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,
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,
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,
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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
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Cade Whitbourn wrote:
I know it's early but...
Anybody know of any good training courses or events
still seem to appear.
In addition, the "view style information" (under CSS) is greyed out,
very annoying.
Sigurd Magnu
#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
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
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
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
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
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
Wow. Some serious bedtime reading. Cheers.
Siggy
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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
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.]]>
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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,
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
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From: "Andrey Stefanenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED
s? (I would express a view
that it helps visual users).
Sig
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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
s? (I would express a view
that it helps visual users).
Sig
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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
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
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
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
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
Untitled DocumentUpgrade your browsers ;)
The new version simply resolves a couple of security vulnerabilities:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html
Siggy
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See
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
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
setup you
have in the operating system???
Siggy
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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.
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
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
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From: "Mike Brown" <[
: "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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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'
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
This needs to be rewritten as:
http://www.choice.com.au/defaultView.aspx?id=102314&catId=100165
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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
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
roach is possible, though.
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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
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,
Thanks for emailing me.
I'm largely out the office Friday, Monday, and Tuesday (27-31 August).
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