Re: [WSG] Which unit is better for web site font size?

2006-02-01 Thread Francesco
--- Christian Montoya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 html { font-size:100.01%; }
 body { font-size: 1em; }  // this is a bug fix for
 browser compatibility

Why do you need this?  I don't use font-size hacks in
my CSS yet my fonts look exactly the same in all
browsers.

Francesco

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

2006-01-31 Thread Francesco
--- Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 HTML 4.01 Strict.
 
 !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN
  http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd;
 
 I recommend HTML over XHTML for various reasons I
 won't go into now


So even if a site is written fully XHTML 1.0 Strict
compliant, and validates as such, it is still
recommended to use HTML 4.01 Strict?

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Re: [WSG] Best Web Standards thing I learnt in 2005.

2005-12-21 Thread Francesco
Two of the best things I've picked up this year
include:

* minimizing container and wrapper DIVs, writing
minimalist CSS

* I learned this last year, but still love it to
death:

margin: 0 20px 10px 0;

instead of writing margin-top, margin-bottom, etc.

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Re: [WSG] *Why* doesn't Google validate? was New logo scheme was talking points for standards

2005-12-09 Thread Francesco
Multiply those two  by millions of hits every day
and we're talking big bandwidth!



--- Brian Cummiskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Chris Dimmock wrote:
 
   *Google's home page doesn't
  validate and that's mostly by design to save
 precious bytes.
 
 So, he's saying
 
 font color=red loads faster than font
 color=red
 
 ?
 
 I'd like to see some documented proof of this.
 
 
 The homepage of google is only a couple lines of
 code... but yet they 
 have inline javascript instead of external
 cached/linked scripting..
 
 I think their /saving precious bytes/ comment is
 full of itself.

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Re: [WSG] ASP.NET XHTML compliant blogging

2005-11-21 Thread Francesco Sanfilippo
I wish I had my blogging/community system finished for you, Mark.  It
will be ASP.NET 2.0 and CSS/XHTML compliant.  It won't be ready until
early next year.

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Re: [WSG] Feedback www.mcguireomaha.com

2005-10-14 Thread Francesco Sanfilippo
First thing I would say is that it's too difficult to find how to FIND
a home.  First you have to see the small link on the right, then the
page refreshes and looks virtually the same.  One would expect to see
a search form immediately, but instead I had to scroll down and hunt
for a text link to a search page.  Too much work.

Francesco

On 10/14/05, Rick Faaberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On 10/14/05 1:13 PM Collin Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent
 this out:

  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 1:46 PM
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Org
  Subject: [WSG] Feedback
 
  I have been a fly on the wall for some time in this group and I was really
  hoping to get a bit of feedback on a site I am almost finished with.  Copy
  will change and possibly some site design before I deliver the final
  version.
 
  What I am hoping for is a bit of a report card- what was done well and where
  did I fail miserably.  (BTW one of the pages does not validate right now,
  the client just had us insert some new links that need to be reformatted)
 
  www.mcguireomaha.com

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Re: [WSG] IE team says no to hacks

2005-10-13 Thread Francesco Sanfilippo
That's not really true, Alan.  A site without CSS hacks does not
necessarily have to be ugly.  I develop table-less ASP.NET sites using
CSS and I have never used a single CSS hack or conditional comment,
yet my sites are still clean, good-looking and functional in the
leading browsers (IE, FF, Safari, and Opera).

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On 10/13/05, Alan Trick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 If you don't use CSS hacks you have 2 options.

 1. Avoid CSS that is buggy in a browser.

 2. Use other hacks like conditional comments. (Conditional comments
 *are* hacks, there just intentional ones)

 Number 1 is simply not an option unless your willing to look like
 useit.com or something. Number 2 is hardly any better because when
 future browsers come out either they will have fixed their CSS
 implementations (and then life is happiness and glee) or they won't.
 With CSS it's likely that you will have to do touchups but with
 conditional comments you have to write another css file all together.

 Also I don't want an M$ bitching session either. IE7 may not be perfect,
 but it's a step towards interopability and standards (which is a really
 big thing for Microsoft). I think we should encourage it all we can.

 Peter Firminger wrote:
  If you've gone against all sane advice and used CSS hacks then you knew
  exactly what you were in for with future browsers and potential problems.
 
  I don't want to see an M$ bitch session develop here while Microsoft are
  seemingly trying very hard do the right thing (at last). Obviously we have
  to wait and see what the final release does.
 
  At that point, I really hope you're (general) not going to charge your
  customers if you have to fix up bugs (hacks) that you knowingly induced into
  their websites if you didn't make it clear to them at the time that hacking
  may require rectification in the future.
 
  Sorry for the smug told you so, but many people including myself have made
  this very clear over the whole life of WSG. You only have yourself to blame.
 
  Peter
 
  previously comment=I'm really sick of html emails on this list

 I second :)

  It sounds more like they are taking a stand against the designers who tried
  to work around those buggy problems. They aren't cleaning up their own act,
  just making it harder to hack around them. IE 7 still has some of the quirky
  implementations that make older versions of IE so difficult to design for.
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Re: [WSG] Does anyone still design for 640x480?

2005-08-03 Thread Francesco Sanfilippo
I'd have to agree with that.  Our studies also show maximized browsing
for over 90% when users are working at 1280x1024 or below.

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Re: [WSG] Does anyone still design for 640x480?

2005-08-03 Thread Francesco Sanfilippo
I would guess that unless one is aware that mobile phones are a
significant population (over a few percent), one could simply detect
mobiles and serve them an unstyled page, rendering plain text?  This
would fit into any browser width if done correctly.

Francesco



On 8/3/05, Chris Velevitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 What about mobile phones? Isn't anyone taking them into consideration?
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Re: [WSG] footer technique

2005-07-16 Thread Francesco Sanfilippo
Easy.  I don't rely on Javascript for anything critical.  I would
rather use a layout hack without Javascript.

Francesco


On 7/16/05, Maarten Stolte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Why not just use the technique from Bobby van der Sluis, it works all the
 time on dom enabled browsers;
  http://www.alistapart.com/articles/footers/
  
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Re: [WSG] the use of reset buttons on forms

2005-06-14 Thread Francesco Sanfilippo
I have a different opinion.  Neither Reset nor Cancel are
necessary.  Studies show most users click the back button to abort
transactions (even I do, and I'm a web developer) or leave sites (if
there are no appealing links to go anywhere else).

I can see where Cancel could be a little more intuitive, say within a
multi-page form, but I don't see users that work that way in general. 
What usually happens is a user will click Back and get the annoying
the page was created by a POST dialog.  User becomes annoyed and
doesn't really understand what the message means, so they close the
browser window entirely, cursing the site as they leave.

I rarely see average users click Home on a browser, even though that
is my favorite button for clearing what I've done and starting fresh,
as opposed to closing a window or tab.

Francesco




On 6/14/05, heretic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Seriously: how many people enter data into a form and go so completely
  wrong that they want to erase everything they have just done and start
  over new?
 
 Some users may want to do that; alternatively some users will change
 their minds about submitting at all and do not trust simply closing
 the page - they want to see the form blanked out.
 
 Or if they've accidentally entered their postal address into street
 address fields and vice versa...
 
  On the other hand, how many people *accidentally* press the reset
  button when they actually wanted to hit the submit button?
 
 On some forms I've used CSS to make the Submit button much larger and
 a different colour/border than the Reset button to lower the chances
 of confusing the two... you can also add a JavaScript behaviour to get
 a confirmation prompt (enhancing the interface and all that).
 
 regarding just hitting refresh
 
 Many users won't think like that. Plus, if you're stepping through a
 series of forms you might lose your session/variables and have to
 start over. Or you might have a form inside a frameset, so hitting the
 refresh button will reset the frameset and take you to the default
 content, which might be some considerable number of clicks away from
 where you were.
 
 In the end I guess it's a question which draws heavily on context -
 what kind of data is being entered? How are the users arriving at the
 form? Is it a confidential survey which they might decide not to
 submit after all?
 
 Just my 2c :)
 
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Re: [WSG] GMail... Terrible!

2005-02-14 Thread Francesco
Also, it's beta, and it's FREE, so don't complain, really.

Francesco




On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:28:27 +1000, Gary Menzel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
 My opinion.
 
 Dont use it if it doesnt work for you.
 
 While I am all for webstandards, there is nothing that says people
 HAVE to produce a program that works in a particular way.  And while
 there are accessibility standards - there is NOTHING stopping someone
 with accessibility issues from using the comptetition (such as Yahoo
 or Hotmail).
 
 And while there is plenty of noise about court cases from people who
 have been disadvantaged by people not adhering to accessibility
 guidelines, you would find that if there are suitable alternatives for
 people to use that such cases dont hold water.
 
 No-one is forcing people to use GMail (or even your website - for that
 matter).
 
 The biggest problem is for businesses who have clients who cannot use
 a site because it is not accessible (especially if the business
 expects all clients to deal with it through the website).
 
 So.. GMail. if it works for you - use it - if it doesn't -
 then use something else.
 
 
 Regards,
 Gary Menzel
 
 
 
 On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:09:14 +1100, Chris Stratford
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  James Bennett wrote:
  
  For figuring out the structure of a Gmail page I've found the best
  method is to use Mozilla's DOM Inspector; it lets you pick through all
  of the framesets and hidden DIVs to figure out what's actually going
  on.
  
  Yesh thats what I used to get that deep.
  But the DOM inspector doesnt seem to nest below the second or third
  iframe. (i cant remember).
  
  Thanks for the link :)
  
  damn gmail:S
  
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RE: [WSG] GMail... Terrible!

2005-02-14 Thread Francesco
It seems like we are making the world less free by forcing
companies/corporations/individuals to conform to equality laws.  Isn't
this just another form of conformity and regulation?

Francesco




On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:51:05 +1100, Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
  -Original Message-
  From: Gary Menzel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  Sent: Tuesday, 15 February 2005 3:55 PM
  To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
  Subject: Re: [WSG] GMail... Terrible!
  
  I'll repeat myself - just so that people know I am serious 
  about this..
  
  There are plenty of accesible free webmail clients available.
  
  Explan to me why GMail has to make it's product accessible to 
  everyone?
 
 To continue evolving into a society that treats everybody equally, there
 is
 no reason why companies should not TRY to make their websites as
 accessible
 as possible, considering the little amount of effort required. I can
 understand if companies do not fulfil all the different priorities, but
 we
 can at least try, hey?
 
  And quoting the laws about discrimination wont cut it.  They have the
  right to shoot themselves in the foot and lose all the users who can't
  access their FREE site because of all the other alternatives.
 
 I don't even have to quote legal issues - it's a matter of moral. A lot
 of
 websites do not fulfil accessibility guidelines, but that is mostly
 because
 they don't know much about them. The big difference is that GMail should
 know better. I am sure they have got enough people around that could
 quickly
 and easily make the website more accessible.
 
 
 
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Re: [WSG] Any ASP.Net standards people here?

2005-01-28 Thread Francesco
That's just wrong.  I am an ASP.NET developer and I am ALSO a web
standards and CSS fan.  I try as hard as possible to keep my code
compliant.  I don't think it's 100% possible, but I do manage to keep my
code at least 90% standards-compliant.  The only offenders you can't
easily get rid of are the weird ViewState tags (which you can choose NOT
to use, if you don't use post-back forms) and .NET's weird FORM tags.  I
do not use the non-compliant and bloated Controls like DataGrids, and
instead output tabular data using Repeaters which allow you to even
avoid using tables if you wish.

I think I should write an article on writing standards-compliant .NET
code since so many people ask about it and can't seem to find the right
resources.

Francesco




On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:29:08 -, Kornel Lesinski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
 On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:06:12 -, Peter Goddard
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]  
 wrote:
 
 I've recently had a task to write stylesheet for ASP.Net page and I was  
 really
 shocked how BAD that code is.
 
 Coder that wrote that didn't have any idea of web standards and he said  
 that
 it's generally impossible to make this code cleaner.
 
 Is it really?
 
 Can DataGrids have th for headers?
 Do labels have to be span class=label?
 Does it have to insert nbsp; everywhere?
 Does it have to make javascript: urls?
 
 Most asp.net+standards articles describe lengthy and hacky ways to force  
 ASP
 to output XHTML, but maybe there is a simple way just to make it semantic 
 HTML4 Strict?
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RE: [WSG] Site review plz - Thank you.

2004-12-19 Thread Francesco
PLZ?

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RE: [WSG] Another amazing css zen garden entry

2004-12-17 Thread Francesco
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 09:41:12 -0600, Christie Mason
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
 Yes, I did use the correct URL, you may want to use something like Tiny
 URL for future links.



URL123 (http://url123.com) is really handy for posting long URLs in
email.  It even allows you to save links you've shared, edit them, etc. 
It's a great free service.  Hope that helps.

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Re: [WSG] Another amazing css zen garden entry

2004-12-17 Thread Francesco
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 14:58:11 +1100, J4Web [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:



When I first saw it, I thought ooh this is a nice color scheme and use
of animated gifs and that was about it.  It is quite creative.


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Re: [WSG] Stop Breaking my code!

2004-11-25 Thread Francesco
In VS.NET, under Tools...Options...Text Editor...C#...

uncheck the box for Automatically format completed constructs and
pasted source

Also, make sure your checkboxes under Tools...Options...HTML Designer...

are all set to HTML View.

Let me know if that helps.

Francesco





On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 15:18:37 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
 
 Hi all,
 
 This is probably not the forum for such things, and if not, my
 apologies, but...I've been slaving away on a C# project in MS
 Visual Studio .NET (2002) and have spent a good couple of hours
 trying to find out a way to stop the blasted thing from ruining
 my lovely XHTML1.0 Strict code!

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Re: [WSG] Site-Check:

2004-11-16 Thread Francesco
Hrmm, my Firefox default seting looks just fine to me.  Felix, is yours
set to abnormally low values?

Francesco


On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 23:12:58 -0500, Felix Miata [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:

 Find a UXGA 15 laptop, then show it to your grandparents using IE. They
 probably won't be able to read any of your content or links without a
 cumbersome magnifier.
 
 By the time I zoom it enough to read (about 175%, to equal my Moz
 default), the top menu is overlapping the content that is supposed to be
 below it.
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Re: [WSG] Site Critique

2004-11-12 Thread Francesco
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 17:22:15 +, Paul Connolley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
 
 On 12 Nov 2004, at 12:33, Laurie Keith wrote:
 
  If any of you busy people have a spare 15 minutes, can you give me an  
  honest evaluation on our new corporate web site.
 
  http://www.createwith.com


Well, my first question is...why did you use Flash for a plain black and
white design?  The same thing could have easily been done with plain ole
HTML in probably half the time.  You have no fancy animations or
graphics that really require Flash.  There is no reason to use Flash
unless you're showing off animation or are doing some sort of product
demo where movement and sound would enhance the visual appeal or show
someone how something works.

Even if Flash is supposedly on over 90% of all browsers, I still would
not use it to replace content that is more easily done in XHTML and CSS.

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Re: [WSG] Foreign Translations

2004-10-20 Thread Francesco
  The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively
  Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) -
  http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
 


I read this entire article, then changed the first meta tag on a test
page to be:

meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=UTF-8 /

then I went to the Chinese translation of Joel's page and cut and pasted
some Chinese characters into my html page, saved it, and loaded it in IE
expecting to see Chinese side by side to my English text.  Nope.  Still
gibberish.  What did I do wrong?

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Re: [WSG] Foreign Translations

2004-10-19 Thread Francesco
  The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively
  Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) -
  http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
  


I went and read this entire article, then changed the very first meta
tag on an html page to be

meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=UTF-8 /

then I went to the Chinese translation of Joel's page and cut and pasted
some Chinese characters into my html page, saved it, and loaded it in IE
expecting to see Chinese side by side to my English text.  Nope.  Still
gibberish.  What did I do wrong?

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[WSG] Mac site check please...

2004-09-27 Thread Francesco
Could a few using Mac browsers please check out the new version of my
site at http://blackcoil.com and let me know if things look to be in
order?  There isn't much content there yet, but I want to make sure the
framework is stable before I move on, thanks.

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Re: [WSG] Mac site check please...

2004-09-27 Thread Francesco
It looks perfect to me on: Win IE 6, Win FF 0.9, and Win Opera 7.

Francesco



On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 16:55:08 -0400, Barry Cranmer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
 
 On Monday, September 27, 2004, at 03:56  PM, Francesco wrote:
 
  Could a few using Mac browsers please check out the new version of my
  site at http://blackcoil.com and let me know if things look to be in
  order?  There isn't much content there yet, but I want to make sure the
  framework is stable before I move on, thanks.
 
  Francesco Sanfilippo, Internet Developer
 
 
 Works as I believe you wish in Foxfire 0.8 - equal space right and 
 left, blackcoil above home, grey box upper right with four links 
 horizontally across bottom of box - text white, dk grey, whit, dk grey, 
 white, photo on right, welcome text on left.
 
 Same in Safari - 1.0.3 (v 85.8)
 
 
 Doesn't work the same in IE. 5.2 for Mac - everything stacks vertically 
 and overlap each other
 
 Opera  6.0.3 breaks the solid grey box upper-right into separate blocks 
 by inserting white space between them. Rest is the same as foxfire and 
 safari.
 
 I can't wait to hear the experts suggest a fix for this.
 
 
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