Re: [WSG] Site Review (www.richardson.co.nz)

2007-05-30 Thread Joseph R. B. Taylor
Nice job on that one. I only thing I could find wrong was the use of javascript: pseudo links. *Joseph R. B. Taylor* Sites by Joe, LLC /Custom Web Design Development/ Phone: (609) 335-3076 www.sitesbyjoe.com http://www.sitesbyjoe.com Snadden Tim wrote: www.richardson.co.nz In

[WSG] Mac / Linux Check if you please

2007-05-30 Thread Joseph R. B. Taylor
Greetings all, Can I ask the Linux users to take a look at this one? I want to make sure there's no layout flaws on your favorite browsers. http://michaels.sitesbyjoe.com/ Many thanks, -- *Joseph R. B. Taylor* Sites by Joe, LLC /Custom Web Design Development/ Phone: (609) 335-3076

Re: [WSG] Mac / Linux Check if you please

2007-05-30 Thread Luke Monahan
Hi, Looks fine in a casual inspection on Firefox, Konqueror 3.5.7 and Opera 9 all on Linux. Konqueror (similar to Safari) has put an extra 10px or so of space above the company logo, expanding the entire blue backgrounded header. It doesn't look bad, but is different from Firefox. Cheers,

RE: [WSG] Suggestions Please for: CMS / E-commerce Solutions

2007-05-30 Thread Bruce Morrison
Hi Mark On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 23:29 +0100, Mark Hedley wrote: Be interested to see if anyone can recommend a robust solution geared for UK E-commerce using Protx VSP Direct + 3D Secure. eZ Publish has Protx Plugin http://ez.no/community/contribs/workflow/protx_payment_gateway I haven't used

Re: [WSG] Content Management issue ?

2007-05-30 Thread Schalk Neethling
Hey there All, This seems to be a huge problem on the web today. I am in the process of building a CMS that will be from the ground up built to standards compliant and accessible. Also, the big issue is to ensure that whatever the CMS outputs abides by the same rules. The project is being

RE: [WSG] Content Management issue ?

2007-05-30 Thread Frank Palinkas
Thanks Schalk! Please keep us informed? Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schalk Neethling Sent: Wednesday, 30 May, 2007 11:36 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Content Management issue ? Hey there All, This

Re: [WSG] dl v table for form layout

2007-05-30 Thread John Faulds
It probably shouldn't be used for pairing as you describe, but rather a group of inputs that all share some common-ground. In my case I use them to contain groups of required versus non-required inputs as well as the type of information sought (contact info, etc.). Sorry to bring this up

Re: [WSG] dl v table for form layout

2007-05-30 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
On 30 May 2007, at 14:16:11, John Faulds wrote: Sorry to bring this up again but I've been thinking a bit more about this: a fieldset should be used to group related form controls and each fieldset should have a legend, but what if you have a form control that's not really related to

Re: [WSG] Mac / Linux Check if you please - michaels

2007-05-30 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/05/30 02:12 (GMT-0500) Joseph R. B. Taylor apparently typed: Can I ask the Linux users to take a look at this one? I want to make sure there's no layout flaws on your favorite browsers. http://michaels.sitesbyjoe.com/ When I first arrived I was impressed, but hanging around and

Re: [WSG] safari hack for overflow-x/y

2007-05-30 Thread Lucien Stals
I don't know much about Safari hacks, but don't forget that a new version of Safari will be coming out soon (August?) when Leopard (OS X 10.5) gets released. Check out the nightly build of web kit for a sneak peek at the new render engine and see if your hacks will work in it. http://webkit.org/

RE: [WSG] Content Management issue ?

2007-05-30 Thread Marcin Szczepanski
Rather than muck around with CMS systems for content sites, we get our clients to use Adobe Contribute: http://www.adobe.com/products/contribute/ Essentially provides them a WYSIWYG interface to edit pages on their site, preview them, etc. Works with Dreamweaver templates for editable regions,

Re: [WSG] Content Management issue ?

2007-05-30 Thread John Faulds
I've not had that much experience with DW/Contribute, but I know they've both got pretty ordinary CSS support which means in a lot of cases you have to create separate Design Time Stylesheets just to get your layout to look presentable in Contribute. On Thu, 31 May 2007 09:50:33 +1000,

[WSG] Cites Insights: conference edition

2007-05-30 Thread libwebdev
Hi folks, Walt Crawford's Cites Insights for June is out, and is a special issue dedicated to attending and/or speaking at conferences. Download it here: http://citesandinsights.info (hit current issue), or here is the pdf direct: http://citesandinsights.info/civ7i7.pdf It is written by a

Fw: [WSG] Content Management issue ?

2007-05-30 Thread Kane Tapping
Mail list guidelines The mail list does not cover: * Discussion of content management/web publishing system issues beyond those directly involved with Web Standards (there is a CMS list for that purpose, Log in and go to Edit your login details and mail list subscriptions and set your

Re: [WSG] dl v table for form layout

2007-05-30 Thread Kane Tapping
I had a very similar issue with my feedback form. Eventualy I split it into three fieldsets: your feedback, your details, and a privacy statement. http://www.griffith.edu.au/cgi-bin/feedbackform.cgi - Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 30/05/2007 11:16:11 PM: It probably shouldn't be used

[WSG] Accessible Drawing software For Manipulating Web Objects

2007-05-30 Thread marvin hunkin
Hi. just wondering. does any one know if there is a screen reader, application, where you can design diagrams,design graphics, and manipulate images, say like in adobe photoshop or macromedia flash. any ideas? cheers Marvin. _

Re: [WSG] Accessible Drawing software For Manipulating Web Objects

2007-05-30 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
marvin hunkin wrote: just wondering. does any one know if there is a screen reader, application, where you can design diagrams,design graphics, and manipulate images, say like in adobe photoshop or macromedia flash. any ideas? As already discussed previously, this is off topic for this

Re: [WSG] Mac / Linux Check if you please

2007-05-30 Thread Web Standards
Hey Joseph, How you doing? Well, I have been checked your web site on Linux through Icedove(Debian's Firefox). That works really fine. No problems here. Best, Linuxer Joseph R. B. Taylor wrote: Greetings all, Can I ask the Linux users to take a look at this one? I want to make sure

Re: [WSG] dl v table for form layout

2007-05-30 Thread Lea de Groot
On Wed, 30 May 2007 23:16:11 +1000, John Faulds wrote: what if you have a form control that's not really related to anything else? Do you put it in a fieldset by itself? Then what do you do about the legend when in a lot of cases it'll simply be duplicating what's in the label? For

Re: [WSG] dl v table for form layout

2007-05-30 Thread Blake
On 5/27/07, Katrina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In some sense, the label and input are thematically related. Interesting idea, and in a way I agree. However I still think, in combination with fieldsets and appropriate form elements, that a ul is an appropriate way to mark up form controls. For

Re: [WSG] Mac / Linux Check if you please

2007-05-30 Thread Joseph R. B. Taylor
Thanks for taking a look at this one. And Felix, believe it or not, there will be a dry cleaning newsletter. We're looking to offset some of his postcard expense which is spent on regular clients who would be happy to receive discounts etc... Crazy, isn't it? *Joseph R. B. Taylor* Sites

Re: [WSG] Accessible Drawing software For Manipulating Web Objects

2007-05-30 Thread Raine Walker
Martin... I think you are looking for an application that uses SVG, which is a standards based accessible graphic. Here's a page that might point you in the right direction: http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/ Good luck. Patrick H. Lauke wrote: marvin hunkin wrote: just wondering. does any

[WSG] Mobiles and standards

2007-05-30 Thread Katrina
Gday, What mark-up is best used for mobile devices? And why? W3C standards (HTML4 or XHTML 1.0) or other (XHTML-Basic, XHTML-MP, WML, HDML) ? Do the 'other' count as standards? Can mobile devices process CSS 2.1 or less when served as media=handheld? (I am coming across some references to