At 01:19 AM 9/7/2005, Chris Taylor wrote:
Not sure if this has been flagged up anywhere else, but I noticed the
barclays website has had a CSS makeover: http://www.barclays.co.uk/.
It's great to see a huge company like this hauling themselves into the
21st century web-wise, and maybe it will be
How abiut this then:
div class=topBarGrad/div
div class=contentContainer
div class=contentContainerPad
div class=breadCrumbstrongUK/strong/div
div class=topTabs
div class=topTabsValign
Barclays (http://www.barclays.co.uk/accessibility/web_design.htm)
Designing the site for an 800x600 view so horizontal scrolling is not
required, even for users with small screens.
Interesting to see that in Firefox I have a horizontal scroll bar and
my resolution is 1280x1024 px
However, at
Exactly. Just because it validates doesn't mean it's semantic.
topBarGrad
topTabs
topTabsValign
- what if we move these away from the top. Then what?
contentContainerPad
- what if we remove the padding?
posAbsolute
- what if we change this to position:relative?
HTML elements should define the
On 9/7/05, Kris Khaira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- what if we move these away from the top. Then what?
What if you have a div with id brand which contains your company's
name in an h1 with id company_name? What if a later reorganization
of the site moves that h1 into a different container
Chris Taylor wrote:
Not sure if this has been flagged up anywhere else, but I noticed the
barclays website has had a CSS makeover: http://www.barclays.co.uk/.
They also have some (brief) information about their design here:
http://www.barclays.co.uk/accessibility/web_design.htm
Chris Taylor
My guess is that more than one person worked on the redesign, but not
everyone knew what they were doing. That might be where the mistakes
come in. Still, they are really amateur mistakes. Seems unfair that I
can't get anyone to pay me to do clean, standards based design, but
these clowns cashed
It doesn't actually validate. (watch wrap)
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.barclays.co.uk%2Fpremier%2Fcharset=%28detect+automatically%29doctype=Inlineverbose=1
Standards compliance needs to be built into RFP's from the get-go and then enforced by companies who pay the web-dev's.
Exactly. I was actually thinking the other day, browsers
should be more like compilers... they should refuse to parse incorrect
code. Then the enforcement would be on the
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Standards
compliance needs to be built into RFP's from the get-go and then enforced by
companies who pay the web-dev's.
Exactly. I was actually
Exactly. I was actually thinking the other day, browsers
should be more like compilers... they should refuse to
parse incorrect
code. Then the enforcement would be
on the output end, too.
It would be nice, but would only work if -every- browser did it.
Otherwise the general opinion would be
Exactly. I was actually thinking the other day, browsers
should be more like compilers... they should refuse to
parse incorrect code. Then the enforcement would be
on the output end, too.
It would be nice, but would only work if -every- browser did it.
Otherwise the general opinion
: [WSG] Barclays
standards redesign
Standards compliance needs to be built into RFP's from the get-go and
then enforced by companies who pay the web-dev's.
Exactly. I was actually thinking the other day, browsers should be more
like compilers... they should refuse to parse
by-the-by: I am a web development student at Yeronga TAFE
college in Brisbane, Australia. One of my instructors has
never heard of DOCTYPE, refuses to put tags in lowercase
and also refuses to close p, 'cause they don't need to be
closed.
That instructor has no business teaching web dev, as
be glad you're learning about web standards now - it'll make getting a good job
a lot easier.
The capability of my tutors wasn't much better than yours. Even Zeldman has
lamented lately (sorry - googled and couldn't find the entry) that Universities
can teach molecular physics but apparently
On 8 Sep 2005, at 9:31 AM, Paul Bennett wrote:
be glad you're learning about web standards now - it'll make getting a
good job a lot easier.
The capability of my tutors wasn't much better than yours. Even
Zeldman has lamented lately (sorry - googled and couldn't find the
entry) that
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