There is a good introductory book by cameron moll - not very techie
but nice starting point
http://mobilewebbook.com/
And i have a few links
http://delicious.com/gollyg/mobile
On 13/09/2008, at 12:13 PM, James Jeffery wrote:
Anyone got any good resources on developing for mobile browsers?
FWIW seems to work in IE7 - dont have IE6 setup at the moment.
On 8/4/07, Cole Kuryakin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello All -
After tearing my hair out for over 4 hours I come to you guys/gals for a
fresh eye and perhaps a solution.
I've got a simple class name (.active) attached to an a
you could try adding !IMPORTANT after the colour declaration just to see if
it is an inheritance issue
On 8/4/07, James Gollan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
FWIW seems to work in IE7 - dont have IE6 setup at the moment.
On 8/4/07, Cole Kuryakin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello All -
After
the given rule is not using a pseudo selector (:) - it is a simple class
definition. This should be consistent across browsers.
On 8/4/07, Kepler Gelotte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When the chosen page loads, the chosen link turns deep red.
The declaration for this is as follows:
/*ACTIVE
James Ellis wrote:
Hi
This is true, the C4 course in Web Technology or whatever it is called
now at TAFE NSW aims to give everyone a grounding knowledge in the
fundementals of well, web technology. This includes graphic design,
database design, server side coding, project management and many
It has been mentioned before, but I find Drupal has been great. It has
modules for most things, has a fabulous extensible content system where you
can define custom content types, a very powerful theming engine, and an
incredibly modular approach to core functionality.
When you learn how to use
Kevin Ross wrote:
I am wondering for advice on this situation and I am also wondering
how others handle ongoing updates after the initial design has been
implemented.
I am also wondering if a CMS system would, in any way, be a solution
to a situation like this.
Probably more appropriate for
PNG has built in colour correction that creates problems when trying to
match against a hexcode in the browser.
If you really need png you can export a small backgroound tile for the area
that it needs to blend into.
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/png-gamma/
On 4/11/07, Andrew Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED]
the web developer toolbar gives you access to view generated source - this
will reveal the result of the transformation
On 3/30/07, Katrina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gday,
If we create HTML/XHTML output through XSLT, is there anyway we can
check the quality of that output?
My check local HTML
You have a padding and margin declaration on the hover state for the
breadcrumbs.
elastic.css line 69. Remove this, or set it on #breadcrumb a
On 3/30/07, Chris Rahe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks so much Tee, and everyone else who offered suggestions. Some of the
flaws that turned up were my
if they both shared a container and the input was positioned absolutely to
top:50% from that container would that work?
On 3/29/07, Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi guys,
Is there any way to vertically align objects in CSS next to each other if
the height of them
.container {
display:block;
position:relative;
}
.checkbox {
position:absolute;
top:45%;
}
.box {
background-color:#00CCFF;
width:620px;
margin-left:21px;
}
something like this
On 3/29/07, Designer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] wrote:
Hi guys,
Is there any way
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been following this discussion with great interest.
I've taught HTML, CSS and JavaScript at a TAFE, but not as part of a
coding course, as part of a graphic design course. That's an
interesting environment in which to think about standards -- the
students were
Lachlan Hunt wrote:
Ian Anderson wrote:
Lachlan Hunt wrote:
I think generalisations like users hate popup windows are perhaps a
little unhelpful.
But the statement is 100% accurate. I, as a user, hate popups. I
know of many others that hate popups too. I did not say all users,
just
Chris Taylor wrote:
And, a larger question for us all: what are we as web standards and
accessibility evangelists to do about the continued ingorance and apathy
towards this vital subject, especially in academia? Let's hope that the
recent Target website court case in the US highlights the
Christian Montoya wrote:
On 2/13/06, James Gollan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Chris Taylor wrote:
And, a larger question for us all: what are we as web standards and
accessibility evangelists to do about the continued ingorance and apathy
towards this vital subject, especially in academia
Ric Raftis wrote:
James Gollan wrote:
I feel it is worth pointing out that not all educational institutions
are still teaching table based design. As an educator I feel I am in
a great position to make a difference at a 'grass roots' level.
Students studying web design at our college (Ultimo
Mark Harris wrote:
Terrence Wood wrote:
Herrod, Lisa wrote:
Herrod, Lisa would like to recall the message, [WSG] Web design
education.
What does that mean and where does it come from? Someone else sent me
one of those recently.
Generally, it means someone is using Outlook on an MS-Exchange
This is interesting, but a rather pragamitc approach? Are we changing
our coding practice to suit the technological limitations of current
user agents. Is some of the power of a standards based approach the idea
that we do what is considered best practise given the current standards?
I use
its not to do with a bold font taking up more space and shifting other
elements?
Stuart Sherwood wrote:
Does anyone have any experience with a bug in Firefox when using
a:hover {font-weight:bold;}?
When the cursor moves over the link, other elements on the page shift
or even flicker over
You mentioned that you wanted to be able to see it when you view the
source - is that important? Because you wont *see* the span element but
the browser will. (I imagine you are doing this for an image replacement
technique in which case not seeing it wouldn't be a big issue). Remember
you
sounds a bit like the peekaboo bug. You might try the holly hack on the
problem element:
/* Hides from IE-mac \*/
* html #myBackgroundContainer
{height: 1%;}
/* End hide from IE-mac */
Stuart Sherwood wrote:
One of my sites is triggering a bug in IE where a background image
loads and
Whilst it won't affect accessibility or usability for the end user
(afaik) the class and id names should have semantic meaning indicating
there logical function - rather than id=rightColumn you might use
id=localNavColumn if the function of the column was to contain local
nav. This means if
Site looks great. Slightly OT but the user survey is using a TIFF image
that is not showing up in Word (Office 2003 WinXP Pro) - says something
about needing Quicktime installed! I'm sure you could make it work without!
James
Andy Budd wrote:
Hi folks,
We've just launched our new company
Hi,
I am having a problem getting a print stylesheet to work in Firefox 1.04
Win. It works in opera and IE, but in Fireforx the home page doesn't
show up the images as expected. Actually, I have found the print preview
in most recent versions of Firefox to cause crashes regularly - anyone
Hi David,
thanks for the feedback. I have to agree that the text, particularly on
the home page, lacks contrast. I will look to make it a little darker.
As for the emphasis being on the designer rather than the painter, I
don't feel this was the case. The painter was very involved during the
Just out of interest Stuart, do you feel that there is a contrast issue
in your article heading text? On my screens the bg grey is quite dark.
Cheers
James
Stuart Sherwood wrote:
Thanks John,
It took a while but the answer I was looking for came along. Thank
you! Your web site is very
Thanks for all the feedback. I will get to work removing the pop-up
windows - moving the content into the main page template makes sense and
the accessibility advantages make it the obvious choice (easier than
going back to HTML strict too!).
I do care about mac users (being a part-time mac user
Would anyone have the time to look over the following site?
Any feedback much appreciated.
www.organicexpo.com.au
Thanks
James
Nice and clean looking site. A couple of issues I have noticed:
You may have designed on a high resolution, but at 800x600 (still a
common res) the logo disappears behind the content.
I think that the white line around the top nav looks a little out of
place.
Cheers
James
-Original
Hi Guys,
I am having a little problem with at the following site:
www.organicexpo.com.au/visitors/index.php
Relevant style sheet:
www.organicexpo.com.au/assets/layout.css
IE mac doesnt show the
background color on the main content div. The layout is a fairly simple 3
column
Hi Guys,
I am having a little problem with at the following site:
www.organicexpo.com.au/visitors/index.php
Relevant style sheet:
www.organicexpo.com.au/assets/layout.css
IE mac doesnt show the
background color on the main content div. The layout is a fairly simple 3
column
Hey why has the SMH
site gone haywire in IE6?
Only kidding peter
looks great. That was the big one!
Well done again
James
If you are trying to avoid the situation of a separate CSS background
property for each image you could create a single image with all of your
rollover states. You would then use the background position property to
shift this larger image into the correct position.
The advantage of this method
Having read my post I should point out that I mean a single image for
each button/rollover - not one huge image for everything on your page!
That would just be silly.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of James Gollan
Sent: Thursday, 22 April
as these images
are
not in lists nor do their location lend themselves to being used as
such!
H.
I'll get this yet with the wonderful advice and help ya'll providing :-)
Brian
-Original Message-
From: James Gollan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 4:50 PM
Hi Chris,
The big difference between the pages seems
to be the inclusion of the contact form. Try changing the id of your form element
for some reason that seems to work although I dont know why!
Cheers
James
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL
IE Win wll leave a 1pixel space when you absolutely
position from the bottom or the right, or more if you actually have white space
in your code. Try removing any line breaks this should get rid of the
worst of it.
http://css.nu/pointers/bugs-ie.html
You could try taking out the xml prologue (first line). This causes IE
to render in quirks mode, but I don't think it affects Opera.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Randall Potter
Sent: Saturday, 3 April 2004 6:48 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On closer inspection it looks like the script tag is creating problems,
needs the closing tag rather than the xhtml empty tag syntax.
James
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Randall Potter
Sent: Saturday, 3 April 2004 6:48 PM
To: [EMAIL
Just looking through my archives for some info on forms and found this.
I am wondering about the use of the legend tag in the first example
(http://www.amonline.net.au/sand/using/survey.htm) to set out the
question. Would this be better suited/more semantically correct in the
label tag? I guess I
I find that whilst there would appear to be a clear separation between a
discussion of web standards and how-to's, quite often a look at
someone's source code sparks off an interesting and valuable debate
about the web standards issues involved. The overlap would seem to add
richness to the
Not actually related to your problem, but you
dont seem to have closed your head tag on the home page, creating
problems validating.
-Original
Message-
From: JW
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 20 February 2004
12:03 AM
To: WSG - CSS List
Subject: [WSG] Padding/Margin in
Hi,
Was wondering if anyone with a Mac
would be kind enough to check this out was having problems with IE5.2,
but any other problems (any browser any platform) would be good to hear about.
http://www.swamphen.com/testing/naturalgrocer/index_v05.html
BTW Michael D I did change
to
Lucian
tribolum.com
On Feb 14, 2004, at 1:06 PM, James Gollan wrote:
Thanks
in anticipation I managed to get it working across all my target
windows browsers. Now to move on to the mac anyone want to have a look
in a few Mac browsers and tell me the bad news? Go on - itll be
fun breaking
Hi guys,
Just wondering if anyone knew why
this layout http://www.swamphen.com/testing/naturalgrocer/index3.html
was breaking in IE5 (severe) and 5.5 (not so severe). I suspect it may be to do
with the box model or a float bug, but cant quite isolate it.
Any help much appreciated.
://www.swamphen.com/testing/naturalgrocer/index4.html
- it took some weird changes to a few padding and margin settings to please all
the browsers and I am still not sure why some things werent supported.
Anyhoo
-Original
Message-
From: James Gollan
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, 14
{
float:right;
/* margin-left:auto; */
padding:0px;
width:387px
}
hth,
Ben
Only one week till the joint Web Standards Group / Macromedia User
Groups meeting at Star City and MXDU!
www.mxdu.com
James Gollan wrote:
The rendering problems
Here a fairly scathing article on the
drawbacks of XML1.1, starting out with some rules:
1.
Don't use it.
2.
(For experts only) If you speak
Mongolian, Yi, Cambodian, Amharic, Dhivehi, Burmese, or a very few other
languages and you want to write your markup (not your text but your
Finally someone's done it - that's brilliant.
The IE5.5 shows in the about IE section as being version 6, but it seems
to be 5.5, as it misinterprets the box model.
And you can run them open at the same time. Very cool.
-Original Message-
From: Mark Stanton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Great link - the illustrations are chosen really well, and it's not at
all preachy. Well found!
James
-Original Message-
From: russ weakley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, 28 October 2003 11:09 AM
To: Web Standards Group
Subject: [WSG] A comic book version of tables to
I'm probably missing something here (so just ignore this post), but what
about a containing div with positioning relative, and then position your
boxes within this div. Your text inside is positioned absolutely from
the bottom of the containing box.
style type=text/css
are offset
by a few pixels in Opera and Mozilla but I feel it's somehow related the
the rest of my page. Thanks!
cheers,
George
-Original Message-
From: James Gollan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 26 September 2003 11:00 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [WSG]Vertically aligned
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