Re: [WSG] CAPS in stylesheets

2006-03-13 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Mar 13, 2006, at 5:14 PM, John Wells wrote: Can we get a summary of this CAPS lesson? Are we saying that: - ONLY when serving XHTML as application/xhtml+xml, stylesheet selectors must be all lowercase. ? Some browsers are sensitive to case when XHTML is served as text/ html. iCab

Re: [WSG] (Opera) CSS print style problem with image

2006-03-13 Thread 郑玉萍
On Mar 12, 2006, at 8:56 PM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: A solution is to move your image of screen for screen display (like img {position:absolute; left: -1px}) instead of using {display:none}. I once posted an article about this: http://emps.l-c-n.com/articles/52/print-media-oddity

[WSG] Usability issue with form help

2006-03-13 Thread leenath1
Hi all, I'm hoping to get some feedback from people regarding a solution to a usability issue. I work for a large organisation and we have very large/detailed processing required. Because the applications we develop are very detailed and change dynamically depending upon the current input,

Re: [WSG] Re: uppercase CSS and XHTML

2006-03-13 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Designer wrote: Incidentally, I would be interested in any browsers you know which won't support application/xhtml+xml, apart from IE of course. http://www.w3.org/People/mimasa/test/xhtml/media-types/results -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/

Re:[WSG] Usability issue with form help

2006-03-13 Thread McIvor Lee
Hi Nathan, First of all I don't see any reason why the Help icons need to be in the tab order. You could set a more appropriate tab order in the markup that skips the Help icons, whilst still providing other methods of accessing the help text. For example, you could use a server-side scripting

[WSG] Standards compliant slideshow

2006-03-13 Thread Darren West
Hello, Can anyone please recommend a standards compliant slideshow script that uses a list of images within the HTML markup to dynamically create the show. Thanks Daz ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

Re: [WSG] Standards compliant slideshow

2006-03-13 Thread CHEN Benfeng
Hi, Maybe you could take a look at HTML Sildy (www.w3.org/2005/03/slideshow.html )? -Ben Hello, Can anyone please recommend a standards compliant slideshow script that uses a list of images within the HTML markup to dynamically create the show. Thanks Daz

Re: [WSG] Usability issue with form help

2006-03-13 Thread Joseph R. B. Taylor
Keep in mind too, that most tabbers are familiar with shift + tab as well for navigating backwards. Should we assume that keyboard navigators can competently do this, or is that giving too much of an assumption? Joseph R. B. Taylor Sites by Joe, LLC http://sitesbyjoe.com (609)335-3076 [EMAIL

Re: [WSG] Standards compliant slideshow

2006-03-13 Thread Richard Stephenson
Can anyone please recommend a standards compliant slideshow script that uses a list of images within the HTML markup to dynamically create the show. http://slayeroffice.com/code/imageCrossFade/xfade2.html -- DonkeyMagic: Website design development http://www.donkeymagic.co.uk

Re: [WSG] Standards compliant slideshow

2006-03-13 Thread Darren West
Thats cool, thanks all, although I think I may have miss explained myself - will simplify with links :) Basically I am trying to setup pagination - here are the pages: http://ta.rt-ms.net/teamengine/property.html http://ta.rt-ms.net/teamengine/assets/js/media.js And is the markup: div

Re:[WSG] Usability issue with form help

2006-03-13 Thread Dennis Lapcewich
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Re: [WSG] Usability issue with form help

2006-03-13 Thread Micky Mourelo
Maybe I'm missing your point, but using the tabindex attribute does not solve your problem?, You can set the tabindex to cycle trough the inputs and then continue with the help links. It is a totally accessible method; a bit uncomfortable (to have to pass through all the input fields to get to the

Re: [WSG] Usability issue with form help

2006-03-13 Thread leenath1
Thanks for your replies to date. To give you a deeper understanding of the situation: - despite quite skilled users, double tabbing hundreds and hundreds of times a day is seen as a efficiency issue too (x 5days x 45weeks) - the sample form

Re: [WSG] Standards compliant slideshow

2006-03-13 Thread Jon Tan
Darren West wrote: Hello, Can anyone please recommend a standards compliant slideshow script that uses a list of images within the HTML markup to dynamically create the show. Slightly self-promoting but try http://scooch.gr0w.com . The current demo is woefully out of date already with a lot

Re: [WSG] Re: uppercase CSS and XHTML

2006-03-13 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Designer wrote: Lachlan Hunt wrote: Designer wrote: Incidentally, I would be interested in any browsers you know which won't support application/xhtml+xml, apart from IE of course. http://www.w3.org/People/mimasa/test/xhtml/media-types/results Thanks, Lachlan. I studied the list, and the

[WSG] help with page...

2006-03-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a question. I am using Navstudio for menus and I am having a problem with it overflowing and making me have a scroll at the bottom. Can anyone take a look and see what my problem might be. I'll go ahead and say it now, but it is not up to standards, it is still in the beginning.

Re: [WSG] help with page...

2006-03-13 Thread Todd Gleaton
Well it's a little hard to explain but I'll try. Inside this tag div id="menu" I have a couple of Nav Studio Menus. It is making my page have an unnecessaryhorizontal scroll bar at the bottom. I was hoping someone with fresh eyes could take a look and see if they spot the reason for this.

Re: [WSG] Absolute Positioning-A Naive Question (Maybe)

2006-03-13 Thread Felix Miata
On 06/03/13 21:35 Paula Petrik apparently typed: When I read the W3C specs (not the most riveting exercise on the planet), it seems that the developers emphasize absolute positioning. For example, they describe using floats to float small bits of text or images. It seems, however, that floats

Re: [WSG] Absolute Positioning-A Naive Question (Maybe)

2006-03-13 Thread Todd Baker
The main reason I dont use absolute positioning for all my layout is that most of the sites I build require footers at the base of the page content. With every page of differing content length the only way to achieve this is to float and then clear for the footer. Thats just me. There are wiser

Re: [WSG] Absolute Positioning-A Naive Question (Maybe)

2006-03-13 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Paula Petrik wrote: When I read the W3C specs (not the most riveting exercise on the planet), it seems that the developers emphasize absolute positioning. For example, they describe using floats to float small bits of text or images. It seems, however, that floats have become the order of the

[WSG] Tag clouds spit /

2006-03-13 Thread Jude Robinson
Leaving aside arguments about whether or not tag clouds are the new mullets (http://www.zeldman.com/daily/0405d.shtml), I've been pondering how to make one that is accessible, given the questionable accessibility of most of the ones out there. Tag clouds suffer from a number of problems, the

Re: [WSG] Absolute Positioning-A Naive Question (Maybe)

2006-03-13 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Mar 14, 2006, at 11:35 AM, Paula Petrik wrote: When I read the W3C specs (not the most riveting exercise on the planet), it seems that the developers emphasize absolute positioning. For example, they describe using floats to float small bits of text or images. It seems, however, that

Re: [WSG] Absolute Positioning-A Naive Question (Maybe)

2006-03-13 Thread Richard Czeiger
Here's a potentially naive response ... does it matter? As long as the (x)html is semantically marked up, does the rationale behind your css code make a difference (taking into account the fact that it should look the same on all browsers)? The ONLY function of css is the control of the

Re: [WSG] Usability issue with form help

2006-03-13 Thread Daniel Nitsche
As an idea, why not make the label for each field a link, which will provide contextual help on that item/field?I'd do some user testing to make sure it works, but it makes sense to me that following such a link would lead to information about that field. The advantage of this would be it reduces

Re: [WSG] Absolute Positioning-A Naive Question (Maybe)

2006-03-13 Thread Paula Petrik
Felix Todd, Felix, nice to know that I'm in good company. Todd and Phillipe, I think that the footer business is the sticking point. But what is sacred about a footer? What information goes into a footer that could not go elsewhere? This has me puzzled. In the table days, the most

Re: [WSG] Tag clouds spit /

2006-03-13 Thread Christian Montoya
On 3/13/06, Jude Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Leaving aside arguments about whether or not tag clouds are the new mullets (http://www.zeldman.com/daily/0405d.shtml), I've been pondering how to make one that is accessible, given the questionable accessibility of most of the ones out there.

Re: [WSG] Absolute Positioning-A Naive Question (Maybe)

2006-03-13 Thread Al Sparber
Paula Petrik wrote: When I read the W3C specs (not the most riveting exercise on the planet), it seems that the developers emphasize absolute positioning. For example, they describe using floats to float small bits of text or images. It seems, however, that floats have become the order of the

[WSG] z-index conflict in IE6 with positioned elements

2006-03-13 Thread Ted Drake
Hi everyone. Ive been struggling with some z-indexed, positioned elements that are getting obscured by content further down the page in IE6. After doing a bit of research, I came across these two sites: http://www.aplus.co.yu/css/z-pos/index.php

Re: [WSG] Usability issue with form help

2006-03-13 Thread Richard Czeiger
This may sound silly but what about the tabindex attribute? AFAIK it's still part of the standard and should do what you're after... R :o) ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

[WSG] Section specific introductory pages and usability

2006-03-13 Thread Paul Hempsall
I'm well into the development of my Council's new website (replacing the current inaccessible, tag soup version). A discussion point has been raised with our Content Editors regarding Introduction pages for each main section of the site. What's the general concensus of the direction Introduction

Re: [WSG] Section specific introductory pages and usability

2006-03-13 Thread Terrence Wood
Paul Hempsall: What's the general concensus of the direction Introduction pages should take. I've always been concerned that reiterating the section navigation via a barrage of links would be a confusing and disorienting method. quite the opposite: a barrage of links with a supporting

Re: [WSG] Section specific introductory pages and usability

2006-03-13 Thread jacinta
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Re: [WSG] Tag clouds spit /

2006-03-13 Thread Ben Buchanan
[snip- tag clouds] Thoughts? Mild agreement? Sly refutations? For a simple tag cloud I'm not sure how a table would work - the cloud isn't really tabular, in the way I would describe tabular. If a second rating was applied; eg. popularity + freshness (ie. how many times does the tag appear, and

Re: [WSG] Tag clouds spit /

2006-03-13 Thread jacinta
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