[WSG] A Google contest for highschoolers that is very relevant to this list

We've been collaborating with Google on an extension to their successful Google Summer of Code program, producing the Google Highly Open Participation Contest. Aimed to illustrate to our next generation in the industry on the virtues of collaboration, open standards, and freedom of information,

[WSG] A Google contest for highschoolers that is very relevant to this list

We've been collaborating with Google on an extension to their successful Google Summer of Code program, producing the Google Highly Open Participation Contest. Aimed to illustrate to our next generation in the industry on the virtues of collaboration, open standards, and freedom of information,

[WSG] Best password strength indicator?

to think an unnecessarily extra amount. For instance, this MSN one contains intuitive elements but is cluttered with too much instruction. https://accountservices.passport.net/reg.srf?roid=2&sl=1&vv=400&lc=1033 Sigurd Magnusson, SilverStripe ***

Re: [WSG] web standards training course/events in Sydney next year?

Webstock in May 2006 is hosted at a capital city--Wellington--and you guys probably treat NZ as a state :P Its going to be absolutely amazing -- Check out http://www.Webstock.org.nz Siggy -- Cade Whitbourn wrote: I know it's early but... Anybody know of any good training courses or events

Re: [WSG] FF1.5 and Web Dev. T/B

still seem to appear. In addition, the "view style information" (under CSS) is greyed out, very annoying. Sigurd Magnu

Re: [WSG] Redundant Code

#1 - not sure #2 If you want to apply something to every li within #header, use #header li { ... } Regarding #3, nesting your menus will create a clearer heirachy; e.g. change Sub Heading 3 Category 1 Category 2 Category 3 Category 4 Category 5 Category 6 to Sub Heading 1 Categ

[WSG] More links, their titles, and accessibility

Untitled DocumentA list of items containing titles, summaries and more links is fairly common; both for news articles, and products ('buy now >>'.). In my opinion, a 'more' link is "good accessibility" for most users... You read a snippet of an interesting news article, and therefore your eye is

[WSG] DLs and multiple DDs, as more semantic means to produce general lists containing titles and summaries

Untitled DocumentIn an effort to make our company's code XHTML 1.1 compliant and more semantic (we were loosely following XHTML 1.0 Trans but now want to more ridigly follow it), I was brainstorming for conventions and best practices. I came up with an idea pertaining to general lists that I'd like

Re: [WSG] Redundant Code

The change to the heirarchy above is great, but it doesn't help the #header, #mainnav and #subnav lists because there isn't a heading for these. If you look at the page with styles disabled you'll see what I mean. I think what you and I are both really waiting for is XHTML2; except we need to wa

Re: [WSG] Redundant Code

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 type :P I wonder if anyone's done that?? Or you could pri

[WSG] Asterisks in W3C spec

I keep seeing asterisks in the W3C spec but cannot see a glossary anywhere. As an example, with the img element in xhtml 1.1, the attributes 'src' and 'alt' are both marked with an asterisk. Why? http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/abstract_modules.html#s_imagemodule (I realise img is mark

Re: [WSG] Asterisks in W3C spec

Wow. Some serious bedtime reading. Cheers. Siggy - Original Message - From: "russ - maxdesign" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Web Standards Group" Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 8:35 PM Subject: Re: [WSG] Asterisks in W3C spec Here are some: Joe Clark's serialised book (covers all three - titl

[WSG] Browser support for javascript CDATA regions

Untitled DocumentI am wanting to get some inline javascript to validate to xhtml1.1, which can be done via cdata regions. What's browser support for these like? Is this another area of brainnumbing hacks and problems? Siggy & symbols.]]> ***

[WSG] Making accessible a one-text field form with an image submit button?

I noticed that WCAG-AA needs a "for" any text fields in a form. Makes sense, but ...In the case where you have a text field like (where the button is an image):[] [Sign Up To Newsletter] or [] [Search]These are common as a global form on all pages. There is no label,

Re: [WSG] CSS validator says " "[xX][mM][lL]" is not allowed."

I get the same response, so would seem to be a bug; perhaps submit a bug report to w3c? (Our company has sent in a bug report for the w3c xhtml 1.1 validator the other week, so don't treat it as absolutely perfect!!) Siggy - Original Message - From: "Andrey Stefanenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [WSG] Making accessible a one-text field form with an image submit button?

s? (I would express a view that it helps visual users). Sig - Original Message - From: "Patrick H. Lauke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 11:55 PM Subject: Re: [WSG] Making accessible a one-text field form with an image submit button? Sigurd Magnusso

Re: [WSG] Making accessible a one-text field form with an image submit button?

s? (I would express a view that it helps visual users). Sig - Original Message - From: "Patrick H. Lauke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 11:55 PM Subject: Re: [WSG] Making accessible a one-text field form with an image submit button? Sigurd Magnusso

[WSG] Dilemma: Useful, additional attributes in elements, invalidating HTML

This is a split technical/marketing dilemma for people to ponder... Over the past few years, we have built up a library of rather useful Javascript libraries that we thought were a very elegant solution for adding behaviour to menu systems and forms. These have been used on dozens of websites, a

Re: [WSG] Dilemma: Useful, additional attributes in elements, invalidating HTML

Thanks for all your feedback; Steve Bryant: Cheers. The second approach is pretty code-heavy, so I would probably make the verbose style "onblur=checkvalidation('required=true,validation=numeric') and possibly run the onblur event on all forms at the submission, or something like that. Gez; So

Re: [WSG] Website Review

Hi, Just a comment on layout; When I went to the website, I immediately took an interest in the package and wanted to go to a download page, but I actually had difficulty locating it, which then raised my suspicions that it was still under development, especially when I went to 'Status' menu ite

Re: [WSG] nesting in list

Looking at the W3C for XHTML 1.1; http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/abstract_modules.html#s_listmodule It says that LI and DDs both are part of the "Flow" content model, which is the same as DIV, so this looks to confirm what my feeling was... they can contain any nested element, includin

[WSG] FireFox 1.0.2 out :)

Untitled DocumentUpgrade your browsers ;) The new version simply resolves a couple of security vulnerabilities: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html Siggy ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

Re: [WSG] XML Declaration

Is there any situation where IE6 renders in standard compliance mode with the preamble? E.g. if a certain HTTP Header is used? And/or with a .xml suffix (Microsoft is big on looking at file extensions you know... ) I've seen plenty of comments that "application/xhtml+xml" isn't embraced by IE

Re: [WSG] Style part of form field

http://www.sql-und-xml.de/unicode-database/miscellaneous-symbols.html All symbols of version 2.1 are shown in standard-browsers. Actually, while when I loaded this up (in FireFox), I was happily surprised that all symbols showed, I noticed that IE6 showed WAY less than half of them... perhaps t

Fw: [WSG] Style part of form field

setup you have in the operating system??? Siggy - Original Message - From: "Sigurd Magnusson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 7:25 AM Subject: Re: [WSG] Style part of form field > http://www.sql-und-xml.de/unicode-database/miscellaneous-symbols.

[WSG] Page views per month, peak rates in an hour

Untitled DocumentHi all, A little off-topic, but after a look around the internet I've come up blank: I'm trying to lump the popularity of websites into groups based on the total number of page views per month, and also learn the peak rate of page views per hour. E.g. a standard banking website

Re: [WSG] Rounded corner and IE Win help needed

Well if you put a border on the span you see that the image is in the wrong place within the span; Doing "background-position: bottom right;" within the "ul#subnav li.last span {" certainly gets you most the way there; had you done that? Siggy - Original Message - From: "Mike Brown" <[

Re: [WSG] Rounded corner and IE Win help needed

: "Mike Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 4:09 PM Subject: Re: [WSG] Rounded corner and IE Win help needed Sigurd Magnusson wrote: > Well if you put a border on the span you see that the image is in the > wrong place within the span; > > Doing

[WSG] Extra padding mysteriously exists in IE6

Gah - we're well underway on a an XHTML 1.1 compliant site, and we've eventually found that we need to do an IE hack--a real shame since everything else was going so well. Can anyone see if there's a simple mistake we've done, or if it is indeed a bug with IE which necessitates a hack. The pro

Re: [WSG] Extra padding mysteriously exists in IE6

ent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 8:41 PM Subject: Re: [WSG] Extra padding mysteriously exists in IE6 On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 19:45:20 +1200, Sigurd Magnusson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Gah - we're well underway on a an XHTML 1.1 compliant site, and we've eventually found that we need

Re: [WSG] textarea rows & cols - presentation in xhtml?

It could be argued that it is more than presentation. It indicates to the user about the quantity or usage of the textarea; the size of text fields is a usability topic. If you were told to write a "Summary of your proposal", and given 8 lines instead of 2 lines, you would probably write a c

Re: [WSG] textarea rows & cols - presentation in xhtml?

nt: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 10:45 AM Subject: Re: [WSG] textarea rows & cols - presentation in xhtml? At 03:00 PM 4/4/2005, Sigurd Magnusson wrote: It could be argued that it is more than presentation. It indicates to the user about the quantity or usage of the textarea; the size of text fields

Re: [WSG] Captioning images - to DL or not to DL

Sure I've never heard myself of using DL/DT/DD for this sort of thing, although instinctively it seems quite an appropriate use. My question relates to what sort of problems you have encountered with widths; I would have thought the following would pose no problems: Here is wonderful example

Re: [WSG] A form within a form

I always thought a form was not able to be placed in a form. Can you explain what you're attempting to do? Are you sure you're not just wanting to have two submit buttons within the one form? Charla wrote: Hi Does anybody know how to sumbit the inner form, if you have a form within a form on the

[WSG] Comments on new wirelessforum.org.nz site?

We just 'soft launched' a new website, http://www.wirelessforum.org.nz, so that we can gather a final set of feedback and changes for a Monday meeting to see the project finished next week. The entire site is XHTML 1.1, CSS2, WCAG-AAA compliant, and makes good use of semantic markup, e.g. no ta

Re: [WSG] Comments on new wirelessforum.org.nz site?

oxes the text doe not fix...the date in particular Rick Faaberg wrote: On 4/7/05 12:53 AM "Sigurd Magnusson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent this out: We just 'soft launched' a new website, http://www.wirelessforum.org.nz, so that we can gather a final set of f

[WSG] wirelessforum.org.nz --- on a mobile device?

sure what sort of 'standards' I should use to test against to have a website that operates well with a mobile device; are their good emulators or techniques to improve the site beyond what it currently is like? Sig Sigurd Magnusson wrote: We just 'soft launched'

[WSG] Awards / Endorsements for quality websites?

I was wondering if anyone knew of a popular sites to promote semanitc or compliant (or "good" in general) websites? Furthermore, if there was a site or an award that would be considered quite an achievement or endorsement for your work? I have submitted several items to www.w3cSites.com, however

Re: [WSG] validation errors

This needs to be rewritten as: http://www.choice.com.au/defaultView.aspx?id=102314&catId=100165 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have a page in the site I am working on (http://learnline.cdu.edu.au/wip/sbi240/module3/agriculture.html) that won't validate because of an external link I have to the Aust

Re: [WSG] Lynx current navigation state presentation

If its Lynx you're concerned with, then it will make little difference; normally the text will simply show up as slightly brighter, or in reverse video--and thus not bold nor italic. Its probably more a case of being consistent with your use of B and I for the rest of your site. Leading charact

[WSG] Re: Text-only version

roach is possible, though. --- Sigurd Magnusson SilverStripe -- SilverStripe is the 2008 most promising open source CMS platform! http://packtpub.com/article/2008-most-promising-open-source-cms-announced -- DDI: +64 4 978 7332 Skype: sigurdmagnusson twitter.com/SigurdMagn

[WSG] Examples of great high-school websites?

Can people offer examples of school websites that lead the way, for instance in terms of; - interaction between student/parent/school/community - allows students to show off work - allows students/teachers/parents/community to engage (e.g. see sports results, look up when next school theatre

[WSG] Re: Browser Backwards Compatibility -- How far back?

Most websites we build at SilverStripe have IE 6.0 as a minimum, and even then, we're unpatiently anticipating the time when we can drop IE 6. FireFox (2), Safari (3), Chrome (latest) users are more encouraged to keep up to the latest versions, and have more aggressive update mechanisms,

[WSG] Out of office Re: WSG Digest

Thanks for emailing me. I'm largely out the office Friday, Monday, and Tuesday (27-31 August). Please phone me on +64 21 42 12 08 if urgent, otherwise your patience is appreciated while my access to email is limited. Cheers, Sigurd -- Sigurd Magnusson Business Relationship Manager SilverS

[WSG] Out of office Re: WSG Digest

Thanks for emailing me. I'm out the office Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Please phone me on +64 21 42 12 08 if urgent, otherwise your patience is appreciated while my access to email is limited. You may also contact l...@silverstripe.com in my absence. Cheers, Sigurd -- Sigurd Magn

[WSG] Out of office Re: WSG Digest

Thanks for emailing me. I'm out the office today due to sick leave. You may contact Lee Middleton on l...@silverstripe.com in my absence. Cheers, Sigurd -- Sigurd Magnusson Business Relationship Manager SilverStripe DDI: +64 4 978 7332 Mobile: +64 21 42 12 08 Skype: sigurdmagn

[WSG] Out of office Re: WSG Digest

Thanks for emailing me. I'm out the office on annual leave, returning to work Monday morning. You may contact Lee Middleton on l...@silverstripe.com in my absence. Cheers, Sigurd. -- Sigurd Magnusson Business Relationship Manager SilverStripe DDI: +64 4 978 7332 Mobile: +64 21 42 12 08

[WSG] Out of office Re: WSG Digest

Thanks for emailing me. I'm out of the office on annual leave over Christmas, returning to work on Monday 10 January 2011. Cheers, Sigurd. -- Sigurd Magnusson Business Relationship Manager SilverStripe DDI: +64 4 978 7332 Mobile: +64 21 42 12 08 Skype: sigurdmagnusson twitte

[WSG] Out of office Re: WSG Digest

Thanks for emailing me. I'm out of the office on annual leave over Christmas, returning to work on Monday 10 January 2011. Cheers, Sigurd. -- Sigurd Magnusson Business Relationship Manager SilverStripe DDI: +64 4 978 7332 Mobile: +64 21 42 12 08 Skype: sigurdmagnusson twitte

[WSG] Out of office Re: WSG Digest

Thanks for emailing me. I'm out of the office on annual leave over Christmas, returning to work on Monday 10 January 2011. Cheers, Sigurd. -- Sigurd Magnusson Business Relationship Manager SilverStripe DDI: +64 4 978 7332 Mobile: +64 21 42 12 08 Skype: sigurdmagnusson twitte

[WSG] Out of office Re: WSG Digest

Thanks for emailing me. I'm out of the office on annual leave over Christmas, returning to work on Monday 10 January 2011. Cheers, Sigurd. -- Sigurd Magnusson Business Relationship Manager SilverStripe DDI: +64 4 978 7332 Mobile: +64 21 42 12 08 Skype: sigurdmagnusson twitte

[WSG] There may be a delay before I get back to you. Re: WSG Digest

7;t reach me, please contact either; 1. Lee Middleton, Head of Sales and Marketing, on l...@silverstripe.com on +64 27 288 9909 2. Sam Minnee, Acting CEO, on s...@silverstripe.com or +64 21 411 311 Cheers, Sigurd Magnusson -- Sigurd Magnusson Business Relationship Manager SilverStripe DDI: +64 4

[WSG] There may be a delay before I get back to you. Re: WSG Digest

7;t reach me, please contact either; 1. Lee Middleton, Head of Sales and Marketing, on l...@silverstripe.com on +64 27 288 9909 2. Sam Minnee, Acting CEO, on s...@silverstripe.com or +64 21 411 311 Cheers, Sigurd Magnusson -- Sigurd Magnusson Business Relationship Manager SilverStripe DDI: +64 4