Re: [WSG] getting an a

| +-... +-... There's even a tree diagram showing the same kind of structure in the CSS 2.1 spec. http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/conform.html#user-agent Alternatively, you can use the DOM inspector in Firefox which shows that kind of structure for the entire document. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] Environmentally conscious websites

all that useless HTML markup :-). Why not just send text/plain? -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting

Re: [WSG] MSN in bad shape

(and Opera 8.53), but still in very bad shape. Overlapping boxes, obscured text - pretty unprofessional, in my book. It's still a *beta*, so it's not yet finished. Although, it does suggest they're building for IE first and standards later, which is widely considered bad practice. -- Lachlan

Re: [WSG] Usability Studies on Click Here Labelling of Links?

or listing links on the page. Of the following, if your screen reader were reading out links, which would you rather hear: 1. _click here_, _click here_, _this page_, ... 2. _elephant enclosure_, _monkey habitat_, _dinosaur exhibit_, ... -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] Is there a Javascript issue in Safari?

event and creates a popup with the value from the href attribute. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting

Re: [WSG] Is there a Javascript issue in Safari?

Lachlan Hunt wrote: http://lachy.id.au/log/2005/05/script-comments Although this wasn't mentioned in that article, use this in XHTML instead: script type=text/javascript//![CDATA[ //]/script Oops, typo. Requires 2 square brackets ']'. //]]/script -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] help needed in validating webpage

if you're serving it as text/html) http://lachy.id.au/log/2006/01/content-type -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints

Re: [WSG] Creative Commons

and far less strict licence than that imposed by regular copyright laws, then go for it. Any standards issues? Beyond the use of RDF or other markup to declare it, it really has nothing to do with web standards. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] Creative Commons

work you publish without requiring your permission or needing to pay any kind of royalty. Can you provide a reference to back up this claim? -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

Re: [WSG] Pixel to Em conversion - understanding IRONY

that things are not what they are said to be or what they seem. And I thought irony was what my mum does to get the wrinkles out of my clothes. :-) -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] convert to XHTML

different parsing requirements of the script and style elements, and much more... -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some

Re: [WSG] Target attribute - coming or going?

-hyperlinks/ -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** 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] Copyright Question

definitely the wrong place to ask such a question since it has absolutely nothing to do with web standards. You should contact the companies directly and work out some arrangement with them. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion

Re: [WSG] duplicate id

, as appropriate) and then use stylesheets to style them in any way you want. i have thought of using a div tag instead of a span and making the width auto, Don't use either if you can avoid it, always use appropriate semantic markup. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] ping reference in a href= tag

-work/#ping I did read a that is it supposed to speed up links or something. No, it does no such thing. Where did you read that? -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

Re: [WSG] Media queries

browser. [1] http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Test/guidelines.html -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list

Re: [WSG] firefox question

though. In IE, a chain of pseudo-classes is not handled correctly. e.g. a:hover:visited is incorrectly treated the same as a:visited a:visited:hover is incorrectly treated the same as a:hover That's similar to the way IE handles class selectors as well. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] div#links, or #links?

page 2 uses: ul id=links (Just assume there would be a semantic reason for using a different element on different pages) 3. It may just be an authoring convention. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] CSS is dead... use markup for presentation.

, the members are unlikely to be weighed down by absurd corporate interests, but rather have the best interests of both web developers and end users in mind. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] WCAG 2.0: Joe Clark article

to be. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** 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] WCAG 2.0: Joe Clark article

(with the exception of Joe Clark) will, unfortunately, not be made public. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints

Re: [WSG] WCAG 2.0: Joe Clark article

Kat wrote: Lachlan Hunt wrote: ...I don't believe WCAG 2.0 is nearly as bad as he makes it out to be. I believe its worst crime is the language that it uses [...] overly complex and convoluted writing (Not too different from Academese). An accessibility document such as WCAG 2.0 is best

Re: [WSG] Accessibility standards - for commercial consumption

. Although the idea seems similar to the intention of the WCAG Samurai, but I would much rather prefer an open process that anyone can get involved with. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] Accessibility standards - for commercial consumption

Tony Crockford wrote: Lachlan Hunt wrote: Tony Crockford wrote: The advent of WCAG 2 and it's apparently almost impossible to understand language makes me wonder if there's any mileage in writing something similar to the MACCAWS Kit but with meeting Accessibility Standards in mind. I

Re: [WSG] Accessibility standards - for commercial consumption

on this? -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** 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] Accessibility standards - for commercial consumption

Lachlan Hunt wrote: * What should we call the project? How about Access is Everything, like a tribute to Position is Everything? -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

Re: [WSG] Accessibility standards - for commercial consumption

don't apply in Australia. So whether or not Australia adopts WCAG 2.0, Australian developers may still be required to develop sites that comply with them. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] Accessibility standards - for commercial consumption

expect most of us wouldn't really know where to begin. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list

[WSG CMS] Re: [WSG] SEC: UNCLASSIFIED:-

. http://fidelis.za.net/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/fidelis -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ * The CMS discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *

Re: [WSG] SEC: UNCLASSIFIED:-

. http://fidelis.za.net/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/fidelis -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting

Re: [WSG] Image Verification

. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** 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] Alerting users upon page reloading

. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** 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] Using PHP to hide email, script made, testing needed

bots won't send User-Agent headers claiming to be IE, Firefox or any other browser they like? Even if some bots do send different UA strings, this script relies on a false assumption and, thus, provides a false sense of security. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] UPDATE TO: Using PHP to hide email, script made, testing needed

that spammers already have, thanks to the previous owner (i.e. one from a free provider like Hotmail that was used, but had expired and allowed you to register it). -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] UPDATE TO: Using PHP to hide email, script made, testing needed

Lachlan Hunt wrote: There are various techniques used, such as: 1. Writing the e-mail with JavaScript 2. Encoding characters using percent-encoding in mailto: URIs 3. Encoding characters as HTML character references. 4. Interspersing markup within the e-mail address. e.g. userspan#x40

Re: [WSG] UPDATE TO: Using PHP to hide email, script made, testing needed

Thierry Koblentz wrote: Lachlan Hunt wrote: The simple fact is that no solution will be completely foolproof. It's like the problems with CAPTCHAs. Spammers continually work to find workarounds for them and nothing you do will be 100% effective. Mike's article gave me an idea; but I don't

Re: [WSG] UPDATE TO: Using PHP to hide email, script made, testing needed

Thierry Koblentz wrote: Lachlan Hunt wrote: The simple fact is that no solution will be completely foolproof. It's like the problems with CAPTCHAs. Spammers continually work to find workarounds for them and nothing you do will be 100% effective. Mike's article gave me an idea; but I don't

Re: [WSG] UPDATE TO: Using PHP to hide email, script made, testing needed

Lachlan Hunt wrote: There are various techniques used, such as: 1. Writing the e-mail with JavaScript 2. Encoding characters using percent-encoding in mailto: URIs 3. Encoding characters as HTML character references. 4. Interspersing markup within the e-mail address. e.g. userspan#x40

Re: [WSG] Web site images question

/serialization/Chapter06.html http://hixie.ch/advocacy/alttext http://www.htmlhelp.com/feature/art3.htm -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] Web site images question

/book/sashay/serialization/Chapter06.html#h2-2415 I recommend everyone (at least those participating in this thread) read that entire chapter, as it covers many of the issues being discussed here. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] Web site images question

think you really need it at all, I'd go with an empty alt attribute and no title. For all 4 of the images representing accessibility, SEO, usability and training. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] Question about naming CSS elements

class=some-class p#some-id.some-class -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** 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] Rel and Rev Links

/a Similarly, from DocA and DocB, you could link to contents.html like this: a href=contents.html rel=contentsTable of Contents/a -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

Re: [WSG] Question about naming CSS elements

(pageHeader) }} h1 { string-set: pageHeader Chapter counter(chapter) content() } -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints

Re: [WSG] Can Divs be a triangle shape?

the above technique) then saving it as PNG8 should give you an image around 2-3KB or less. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] Can Divs be a triangle shape?

and others. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** 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] Testing CSS: Map Pop

Mike at Green-Beast.com wrote: Here is the write-up: http://mikecherim.com/gbcms_xml/news_page.php?id=7 Here is the experiment: http://mikecherim.com/experiments/css_map_pop.php Interesting. Did you consider developing a system that makes use of the map element? -- Lachlan Hunt http

Re: [WSG] Testing CSS: Map Pop

Mike at Green-Beast.com wrote: Lachlan Hunt wrote: Interesting. Did you consider developing a system that makes use of the map element? I did note it lacks some backwards compatibility From the spec: | Note. MAP is not backwards compatible with HTML 2.0 user agents. I think that can

Re: [WSG] div in li

properly, you never need to manually include workarounds like that. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting

Re: [WSG] target=_blank

application, rather than embedded in the browser as it may be on yours. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints

Re: [WSG] XHTML 2.0

for that matter. Then you've still got many other UAs to consider, like mobiles, search engines, etc. IMHO, XHTML 2 is effectively irrelevant these days. The work on (X)HTML 5 from the WHATWG looks a lot more promising, with far more features and much better backwards compatibility. -- Lachlan Hunt

Re: [WSG] XHTML 2.0

could do the same thing in HTML, since it's a valid SGML construct. But, although it's supported in XML, support for it in HTML is virtually non-existent and, in current browsers, results in ] being output as content. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] Html Question Please Help

=/marvinswebfiles/ You never need to include index.html in the path when there's a web server being used. You only need to do so when you're reading from the local file system, but in that case linking relative to the root doesn't work either. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] The DOM

/#the-tabindex -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] document.write and JS dependent features

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Re: [WSG] When is use of absolute units acceptable?

the design or makes it difficult to read, then you should consider a different technique. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] When is use of absolute units acceptable?

Terrence Wood wrote: On 10/09/2006, at 7:34 PM, Lachlan Hunt wrote: Firstly, pixels are not absolute units, they are defined as relative units. Although this is a very common misconception, try not to get confused about the terminology. I thought the definition of px as a relative unit

Re: [WSG] Replacing part of a quote with an ellipsis

psuedo-elements, as defined in CSS 2.1. You may have to use JS to simulate it in other browsers. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] I Hate Internet Explorer Pt 2

. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] I Hate Internet Explorer Pt 2

Hrvoje Markovic wrote: Is there somewhere a list of what/how IE interperates html/css differently from, let's say Firefox? And how to make a page work in both? http://positioniseverything.net/explorer.html -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] textarea wrap attribute

differs from soft in presentation, not function, which is why it was not included in the WHATWG's work. http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/properties/wrap.asp -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ *** List

Re: [WSG] Ultimate DOM-script strategy

-implementation shortcomings... Perhaps that's a category to itself, though. See Dean Edward's IE7 script. http://dean.edwards.name/ie7/ -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] What version of IE should be build to

, the usual warnings about only using hacks as a last resort in favour of a hack-free solution still apply) -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] Textarea attribues.

characters and those line breaks will be submitted to the server. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help

Re: [WSG] Calling JS gurus

(e.g. via XHR or input from a textarea) -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL

Re: [WSG] Calling JS gurus

though, I have never used it for anything but testing. I still prefer to use the more structured DOM methods where possible, but there are use cases where innerHTML is the best solution. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ *** List

Re: [WSG] Apply style to li only

styles */ } lispancontent.../span/li You can of course replace the span with whatever element is appropriate for your needs. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] In the 'Wow, if only everyone did this category...

]. It will just take a little longer for other browsers to catch up. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-background/ -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] In the 'Wow, if only everyone did this category...

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lachlan Hunt wrote: Tom Livingston wrote: View this in WebKit browsers only. (Hence the subject of this post): http://decaffeinated.org/archives/projects/multibg/background-image.html Yeah, WebKit implemented that a few months ago. It's the new multiple-backgrounds

Re: [WSG] List option question

, lower-alpha) ) ; } li li li::marker { content: ( counter(item, lower-roman) ) ; } -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] In the 'Wow, if only everyone did this category...

Kat wrote: Lachlan Hunt wrote: Firefox does not use WebKit, it uses Gecko. You need to use Safari, or some other browser based on WebKit, to view it. Is Gecko planning on supporting this in version 1.9? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=322475 Can anyone take pity on us without

Re: [WSG] swift - only windows browser with a webkit?

-image-20061010 -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] swift - only windows browser with a webkit?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lachlan Hunt wrote: I have the Swift_0.1.msi installer if anyone wants it. Felix, I would like a copy of the msi. It was I, not Felix, who has it. I received a couple of requests for it, so I put it up online. http://lachy.id.au/dev/swift/binaries/ -- Lachlan

Re: [WSG] can i access any element in a nested form

to be failing this evening. I can't seem to see the code you are thinking about, let alone find the errors in it. If I have to guess, I'd say check line 42. ;-) -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] Fonts and standards

for that. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] Numbered paragraphs

the deprecation of these attributes is widely considered to be an error, it can be ignored. Triggering full standards mode is considered more important than a minor validation error that has no effect on browsers. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] best markup for a calendar?

supported. [1] http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help

Re: [WSG] Pure CSS dropdown Menu, take II

to never ever use them around scripts, partly because they cause even more trouble in XHTML. For more info, see my article on the topic. http://lachy.id.au/log/2005/05/script-comments -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ *** List

Re: [WSG] Entity Name vs Entity Number

. Generally, you should avoid named entity references in XHTML if favour of numeric or hex character references. http://lachy.id.au/log/2005/10/char-refs#charref-entity-ext Even better than using references is to encode the file as UTF-8 and just enter the real characters. -- Lachlan Hunt http

Re: [WSG] Entity Name vs Entity Number

John Faulds wrote: http://lachy.id.au/log/2005/10/char-refs Looks like that article's gone missing. AH!!! I have no idea what has happened to it, it was definitely there when I sent the link. I'm sure I've got a back up, so I can restore it, I'll see what I can do. -- Lachlan Hunt

Re: [WSG] Entity Name vs Entity Number

Lachlan Hunt wrote: John Faulds wrote: http://lachy.id.au/log/2005/10/char-refs Looks like that article's gone missing. AH!!! I have no idea what has happened to it, it was definitely there when I sent the link. I'm sure I've got a back up, so I can restore it, I'll see what I can

Re: [WSG] Lists and DIR=RTL

be able to achieve the effect using the 'direction' and 'unicode-bidi' properties. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] Valid characters in class names

%0A%3Cp%3E%3Ca%20href%3D%22urn%3Alsid%3Aubio.org%3Anamebank%3A530114%22%3EThis%20link%20should%20be%20green%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] Valid characters in class names

Charles Roper wrote: On 20/10/06, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles Roper wrote: I need to include the following in a class name (for use in a microformat): class=urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:530114 Which microformat? That's a URI and so a more semantic place

Re: [WSG] Correct markup for a chat board?

dialogue is generally frowned upon because dl is widely considered to be for marking up definitions. Tantek has provided a more semantic example of in a old presentation of his. See XHTML Compound: Conversation. http://tantek.com/presentations/2005/03/elementsofxhtml/#slide22 -- Lachlan Hunt

Re: [WSG] Correct markup for a chat board?

Rob O'Rourke wrote: Lachlan Hunt wrote: Using dl for marking up dialogue is generally frowned upon because dl is widely considered to be for marking up definitions. Tantek has provided a more semantic example of in a old presentation of his. See XHTML Compound: Conversation

Re: [WSG] Forget about Opera and Mac (and Windows Vista) ??

Kay Smoljak wrote: On 10/26/06, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's a very bad way to look at it. Just because a page validates, does not mean it's bug free. If something doesn't work in Safari or Opera 9, then there's a good chance that the problem is with your code, even

Re: [WSG] Forget about Opera and Mac (and Windows Vista) ??

you need to test in all for free. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] PHP Browser Sniffer Test for Mac FF 2.0

in anyway whatsoever? -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] PHP Browser Sniffer Test for Mac FF 2.0

aggressively at times. My apparent popularity is irrelevant, we're all equals here. I really didn't mean to be aggressive. However, having re-read what I wrote, I can see how it could be taken that way, and for that, I apologise. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

[WSG] W3C's new Plan for HTML

this? [1] http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/166 -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help

Re: [WSG] W3C's new Plan for HTML

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Re: [WSG] W3C's new Plan for HTML

use it. The browser vendors also have the user's best interest in mind. They don't want to spend their time implementing new features that won't actually be useful to users, nor used by authors. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] Legal or Ilegal

the copyright notice on the design and/or ask the author for permission. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join

Re: [WSG] best way to style the Tags?

be. See this CSS. http://static.technorati.com/static/css/page-tags.css .heatmap em {font-style: normal; font-size: 1.03em;} It works because em units compound, so each nested em is 1.03em bigger than it's parent. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] best way to style the Tags?

Sarah Peeke (XERT) wrote: Perhaps I'm missing something, but why not use h2, h3, h4, h5 etc to mark up a tagcloud ??? Because tags aren't headings. Heading elements shouldn't be used to denote importance or emphasis, they should be used for headings. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] Replacing target attribute in form

attribute because at least that way the user can more easily configure their browser to ignore it. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] Keyword Generator

a program called , http://www.softexe.com ...and your money. Search engines don't pay attention to them anyway. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] IE doesnt pickup the anchor

it in the URI in the address bar. Considering it gives the desired behaviour, I wouldn't worry too much. It's just a bug in IE that can be ignored and there's nothing you can do to fix it anyway, except filing a bug report. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] two-headed babies look OK

. It is not practical for browsers to start rejecting such content because to do so would break an infinite number of legacy pages for users. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

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