[WSG] Firefox 1.0.x rogue PNG background line

2006-01-03 Thread Joshua Street
This is a seriously odd problem, resulting from Photoshop's PNG output/Firefox 1,0.x's PNG decoder (I think). Test case at http://joahua.com/blog/2006/01/04/photoshopfirefox-10x-and-the-case-of-the-mystery-line Anyone seen this before? Note that the size of both images is 210px: in the Photosho

Re: [WSG] ordered lists inside data tables

2006-01-04 Thread Joshua Street
http://www.usability.com.au/resources/tables.cfm is a great resource. I find particularly interesting http://www.usability.com.au/resources/tables.cfm#very , as it demonstrates that "accessible" tables needn't be meagre and can, in fact, contain quite a lot of structured information. It sounds as t

Re: [WSG] Firefox 1.0.x rogue PNG background line

2006-01-04 Thread Joshua Street
re. On 1/4/06, Patrick H. Lauke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joshua Street wrote: > > This is a seriously odd problem, resulting from Photoshop's PNG > > output/Firefox 1,0.x's PNG decoder (I think). > > > > Test case at > > http://joahua

[WSG] Semantic image gallery software

2006-01-07 Thread Joshua Street
://cat-scan.net/ Features list: http://cat-scan.net/features.html Blog: http://blog.cat-scan.net/ Demo: http://demo.cat-scan.net/ Kind regards, Joshua Street http://joahua.com/ +61 (0) 425 808 469 ** The discussion list for http://websta

Re: [WSG] CSS help with bullet removal in IE view

2006-01-07 Thread Joshua Street
list-style:none; on the UL should work well... failing that, try playing with padding: on the list. On 1/8/06, Artemis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My partner and I have a tagboard on our site and it looks greate in FF, > but when you view in IE there are round bullets. Can someone help me get > r

Re: [WSG] Semantic image gallery software

2006-01-09 Thread Joshua Street
On 1/9/06, Al Kendall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Josh, >Is it possible to leave the thumbnails with the main pic instead of > having to go back the the thumbnails each time? > > Cheers > Al Sure thing, there's a fairly simple templating system that lets you do just that if you so desire.

Re: [WSG] Site Check - ShetlandCoffee.com

2006-01-11 Thread Joshua Street
Love the design, but just one thing about the background. The dotted line fluctuates at the edge of each repetition, because there are dots right on the edges. I don't know if you can add/subtract a pixel in on one side of the graphic easily, or whether this'll interfere with the other repeating p

Re: [WSG] Active Links

2006-01-12 Thread Joshua Street
xt shows bold is when I > press on it. > > > > Is there a way to set up the CSS globally with a:Active or similar so I > don't have to hand-code each link in my menu? > > > > Thanks! > > -H -- Joshua Street http://www.joahua.com/ +61 (0) 425 808 469 ***

Re: [WSG] Safari Lightening Entire Background Image

2006-01-12 Thread Joshua Street
THANK YOU in advance!!! > > Mani Sheriar > Founder, Sheriar Designs > www.ManiSheriar.com | 925.914.0741 > > > > ** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm &g

Re: [WSG] pdf graphics

2006-01-13 Thread Joshua Street
Well, if Photoshop won't open them, the GIMP certainly can. Then it's just cutting it apart like you would had you received any other flat file, I suppose! Of course, if you need backgrounds then a kindly worded email to the client requesting the source file with layers, etc., would probably be the

Tabluar forms WAS: Re: [WSG] the correct use.

2006-01-13 Thread Joshua Street
On 1/14/06, Lachlan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tables for forms is ok in some cases, forms can be considered tabular. This one has always confused me. There is a linear relationship between a field's label and the field proper, yes, but how does one mark that up as a table? SHOULD that be m

Re: Tabluar forms WAS: Re: [WSG] the correct use.

2006-01-13 Thread Joshua Street
that it's impossible to use , which seems a fair benchmark of what is most definitely a table. Maybe not... your example's use of the scope attribute makes it all seem remarkably sensible! Thanks, Josh On 1/14/06, Patrick H. Lauke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joshua Street wr

Re: Re; Re: [WSG] the correct use.

2006-01-13 Thread Joshua Street
Nope. Only, I'd add that there are existing apps out there that will fall into various server-side languages to do intelligent replacement of linebreaks -> paragraphs, smart quotes, etc. KSES, used by WordPress (or at least it used to be) is one such for the PHP langauge ( http://sourceforge.net/pr

Re: [WSG] pdf graphics

2006-01-14 Thread Joshua Street
We're waaay OT now, but I can't resist just posting this last message for those thinking about Photoshop->GIMP migration. GIMPshop! is a re-working of The GIMP's interface to make it more Photoshop-like. I haven't used it myself, because I recently went (was coerced into going) the other way (i.e.

Re: [WSG] content type etc

2006-01-15 Thread Joshua Street
content-type > > Regards, > Rimantas > -- > http://rimantas.com/ > ** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to

Re: [WSG] CSS Icon

2006-01-15 Thread Joshua Street
ome hints on posting to the list & getting help > ********** > > -- Joshua Street http://www.joahua.com/ +61 (0) 425 808 469 ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgro

Re: [WSG] ufo flash adding padding/

2006-01-17 Thread Joshua Street
Good to hear you solved it, but one other thing. I observed in Firefox 1.0.x/Linux that the borders on your left navigation items appear/disappear at certain zoom settings. This might be something to do with the Flash items on the lower right, because they flickered around where the nav items were

[WSG] Print stylesheet switcher

2006-01-17 Thread Joshua Street
Hi all, I've got a page that has a print stylesheet, and two elements of important (i.e. the things you'd want to print) content. One is a list of items, whilst the other element is a kind of "More information" area (linked by XMLHttpRequest if JS is enabled). In the "More information" bit, there

[WSG] The Evils of innerHTML

2006-01-18 Thread Joshua Street
Is it? I'm using AHAH (H = HTML, as opposed to XML) to dynamically retrieve some content and innerHTML seems infinitely more sensible: the content being pulled in has an indeterminate number of paragraphs, so short of parsing the incoming document for paragraphs, recreating elements, and setting th

Re: [WSG] The Evils of innerHTML

2006-01-18 Thread Joshua Street
someone with not a great deal of JS experience -- me) somewhat redundant, surely. And yup, I'll be serving this one as HTML :) Thanks, Josh > Joshua Street said: > > do people consider it okay to use > Supposedly faster than DOM methods, and usually requires less code. > Pers

Re: [WSG] addEventListener

2006-01-19 Thread Joshua Street
On 1/19/06, Richard Stephenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Use the onclick event; > > a.onclick = function() { > alert('not going there!');return false; > } > > Its not an issue of standards it's in the javascript not the html. > > Richard http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm # Imp

Re: [WSG] Glossary

2006-01-19 Thread Joshua Street
Definition list. It's a list of definitions ;-) On 1/20/06, Pat Boens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > What would be the best way to create a glossary: a table ? a definition > list? something else? > > Thanks for your expert input. > Pat -- Joshua

[WSG] IE, selecting text, and lots of absolutely positioned elements

2006-01-22 Thread Joshua Street
At least, I'm fairly certain the absolutely positioned elements are causing the problem(s). I can't give an example page (NDA, and it's too complex to bother recreating -- the complexity is probably part of the reason it's so bad when text is selected/copied), just wondering if anyone else has cre

Re: [WSG] IE, selecting text, and lots of absolutely positioned elements

2006-01-23 Thread Joshua Street
yle.margin = 0; > onresize = null; > document.body.style.height = 0; > setTimeout(function(){ document.body.style.height = > document.documentElement.scrollHeight+'px'; }, 1); > setTimeout(function(){ onresize = fixIE6AbsPos; }, 100); > } > } > > HTH, >

Re: [WSG] IE6 and color display behavior

2006-01-23 Thread Joshua Street
Yep, that'd be the PNG files. Something to do with saving Gamma. My usual workaround is to open + re-save using the GIMP... it works though I'm still not quite sure why! Josh On 1/24/06, Joseph R. B. Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guys and Gals, > > Here's a neat one for you. If you look at

Re: [WSG] The dilemma: tabular data with sublevels

2006-01-26 Thread Joshua Street
Hmm I'd strongly contest a definition list. Maybe nested UL's would be better... but Item 1 cannot be sensibly/reasonably _defined_ as "Add", or "Edit", or "Delete". On 1/27/06, Paul Novitski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andreas, > > I could argue either list or table, but I'd be inclined to make

Re: [WSG] mailto: and email-subjects

2006-01-27 Thread Joshua Street
I've never read about setting the subject with title (unless you're using JavaScript to do magic to the href?), but imagine it doesn't much matter. I've NEVER encountered a mail client that choked if you fed it a subject as well... even if not all parse that into the Subject field. Hence, from an a

Re: [WSG] The dilemma: tabular data with sublevels

2006-01-28 Thread Joshua Street
Select with Optgroups? Tables with (assuming two levels), a structure like this: FruitAdd Edit Delete AppleAdd Edit Delete etc? The other thing (this list is definitely the wrong place for me to say this) is if this is for a content management system or the like, where the client's browsing

Re: [WSG] The dilemma: tabular data with sublevels

2006-01-28 Thread Joshua Street
ated by Andreas, nothing more. On 1/29/06, Lachlan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joshua Street wrote: > > The other thing (this list is definitely the wrong place for me to say > > this) is if this is for a content management system or the like, where > > the client's

Re: [WSG] The dilemma: tabular data with sublevels

2006-01-29 Thread Joshua Street
On 1/29/06, Rene Saarsoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is one usability problem still: the contents of elements > are centered by default in most browsers, making the table look like > this: > > 1 Fruits Add Edit Delete > 1.1 Apple Add Edit Delete >

[WSG] Sitecheck: 7 Sunrise Family website [sunrisefamily.com.au]

2006-01-29 Thread Joshua Street
, more importantly, is there a known FIX for a Firefox bug of this nature? Any other feedback is also welcomed, but especially on that point :-) Regards, Joshua Street ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See htt

Re: [WSG] Sitecheck: 7 Sunrise Family website [sunrisefamily.com.au]

2006-01-29 Thread Joshua Street
sured it's not going to move! On 1/30/06, Lachlan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joshua Street wrote: > > http://sunrisefamily.com.au/current/content/ > > The site looks good, it's a huge improvement over all the other 7 > network web sites. > > However,

Re: [WSG] Sitecheck: 7 Sunrise Family website [sunrisefamily.com.au]

2006-01-30 Thread Joshua Street
On 1/30/06, Lachlan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joshua Street wrote: > > I'm assured it's not going to move! > > I wouldn't believe that. In fact, here's a perfect example of why 301 > shouldn't have been used. On Today Tonight (ano

Re: [WSG] Sitecheck: 7 Sunrise Family website [sunrisefamily.com.au]

2006-01-30 Thread Joshua Street
rsion 9 is beta > after all) but if you're interested you could check it out . > > cheers, > Justin. > ** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list &am

Re: [WSG] Web Site Template Review

2006-01-30 Thread Joshua Street
Two quick things. Your primary navigation list doesn't need to use pipe separators. It'd be much better to just use borders with CSS to achieve this. Also, maybe consider a "skip to login" as well as your "skip to main content" link. It makes things faster than tabbing through all the links between

Screen readers and JavaScript WAS: Re: [WSG] standards-happy javascript for faq

2006-01-30 Thread Joshua Street
On 1/30/06, Anders Nawroth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does the toggle function have to be connected to a element, or do > JS-enabled screen readers recognize onClick events attached to other > elements? To add to this question, what happens where screen readers with JavaScript result in an elem

Re: [WSG] Display problem in IE for the PC

2006-01-30 Thread Joshua Street
Maybe give © a shot instead of © ... not certain, but it may help. Love the design, by the way. On 1/31/06, Kara Spellman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > This my first website using CSS. I've gotten most of the bugs out of > it except for one on the home page. For some reason the copyright >

Re: [WSG] Check boxes ticked (UK Law)

2006-01-30 Thread Joshua Street
Just out of curiosity, what about "Tick this box if you don't want to receive massive amounts of spam"? Is it really anti-checked box, or anti-default-opt-in? Seems pretty... open to abuse and/or re-interpretation, unless it's the latter. On 1/31/06, Philippe Wittenbergh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [WSG] Sitecheck: 7 Sunrise Family website [sunrisefamily.com.au]

2006-01-30 Thread Joshua Street
sly, things are floated) in order to trigger the scroll thingy. That's a technical term... On 1/30/06, Joshua Street <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Many thanks. I'd only tested Opera in 8.5x (because, IMO, it's > reasonable to assume if people are using Opera they're pro

Re: [WSG] list's with header text

2006-01-31 Thread Joshua Street
Regrettably not. I'd also love some way to associate a header element with content, much like fieldset's legend element does, but unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately, because it'd be potentially hellish to make work consistently with some automated content management stuff!) no such thing exists.

Re: [WSG] 2 Q: New web site, which DTD I should use? and Compresion

2006-01-31 Thread Joshua Street
1) HTML 4.01 Strict, unless you've got really ambitious plans and a very good idea what user agents will be in play: keeping in mind Internet Explorer doesn't support XHTML served as application/xhtml+xml, so it's still going to be parsed as straight HTML in that browser. 2) So far as I'm aware, t

Re: [WSG] 2 Q: New web site, which DTD I should use? and Compresion

2006-01-31 Thread Joshua Street
Gilmore > Developer/Consultant > Affordable Websites and Marketing Solutions for Real Small Business. > SmashingRed Web & Marketing > P) 902.529.0651 > E) [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Joshua Street http://www.joahua.com/ +61 (0) 425 808 469 ** 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] No style

2006-01-31 Thread Joshua Street
Practically speaking, it's a good idea to reset font-size, padding and margin on * at the start of your CSS file. This does help improve consistancy somewhat. * { padding:0; margin:0; font-size:100.01%; } Then, obviously, you can style individual elements from that, and you know what the default

Re: [WSG] No style

2006-01-31 Thread Joshua Street
That's still going to be 1em of whatever 1em becomes by the time you get down to #editableArea (i.e. 1em of (x) on #editableArea of (y) on #body of (z) on #html), isn't it? On 2/1/06, Seona Bellamy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One possible solution would be not so much to have 'no style' but to h

Re: [WSG] Sitecheck: 7 Sunrise Family website [sunrisefamily.com.au]

2006-01-31 Thread Joshua Street
On 2/1/06, Peter Ottery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I cant replicate it here using firefox 1.0.2 and win xp. you may have > fixed it..? Nope, but it occurs less frequently on FF1.0.x/XP than on other OSs, and I've only actually looked at it in Firefox 1.0.7 in XP (I figured it'd be relatively con

Re: Moral High-horse - was Re: [WSG] Failed Redesign and the Media

2006-01-31 Thread Joshua Street
whatsoever. We're also trying to change the way non-"professional" web publishers think about the media they're creating/the means by which they are creating it, so the "how are you making money doing THAT?" argument for being generally dismissive of non-web-standa

Re: Re: [WSG] IE7 Now what?

2006-02-01 Thread Joshua Street
Microsoft has newsgroups for identifying and reporting bugs. I blogged a for/against thing on IE7 preview beta 2 after having played with it for a morning, http://joahua.com/blog/2006/02/01/ie7-beta-2 , and discovered a zoom bug that doesn't play nice with CSS backgrounds. Bug is here: http://www.

Re: [WSG] Background-Image download order

2006-02-01 Thread Joshua Street
For the navigation, you can put all your nav images into the one file so that they all load at once, then use background-position to make them sit in place. As for making things readable before the background images download, how about setting a background colour as well? That way if users have im

[WSG] Separate mobile content considered harmful?

2006-02-01 Thread Joshua Street
this is more of a content-based question. But the subdomain thing comes into it, too, as well as the fact that this equates to providing different versions for different devices. 1. http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/TLD 2. http://wap.yahoo.com.au/sunrise/ -- note the evil subdomain Regards, Josh -- J

Re: [WSG] css/html snippets

2006-02-01 Thread Joshua Street
That web patterns thing people were bouncing around in here a month or so back? I've lost the address... if someone else doesn't post it, it's in the archives somewhere... probably something really obvious like "webpatterns.org"... Ah, yes, that's it. http://webpatterns.org/ On 2/2/06, Peter Ott

Re: [WSG] PDF files on web site

2006-02-02 Thread Joshua Street
Yes, it's a good thing. PDF's aren't web pages. This is the distinction between a web site and a web application: applications are 'expected' to have 'application-like' behaviour (such as new windows, etc.). Also, PDF content rarely has the _behaviour_ of a web page (rich hyperlink structures/inbou

Re: [WSG] PDF files on web site

2006-02-02 Thread Joshua Street
Ah, righto. Linux user here, apologies... it's obviously simpler on other desktop systems ;-) On 2/3/06, Patrick H. Lauke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joshua Street wrote: > > > Also I wasn't aware of way to override browser object settings for PDF > > files e

Re: [WSG] PDF files on web site

2006-02-02 Thread Joshua Street
mes. > > Best regards, > > Marilyn Langfeld > Langfeldesigns > http://www.langfeldesigns.com > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidel

Re: [WSG] PDF files on web site

2006-02-03 Thread Joshua Street
Yes, but can you use an anchor fragment to link to a point in an Acrobat document? The other thing is why would we even bother with that when we have hypertext? On one site I did recently, the client wanted a PDF brochure with _identical_ information to what was in hypertext included. The PDF broc

Re: [WSG] IE7 hacks

2006-02-03 Thread Joshua Street
On 2/4/06, kvnmcwebn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well someone here (no names :) told me a while back that > the *hmtl hack was ie future proof so maybe not. Well, it is. It's not going to affect any more versions of Internet Explorer (this has been known for some time now), hence any rules you p

Re: [WSG] Padding & Margin Problem

2006-02-05 Thread Joshua Street
Works fine here with Firefox 1.0.7 + web developer toolbar, irrespective of whether or not the top margin of #header is set to 0. On 2/6/06, Paula Petrik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm doing something fairly simple. The problem arises when I apply > margins to my #header. When I simply apply mar

Re: [WSG] "cool" FAQ page [follow up]

2006-02-07 Thread Joshua Street
On 2/8/06, Al Sparber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's another approach you're sure not to like :-) > http://www.projectseven.com/csslab/swapclass/outline/ Hmm... it'd be nicer if there weren't anchor tags in there/the H3 were used directly. Not being amazingly JavaScript saavy, is there a comp

Re: [WSG] Opera Labs and Opera 9 Preview 2

2006-02-07 Thread Joshua Street
On 2/8/06, Gunlaug Sørtun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > heretic wrote: > > ... > Maybe the standards community prefer to ride ponies instead of real > race-horses? ;-) Must be something to do with keeping nearer the earth. Opera spoils web developers, and makes Internet Explorer (and Firefox, to a

Re: [WSG] [Please don't flame :)] HTML, XML what's the difference.

2006-02-08 Thread Joshua Street
On 2/9/06, Stephen Stagg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is not meaningless, It is more readable than HTML, to a human. And > when computers start to need to read websites automatically... Humans read content, computers read markup. Humans don't read HTML (excusing, perhaps, the rare breed that

Re: [WSG] [Please don't flame :)] HTML, XML what's the difference.

2006-02-08 Thread Joshua Street
Yep... I agree, hence "web [...] recommendations are actually about" rather than "accessibility is actually about". Specs are purpose-agnostic (see pages that validate but are a semantic blight on the face of the web)... ironically, guidelines (human-language, practical documents) are actually more

Re: [WSG] IE6/7 have horizontal scrollbars on this

2006-02-10 Thread Joshua Street
o the list & getting help > > ********** > > > > > > ** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ** > > -- Joshua Street http://www.joahua.com/ +61 (0) 425 808 469 ** 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 in 4.01 Strict

2006-02-16 Thread Joshua Street
On 2/16/06, James Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/16/06, Rick Faaberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > They can of course continue in that new window - their choice. > > Their choice? *You're* the one who made their browser open a new window... Yeah. That's MY (emphatically "my"... no wide

Re: [WSG] site check

2006-02-16 Thread Joshua Street
On 2/17/06, kvnmcwebn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://63.134.237.108/ > > any feedback at all greatly appreciated Table-based layout? Was that guy looking at the same site? Looks pretty layout-table free to me... You're missing a H1, which isn't great... wrap the header image in an H1 element

Re: [WSG] site check

2006-02-16 Thread Joshua Street
One other thing... typo, "your are here »" above the imagemap. ** 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] site check

2006-02-16 Thread Joshua Street
On 2/17/06, kvnmcwebn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can i get a second opinion on felix's advice? It must've been offlist, but I'd guess it was about fonts ;-) My second opinion is "I agree"... he's generally right about such things! ** The discus

Re: [WSG] site check

2006-02-18 Thread Joshua Street
On 2/18/06, Paul Sturgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/16/06, Joshua Street <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The BIGGEST thing I can see wrong with this site is the image map. > > Obviously the link areas aren't regular shapes, so even if you were to >

Re: [WSG] Plain text v HTML on this list

2006-02-21 Thread Joshua Street
On 2/22/06, Terrence Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 22 Feb 2006, at 2:50 PM, Lachlan Hunt wrote: > > Outlook users should ...switch to a better mail client that isn't > > broken. > Outllok can be configured to send plain text can't it? I think Lachlan meant that + bottom-quoting? *

Re: [WSG] Quick Site Check Please

2006-02-28 Thread Joshua Street
On 3/1/06, Joseph R. B. Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It validates and renders correctly on FF 1.5, Opera 8.5 and IE 6.0. The > only issue I discovered so far is a layout break when I zoom the text to > unbelievable sizes in FF. "Unbelievable sizes" here being one step DOWN (decreasing font

[WSG] IE Patent stupidity meets... us.

2006-02-28 Thread Joshua Street
http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-6044418.html?part=rss&tag=6044418&subj=news just popped up in my feed reader. At first glance I wasn't too concerned, but took a look at the linked MSDN page ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/overview/activating_activex.asp )

Re: [WSG] o & 0

2006-03-03 Thread Joshua Street
On 3/4/06, Jens Brueckmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > a font for the web that has a distinction between the > > uppercase letter O and the number 0. > > If such a font exist, which is it? Georgia uses pretty much the same shape for o, 0 and O, but lower-case is small, zero is bigger, and capit

Re: [WSG] o & 0

2006-03-03 Thread Joshua Street
On 3/4/06, Vicki Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My own main bugbear is in product serial numbers where there is a > mixture of numbers and letters. It's all very well knowing that O is > rounder than 0, but if you don't have one of each to compare, it can > be very hit-and-miss. I'm sure there

Re: [WSG] targeting link class problem

2006-03-07 Thread Joshua Street
On 3/7/06, kvnmcwebn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How would i target a:hover on the following links? > I tried a few things but cant get down to the classes(one, two). > > > > bla bla > bla #navcontainershort a.one:ho

Re: [WSG] Horizontal Menu- Site Check

2006-03-09 Thread Joshua Street
On 3/9/06, Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > Site: > http://69.94.122.44/new.php?/caribbean/category/antiqua/ No help there right now, coz I'm at home and without access to IE, BUT... I do have a bug report for you. Firefox 1.0.x/Linux (and presumably on every other platform, and proba

Re: [WSG] Wanted ASAP: Clean and Simple image gallery script

2006-03-11 Thread Joshua Street
On 3/12/06, Jay Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am open to other suggestions from members though. http://cat-scan.net/ (but this uses flat-files rather than a database). -- Joshua Street http://joahua.com/blog/ +61 (0) 42

Re: [WSG] CAPS in stylesheets

2006-03-12 Thread Joshua Street
On 3/13/06, sime <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have never had a problem with the uppercase not working in strict. > Maybe I'm not defining strict correctly. Here is a test page which works > in FF,IE6: http://urbits.com/_/test.php You're serving it as text/html. **

Re: [WSG] CAPS in stylesheets

2006-03-12 Thread Joshua Street
On 3/13/06, sime <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rephrased, what are the different situations in which you'd use HTML4 over > XHTML1? So far > I've been led to believe (outside of this list) that XHTML is a step forward. You're serving your XHTML as text/html, so it's effectively being parsed as HTM

Re: [WSG] CAPS in stylesheets

2006-03-12 Thread Joshua Street
On 3/13/06, Lachlan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sime wrote: > > I have never had a problem with the uppercase not working in strict. > > Maybe I'm not defining strict correctly. Here is a test page which > > works in FF,IE6: http://urbits.com/_/test.php > > Add this function call to the top o

Re: [WSG] CAPS in stylesheets

2006-03-12 Thread Joshua Street
On 3/13/06, Jay Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have also read (no personal first hand knowledge) that there can be > issues between using DOM/DHTML scripts and XHTML. I don't know what > these issues are but why invite trouble. This arises from non-DOM methods, which are often much simpler

Re: innerHTML (was: Re: [WSG] CAPS in stylesheets)

2006-03-13 Thread Joshua Street
On 3/13/06, Lachlan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joshua Street wrote: > > any elements in the inserted content _aren't_ created as > > elements, and hence cannot be manipulated at all. > > Um... What the? Of course they are created as elements, or at least

Re: [WSG] H1 not aligning to top

2006-03-21 Thread Joshua Street
ly playing here in Firefox. Also, that menu really looks a lot like it should be a list... just a thought :-) Josh -- Joshua Street http://joahua.com/blog/ +61 (0) 425 808 469 ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

Re: [WSG] Recommendations for Usability sub-contractor; SEC=UNCLASSIFIED

2007-03-01 Thread Joshua Street
rest to AT LEAST 96.1% of the list (assuming that _every_ member in Canberra actually cares... which they won't). -- Joshua Street http://josh.st/blog/ +61 (0) 425 808 469 *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] How to mark up a flowchart?

2007-03-26 Thread Joshua Street
that of the potentially-messy semantics to which it is presented as an alternative... I have no answer. :P Josh -- Joshua Street http://josh.st/blog/ +61 (0) 425 808 469 *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidel

Re: [WSG] How to mark up a flowchart?

2007-03-26 Thread Joshua Street
most a visual form of communication. -- Joshua Street http://josh.st/blog/ +61 (0) 425 808 469 *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cf

Re: [WSG] How to mark up a flowchart?

2007-03-26 Thread Joshua Street
On 3/26/07, Stuart Foulstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nobody mentioned nesting flowcharts (whatever that means: a flowchart is a flowchart). Well, no, but you'd have to nest *L's to represent recursion in a flowchart. The flowchart is recursive, therefore the definition/unordered/ordered list

Re: [WSG] Markup for Poetry?

2007-03-29 Thread Joshua Street
are a range of other possibilities listed on that page, also. In most real-world practice, most websites use non-breaking spaces extensively. This is, obviously, less than ideal in terms of unbloated & semantic markup! -- Joshua Street http://josh.st/

Re: [WSG] colour matching transparent png files

2007-04-11 Thread Joshua Street
similar, but I don't know it. -- Joshua Street http://josh.st/ +61 (0) 425 808 469 ABN 64 515 086 181 *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/un

Re: [WSG] dl v table for form layout

2007-05-21 Thread Joshua Street
andardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******* -- Joshua Street http://josh.st/ +61 (0) 425 808 469 ***

Re: [WSG] Someone who *wants* the peekaboo bug

2005-04-11 Thread Joshua Street
+1000, John Horner wrote: > the "system" is pretty much exactly the same... Kind Regards, Joshua Street base10solutions Website: http://www.base10solutions.com.au/ Phone: (02) 9898-0060 Fax: (02) 8572-6021 Mo

[WSG] Dreamweaver templates and CSS

2005-05-06 Thread Joshua Street
is kind of mess before? Aside from "browser testing" Dreamweaver as though it were another user agent, is there anything that can be easily done to fix it? We're probably just going to use a content management system instead, but it's a bit frustrating... Kind Regards, J

Re: [WSG] hiding content with a click

2005-05-09 Thread Joshua Street
ct me on a standards-based way of doing this? Thanks. Kind Regards, Joshua Street Website: http://www.base10solutions.com.au/ Phone: (02) 9898-0060  Fax: (02) 8572-6021 Mobile: 0425 808 469 E-mails and any attachments sent from base10solutions are to be regarded

Re: [WSG] ® character

2005-05-17 Thread Joshua Street
 registered trademark ® ® Copied and pasted from http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_entitiesref.asp On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 11:58 +0100, Lee wrote: > Hello Listpeople, > > Anyone know if there's an XHTML special char. for  ? Kind Regards, Joshua Street base10solutions

Re: [WSG] Site check

2005-05-17 Thread Joshua Street
d Malaga from Â74" - div.page_content > div.single_column > h2 > a according to Firefox's Web Developer toolbar "View style information" utility. Generally, great site! Kind Regards, Joshu

Re: [WSG] Site check

2005-05-17 Thread Joshua Street
p.s. whose idea was this: http://www.lastminute.com/site/main/boss_page_spreadsheet.html I laughed... :D On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 12:28 +0100, Tom Hamshere wrote: > Any feedback appreciated. Kind Regards, Joshua Street Website: http://www.base10solutions.com.au/ Phone: (02) 9898-0060

Re: [WSG] apostrophes, and the like.

2005-05-17 Thread Joshua Street
http://photomatt.net/tools/texturize makes it really easy. He's also responsible for the WordPress blogging software (I know, off topic...) which has that function embedded. Quotation marks and apostrophes, if copied out of Word, can give you all kinds of messy encoding errors... best to either u

Re: [WSG] CSS Dropdown menu

2005-05-24 Thread Joshua Street
rect' way are beyond the letter of web standards, but adhere to their spirit - namely, ensuring a more meaningful and accessible web. Kind Regards, Joshua Street base10solutions Website: http://www.base10solutions.com.au/ Phone: (02) 9898-0060 Fax: (02) 8572-

Re: [WSG] Signature markup

2005-05-30 Thread Joshua Street
s, but they are on separate lines, and are therefore separated by a line break (yeah, I know, is theoretically semantically null... shrug!) Looks okay to me... Kind Regards, Joshua Street base10solutions Website: http://www.base10solutions.com.au/ Phone: (02) 9898-0060 Fax: (02) 8572-6021

Re: [WSG] Signature markup

2005-05-30 Thread Joshua Street
;s not a list, and shouldn't be marked up as one. > It's a single paragraph with a line break. Looks pretty > straight-forward if you ask me. > > ~john > _ > Dr. Zeus Web Design > http://www.DrZeus.net > "content without clutter&qu

RE: [WSG] Submit a form with text links

2005-06-01 Thread Joshua Street
riticise the idea on that point). Kind Regards, Joshua Street base10solutions Website: http://www.base10solutions.com.au/ Phone: (02) 9898-0060 Fax: (02) 8572-6021 Mobile: 0425 808 469 Multimedia Development Agency ___

[WSG] Character encoding

2005-06-03 Thread Joshua Street
certain characters not written in their appropriate entity codes. Could someone shed any light on this? Are entity codes redundant, or should we be using them where possible? Kind Regards, Joshua Street base10solutions Website: http://www.base10solutions.com.au/ Phone: (02) 9898-0060 Fax: (02)

Re: [WSG] Character encoding

2005-06-03 Thread Joshua Street
>>It's just always felt dirty seeing certain characters > >>not written in their appropriate entity codes. > Hmmm...that's a very English centric view of the Web ;-) Yeah, I thought that too, but couldn't think of another way to say it! *blushes whilst wishing he we

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