Re: [WSG] draft site check

2004-05-30 Thread Russ Weakley - Maxdesign
Hi Cameron, Always a good idea to turn of CSS and look at your page, or look at your page in Lynx viewer (http://www.delorie.com/web/lynxview). These two method will quickly give you feedback on whether the page has meaning without css. If you look at the page, does each block of content have the

Re: [WSG] Site Critique - developer checklist

2004-05-29 Thread Russ Weakley - Maxdesign
After asking everyone not to hijack a topic, it seems I have done the same. Apologies all (especially Mike). Rev Bob, I'd be very careful about Bobby. This has been discussed on-list a few times, but here is a recap: There are other accessibility tools that have better reputations than Bobby

[WSG] Some links for light reading...

2004-05-28 Thread Russ Weakley - Maxdesign
An excellent 3D diagram of the box model: http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/2004/05/3d_css_box_model/ Grey Box Methodology - Jason Santa Maria outlines an interesting beginning process for websites. http://www.jasonsantamaria.com/archive/2004/05/24/grey_box_method.php Joe Clark - Bookmarks

Re: [WSG] when to place as a background in CSS

2004-05-28 Thread Russ Weakley - Maxdesign
Agree. A good guide is to look at the page with CSS switched off. Does it still have meaning with some images missing? If images are decorative and in the CSS, no meaning should be lost. The reverse is also true. Is the page littered with unnecessary images that add no meaning? A page with CSS

Re: [WSG] Site Critique

2004-05-28 Thread Russ Weakley - Maxdesign
Hi Michael, A few quick tests I always do on a page are: 1. check for scalability (increase font size a few times to see if it breaks) 2. look at it without CSS 3. look in lynx 4. look in a range of browsers 5. look in print preview The left nav fails badly in Mac/IE5, can send you screenshots

Re: [WSG] Site Critique

2004-05-28 Thread Russ Weakley - Maxdesign
That was the abridged version. A more extensive list of check points would include: 1. Quality of code - Valid HTML? - Valid CSS? - Semantically correct code? 2. Degree of separation between content and presentation - Full CSS? - Decorative images in css? 3. Accessibility for users - Scalable

Re: [WSG] Web essentials is now active!

2004-05-06 Thread russ weakley
ooops. Try 2004. Dave Shea, Doug Bowman, Joe Clark and others. Sydney, September 2004 :) russ Original Message: From: Lea de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] Web essentials is now active! Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 17:44:40 +1000 On Thu, 06 May 2004 17:21:30 +1000,

[WSG] Reminder about our first Brisbane WSG meeting - Wednesday 12 May

2004-05-06 Thread russ weakley
Wednesday 12 May Guest Presenter: Tony Aslett (who built and runs, amongst other things, CSS Creator and CSS Layout Generator)- should be very exciting! Peter and I will now definately be flying up for the meeting, so we'll hopefully see a lot of Brisbane WSG members on the night. More info

[WSG] WSG Design competition

2004-05-04 Thread russ weakley
Apologies for the radio silence from Peter and I on the WSG design competition. We have had a couple of people request a time extension, so we have decided to allow people to send us submisions until Sunday night - 9 May. We will then put the entires online soon after for member voting. Those

[WSG] Ten questions for Anne van Kesteren

2004-05-03 Thread russ weakley
Anne talks about serving correct mime types, XHTML vs HTML and the pursuit of perfect markup: http://webstandardsgroup.org/features/anne-van-kesteren.cfm Russ * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

Re: [WSG] Pseudo-classes - Links - Weird issues

2004-04-16 Thread russ weakley
Jamie, This is hard to answer as we cannot see your html. The class could be inside or outside the 'a' element, which will affect the way you set up your selector. INSIDE THE 'A' ELEMENT Assuming that your class was inside the 'a' element like this: a href=# class=pootext here/a The correct

Re: [WSG] Pseudo-classes - Links - Weird issues

2004-04-16 Thread russ weakley
Yes, they can be excluded. You can choose to use any of these pseudo-classes or none of them. Up to you. You definitely do not have to specify them all. Some would argue there is a usability issue with using the same link and visited colour, but that is a separate discussion and not really within

Re: [WSG] Introductory Usability Evaluation workshop

2004-04-13 Thread russ weakley
Forgot to mention, 10% discount for WSG members! James Robertson from StepTwo writes: We would be happy to offer a 10% discount to WSG members (please handwrite WSG member onto the bottom of the registration form). Russ There has been a lot of talk recently about how web standards are

[WSG] Two reminders

2004-04-13 Thread russ weakley
Hi all, 1. the WSG design competition is still open, and all WSG members can take part - there still time to enter. More info here: http://discuss.webstandardsgroup.org/archives/12.htm 2. Final reminder for the Sydney WSG meeting 15th April with special guest David Woodbridge. RSVP's

[WSG] Some links for reading...

2004-04-11 Thread russ weakley
The second edition of Eric Meyer's Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide has hit the book shelves: http://more.ericmeyeroncss.com/ Should I be transitional or Strict? http://www.blogdsgn.com/index.php?id=P72 Playing with tables

Re: [WSG] default browser stylesheets

2004-04-07 Thread russ weakley
For more info on these three types of style sheets (users, author and browsers) go here: http://css.maxdesign.com.au/selectutorial/advanced_cascade.htm For a sample W3C recommended default style sheet for devices- go here: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/sample.html Russ Hi all In a few

Re: [WSG] Icons

2004-04-06 Thread russ weakley
You could always make any that you want for yourself with the buttonmaker: http://kalsey.com/tools/buttonmaker/ Or if you prefer the manual approach: http://www.sovavsiti.cz/css/w3c_buttons.html HTH Russ Dear newsgroup, this may be a bit off topic but I'm sure you can help me. I want to

[WSG] This months Web Standards Award winner

2004-04-06 Thread russ weakley
http://www.webstandardsawards.com/previous/jason_santa_maria.html A well deserved winner! There is also a nomination at weekly standards, although Adam Howell seems to have replaced his usual detailed analysis with comments like: So, in closing. Tables are the work of Satan spawn hellfire. Light

Re: [WSG] left margins on lists

2004-04-06 Thread russ weakley
Barb, This is a bit hard to answer as I don't know if you are talking about a standard list or a list with graphics. I'll assume you men standard html lists... Standard HTML lists have a certain amount of left-indentation. The amount varies on each browser. Some browsers use padding (from

Re: [WSG] Re: List Left Margin

2004-04-06 Thread russ weakley
M weird. Is Browsercam branching out into new services? Apologies all. I should have checked all screenshots before sending the link. I will do so in future. :) Russ Geeze Russ, aren't you married? http://www.browsercam.com/projects/56771/930830.jpg -- Cameron Adams W:

Re: [WSG] EM's vs % (was: Relative Fonts)

2004-04-06 Thread russ weakley
Gary, Relative font sizes can also be done using percents as well as em's and this solution is recommended by the CSS discuss wiki for font scaling under 100% [1]. The Maxdesign site you mention is sadly in need of major restructuring and recoding. I used to do navigation in pixels and all other

Re: [WSG] Examples of IE 5 / 5.5 / 6.0 CSS rendering

2004-04-04 Thread russ weakley
Hi SomeNewKid, You could look through Ian Hickson's site [1] for browser tests, but without a lot of pain you could do a simple test yourself. 1. Make an HTML page with full and correct doctype so you can be sure IE6 will render in standards complaint mode (if you do it in XHTML remember to take

Re: [WSG] Flow from bottom?

2004-04-03 Thread russ weakley
One method - not tested but in theory: Place the content inside a container, and apply absolute positioning to the container: #contaner {position: absolute; left: 20px; bottom: 20px;} The container will set at the bottom of the viewport or its containing box and the content will flow up rather

Re: [WSG] Feedback on site :: color red

2004-04-02 Thread russ weakley
Or gang-green? people and put them off. How about a soothing blue or a clinical green? * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting

Re: [WSG] hiring a standards-savvy designer

2004-04-02 Thread russ weakley
This thread has already been moved offlist to the discussion room: http://discuss.webstandardsgroup.org/archives/09.htm Please do not continue this thread onlist Russ I agree Leo, programming takes a logical mind. Art takes a creative mind. However there is a grey area, and I believe that

[WSG] Links for light reading...

2004-04-02 Thread russ weakley
Accessibility checklist: http://www.yourusabilityresource.com/2004/03/accessibility_c.html Evaluating web site accessibility: seven steps http://www.csun.edu/cod/conf/2004/proceedings/203.htm March for web standards http://hownow.brownpau.com/misc/m4west.html Four new Zen Garden entries:

[WSG] David Woodbridge, video, numbers, venue

2004-04-01 Thread russ weakley
Hi all, First of all there has been heaps of response to the David Woodbridge event (15th April), both from Sydney people wanting to attend the event and from members for other cities wanting access to the information. 1. For non-Sydney members: We will audio and video tape the event. Both

Re: [WSG] CSS 3-col draft: Request for opinion

2004-03-31 Thread russ weakley
Instead of one screenshot, how about 23 screenshots: http://www.browsercam.com/public.aspx?proj_id=55491 Click on the small screenshot to see full size versions. Russ Russ, I'll appreciate if you can send me a screen shoot, please... thank you! Too bad, I was hoping it could hold... Any

Re: [WSG] What do you think?

2004-03-30 Thread russ weakley
Chris, The tabs looks really nice but Tonico does have a point. If you strip out all css styles, the links will appear in one line with very little between them - making them hard to distinguish on older browsers, browsers that have css switched off or text-based browsers.. Could you convert

Re: [WSG] What do you think?

2004-03-30 Thread russ weakley
with a list... I will try, otherwise I can just use a nbsp; to spread it... Chris Stratford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Http://www.neester.com russ weakley wrote: Chris, The tabs looks really nice but Tonico does have a point. If you strip out all css styles, the links will appear in one line with very

Re: [WSG] Somewhat frustrated

2004-03-29 Thread russ weakley
John, Yes, there are slight differences in browsers, but these are easy to overcome. There are a lot of un-needed classes in your code. The aim is to use as few as possible, and use descendant selectors to do their work. Theoretically, for this layout you should only need a few id's on the

[WSG] WSG member gets a good wrap

2004-03-29 Thread russ weakley
Always exciting to see a WSG member getting a good wrap! The Weekly Standard has given this weeks award to Jeff Lowder from Accessibility 1st for his site - Young Achievement Australia. There is a review of the site and also an interview with Jeff:

Re: [WSG] New site - looking for feedback

2004-03-29 Thread russ weakley
There is: http://webstandardsgroup.org/go/resourcecat12.cfm Feel free to add your own work to this section, as that is what it is for! Russ That's that only thing I could find in what is an aesthetically pleasing design that is a credit to the WSG. Maybe it's time for a WSG Member's

[WSG] Some links...

2004-03-28 Thread russ weakley
BBC Broadcast goes full CSS: http://www.bbcbroadcast.com/ New css layout resources: http://intensivstation.ch/css/template.php Eric Meyer on CSS, just a shiny new tool: http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/200403.html#d23t1304 Zeldman launches Happy Cog 3 - his company website revamped:

Re: [WSG] Romania

2004-03-27 Thread russ weakley
Razvan, At present you are it! But hang in there... Russ Any users from Romania, beside me? * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list

Re: [WSG] New User - NOW IN DISCUSSION ROOM

2004-03-26 Thread russ weakley
Hi all, This is a perfect thread for the discussion room: http://discuss.webstandardsgroup.org/archives/06.htm Pop by, leave a comment, introduce yourselves to other Brisbane (and region) people. Also, let us know if you want to get a meeting set up and we can get it started. Being the

Re: [WSG] How about adding a reply email address to each...

2004-03-25 Thread russ weakley
Tom, Please, as requested on several occasions, don't clog the list with admin type requests, suggestions or comments as it adds to unnecessary traffic. Instead, mail them directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you Russ individual message in the digest? That way one can just click on the

Re: [WSG] Font size, and how large is large enough?

2004-03-23 Thread russ weakley
Font size is a hotly debated topic. At one extreme of the font size debate are accessibility purists who believe that web designers and developers should not touch default font size at all [1],[2], and at the other extreme you have the pixel-perfect web designers setting absolute pixel sizes on

Re: [WSG] Centering one box in the center of the page with a footer attached

2004-03-23 Thread russ weakley
Hi Brian, Hard to tell from the description - a mockup might help, but here is a page that may be of benefit... Dead Center: http://www.wpdfd.com/editorial/thebox/deadcentre4.html HTH Russ Hello, I am trying to figure out how to do the following and am doing little more than making my

[WSG] Digest mode

2004-03-23 Thread russ weakley
To set your membership to digest mode simply email [EMAIL PROTECTED] and in the body of the email (subject irrelevant) put the following words: Set mode digest wsg Be aware that our digest mode is not great! We are still working around problems with our vendor - an ongoing battle. Any questions

Re: [WSG] Standards-compliant browsers - in order!

2004-03-21 Thread russ weakley
Hi Martin, 1. Coding methodology --- I would recommend coding to standards, but checking across as many browsers as possible throughout the process of building layouts. The keys are (a) use as many browsers as possible, (b) check often and (c ) deal with layout issues

Re: [WSG] drop down menus

2004-03-21 Thread russ weakley
. Thanks Russ --- Russ Weakley Max Design Phone: (02) 9410 2521 Mobile: 0403 433 980 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.maxdesign.com.au --- * The discussion list

Re: [WSG] Standards-compliant browsers - in order!

2004-03-21 Thread russ weakley
Justin, You make a lot of very good points. However, a lot depends on the layout you are doing. For many layouts, I don't think this should be necessary. I generally do not run into major IE problems, or at least problems that are not well documented (3 pixel jpg, box model, double margin,

Re: [WSG] A rave about h1's

2004-03-20 Thread russ weakley
We could probably argue this back and forward, but I feel very strongly that there should be only one h1 on a page and it should be the page title. I used to think it should be the site name but am moving away from that stance now. To use your example of 2 company founders - there would always

Re: [WSG] Opera market share

2004-03-20 Thread russ weakley
Try here: http://snapshot.opera.com/mac/m750p3.html Russ Where can I get the Opera 7.5 Beta? Couldn't see an obvious link on the site... --- Justin French http://indent.com.au * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/

Re: [WSG] Purpose of this mailing list

2004-03-19 Thread russ weakley
Hi Peters, Welcome to the list. That is one of our aims here - to keep it informative but also as friendly as possible. We have designers and developers with a very wide range of skills and skill levels. But we are all in the same web standards boat :) The best quote on friendly attitude would

Re: [WSG] Opera market share

2004-03-19 Thread russ weakley
Hugh, I don't mean to jump on this comment, so apologies if take out of context, but the aim is to code for standards first, then deal with individual browser issues as they come up. We should not need to code for Opera. While they all have slight idiosyncrasies, recent versions of browsers

[WSG] Next Sydney meeting - a fantastic guest presenter

2004-03-18 Thread russ weakley
The next Sydney meeting has been moved back from the 8th to the 15th April to avoid the Easter long weekend. We have a special presenter for the night - David Woodbridge. David works at the Royal Blind Society. His jobs is to evaluate client websites from a blind perspective (yes, he is blind).

Re: [WSG] A rave about h1's

2004-03-18 Thread russ weakley
inspired Pat Collins to show us how function and style can go together with lists replacing divs. Thans again for the links. I really learned something today. Leo On Thursday, March 18, 2004, at 09:24 AM, russ weakley wrote

Re: [WSG] Just got an eMac - now I'm more confused than ever!

2004-03-18 Thread russ weakley
John, Leo has already solved your problem, which is excellent, but it might be worth reading this article - which explains the two main methods of centering using CSS. CSS Centering - fun for all: http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/center/ Russ I had to put the whole page into a table

Re: [WSG] Only IE or Actual CSS Rule

2004-03-17 Thread russ weakley
If I could just cover my butt here... Patrick is correct! The info I posted below is the RECOMMENDATION from W3C, but as we all know, browsers interpret this stuff in their own way. So, it's always best to assume the worst and take off margins if that is what you require - this will fix the issue

Re: [WSG] Hiding styles message to certain browsers

2004-03-17 Thread russ weakley
These guys use the following CSS rule: .hide { height: 0; width: 0; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; } HTML: div class=hide p If you are reading this on a mobile device browser or a text browser, you can safely a href=#maincontent skip to the content/a. ... Russ

Re: [WSG] Hiding styles message to certain browsers

2004-03-17 Thread russ weakley
] : www.natecook.com :. On Mar 17, 2004, at 8:17 AM, Jeremy Flint wrote: you can also use .hide { display: none } div class=hideMessage to non-stylesheet browsers/div russ weakley wrote: These guys use the following CSS rule: .hide { height: 0; width: 0; overflow: hidden

[WSG] A rave about h1's

2004-03-17 Thread russ weakley
I've been thinking about a post from a few days ago that has been bothering me. The comments in this post highlight the difference between valid markup and structurally-sound markup: Question: ...you have the headings of these as h1s I'm not sure if you should have more than one h1 a page? is

Re: [WSG] Hiding styles message to certain browsers

2004-03-17 Thread russ weakley
, like Kevin Bacon in that really bad movie. Another point to pick up on this discussion was seen with Peter's cinema site - doing something like this will cause your message to appear in search engine listings. Cheers James russ weakley wrote: Nate, First of all, that wasn¹t my

Re: [WSG] A rave about h1's

2004-03-17 Thread russ weakley
http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help * Thanks Russ --- Russ Weakley Max Design Phone: (02) 9410 2521 Mobile: 0403 433 980 Email: [EMAIL

[WSG] Brief reminder about Read Receipts

2004-03-16 Thread russ weakley
Although it is mentioned in our new guidelines, just a quick reminder... Please, make sure you turn off Read Receipts. They cause all sorts of problems for the WSG list. Peter, who is catching and filtering all our error messages, has been hit with over 90 of them this morning. Thanks Russ

[WSG] Brief reminder about Read Receipts

2004-03-15 Thread russ weakley
Although it is mentioned in our new guidelines, just a quick reminder... Please, make sure you turn off Read Receipts. They cause all sorts of problems for the WSG list. Peter, who is catching and filtering all our error messages, has been hit with over 90 of them this morning. Thanks Russ

Re: [WSG] Netscape versions

2004-03-14 Thread russ weakley
That is a loaded question... Depends on what level of browser you intend to support. I'd install 7, 6 and 4.x, just so you can see how it operates, but that is just me... All browsers are available here: http://browsers.evolt.org/ Russ What's a good version of Netscape Navigator to check in?

Re: [WSG] opinions on use of css shorthand properties

2004-03-13 Thread russ weakley
A good point! By set these values previously, Mark means set these values further up the document tree. For example, if you set font-weight: bold on a container (like a div element), this will be inherited by elements within that container (like content within a p element). In these particular

[WSG] Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 working draft

2004-03-13 Thread russ weakley
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 - Working Draft Published 11 March 2004 http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-WCAG20-20040311/ * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *

Re: [WSG] text and graphic on one line

2004-03-12 Thread russ weakley
Maureen, The main question would be this; do you want the logo to be included on the page as essential content or do you see it as part of the presentation - if it is the latter, then you are probably best off putting it inside the CSS rather than on the page. Once this decision is made, there

Re: [WSG] opinions on use of css shorthand properties

2004-03-12 Thread russ weakley
The first question you need to asks is what browsers you intend to support. That will dictate many things, including the amount of shorthand css you use. For example, if you are including NN4 as one of your target browsers, this will limit the amount of shorthand CSS you can use. Once you have

Re: [WSG] Definition list... time for closure!

2004-03-11 Thread russ weakley
I agree we have split enough hairs for a while. We are really getting down to personal opinion. Any further discussion is best done offlist. Thanks Russ On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 10:56:37 -, P.H.Lauke wrote: And how, in that case, is the use of UL bad ? Sure, UL is generic, but it does get

Re: [WSG] New CSS site

2004-03-11 Thread russ weakley
Peter, About browser warning messages... About 8 months ago Peter (Firminger - listdad) and I took off all of our browser warnings entirely. The message is designed for older browsers (with significant political reasons at the time it was developed) but it is a pain for other devices that are

Re: [WSG] A kinda Simplequiz

2004-03-10 Thread russ weakley
Option A is completely acceptable, and is actually very close to a W3C example: Another application of DL, for example, is for marking up dialogues, with each DT naming a speaker, and each DD containing his or her words. http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/mod-list.html#edef_list_dt Russ Hi all,

Re: [WSG] Lists weird br / requirement

2004-03-09 Thread russ weakley
Frank, I completely agree with Tonico. Many people getting into web standards assume that it is based on removing tables. This is incorrect. There are times and places for tables. However, one of the main aims of web standards is to make your content more accessible to devices and users. This

Re: [WSG] best ways to sell web standards

2004-03-09 Thread russ weakley
There are heaps of articles on this, as well as answers on this list. Try this: http://www.mail-archive.com/wsg%40webstandardsgroup.org/msg01324.html Thanks Russ When preparing a proposal for a potential client or trying to convince your management, what are the tried and true methods used

Re: [WSG] Melbourne WSG Meeting

2004-03-08 Thread russ weakley
--- Russ Weakley Max Design Phone: (02) 9410 2521 Mobile: 0403 433 980 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.maxdesign.com.au --- * The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] Bobby question

2004-03-06 Thread russ weakley
* The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ * Thanks Russ --- Russ Weakley Max Design Phone: (02) 9410 2521 Mobile: 0403 433 980 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [WSG] font-family : what fonts do you set as default?

2004-03-06 Thread russ weakley
Oops. That should be: { font-family : Georgia, Times, Times New Roman, serif; } :( Russ { font-family : Georgia, Times, Times New Roman, sans-serif; } * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/

Re: [WSG] Bobby question

2004-03-06 Thread russ weakley
Regarding accreditation, I reckon the best place to start is the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) which produces (amongst other things) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. These guidelines have include the all-important checkpoints that are broken into three priorities. Ideally, web

Re: [WSG] Open critique? - colour deficiency

2004-03-06 Thread russ weakley
Nate, The term Colour blindness is now frowned on. Apparently colour deficiency is the more correct term - for what it's worth. :) Anyway, there are basically three types of colour deficiency. They are: 1. Deuteranope (a form of red/green colour deficit) 2. Protanope (another form of red/green

Re: [WSG] Weird Problem...

2004-03-06 Thread russ weakley
Is the indent 3 pixels wide? If so, it may be the 3 pixel text jog bug: http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/threepxtest.html If so, I would not recommend the hack suggest in the article. There are any ways to work around the problem without hacks of any sort. On method would be to simply

Re: [WSG] css bug sites css critique

2004-03-05 Thread russ weakley
Andy is correct. Browsers all have their own default margin or padding that must be removed if you want your content butting hard against the browser window edges. B aware that different browsers use different methods. More here: http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/body/ Russ Any ideas

Re: [WSG] Open critique?

2004-03-05 Thread russ weakley
Hi Nate, Welcome to the list. Open critiques on this list are great - as long as feedback is helpful rather than abrasive. :) Criticism or praise? How about some praise: I have only looked at the front page but I think it's an excellent example of a web standards based portal. The main page has

Re: [WSG] Open critique?

2004-03-05 Thread russ weakley
Some interesting comments already: http://www.webstandardsawards.com/previous/aiga_atlanta.html#comments The first comment is simply opinion on the design, but the second comment mentions some good accessibility issues that should be considered. Russ Forget CSS Vault, I already awarded it on

Re: [WSG] Spiritual Compliance

2004-03-04 Thread russ weakley
Hi Ben, There are two points of view about definition lists - one is a rigid definition of definition lists (pardon the pun) and the other is more open. The second point of view is actually supported by the W3C spec. This has been discussed/argued about numerous times on the list. Rather than

[WSG] Some light reading...

2004-03-04 Thread russ weakley
Apologies to those who have already seen these... Positioning and the Cascade http://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2004/03/04/positioning_/ A Recipe for Learning Web Design http://www.digital-web.com/features/recipe_for_web_design.shtml CSS and Wired - interview with Doug Bowman:

Re: [WSG] Nicely styled Hx tags

2004-03-03 Thread russ weakley
Oops. You're correct! Maybe I should just let John quote himself! :) Russ Russ, Perhaps this quote of John Allsop's should read, ...how much worse is it to put *content* inside the CSS file? -Hugh Todd :) John Allsopp (one of the original CSS guru's) explains this better than I

Re: [WSG] centre image with css

2004-02-29 Thread russ weakley
Hi Neerav, Try this - just one method of centering images: http://www.maxdesign.com.au/jobs/css/imagecenter/ The two things you need to do (if you want to use this method) is set the container (in this case the body) to centre (this overcomes the IE centering bug) and the item (the image) with

Re: [WSG] Need CSS assistance

2004-02-28 Thread russ weakley
Hi Jeff, You need to add a declaration into the following rule set: div#banner1 { position: absolute; top: 10px; left: 10px; padding-top: 75px; height: 96px; width: 260px; background-image: url(../images/X_logo.gif); } Add this: background-repeat: no-repeat; Stops the image being tiles

Re: [WSG] Newbie question - initial display

2004-02-27 Thread russ weakley
* The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ * Thanks Russ --- Russ Weakley Max Design Phone: (02) 9410 2521 Mobile: 0403 433 980 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [WSG] re: just joined WSG

2004-02-26 Thread russ weakley
Hi Neerav, Welcome to the group. How late? Depends on what part of the meeting. The official end is around 9pm, but some members have been known to continue the meeting in the pub afterwards till the early hours. Russ Hope to meet Sydney members at the next meeting, how late do they usually

[WSG] Links for reading...

2004-02-26 Thread russ weakley
Side-stepping IE - a must-read recap of all IE's woes! http://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2004/02/25/sidestepping/index.php Let¹s take a look at some of Internet Explorer for Windows¹ biggest CSS deficiencies, and how you can use MOSe techniques or just plain old hacks to get around these problems.

Re: [WSG] Debrief and thanks to Russ Peter

2004-02-23 Thread russ weakley
JG, The gremlin is me, not the WSG system. A blackout last night reset my machine's date and time to 1970 - didn't realise till after I sent it. Gotta love macs. :) Russ Gremlins in the works or what chaps? Check the date on this original message below. Regards, JG Date: Thu, 01

Re: [WSG] IE bug

2004-02-20 Thread russ weakley
Michael, Haven't looked but it may be a simple Win/IE6 carriage return bug. It seems that Win/IE is the only browser that renders carriage returns or line feeds as whitespace directly before a closing containing element: http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/mystery/ Two things to try if this

Re: [WSG] Mozilla problem

2004-02-19 Thread russ weakley
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[WSG] Upcoming WSG meetings reminder

2004-02-19 Thread russ weakley
Just a quick reminder about two upcoming WSG meetings: SYDNEY WSG MEETING Monday 23 February, 2004 Star City, Darling Harbour, Sydney http://webstandardsgroup.org/go/event6.cfm Special guest - Sean Corfield (Macromedia standards guru) MELBOURNE WSG MEETING Monday 08 March, 2004 Student Union

Re: [WSG] Benefits or not of @import style sheets

2004-02-17 Thread russ weakley
Hi Jackie - read this earlier post: http://www.mail-archive.com/wsg%40webstandardsgroup.org/msg00841.html Russ Afternoon all... Can someone please explain to me the benefits of the @import thing or point me in the right direction to see why i should use it please. Jackie Reid

Re: [WSG] Image MAP Not Working In FireFox...

2004-02-15 Thread russ weakley
Hi Chris, The top image map works fine on the mac version of Firefox. However, the page is not valid. No doctype, no character set, attribute are not quoted, amperands not escaped: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.australianliquidators.com/ Thanks Russ Hey Everyone, I am

Re: [WSG] Image MAP Not Working In FireFox...

2004-02-15 Thread russ weakley
Ooops. My apologies for scaring you :) Russ Hey Russ, Sorry you got the links the wrong way round... www.australianliquidators.com http://www.australianliquidators.com is the old website... * The discussion list for

[WSG] Some links for light reading...

2004-02-13 Thread russ weakley
1. Knowing too much What I¹m talking about is the increasing need for web developers to know, and be good at, widely different things. Common skill requirements include graphic design, database development, JavaScript, HTML ,CSS ,XML , information architechture, usability, accessibility, writing,

Re: [WSG] IE 5 position problems

2004-02-13 Thread russ weakley
A picture tells a thousand words: http://www.browsercam.com/public.aspx?proj_id=44938 :) Russ 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

re: [WSG] Dodging CSS Hacks Tutorial

2004-02-12 Thread russ weakley
Replace padding: 1em 0; with padding: 0 1em; :) Original Message: From: russ weakley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: re: [WSG] Dodging CSS Hacks Tutorial Date: Fri 13 Feb 2004 07:56:24 +1100 Hi Ryan, Excellent article! Can I suggest a couple of small points: Within

Re: [WSG] Getting to the bottom of things

2004-02-12 Thread russ weakley
Hi Robert, What you need to do is set the container (in your case the header div) to position: relative, and then subscript to position: absolute - and make it sit in the bottom right edge of the container. Like this: http://www.maxdesign.com.au/jobs/css/moser.htm No matter how it is scaled up

Re: [WSG] Friday Afternoon Funny

2004-02-12 Thread russ weakley
James, Here is some info on ideal line length: The ideal line length for text layout is based on the the physiology of the human eye... At normal reading distance the arc of the visual field is only a few inches - about the width of a well-designed column of text, or about 12 words per line.

Re: [WSG] Tenth AIMIA Awards announced

2004-02-10 Thread russ weakley
Well done to Johan, Cameron and Andy for getting it up and running! Andy has written more here: http://www.andybudd.com/blog/archives/000154.html Russ If you remember Cameron (bloo man) posting something recently about starting a standards awards, or even if you dont:

[WSG] Some links for light reading (mainly accessibility)...

2004-02-09 Thread russ weakley
Dracos - Accessibility A recent hobby of mine has been to take an inaccessible website and produce a more accessible version that if necessary fetches information from the original site to keep up to date. http://www.dracos.co.uk/web/accessibility/ RNIB - Web Accessibility centre - a good place

Re: [WSG] Can anyone see what's wrong here?

2004-02-09 Thread russ weakley
Many places that have them but here is one from a WSG member: http://jessey.net/simon/articles/009.html Thanks Robert, I'll have a look at that and see. As to the Doctype, I have to admit to being confused. I cut and pasted that from the W3C site, and it validates.Is there a site

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