Re: [WSG] braindead - iframes???

2005-09-07 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day Kenny Graham wrote: Objects of type text/html (or application/xhtml+xml) are what I use. But good luck getting them to work in IE. In my experience, IE will only do it if it's a local (x)html file. Works fine for me in Firefox and Opera 8. Works in IE6 Windows as well, if served as

Re: [WSG] braindead - iframes???

2005-09-07 Thread Richard Czeiger
Umm, sorry Bert, Kenny's right. Totally unpredictable behavious of the object tag in IE6. Sometimes won't load, sometimes throws up a script error, and any JavaScript that I have can't talk to it. :o( Any other suggestions? R - Original Message - From: Bert Doorn [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon

2005-09-07 Thread Chris Blown
On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 12:39, Al Sparber wrote: From: John Allsopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] So the use of tables appears to be associated strongly with invalid documents (and not only through poorly formed documents, but also through the use of invalid attributes associated with td and tr

Re: [WSG] braindead - iframes???

2005-09-07 Thread Kenny Graham
There's only one way I can think of making it work in IE: Use PHP to copy the external page to a local files(s), and use object to load it. IE doesn't seem to have a problem with local html files. Not sure about scripting support for it tho. This is the only situation when I don't use XHTML. Good

Re: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon

2005-09-07 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day This is called the web standards group. I imagine that those here essentially adhere to the value of web standards, and discuss things in this context. And we are. Where in the standard does it say we are not *allowed* to use even one table for layout? 3.3. of which says: Use

Re: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon

2005-09-07 Thread Kenny Graham
This is called the web standards group. I imagine that those here essentially adhere to the value of web standards, and discuss things in this context. And we are.Where in the standard does it say we are not *allowed* to use even one table for layout? Tables should not be used to position

Re: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon

2005-09-07 Thread John Allsopp
Dead Table Sketch The cast: MR. PRALINE John Cleese SHOP OWNER Michael Palin The sketch: A customer enters a web development shop. Mr. Praline: 'Ello, I wish to register a complaint. (The owner does not respond.) Mr. Praline: 'Ello, Miss?

Re: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon

2005-09-07 Thread Paul Novitski
At 11:37 PM 9/6/2005, Chris Blown wrote: The mess that is tables - and here I mean a bunch of tables for layout - can easily lead to broken markup, especially when you have to go back a re-jig something, whether is easier than CSS/P doesn't matter, the fact remains. The problem is that browsers

Re: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon

2005-09-07 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day again :-) http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-WCAG20-HTML-TECHS-20050630/#layouttables unless of course you would argue the difference between should not and not allowed, in which case I guess you would win. It's a working draft, not a recommendation or a standard and you're right. I used to

[WSG] Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-07 Thread Chris Taylor
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 a kick up the backside for other less

Re: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon

2005-09-07 Thread John Allsopp
Paul, Hang on now. There's nothing about the use of table markup per se that leads one to err more frequently. on the contrary, actual research suggests very strongly that there is. I have found a very high correlation between malformed documents and the use of tables (with the errors

Re: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon

2005-09-07 Thread John Allsopp
Bert, It's a working draft, not a recommendation or a standard Oh come on. This is precisely MS's ludicrous argument for not supporting CSS2.1 (a subset of 2.0) and you're right. I used to work as a QA Auditor (ISO9001). In standards parlance, should not has a different meaning than

Re: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon

2005-09-07 Thread Rick Faaberg
On 9/7/05 1:19 AM John Allsopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent this out: The simple fact remains, that in my research into some of the biggest and most popular Australian web sites, not a single site out of about 100 I have surveyed, which is table based has been valid. And the errors in table based

Re: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon

2005-09-07 Thread John Allsopp
Al, With all due respect, that is not very good logic. So, someone inexperienced enough to make an invalid table layout is going to float right through the process of making a CSS-positioned layout? That's quite a spin, John :-) This is based on research into the web sites of dozens of

Re: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon

2005-09-07 Thread Bert Doorn
This thread is getting longer by the minute, but I enjoy the debate :-) I have found a very high correlation between malformed documents and the use of tables (with the errors occurring in direct association with table code). OK, you found a strong correlation, but are you drawing the

Re: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon

2005-09-07 Thread Clive Walker
I have found a very high correlation between malformed documents and the use of tables (with the errors occurring in direct association with table code). I guess that's what is one of the many annoying things about this debate. Its very subjective. This particular thread started when I

Re: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon

2005-09-07 Thread John Allsopp
Bert, OK, you found a strong correlation, but are you drawing the right conclusion? 1. How many were generated with a WYSIWYG editor? Why would that matter. Not even the tools can get tables right? 2. How many were generated by some sort of server side script? So script writers can;t

Re: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon

2005-09-07 Thread Paul Novitski
At 01:19 AM 9/7/2005, John Allsopp wrote: Paul, Hang on now. There's nothing about the use of table markup per se that leads one to err more frequently. on the contrary, actual research suggests very strongly that there is. I have found a very high correlation between malformed documents

Re: [WSG] Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-07 Thread Paul Novitski
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

Re: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon

2005-09-07 Thread John Allsopp
Paul, It's not the correlation I'm questioning, it's the implied causality. I hope you'll make a distinction between them in your article. I might be wrong, but I did not at any point argue that Tables cause invalid documents. Not to say I couldn't, see below :-) I said there was a

Re: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon

2005-09-07 Thread designer
And a spot on 2c it is too! Bob www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk Seona Bellamy wrote: [snip] Standards / semantic code / CSS-P layouts / whatever else you want to call them are just a tool. Tables for layout are another tool. The mark of a good craftsman is understanding all the tools at

Re: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon

2005-09-07 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day 1. How many were generated with a WYSIWYG editor? Why would that matter. Not even the tools can get tables right? If a large portion of the sites' developers used a flawed tool, it explains partly why a large portion of them had the same problems. That's why it matters. 2. How

RE: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon

2005-09-07 Thread Julie Romanowski
How about letting the table/div thread die? The debate is getting rather tiring and it doesn't look like the argument will be resolved any time soon. How about we agree to disagree for now? Julie Romanowski State Farm Insurance Company J2EE Engagement Team phone: 309-735-5248 cell: 309-532-4027

[WSG] Problems with print style and general site check

2005-09-07 Thread James Gollan
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

Re: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon

2005-09-07 Thread Joshua Street
On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 19:01 +0800, Bert Doorn wrote: 3. How recently had they been updated? Why would that be in any way relevant? If a site is 3-5 years old, do you expect it to be written in the new way? I'm just going to pick on this point, because it's relatively open to attack and

Re: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon

2005-09-07 Thread Al Sparber
From: Bert Doorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] G'day again :-) Keep reading... http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-WCAG20-HTML-TECHS-20050630/#layouttables-avoid It is *recommended* that authors not use the |table| element for layout purposes *unless the desired effect absolutely cannot be achieved using

Re: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon

2005-09-07 Thread Al Sparber
From: John Allsopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not evangelizing table-based layouts, although for real-world clients they sometimes are the right choice. I have yet to be convinced that clearly breaking the spirit and letter of a number of web standards, and all the attendant other costs

Re: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon

2005-09-07 Thread John Allsopp
Joshua, thank you for the link, I have been looking for this article for several years (having read it all those years ago) John If you still believe this semantic paradigm is something new, take a look at this article written in 1997. Yes, 1997.

Re: [WSG] Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-07 Thread Erwin Heiser
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

Re: [WSG] Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-07 Thread Paul Sturgess
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

Re: [WSG] Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-07 Thread Kris Khaira
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

Re: [WSG] Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-07 Thread James Bennett
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

Re: [WSG] site not looking good in Mozilla/FF!

2005-09-07 Thread Bruce Gilbert
thanks for the advice/suggestions. How do you add more than one background to a div? Or are you saying to combine theshadow and blue left column imagein photoshop? Not quite understanding that, sorry. Also, what about the right shadow image? thanks, On 9/7/05, Geoff Pack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [WSG] Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-07 Thread David Laakso
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

[WSG] OL vs DL

2005-09-07 Thread Chris Kennon
Hi, Looking over the information at the following url: (http://www.bridgewater.edu/~dhuffman/soc306/f02grp4/Martial%20Arts/ bushido__the_honor_code.htm) I'm confused if the quest for cleaner mark-up would be better pursued by an OL or DL? C

Re: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon

2005-09-07 Thread Thierry Koblentz
John Allsopp wrote: Paul, Hang on now. There's nothing about the use of table markup per se that leads one to err more frequently. on the contrary, actual research suggests very strongly that there is. I have found a very high correlation between malformed documents and the use of tables

Re: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon

2005-09-07 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Bert Doorn wrote: G'day again :-) Keep reading... http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-WCAG20-HTML-TECHS-20050630/#layouttables-avoid It is *recommended* that authors not use the |table| element for layout purposes *unless the desired effect absolutely cannot be achieved using CSS*. *unless the

Re: [WSG] td != div

2005-09-07 Thread Brian Cummiskey
For instance, they'll put a ul inside a div id=menu, just so that they can style the ul, instead of just giving the ul itself an id. I never really noticed this, but I tend to code this way too. Here's a small sample i've been playing with: div id=wrapper div id=header

Re: [WSG] td != div

2005-09-07 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day By what you're saying, I could simply have my outer wrapper for the margins/bg stuff, and then the h1 id'ed to replicate the whole header, and the ul id'ed to the nav list. This makes sense. div id=wrapper h1 id=headerImage replaced title here/h1 ...etc... I'd even drop

Re: [WSG] td != div

2005-09-07 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Bert Doorn wrote: I'd even drop id=header and just style the h1 element. Unless you use more than one h1 per page... Good point, Bert. Time to put this mark-up on a diet. ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

RE: [WSG] OL vs DL

2005-09-07 Thread Patrick Lauke
Chris Kennon Looking over the information at the following url: (http://www.bridgewater.edu/~dhuffman/soc306/f02grp4/Martial%20Arts/ bushido__the_honor_code.htm) I'm confused if the quest for cleaner mark-up would be better pursued by an OL or DL? Ah, Joe Clark had a cracker at last

Re: [WSG] Problems with print style and general site check

2005-09-07 Thread David Laakso
James Gollan wrote: The site address is www.abbychambers.com and the style sheet is: www.abbychambers.com/themes/greenstripe/print.css Also, if you are looking at the site, any general issues would be good to know about. FWIW: The emphasis seems to be on the designer rather than the painter

[WSG] Linearization

2005-09-07 Thread Stevio
I am interesting in your thoughts on linearization. What it means and how you apply it? Thanks, Stephen -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.19/92 - Release Date: 07/09/2005

Re: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon

2005-09-07 Thread Stevio
- Original Message - From: Bert Doorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 9:09 AM Keep reading... http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-WCAG20-HTML-TECHS-20050630/#layouttables-avoid It is *recommended* that authors not use the |table| element for layout purposes *unless the

[WSG] divitis - chronic vs. mild stages

2005-09-07 Thread Drake, Ted C.
I think you go through stages of CSS/XHTML maturity as you learn how to move away from tables to table-less design. Our first instinct is to use divs the same way we used tables. It feels safe to load up the page with structural divs. That's ok, especially if it is what helps you get from x to

RE: [WSG] Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility with Firefox

2005-09-07 Thread Drake, Ted C.
Forgive me if I throw out another wild pitch. If I want to simulate a screen reader visually, I use the fangs extension to firefox. This translates the page into what a screenreader would read. Example output of Zeldman.com Page has seven headings and seventy-one links Jeffrey Zeldman Presents

Re: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon

2005-09-07 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Stevio wrote: However, at what point do we say, we are better doing this layout in tables rather than using complex CSS with various hacks? In terms of future maintenance, the CSS solution will be more difficult due to the complexity of the hacks and scripts. I don't agree. As Kenny said, the

Re: [WSG] td != div

2005-09-07 Thread dwain alford
Geoff Pack wrote: Some reasons for div-itis: 1. Columns. table cell = div is wrong, but usually columns = divs is correct. now we are really getting into semantics. i began designing via wysiwyg and tables. when i made the change to html/css i was having problems with positioning and

Re: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon

2005-09-07 Thread Al Sparber
From: Thierry Koblentz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stevio wrote: However, at what point do we say, we are better doing this layout in tables rather than using complex CSS with various hacks? In terms of future maintenance, the CSS solution will be more difficult due to the complexity of the hacks and

Re: [WSG] Problems with print style and general site check

2005-09-07 Thread Christian Montoya
You could make the page background one pixel wide, and the column background 1 pixel high... that should cut off a few kb's. - Christian

Re: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon

2005-09-07 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Al Sparber wrote: I don't agree. As Kenny said, the presentational hacks are part of the presentational layer. It is easier to detach a Styles Sheet from a document than to remove its table markup. These debates always sink into a tables versus CSS mentality and that is really sad. The

Re: [WSG] Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-07 Thread Christian Montoya
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

Re: [WSG] Images as accessible form buttons

2005-09-07 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] wrote: I then thought I should use input type=image, but realised that this doesn't work in all browsers. IE, for example, has got the nasty habbit of submitting name.x=0name.y=0 when these kind of buttons are clicked, which can make it really difficult if you

Re: [WSG] Linearization

2005-09-07 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Stevio wrote: I am interesting in your thoughts on linearization. What it means and how you apply it? For all intents and purposes, linearisation = source order. If you have something like a screenreader, it will read things in the order in which they appear in the source code. If you a) use

Re: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon

2005-09-07 Thread Al Sparber
From: Thierry Koblentz [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't agree. As Kenny said, the presentational hacks are part of the presentational layer. It is easier to detach a Styles Sheet from a document than to remove its table markup. These debates always sink into a tables versus CSS mentality and that

[WSG] Tables - a challenge!

2005-09-07 Thread designer
Hello all, I've been holding back with this, as I've said it before and I can hear the yawns from some of the longer suffering members . . . OK, I don't use tables, except for tabular data. I've been doing this standards stuff for for just one year and there is only one place where I use a

Re: [WSG] Linearization

2005-09-07 Thread Terrence Wood
Patrick H. Lauke said: Stevio wrote: I am interesting in your thoughts on linearization. What it means and how you apply it? For all intents and purposes, linearisation = source order. When applied to tables the thing to watch for is how the association between discrete bits of columnar

Re: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon

2005-09-07 Thread Terrence Wood
Perhaps this is the crux of the matter. Most things can be achieved with CSS, especially if you use various hacks and scripts etc. However, at what point do we say, we are better doing this layout in tables rather than using complex CSS with various hacks? In terms of future maintenance, the

Re: [WSG] td != div

2005-09-07 Thread Kenny Graham
Good topic. I'm going to re-think the whole approach on this project. My work here is done. Now I can go get some Krystals (eg. Whitecastles + Mustard - Holes in meat) and say to myself I might not know what I'm eating, but at least my pet peeve is silenced for the moment.

RE: [WSG] Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-07 Thread Paul Bennett
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

RE: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon

2005-09-07 Thread Paul Bennett
*unless the desired effect...* Why fighting the medium? If that *desire effect* is purely visual, then I think there is a problem... Yep, they're called 'Clients' :) Paul ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

Re: [WSG] OL vs DL

2005-09-07 Thread Kenny Graham
I wouldn't lose any sleep over which is the most semantic way, as it can get fairly academic... But that's why I love this list. Even the smallest things get academic very quickly here. To get to the semantic root of it, ask yourself Does each subitem function as a definition of its parent? If

RE: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon

2005-09-07 Thread Paul Bennett
I'd say that people who rely heavily on tables are the ones who obviously do not care about standards. Or they just DON'T KNOW. I work in an organisation where our only other coder hasn't been formally trained, was thrown into intranet work out of necessity and has learnt 'web stuff' by

Re: [WSG] Problems with print style and general site check

2005-09-07 Thread James Gollan
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

Re: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon

2005-09-07 Thread John Allsopp
Stephen, I like this list in that people are so willing to debate the issues, as that is how we learn and understand what is best, but I think we should not blindly use CSS. We must use it wisely and examine how we are using it so we don't make new mistakes. using CSS is not a blind or

Re: [WSG] Tables - a challenge!

2005-09-07 Thread Christian Montoya
It's not our fault we have to hack IE. This guy claims he solved the problem. The example used 3 divs, the clean version is at the bottom of the page. Worked in IE for me :D http://www.jakpsatweb.cz/css/css-vertical-center-solution.htmlOn 9/7/05, designer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello

Re: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon - THREAD CLOSED

2005-09-07 Thread russ - maxdesign
THREAD CLOSED The reason for the closure of this thread is that while it had been interesting and informative, it has definitely moved away from open discussion into strongly held views and lines of demarcation. Please do not reply to this thread or comment on the thread closure to the list. If

Re: [WSG] Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-07 Thread Christian Montoya
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

RE: [WSG] Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-07 Thread Craig Rippon
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. From: Christian Montoya [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [WSG] Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-07 Thread Kenny Graham
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

[WSG] Educate the educators (was) Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-07 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 8 Sep 2005, at 8:59 AM, Craig Rippon wrote: 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.

Re: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon

2005-09-07 Thread Christian Montoya
The only example of purely efficient structural markup I've seen inthe past few years is this: http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/articles/css/div_less/ You want to explain this one? *ul*li*pThis page is laid out using heading, paragraph, and list tags. Neither SPANs nor DIVs have been used./

Re: [WSG] Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-07 Thread John Allsopp
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

RE: [WSG] Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-07 Thread Adam Burmister \(DSL AK\)
If you serve your XHTML pages as XML documents then your browser will die on badly formed structure. - A From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christian Montoya Sent: Thursday, 8 September 2005 10:44 a.m. To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re:

Re: [WSG] Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-07 Thread Kenny Graham
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

[WSG] Browser tolerance - was Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-07 Thread Mike Brown
Kenny Graham wrote: 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

Re: [WSG] Educate the educators (was) Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-07 Thread Christian Montoya
Ah ha ha yes! Exactly my experience with my *first* web design course ever... it's called Intro to Web Design Programming. I'm only in the class because I have nothing else to take, and it's the only web design class being offered in the fall... and because I want to be a teaching assistant for

RE: [WSG] Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-07 Thread Paul Bennett
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

RE: [WSG] Educate the educators (was) Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-07 Thread Craig Rippon
Have filed a formal complaint against the instructor (who happens to run 10 hours of the 20 hours of classes we have each week.) I am no longer attending his classes and may not get my Diploma. Still, gives me more time to study at home (without the distraction of the fit young Physical Education

Re: [WSG] Browser tolerance - was Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-07 Thread Christian Montoya
I totally agree, but let me make a joke: If browsers suddenly stopped parsing bad markup, wouldn't we be in big business? Imagine all the desperate clients! :DOn 9/7/05, Mike Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Kenny Graham wrote: Exactly. I was actually thinking the other day, browsers should be

Re: [WSG] Educate the educators (was) Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-07 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 08/09/2005, at 9:14 AM, Nick Gleitzman wrote: On 8 Sep 2005, at 8:59 AM, Craig Rippon wrote: 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

Re: [WSG] Educate the educators (was) Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-07 Thread Kenny Graham
http://cs130.cs.cornell.edu/ HAS a table layout. For no reason. No reason? It makes it much easier to meet the absolutely necessary design requirement of... arbitrarily splitting the background color in half?

Re: [WSG] Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-07 Thread Nick Gleitzman
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

RE: [WSG] Educate the educators (was) Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-07 Thread Herrod, Lisa
There are actually a few excellent teachers at Sydney Institute (ultimo TAFE) who understand and teach web site design and development with a real focus on web standards. Their knowledge is extremely current and while the old addage of 'Those that can, do. Those that can't, teach.' is sometimes

Re: [WSG] Educate the educators (was) Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-07 Thread Christian Montoya
That could also be done with a coule divs... I think. Not that I would want to have a page background like that. Ugh. On 9/7/05, Kenny Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://cs130.cs.cornell.edu/ HAS a table layout. For no reason. No reason? It makes it much easier to meet the absolutely

Re: [WSG] Educate the educators (was) Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-07 Thread John Allsopp
Then again, I used to teach at Northern Sydney IT - they aren't all lucky enough to get you Lisa :-) john On 08/09/2005, at 9:48 AM, Herrod, Lisa wrote: There are actually a few excellent teachers at Sydney Institute (ultimo TAFE) who understand and teach web site design and development

RE: [WSG] Educate the educators (was) Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-07 Thread Herrod, Lisa
John! I wasn't talking about me! I'm not there anymore LOL I won't name names, but I will say they're lurking about on this list... you know who you are people :) I'm starting to see a new reality show... something like 'Rock school' but it would be called 'standards school' - john perhaps

Re: [WSG] Educate the educators

2005-09-07 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 8 Sep 2005, at 9:48 AM, Herrod, Lisa wrote: There are actually a few excellent teachers at Sydney Institute (ultimo TAFE) who understand and teach web site design and development with a real focus on web standards. Their knowledge is extremely current and while the old addage of 'Those

[WSG] IE Issues For BushidoDeep

2005-09-07 Thread Chris Kennon
Hi, In VPC 7.0.2 IE the following site(bushidoDeep.com) has the following issues: 1. The navigation is wrapping to another line. 2. the about section is missing. Site looks as expected in FF, Safari and Opera. ** The discussion list for

RE: [WSG] Educate the educators (was) Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-07 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Herrod, Lisa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 8 September 2005 9:48 AM To: 'wsg@webstandardsgroup.org' Subject: RE: [WSG] Educate the educators (was) Barclays standards redesign There are actually a few excellent teachers at Sydney Institute

RE: [WSG] Educate the educators (was) Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-07 Thread Craig Rippon
I think it was Russ (Maxdesign) told me that there at least a couple of Sydney TAFEs that teach Diploma IT Web Development really well, one of them was Blue Mountains TAFE (too far from Brisbane unfortunately). -Original Message- From: Herrod, Lisa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

RE: [WSG] Educate the educators (was) Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-07 Thread Peter Williams
From: Herrod, Lisa There are actually a few excellent teachers at Sydney Institute (ultimo TAFE) who understand and teach... Maybe TAFE is better than most other educational institutes. I did some welding courses quite a few years ago and the instructors we had were brilliant practitioners

Re: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon

2005-09-07 Thread Al Sparber
From: John Allsopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] I guess what keeps me coming back back to this pointless and frustrating discussion is certainly not for my sake. I could care less that people choose to continue using tables for layout. But when people advocate it as a sensible, reasonable alternative

Re: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon - THREAD CLOSED

2005-09-07 Thread Al Sparber
From: russ - maxdesign [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Web Standards Group wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 6:38 PM Subject: Re: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon - THREAD CLOSED THREAD CLOSED The reason for the closure of this thread is that while it had been interesting and

Re: [WSG] Educate the educators (was) Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-07 Thread Lachlan Hardy
Herrod, Lisa wrote: I'm starting to see a new reality show... something like 'Rock school' but it would be called 'standards school' Well, although it bears no relation to Sydney, or indeed, tertiary education, there is a high school in Victoria teaching standards-based web design. As I

Re: [WSG] Educate the educators (was) Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-07 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 8 Sep 2005, at 10:43 AM, Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] wrote: But not everybody can afford this kind of employment mix. If you are a full time lecturer all you can rely on is books, training courses and seminars to learn from. What about the web itself? That's actually no different

RE: [WSG] Educate the educators (was) Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-07 Thread Craig Rippon
I'm actually a real champion of the TAFE system, the skills I learned at my last TAFE course lasted me 15 years, absolutely brilliant. -Original Message- From: Peter Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 8 September 2005 10:55 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE:

Re: [WSG] Educate the educators (was) Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-07 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 8 Sep 2005, at 10:43 AM, Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] wrote: H This is going way off-topic, right? No, no - I've enjoyed the couple of heatedly debated threads over the past couple of days far more than the 'please fix my code' posts - without please or thank you - that are

RE: [WSG] Educate the educators (was) Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-07 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Nick Gleitzman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 8 September 2005 11:09 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Educate the educators (was) Barclays standards redesign On 8 Sep 2005, at 10:43 AM, Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]

Re: [WSG] Tables - a challenge!

2005-09-07 Thread Lachlan Hardy
designer wrote: OK, I don't use tables, except for tabular data. I've been doing this standards stuff for for just one year and there is only one place where I use a table for layout, and that is to put something (div, or whatever) slap bang in the middle of the screen, both vertically and

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