Re: [WSG] This sounds really silly BUT

2004-04-13 Thread Kym Kovan
Hi Gary, I am inserting what I think is a plane old link like this a href=#1Item 1/a a name=1Some Text/a I am doing this with Coldfusion on the server but that would be irrelative I would have thought? when you click the link it moves the page to the root of the folder rather than the URL I am

[WSG] IE 5.5 CSS problem- to do with media=print?

2004-04-13 Thread Gavin Cooney
Hi all, Is there a problem with IE 5.5 and printable style sheets? I have a page (on a CD, so i can't send teh url) with the following styles style type="text/css" media="all"@import url("../mcq_images/mcq_css.css");/style style type="text/css" media="print"@import

RE: [WSG] This sounds really silly BUT

2004-04-13 Thread Seona Bellamy
If you are working on a CF server, you probably have to escape the # since this is something used by CF in a different context (i.e., for designating that you want to work with the value of a variable). I think you do it by doubling up the hashes: ## See if that works. Cheers, Seona.

Re: [WSG] This sounds really silly BUT

2004-04-13 Thread G A R Y C R O U C H [ A I T ]
Simple things have simple answers, Fusebox, which is used in this CF app, puts a base tag in the top of the page. Bless it! Remove the base tag, NO PROBLEM! GC - Original Message - From: G A R Y C R O U C H [ A I T ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004

Re: [WSG] Introductory Usability Evaluation workshop

2004-04-13 Thread russ weakley
Forgot to mention, 10% discount for WSG members! James Robertson from StepTwo writes: We would be happy to offer a 10% discount to WSG members (please handwrite WSG member onto the bottom of the registration form). Russ There has been a lot of talk recently about how web standards are

Re: [WSG] Introductory Usability Evaluation workshop

2004-04-13 Thread Tim Lucas
russ weakley spoke the following wise words on 13/04/2004 6:14 PM EST: Forgot to mention, 10% discount for WSG members! Is that on top of the student discount? (not that I have the money anyway... lol) -- tim www.toolmantim.com * The

[WSG] Valid Flash...

2004-04-13 Thread Chris Bentley
The imitable Ian Hickson has some valid HTML to embed Macromedia Flash files using only the OBJECT tag... http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2004Apr/0071.html Cheers, chris. * The discussion list for

RE: [WSG] Valid Flash...

2004-04-13 Thread P.H.Lauke
Could anybody confirm if this new method solves the non-streaming problem of the Flash Satay method ? http://www.alistapart.com/articles/flashsatay Cheers, P Patrick H. Lauke Webmaster / University of Salford http://www.salford.ac.uk -Original Message-

[WSG] Two reminders

2004-04-13 Thread russ weakley
Hi all, 1. the WSG design competition is still open, and all WSG members can take part - there still time to enter. More info here: http://discuss.webstandardsgroup.org/archives/12.htm 2. Final reminder for the Sydney WSG meeting 15th April with special guest David Woodbridge. RSVP's

Re: [WSG] Valid Flash...

2004-04-13 Thread James Ellis
Hi Looking at the code (from source URL below) object classid=clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-44455354 codebase=http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0; width=300 height=120 param name=movie

Re: [WSG] This sounds really silly BUT

2004-04-13 Thread Andrew Sione Taumoefolau
Hi Gary, I am doing this with Coldfusion on the server but that would be irrelative I would have thought? when you click the link it moves the page to the root of the folder rather than the URL I am currently on? You don't have a base href=http://blahblah/; / somewhere in your head, do you?

Re: [WSG] Valid Flash...

2004-04-13 Thread scott parsons
For some things the lack of streaming can be very restrictive as there are several things you cannot do with a loaded movie. Sure modularising the movie is a good plan, but there are times that you need access to that root level of the movie. What I don't understand is why someone would

Re: [WSG] Valid Flash...

2004-04-13 Thread Simon Jessey
I am not a big fan of Macromedia Flash. To me, it will always be a proprietary format with an accessibility problem, despite Macromedia's efforts to promote otherwise; however, it cannot be discounted as a web medium. Until SVG becomes more widely accepted, Flash is King. I chose not to use it for

Re: [WSG] Valid Flash...

2004-04-13 Thread Leo J. O'Campo
James Following this tread, reading the satay article, and looking up the XHTML 1.0 spec for the object tag, it seems to me, that I could put all this code inside an external CSS. My questions are [1] am I right? [2] would keeping the flash code out of the HTML using id's on the object

Re: [WSG] Valid Flash...

2004-04-13 Thread James Ellis
scott parsons wrote: For some things the lack of streaming can be very restrictive as there are several things you cannot do with a loaded movie. Sure modularising the movie is a good plan, but there are times that you need access to that root level of the movie. Not that this is a Flash

Re: [WSG] Valid Flash...

2004-04-13 Thread James Ellis
Leo There are a few things happening here: * The object tag is HTML so you'd need to leave quite a few attributes in the tag structure. A few of the presentational elements could go in a stylesheet (like bgcolor, width and height), I believe. * IE for Win completely barfs when multiple object

[WSG] RSS or Atom for an events calendar?

2004-04-13 Thread Justin French
Hi all, Hopefully this is an applicable place to discuss this. I've just started looking into RSS/Atom/etc (news feeds in XML), and everything is going pretty well, but I'm working on a website for a band, and the news feeds seem easy enough, but I'm interested in the possibility of using RSS

Re: [WSG] RSS or Atom for an events calendar?

2004-04-13 Thread Geoff Bowers
The only thing that will be useful for the general public is a basic RSS/ATOM feed that just announces dates when you know about them. You cannot build something that is going to somehow be useful in terms of edits or deletes. This sort of syndication is typically aggregated and kept at the

[WSG] Yarr, I think IE hates me :(

2004-04-13 Thread Sarah Ly
I am having major issues with this layout. I've been working on it for a long time and it's just not cooperating in IE. The basic layout was lifted from MaxDesign's 2-column liquid layout (http://css.maxdesign.com.au/floatutorial/). http://readordie.org/test/ It works like a dream in Firebird,

[WSG] Horizontal Rule throwing out design

2004-04-13 Thread Jackie Reid
Following Jason Turnbull's advice on another problem (that fixed the problem, thanks Jason) I have included an hr class=clear to the bottom of my wrapper to make the white background appear. I tried div's br's and they didnt work. hr did. now... in firefox the spacing is fine but i can

RE: [WSG] Horizontal Rule throwing out design

2004-04-13 Thread Jason Turnbull
Jackie Reid wrote: I have included an hr class=clear to the bottom of my wrapper to make the white background appear. I tried div's  br's and they didnt work. hr did. That’s a bit strange I've never had a br class=clear / not work   in firefox the spacing is fine but i can see the hr at

Re: [WSG] RSS or Atom for an events calendar?

2004-04-13 Thread Justin French
On 14/04/2004, at 12:38 PM, Geoff Bowers wrote: You might also consider generating an iCal feed which is simple enough -- although Outlook has no idea (as per usual) the rest of the calendaring world regards iCal as a common protocol. That's a great idea, and it looks like there's some PHP

Re: [WSG] Horizontal Rule throwing out design

2004-04-13 Thread Jackie Reid
Jason...I decided to try the br class=clear / thing again cos you said it should work and now it does(h!)... maybe it was conflicting with some css that I have now changed or removed. Possible. I would also be interested in getting the hr thing working for future use if poss so would be