RE: ADMIN Re: [WSG] AOL mail problems? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2012-06-18 Thread Chris Vickery
Sorry Lea, I get around 100 emails a day. Accessibility is in the scope of my work. AOL definitely isn't. ... and if everyone on this forum had just a little bit of chatter OT then it makes it hard to find the posts on topic. c. On 16/06/12 9:35 AM, Chris Pearce wrote: > I'm sor

Re: [WSG] AOL mail problems?

2012-06-15 Thread Chris Pearce
I'm sorry but how is this related to Web Standards? On Friday, June 15, 2012, Danny Vose wrote: > ** > What I meant was not for the customer to check his mail but for you to try > and login through his dashboard. I dont like AOL but it wouldnt be the > redirect to them thats causing it? I have be

Re: [WSG] Accessibility changer

2012-04-26 Thread Chris Dimmock
If the link is from the same domain as the email of the poster, Then I'm glad I didn't tread in it.. I'm calling Barker's Eggs. Chris Sent from my iPhone On 26/04/2012, at 11:59 AM, James Litten wrote: > Hello Steve, > > Google glass are attached to a fram

Re: [WSG] Re: WSG Digest

2012-04-01 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
orecss.org/ :) Russ ** Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org **

Re: [WSG] The mailto link

2012-01-03 Thread Chris Price
re are a number of sites with contact forms which > apparently have no one receiving the responses. > I agree > > > ** ** > > Just my two cents, > > Hayden > > ** ** > > *From:* li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] *O

[WSG] The mailto link

2012-01-03 Thread Chris Price
Hi I've been discussing the mailto link with other designers on LinkedIn and wonder what the opinions of other standards based designers are. The original question had to do with the contact form. I suggested that many people don't like contact forms and prefer to email directly from their mail c

Re: [WSG] Expected behaviour of links to external websites

2011-12-20 Thread Chris Price
I followed your useit link and the article was so good I wanted to share it via Linkedin and Twitter. I ended up having several windows opening, I had little idea what was going on and often didn't know why I had arrived where I had. Since then I've found 2 floating open windows and am still not su

Re: [WSG] Wrapping text before float drop

2011-11-03 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On Thu, 3 Nov 2011, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: Use a table. If the relationship between them is such that they must be side by side, then a table is the correct element to use. Two columns must be side-by-side, Chris, yet the received wisdom is t

Re: [WSG] Wrapping text before float drop

2011-11-03 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
? Use a table. If the realtionship between them is such that they must be side by side, then a table is the correct element to use. -- Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com/> Author: Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress) Shell Scripting Reci

Re: [WSG] Table borders

2011-09-30 Thread Chris Dimmock
Russ, It's the Friday evening of a long weekend - and you take the time to give code examples?? And you still can't see why everyone here thinks you are both a *Web Standards* and *Nice Guy* Superhero?!? Have a great weekend Russ. I admire your dedication. And so should all of us!!

Re: [WSG] Drawing Tool For the Blind Is Here At Last

2011-09-22 Thread Chris Dimmock
Marvin, that is great. Thank you for sharing. Sincerely. Chris Sent from my iPhone On 23/09/2011, at 10:32 AM, Marvin Hunkin wrote: hi. if you visit http://www.dickbaldwin.com, got this program link from the top tid bits from http://top.enterprises.com and it is a accessible java based

RE: [WSG] flat form with check boxes [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2011-09-11 Thread Chris Vickery
. From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Darren Lovelock Sent: Monday, 12 September 2011 3:58 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] flat form with check boxes [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] Hi Chris, Why not make the printable form a word doc or pdf for

[WSG] flat form with check boxes [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2011-09-11 Thread Chris Vickery
ldn't that make it confusing from both and accessibility and usability point of view? At the same time using a graphical or styled element with Alt tag seems messy and cringe worthy as a work around. I've got my own ideas, but what does everyone think is best practice in this c

Re: [WSG] How do you cater to users with disabilities?

2011-08-26 Thread Chris Knowles
o Nonsense Man! -- Chris Knowles On 26/08/11 3:15 PM, Jay Tanna wrote: Personally I don't go out of my way to do anything special. I design the site as it comes and if some people can't access it - tough luck. There is no point in spending any additional time or money in buying special

Re: [WSG] How do you cater to users with disabilities?

2011-08-23 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
very slightly larger than Helvetica or Arial. Problems only occur when its font size is reduced to compensate. -- Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com/> Author: Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress) Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-So

[WSG] Only One More Week for Standard Registration Rates

2011-08-11 Thread Audano, Chris
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RE: [WSG] Google 'Alexander Calder' theme

2011-07-22 Thread Chris Taylor
r Foundation / ARS, NY."&gt;&lt;img id="hplogo" src="/logos/2011/calder11.png" alt="Alexander Calder&amp;#39;s 113th Birthday. Courtesy of Calder Foundation / ARS, NY."&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Trying to decipher the JavaScript that runs this

Re: [WSG] Google Les Paul tribute

2011-06-09 Thread Chris Harris
HTML5, easy to do Kind Regards, Chris Harris CEO | Founder | Producer juicemedia ch...@juicemedia.com.au T. 612 99044022 M. 61 413 108870 www.juicemedia.com.au On Jun 9, 2011, at 9:16 PM, Jason Grant wrote: HTML, CSS and JavaScript of course. On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Grant Bailey

Re: [WSG] what is the exact version of FF 3.6 x prior to FF4? [SEC=No Protective Marking]

2011-06-03 Thread Chris Beer
Hi Siobhan 3.6.17 - http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-older.html Cheers Chris On 3/06/2011 11:16 AM, siobhan.ne...@health.gov.au wrote: Return Receipt Your Re: [WSG] what is the exact version of FF 3.6 x prior to document: FF4? [SEC=No Protective Marking] was

Re: [WSG] Looking for an authority on RTF [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2011-05-24 Thread Chris Beer
get the dialogue started. I start a new role in around 10 days, and will be able to provide my new .gov.au address then - the address below will suffice until then (no point sending you my current .gov.au as I won't be in at work for much of this and next week due to conferences etc. Chee

Re: [WSG] Desktop. Tablet. Mobile.

2011-05-06 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On Fri, 6 May 2011, David Laakso wrote: On 5/6/11 11:42 AM, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: On Fri, 6 May 2011, David Laakso wrote: This end... Desktop: OS X 10.4 Tablet: No got. Mobile: OperaMini os SanyoMirro 4 BoostMobile. uri: <http://chelseacreekstudio.com/m/> Text is cut off:

Re: [WSG] Desktop. Tablet. Mobile.

2011-05-06 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On Fri, 6 May 2011, David Laakso wrote: First-pass. Comments and suggestions appreciated. This end... Desktop: OS X 10.4 Tablet: No got. Mobile: OperaMini os SanyoMirro 4 BoostMobile. uri: <http://chelseacreekstudio.com/m/> Text is cut off: <http://t.cfaj.ca/mentor.jpg>

RE: [WSG] HTML/CSS reference

2011-04-05 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Webb, KerryA wrote: Chris wrote: On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Kevin Ireson wrote: Oh come on. Surely you cannot dispute http://www.w3schools.com/ for the basics. Even after all of these years. The fundamental concepts work. I wouldn't trust w3schools.com (note that i

Re: [WSG] HTML/CSS reference

2011-04-05 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
dsgroup.org *** -- Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com/> Author: Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress) Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Appro

Re: [WSG] what is the exact version of FF 3.6 x prior to FF4?

2011-03-31 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On Thu, 31 Mar 2011, Fabien BENARIAC wrote: ... (I don't understand why you want to run FF3x modules with FF4x...) If it ain't broke... -- Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com/> Author: Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress)

Re: [WSG] what is the exact version of FF 3.6 x prior to FF4?

2011-03-31 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
The latest I have is 3.6.13 This is for Mac. Thanks! After upgrading to FF4, most addons worked -- until I restarted FF. However, after re-installing the addons, most of them worked fine. -- Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com/> Author: Pro Bash Programming: S

Re: [WSG] HTML5 v. HTML 4.x

2011-01-24 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
. They're both just divs. Now, if you use the new code element instead, that tells the browser it is code. There's a new code element? How does it differ from the old one? -- Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com/> Author: Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/L

Re: [WSG] Help - Anchor Link to specific area on web page

2011-01-18 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
ks? Your feedback and help is appreciated. -- Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com/> Author: Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress) Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)

Re: [WSG] Re: WSG Digest

2010-12-20 Thread Chris Dimmock
email. IMHO, Love and peace to you all, thanks Russ, and Merry Christmas Sincerely. Chris Sent from my iPhone On 19/12/2010, at 6:20 PM, Nicholas Bower wrote: Hi Mods can you possibly drop emails from list and digest with subject containing "out of office" or "autoreply"??

Re: [WSG] Document Formats

2010-12-02 Thread Chris Beer
't use.xls when we can use .csv) etc as it can imply inferred support or approval for a vendor. Cheers Chris On 12/1/2010 6:52 AM, Erickson, Kevin (DOE) wrote: Hi All, The website I work with receives a lot of documents to be posted that come in the form of Word, PowerPoint and Excel doc

RE: [WSG] XHTML or HTML?

2010-11-11 Thread Chris Taylor
From: David Dorward Sent: 11 November 2010 10:30 > On 11 Nov 2010, at 09:18, Chris Taylor wrote: >> In fact, this is HTML5-style - - but will work fine in all >> browsers (as far as I know). > When you come to perform basic QA using a validator, on the other hand, you &g

RE: [WSG] XHTML or HTML?

2010-11-11 Thread Chris Taylor
/ http://www.html5rocks.com/ And there's Andy Clarke's new book "Hardboiled Web Design" which deals with HTML5 and more: http://hardboiledwebdesign.com/ So "is HTML5 ready", as far as http://ishtml5readyyet.com/ sees it isn't the same as "can I use parts of

Re: [WSG] XHTML or HTML?

2010-11-10 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
";> or In the HEAD you need a TITLE element. You probably also want a charset declaration, e.g.: a link to a stylesheet: a description META tag: Then the BODY. And always check your page with <http://validator.w3.org/>. -- Chri

Re: [WSG] HTML5 - Marking up forms

2010-11-10 Thread Chris Price
o grapple with semantics when I need to break down a li or dd. If you lost the styling in a form built with a list would it appear to make sense when each element had a bullet beside it? Would another logical outcome not be that each fieldset would require a separate list which ma

Re: [WSG] CSS support of HTML5 tags not ready yet?

2010-09-27 Thread Chris Knowles
try adding display: block - by default they are usually displayed as inline in ie you need to add them via javascript before it will recognise them: document.createElement("header"); -- Chris Knowles On 27/09/10 8:13 PM, tee wrote: Only the two Webkit browsers are able to

Re: [WSG] Fonts in MS Publisher compared to online

2010-09-15 Thread Chris Dimmock
le of "display is not what I wanted" type emails, especially ones based around a Microsoft product. It's the web. This is a web standards list. It's not the magazine typography list. Just annoyed. And tired. Chris Sent from my iPhone On 14/09/2010, at 7:18 PM, Lyn Smith wrote: I

Re: [WSG] Current thinking on fixed width/liquid design ?

2010-08-22 Thread Chris Price
On 22 August 2010 16:03, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2010/08/22 12:51 (GMT+0100) Chris Price composed: > > > On 2010/08/22 07:03 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed: > > The web wasn't designed for graphics, and for the most part still isn't. > What made the web revoluti

Re: [WSG] Current thinking on fixed width/liquid design ?

2010-08-22 Thread Chris Price
lad this discussion came along because it blurs the difference between fluid and fixed width design and asks more fundamental questions. -- Chris Price 0777 629 0227 follow me at http://twitter.com/hypergossip_uk and http://facebook.com/chris.t.price **

Re: [WSG] Current thinking on fixed width/liquid design ?

2010-08-19 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *** -- Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com> Author: Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2

Re: [WSG] Getting my feet wet in HTML5

2010-08-13 Thread Chris Knowles
example would have been to have said that the content in *might* be more relevant to a search engine than the content in - compared with and id=sidebar> which would be harder to tell apart. -- Chris Knowles *** List Guidelines:

Re: [WSG] Getting my feet wet in HTML5

2010-08-12 Thread Chris Knowles
pendent on javascript. Without it some elements will be styled in IE, some won't (the above comes from Introducing HTML5 by Remy Sharp and Bruce Lawson) -- Chris Knowles On 13/08/10 6:38 AM, Tom Livingston wrote: List, Here's a theory question ( i think) for ya. I'm working on a

Re: [WSG] Is it still necessary to encode ampersands?

2010-06-24 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
cally here about ampersands in URLs that are > > provided to me by database vendors, which I have no control over; I'm > > about to start inserting literally 100s of them into static html > > pages. -- C

RE: [WSG] IE6 Finally Nearing Extinction [STATS]

2010-06-14 Thread Chris Taylor
% Mozilla3.76% Of which IE: 8.059.04% 7.026.37% 6.014.59% So I'd say for most mainstream commercial sites, IE6 is definitely still a consideration. Chris This message has been scanned for malware by SurfControl plc. www.surfcontro

Re: [WSG] two Safari issues

2010-04-28 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On Wed, 28 Apr 2010, tee wrote: > On Apr 28, 2010, at 3:38 PM, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: > > > On Wed, 28 Apr 2010, tee wrote: > >> On Apr 25, 2010, at 2:51 PM, tee wrote: > >> > >>> In this site, if you click on Accordion menu, in the second (las

Re: [WSG] two Safari issues

2010-04-28 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
i=http%3A%2F%2Fsimplissimo.com.br%2Fblog%2F> Once the HTML is OK, you can look at other things. -- Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com> Author: Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress)

RE: [WSG] Horizontal scroll bar sometimes appear in my project

2010-04-14 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Naim Latifi wrote: > > Hi, > > I removed "width:1085px" but my container changed and the horizontal bar > still is appearing. Provide a URL so that we can see what's happening. -- Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com>

Re: [WSG] Horizontal scroll bar sometimes appear in my project

2010-04-14 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
auto;margin-right:auto; >background-color:White; > }**** Remove width:1085px; -- Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com> Author: Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, A

Re: [WSG] IE ignores MIME type

2010-04-12 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
t; > Oddly, IE 7 will display the "included file" as intended on page > refresh. All other IE versions stubbornly refuse. Any ideas how to get > IE to play nice, please? Rename the file index.txt instead of index.html.txt Firefox used to do the same thing, IIRC. -

Re: [WSG] blockquote

2010-04-04 Thread Chris Price
ribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > *** > > -- Chris Price 0777 629 0227 follow me at http://twitter.com/hypergossip_uk and http://facebook.com/chris.t.price *** List

Re: [WSG] Using a dot "." in a class name

2010-03-11 Thread Chris Knowles
I would have thought the problem would be when you want to use it in a stylesheet... .ratingL-4.5 {...} presumably a browser will read this as two classes. But if it's purely there for something like javascript to grab hold of and interpret it should be ok -- Chris Knowles Jen

Re: [WSG] Remove horizontal scroll in the page

2010-03-03 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
ne-policy: continuous;-moz-background-origin:padding; >width:1085px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto; > background-color:White; >} > How to remove the horizontal scroll ? Remove width:1085px; -- Chris F.A. Johnson

Re: [WSG] Data URI encoder

2010-02-10 Thread Chris Knowles
uch a huge gain? -- Chris Knowles *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***

Re: [WSG] Data URI encoder

2010-02-10 Thread Chris Beer
are there tools that do the reverse? Cheers Chris On 10/02/2010 10:21 PM, Foskett, Mike wrote: Hi all, May I ask the group to critique and comment on this image to data URI conversion tool? http://websemantics.co.uk/online_tools/image_to_data_uri_convertor/ thanks Mike Fos

Re: [WSG] I need a professional eye back again.

2010-02-02 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
this document as XHTML 1.0 Transitional! Result: 13 Errors Address:http://www.purencool.com -- Chris F.A. Johnson <http://cfajohnson.com> === Author: Shell Scripting Recipes: A

Re: [WSG] Accessibility does not matter!

2010-01-30 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010, Jason Grant wrote: > @Chris F. A. Johnson > Once again, the site only looks rubbish for most part and is still > accessible with larger font size. But even that is unnecessary; there's no good reason not to have it look good for everyone. > H

Re: [WSG] Accessibility does not matter!

2010-01-30 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010, Jason Grant wrote: > @Chris > I couldn't resist this Sir. > Your site: http://chess.cfajohnson.com/ > Uses two tables on the front page. > The first should be a and both are missing section. Poor > accessibility. I agree. That's a very old

Re: [WSG] Accessibility does not matter!

2010-01-30 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010, Jason Grant wrote: > Thanks to people who have commented via blog and email. ... > @Chris F.A. Johnson That page is accessible, it just looks shit in the > browser you tested in (whatever you have used there - would have nice > to have test environment details).

Re: [WSG] Accessibility does not matter!

2010-01-29 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
Nor, apparently, does a page which works: <http://cfaj.freeshell.org/testing/flexewebs.jpg>. -- Chris F.A. Johnson <http://cfajohnson.com> === Author: Shell Scripting Recipe

Re: [WSG] HTML 5

2010-01-22 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
talkiing about??? URL?? -- Chris F.A. Johnson <http://cfajohnson.com> === Author: Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress) Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the

Re: [WSG] staff page vallidation

2010-01-20 Thread Chris Beer
the list? (Don't get me wrong - I'm staying subscribed - quite happy to help people in that sense *smile*) Cheers Chris http://www.twitter.com/zBeer Rick Faircloth wrote: He's not spamming, Krystian...he's blind and having trouble with the updated validation site he's us

Re: [WSG] produce page vallidation

2010-01-20 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
: You have a before the tag. You have two tags where they don't belong. (You should remove all such cases and use CSS to get extra space.) -- Chris F.A. Johnson <http://cfajohnson.com>

Re: [WSG] index page vallidation

2010-01-19 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Marvin Hunkin wrote: > can you help me out. Possibly -- if you post a URL. -- Chris F.A. Johnson <http://cfajohnson.com> === Author: Shell Scripting Recipes:

Re: [WSG] Styling IE8 web slices

2010-01-17 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
s anyone successfully styled web slices that do not have a separate HTML > source? What does a proprietary technique have to do with web standards? Does it even work with anything other than IE8? > [1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc848871%28VS.85%29.aspx

Re: [WSG] css tutorial

2010-01-14 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Matthew Pennell wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 6:17 AM, Chris F.A. Johnson > wrote: > > > I find it hard to take it seriously when it has > > body { font-size:62.5%; } in <http://dev.opera.com/css/screen.css> > > > > If you

Re: [WSG] css tutorial

2010-01-14 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
t; > and how to write one. > > and what do i need to put in it. > > just asking. > > i do know css, but a bit rusty. > > and totally blind. > > so the biggest problem, where things are located on screen. > > so any one got any ideas where to start and

Re: [WSG] css tutorial

2010-01-14 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > *** > -- Chris F.A. Johnso

Re: [WSG] breaks, lists in a form or not, and more or less divs

2010-01-04 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
> > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > > *** > > > > > *** > List Guidelines: http:

Re: [WSG] First stab at html5

2009-12-31 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On Thu, 31 Dec 2009, designer wrote: > @Chris - I've set a white background, so I hope your yellow one has gone now! It's still yellow. -- Chris F.A. Johnson, webmaster <http://woodbine-gerrard.com> ==

Re: [WSG] First stab at html5

2009-12-31 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On Thu, 31 Dec 2009, designer wrote: > If any of you guys are around at this time, I'd be really grateful if you > could have a look at: > > http://www.betasite.fsnet.co.uk/gam/altgam/gwelanmor.html The yellow background doesn't suit the page. -- Chris F

[WSG] Out of Office AutoReply: WSG Digest

2009-12-23 Thread Khalil, Chris
Hi - I'll be on leave and will return to the office Monday 4th January 2010. Cheers Chris Khalil, Director of User Experience, USiT *** This message and its attachments may contain le

Re: [WSG] :: makeready ::

2009-12-22 Thread Chris Price
*** > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > *** > &

Re: [WSG] Dropdown Menu disappears after 2nd or 3rd links down

2009-12-18 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
he tab. > CSS: http://www.artscouncilnapavalley.org/test/menu.css > > The dropdown css is towards the bottom of the file. -- Chris F.A. Johnson, webmaster <http://woodbine-gerrard.com> === Author:

Re: [WSG] Positioning not consistent

2009-12-11 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
ng to be consistent. -- Chris F.A. Johnson, webmaster <http://woodbine-gerrard.com> === Author: Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress) Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/

Re: [WSG] breaks, lists in a form or not, and more or less divs

2009-12-06 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. pre.poem { font-family: , serif; } -- Chris F.A. Johnson, webmaster <http://woodbine-gerrard.com> ===

RE: [WSG] my final site [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-11-25 Thread Chris Vickery
Hi Marvin, The date and time pop up in your menu bar when you click on copyright... It's not accessibility or standards related but your copyright message needs fixing. It should at least read "No unauthorised reproduction of material is allowed by the copyright holder. Any unauthorized person

[WSG] Out of Office AutoReply: WSG Digest

2009-11-19 Thread Khalil, Chris
Hi - I'll be on leave and will return to the office Monday 23nd November. In that time Vikki Hsieh can help you with any matters relating to USiT. Cheers Chris Khalil, Director of User Experience,

Re: [WSG] updated website feedback

2009-11-02 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
rs found while checking this document as XHTML 1.0 Transitional! Result: 23 Errors Address:http://www.raulferrer.com/joe/html/ There is a horizontal scroll bar if my browser window is less than ~1000px. -- Chris F.A. Johns

[WSG] Out of Office AutoReply: WSG Digest

2009-10-29 Thread Khalil, Chris
Hi - I'll be on leave and will return to the office Monday 2nd November. In that time Vikki Hsieh can help you with any matters relating to USiT. Cheers Chris Khalil, Director of User Experience,

RE: [WSG] Is pressing Enter to submit (or not) on forms an accessability issue? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-10-21 Thread Chris Vickery
pressing Enter to submit (or not) on forms an accessability issue? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] 2009/10/21 Chris Vickery : > In this case it's for an input field, not a textarea, and enter will still > not submit (unless you tab out) so in this case makes it contrary to 'native > browser beha

RE: [WSG] Is pressing Enter to submit (or not) on forms an accessability issue? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-10-20 Thread Chris Vickery
uld behave like textareas, without line breaks. I'm not really familiar with using a text to speech reader, but that sounds messy to me. Interestingly the source itself looks pretty straight forward: There must be something buried in the styling causing this behaviour. Chris From: li...@w

[WSG] Is pressing Enter to submit (or not) on forms an accessability issue? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-10-20 Thread Chris Vickery
We're accessibility testing at the moment. We've got some email forms (ie. Put in your email address to subscribe -> submit) that do not currently submit if you press enter. Personally I feel this should be an accessibility issue, but I am finding it difficult to locate any solid documentation t

Re: [WSG] wrap in print

2009-10-13 Thread Chris Rode
Is the css applied to the print media or just the screen? ie: is it linked via ? if so try 2009/10/13 Naveen Bhaskar > on screen it floats correctly. but with the code given below , its not > happenign while printing > > > > some text > some text > some text > > > >

Re: [WSG] [Spam] :Menu stacking incorrectly in IE

2009-10-10 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
first step. -- Chris F.A. Johnson, webmaster <http://woodbine-gerrard.com> === Author: Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Appro

Re: [WSG] IE6 display issue

2009-10-09 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Western Web Design wrote: > Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > http://www.westernwebdesign.com.au/keynorthcontractors/index.html > > > > > > > > > > >

Re: [WSG] IE6 display issue

2009-10-08 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Western Web Design wrote: > Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Western Web Design wrote: > > > > > > > > > http://www.westernwebdesign.com.au/keynorthcontractors/index.html > > > > > > > &

Re: [WSG] IE6 display issue

2009-10-08 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
contrained the width; if it were allowed to expand to fill the window, more words would fit on a line and there wouldn't be such large interword spacing. -- Chris F.A. Johnson, webmaster <http://woodbine-gerrard.com> ==

Re: [WSG] IE6 display issue

2009-10-08 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Western Web Design wrote: > http://www.westernwebdesign.com.au/keynorthcontractors/index.html There is a problem with ungainly wordspacing in the justified text and text that overflows its box: <http://cfaj.freeshell.org/testing/keynorth.jpg>. --

RE: [WSG] CSS list-style

2009-10-07 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, michael.brocking...@bt.com wrote: > Chris, > I am not sure what system you tested this on, but it doesn't work on any > system I tried, and indeed it shouldn't: the marker is a part of the LI > not of the UL. <http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/generate.htm

Re: [WSG] CSS list-style

2009-10-06 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
> as per my example: > > > content > > > ul { > color:#380; > list-style-type:disc; > } > ul li span { > color:#000; > } content ul { color:#380; list-style-type:disc; } ul li.black { color:#000; } -- Chris F

Re: [WSG] elasticity and floats

2009-10-06 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
up the divs vertically, or the 3rd div > width shrinks to content size. > > I hope I've explained this properly (nothing online to see yet) and I hope > someone can help. Is this what you want: http://cfajohnson.com/testing/floa

Re: [WSG] unbalanced q tags for extended quotations?

2009-10-01 Thread Chris Rode
How I imagine the markup to be is something like this This is the start of the textand this is the start of the quotationthis is the end of the quotation and some more text Off the top of my head I would use something like this css q{ quotes: '"' '"'; }

Re: [WSG] new site review

2009-09-29 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Raul Ferrer wrote: > http://www.raulferrer.com The contrast between most of the text and its background is so low as to be unreadable. -- Chris F.A. Johnson, webmaster <http://woodbine-gerra

[WSG] Out of Office AutoReply: WSG Digest

2009-09-28 Thread Khalil, Chris
Hi - I'll be on leave from Monday 15th September - Tuesday 6th October. In that time Vikki Hsieh can help you with any matters relating to USiT. Cheers Chris Khalil, Director of User Experience, USiT YEAR OF THE BLOOD DONOR 2009 This special year aims to raise awareness o

Re: [WSG] Strange Table Border Rendering in everything BUT FF and IE

2009-09-26 Thread Chris Knowles
think   should be...   -- Chris Knowles *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***

Re: [WSG] The 'Some Links for Light Reading' posts

2009-09-22 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
> I?d just like to send a big thank you to Russ Weakley for taking the time > > to collate and send this to WSG Announce each week! I always find really > > interesting stuff there, and usually bookmark a couple of links from it. > > > > So, thanks Russ ? it?s really

Re: [WSG] my latest version of my page

2009-09-19 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
sult: 3 Errors Address:http://startrekcafe.alacorncomputer.com/ (The other pages I checked were fine.) Ugly background colour. -- Chris F.A. Johnson, webmaster <http://woodbine-gerrard.com> ==

[WSG] Out of Office AutoReply: WSG Digest

2009-09-14 Thread Khalil, Chris
Hi - I'll be on leave from Monday 15th September - Tuesday 6th October. In that time Vikki Hsieh can help you with any matters relating to USiT. Cheers Chris Khalil, Director of User Experience, USiT YEAR OF THE BLOOD DONOR 2009 This special year aims to raise awareness o

RE: [WSG] Using Fonts

2009-09-14 Thread Chris Taylor
Marvin, Sitepoint have a good article on font stacks which I've found to be a very easy way of making text look quite a bit better: http://www.sitepoint.com/article/eight-definitive-font-stacks/ Regards Chris > -Original Message- > From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] strange web page problems

2009-09-08 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
same problem again. > not telling me the font name. > what is the problem. It's impossible to tell without seeing the page. Please post a URL. Before you do that, however, make sure that the page is valid HTML and CSS. Go to <http://validator.w3.org>. -- Chris F.

Re: [WSG] web hosting

2009-09-04 Thread Chris Knowles
osting. As others have stated, the problem you have is the technologies you require have expensive licenses and so free hosting is going to be hard to come by. But if you confirm it's only a small site, maybe someone out there has a bit of spare space? -

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