Re: [WSG] css mark up for creating table dynamically?

2007-02-27 Thread Blake
On 2/27/07, kevin zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm creating my table dynamically - for instance, using ASP.NET tech to pull data from a database.Question is how can i use css to mark up my table? any idea? Why is the back-end relevant? The mark-up is still a table when the browser receives

Re: [WSG] Markup for Poetry?

2007-03-29 Thread Blake
On 3/30/07, Jeremy Boggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm working on a website that contains a number of poems. Are there any discussions or examples on strategies for marking up and styling poetry? Poetry is one of the few times when it's semantically correct to use br, IMO. For example,

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] dl v table for form layout

2007-05-31 Thread Blake
Keep it up and you'll get your page size back up to nested table levels ;-) I was expecting a response like that. As I said, it is over the top, but it is an idea of how far things can go if you try too hard to pursue semantics. Sometimes the goal post is a little too far away, and we can only

Re: [WSG] Re: Use of Fieldsets other than in form?

2007-06-04 Thread Blake
On 6/5/07, Lucien Stals [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The HTML 4 specs say... The FIELDSET element allows authors to group thematically related controls and labels... While controls and labels refer to form controls, the fieldset itself can contain anything. My opinion would be that the important

Re: [WSG] reading the spec [WAS: Use of Fieldsets other than in form?]

2007-06-05 Thread Blake
generally on the same side on this list. Regards, Blake -- Australian Web Designer - http://www.blakehaswell.com/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join

Re: [WSG] Usability Accessibility Over Design?

2007-08-14 Thread Blake
My general school of thought is that usability is a product of good UI design and accessibility is a product of good coding practice. Of course UI design and coding overlap, in that they both impact both fields, so it is the job of the designer AND front-end developer to make things tick for as

Re: [WSG] floats not wrapping

2008-02-14 Thread Blake
Add a width to the containing element to 'brace' the page so that it can't shrink below the width of the container element. Make sure that width is wide enough to accomodate the floated layout as you want it. Regards, Blake On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Taco Fleur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [WSG] * { display: inline; }

2008-02-17 Thread Blake
: inline; } that overwrited the browsers default of { display: none; }. Hope that clears it up. Cheers, Blake *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join

Re: [WSG] Rogue text appears in IE6.

2008-04-03 Thread Blake
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:51 PM, Rob Enslin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've recently built a website trying to move towards more standards-compliant code. After the delight at pushing the site live my world 'caved in' (a little over-dramatic maybe) this morning when a colleague noticed rogue 'ls.

Re: [WSG] Semantic markup of a byline date/time

2008-07-16 Thread Blake
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Ben Lau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Normally I'd use spans for all 3 elements, but I'm quite interested to find out a better way of doing this. Did you manage to find a solution to this? Normally I use DIVs with appropriate class names.

Re: [WSG] dl question

2008-08-03 Thread Blake
On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 1:20 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Semantically, isn't the whole point of a dl to use definition data tags (dd's) to describe a definition title (dt)!? Does it make sense to have multiple definition titles in the same dl?! Or does it make more sense to have a seperate dl

Re: [WSG] Google chrome... Coming very soon...

2008-09-02 Thread Blake
Indeed. We have some very clunky sites and they loaded almost instantly. I couldn't believe the rendering speed. However Gmail won't load on any computers with Chrome on at work (in fact, I can't sign in to any google services). Is this problem affecting everyone or is it just our network? If

Re: [WSG] Google chrome... Coming very soon...

2008-09-02 Thread Blake
Oh, the browser works fine. I can access everything except google services which require me to login. It just attempts to redirect to their authentication page and kind of... stops. Loads for a while then nothing, just a blank white page. Again, only Google services, so kind of epic fail. On

Re: [WSG] Google chrome... Coming very soon... [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2008-09-02 Thread Blake
Question: does Chrome actually record your browsing and send that information back to Google or are people just freaking over nothing? On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Andrew Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tee, my take on the legal stuff as it may apply to bloggers and other web content

Re: [WSG] Google chrome... Coming very soon... [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2008-09-02 Thread Blake
Seems about par for the course. On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Anton Babushkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: people are just freaking over nothing. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

Re: [WSG] Is it a good practice to have 'Back to Top' link?

2008-09-29 Thread Blake
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Robin Shi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the page has been scrolled down or up, whatever, the JS will reposition the div to make sure it's not outside of the view. Is it just me, or could you not use position: fixed? -- Blake Haswell http://www.blakehaswell.com

Re: [WSG] Is it a good practice to have 'Back to Top' link?

2008-09-29 Thread Blake
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Robin Shi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Blake, In my experience, position: fixed seems not work with IE. Robin Ah. I've never actually had to use it. -- Blake Haswell http://www.blakehaswell.com

Re: [WSG] .NET sites which are XHTML 1.0 strict

2008-10-07 Thread Blake
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Robin Gorry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.mucu4u.org.nz/Home_61.aspx http://www.oneeast.co.nz/ http://www.colorfastsigns.co.nz/Home_34.aspx None of those sites validate. *** List Guidelines:

Re: [WSG] First Attempt

2008-11-25 Thread Blake
: -px; width: 100px; } And that's just a CSS example, not to mention the time saved developing HTML templates, JavaScript, PHP, etc. Choosing the right text editor for what you do can save a HUGE amount of time. -- Blake Haswell http://www.blakehaswell.com/ | http://blakehaswell.wordpress.com

Re: [WSG] Fw: The Great Firewall of Australia

2008-11-26 Thread Blake
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Anthony Ziebell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, it's certainly not spam. It's been all over news, whirlpool, everywhere. Yes, it's definitely real. I feel ashamed of being Australian right there. -- Blake Haswell http://www.blakehaswell.com/ | http

Re: [WSG] Re: Users who deliberately disable JavaScript

2009-01-30 Thread Blake
luck to the Facebook user without JavaScript enabled. o_O -- Blake Haswell http://www.blakehaswell.com/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join

Re: [WSG] Chrome now higher traffic than IE

2009-03-02 Thread Blake
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Mike Kear w...@afpwebworks.com wrote: Google Chrome now amounts to over half the traffic on these sites. Wow, that's the first time I've seen Chrome over 4%. Why are these stats so scewed, if I may ask? -- Blake http://www.blakehaswell.com

Re: [WSG] handling accessible form

2007-04-23 Thread Blake Haswell
On 4/23/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the other hand, relying on the form data to indicate which fields to validate may be dangerous - a malicious user may rename the field before submission, potentially bypassing your security. Well obviously you'd validate again on the

Re: [WSG] dropdown menus

2007-04-23 Thread Blake Haswell
On 4/24/07, Shane Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought I would bring this before the group to hear your opinions on using dropdown menus. How do you feel about them? What is the best method for usability? I think they have their place, and with modern browsers it's not such a problem in

[WSG] Semantics and small

2007-05-16 Thread Blake Haswell
showing that something is less important relative to the surrounding content? Regards, Blake *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help

Re: [WSG] Semantics and small

2007-05-16 Thread Blake Haswell
Specific to your situation, I question whether an article's date or its supplementary text is really best characterized as being less important than the article itself. That doesn't strike me as a useful semantic distinction. In the absence of markup elements date and supplement, you may be