RE: [WSG] validation logos - kitemarks?

2005-02-26 Thread Mike Pepper
An old chestnut. Standards badging is largely irrelevant to the client as they have no knowledge of or likely interest in the delivery mechanisms and markup/coding involved in development of a web presence. Neither too has the general public. That's point 1: fair ignorance of development. Since

Re: [WSG] validation logos - kitemarks?

2005-02-26 Thread designer
Hi all, I think that basically we all agree in principle. However, to take a couple of points: [1] Patrick's : It's a bit like plastering a nice big sticker on a new building saying built with bob's special concrete mix. As long as the site (or building) performs as it should, customers do

Re: [WSG] absolute positioning

2005-02-26 Thread Dave O'Brien
Its part of the spec I believe. An element is absolutly positioned within it's containing element ( which I think has to be block level for obvious reasons ). A basic example is that a single absolutly positioned element ( say a div#example ) within the body tag is positioned to the body tag which

[WSG] Web Standads Skyscraper - Anyone knows how to?

2005-02-26 Thread Genau Lopes Jr.
Hi, I am developing some different advertising and would like to know, how can i create a slide layer that appears on righr side of browser, only when the screen resolution is more than 1024x768 pixels. My layer should be 150 px x 600 and will be layered at right side of the page. Can anyone

Re: [WSG] absolute positioning

2005-02-26 Thread Marwan Farha
Just give the element which you want to position the other element relative to a poistion of relative and then give the inner elemennt a position of absolute and specify toop,right etc... example: div#container {position:relative;} div#container img.example {position: absolute; top:0; right:0;}

Re: [WSG] To display or not to display validation logos?

2005-02-26 Thread Stevio
Has anyone written anything like this we could use? Also, excuse my slight ignorance here, but just because a page validates as XHTML and CSS compatible, does that make it accessible? Obviously it helps, but there is more to accessibility than that isn't there. I also use tables in my pages in

RE: [WSG] To display or not to display validation logos?

2005-02-26 Thread Mike Pepper
No, Stephen, a standards-compliant site does not mean an accessible site -- but it goes a long way towards it. Accessibility has it own set of recommendations which sit atop those of pure compliant build, although building to standards often illustrates the developer's mindset: doing the job right

Re: [WSG] To display or not to display validation logos?

2005-02-26 Thread Gez Lemon
Steven wrote: Also, excuse my slight ignorance here, but just because a page validates as XHTML and CSS compatible, does that make it accessible? True. It doesn't even necessarily mean that it's semantically correct, as there tends to be a trend in pages that just consist of a load of divs

[WSG] Attribute Values

2005-02-26 Thread David R
Question: What's more in-spec: div id=hello/div Or div id='hello'/div Ciao ** 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] Attribute Values

2005-02-26 Thread Gez Lemon
What's more in-spec: div id=hello/div Or div id='hello'/div Both versions are acceptable, although the de-facto standard is to use double-quotes. Best regards, Gez _ Supplement your vitamins http://juicystudio.com

Re: [WSG] Attribute Values

2005-02-26 Thread russ - maxdesign
What's more in-spec: div id=hello/div Or div id='hello'/div http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/intro/sgmltut.html#h-3.2.2 quote By default, SGML requires that all attribute values be delimited using either double quotation marks (ASCII decimal 34) or single quotation marks (ASCII decimal 39).

Re: [WSG] Attribute Values

2005-02-26 Thread Jan Brasna
What's more in-spec: When talking about XHTML, it adheres to XML wellformness - so it's defined really simple: http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006#NT-AttValue -- both are equivalent and thus sholud be supported in the same way. (I'd porsonally use double quotes to have it more

Re: [WSG] Attribute Values

2005-02-26 Thread David R
Jan Brasna wrote: What's more in-spec: When talking about XHTML, it adheres to XML wellformness - so it's defined really simple: http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006#NT-AttValue -- both are equivalent and thus sholud be supported in the same way. (I'd porsonally use double quotes to