Re: [WSG] Safari and Opera

2004-06-08 Thread Richard Rutter
On 5 Jun 2004, at 12:44, Roger Johansson wrote: No. Styling form elements the same across platforms and browsers is not possible, since several browsers use the operating system's native widgets, and ignore most attempts at styling them. That's right. A particular example is the file upload box,

Re: [WSG] Quick accessibility question

2004-06-15 Thread Richard Rutter
On 15 Jun 2004, at 12:34, Andy Budd wrote: I agree with you. It's not the nicest way of doing this. I think using the :first-letter pseudo-element selector would probably be a better bet. Much neater, until you need accesskeys for both Search and Services of course. I'm sure some clever

Re: [WSG] Quick accessibility question

2004-06-15 Thread Richard Rutter
On 15 Jun 2004, at 17:55, Richard Rutter wrote: Anyone fancy a bit of fun making that work? Would it actually be useful? If you want something doing... A script which uses the DOM to automatically underline the letter of a link text which matches its accesskey: http://clagnut.com/sandbox

Re: [WSG] Must Read

2004-06-16 Thread Richard Rutter
On 16 Jun 2004, at 06:19, Bert Doorn wrote: opinion Whatever the technique, using images for headings is, to me, backward, pixel perfect, print thinking. [...] Perhaps I am a lone voice in the desert, but why go back to 1990's style websites when we have CSS? Because if we really on styling

Re: [WSG] Ten questions for Richard rutter

2004-07-01 Thread Richard Rutter
On 1 Jul 2004, at 04:19, russ - maxdesign wrote: Richard Rutter, of Clagnut fame (http://www.clagnut.com/) talks about liquid layouts, scaling images access keys, ems, and the standards-based rebuild of Multimap. Thanks Russ. If anyone has any comments on the www.multimap.com rebuild please

[WSG] Multimap redesign - help with OS9 bug

2004-07-02 Thread Richard Rutter
on IE5.0(2022)/OS 9 (the Classic version of IE as shipped with Panther). Any pointers gratefully received. cheers, Richard Rutter www.clagnut.com * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail