From: Natalie Buxton
This discussion has finally convinced me that breadcrumb trails should
not be marked up as lists.
Without the entire path, it doesn't matter where the actual href goes.
For instance: I tell a user that the file they want is in the folder
widgets. They go looking
Ok, settle in for a lot of light reading. It's been a busy week!
Solving CSS problems for Mozilla Europe
http://www.1976design.com/blog/archive/2004/11/21/solving-css-problems-mozil
la-europe/
Turning the tables using CSS:
http://www.apple.com/pro/words/meyer/
Accessibility on a shoe-string:
Kevin Futter wrote:
Less important doesn't mean not important.
Exactly, which is why I didn't say not important ...
...which is a reason why it is unlike a sentence. The words of a
sentence need their organization within the sentence to be useful.
You can slice it and dice it however you
Patrick Lauke wrote:
...and discussing the finer points of semantics in a markup language as coarse
and unsuitable as HTML ends up being a tad futile
Futile? Perhaps sometimes. Though I must admit, when there is a good
reason to do so (what's a good reason is admittedly subjective) I find
Hi everyone, first time for me to ask for you all to check a site for
me, but I'm sure it won't be the last.
I believe it renders fine in most browsers, except one flaw (advice
would be MOST welcome):
I have no clue how to get the navbar to render fully - if there is
more content than navigation
Could someone give me the appropriate replacement for target=_blank. I can't
remember the correct javascript statement that opens it in a new window.
I'm sure others could use it as well.
Thank you
Ted Drake
Web Content Editor
CSA Travel Protection
http://www.csatravelprotection.com
use window.open .
Ted Drake wrote:
Could someone give me the appropriate replacement for target=_blank. I can't
remember the correct javascript statement that opens it in a new window.
I'm sure others could use it as well.
Thank you
Ted Drake
Web Content Editor
CSA Travel Protection
a href=wharever.com onkeypress=window.open(this.href); return false;
onclick=window.open(this.href); return false;Whatever.com/a
HTH
~Veine
At 09:28 AM 12/6/2004 -0800, you wrote:
Could someone give me the appropriate replacement for target=_blank. I
can't remember the correct javascript
Veine K Vikberg wrote:
a href=wharever.com onkeypress=window.open(this.href); return
false; onclick=window.open(this.href); return false;Whatever.com/a
*Don't* use onkeypress, as Mozilla browsers - and rightly so - treat a
TAB as
a keypress as well. Using onkeypress makes it impossible for users
I'm a bit confused by the (this.href) code. Should I replace that with the page
in the href= section or is it looking back at the href and use that url?
I understand the repetition for keypress/onclick are for those without a mouse
and those with a mouse. n'est-ce pas?
Ted
-Original
At 10:03 AM 12/6/04, Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
*Don't* use onkeypress, as Mozilla browsers - and rightly so - treat a TAB as
a keypress as well. Using onkeypress makes it impossible for users to TAB
beyond
that particular link.
Isn't it true that, if one did use onkeypress, the attached event
At 10:11 AM 12/6/04, Ted Drake wrote:
I'm a bit confused by the (this.href) code. Should I replace that with the
page in the href= section or is it looking back at the href and use that url?
-Original Message-
From: Veine K Vikberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
a href=wharever.com
Ted Drake wrote:
Could someone give me the appropriate replacement for target=_blank. I can't
remember the correct javascript statement that opens it in a new window.
I'm sure others could use it as well.
Rather than a replacement it's best to include both,
a href=popup.html target=_blank
Fresh meat: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20041206.html
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At 11:11 AM 12/6/04, Felix Miata wrote:
Fresh meat: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20041206.html
Yes, but only 605 respondents?! Yikes, that's a small sample. Nielsen's
results, satisfying as they are to one allergic to commercialism, would
carry more weight if the sample size were
Mordechai, I too enjoy splitting hairs. I hope no one objects to my
chiming in.
Breadcrumbs are a construct without a solid definition, from which I
think much disagreement arises. Typically, they reflect the notional
path to a page (the path according to where the user believes
themselves to
Wednesday 08 December, 2004
Brisbane, Australia December Meeting
Now and Zen - CSS, the reality and the fantasy.
http://webstandardsgroup.org/go/event20.cfm
Thursday 09 December, 2004
Wellington New Zealand WSG meeting
Introduction to WSG, Web standards in practice
unless, of course, you are using a DTD that doesn't include
target=_blank, such as XHTML 1.0 strict or XHTML 1.0.
On 2004-12-07 8:07 AM, Matthew Cruickshank wrote:
Rather than a replacement it's best to include both,
a href=popup.html target=_blank onclick=window.open(...);return
falsepopup/a
Just use target=_blank and use my DTD which is modified to allow the
target=_blank
!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC XHTML 1.01 Strict
http://www.neester.com/DTD/xhtml-target.dtd;
Matthew Cruickshank wrote:
Ted Drake wrote:
Could someone give me the appropriate replacement for
target=_blank. I can't
Well, I thought it was over, so I didn't send this link. But, since it's not quite, here's a link to several others that might interest some...
http://user-experience.org/uefiles/breadcrumbs/
Best regards,
Marilyn Langfeld
http://www.langfeldesigns.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
+1.301.598.3300 business
At 06:03 PM 12/6/2004 +, you wrote:
Veine K Vikberg wrote:
a href=wharever.com onkeypress=window.open(this.href); return false;
onclick=window.open(this.href); return false;Whatever.com/a
*Don't* use onkeypress, as Mozilla browsers - and rightly so - treat a TAB as
a keypress as well. Using
At 10:59 AM 12/6/2004 -0800, you wrote:
Aside, while it may be convenient to embed javascript in HTML tags by way
of illustration, let me reiterate the oft-made point that doing so in
practice is a mistake, for at least these two reasons:
1) User agents that don't support the scripting language
Paul Novitski wrote:
At 11:11 AM 12/6/04, Felix Miata wrote:
Fresh meat: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20041206.html
Yes, but only 605 respondents?! Yikes, that's a small sample.
Nielsen's results, satisfying as they are to one allergic to
commercialism, would carry more weight if the sample
At 07:51 AM 12/7/2004 +1100, you wrote:
Just use target=_blank and use my DTD which is modified to allow the
target=_blank
!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC XHTML 1.01 Strict
http://www.neester.com/DTD/xhtml-target.dtd;
One of the more resourceful ways of getting around the problem with
target=new that I
On 6/12/04 9:31 PM, Mordechai Peller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Time to call a truce?
I am unwilling to change my view as I've seen no reason to do so; in
fact, I believe even more strongly now in what I'm saying that I did
when this discussion began. If you want to leave it at that, I
Paul Novitski wrote:
You can find an excellent introduction to scripting events on
Peter-Paul Koch's http://www.quirksmode.org/
Another excellant resource is Unobtrusive Javascript
(http://www.onlinetools.org/articles/unobtrusivejavascript/)
**
Seems you have added content since posting this?
Can you post a link to the CSS also?
Ta.
On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 23:00:16 +, Steven Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At a site I'm working on (still)
http://www.blog.lindenlangdon.com
when I open pages in Opera or Firefox there is no
I llengthened the leftnav div to below the window. IE still obviously
doesn't show the main content area until it gets actual content though which
seems very jerky. Is this the norm?
_
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Can you remove the content that is there so we can see the problem?
All your pages have content, so I cannot see the problem you are describing.
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 10:11:31 +1100, Natalie Buxton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Seems you have added content since posting this?
Can you post a
I just gave the leftnav div a height to take it below the bottom of the
screen
Site: http://www.blog.lindenlangdon.com
CSS: http://www.blog.lindenlangdon.com/stylesheets/styles.css
http://www.blog.lindenlangdon.com/stylesheets/default.css
Hi list,
Is there a program or browser extension you recommend that I can use to see what
my pages will look like on IE on Mac. (I use Firefox generally) Or is the best
test to find someone with a mac to send screen shots?
Regards,
Robyn
-Original Message-
From: info
Sent: Tuesday, 7
I'm wondering if anyone has had a chance to look over my problem:
http://143.226.165.202/other/aitp
Really looking forward to some help.
Aaron Holbrook
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 10:58:48 -0600, Aaron Holbrook
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi everyone, first time for me to ask for you all to check a
Veine K Vikberg wrote:
Well, my link was given for XHTML Strict, in where my solution is the
only way to both make sure it is to the greatest extent accessible as
well as validating the code.
Let me explain a little more;
You missed my point completely: keep the onclick, but ditch the
Hey everyone,
I really thought this would be a simple question. Thank you for all of the
information. It's great to work with people, like you, that are more
interested in putting together good information for the masses than the
schlocky drivel that was the meat and potatoes of the internet
Faux Columns: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fauxcolumns/
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 17:52:16 -0600, Aaron Holbrook
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm wondering if anyone has had a chance to look over my problem:
http://143.226.165.202/other/aitp
Really looking forward to some help.
Aaron Holbrook
browsercam http://www.browsercam.com/default.aspx pretty cheap and quick if
you don't have a friend with a mac.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of ROBYN BALL
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 10:46 AM
To: wsg
Subject: [WSG] IE View
Hi list,
Browsercam is a great screenshot tool:
http://www.browsercam.com/
Or if absolutely desperate, I can send you screenshots of Mac IE in action,
but don't tell anyone :)
Russ
Hi list,
Is there a program or browser extension you recommend that I can use to see
what
my pages will look like
At 11:54 PM 12/6/2004 +, you wrote:
Veine K Vikberg wrote:
Well, my link was given for XHTML Strict, in where my solution is the
only way to both make sure it is to the greatest extent accessible as
well as validating the code.
Let me explain a little more;
You missed my point completely:
Thanks everyone, that works a treat :)
-Original Message-
From: info
Sent: Tuesday, 7 December 2004 11:13 AM
To: Web Standards Group
Subject: Re: [WSG] IE View
Browsercam is a great screenshot tool:
http://www.browsercam.com/
Or if absolutely desperate, I can send you screenshots of
Veine K Vikberg wrote:
and if the goal was only XHTML compliance
I would agree with you to 100% on the issue of not using onkeypress for
the reason above.
I actually never mentioned anything about XHTML validation in my
original reply, but yes.
However, the WAI is not as forgiving and this is
meat: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20041206.html
Yes, but only 605 respondents?! Yikes, that's a small sample. Nielsen's
I bet you'd never find a random sample that size that proves the
converse.
results, satisfying as they are to one allergic to commercialism, would
carry more weight
Ben,
John has just posted an interesting piece about this...
http://westciv.typepad.com/standards/2004/11/another_way_of_.html
Actually it was Maxine :-) And it is a good little discussion of the
practical issues
John
John Allsopp
:: westciv :: http://www.westciv.com/
This may be completely off topic, but I feel I should rant to you lot as
you all share my views...
I've noticed quite a few kiwis on this list, and that is *awesome*! It
means more standards based design and development in our fair land...or
so you'd think.
I get _very_ depressed when i see high
At 02:28 AM 12/7/2004 +, you wrote:
However, the WAI is not as forgiving and this is a device-dependent
attribute, where redundant input methods are required for the same
element. There are five instances where WAI gives us no choice but to use
redundancy:
I find it interesting how you
On 7 Dec 2004, at 2:19 PM, Darren Wood wrote:
I get _very_ depressed when i see high profile[1] new zealand sites
completely drop the ball[2]...
So, jump in with irresistable proposals for redevelopment, and plan on
retiring early!
N
___
Omnivision. Websight.
Hi Darren
Just joined the list a couple of hours ago...Anyway, our main site -
www.mch.govt.nz - is quite close to getting there - though not yet
perfect (what is?) it generally validates and does all that stuff. We're
in the process of doing a major redesign which will be very much
Veine K Vikberg wrote:
If you try and validate anything towards the standards at Bobby (which
is the measurement my clients in the public sector uses) there is no way
you can get around the redundancy, if you only do onclick it gives you
an error at level 2, that is what I mean with
On 07/12/2004, at 2:19 PM, Darren Wood wrote:
I get _very_ depressed when i see high profile[1] new zealand sites
completely drop the ball[2]...
I'm guessing there's an equal percentage of Australian sites who
neglect standards. I don't think it's a NZ-specific issue, and nor do
I think us
Darren Wood wrote:
I
get _very_ depressed when i see high profile[1] new zealand sites
completely drop the ball[2]...
A few months back (maybe even a year) the NZ government released web
guidelines for all their websites.[3]
I think it's about 2 years old now. I was on the working
Darren Wood wrote:
I
get _very_ depressed when i see high profile[1] new zealand sites
completely drop the ball[2]...
A few months back (maybe even a year) the NZ government released web
guidelines for all their websites.[3]
I think it's about 2 years old now. I was on the working group
I got annoyed with links not being what I expected. And started to
figure a way to let people know where links on my site are going to take
them by using CSS to put an icon after the hyperlink, dependant upon
it's type.
The results, at this stage, are here:
Try address/address
style type=text/css
address { display: block; color: etc... }
/style
R :o)
- Original Message -
From: James Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 4:10 PM
Subject: [WSG] markup for postal addresses?
Hi all
I'm trying to
I think with things like this the KISS principle comes to mind... or if you
prefer:
Be Semantic - Not Pedantic
:o)
R
- Original Message -
From: James Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 4:10 PM
Subject: [WSG] markup for postal addresses?
Hi
a[href^=mailto:;] {
background: transparent url('path/to/aemail.gif') 100% 50% no-repeat;
padding-right: 10px;
}
div.content a[href^=http:] {
background: transparent url('path/to/aoutside.gif') 100% 50% no-repeat;
padding-right: 10px;
}
div.content a[href^=http://yourwebsite.com;],
div.content
duh me.
OK... I agree with you Mike =)
Terrence Wood.
russ - maxdesign wrote:
I agree with your thinking Russ... web standards are a means to an end
not the end itself. They represent a philosophy, framework or tool set.
Jut to clarify, that email was sent by me on behalf of Mike Brown, who is
I've tried what Amit has suggested, but the main problem is that I get a
CSS validation error.
Files are here:
http://wallishamilton.com/code/amit-1.html
http://wallishamilton.com/code/amit-1.css
These probably better demonstrate the vailidation issue (less
surrounding clutter).
How can I use
if you are using the w3c validator, try the advanced settings and
validate against the css3 profile. Which is where your selector comes
from, see: http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/CR-css3-selectors-2003/
Terrence Wood.
Ben Hamilton wrote:
The CSS file:
http://wallishamilton.com/code/screen.css
Terrence Wood wrote:
if you are using the w3c validator, try the advanced settings and
validate against the css3 profile. Which is where your selector comes
from, see: http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/CR-css3-selectors-2003/
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