Re: [WSG] Longhorn Avalon - seismic shift for web standards?

2005-07-14 Thread David Pietersen
But, if you're in the business of building web apps that target a specific platform.. :) We all do, really. I am at home, and don't have the research here, but current statistics show that 97.4% of all devices accessing web content are running on Windows. Every one of these machines has IE

Re: [WSG] Longhorn Avalon - seismic shift for web standards?

2005-07-14 Thread David Pietersen
HA HA HA Not exactly, I work for the Government. I don't think the statistic is that hard to believe really.My website gets 30,000 unique visitors a day, and the number of those using a non-windows OS is not even worth counting. I love Firefox, but playing Devil's advocate, how can we justify to

Re: [WSG] Longhorn Avalon - seismic shift for web standards?

2005-07-15 Thread David Pietersen
AT LEAST TWICE with different browsers ... On 7/15/05, David Pietersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HA HA HA Not exactly, I work for the Government. I don't think the statistic is that hard to believe really.My website gets 30,000 unique visitors a day, and the number of those using a non-windows

Re: [WSG] What not to do for colour blind users

2005-07-24 Thread David Pietersen
Mordechai is totally rightin that it ishue that makes it difficult, but it is only within the specific context of combining the two (either Red/Green or Blue/Green). I had a series of progressively more advanced CB tests when I went to join the Army, and ended up with a rating of 19, with 20

Re: [WSG] Does anyone still design for 640x480?

2005-08-03 Thread David Pietersen
Visitors to my State Government site are almost divided exactly in half between 800x600 and 1024x768, based on around 30,000 unique visits per day, and we actually provide 2 versions of our sitethrough testing the res before we render the HTML. There is a growing percentage of those with

[WSG] Book- Any good?

2005-08-11 Thread David Pietersen
Hi All, Sorry if this is off topic, but I was thinking about picking up a copy of... Accessible XHTML and CSS Web Sites: Problem - Design - Solutionby Jon Duckett http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTitle/productCd-0764583069.html Can anyone tell me if this is any good, or let me know of a better

Re: [WSG] Accessibility, the possibilities

2005-08-22 Thread David Pietersen
Hi all, Sorry to be a pain, but I am new to this list. Is there a place somewhere that lists the tools/techniques for doing the below? Ok, we can validate for: * W3C HTML/XHTML * CSS * WAI * Section 508And I've recently learnt about accessibility checks for: * Colour blindness * Contrast *

Re: [WSG] Accessibility, the possibilities

2005-08-23 Thread David Pietersen
Thank you so much! You just made my life about a million times easier! dp. On 23/08/05, Peter Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: David Pietersen ...tools/techniques for doing the below? Ok, we can validate for: * W3C HTML/XHTML* CSS* WAI* Section 508David,The W3C maintain a useful website

[WSG] Fully compliant sample site

2005-09-01 Thread David Pietersen
Hi all, Sorry to ask a silly question, but is there a really good 'Fully Compliant' sample site I could see somewhere? I am basically looking for a template, with associatedCSS files etc, that I could have a really good look at to see how it works rather thanread through stacks of rules.

Re: [WSG] Talking about tabular data...

2007-03-06 Thread David Pietersen
Sorry if this has already come up... but have you seen these? http://www.lenef.com/dotleader/ http://home.tampabay.rr.com/bmerkey/examples/dot-leaders.html On 3/7/07, Dwain Alford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i don't think you are missing anything. imo what you are proposing in your example is

Re: [WSG] IE help

2007-08-23 Thread David Pietersen
Works fine for me... IE 7.0.6000.16512 on Vista Ultimate On 8/23/07, Bob Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some users have complained that when they go to this page http://www.fifeweb.org/wp/lib/lib_current.html and try to download the linked files with IE 7 they get a message stating

Re: [WSG] Animated gifs

2008-11-20 Thread David Pietersen
I had to do this once in the past... and in the end I split the animation up into its individual frames, optimized each frame to within an inch of its life, then re-built it as an animation. Cut the file size down to 10% of the original size. I recall that I did screen-shots of every 'frame' of

Re: [WSG] Animated gifs

2008-11-20 Thread David Pietersen
Just tell the client that you can charge them for a full day of your time to fix it, or they can just have a still version for free. Let them make the decision for you ;-) On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Lynette Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I had to do this once in the past... and in the