nick Lo wrote: Pondering over this one: I'm presuming a list of links with their short intros like e.g. news articles:

[WSG] Another proper use of 's question

2004-10-06 Thread Nick Lo
Pondering over this one: I'm presuming a list of links with their short intros like e.g. news articles: Cow jumps over moon An unnamed cow has been seen jumping over the moon say residents... Dish runs away with spoon The mystery continues as crockery takes to the streets... Work

Re: [WSG] Yahoo CSS'ing

2004-09-29 Thread Nick Lo
I agree it appears that way now but I think it's a little too easy/early to suggest it is and will end up that way. In that respect it'll be interesting to watch it develop. On a site of this massive scale I'd be very surprised if there are not a bunch of pretty screwed on heads knocking togeth

[WSG] Yahoo CSS'ing

2004-09-29 Thread Nick Lo
http://9rules.com/whitespace/css_redesigns/yahoo_css_redesign.php ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04 http://we04.com/ Web standards, accessibility, inspiration, knowledge To be held in S

Re: [WSG] Mac site check please...

2004-09-27 Thread Nick Lo
Hi Francesco, It has some issues in earlier versions of IE PC You might want to check out (Just got my multiple versions of IE installed ( http://www.skyzyx.com/archives/94.php ) so it's nice to be able to say that! ). I had a quick look in IE Mac and it does have a few things needing sort

Re: [WSG] start attribute deprecated in XHTML 1.0 Strict and up.

2004-09-24 Thread Nick Lo
ure as presentation. Nick Nick Lo wrote: COASTAL DEVELOPMENT 4. Mayor Casts Doubt Over Magnetic Is Report (Great Barrier Reef) 5. Hope for Maldives Rises from the Sea (Maldives) ...and looking at the how of doing that; I came up with something. While it's

Re: [WSG] A Church Website

2004-09-21 Thread Nick Lo
If you mean his personal site at... http://www.olajideolaolorun.com/ ...you may have missed down the bottom... "Olajide Olaolorun is proudly powered by WordPress 1.2" ...which indicates it actually probably isn't his code anyway. Nick h. what can i say? is this a joke? because i compared th

Re: [WSG] My Favorite XHTML/CSS/JavaScript/PHP Editor - NO WYSIWYG

2004-09-18 Thread Nick Lo
jEdit: http://www.jedit.org/ ...and be sure to check out the recommended plugins in the jEdit Wiki: http://community.jedit.org/cgi-bin/TWiki/view/Main/PluginsOverview Nick Greetings Every One!   After "1st Page 2000", I'm using "AceHTML 5 Pro" to build websites (info: http://www.visicommedia.com/)

Re: [WSG] start attribute deprecated in XHTML 1.0 Strict and up.

2004-09-17 Thread Nick Lo
Hi Cameron, I just tried that link I posted and it goes to all the threads so you would've had a hard job getting to it. The "answer" is further in that post: - 3. The CSS way to accomplish the same things

[WSG] start attribute deprecated in XHTML 1.0 Strict and up.

2004-09-17 Thread Nick Lo
I was looking at some data of the form: AQUACULTURE     1. Scientists: Salmon Hatchery Policy Flawed (USA)     2. Fish Farms Seen Harming Dive Tourism (Malta)     3. Escaped Farmed Salmon Find Home (Alaska) COASTAL DEVELOPMENT     4. Mayor Casts Doubt

[WSG] Full-length web page screenshots on OS X

2004-09-14 Thread Nick Lo
Since screenshots from Safari on Mac OS X are occasionally asked for, this little utility pointed from O'Reilly ( http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/5576 ) is very useful. It takes full length web page screenshots via Webkit: http://0x.se/paparazzi/ Anyone know of similar tools for Windows use?

Re: [WSG] Standards-based PHP tutorials for beginners...

2004-09-09 Thread Nick Lo
Hi Joshua, Why did you choose to go the XML route and in what way? I went down a similar path with earlier versions of systems I'd built, however, I didn't use XSLT which I'm guessing is how you're doing it. To keep this on topic I'm asking because clean XHTML used with CSS allows data that is

Re: [WSG] Standards-based PHP tutorials for beginners...

2004-09-08 Thread Nick Lo
Hi Michael, One thing I'd suggest if you're learning PHP is to from the very start try as much as possible to avoid having PHP generate your HTML (as in your example). I started coding PHP over 4 years ago using an e-commerce system that generated large amounts of the HTML and I still now ha

[WSG] Article: Ten CSS tricks you may not know

2004-09-08 Thread Nick Lo
http://evolt.org/article/rdf/17/60369/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04 http://we04.com/ Web standards, accessibility, inspiration, knowledge To be held in Sydney, September 30 and Oct

Re: [WSG] list of well constructed websites

2004-08-26 Thread Nick Lo
http://www.stylegala.com motivated by the recent email about http://www.chevrolet.com  is there an up to date list of well constructed websites that use CSS. - Roly ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of We

Re: [WSG] Word documents saved as html and "cleaned".

2004-08-24 Thread Nick Lo
Hi Neerav, In fact much like my last reply to Jonothan I'd also considered doing that, with PHP 5 having the Tidy extension, as a future thing. Thanks, Nick Ive never tried it but AFAIK Tidy http://tidy.sourceforge.net/ can be used server side to clean up code on POST eg: http://infohound.net/t

Re: [WSG] Word documents saved as html and "cleaned".

2004-08-24 Thread Nick Lo
Hi Jonothan, Yeah, I'd considered that for the future however right now as far as I know Word 2004 on the Mac does not have the ability to save as XML. Since one of the users is a Mac user (so am i in fact) that solution will have to wait. Thanks, Nick My recommendation would be to create an XM

[WSG] Word documents saved as html and "cleaned".

2004-08-24 Thread Nick Lo
Hello, I'm currently re-reviewing means to allow my client (a non-profit org) to add formatted articles to a content management system. I've spent a good while reviewing the alternatives from in-browser wysiwyg's/ javascript driven tag generator/html editors to something external like Mozilla C

Re: [WSG] Sportwear/fashion sites using web standards

2004-07-14 Thread Nick Lo
Via http://www.webstandardsawards.com : http://www.esfootwear.com Nick Hi Folks, I was just wondering if anybody can point me in the direction of a sportswear or fashion site using web standards? Andy Budd http://www.message.uk.com/ * The discus

Re: [WSG] Does anybody know an expandable vertical css/js menu based on uls?

2004-07-08 Thread Nick Lo
Hi Gerd, You mean a bit like one I have at: http://www.amcs.org.au Which is based on... http://www.gazingus.org/html/Using_Lists_for_DHTML_Menus.html Nick Hi Folks! Could one of you please point me to a vertical menu solution based on css/js and semantically structured by ul/li's? I'd love to have

[WSG] Essential CSS hacks

2004-07-08 Thread Nick Lo
Following on from the discussion on this list a little while ago about a list of hacks is this "Essential CSS hacks" blog entry on sitepoint: http://www.sitepoint.com/blog-post-view.php?id=179726 Nick * The discussion list for http://webstandard

[WSG] Order of a state (link, visited, etc) styles in a stylesheet

2004-06-17 Thread Nick Lo
This question is not really very easily Googlable so I'm posting it here. I vaguely remember reading that the order in which a state styles appeared in a stylesheet was important. I made a rough memory recall thingy: LoVe HAte (not an acronym but must have some official name) to stand for: a:

[WSG] Article: "The real reason you should care about web standards"

2004-06-12 Thread Nick Lo
http://www.designbyfire.com/99.html * 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] Standard Hacks?

2004-06-09 Thread Nick Lo
I just think it is a little simplistic and idealistic to tell newcomers to css that all hacks are bad. Good post Scott...It's a relief seeing real world scenarios used to backup reasons and choices. I'm often surprised at the number of "educate your clients to understand why they cannot have th

Re: [WSG] Standard Hacks?

2004-06-09 Thread Nick Lo
I think that's a great idea actually. In theory yes we should all avoid hacks but there are a few reasons where a big fat list of the "standard" hacks, reasons for use and pros and cons would be useful... 1. If a deadline is looming and a hack will temporarily get you through it without resorti

Re: [WSG] Action to force browser developers to clean up their act

2004-06-08 Thread Nick Lo
The first step should be a clear and unequivocal statement that we will not write fixes for new non-compliant browsers. Design a new Browser by all means, but make it compliant. By "non-compliant" you mean that they do not adhere to the standards put down by the W3C whose role is the development

Re: [WSG] New suckerfish menus

2004-05-21 Thread Nick Lo
Ah...sorry to be more specific the squashed text in Safari refers to the prettier one: http://www.htmldog.com/articles/suckerfish/dropdowns/example/ the other one level, two level and three level bare-bones examples do not have the issue. --- To add to tha

Re: [WSG] New suckerfish menus

2004-05-21 Thread Nick Lo
To add to that, for reference: In Safari 1.0 the horizontal drop down text is squashed together (no line-height/leading/whatever media you think in) and in the vertical second level menus do not align with their parent. In Mac IE 5.2 the menus simply don't function. They are lovely in Firefox 0

Re: [WSG] digital web magazine redesign

2004-05-14 Thread Nick Lo
Ha funny, I've been pointing to... http://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2004/05/13/gasp_tables/index.php ...which was pointing to your weblog and here you are on the list anyway! Next time I should just check the roster and leave you to respond to the "Tables are bad because..." posts! Nick Sli

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

2004-05-14 Thread Nick Lo
Although as I'd already posted today... http://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2004/05/13/gasp_tables/index.php ...has an objective look at it. How about this article, helpfully titled "Why tables for layout is stupid". http://www.hotdesign.com/seybold/ Also, I highly recommend Jeffrey Zeldman's b

Re: [WSG] digital web magazine redesign

2004-05-13 Thread Nick Lo
Well to bring it tenuously back on topic... Take a look at some of the features on that page then take a trip to alistapart.com with a checklist: Mountaintop Corners Sliding Doors etc... ...and I forget where I've seen that background quotes idea before. What I'm driving at is not that the desi

[WSG] Objective look at tables for layout

2004-05-13 Thread Nick Lo
Via Mezzoblue: http://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2004/05/13/gasp_tables/index.php * 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] Making Dreamweaver's Rollover JS accessible

2004-04-18 Thread Nick Lo
What is ecma? Standards organisation: http://www.ecma-international.org/ of which... http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-262.htm ...is the standard for ECMAScript scripting language which is essentially javascript standardised. Flash's actionscript is also based on i

Re: [WSG] Form submission: CAPTCHA test and accessibility

2004-04-16 Thread Nick Lo
What annoys me is that with the proliferation of this sort of thing, people will get used to it, accept it, then not really notice that they have to do it all the time, and then no one will realise that we've just condemned visually impaired users (and anyone else who can't load images for whatev

[WSG] Form submission: CAPTCHA test and accessibility

2004-04-15 Thread Nick Lo
I was wondering if any of you had opinions/thoughts on the use of CAPTCHA tests (or whatever proper name is given to the little numbered images used to verify a form submitting user is human and not a spamming machine). They are obviously a reaction to the ever increasing amounts of spam being

Re: [WSG] Trimming the fat from CSS

2004-04-15 Thread Nick Lo
Hi Brian, You seem to be getting jumped on a bit for this and I'd say it's largely a matter of preference so a little pointless to go on at length about. However, you are inviting comment by saying "bloat and that is all the stuff that makes code pretty and "easily readable" by inexperienced

Re: [WSG] Constructive Criticism please

2004-04-15 Thread Nick Lo
Hi Brian, I moved this onto a "trimming the fat" thread as I felt it was moving off topic from Jackie's post. Out of interest how much are you working with/sharing these files in a team environment? With the generally varying levels of skills (especially with CSS) in most teams I'd say that "

Re: [WSG] Trimming the fat from CSS

2004-04-14 Thread Nick Lo
Yeah pretty well what I was thinking I mean in practice CSS files are often shared and the very process of using CSS based layouts v's tables already trims a huge load off the page size anyway. It just seemed almost scarily ...thorough... to be trimming the stylesheet in this way as well. Thou

[WSG] Trimming the fat from CSS

2004-04-14 Thread Nick Lo
Does everyone else on the list do this? For the sake of 11k that is cached on the first page load it seems a little drastic. I do programming work as well as markup and the indentation/formatting of the code is very important in producing readable code. If it was only me looking at the CSS then

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