Re: [WSG] Keyboard Tabbing no longer working in FF v11/Mac

2012-04-02 Thread Matthew Pennell
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[WSG] Matthew J Robinson is out of the office.

2011-11-27 Thread Matthew . J . Robinson
I will be out of the office starting 28/11/2011 and will not return until 30/11/2011. I will respond to your message when I return. If it's important, the other capable members of the Content Team may be able to help you - approach with caution! Please send any urgent requests to Content

Re: [WSG] Using ellipsis to indicate truncated overflow content

2011-11-14 Thread Matthew Pennell
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[WSG] Matthew J Robinson is out of the office.

2011-10-31 Thread Matthew . J . Robinson
I will be out of the office starting 31/10/2011 and will not return until 09/11/2011. I will respond to your message when I return. I have gone tropo! Please send any urgent requests to Content Services The information contained in this email and its attachments may be confidential. If you

Re: [WSG] Desktop. Tablet. Mobile.

2011-05-06 Thread Matthew Pennell
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 7:28 PM, tee weblis...@gmail.com wrote: Oh do you want it HTML5? That will be 20% extra fee sir. ( the iwe designeri does is change the doctype). Of course not - apparently just adding a gradient is enough to catapult any web design into the stratosphere... - Matthew

[WSG] Matthew J Robinson is out of the office.

2010-12-14 Thread Matthew . J . Robinson
I will be out of the office starting 15/12/2010 and will not return until 03/01/2011. I will respond to your message when I return. I have been away since the 3rd Dec 2010, please send any urgent requests to Content Services The information contained in this email and its attachments may be

Re: [WSG] Korean fonts

2010-07-08 Thread Matthew Pennell
(the first one is 'Dotum' in Korean) are common across many of the top Korean-language websites. - Matthew *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join

Re: [WSG] RE: Poetry needing block format but with line-breaks

2010-02-17 Thread Matthew Pennell
different templates for displaying poems. One allowed for line breaks (so lines would break correctly), and the other one used pre to preserve formatting for poems where the shape of the text was important. - Matthew *** List

Re: [WSG] e-mail link

2010-02-01 Thread Matthew Pennell
iPadSend email/a You can also include cc and body information in there too. - Matthew *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh

Re: [WSG] Accessibility does not matter!

2010-01-30 Thread Matthew Pennell
you've exposed your naivety, I suggest you let the good people of this thread educate you so you can create better work in the future. :) - Matthew *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] How to resolve z-index problem for select box in IE 6

2010-01-27 Thread Matthew Pennell
(as they are system controls), so they don't respect the stacking order. Google for something like ie6 select iframe for details of how to fix it with a positioned iframe (as they are the only element that will cover up a select). - Matthew

Re: [WSG] css tutorial

2010-01-15 Thread Matthew Pennell
on the same topic, do they not know what they're talking about either? - Matthew *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh

Re: [WSG] css tutorial

2010-01-14 Thread Matthew Pennell
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Re: [WSG] wrap in print

2009-10-13 Thread Matthew Pennell
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Re: [WSG] elasticity and floats

2009-10-06 Thread Matthew Pennell
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 11:28 AM, designer desig...@gwelanmor-internet.co.uk wrote: I want to make a banner/masthead with 4 divs. Nos 1,2 and 4 are fixed width and I want div 3 to be flexible width and fill the gap: Have you tried here? http://blog.html.it/layoutgala/ - Matthew

Re: [WSG] mouse rollovers how to fix them

2009-09-18 Thread Matthew Pennell
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Re: [WSG] Fwd: Auction Auto Bidder

2009-09-14 Thread Matthew Pennell
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:50 AM, Mohamed Shamveel sham...@gmail.com wrote: Please send this massage to all your members. Massages over the internet, now there's a way to really make money online... - Matthew *** List

Re: [WSG] Looking For Images

2009-08-24 Thread Matthew Pennell
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Marvin Hunkin startrekc...@gmail.comwrote: looking for the following images. Sorry, I only have image001.gif and image003.gif. If I find image002.gif I'll pop it in the post straight away. :) - Matthew

Re: [WSG] Outlook 2010

2009-06-24 Thread Matthew Pennell
complaining so much about IE6 being bundled with Windows! You can't have your cake and eat it too... - Matthew *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm

Re: [WSG] Possible layout problems with using this CSS code?

2009-04-19 Thread Matthew Pennell
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Re: [WSG] Where is browser compatibility in wcag?

2009-04-08 Thread Matthew Pennell
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Re: [WSG] Chrome now higher traffic than IE

2009-03-03 Thread Matthew Pennell
. More stats (30m visits over a month, demographic of pretty much everyone): IE7 - 52% IE6 - 23% FF3 - 17% Safari - 3% FF2 - 2.5% Chrome - 0.8% Opera - 0.5% - Matthew *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] Chrome now higher traffic than IE

2009-03-03 Thread Matthew Pennell
themselves of my bias. You can (and should) filter out your own visits by IP address within Analytics reports. - Matthew *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join

Re: [WSG] Classes---Adding multiple classes to an element, is there a downfall???

2009-02-23 Thread Matthew Pennell
in Firefox/Safari, and apply the rule to any element with both the primary and highlighted classes; but in IE6 it doesn't work, it will just see it as .highlighted. - Matthew *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] A Semi-Transparent Background Color?

2009-02-11 Thread Lewis, Matthew
There is this article: http://css-tricks.com/css-transparency-settings-for-all-broswers/ On 12/02/2009, at 1:04 PM, Brett Patterson wrote: Hi all, I was wondering why there was no implementation to allow a semi- transparent background color using CSS? If there is, is there a link that

Re: [WSG] Re: Users who deliberately disable JavaScript

2009-01-30 Thread Matthew Pennell
for all employees, which will contribute to the 5-10% of non-JS enabled users. It's not always a conscious choice on the part of the user. - Matthew *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] Failed A Job :(

2009-01-29 Thread Lewis, Matthew
On 30/01/2009, at 2:36 AM, Simon Pascal Klein wrote: I’d expect clean, accessible, and semantic code from a front-end developer. Bah—sorry to hear you had such a negative experience. I think we all end up taking a bite from the sour end of the pie at some point in our profession, and, in

Re: [WSG] Federal Court hearing re Virgin Blue website accessiblity

2009-01-20 Thread Matthew Pennell
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Re: [WSG] Website review : http://webprocafe.com

2009-01-16 Thread Matthew Pennell
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Re: [WSG] High-Pass Filter and Yahoo's reset stylesheet (question regarding validation)

2008-11-20 Thread Matthew Pennell
: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/reset/ I use it myself as the basis for all stylesheets, and have never had a validation problem. - Matthew *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] High-Pass Filter and Yahoo's reset stylesheet (question regarding validation)

2008-11-20 Thread Matthew Pennell
That's not in reset.css, it's from fonts.css. It's also not the High Pass filter - see here for an explanation: http://tantek.com/CSS/Examples/highpass.html If you're worried about it, extract the IE-only code out of the file and wrap it in conditional comments. - Matthew

Re: [WSG] High-Pass Filter and Yahoo's reset stylesheet (question regarding validation)

2008-11-20 Thread Matthew Pennell
of the stylesheet shown on the main YUI Reset page. Guess they haven't updated all the different places it appears as they have added bits. - Matthew *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe

Re: [WSG] Big Browsing Issues on clients PC Laptop AOL

2008-10-18 Thread Matthew Pennell
) site, and there are zero records of any browser with the string AOL in the identification string, which suggests that there is currently no such thing as an AOL browser. Perhaps your stylesheet is cached by an AOL proxy? - Matthew

Re: [WSG] WCAG2 in govt

2008-09-29 Thread Lewis, Matthew
Hi there - was wondering if there's anyone on the list who works in government and is considering WCAG2. We're looking at this in NZ, and I'd be keen to have a chat about your experiences (and offer my own). How about first considering and then implementing the inclusion of Local

Re: [WSG] Dev. For Mobile Browsers

2008-09-14 Thread Matthew Pennell
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Re: [WSG] Copycat site

2008-09-08 Thread Matthew Pennell
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Joseph Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a reminder about the purpose of this list and some of the things that happen on here you should be aware of: You missed out Don't top-post and trim replies... ;) -- - Matthew

Re: WSG promoting standards via teaching? Re: [WSG] Positioning was Extra white line on the top of my list

2008-08-05 Thread Lewis, Matthew
What would be more a productive use of your time David is validating your pages. And there is plenty of We are still moving into our new site... please bear with us... stuff that still needs to be written. Just a suggestion. On 5/08/2008, at 12:34 PM, David Fuller - magickweb wrote:

Re: [WSG] What is the best solution for IE6 png issue?

2008-08-03 Thread Lewis, Matthew
as to say look at the theory of developing specifics for IE6. There is a gaining movement around to start phasing out IE6 support - look at 37signals, I think they begin IE6 phase out this week or next. They've done their maths and taken a gamble. Hopefully it'll spark something. [snip...]

Re: [WSG] What is the best solution for IE6 png issue?

2008-08-01 Thread Matthew Pennell
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Tijmen Smit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This solution works fine for me - http://24ways.org/2007/supersleight-transparent-png-in-ie6 Another recent one here: http://labs.unitinteractive.com/unitpngfix.php -- - Matthew

Re: [WSG] form from hell - difficult redesign

2008-07-30 Thread Matthew Holloway
(also known as multi-column treeviews)... I recently wrote a blog post that detailed lots of ways of representing tablular data: http://holloway.co.nz/blog/?p=17 .Matthew Holloway http://holloway.co.nz/ *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] Why css settings a background image in the body tag wouldn't work

2008-07-29 Thread Matthew Holloway
the HTML to CSS, etc. .Matthew Holloway http://holloway.co.nz/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] Why css settings a background image in the body tag wouldn't work plus 2nd issue of space between divs

2008-07-29 Thread Matthew Holloway
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Michael Horowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure happy to give you my current css. Missing semi-colon at the end of the line? .Matthew Holloway http://holloway.co.nz/ *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] XSLT: looping through ancestors looking for a specific node

2008-07-27 Thread Matthew Holloway
xsl:choose xsl:when test=generate-id(ancestor::section[1]) = generate-id(key('bookmarkById', substring(@href, 1)[1]/ancestor::section[1])it's the same section/xsl:when xsl:otherwiseit's not the same section/xsl:otherwise /xsl:choose /xsl:template .Matthew Holloway http://holloway.co.nz

Re: [ADMIN] THREAD CLOSED [WSG] XSLT: looping through ancestors looking for a specific node

2008-07-27 Thread Matthew Holloway
://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Grant was talking about XSLT, thanks :) .Matthew Holloway http://holloway.co.nz/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join

Re: [WSG] Multiple Firefox on Mac

2008-07-24 Thread Matthew Pennell
. Firefox2) before installing FF3. Worked fine for me. You can't have them both open at the same time, though, if that's what you mean. -- - Matthew *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] iphone should not be part of your url

2008-07-20 Thread Matthew Pennell
need your entire site, they need a subset of it (or new content) that is useful for them in the context of use on the go. To that end, you either sniff for devices and/or serve mobile content on a different URL. -- - Matthew

Re: [WSG] Scaling a background image

2008-06-30 Thread Matthew Holloway
to bitmaps, aside from file size). Unrelated, but here's an example of using SVG vectors for a background image... http://holloway.co.nz/wellypug/svg/svg-test2.html .Matthew Holloway http://docvert.org/ http://holloway.co.nz

Re: [WSG] Please unsubscribe me

2008-06-30 Thread Matthew Holloway
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Polly Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many thanks Polly Templeton National Museum of Australia I don't know about you all but I'm maintaining a spreadsheet called People not to hire based on their ability to use the WSG list. .Matthew Holloway http

Re: [WSG] Scaling a background image

2008-06-29 Thread Matthew Holloway
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Chris Pearce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone been able to successfully scale a CSS background image to the current window size? I've done some research via Google and it appears this can't be done purely with CSS (at least not yet), maybe some

RE: [WSG] Marking Up Poems

2008-06-19 Thread Matthew Hodgson
not always, but often. esp if it ends in beer and a party From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 20 June 2008 12:12 PM To: 'wsg@webstandardsgroup.org' Subject: RE: [WSG] Marking Up Poems Must

Re: [WSG] HTML special characters coding

2008-06-17 Thread Matthew Holloway
of this but what is the best practice? You're always supposed to encode as amp; (even in hrefs) and that's what standards compliance requires. (I use XHTML and I also want to be parseable as XML so aside from XMLs inbuilt entities of lt; gt; amp; quot; and apos; I tend to use NCRs...). -- .Matthew

Re: [WSG] HTML special characters coding

2008-06-17 Thread Matthew Holloway
an adblocker proxy that I installed on my parents machine would break UTF-8 horribly... of course that's the proxy's fault but entites would work around their bug. (I don't really have strong opinions either way though) -- .Matthew Holloway http://holloway.co.nz

Re: [WSG] HTML special characters coding

2008-06-17 Thread Matthew Holloway
mangled by stupid non-unicode-aware tools but that's about it. Cheers :) -- .Matthew Holloway http://holloway.co.nz/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] IE6/7 not rendering an H1 correctly

2008-06-17 Thread Matthew Holloway
Lynette Smith wrote: I've been staring at if for ages and I don't understand this at all and was wondering if this was the reason IE won't render it as intended. Just above the div id=content there's a broken /div tag. -- .Matthew Holloway http://holloway.co.nz

RE: [WSG] Multiple Language Domains

2008-06-15 Thread Matthew Hodgson
there's lots of things u can do to ensure that the language is correctly identified and the right characterset it used 1. as sajan suggests, the setting locale is important. it also helps with time/date formats e.g. for php: setlocale(constant,location) (see also:

RE: [WSG] Should we design for 800x600 screens?

2008-06-11 Thread Matthew Hodgson
I've also seen a lot of people with big screens re-size their browser windows to about 1024x768/800x600-ish. M From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Hucklesby [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 11 June 2008 3:46 PM To:

RE: [WSG] Should we design for 800x600 screens?

2008-06-10 Thread Matthew Hodgson
what about mobile browsing? the iphone is having quite the impact on mobile computing and designing to 800x600 is going to mean you're likely making information inaccessible and un-usable designing to a screen size is like designing to one browser my advice - 1. profile your users

Re: [WSG] Background-position in percentage

2008-06-04 Thread Matthew Pennell
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Chris Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This never occurred to me before you mentioned it. More details on background positioning here: http://www.digital-web.com/articles/web_design_101_backgrounds/ -- - Matthew

Re: [WSG] Clarification: Is RTF accessible?

2008-05-28 Thread Matthew Holloway
, don't use RTF). -- .Matthew Holloway http://holloway.co.nz/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] Is RTF accessible?

2008-05-27 Thread Matthew Holloway
://blogs.sun.com/korn/entry/talking_with_microsoft_s_gray http://blogs.sun.com/korn/entry/cotinuing_the_conversation_with_gray -- .Matthew Holloway http://holloway.co.nz/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] Clarification: Is RTF accessible?

2008-05-27 Thread Matthew Holloway
Jessica Enders wrote: Also, if it helps, I'm thinking about RTF for /forms/, not general text documents. Oh, ok -- it certainly cannot represent accessible forms. Even the latest RTF 1.9.1 (March 2008) does not appear to support form field labels, for example. -- .Matthew Holloway http

Re: [WSG] [OT] users - IT literate?

2008-05-17 Thread Matthew Pennell
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Elizabeth Spiegel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The challenge for us as designers/builders is to build sites for the way people really use the internet, not the way we wish they did! Excellently put. :) -- - Matthew

[WSG] 5.3 Expansion of abbreviations and acronyms in a document

2008-05-17 Thread Lewis, Matthew
Unsure about best practice approach for acronym within a link, which may not be ether of these examples... a href=http://.co.nz/rss/; title=Real Simple Syndication News FeedRSS News Feed/a a href=http://.co.nz/rss/; acronym title=Real Simple SyndicationRSS/acronym News Feed/a Many

Re: [WSG] [OT] users - IT literate?

2008-05-16 Thread Matthew Pennell
, they are all URLs - people use that rather than type in the address bar.) -- - Matthew *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL

Re: [WSG] [OT] users - IT literate?

2008-05-16 Thread Matthew Pennell
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Stuart Foulstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: its because MOST PEOPLE find it easier to type partial URL's into Google rather than typing the whole URL into the address bar And which user research are you basing your PROCLAMATION on? -- - Matthew

Re: [WSG] PHP Standards

2008-05-16 Thread Matthew Pennell
. There's a good ongoing thread in the Sitepoint PHP forum filled with best practices: http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=456441 -- - Matthew *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

[WSG] Feedback

2008-05-14 Thread Matthew Chambers
of the conversations. This would mean that we could easily skim read this list to see if there is anything of interest. An extra bonus would be if you could just click on the subject name and it takes you through to the thread in the website. Cheers Matthew CAUTION - This message may contain

Re: [WSG] a list apart expired

2008-05-13 Thread Matthew Pennell
. -- - Matthew *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] Printing CSS background

2008-05-12 Thread Matthew Pennell
ink as well. -- - Matthew *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] The Problem of adjacent links

2008-05-08 Thread Matthew Pennell
Samurai corrections to WCAG1: http://wcagsamurai.org/errata/errata.html So basically, don't worry about using anything between links. http://www.thewatchmakerproject.com/journal/455/wcag-samurai-question -- - Matthew *** List

Re: [WSG] Reset the styles on a submit button with CSS

2008-05-06 Thread Matthew Pennell
this does anyone know? Not quite what you asked, but have you considered using the button element for your submit button instead of an input? Removes this kind of annoyance. -- - Matthew *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] :: CSS Code Formatting ::

2008-05-06 Thread Matthew Pennell
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Amrinder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which approach is better? Should we go for code readability as described by Smashing Magazine or follow what Andy said. Why not do both? Use a coding style that suits you, then compress it for live deployment. -- - Matthew

Re: [WSG] Form best practice

2008-04-21 Thread Matthew Pennell
://www.sitepoint.com/article/fancy-form-design-css form fieldset ol li label/input I've found that this approach gives you a great deal of flexibility in how you can style the form. -- - Matthew *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] Floating model: FF counterintuitive

2008-04-18 Thread Matthew Pennell
as far as the top of the previously floated element in the source; so div2 has moved up to top-align with the top of div1, the previously floated element. Each floated element creates a new 'top line', above which later floated elements can go no higher. -- - Matthew

Re: [WSG] SMTP

2008-04-05 Thread Matthew Pennell
to set it all up. Can anyone help? This article might be useful: http://www.digital-web.com/articles/bulletproof_contact_form_with_php/ -- - Matthew *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] accessible fluid button

2008-04-04 Thread Matthew Pennell
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Ted Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: YUI button from Yahoo http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/button/ How exactly is a button created with JavaScript accessible? *** List Guidelines:

Re: [WSG] USERS - was [Why is u deprecated?]

2008-03-31 Thread Matthew Pennell
. . . I'd agree with this - I once explained to a client over the phone how to copy and paste; he was amazed at how much time he would now be able to save transferring his product details into the CMS... -- - Matthew *** List

Re: [WSG] why do some divs shrink wrap and others don't [OT?]

2008-03-28 Thread Matthew Pennell
that on your site (removed the width: 30% and added float: left to the #nav div) and it shrinkwraps the nav items as expected. -- - Matthew *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] why do some divs shrink wrap and others don't [OT?]

2008-03-27 Thread Matthew Pennell
they are floated - in which case they can either have an explicit width set via CSS, or they will shrinkwrap their contents. -- - Matthew *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] why do some divs shrink wrap and others don't [OT?]

2008-03-27 Thread Matthew Pennell
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 5:41 PM, dwain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i had no width set on the nav ul or the nav div and they both went to 100%. the div didn't shrink wrap the div and ul. That would be correct behaviour, unless you are saying that they were floated. -- - Matthew

Re: [WSG] multiple css style sheets

2008-03-01 Thread Matthew Pennell
On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 12:47 PM, dwain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: do you have a link for your side? validator.w3.org? -- - Matthew *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

[WSG] Out of Office AutoReply: WSG Digest

2008-02-20 Thread Matthew B. Coulter
I am currently out of the office and will return on Thursday, Feb 21. If you're contacting me regarding an urgent web problem please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you are looking for GC/event or recording support please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks! Matt Coulter

Re: [WSG] hello - [OT]

2008-02-15 Thread Matthew Pennell
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Re: [WSG] Styling forms

2008-02-07 Thread Matthew Pennell
that paragraphs of text and headings may not be available to screenreader users. -- - Matthew *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL

Re: [WSG] running ie7 on my mac??

2008-01-24 Thread Matthew Pennell
://www.kronenberg.org/ies4osx/ -- - Matthew *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] Where did I come from?

2008-01-21 Thread Matthew Cruickshank
, but that doesn't mean that applications shouldn't make decisions based on it. A good example of web software that makes decisions based on referrers are anti-image-leech scripts*. -- .Matthew Cruickshank http://holloway.co.nz/ [*] and image leech scripts are a good response to kids that use your photos http

Re: [WSG] standards-compliant designers and shoddy work poor QA

2008-01-13 Thread Matthew Pennell
to find IE installed on my iPhone, either... -- - Matthew *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] Developing for Mac Browsers

2008-01-13 Thread Matthew Pennell
a hardcore PC gamer, why not get an Intel Mac? Then you can run Windows (on Parallels or VMWare or Boot Camp), Linux, and MacOS on the same machine. Plus you get a *nix based OS that is much nicer to develop for than Windows. -- - Matthew

Re: [WSG] standards-compliant designers

2008-01-09 Thread Matthew Pennell
designer'. Does it have to be your job title? Your business? Do you have to be paid for it? Our industry includes everyone from Zeldman to the marketing department struggling with a CMS to back-bedroom solo web agencies to the neighbour's kid with a copy of FrontPage. -- - Matthew

Re: [WSG] standards-compliant designers

2008-01-09 Thread Matthew Barben
I tend to agree with Mark. IT guys in my experience tend not to be 'joiners' you work in a corporate IT department and you will quickly realise that people use terms like 'Crypt' and 'Beige' I have worked from both sides of the fence as both an indepentant but also as the main web guy within a

Re: [WSG] Rockwell?

2007-12-21 Thread Matthew Pennell
is in the Mac fontbook. And I'm pretty sure *nix users don't have it at all. It's not a standard Windows font, I'd be surprised if anyone apart from designers had it on their systems (unless it is now bundled with Vista?) Why not use sIFR - the demo even comes with the Rockwell .swf file. - Matthew

Re: [WSG] BBC in Beta

2007-12-18 Thread Matthew Pennell
It's not working at all via iPhone, strangely. - Matthew Sent from my iPhone On 18 Dec 2007, at 18:31, Kim Kruse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well they are on my computer! (we're talking about the 4 colored buttons that changed the colors of the page... right?) John Faulds skrev: Seems like

Re: [WSG] Styling Submit buttons with JavaScript by making them anchors

2007-12-17 Thread Matthew Pennell
be a stupid question, but why can't you just style your form submit buttons to look like links using CSS? button { border: 0; background: none; text-decoration: underline; color: #006; cursor: pointer; } Your button looks and acts (almost) exactly like a regular link. - Matthew

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

2007-12-15 Thread Matthew Cruickshank
Michael Horowitz wrote: RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE lol .Matthew Cruickshank http://holloway.co.nz/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join

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

2007-12-14 Thread Matthew Cruickshank
of something like this, http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/archives/2007/10/open_letter_to_chris_wilson.html Silverlight has a subset of .Net's CLR called CoreCLR, and one could argue that Microsoft are intentionally trying to stiffle the open web[tm] while advancing Silverlight. -- .Matthew

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

2007-12-14 Thread Matthew Cruickshank
, does not help maintain the fiction that only clashing high-level philosophies are involved here -- http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/archives/2007/10/open_letter_to_chris_wilson.html On Dec 14, 2007 9:01 PM, Matthew Cruickshank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 14, 2007 8:41 PM, Chris Taylor

Re: [WSG] Comment mark

2007-12-09 Thread Matthew Pennell
On 12/10/07, krugonN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To comment a line in PHP code you should use // or you can comment a block using /* */ Or you can also use an octothorpe: # to comment out a single line in PHP. - Matthew *** List

Re: [WSG] More semantic logos?

2007-12-08 Thread Matthew Pennell
, applying a little common sense gets you a long way. :) - Matthew *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] Simple question on forms

2007-12-05 Thread Matthew Pennell
on the element: document.getElementById('myfield').focus(); Consider the accessibility implications, first, though; not everyone will be happy to have decisions made for them about where they want their cursor to be. ;) - Matthew

Re: [WSG] Simple question on forms

2007-12-05 Thread Matthew Pennell
on the element: document.getElementById('myfield').focus(); Consider the accessibility implications, first, though; not everyone will be happy to have decisions made for them about where they want their cursor to be. ;) - Matthew

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