Re: [WSG] Site Review: testdrive.fueladvance.com

2005-03-22 Thread Paul Connolley
) Non validating. You have a "" in your supposedly validating XML document. You should check the w3c media type recommendations as you are sending your document as text/html and it shouldn't be. Perhaps you should try HTML 4.01 Strict. -- Paul Connolley - http

Re: [WSG] " or " in copy?

2005-02-17 Thread Paul Connolley
" - PCDATA. Text **may** contain character references. This doesn't imply that all of the four main html entities have to be encoded (<, >, &, and "). Note this document originally applied to HTML but is as relevant to XHTML if you please. The only important consideratio

Re: [WSG] " or " in copy?

2005-02-17 Thread Paul Connolley
(BOn 16 Feb 2005, at 22:16, Dmitry Baranovskiy wrote: (B (B> Actually " is an inch symbol. For quotes we should use “ and (B> ” in normal text. (B $B!m(B - The double prime. U+2033. The inch $B!l(B - The prime. U+2032. The foot (Bhttp://mathworld.wolfram.com/DoublePrime.html (B (B>> Tak

Re: [WSG] Re: XHTML Strict alternative to

2005-02-08 Thread Paul Connolley
ects and see that the statement is still true: "Please explain why you would use a Strict DTD where a transitional one is valid and works just as well?" -- Paul Connolley AccessPlanIT – LWDP Data Manager Phone – 01524 389541, Email – [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] Building with scaling in mind

2005-01-28 Thread Paul Connolley
ly but not horizontally. You need to check the various layouts that he uses. There is an option to change the style to Liquid Bleach (I think). You will find that he does have a fluid layout. You just have to enable it. http://stopdesign.com/about/prefs/ There you go -- Paul Connolley SQL/Systems Programmer

Re: [WSG] Can I use a table in a form?

2005-01-13 Thread Paul Connolley
I missed a bit of text On 13 Jan 2005, at 18:18, Paul Connolley wrote: If I can possibly allow you to stretch your imaginations for a moment. Imagine me presenting you with a set of axes on some graph paper for a line/scatter plot and asking you to put your information onto it. It just wouldn&#

Re: [WSG] Can I use a table in a form?

2005-01-13 Thread Paul Connolley
th fields for traveler 1. Once that is filled and submitted, on to traveler two. This seems to be the most usable method. -- Paul Connolley -- Paul Connolley SQL/Systems Programmer Egocentric - http://egocentric.co.uk ** The discussion list for

Re: [WSG] Still need help with the list style

2005-01-03 Thread Paul Connolley
On 3 Jan 2005, at 22:38, Paul Connolley wrote: Notwithstanding any bugs in the browsers, that is. Which is the problem anyway. Specifying a list item element to have display : block means that no glyph should be rendered and that it should be just a box. Being overly explicit is for the benefit

Re: [WSG] Still need help with the list style

2005-01-03 Thread Paul Connolley
. Whilst inheritance seems to fix your problem, adherence to the specifications would or should be advised. Notwithstanding any bugs in the browsers, that is. -- Paul Connolley SQL/Systems Programmer Egocentric - http://egocentric.co.uk ** The

Re: [WSG] FOUC in Safari was Slow loading of CSS

2005-01-03 Thread Paul Connolley
version - 1.2.4 (v125.12) Anyone else running Safari seeing this? I can also confirm that my PB G4 with 10.3.7 running Safari 1.2.4 (v125.12) doesn't encounter the FOUC at all. I have never seen one since my college days running IE 5.5 -- Paul Connolley -

Re: [WSG] The Holy Grail ... CSS Liquid Three-Column Layout

2004-12-17 Thread Paul Connolley
). I am surprised that she hasn't made comment. -- Paul Connolley SQL/Systems Programmer Egocentric - http://egocentric.co.uk ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for s

Re: [WSG] x-browser javascript: is this OT?

2004-12-15 Thread Paul Connolley
ve would be to allow a user to submit through each topic and subtopic with the select elements appearing after each post operation. I hope that wasn't too in-depth. *The select element in html which allows a single/multiple choice selection -- Paul Connolley SQL/

Re: [WSG] Using in a

2004-12-02 Thread Paul Connolley
heck is to open the DTD that is referenced in your doctype declaration and search for the word small. It will likely direct you to a line like this: -- Paul Connolley SQL/Systems Programmer Egocentric - http://egocentric.co.uk ** The discussio

Re: [WSG] Site Critique

2004-11-12 Thread Paul Connolley
iend is a terrible dyslexic but he has a BA (hons), MA and is now heading off to be political) but appears in many walks of life. In tech-speak what i just said was, "don't shullbit a shullbitter". I'd comment more but I'm sure there are others who will

Re: [WSG] problems in Firefox and Opera

2004-11-08 Thread Paul Connolley
look at in order to see it in context. I could better offer advice this way. -- Paul Connolley SQL/Systems Programmer Egocentric - http://egocentric.co.uk ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgrou

Re: [WSG] Semantics of Breadcrumb "you are here" links

2004-10-21 Thread Paul Connolley
#x27;m a usability and accessibility man, which is the plain vanilla ice cream to the choc chip css. -- Paul Connolley SQL/Systems Programmer Egocentric - http://egocentric.co.uk ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See ht

Re: [WSG]

2004-10-21 Thread Paul Connolley
Patrick H. Lauke wrote: Paul Connolley wrote: This is a perfectly natural English language grammar. Sorry, wasn't advocating changing the writing style, but having a mechanism in place to unequivocally tie a CITE course to Q or BLOCKQUOTE My apologies also if I came across wrong. I agree

Re: [WSG]

2004-10-21 Thread Paul Connolley
On 22 Oct 2004, at 02:23, Paul Connolley wrote: [snip] consider the scenario of a screenreader user who skips from paragraph to paragraph, and ends up on the second paragraph of this [snip a whole load more] I'll reiterate that I see that I reiterated nothing. I've missed a bit

Re: [WSG]

2004-10-21 Thread Paul Connolley
ive for handling the cite attribute in blockquote and q elements. There are ways of presenting the information but it is limited to non-ie browsers in most cases. It's a hard decision because, I don't aim to alienate my readers too much, but I do want the freedom to present attr

Re: [WSG] Short way to change background colors on CSS sheet?

2004-10-13 Thread Paul Connolley
ame and use it in the id attribute (). Within your CSS, you can refer to the id with: #newnameforthispage. -- Paul Connolley SQL/Systems Programmer Egocentric - http://egocentric.co.uk ** The discussion list for http://websta

Re: [WSG] Mac Tools Kit for Web Standards Developer

2004-10-10 Thread Paul Connolley
Kevin Futter wrote: SubethaEdit is impressive, especially given that it's free, and it comes with a bunch of preset 'pretty print' modules for code colouring in a number of syntaxes.[snip] Paul Connolley wrote: Transmit is quite nice but is as good an FTP client as Fugu or Cyberdu

Re: [WSG] Mac Tools Kit for Web Standards Developer

2004-10-10 Thread Paul Connolley
ks, and is poor in comparison to things like WS_FTP on Windows. Transmit is quite nice but is as good an FTP client as Fugu or Cyberduck. Combine this with the fact that they both work with SEE (SubEthaEdit), in that it combines SFTP functions with the editor, I don't need a website manageme

Re: [WSG] Is XHTML harmful?

2004-10-08 Thread Paul Connolley
without fear of the parser misunderstanding where a declaration could have finished. [Snip] Paul Connolley wrote: You are talking about two distinctly different parsers. XHTML is a XML subset, HTML is an SGML subset. For example: [Snip example] In HTML it will not. With the SGML parser it knows that

Re: [WSG] Is XHTML harmful?

2004-10-08 Thread Paul Connolley
idating against the doctype. Once again you are arguing for ambiguity. It is wrong to assume this. SGML allows for the omission of end tags because it follows a different ruleset -- Paul Connolley SQL/Systems Programmer Egocentric - http://e