Re: [WSG] Web Standards Books

2006-11-29 Thread Keryx webb
Once again hello! 11 uses for 101 checklists - a book tip. See: http://www.sitepoint.com/books/checklists1/ 1. For the single developer: Ensure that you do not forget any aspect. It's hard to be Leonardo Da Vinci! 2. For the team leader: While some people in your team ought to know more than

Re: [WSG] Synthetic speech is not only for the blind

2006-11-29 Thread Keryx webb
Ben Buchanan wrote: On a different front... reading vs. listening also has some interesting effects in education - some students like to listen more than they like to read; others like both; etc. Speaking as a teacher. I have students with dyslexia who use books on CD:s, etc instead of

[WSG] moz-inline-box or block

2006-11-23 Thread Keryx webb
Hello! I want to use inline-block on a design, but since it's not supported by FFox I wonder what the best solution would be. Alt. 1: elem { display: -moz-inline-block; display: inline-block; /* some say this one is really buggy */ } Alt. 2: elem { display: -moz-inline-block;

[WSG] Synthetic speech is not only for the blind

2006-11-11 Thread Keryx webb
Hello again all! 2. I was reading this article on Opera's new developer community: http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/20/ 1. (Yeah the order is right): I have been thinking about a way to listen to my RSS-feeds on my MP3-player, while walking, jogging or driving. It seems to me that there

[WSG] Is my DOM-script best practice?

2006-10-20 Thread Keryx webb
Hello all! On the page http://keryx.se/dev/brCh/browserval.xhtml I have a DOM-scripting demo. (For reasons I'll explain below you can't use MSIE to view the page.) The page per se is not meant to be accessible or good design, but the script is supposed to be an example of best practice

Re: [WSG] Semantic syntax highlighting of PHP-code

2006-09-26 Thread Keryx webb
Niels Fröhling wrote: This should help: http://pear.php.net/package/Text_Highlighter And Jan Brasna also chipped in with a couple of PHP-packages. I am thankful for any tip, but my question was not about how I should go about implementing the highlighting in PHP. My question is what would

[WSG] Ultimate DOM-script strategy

2006-09-17 Thread Keryx webb
Hello all! For me, this has been a year of ECMAscript and DOM. For everyones reading pleasure the list of books I've read is at the bottom of this mail. They are all good and the list is included as a tip... Now, for my concern. (Warning: long post to follow!) *ABSTRACT* There are major

Re: [WSG] Ultimate DOM-script strategy

2006-09-17 Thread Keryx webb
Christian Heilmann wrote: Take a look at the Yahoo User Interface Library http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/ . As you've read my book, you know that I am wary of libraries, but I just spent 2 weeks training people on it and once you got some insight, you realise just how clever it is. It - keeps

Re: [WSG] Ultimate DOM-script strategy

2006-09-17 Thread Keryx webb
Keryx webb wrote: Christian Heilmann wrote: Take a look at the Yahoo User Interface Library http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/ . As you've read my book, you know that I am wary of libraries, but I just spent 2 weeks training people on it and once you got some insight, you realise just how clever

[WSG] Standards aware alternative to Plaxo

2006-09-17 Thread Keryx webb
Hi again! I am considering using Plaxo in a couple of projects. I am contemplating using their REST interface (http://www.plaxo.com/api) as well as Plaxo Online. However, their pages are awful HTML-wise. Unsemantic, non-validating, XHTML-doctype but no XHTML-syntax, etc. I'd like to

Re: [WSG] Microsummaries, perhaps a reason to use XHTML?

2006-08-22 Thread Keryx webb
Matthew Pennell wrote: On 8/16/06, Christian Heilmann wrote: How so? If you add the JavaScript with a script tag and in an own document all is fine. Inline JavaScript will have to be commented out with a ridiculous amount of CDATA comments but does work, too. I'm guessing he's referring to

[WSG] Microsummaries, perhaps a reason to use XHTML?

2006-08-16 Thread Keryx webb
Maybe this will actually prompt some to use XHTML: http://wiki.mozilla.org/Microsummaries The usage of Microsummaries seem to go hand in hand with XSLT. It might possible to use them on a normal HTML-page - I have not tried - but doing the XSLT thing on a page that *must* be well-formed is

Re: [WSG] Rounded Corners

2006-07-23 Thread Keryx webb
Jorge Laranjo wrote: Hi! I was trying NiftyCube for make rounded corner on my new website. But if I use (as I do) dimensions in em or % insted of px this library doesn't work so ok. NiftyCube is a Javascript library that makes possibile to have rounded corners with xhtml + css and without

[WSG] Opera 8 and 9 difference

2006-07-05 Thread Keryx webb
Hi all If you look at http://penilla.nu/ I have a horizontal menu. The page is sent as xhtml to Opera and FFox, as HTML to MSIE. XHTML and CSS does validate (except for some CSS 3 and -moz-border-radius). It looks the way I want to in Firefox. It looks OK in MSIE, but the text was placed

[WSG] Media queries

2006-05-21 Thread Keryx webb
Hi again I have been thinking a bit about different resolutions. Liquid layouts may be great, but I believe there comes a time when they aren't enough. This got me thinking: http://www.themaninblue.com/writing/perspective/2004/09/21/ Using CSS-only to accommodate for windows between 640x480

[WSG] A case for standrardsin swedish education

2006-05-21 Thread Keryx webb
Hi Being a liaison for WASP-EduTT to Skolverket (The Swedish National Agency for Education - see http://www.webstandards.org/2005/09/10/wasp-welcomes-sweden/) I have sent a letter to some people at this agency concerning new courses in Web Design and Web Programming. It is a plea for