Re: [WSG] VIRUS!!!

2005-06-07 Thread Alan Trick
Tim John wrote: Hi, Luckily, I thought it a little strange to receive an email from WSG informing me that I'd been removed from their mailing list. Especially as the email was from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and contained a download - which I ignored! I'm just wondering, as I use MailWasher Pro, I could

Re: [WSG] problem with utf-8 page encoding

2005-06-07 Thread Anders Nawroth
tee: These are domains but the one Anders provided does have a path in Japanese character, and it works in FF. http://www.w3.org/International/tests/sec-iri-3 I looked at ja.wikipedia.org and they use this practise. What doesn't always works well, is links from pages with other charsets

Re: [WSG] alt tags and image captions

2005-06-07 Thread David Laakso
On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 00:06:32 -0400, Bert Doorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to add to what Alan said... remember to put spaces between images unless their is good reason not to otherwise the following: img src='hello.png' alt=Hello/img src='world.png' alt=World/ will look like HelloWorld

Re: [WSG] problem with utf-8 page encoding

2005-06-07 Thread Vaska . WSG
I see that it is possible, but how many folks use it? Like an individual or a small business...is it common enough (yet)? The below links aren't working in Safari... I've been researching how alot of open source cms's and blog tools deal with this issue and they don't. Most of them either

RE: [WSG] Not so web standard question, but close

2005-06-07 Thread Jason Turnbull
tee wrote: How does Asp/PHP works if amp' replace to because the '' is generated by the server. He said he can't find any information on PHP official website. This article from w3c might help in reference to PHP http://www.w3.org/QA/2005/04/php-session Regards Jason

[WSG] absolute positioning, objects inputs

2005-06-07 Thread Jamie Mason
Title: absolute positioning, objects inputs http://www.engineerrecords.com/abspos.htm This page is a quick example, it's got form inputs and a flash file with nothing done to them, then OVER THE TOP of that, is a blue absolutely positioned div. In IE - The select appears above the div In

Re: [WSG] please un subscribe me from this group

2005-06-07 Thread john
You can unsubscribe yourself at any time by going to http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/ (log in and select your preferences). -- ~john Just fair-weather words from a four-letter friend. ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/

[WSG] Valid characters in ID attribute

2005-06-07 Thread Chris Taylor
Hi, I'm writing a function to do all manner of clever stuff and need to create very complex ID attributes for links. As far as I know the only valid characters you can use in an ID (and as a class name, too) are: A-Z, a-z, 0-9, _, - Is that true? Are there any other valid characters that I can

RE: [WSG] Valid characters in ID attribute

2005-06-07 Thread Ricci Angela
Hi, Chris As from W3C: ID and NAME tokens must begin with a letter ([A-Za-z]) and may be followed by any number of letters, digits ([0-9]), hyphens (-), underscores (_), colons (:), and periods (.). But I'd avoid using underscore for id/class names... I've already had

Re: [WSG] Suckerfish IE woes

2005-06-07 Thread Jason Foss
Can you repost that link for me Mike? It's not working atm... On 6/7/05, Mike Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://mlol.signify.co.nz/templates/searchtest.html In IE6 I can't fully fully mouseover the dropdown menu items before they disappear. It works in IE5 and Mozilla. The HTML and CSS

[WSG] RE: absolute positioning, objects inputs - FIXED

2005-06-07 Thread Jamie Mason
Title: RE: absolute positioning, objects inputs - FIXED Sorry, cancel that! Have fixed it, you have to place an iframe directly below the absolutely positioned div on a lower z-index to fix selects showing through in IE. http://www.engineerrecords.com/abspos2.htm In my case (not the

Re: [WSG] Ten questions for Russ

2005-06-07 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
On 6/7/05, XStandard Vlad Alexander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... [Ian] 4. Author decides to send the same content as application/xhtml+xml, because it is, after all, XHTML. [Vlad] Author wants to learn more about XHTML. What? ... I think arguments like this don't help Web standards. And

RE: [WSG] Valid characters in ID attribute

2005-06-07 Thread Chris Taylor
Great, thanks. I'm very pleased that I can use periods and colons, that makes it much easier. Because this system will only be reading the ID through the DOM and not referring to it for style reasons I'm going to stick with the underscores. However I'll remember that advice for the future. Many

Re: [WSG] Valid characters in ID attribute

2005-06-07 Thread Robin Berjon
Chris Taylor wrote: Great, thanks. I'm very pleased that I can use periods and colons, that makes it much easier. Not sure this applies to your case but note that colons are fine in HTML but forbidden in XHTML. -- Robin Berjon Senior Research Scientist Expway, http://expway.com/

RE: [WSG] Valid characters in ID attribute

2005-06-07 Thread Chris Taylor
Thanks, obviously ideally I'd like my function to be XHTML-compliant as well. Fortunately I've worked out a way I can do what I want to do using just dashes, periods and alphanumeric characters. Thanks for all the help. Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [WSG] Ten questions for Russ

2005-06-07 Thread Kvnmcwebn
Web standards should not be an exclusive club for those that do everything right from the get go. We need to welcome everybody to the club who makes an effort. And if they don't get it right the first time or the second time, that is okay! Thank you i needed to hear that.

Re: [WSG] Ten questions for Russ

2005-06-07 Thread Ben Curtis
Apparently the MIME/DOCTYPE argument of XHTML vs HTML has been going on for a while, a bit out of my scope. I only have one argument to contribute, which I don't believe I've seen before and may be of some value. On Jun 7, 2005, at 7:17 AM, Rimantas Liubertas wrote: Yes. Only critical

Re: [WSG] Ten questions for Russ

2005-06-07 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
On 6/7/05, Ben Curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... XHTML is useful to me because I can swap out the DOCTYPE and serve it as HTML, because it *is* HTML, giving it broad support today while giving it a predictable and flexible future. This is, essentially, XHTML-compatible HTML 4.01 Strict.

Re: [WSG] Suckerfish IE woes

2005-06-07 Thread Mike Brown
Jason sorry about that. I managed to get it working and took it down. The problem was I hadn't added a background colour for the ul and that was affecting the dropdown in IE. Imagine! :) Mike Jason Foss said: Can you repost that link for me Mike? It's not working atm... On 6/7/05, Mike Brown

[WSG] Gecko based (CSS?) issue - Mac only

2005-06-07 Thread tee
I am using a Simple View Flash gallery created by http://www.airtightinteractive.com/simpleviewer/ Everything works fine except on Gecko based browsers on Mac. It's unlikely that problem is caused by the swf file or XML data, so the only reason I could think is CSS Please see the screenshot here:

[WSG] RE: Possible Virus

2005-06-07 Thread Peter Firminger
Yeah thanks, we know. No need to repost it or send it to us. I'm trying to find a solution that won't screw up a lot of member's filters. Please just delete these if they continue. A word of advice. NEVER open any attachment from this list. We don't allow attachments (it's in the guidelines) so

[WSG] A test

2005-06-07 Thread Peter Firminger
I have just blacklisted the [EMAIL PROTECTED] address and this is to check that the list actually still works (as that is the list owner account). Sorry, no other way to test it and this is the only solution I can think of without changing the address it's sent from which may affect the filters

[WSG] resizing problem

2005-06-07 Thread Gallagher, Robin
Title: Sec: u resizing problem Hi I've got a 3-column page: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~persia/final/saf_test/demo.html When reducing the width of the window below c. 930 pixels in IE 6, the content in the centre column jumps down the page about 500 pixels. In Firefox, it behaves as you

Re: [WSG] resizing problem

2005-06-07 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day Gallagher, Robin wrote: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~persia/final/saf_test/demo.html http://home.vicnet.net.au/~persia/final/saf_test/demo.html When reducing the width of the window below c. 930 pixels in IE 6, the content in the centre column jumps down the page about 500 pixels. In