Re: [WSG] WYSIWYG editor

2004-05-06 Thread Vlad Alexander \(XStandard\)
Hi David, One way to pick the right editor for your needs is to go to the Web sites of WYSIWYG vendors and check the quality of the code they generate for their own Web site. If their Web pages aren't validating with W3C to the standard you need to meet, then their WYSIWYG editor won't do the job

Re: [WSG] WYSIWYG editor

2004-05-06 Thread Gavin Cooney
I use RealObjects eoPro. It produces decent valid XHTML code. http://www.realobjects.com/edit-on_Pro_3_x_2_x.435.0.html but its not free! ;-) Gav - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WSG (E-mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 8:26 PM Subject: [WSG]

Re: [WSG] WYSIWYG... MOVED TO DISCUSSION ROOM

2004-05-06 Thread russ - maxdesign
This thread has now been moved to the discussion room. Add comments as you wish: http://discuss.webstandardsgroup.org/archives/15.htm Please do not reply to this thread on list Thanks Russ I use RealObjects eoPro. It produces decent valid XHTML code.

[WSG] reply from ACA

2004-05-06 Thread Universal Head
You all might be interested in the reply I received from the ACA in response to my email. I leave it to speak for itself. Peter On 07/05/2004, at 2:21 PM, WebMaster wrote: Dear Mr Gifford,  Pleqase accept my apologies for the delay in respond to your email. We are aware of some issues with the

Re: [WSG] reply from ACA

2004-05-06 Thread Neerav
The following line from the ACA's source code explains most of the problem: META content=Microsoft FrontPage 5.0 name=GENERATOR/HEAD and the less said about their accessible sitemap at http://www.aca.gov.au/help/sitemap.htm (a mess of table cells and font tags) the better -- Neerav Bhatt

RE: [WSG] reply from ACA

2004-05-06 Thread Miles Tillinger
Seems like they glazed over when reading the accessibility information in your original email. This is all to familiar for me as there are ppl you can explain the benefits of standardsto 10x a day and they still forget what it all means by the next day... In most cases if it's a small site

Re: [WSG] Trouble with safari

2004-05-06 Thread Sarah Sammis
On Wednesday, May 5, 2004, at 23:54 US/Pacific, russ - maxdesign wrote: Be more specific please. What is problem? Russ There is no visible navigation in Safari. * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

[WSG] Trouble with safari

2004-05-06 Thread simon
Hi Guys, Im currently having trouble making the navigation of my site work in safari. It works in all other modern browsers but safari. Site is here -- http://www.creativeedge.net.au/wadigi/temp2.html any help is much appreciated .. Regards Simon Dodson

Re: [WSG] Trouble with safari

2004-05-06 Thread russ - maxdesign
Be more specific please. What is problem? Russ Hi Guys, Im currently having trouble making the navigation of my site work in safari. It works in all other modern browsers but safari. Site is here -- http://www.creativeedge.net.au/wadigi/temp2.html any help is much appreciated ..

Re: [WSG] Trouble with safari

2004-05-06 Thread simon
Well the nav bar in ie and firefox works fine .. However in safari the nav elements seem to be overlapping each other ... and i dont understand why. russ - maxdesign wrote: Be more specific please. What is problem? Russ Hi Guys, Im currently having trouble making the navigation of my site

RE: [WSG] anne ven kerstern

2004-05-06 Thread Hill, Tim
Anne ven kerstern is 17 years old? What the? Tim Hill Computer Associates Graphic Artist tel: +612 9937 0792 fax: +612 9937 0546 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anna ven Kesteren looks at a poorly structured site and does it with standards: http://annevankesteren.nl/archives/2004/05/leidennl-by-anne The

Re: [WSG] Web essentials is now active!

2004-05-06 Thread Lea de Groot
On Thu, 06 May 2004 17:21:30 +1000, russ - maxdesign wrote: Early bird rates apply till 1 July 2000 Darn, and I only missed it by 4 years! duck Lea -- Lea de Groot Elysian Systems - http://elysiansystems.com/ Brisbane, Australia * The

Re: [WSG] XHTML transitional is a half-way house

2004-05-06 Thread Patrick Griffiths
I thought XHTML transitional _is_ XML. In what way is XHTML transitional is a less strict data format? It's a transition. It's a half-way house between HTML 4 and XHTML as it is intended (XHTML Strict). No its not. There is no such thing as a half-way house between HTML 4 and XHTML. Sure

Re: [WSG] XHTML transitional is a half-way house

2004-05-06 Thread Chris Bentley
I thought XHTML transitional _is_ XML. In what way is XHTML transitional is a less strict data format? It's a transition. It's a half-way house between HTML 4 and XHTML as it is intended (XHTML Strict). No its not. There is no such thing as a half-way house between HTML 4 and XHTML. Sure there

Re: [WSG] Trouble with safari

2004-05-06 Thread Chris Bentley
Not sure what's happening. but when I delete the border-top property from this rule the page behaves as expected in Safari. #c { height: 400px; margin-left: 224px; background-color: #fff; /* border-top: 1px solid #537B8D; */

Re: [WSG] Web essentials is now active!

2004-05-06 Thread russ weakley
ooops. Try 2004. Dave Shea, Doug Bowman, Joe Clark and others. Sydney, September 2004 :) russ Original Message: From: Lea de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] Web essentials is now active! Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 17:44:40 +1000 On Thu, 06 May 2004 17:21:30 +1000,

Re: [WSG] XHTML transitional is a half-way house

2004-05-06 Thread Patrick Griffiths
I thought XHTML transitional _is_ XML. In what way is XHTML transitional is a less strict data format? It's a transition. It's a half-way house between HTML 4 and XHTML as it is intended (XHTML Strict). No its not. There is no such thing as a half-way house between HTML 4 and

Re: [WSG] Next IE version coming soon?

2004-05-06 Thread Charles \grey wolf\ Banas
Tonico Strasser wrote: Hm, will they make it more standards compliant as well? from what i understand, yes. it is supposedly going to be up on all the standards, with full support for XHTML/HTML, all the DOM specifications, and CSS level 3. whether or not it happens is another issue. Will it

[WSG] Reminder about our first Brisbane WSG meeting - Wednesday 12 May

2004-05-06 Thread russ weakley
Wednesday 12 May Guest Presenter: Tony Aslett (who built and runs, amongst other things, CSS Creator and CSS Layout Generator)- should be very exciting! Peter and I will now definately be flying up for the meeting, so we'll hopefully see a lot of Brisbane WSG members on the night. More info

RE: [WSG] WYSIWYG editor

2004-05-06 Thread David Gironella
but to edit documents on the web Giro -Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] nombre de simon dodson Enviado el: jueves, 06 de mayo de 2004 12:57 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: Re: [WSG] WYSIWYG editor dreamweaver mx ? www.macromedia.com - Original

[WSG] Re: WYSIWYG editor

2004-05-06 Thread Irapuan Martinez
Dreamweaver is like kills ants with a machine gun. This app is excelent to edit nested tables, but thing like tableless it not so god -- We had using him practiclly like Homesite to had some markup control. WYSIWYG editor to XHTML/CSS is unnecessary, I suppose. At last, if among browser had

Re: [WSG] WYSIWYG editor

2004-05-06 Thread Vlad Alexander \(XStandard\)
Hi David, Check out http://xstandard.com This is a XHTML (Strict or 1.1) WYSIWYG editor. It generates clean, accessible and standards-compliant markup. Formatting is done through external or embedded CSS. Regards, -Vlad XStandard Development Team http://xstandard.com - Original Message

Re: [WSG] WYSIWYG editor

2004-05-06 Thread Neerav
While not enabled by default. you can set http://www.fredck.com/fckeditor/ to output XHTML and also use css styles. I found it easier to use than Vlads Xstandard -- Neerav Bhatt http://www.bhatt.id.au Web Development IT consultancy Vlad Alexander (XStandard) wrote: Hi David, Check out

[WSG] When the mix of visual appearance and meaning goes really bad

2004-05-06 Thread Manuel González Noriega
Hi, i want to comment on Matthew Thomas' 'When semantic markup goes bad' http://mpt.net.nz/archive/2004/05/02/b-and-i Basically, i think his main thesis is plain wrong cite These arent exhaustive lists, but as you can see, some reasons for using bold and italics dont have their own semantic

Re: [WSG] WYSIWYG editor

2004-05-06 Thread simon dodson
Wow Vlad Thats looks like some seriously kewl software ... Ill test drive it tomorrow ... - Original Message - From: Vlad Alexander (XStandard) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 9:57 PM Subject: Re: [WSG] WYSIWYG editor Hi David, Check out

Re: [WSG] When the mix of visual appearance and meaning goes really bad

2004-05-06 Thread Tonico Strasser
Manuel Gonzlez Noriega wrote: Hi, i want to comment on Matthew Thomas' 'When semantic markup goes bad' http://mpt.net.nz/archive/2004/05/02/b-and-i Basically, i think his main thesis is plain wrong cite These arent exhaustive lists, but as you can see, some reasons for using bold and italics dont

Re: [WSG] WYSIWYG editor

2004-05-06 Thread Andrew Krespanis
I have not yet tried out XStandard (tomorrow morning for sure ;), I can strongly recommend Nick Bradbury's TopStyle 3. Very nice to use, has some great features such class attributes in xhtml become links on hover. When clicked, these links will open your css file and scroll directly to that

Re: [WSG] When the mix of visual appearance and meaning goes really bad

2004-05-06 Thread Andrew Krespanis
Manuel: I'm glad you've raised this as I was of a very similar mind when I read the article. The examples you have provided, IMO, are generally a better and safer choice. After all, strike and u got the chop in HTML 4.0 (source: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/appendix/changes.html#h-A.3.1.2)

Re: [WSG] Re: WYSIWYG editor

2004-05-06 Thread mario
I respectfully disagree. Dreamweaver MX 2004 enables a designer to create well formed and valid XHTML. In addition, it has a built-in XHTML validator to check for poor syntax. Also, it's upgraded CSS panel produces valid style sheets, and often creates style sheets automatically in conjunction

[WSG] list 'buttons' in IE

2004-05-06 Thread Barbara Dozetos
Hi folks -- I asked about this yesterday, but got no response. In the hopes that my question got lost in the crowd, I'm trying again. In IE, my list buttons are showing up with padding that I don't want, due, I believe to if/else statements in the coding. As you can see from this page:

Re: [WSG] When the mix of visual appearance and meaning goes really bad

2004-05-06 Thread Manuel González Noriega
El jue, 06-05-2004 a las 15:58, Tonico Strasser escribió: I think Matthew is pointing out that many people are using (or suggesting) strong where b (or a styled span) would be better. He doesn't say that you must use b but explains why this element is in the specs. I think he's on with

RE: [WSG] When the mix of visual appearance and meaning goes really bad

2004-05-06 Thread P.H.Lauke
-Original Message- From: Andy Budd [snip] Whereas I can see a good reason to use semantic HTML, is there really much point in worrying if your ID's/classes have semantic meaning. Becasue they are user defined, there probably is never going to be a time when that information will

RE: [WSG] When the mix of visual appearance and meaning goes really bad

2004-05-06 Thread Peter Firminger
I'm sure lot's of people probably use em when they aren't really emphasising something, but simply wanting to make something italic. Absolutely! In natural science (specifically speaking about species names here) Italics are the way to present the scientific name (genus species pair or senior

Re: [WSG] When the mix of visual appearance and meaning goes really bad

2004-05-06 Thread Manuel González Noriega
El jue, 06-05-2004 a las 17:30, Andy Budd escribió: I think the article seems reasonable. I do not but that's a matter of opinion of course :) Some people would argue that what you should do is wrap the element in a span, create a class and then style the class in the stylesheets. This is

RE: [WSG] When the mix of visual appearance and meaning goes really bad

2004-05-06 Thread Manuel González Noriega
El jue, 06-05-2004 a las 18:08, Peter Firminger escribió: I'm sure lot's of people probably use em when they aren't really emphasising something, but simply wanting to make something italic. Absolutely! In natural science (specifically speaking about species names here) Italics are the way

Re: [WSG] When the mix of visual appearance and meaning goes really bad

2004-05-06 Thread Patrick Griffiths
Absolutely! In natural science (specifically speaking about species names here) Italics are the way to present the scientific name (genus species pair or senior synonym like iThorunna australis/i or even just the species or shorthand variations), not emphasis. I think there is a good argument

RE: [WSG] Re: WYSIWYG editor

2004-05-06 Thread theGrafixGuy
Dreamweaver MX 2k4 is definitely at the top o' the heap - one tool to build ANYTHING - java, css, html, xhtml, php, asp, cfm, etc etc etc. Can't go wrong there and for those that need it the wysiwyg feature can be turned on easily. I will say GoLive CS was a surprise though in its improvement,

[WSG] Forms, labels headers

2004-05-06 Thread Jack Kennard
I have a huge form page https://www.willtrav.com/form-corp-profile.php that uses table headers to define the text boxes and how do I or should I include labels on those text boxes? -- Jack Kennard Web Designer Marketing dba/ Web Sailing Designs http://www.websailingdesigns.com

Re: [WSG] list 'buttons' in IE

2004-05-06 Thread s2art
On 07/05/2004, at 1:07 AM, Barbara Dozetos wrote: Hi folks -- I asked about this yesterday, but got no response. In the hopes that my question got lost in the crowd, I'm trying again. In IE, my list buttons are showing up with padding that I don't want, due, I believe to if/else statements in

Re: [WSG] Question on javascript

2004-05-06 Thread Mordechai Peller
Jack Kennard wrote: I notice there are a lot of sites in this group, that are using javascript. Are they mostly for determining browsers and then redirecting, or ? As others have suggested, building pages for individual browsers should generally be avoided. However, on those occasions where

Re: [WSG] list 'buttons' in IE

2004-05-06 Thread barbarad
You're not seeing the left hand nav as a list that looks like buttons? I've checked this on Safari. Please send a screen shot if you can. Thanks Barb Quoting s2art [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry Barb, on Safari 1.2 no list buttons here? A. top posters. Q. What is one of the most annoying

[WSG] Re: list 'buttons' in IE

2004-05-06 Thread east
Barbara Dozetos: try adding border:1px solid #f0e7d7; to ul.navlist li like so: ul.navlist li { display: block; margin: 0%; padding: 0px; border:1px solid #f0e7d7; } On 07/05/2004, at 1:07 AM, Barbara Dozetos wrote: Hi folks -- I asked about this yesterday, but got no response. In the

Re: [WSG] Re: WYSIWYG editor

2004-05-06 Thread Michael Donnermeyer
I was at a 'Driven by Design' seminar Apple put on in Cincinnati Nov of last year and saw them demo the CS apps at the Adobe booth. The guy from Adobe thought GoLive CS was it, kept asking 'can't do that with Dreamweaver can you?' I refrained from disagreeing with him...I guess he hadn't seen

Re: [WSG] Next IE version coming soon?

2004-05-06 Thread Michael Donnermeyer
Standards-complaint based on their own distorted view of what the standards are, of course. While I would love to see something come out of Redmond that actually works, I doubt it'll be what we need/think/want. It would make life easier, but I'm not going to keep my hopes up. We've seen M$'s

Re: [WSG] WYSIWYG editor

2004-05-06 Thread Ray Cauchi
www.ektron.com EwebEditPro (esp. the XML version). Rocks hard. Ray At 08:26 PM 6/05/2004, you wrote: Anybody know a WYSIWYG editor but that generate XHTML with CSS? Thk David Gironella Casademont * The discussion list for

Re: [WSG] WYSIWYG editor

2004-05-06 Thread Rev. Bob 'Bob' Crispen
The voices are telling me that David Gironella said on 5/6/2004 5:26 AM: Anybody know a WYSIWYG editor but that generate XHTML with CSS? Whenever I need to slam some text and pictures into a page, I use Amaya http://www.w3.org/Amaya/. It used to be real flaky, but it's been a lot more solid in

Re: [WSG] Question on javascript

2004-05-06 Thread Chris Blown
From my experience using javascript, as Mark says, go with the DOM. We've had good success with complex form interaction using DOM / javascript. These interfaces work on almost every browser apart the grumpy old bunch. Being an admin type interface we detect old browsers and politely ask them

Re: [WSG] WYSIWYG editor

2004-05-06 Thread Kay Smoljak
Anybody know a WYSIWYG editor but that generate XHTML with CSS? I think there's some confusion here - the original poster was enquiring about a browser-based xhtml component that can be added to a web application. That's what XStandard, htmlarea (works on mozilla too -

Re: [WSG] WYSIWYG editor

2004-05-06 Thread mario
I don't see the confusion. The post asked about a WYSIWYG editor the generates XHTML and CSS, not component that integrates with a Web app. MC Anybody know a WYSIWYG editor but that generate XHTML with CSS? I think there's some confusion here - the original poster was enquiring about a

Re: [WSG] WYSIWYG editor

2004-05-06 Thread Kay Smoljak
I don't see the confusion. The post asked about a WYSIWYG editor the generates XHTML and CSS, not component that integrates with a Web app. The same poster clarified in the third post in the thread with: but to edit documents on the web I just thought I'd point out the distinction, as one

[WSG] please help

2004-05-06 Thread Kevin McMonagle
Hi Russ, At your recommendation i made my layout simple. It now works in ie4 and up. Thank you very much. However the image in the div mast dosnt show up in netscape, can you tell me why? I've encluded most of the style sheet in this email. Nearly there. -Kevin BODY { marging: 0 0;

[WSG] Removing bullets

2004-05-06 Thread simon
Hi guys ,, I have contructed this navigation bar -- http://simondodson.com/nav2.html and im having trouble removing the bullet points from the list ... any help would be great !!!. Cheers Simon Dodson * The discussion list for

Re: [WSG] Next IE version coming soon?

2004-05-06 Thread Andrew Krespanis
This new version they speak of raises an interesting question... Lets say hypothetically that there are a number of CSS related improvements (even though Scoble makes no mention of such), should we, as developers, upgrade straight away? Personally, I'm a little sceptical of replacing IE6 on my

Re: [WSG] Removing bullets

2004-05-06 Thread Jake Badger
The list-style-type: none; needs to be on the LI not on the a. You need something like: #menu li { list-style: none; } J. Hi guys ,, I have contructed this navigation bar -- http://simondodson.com/nav2.html and im having trouble removing the bullet

Re: [WSG] Removing bullets

2004-05-06 Thread Kay Smoljak
Hi Simon, I have contructed this navigation bar -- http://simondodson.com/nav2.html and im having trouble removing the bullet points from the list ... You need the list-style:none to be on the li - ie #menu li rather than #menu a. List-style is not a property of an anchor tag. HTH, K. --

Re: [WSG] Removing bullets

2004-05-06 Thread James Ellis
ul { list-style-type : none } Cheers James simon wrote: Hi guys ,, I have contructed this navigation bar -- http://simondodson.com/nav2.html and im having trouble removing the bullet points from the list ... any help would be great !!!. Cheers Simon Dodson

Re: [WSG] Removing bullets

2004-05-06 Thread Benjamin
#menu ul{ list-style: none none; } Hi guys ,, I have contructed this navigation bar -- http://simondodson.com/nav2.html and im having trouble removing the bullet points from the list ... any help would be great !!!. Cheers Simon Dodson

Re: [WSG] please help

2004-05-06 Thread Benjamin
have you tried using a clearing div #cDiv{ clear: left; } div id=cDiv/div put this below your mast div Hi Russ, At your recommendation i made my layout simple. It now works in ie4 and up. Thank you very much. However the image in the div mast dosnt show up in netscape, can you tell