RE: [WSG] A few problems with IE

2004-10-13 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
If I remember correctly, you have to use a combination of javascript and css to do the trick. So in addition to your li:hover, try implementing this javascript: http://www.addictivemedia.com.au/clients/navigation.js I tried to put as many comments in as possible. If you have got any questions

RE: [WSG] Help about negative positioning

2004-10-07 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
Negative values always give pretty bad results. Instead of moving it up, why don't you float the heading to the right of your logo and then just movie it a bit down and a bit left (by giving margin-top and margin-right)? That should give you the result you want, without using negative numbers.

RE: [WSG] should you refuse to support IE?

2004-10-18 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
I think it is a very dangerous decision to make! IE is still by far the most common browser and you might be right that clients could get a bit nervous when they see you are anti-IE. It took me such a long time to ditch NN 4, but now that I have done it it just feels great! Dropping IE will take a

RE: [WSG] dublin core and search engines

2004-10-26 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
I have been searching for an article I read a while ago on the Dublin Core, but cannot find it anymore. If I remember correctly it was published by an SEO group and mentioned that it was very doubtful the Dublin Core would be accepted as standard, as it has been around for many years and so far

RE: [WSG] links with same names

2004-11-04 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Edwart Visser Sent: Thursday, 4 November 2004 7:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WSG] links with same names Ok, but then there is the answer, isnt it? Take a look at this example...

RE: [WSG] New site launched.

2004-11-15 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
In regards to one of the news items you have: One of the WSG members posted a link to a very interesting PDF about creating Accessible and Usable Websites [904kb]. If you are someone who is building web sites for visually impaired viewers, or are visually impaired and using a screen reader, this

RE: [WSG] Font size

2004-11-17 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
Personally I set a 100% font-size for the body to start off with and then set individual % for the different tags and classes. The problem you describe sounds like something I struggled with at the beginning as well: I presume what is happening is that you are inheriting sizes between nested

RE: [WSG] Font size and arrogance

2004-11-18 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Lothar B. Baier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 19 November 2004 7:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] Font size and arrogance I design all my websites on a computer with the screenresolution set appropriate to the size of the screen I

RE: [WSG] No skipping to content needed?

2004-12-04 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Ben Curtis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 5 December 2004 5:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WSG] No skipping to content needed? A lot of people put an in-page anchor at the top to skip navigation or skip to main content. Are there any

RE: [WSG] Semantic Breadcrumbs

2004-12-05 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Mordechai Peller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 6 December 2004 11:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] Semantic Breadcrumbs A sentence isn't a collection of related item because each word is dependent on the rest of the sentence to give

RE: [WSG] Semantic Breadcrumbs

2004-12-05 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Kevin Futter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 6 December 2004 3:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] Semantic Breadcrumbs And therein lies the rub: lists are one-dimensional, as you yourself point out elsewhere; breadcrumbs attempt to

RE: [WSG] Somewhat OT - VERY print friendly?

2004-12-13 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Website Direction Ltd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 14 December 2004 10:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WSG] Somewhat OT - VERY print friendly? John said: What would you do? Make a huge image then force-shrink it using the code to an

RE: [WSG] accessible image form buttons

2004-12-17 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Philippe Wittenbergh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 18 December 2004 3:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] accessible image form buttons What is wrong with solution 3: input type=image src=Searchbutton.gif alt=Search title=search /

RE: [WSG] accessible image form buttons

2004-12-18 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Matthew Cruickshank [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 19 December 2004 2:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] accessible image form buttons I haven't ever found any accessibility expert saying images of text are inaccessible when the image is

RE: [WSG] IE Hack wrecks IE 5.01 design

2004-12-19 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
Hi Will, thanks for that. It is actually a different problem you are pointing out, but nonetheless also important. I will try to set the min-width as suggested. Cheers. -Original Message- From: Will Jensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 20 December 2004 5:47 PM To: [EMAIL

RE: [WSG] IE Hack wrecks IE 5.01 design

2004-12-19 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
Thanks. I will give it a go. Any idea why the other break stuffed up in IE 5.01? -Original Message- From: Cameron Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 20 December 2004 5:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] IE Hack wrecks IE 5.01 design An easier hack for

RE: [WSG] button type=submit or input type=submit

2005-01-01 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: David R [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 1 January 2005 6:09 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] button type=submit or input type=submit Whats more appropriate for form submission? Quite frankly, I can't see any advantage of input

RE: [WSG] Redesigning an eyesore

2005-01-06 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Erwin Heiser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 7 January 2005 12:07 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Redesigning an eyesore Hello all, I just finished my redesign of the website of a local dance school. The URL:

RE: [WSG] G* addressing standards

2005-01-07 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Rimantas Liubertas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 8 January 2005 6:49 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] G* addressing standards To be more precise: what percentage of unfortunate web surfers knows that it is possible to change

RE: [WSG] G* addressing standards

2005-01-07 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Rimantas Liubertas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 8 January 2005 10:44 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] G* addressing standards So what exactly makes you think those users will: a) know hot to change font size We have to make

RE: [WSG] Two CSS Question

2005-01-13 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Salman, Khwaja [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 14 January 2005 7:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WSG] Two CSS Question 1) I would like ask what is the difference between using LINK REL and @import statement in linking style sheets. Both

RE: [WSG] Two CSS Question

2005-01-13 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Carl Reynolds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 14 January 2005 9:15 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Two CSS Question Salman, I'm glad you asked about including, I have wondered that myself. I would like to add another

RE: [WSG] Labels for hidden inputs?

2005-01-15 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
I am fairly sure that there were some exceptions set in the W3C guidelines. Can't remember the exact wording, but hidden type=hidden, type=button, etc don't need labels. -Original Message- From: Wong Chin Shin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 16 January 2005 10:24 AM To:

RE: [WSG] mysterious little movement

2005-01-19 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
Aha! I will give it a try. I just couldn't find a solution for it. Thanks, man. The design of this page was so full of little details that it ended up being quite a mix of css and DIVs. I'll follow your recommendation on the float:right as well. Cheers. -Original Message- From: IChao

RE: [WSG] mysterious little movement

2005-01-20 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
Danke, Ingo! Thanks. -Original Message- From: IChao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 20 January 2005 8:46 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] mysterious little movement Looks like you've fixed it. Forcing buggy IE to show at least 250px of canvas

RE: [WSG] newbie with popup menus question

2005-01-21 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
Welcome to the group and the world of web standards. Hope you will enjoy. I guess the best place to first direct you to in regards to popup menus would be this page: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dropdowns/ Here we are dealing with a dropdown menu that is build in web standards, and

RE: [WSG] newbie with popup menus question

2005-01-21 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: The Bo$$ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 22 January 2005 2:59 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] newbie with popup menus question Well, as they say, if you have to use dropdowns you should probably rethink your site structure.

RE: [WSG] Table v Container Development

2005-01-22 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Mike Pepper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 23 January 2005 4:37 AM To: WSG Subject: [WSG] Table v Container Development Last night I redeveloped the index page for a commercial site in as an exercise to illustrate the benefits of

RE: [WSG] double space after period

2005-01-23 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: john [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 23 January 2005 9:31 PM To: web standards group Subject: [WSG] double space after period Forgive me if this doesn't specifically relate to standards, but perhaps it does. I'm simply wondering about the

RE: [WSG] I'll Have Fries(Chips)With My CMS

2005-01-23 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
I was just looking for something similar the other day. I am not quite sure about it yet, but have a look at Mambo (http://www.mamboserver.com/) - it is open source PHP, but I am not quite sure yet in how far it is standards compliant. HTH. -Original Message- From: Chris Kennon

RE: [WSG] ie INSANITY ... please help me

2005-02-10 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Mani Sheriar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 11 February 2005 3:32 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] ie INSANITY ... please help me Hi All, I am having SUCH a bizarre experience with IE. I thought I'd seen it all with that

RE: [WSG] UL menu - gap and firstlink

2005-02-12 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Richard Lake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 13 February 2005 9:35 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] UL menu - gap and firstlink it works fine in Opera, Firefox and IE6, apart from a slight gap between the hovered link and the next

RE: [WSG] GMail... Terrible!

2005-02-14 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Gary Menzel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 15 February 2005 3:28 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] GMail... Terrible! My opinion. Dont use it if it doesnt work for you. While I am all for webstandards, there is nothing

RE: [WSG] GMail... Terrible!

2005-02-14 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Gary Menzel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 15 February 2005 3:55 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] GMail... Terrible! I'll repeat myself - just so that people know I am serious about this.. There are plenty of accesible

RE: [WSG] Css Floating Image

2005-03-16 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: M M [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 16 March 2005 2:54 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Css Floating Image I am having problems floating an image in a div cell using css. I want to have the whole page centered and static width.

RE: [WSG] linked image problem in IE

2005-03-22 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: designer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 22 March 2005 8:47 PM To: webstandards group Subject: [WSG] linked image problem in IE Dear experts, I have just upgraded a site to xhtml/css, no tables etc. It all seems to work fine in FF, Opera,

RE: [WSG] Site check - http://verkehrsanwaelte.de

2005-04-06 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
What I normally do when I want to use min-height is use a css hack to set a height for IE only. IE will treat the height property in the same way as min-height was meant to work. But you have to hide the set height from the other browsers that support min-height. HTH -Original Message-

[WSG] IE three pixel bug has beaten me

2005-04-18 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
This is the second time I am coming across the IE three pixel bug, but this time it really got me: http://www.addictivemedia.com.au/clients/gta/home.html Please ignore the green line that shows up in IE (didn't get around to dealing with that one yet). The three pixel bug shows itself in IE on

RE: [WSG] IE three pixel bug has beaten me

2005-04-18 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Mike Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 19 April 2005 1:44 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] IE three pixel bug has beaten me Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] wrote: This is the second time I am coming across the IE three

[WSG] Styling of legend in Firefox

2005-04-25 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
I am having some difficulties to position the content of legend using CSS in Firefox. Firefox (and IE) default positions the legend so that it overlaps with the border of the fieldset. Which in general is quite nice, but in my particular case I want the content of the legend to be inside the

RE: [WSG] help, please!!

2005-04-25 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Rachel Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 25 April 2005 7:50 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] help, please!! Hello all, I've been developing a site based on the Ruthsarian layouts and it's working ok except in IE 6.0,

RE: [WSG] Styling of legend in Firefox

2005-04-25 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 25 April 2005 7:51 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Styling of legend in Firefox I am having some difficulties to position the content of legend using CSS

RE: [WSG] Styling of legend in Firefox

2005-04-25 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Patrick Lauke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 25 April 2005 8:51 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] Styling of legend in Firefox If you can live with the weird margin at the top (which shouldn't affect the form, but it does ?!),

RE: [WSG] Styling of legend in Firefox

2005-04-25 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: James Ellis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 25 April 2005 9:01 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Styling of legend in Firefox To get around the issue, I style the form not the fieldset tag so that the legend appears fully

RE: [WSG] Styling of legend in Firefox

2005-04-25 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
You have got what I want, but as far as I can see you didn't use legend for it, but used a h4 for the titles of your fieldsets. I want to do the same, but using legends if possible. From: Genau L. JĂșnior [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 25 April 2005 8:44

RE: [WSG] Styling of legend in Firefox

2005-04-25 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: James Ellis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 25 April 2005 9:47 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Styling of legend in Firefox Hi Then what about using some relative positioning to offset the legend? position : relative; top

RE: [WSG] what ie bug is this?

2005-04-29 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Kvnmcwebn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 29 April 2005 7:50 PM To: wsg Subject: [WSG] what ie bug is this? hello, What ie windows 6 bug creates relics like the ones at the bottom of the boxes in the central column of this page?

[WSG] Padding tables in IE

2005-05-01 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
I am having difficulties getting IE to give a table a padding-left. I can't figure out why this doesn't work, but perhaps somebody else can see my mistake: http://www.adictivemedia.com.au/clients/gta/home2.html You can see on the Drafts Table that the text overlaps the left side of the

RE: [WSG] Padding tables in IE

2005-05-02 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
Gee, that's a new one to me! Is col a HTML 4 tag? I've never come across it. Then again: haven't worked with tables in a while. Thanks, I'll give it a try! From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Ottery Sent: Monday, 2

[WSG] Mystery connection of css and non-liquid design

2005-05-02 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
Something I find really strange is that a lot of people who put emphasis on Web Standards suddenly found their way back to non-liquid, 800px, centered design. I am wondering why that is? The majority of pages that show up in this group for review display some kind of centered design with 800px

RE: [WSG] Mystery connection of css and non-liquid design

2005-05-02 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
find it curious that they all look a bit the same. On 02/05/2005, at 6:56 PM, Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] wrote: Something I find really strange is that a lot of people who put emphasis on Web Standards suddenly found their way back to non-liquid, 800px, centered design. I am

RE: [WSG] Re: Padding tables in IE

2005-05-02 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ned Collyer Sent: Tuesday, 3 May 2005 1:57 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Re: Padding tables in IE Andreas, You have: #draft table{padding:0 15px 0 25px;} Ideally with div

[WSG] Can fonts be fixed in firefox?

2005-05-09 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
Yes, I know I should use relative font sizes, but for this particular case I require a fixed font size. I want the title of a button to appear in front of a background image that cannot be resized. I haven't used fixed fonts in a long time and realised for the first time today that Firefox seems

RE: [WSG] Can fonts be fixed in firefox?

2005-05-09 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
://www.bhatt.id.au/blog/ - Ramblings Thoughts http://bookcrossing.com/referral/neerav Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] wrote: Is there any way to overcome Firefox' accessibility and fix the font-size? Thanks heaps for the feedback! Andreas

RE: [WSG] Can fonts be fixed in firefox?

2005-05-09 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
Yeah, I knew they could overwrite my settings with a customised stylesheet, but I didn't realise that just CTRL+ would overwrite stylesheet settings on Firefox. Well, good to know! -Original Message- From: James Ellis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 9 May 2005 4:44 PM To:

RE: [WSG] print css crashing ie6

2005-05-10 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Gallagher, Robin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 10 May 2005 4:52 PM To: 'wsg@webstandardsgroup.org' Subject: [WSG] print css crashing ie6 Hi I've got a 3-column css page that crashes IE6 when I try to print or print preview. Can anyone

[WSG] Submit a form with text links

2005-06-01 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
Here's one I have been working on for a while: I have got a couple of text-links that I want to use to submit a form. The deal: it has to be accessible (has to work with JavaScript disabled). The closest I have come to a solution is to style input buttons with css so they look similar to text

RE: [WSG] Submit a form with text links

2005-06-01 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 1 June 2005 4:35 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] Submit a form with text links -Original Message- From: Prabhath Sirisena [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [WSG] Submit a form with text links

2005-06-01 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: John Horner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 1 June 2005 4:51 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Submit a form with text links I'm going to chime in with why do you want to do this? too, I'm afraid. Users don't expect a

RE: [WSG] Submit a form with text links

2005-06-01 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Patrick H. Lauke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 1 June 2005 5:19 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Submit a form with text links Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] wrote: Making all the Page Numbers form buttons doesn't

RE: [WSG] Submit a form with text links

2005-06-01 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Patrick H. Lauke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 1 June 2005 5:32 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Submit a form with text links Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] wrote: BUT: users are accustomed to have text-links

RE: [WSG] Submit a form with text links

2005-06-01 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: discusster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 1 June 2005 5:44 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Submit a form with text links Hi Andreas, This isn't really the accessible solution you're looking for, but if you want to avoid

RE: [WSG] Submit a form with text links

2005-06-01 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Patrick Lauke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 1 June 2005 7:19 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] Submit a form with text links Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] Have a look at this page: http://www.seek.com.au/jobsearch

RE: [WSG] Accessible form test

2005-06-09 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Erwin Heiser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 10 June 2005 3:27 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Accessible form test Hi all, The new form is here: http://www.pixelsandtext.be/tests/newform.html I've read Joe Clarks book

[WSG] Clash of nested lists

2005-06-18 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
I am currently working on a web application and I am trying to make it as accessible as possible. Now I am stuck with one problem where I cannot decide as to how to mark things up: I want to display a list of folders and subfolders. - Folder One - Subfolder One - Subfolder Two - Folder Two -

RE: [WSG] Clash of nested lists

2005-06-18 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 10:08 +1000, Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] wrote: Here the problem though: I want to display a couple of icons infront of each of the folders (Edit, Delete, ...). So my list actually looks like this: - Edit Delete Folder One - Edit Delete Subfolder

RE: [WSG] Clash of nested lists

2005-06-19 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
, but for most users the icons will be the better option, I think. However, I will ensure that the ALT tags clearly identify what the link is for. regards Terrence Wood. On 19 Jun 2005, at 2:47 PM, Patrick H. Lauke wrote: Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] wrote: The reason I cannot

RE: [WSG] Clash of nested lists

2005-06-20 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Ben Curtis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 21 June 2005 2:47 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Clash of nested lists Here the problem though: I want to display a couple of icons infront of each of the folders (Edit,

RE: [WSG] Clash of nested lists

2005-06-20 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Josh Rose [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 20 June 2005 9:48 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] Clash of nested lists I'm not sure what the page is for, but if you had a list of say 25 items, and I only wanted 10 of them, I'd need

RE: [WSG] background images fluid

2005-08-01 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
Can you give an example of what you mean? From: Bruce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 1 August 2005 8:12 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] background images fluid What is the best

RE: [WSG] New front page for http://abc.net.au/

2005-08-03 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
From: Gary Menzel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 4 August 2005 9:35 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] New front page for http://abc.net.au/ For some reason - the layout is quite different between IE and Firefox.

RE: [WSG] New front page for http://abc.net.au/

2005-08-03 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 11:46 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] New front page for http://abc.net.au/ From: Gary Menzel [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [WSG] New front page for http://abc.net.au/

2005-08-03 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: John Allsopp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 4 August 2005 12:15 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Cc: Tania Lang Subject: Re: [WSG] New front page for http://abc.net.au/ Frederic, how would you rate http://www.ourbrisbane.com/ which is

RE: [WSG] New front page for http://abc.net.au/

2005-08-03 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- On 4 Aug 2005 at 12:55, Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Me wrote: Actually we have done some usability testing with a range of disabled users recently. The site we tested did not have any dropdowns, however in particular users with hearing disabilities and

RE: [WSG] New front page for http://abc.net.au/

2005-08-03 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Terrence Wood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 4 August 2005 1:43 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Cc: Terrence Wood Subject: Re: [WSG] New front page for http://abc.net.au/ On 4 Aug 2005, at 2:55 PM, Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] wrote

RE: [WSG] Accessible/Usable Navigation WAS: New front page for http://abc. net.au/

2005-08-03 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
of usability than accessibility, in my opinion. All the best, Lisa Herrod -Original Message- From: Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 4 August 2005 12:55 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] New front page for http

RE: [WSG] New front page for http://abc.net.au/

2005-08-03 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Donna Maurer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 4 August 2005 2:15 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] New front page for http://abc.net.au/ On 4 Aug 2005 at 13:55, Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Me wrote: Your learnings entirely

RE: [WSG] New front page for http://abc.net.au/ (Deafness and Con tent Length)

2005-08-03 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Herrod, Lisa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 4 August 2005 2:55 PM To: 'wsg@webstandardsgroup.org' Subject: RE: [WSG] New front page for http://abc.net.au/ (Deafness and Con tent Length) This is a really interesting thread and I have to say

RE: [WSG] accessibility - opening new windows philosophy

2005-08-15 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
We have tested sites with both different behaviours on users and in most cases if the PDF would open in the same window the inexperienced users would accidentally close the window and as a result lose the website they were working with. It seems to be already in the users' minds that a different

RE: [WSG] Suckerfish nav moving page background image

2005-08-30 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Craig Stump [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 31 August 2005 11:10 AM To: WSG Group Subject: [WSG] Suckerfish nav moving page background image Hi all, I have an odd problem with my page background image jumping, when certain nodes on the

RE: RE: [WSG] Text Size Statistics

2005-09-01 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
I think what Scott meant was to display information for those people that use old browsers which do not display Web Standards Compliant pages properly. So you create a web standards compliant site, but users with Netscape 4 can go and read why this site doesn't work in their browser. I am not

RE: [WSG] Text Size Statistics

2005-09-02 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Scott Swabey - Lafinboy Productions [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 2 September 2005 3:59 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] Text Size Statistics Thanks Andreas and Peter, your clarifications said what I meant ;) At the risk

RE: [WSG] Text Size Statistics

2005-09-02 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Tom Livingston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 2 September 2005 11:02 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Text Size Statistics On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 03:44:33 -0400, Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

[WSG] Images as accessible form buttons

2005-09-06 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
I know we had this discussion once before, but I was hoping to return to it to see if there are any new opinions on this topic. The question I have is what would be the best option to create images as form buttons in an accessible manner? So far I have always tried to use css to assign a

RE: [WSG] Images as accessible form buttons

2005-09-06 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Ben Curtis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 7 September 2005 2:32 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Images as accessible form buttons On Sep 5, 2005, at 11:54 PM, Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] wrote: I then thought I

RE: [WSG] td != div

2005-09-06 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
On 07/09/2005, at 9:31 AM, Kenny Graham wrote: In most of the previous table layout vs css layout arguments I've seen on here, people refer to divs vs tables. Now, I never learned table based layouts, and don't understand them (spacer gifs, etc). Because of this, I don't/can't

RE: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon

2005-09-06 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Kevin Futter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 7 September 2005 11:02 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon On 7/9/05 10:24 AM, John Allsopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And the location of the overwhelming

RE: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon

2005-09-06 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: John Allsopp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 7 September 2005 11:41 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon Andreas, I don't think using tables is a very good way of raising the risk of invalid

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 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] Educate the educators (was) Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-07 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Scott Swabey - Lafinboy Productions [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 8 September 2005 2:49 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] Educate the educators (was) Barclays standards redesign This has evolved into an interesting topic!

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

2005-09-08 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: John Allsopp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 8 September 2005 4:46 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Educate the educators (was) Barclays standards redesign Hi all, Now we are getting to the core of it! What we need is

RE: [WSG] Web font families

2005-09-12 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Felix Miata [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 13 September 2005 5:08 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Web font families Tom Livingston wrote: Off list replies are welcome on this... Anyone have a resource for what are

RE: [WSG] Click here--reference

2005-09-19 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: russ - maxdesign [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 20 September 2005 10:44 AM To: Web Standards Group Subject: Re: [WSG] Click here--reference - A website talking about Amaya - Download Amaya - The Amaya Forum - My aunty Amaya So, without

RE: [WSG] Click here--reference

2005-09-19 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Christian Montoya [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 20 September 2005 11:31 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Click here--reference You guys are completely off here. Links are supposed to be like this: Get a

RE: [WSG] Disappearing conent in middle column

2005-09-19 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Webmaster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 20 September 2005 2:03 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Disappearing conent in middle column The content in the centre column (i.e. the main content) of my site template disappears on

RE: [WSG] Verb this link (WAS Click here--reference)

2005-09-20 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Damian Sweeney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 21 September 2005 9:07 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Verb this link (WAS Click here--reference) This thread has got me thinking. If verbs are not the go in link text, where does

RE: [WSG] computer arts mag article/review

2005-09-25 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Christian Montoya [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 26 September 2005 3:33 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] computer arts mag article/review Considering none of the top designers use Dreamweaver, I could care less about a new

RE: [WSG] computer arts mag article/review

2005-09-25 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Duncan Heal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 26 September 2005 9:50 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] computer arts mag article/review Howdy I've been test-driving the new version of Dreamweaver - I'd pretty much sworn off it

RE: [WSG] computer arts mag article/review

2005-09-25 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: kvnmcwebn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 26 September 2005 10:11 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] computer arts mag article/review Dreamweaver is not for design. It's for the step afterwards when you take the

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