Re: [WSG] box-shadow is causing black borders in IE9

2012-04-20 Thread Al Sparber
machines. I just tried the page on 3 different computers running Windows 7 and IE9 natively and, like Jon, it's fine. -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com The Finest Dreamweaver Menus | Galleries | Widgets Since 1998

Re: [WSG] Possibly the best CSS framework ever?

2012-03-31 Thread Al Sparber
On 3/31/2012 11:27 PM, Russ Weakley wrote: You have probably seen all sorts of CSS frameworks over the years... but is this the best CSS framework ever? http://morecss.org/ That was priceless and provided a much-needed laugh. Thanks for posting it. -- Al Sparber - PVII http

[WSG] A Holiday Treat from PVII

2011-12-21 Thread Al Sparber
Deployment is as easy as linking the PVII Equal Height Column script and assigning a class to a set of columns. Nested Groupings You can deploy the PVII Equal Height Columns script on your outer column structure, as well as column structures nested inside. Best Regards, -- Al Sparber - PVII

Re: [WSG] A Holiday Treat from PVII

2011-12-21 Thread Al Sparber
On 12/21/2011 5:54 PM, Thierry Koblentz wrote: Looking at the demo page, it looks like authors would be better using a faux-columns technique which would also remove the need for polling. Or is there a better reason to go the JS route? It's easier on the designer and allows for quick

Re: [WSG] z-index bug in webkit?

2011-07-21 Thread Al Sparber
is correct because it works for IE6/7. http://bit.ly/qJoJcy Actually, it does not work well in any modern browser. Perhaps IE7 is its sweet spot :-) Looking at the page, I would say that z-index might be the least of your concerns. -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com Menus

Re: [WSG] a more cross-browser consistent box shadow effect?

2011-05-09 Thread Al Sparber
should be coming around soon. -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com Dreamweaver Menus | Galleries | Widgets http://www.projectseven.com/go/hgm The Ultimate Web 2.0 Carousel *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] IE hasLayout - the long and short of it

2011-01-05 Thread Al Sparber
/quickie.htm Here is a more complex gradient implementation that works fine down to IE5.5: http://www.projectseven.com/products/tools/tpm2/demos/page2.htm -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com Dreamweaver Menus | Galleries | Widgets

Re: [WSG] Touch screens

2010-11-15 Thread Al Sparber
to make a drop-down menu work in touch devices, this tutorial might be helpful: http://www.projectseven.com/products/menusystems/pmm2/ug-examples/accessible/index.htm -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com Dreamweaver Menus | Galleries | Widgets http://www.projectseven.com/go/hgm

Re: [WSG] Touch screens

2010-11-15 Thread Al Sparber
you the same interface for web browsing as an iPhone or iPad, while being less expensive than either and not requiring a phone account. It will connect to any WiFi network. -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com Dreamweaver Menus | Galleries | Widgets http://www.projectseven.com/go

Re: [WSG] A simple IE and JS detection method?

2010-10-30 Thread Al Sparber
complexity to CSS. Perhaps it's therapeutic :-) -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com Dreamweaver Menus | Galleries | Widgets http://www.projectseven.com/go/hgm The Ultimate Web 2.0 Carousel *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] A simple IE and JS detection method?

2010-10-30 Thread Al Sparber
with either, as hundreds have done before us :-) That's what makes the field democratic, rather than dictatorial. -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com Dreamweaver Menus | Galleries | Widgets http://www.projectseven.com/go/hgm The Ultimate Web 2.0 Carousel

Re: [WSG] CSS rollovers for images?

2010-10-20 Thread Al Sparber
in mind :-) -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com Dreamweaver Menus | Galleries | Widgets http://www.projectseven.com/go/hgm The Ultimate Web 2.0 Carousel *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] Long documents

2010-10-16 Thread Al Sparber
printing easy, too. -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com Dreamweaver Menus | Galleries | Widgets http://www.projectseven.com/go/hgm The Ultimate Web 2.0 Carousel *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] So this is *the* good accessible keyboard supported dropdown menu?

2010-10-14 Thread Al Sparber
to clarify that. Ours works for us and for our testers - and that's all that matters to us. Read it and understand or simply present or use another solution. Cheers and adios. -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com Dreamweaver Menus | Galleries | Widgets http://www.projectseven.com/go/hgm

Re: [WSG] AAA Accessibility and validation

2010-01-12 Thread Al Sparber
most, if not all, proprietary properties. -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com Dreamweaver Menus | Galleries | Widgets http://www.projectseven.com/go/hgm The Ultimate Web 2.0 Carousel *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] [WSG Announce] Some links for light reading (22/12/09)

2009-12-23 Thread Al Sparber
to thoroughly read each of the articles he is considering for inclusion in his (one-way?) announcement and simply make sure that the subject is something that every subscriber to this list agrees with. Sounds simple enough to me. Merry Christmas (to all who will celebrate it). and loosen up :-) -- Al

Re: [WSG] expandable menu

2009-12-01 Thread Al Sparber
you can ask jQuery's author if similar functionality can be had with his free script: http://www.projectseven.com/products/tools/accordion2/examples-options/cat01-02.htm Then again, I also could have misread exactly what you want. -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com Dreamweaver

Re: [WSG] Tree structure

2009-05-07 Thread Al Sparber
Lionel Bethancourt wrote: Hi: I think Project7 (http://www.projectseven.com/) had something like this up, some 8~9 yrs ago. Not so much different. http://www.projectseven.com/products/menusystems/tmm2/09multicolor.htm It's a Dreamweaver extension, though, and it's not free. -- Al Sparber

Re: [WSG] Image Replacement and Accessabilty

2009-04-16 Thread Al Sparber
issues do not have the latest equipment. Hi Gary, We test extensively with JAWS, current at v10, but we have test notes back to v5. Sending content off-screen via position or indent was never an issue. Perhaps you thinking of display or visibility. -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com

Re: [WSG] add to favorites? - ADMIN - KEEP IT POLITE PLEASE

2009-03-25 Thread Al Sparber
From: Rick Faircloth r...@whitestonemedia.com huggroup/hug Sorry that tag isn't to standard... ;o) Read Russ's DOCTYPE :-) *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

Re: [WSG] Chrome now higher traffic than IE

2009-03-03 Thread Al Sparber
From: Nick Cowie cowie.n...@gmail.com Hi It is the State Library of WA. Looking further into our stats, over one third of our visitors come from the 80 public access machines around the building, which accounts for the heavy bias of IE7 on windows. Making these stats unrepresentative, sorry

Re: [WSG] Javascript Accessibility

2009-03-02 Thread Al Sparber
there is a not-so-nice blank page. [1] http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/menu/menuwaiaria_source.html Getting worked up over stuff like, for the average developer/designer is going to be as illogical and incongruous as ever. -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com

Re: [WSG] Chrome now higher traffic than IE

2009-03-02 Thread Al Sparber
% Chrome0.47% Opera 0.27% Fascinating. Can you provide some demographic context to this library site? -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com Dreamweaver Menus | Galleries | Widgets http://www.projectseven.com/go/pop The Ultimate DW Menu System

Re: [WSG] Chrome now higher traffic than IE

2009-03-02 Thread Al Sparber
% Chrome0.47% Opera 0.27% Fascinating. Can you provide some demographic context to this library site? -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com Dreamweaver Menus | Galleries | Widgets http://www.projectseven.com/go/pop The Ultimate DW Menu System

Re: [WSG] DHTML Menus

2009-02-26 Thread Al Sparber
From: David Dorward da...@dorward.me.uk Al Sparber wrote: ... then don't use an ancient DHTML menu that carries your links in a script file. Instead, use a modern menu that employs list-based markup and a script that visually and interactively enhances that markup, progressively

Re: [WSG] DHTML Menus

2009-02-25 Thread Al Sparber
file. Instead, use a modern menu that employs list-based markup and a script that visually and interactively enhances that markup, progressively and unobtrusively. Today's options in that area are many. -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com

Re: [WSG] Safari Beta 4

2009-02-25 Thread Al Sparber
(and Apple by implication), it's an open source rendering engine. Apple has contributed several nice shades of gray, though :-) -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com The Finest Dreamweaver Menus | Galleries | Widgets http://www.projectseven.com/go/pop The Ultimate DW Menu System

Re: [WSG] DHTML Menus

2009-02-17 Thread Al Sparber
test site: http://www.projectseven.com/products/menusystems/pmm2/ug-examples/accessible/index.htm -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com The Finest Dreamweaver Menus | Galleries | Widgets http://www.projectseven.com/go/pop The Ultimate DW Menu System

Re: [WSG] Dropmenu accessibility and layout problem IE6

2008-12-12 Thread Al Sparber
insight into how to apprach the accessibility of a dropdown or flyout menu: http://www.projectseven.com/products/menusystems/pmm2/ug-examples/accessible/ -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com Fully Automated Menu Systems | Galleries | Widgets http://www.projectseven.com/go/Elevators

Re: [WSG] Google chrome... Accessibility coming very soon???

2008-09-04 Thread Al Sparber
to do with standards :-) -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com Fully Automated Menu Systems | Galleries | Widgets http://www.projectseven.com/go/Elevators *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] Code for Firefox, hack for IE

2008-09-01 Thread Al Sparber
better to code to standards. Addressing IE can be easy or hard, depending on experience level. After a while IE bugs become second nature... resulting in a hack as you go type of workflow. -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com Fully Automated Menu Systems | Galleries | Widgets http

Re: [WSG] Inline style works but css does not

2008-08-01 Thread Al Sparber
From: Michael Horowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Interesting this works select style= font-size: 8px name=cruiseline but this does not select class=small name=month .small { font-size:8x; } 8x is a typo? -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com Automated Menu Systems | Galleries

Re: [WSG] Extra white line on the top of my list

2008-08-01 Thread Al Sparber
{ position: relative; top: 17px; } #mainNav ul a.menu { position: relative; bottom: 5px; } In terms of CSS only (I can't see your markup), the properties cited above could be likely candidates. I won't ask you why you are positioning like that as it would be better to see a live test page. Al

Re: [WSG] XHTML Strict and scrollable page content

2008-07-27 Thread Al Sparber
this will work: http://www.projectseven.com/products/tools/vscroller/testing/strict/ ..and it has more features for accessibility and usability then are possible with many of the libraries. -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com Fully Automated Menu Systems | Galleries | Widgets

Re: [WSG] XHTML Strict and scrollable page content

2008-07-26 Thread Al Sparber
this will work: http://www.projectseven.com/products/tools/vscroller/testing/strict/ ...and it has more features for accessibility and usability then are possible with many of the libraries. -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com Fully Automated Menu Systems | Galleries | Widgets

Re: [WSG] Image gallery layout

2008-07-07 Thread Al Sparber
of the output: http://www.projectseven.com/products/staging/lightshow2/demo_01.htm -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com Fully Automated Menu Systems | Galleries | Widgets http://www.projectseven.com/go/Elevators *** List

Re: [WSG] Image gallery layout

2008-07-07 Thread Al Sparber
From: Al Sparber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good morning My client wants her image galleries to look the same (if possible) as on her Power Point Presentation. These images (in PPP) are positioned absolutely ie a certain cm measurement from top left in each case. The images are of paintings

Re: [WSG] Browsers and Zooming

2008-07-04 Thread Al Sparber
From: Rick Lecoat [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 3 Jul 2008, at 22:16, Al Sparber wrote: When a block of text exceeds the viewport width, that means horizontal scrolling for *each line* - a royal PITA. I kid of think you are speaking for yourself ;-) Well, he's speaking for me as well. Al, do you

Re: [WSG] Browsers and Zooming

2008-07-04 Thread Al Sparber
to do formal research as I don't work as a usability consultant. As I stated in another post to this thread, an important criteria is the target audience. -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com Fully Automated Menu Systems | Galleries | Widgets http://www.projectseven.com/go/Elevators

Re: [WSG] Browsers and Zooming

2008-07-03 Thread Al Sparber
issues to get bogged down in ;-) -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com Fully Automated Menu Systems | Galleries | Widgets http://www.projectseven.com/go/Elevators *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] Browsers and Zooming

2008-07-03 Thread Al Sparber
From: Trisha Salas [EMAIL PROTECTED] I haven't been totally following this thread, but My 15 yo son has low vision. It has come on very recently (last 6 months), He is 20/200 corrected. We have discovered the zoom feature on the old version of Mac OSx... he prefers it much more than

Re: [WSG] Browsers and Zooming

2008-07-03 Thread Al Sparber
From: Andrew Maben [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 4:38 PM Subject: Re: [WSG] Browsers and Zooming On Jul 3, 2008, at 3:41 PM, Al Sparber wrote: an irrational fear of scrollbars When a block of text exceeds the viewport width, that means

Re: [WSG] Browsers and Zooming

2008-07-03 Thread Al Sparber
audience. If I were making a site for health information, it might wind up a lot more flexible. -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com Fully Automated Menu Systems | Galleries | Widgets http://www.projectseven.com/go/Elevators

Re: [WSG] IE6 width issue

2008-04-27 Thread Al Sparber
will be fine, along with other modern browsers. For IE6 you need to use a script or a CSS expression to set min-width. You can google ie6 min-width css expression. You should get lots of hits. If not, reply back and I'll give you one. -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com Fully

Re: [WSG] IE6 width issue

2008-04-27 Thread Al Sparber
From: Lynette Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 11:41 PM Subject: Re: [WSG] IE6 width issue Thanks Al You need min-width in addition to, or instead of, max-width. IE7 will be fine, along with other modern browsers. For IE6 you need to use a

Re: [WSG] Links are not hot in ie8

2008-03-06 Thread Al Sparber
are rendered in degrees of chaos). In the event this beta gets out in the wild and folks start using it as their default browser for general surfing, I'd recommend a little warning: http://www.projectseven.com/testing/ie8/pmm/ You'll see an alert box if you use IE8. -- Al Sparber - PVII http

Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-03 Thread Al Sparber
anyone held a gun to anyone else's head ;-) -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com Extending Dreamweaver - Nav Systems | Galleries | Widgets Authors: 42nd Street: Mastering the Art of CSS Design *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] Compatibility and IE8

2008-01-24 Thread Al Sparber
be time to cut them some slack. -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com Extending Dreamweaver - Nav Systems | Galleries | Widgets Authors: 42nd Street: Mastering the Art of CSS Design *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] Float-less layouts

2008-01-07 Thread Al Sparber
is our little exercise, with just non-floated DIVs: http://www.projectseven.com/products/staging/float_not/ -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com Extending Dreamweaver - Nav Systems | Galleries | Widgets Authors: 42nd Street: Mastering the Art of CSS Design

Re: [WSG] Float-less layouts

2008-01-07 Thread Al Sparber
opinion, largely a wasted effort. If a web designer feels it important to have the main content come first, then that is the way the page should both display and be read. -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com Extending Dreamweaver - Nav Systems | Galleries | Widgets Authors: 42nd

Re: [WSG] Float-less layouts

2008-01-07 Thread Al Sparber
, seems to behave as expected with respect to overflowed content: http://www.projectseven.com/products/staging/float_not/index2.htm -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com Extending Dreamweaver - Nav Systems | Galleries | Widgets Authors: 42nd Street: Mastering the Art of CSS Design

Re: [WSG] Float-less layouts

2008-01-07 Thread Al Sparber
and can, therefore, be described in the cells of a table :-) -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com Extending Dreamweaver - Nav Systems | Galleries | Widgets Authors: 42nd Street: Mastering the Art of CSS Design *** List

Re: [WSG] Opera files antitrust against MS: standards one part

2007-12-14 Thread Al Sparber
believe that your browser is perfect? -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com Extending Dreamweaver - Nav Systems | Galleries | Widgets Authors: 42nd Street: Mastering the Art of CSS Design *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] Opera files antitrust against MS: standards one part

2007-12-14 Thread Al Sparber
From: liorean [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 14/12/2007, Al Sparber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No offense, but (imo) anyone who believes what you just wrote is extremely naive. While all web developers want standards conformance (whether they admit it or not), an industry with multiple browsers

Re: [WSG] IE6 issue with a ul

2007-12-14 Thread Al Sparber
It is fine in Fx, IE7 and Opera. In IE6, ul#img li is not displaying. This is the bit that supplies the background and room for a large caption. Can anyone tell me why this is so? It's a bug. Fixed in IE7. Set the element to position: relative and you should be good to go. -- Al Sparber - PVII

Re: [WSG] Opera files antitrust against MS: standards one part

2007-12-13 Thread Al Sparber
, they should sue Apple, the computer manufacturer. If I were Opera, I'd take a long walk along the fjords and do some soul-searching about ethics, EU-style ethics notwithstanding. -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com Extending Dreamweaver - Nav Systems | Galleries | Widgets Authors: 42nd

Re: [WSG] Opera files antitrust against MS: standards one part

2007-12-13 Thread Al Sparber
and the only thing it should be doing is supporting standards and sitting unobtrusively in the background acting as a window to the web. -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com Extending Dreamweaver - Nav Systems | Galleries | Widgets Authors: 42nd Street: Mastering the Art of CSS Design

Re: [WSG] Idiot's guide to JavaScript

2007-11-27 Thread Al Sparber
- or not :-) -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com Extending Dreamweaver - Nav Systems | Galleries | Widgets Authors: 42nd Street: Mastering the Art of CSS Design *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] z-index problem with dropdown menu

2007-11-04 Thread Al Sparber
From: John Faulds [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've z-indexed just about everything on the page to no avail so far. #header { position: relative; z-index: 999; } -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com Extending Dreamweaver - Nav Systems | Galleries | Widgets Authors: 42nd Street: Mastering

Re: [WSG] Leopard mail and standards

2007-10-27 Thread Al Sparber
From: Christian Montoya [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 10/22/07, Al Sparber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Breton Slivka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you tried outlook 2007 Lately? the way it reads/displays html has been THE issue ever since it was released. No. I'd assumed it displayed the same as OE6

Re: [WSG] Leopard mail and standards

2007-10-22 Thread Al Sparber
. These mails display perfectly in Outlook, OE, Windows Mail, Apple Mail, and Thunderbird. The problem with Outlook, I believe, is more to do with what it generates, rather than what it can read/display. -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com Extending Dreamweaver - Nav Systems | Galleries

Re: [WSG] will Eric Meyer's CSS SCULPTOR put me out o f job?

2007-08-28 Thread Al Sparber
, stupid. Web developers can sometimes over-code and web tool developers sometimes over-program. -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com Extending Dreamweaver - Nav Systems | Galleries | Widgets Authors: 42nd Street: Mastering the Art of CSS Design

Re: [WSG] will Eric Meyer's CSS SCULPTOR put me out o f job?

2007-08-27 Thread Al Sparber
is that you are having web designers hire you to do a page structure, then I can see where products like this might have a small impact, but neither of the products is targeted at end users. -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com Extending Dreamweaver - Nav Systems | Galleries

Re: [WSG] Using target=_blank

2007-07-24 Thread Al Sparber
of windows possible (not counting the main site window) = 1. -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com Extending Dreamweaver - Nav Systems | Galleries | Widgets Authors: 42nd Street: Mastering the Art of CSS Design

Re: [WSG] Javascript image rotator

2007-07-13 Thread Al Sparber
is disabled to at least be able to link to all of the images. I'm obviously a bit prejudiced, but I kind of think this one is more usable: http://www.projectseven.com/products/galleries/ssm/ssm_03.htm It's not free, though... but it is totally automated for Adobe Studio users. -- Al Sparber

Re: [WSG] Javascript image rotator

2007-07-13 Thread Al Sparber
From: Micky Hulse [EMAIL PROTECTED] I guess I thought the original poster wanted something more for a simple banner vs an actual gallery script. You're right. I didn't go back far enough in the thread. Sorry. *** List

Re: [WSG] WCAG Samurai Errata

2007-06-08 Thread Al Sparber
and STYLE fails in IE Win. So, I decided to go with what works! That's a wise decision in this business. It might not win points in a standards forum, but if the goal is a working application with reasonable backwards compatibility, I'm with you. -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com

Re: [WSG] target and accessibility

2007-03-12 Thread Al Sparber
-based checker, but to provide a usable and accessible page. -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com Extending Dreamweaver - Nav Systems | Galleries | Widgets Authors: 42nd Street: Mastering the Art of CSS Design

Re: [WSG] target and accessibility

2007-03-12 Thread Al Sparber
there. http://list.webaim.org/ Best of luck. -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com Extending Dreamweaver - Nav Systems | Galleries | Widgets Authors: 42nd Street: Mastering the Art of CSS Design *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] target and accessibility

2007-03-11 Thread Al Sparber
From: Designer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Al Sparber wrote: [snip] . . . No one is forcing you to not use Buy Now 20 times, on 20 different links. . . . Well Al, they are if I want to make an 'accessible' site which passes the WAI validation. No-one is 'forcing me' not to put font tags

Re: [WSG] target and accessibility

2007-03-10 Thread Al Sparber
I can't have a 'buy now' button for each of them, because the link text is the same? Ludicrous! See checkpoint 13.1: http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/ -- Al Sparber PVII http://www.projectseven.com Designing with CSS is sometimes like barreling down a crumbling mountain road at 90 miles

Re: [WSG] target and accessibility

2007-03-10 Thread Al Sparber
!!! Accessibility sometimes involves judgement calls. No one is forcing you to not use Buy Now 20 times, on 20 different links. But you can use: Buy Machester Kiss now Buy Manchester Hug now -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com Extending Dreamweaver - Nav Systems | Galleries | Widgets Authors

Re: [WSG] PopUp windows

2007-03-07 Thread Al Sparber
From: Kim Kruse [EMAIL PROTECTED] What about PDF's. Should they open the same window? I've had such poor history with Acrobat Reader stability when running inside a browser that I try to avoid PDF when alterntatives are available, but when only a PDF is possible, I usually give a clear

Re: [WSG] Talking about tabular data...

2007-03-06 Thread Al Sparber
the world. If he wants to debate with someone who's made his own decision to use a table and who, perhaps, simply wants to know a good way to make the dots, then that could be an invitation to a controversy. -- Al Sparber PVII http://www.projectseven.com Designing with CSS is sometimes like

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

2006-03-13 Thread Al Sparber
/templates/pagepacks/tbm/keylime/p7keylime_03.htm -- Al Sparber PVII http://www.projectseven.com Designing with CSS is sometimes like barreling down a crumbling mountain road at 90 miles per hour secure in the knowledge that repairs are scheduled for next Tuesday

Re: [WSG] Do you still support 4.0 browsers?

2006-02-27 Thread Al Sparber
:-) It's always good to ask the client if he or she wants a tangential statement associated with their business. It could make more traditional business people feel uneasy - with their web developer. -- Al Sparber PVII http://www.projectseven.com Designing with CSS is sometimes like barreling

Re: [WSG] Converting the heathen: never again

2006-02-26 Thread Al Sparber
might want to read Genesis 4:9 :-) -- Al Sparber PVII http://www.projectseven.com Designing with CSS is sometimes like barreling down a crumbling mountain road at 90 miles per hour secure in the knowledge that repairs are scheduled for next Tuesday

Re: [WSG] TARGET in 4.01 Strict

2006-02-15 Thread Al Sparber
to open a new window and we've been doing it that way for years. The W3C, however, does need to get a bit more mindful of the commercial side of the Web. Who knows, frames might one day become the tool they should have been all along, if the W3C develops logical specifications :-) -- Al Sparber

Re: [WSG] TARGET in 4.01 Strict

2006-02-15 Thread Al Sparber
From: Terrence Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] The usually reason cited in support of new windows for money makers is that they improve conversion. However, AFAIK there is no evidence to support this, and in all the literature I have read (outside of opinions expressed in mailing lists) I am yet to

Re: [WSG] TARGET in 4.01 Strict

2006-02-15 Thread Al Sparber
Christian Montoya wrote: On 2/15/06, Al Sparber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Ric Raftis [EMAIL PROTECTED] For commercial sites, I ALWAYS open a new blank window on a link. I do however advise users that this will happen and that they only have to close the new window to return to my site

Re: [WSG] TARGET in 4.01 Strict

2006-02-15 Thread Al Sparber
From: Terrence Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. Your links open a new window object 'foo'. 2. User now has two windows: their window with your page, 'foo' with external page. 3. User decides to leave 'foo' open because they are interested in the page loaded into it, and return to their window to

Re: [WSG] TARGET in 4.01 Strict

2006-02-15 Thread Al Sparber
for a tutorial in the main window, is a practical use for popup windows - at least in the opinion of some folks. I think it might be gracious of you to admit that there might be more than one useful opinion on this matter. Thanks. -- Al Sparber PVII http://www.projectseven.com Designing with CSS

Re: [WSG] CSS Holy Gruel

2006-02-14 Thread Al Sparber
in the Conditional Comments. -- Al Sparber PVII http://www.projectseven.com Designing with CSS is sometimes like barreling down a crumbling mountain road at 90 miles per hour secure in the knowledge that repairs are scheduled for next Tuesday

Re: [WSG] CSS Holy Gruel

2006-02-13 Thread Al Sparber
From: Ric Raftis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Al Sparber wrote: We're compiling a folder of CSS layouts. Feel free to play. There'll be more. http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/css/holy-gruel/juanpercent.htm OK, I'll be the silly bugger who asks. Why is the layout using a HTML 4.01

Re: [WSG] CSS Holy Gruel

2006-02-13 Thread Al Sparber
-- Al Sparber PVII http://www.projectseven.com Designing with CSS is sometimes like barreling down a crumbling mountain road at 90 miles per hour secure in the knowledge that repairs are scheduled for next Tuesday. ** The discussion list

Re: [WSG] CSS Holy Gruel

2006-02-13 Thread Al Sparber
From: Paul Dwyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wierd... killed half my own post with a bracket :) The rest should read validates once it is removed. much appreciated :-) ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

Re: [WSG] IE7 Compatibility Team

2006-02-10 Thread Al Sparber
write invalid CSS so things work in our new browser which has better support for standards? Yes. Good analysis :-) -- Al Sparber PVII http://www.projectseven.com Designing with CSS is sometimes like barreling down a crumbling mountain road at 90 miles per hour secure in the knowledge

Re: [WSG] Target sued over non-accessible site

2006-02-09 Thread Al Sparber
that itself does not support long-standing standards. I feel better now. -- Al Sparber PVII http://www.projectseven.com Designing with CSS is sometimes like barreling down a crumbling mountain road at 90 miles per hour secure in the knowledge that repairs are scheduled for next Tuesday

Re: [WSG] Target sued over non-accessible site

2006-02-09 Thread Al Sparber
and special items. They are images - and there is no Alt text. Blind people do shop :-). -- Al Sparber PVII http://www.projectseven.com Designing with CSS is sometimes like barreling down a crumbling mountain road at 90 miles per hour secure in the knowledge that repairs are scheduled for next Tuesday

Re: [WSG] Target sued over non-accessible site

2006-02-09 Thread Al Sparber
From: Minh D. Tran [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 2:32 PM Subject: Re: [WSG] Target sued over non-accessible site So I have a question, so even if it's Alt Text, how would a blind person even see to read? - It's read

Re: [WSG] cool FAQ page [follow up]

2006-02-09 Thread Al Sparber
more so when there are mixed links in the same area, some of which scroll to another point in the doc, while others load new documents. Back to the FAQs now :-) -- Al Sparber PVII http://www.projectseven.com Designing with CSS is sometimes like barreling down a crumbling mountain road at 90

Re: [WSG] cool FAQ page [follow up]

2006-02-09 Thread Al Sparber
From: Terrence Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Al Sparber: Very distracting Are you talking about when there is just the list of links is first and you must scroll to get the first screen of content? For me, it's any link that scrolls the page. I'm old enough to get disoriented, I guess

Re: [WSG] cool FAQ page [follow up]

2006-02-09 Thread Al Sparber
with the local link itself? It's more an issue of mixing the link types. -- Al Sparber PVII http://www.projectseven.com Designing with CSS is sometimes like barreling down a crumbling mountain road at 90 miles per hour secure in the knowledge that repairs are scheduled for next Tuesday

Re: [WSG] cool FAQ page [follow up]

2006-02-07 Thread Al Sparber
in a meeting to decide whether to use this feature on a commercial site :-) I also agree that for the type of site which targets people in our business, it should not be used. -- Al Sparber PVII http://www.projectseven.com Designing with CSS is sometimes like barreling down a crumbling mountain road

Re: [WSG] cool FAQ page [follow up]

2006-02-07 Thread Al Sparber
=) I spent 20 years designing and building some of the most upscale food markets in America. So let's call it a push and move on, eh? -- Al Sparber PVII http://www.projectseven.com Designing with CSS is sometimes like barreling down a crumbling mountain road at 90 miles per hour secure

Re: [WSG] cool FAQ page [follow up]

2006-02-07 Thread Al Sparber
From: Terrence Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Cc: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 4:53 PM Subject: Re: [WSG] cool FAQ page [follow up] Al Sparber said: I spent 20 years designing and building some of the most upscale food markets in America

Re: [WSG] cool FAQ page [follow up]

2006-02-07 Thread Al Sparber
/definition argument. I'm not entirely sure what you mean by out of context - I'm guessing you are stuck on the idea that the Q's can only appear once on the page? Here's another approach you're sure not to like :-) http://www.projectseven.com/csslab/swapclass/outline/ -- Al Sparber PVII http

Re: [WSG] cool FAQ page [follow up]

2006-02-06 Thread Al Sparber
to the client and not to a committee of standards experts :-) -- Al Sparber PVII http://www.projectseven.com Designing with CSS is sometimes like barreling down a crumbling mountain road at 90 miles per hour secure in the knowledge that repairs are scheduled for next Tuesday

[WSG] Display:Table

2006-02-04 Thread Al Sparber
or incorrect - and why? Thanks in advance. -- Al Sparber PVII http://www.projectseven.com Designing with CSS is sometimes like barreling down a crumbling mountain road at 90 miles per hour secure in the knowledge that repairs are scheduled for next Tuesday

Re: [WSG] Standards Savvy Shopping Cart

2006-02-04 Thread Al Sparber
From: kvnmcwebn [EMAIL PROTECTED] hello, does the ie7 beta allow scaling of fonts set in pixels? -kvnmcwebn No - but it does have a new zoom tool a la Opera. -- Al Sparber PVII http://www.projectseven.com Designing with CSS is sometimes like barreling down a crumbling mountain road at 90

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