Re: [WSG] Webpatterns and WebSemantics

2005-11-17 Thread Chris Blown
On 11/18/05, John Allsopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very interested in people's thoughts,Interesting and challenging idea John. I'll be keeping a keen eye on the site as it develops. We've tried for years to organise a similar ideal within our own crew here and while I'm sure a pattern exists, I

Re: [WSG] disabling autocomplete and validation

2005-11-08 Thread Chris Blown
I'd have to agree with Patrick. Poking into the DOM and adding the autocomplete attribute is clean enough for the sort of thing you are doing. I look at it this way.. the markup is what the web server sends. The DOM gives us hooks into the document once its loaded into the browsers memory. I'm

Re: [WSG] Current practices in Australian web development

2005-10-29 Thread Chris Blown
Thanks John, Really appreciate your work on this. Cheers Chris B

Re: [WSG] DW 8 standards

2005-10-12 Thread Chris Blown
We tested DW8 recently, Contribute 3 also uses this latest renderer. Its CSS support is a big improvement over the previous version. It still has a way to go yet. We picked up some issues with negative margins and other issues regarding floats. But if you keep these little issues in mind when

[WSG] Criticisms of Internet Explorer

2005-10-07 Thread Chris Blown
G'day Came across this the other day; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticisms_of_Internet_Explorer Cheers Chris

Re: [WSG] Fallback elements inside Object - should they be available in the DOM?

2005-09-20 Thread Chris Blown
Form input elements that are - alternative - content within an object should not be submitted to the webserver via a post or get, I agree with Vlad, its a bug. However whether the element is available from the DOM is another question. Once the document strcuture has been passed by the browser and

Re: [WSG] Clearleft.com

2005-09-20 Thread Chris Blown
Fluid, simple, clean, valid, green yet warm, big fonts ( like big hair ) Nice work Andy. I like it.

Re: [WSG] The Big Lie about CSS

2005-09-19 Thread Chris Blown
On 9/19/05, Martin Heiden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on Montag, 19. September 2005 at 11:01 you wrote: CSS or you can change the HTML output to become span class=redsome_text/span and define .red in the CSS as well. Simplified example maybe but it explains things a little bit.But you mix structure

Re: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon

2005-09-07 Thread Chris Blown
On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 12:39, Al Sparber wrote: From: John Allsopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] So the use of tables appears to be associated strongly with invalid documents (and not only through poorly formed documents, but also through the use of invalid attributes associated with td and tr

Re: [WSG] flash satay firefox bug

2005-05-23 Thread Chris Blown
On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 11:38, Patrick H. Lauke wrote: Check out the example page in firefox. http://www.splintered.co.uk/experiments/76/ I can tab fine through that page. Using FF v1.0.4 under Linux. ** The discussion list for

[WSG] Text flow and two bottom aligned floats?

2005-05-12 Thread Chris Blown
Just a quick question.. I am wondering what techniques people would use to layout a paragraph of text with two right floated images and have the text wrap around the images as shown. The main thing is the two images need to both be bottom aligned to each other ;) I have a couple of ideas, but

RE: [WSG] Text flow and two bottom aligned floats?

2005-05-12 Thread Chris Blown
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chris Blown Sent: Thursday, 12 May 2005 5:52 PM To: WSG Subject: [WSG] Text flow and two bottom aligned floats? Just a quick question.. I am wondering what techniques people would use to layout a paragraph of text with two right floated

Re: [WSG] Styling Forms

2005-04-04 Thread Chris Blown
I'd be pointing you towards styling fieldset and label elements rather than using dl or table Good examples http://www.themaninblue.com/experiment/InForm/ Cheers Chris On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 13:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good evening all, I know there's two schools of thought regarding

Re: [WSG] Standards compliant site, clients wants to make updates themselves

2005-03-20 Thread Chris Blown
Kay Smoljak wrote: What other options are there, apart from complex, expensive CMS setups (or forgetting about standards)? I've had a lot of success with Macromedia Contribute. You can pick up a copy for around AUD $220 from Harvey Norman or Harris Technology, it totally

Re: [WSG] Parent Selectors

2005-03-02 Thread Chris Blown
how about a img { ... } though i'd rather see #nav a img { ... } See for more info --- http://www.westciv.com/style_master/academy/css_tutorial/selectors/descendant_selectors.html Cheers Chris RMW Web Publishing wrote: I trying do solve a selector (see

Re: [WSG] Parent Selectors

2005-03-02 Thread Chris Blown
Um.. Sorry I see what you are trying to do now.. I read that a bit too fast the first time ... Good question! Chris Blown wrote: how about a img { ... } though i'd rather see #nav a img { ... } See for more info --- http://www.westciv.com/style_master/academy/css_tutorial/selectors

[WSG] IE7 may ship ahead of Longhorn

2005-02-15 Thread Chris Blown
This doesn't appear to have been posted to the list yet. Sorry in advance if it has. http://news.com.com/Reversal+Next+IE+update+divorced+from+Windows/2100-1032_3-5577263.html Good news for web standards? Chris ** The discussion list for

Re: [WSG] IE7 may ship ahead of Longhorn

2005-02-15 Thread Chris Blown
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 10:03, John Allsopp wrote: Being the eternal naysayer that I am, I'll say, um, nay. On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 11:35, Bruce Morrison wrote: Also it should be noted that IE7 will only be for Longhorn and XP SP2. Older IE browsers will be with us for a while yetor

Re: [WSG] Default state of radio buttons. (Maybe OT?)

2005-02-02 Thread Chris Blown
/chiediloapippo/Engineering/iarchitect/shame.htm Regards Chris Blown ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **

Re: [WSG] Default state of radio buttons. (Maybe OT?)

2005-02-01 Thread Chris Blown
I hesitantly suggest a good place for this discussion would be on Justin French's Interface list. http://lists.indent.com.au/mailman/listinfo/interface Cheers Chris Blown ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

RE: [WSG] Should we be thankful for IE's non-development?

2005-01-18 Thread Chris Blown
the point through at the moment. I strongly believe that Microsoft are fully aware of their strangle hold and until something like Firefox becomes a significant threat, they will sit by idle without a care in the world and claim that IE is everything their customers wanted. Regards Chris Blown

Re: [WSG] A quick breakdown of some code today

2004-12-07 Thread Chris Blown
is not applied. [1] I wonder if switching stylesheets would force an update? Regards Chris Blown [1] http://www.hinterlands.com.au/testing/attribute_selectors.html ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

[WSG] VoiceXML promises voice-to-Web convergence

2004-11-24 Thread Chris Blown
and will hopefully enable us to create far more accessible websites in the near future [3]. The more developers out there who know about vxml and its associated technologies will help it move into the mainstream [4]. Take a look.. Cheers Chris Blown [1] Working Draft - http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD

Re: [WSG] video standards?

2004-11-16 Thread Chris Blown
application, but for most Linux users the pre-built Flash plugin is fine and MM provide builds for most browsers. Opera under Linux for example can happily use the firefox flash plugin. Regards Chris Blown [1] http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net [2] https://player.helixcommunity.org

Re: Underscores and multiple class names (WAS: Re: [WSG] colgroup alignment issue)

2004-11-14 Thread Chris Blown
to make it blue all you do is change the class name to from red to blue, pretty cool eh? *shivers* Regards Chris Blown ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints

Re: Underscores and multiple class names (WAS: Re: [WSG] colgroup alignment issue)

2004-11-14 Thread Chris Blown
for this in relation to reducing CSS redundancy. Regards Chris Blown ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **

[WSG] Microsoft says Firefox not a threat to IE [OT?]

2004-11-11 Thread Chris Blown
Thought this might be a worthwhile link for WSG members. Please send flames off list ;) Microsoft says Firefox not a threat to IE http://news.com.com/Microsoft+says+Firefox+not+a+threat+to+IE/2100-1032_3-5448719.html ** The discussion list

[WSG] sliding faux columns

2004-11-02 Thread Chris Blown
opportunities of CSS. Its a damn shame really. Regards Chris Blown ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **

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

2004-10-18 Thread Chris Blown
On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 22:14, Dean Jackson wrote: .. Would you intentionally build a car park that stopped Toyotas from entering? If there was a lot of Toyotas parking in my building and being that they all leaked oil in my car park and often their drivers scratched other peoples cars because

Re: [WSG] thoughts of external links in new window?

2004-10-05 Thread Chris Blown
here, very much hit the nail on the head. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2004Sep/0074.html Regards Chris Blown ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] DOM setAttribute in IE?

2004-08-19 Thread Chris Blown
On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 16:22, Justin French wrote: Can anyone either: - suggest an alternate way to achieve this, or This might help http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/methods/attachevent.asp if (anchor.attachEvent) anchor.attachEvent(onClick, function_name);

Re: [WSG] RE: Image replacement techniques for linked elements

2004-08-16 Thread Chris Blown
On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 23:44, James Ellis wrote: What I've done is probably not done often but it is worth considering. Firefox ships with its minimum font size turned off. I also use the very same setting. It can be a common adjustment for people who use XFree86 or X.org under unix ( and

Re: [WSG] forms and SSL

2004-08-11 Thread Chris Blown
entering sensitive data into their browser without the closed little pad lock icon appearing ;) Cheers Chris Blown ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04 http://we04.com/ Web standards

[WSG] forms and SSL

2004-08-10 Thread Chris Blown
post request. Or does it? One example is www.americanexpress.com.au which happily accepts members password from the ( http ) front page and posts to a https server. I guess the next question is can you post a clear text request to a https server without complaint? Regards Chris Blown

Re: [WSG] Hacks

2004-07-30 Thread Chris Blown
Andy Budd wrote: So I'm interested to hear what you folks think. Do you hack or are you hack free? If you hack, what methods do you use, why do you use that method, and more importantly, why do you need it in the first place? I try to avoid them. Just this week I had some really good results

Re: [WSG] XHTML 1.0 Transitional and autocomplete

2004-07-26 Thread Chris Blown
Hi All I just noticed that our discussion on XHTML 1.0 Transitional and autocomplete went off list. I've posted this in hopes that others may benefit from the info. Cheers Chris Blown On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 13:00, Peter Asquith wrote: Chris Thanks for the tip on the meta statements - I've

Re: [WSG] id or class on html or body

2004-07-09 Thread Chris Blown
CSS signatures ? Here http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/13291 On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 17:55, Mordechai Peller wrote: Putting an id or class on the html or body tags is a useful way of targeting slight variations in style rules with resorting to a second style sheet. I

Re: [WSG] What do browsers download?

2004-06-30 Thread Chris Blown
by your browser then the best method is to use a local proxy like proximitron. Of course under Firefox you can use the Live HTTP headers extension which is awesome. Regards Chris Blown http://hinterlands.com.au On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 22:44, Chris Stratford wrote: Im not 100% sure... but here

Re: [WSG] Site Deconstruction, those crafty Germans

2004-06-24 Thread Chris Blown
Thats _really_ bad Browser checking is a thing of the past and should be gladly forgotten. Something that we can all thank the web standards project for. Is there a valid reason to do browser checking? I can't think of one... Regards Chris Blown On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 10:30, Neerav wrote

Re: [WSG] web standards related rss feeds?

2004-06-23 Thread Chris Blown
http://www.sitepoint.com/syndication/ On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 10:45, Neerav wrote: I have recently become a fan of RSS feeds as an efficient way to trawl the net for interesting news and articles, and would appreciate knowing which web standards related rss feeds you read Here are 3 good

Re: [WSG] overflow: auto;

2004-06-15 Thread Chris Blown
Some good reading / opinions on this here. ( esp. in Comments ) http://www.9rules.com/whitespace/design/iframes_vs_overflow.php Regards Chris Blown On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 15:10, Chris wrote: Hi, I the process of a design that begs overflow: auto; what is theopinion on this wonderful

RE: [WSG] Standard Hacks?

2004-06-09 Thread Chris Blown
That is true, however already knowing of such hacks enables you to make this kind of judgement. So for the purpose of education these should help you out John http://diveintomark.org/safari/csshacks/ http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=CssHack Enjoy or not ;) On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 18:15,

Re: [WSG] Min-Width IE Workaround ?

2004-06-07 Thread Chris Blown
Thats funny Mark.. I happened to hit Froogle by accident after following that link and look what I found.. http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=min-width%20IEhl=enlr=ie=UTF-8sa=Ntab=wf Good to see Westciv in there. eh John? Regards Chris Blown On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 18:26, Mark Stanton wrote

Re: [WSG] Ten questions for Simon Willison

2004-06-01 Thread Chris Blown
Nice work again.. Thanks Russ! On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 14:00, russ - maxdesign wrote: Read Ten Questions for Simon Willison here: http://webstandardsgroup.org/features/simon-willison.cfm * The discussion list for

RE: [WSG] Ten Questions for whomever

2004-06-01 Thread Chris Blown
Yeah, I second that... Russ should be on the list too.. ;) On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 11:12, Kay Smoljak wrote: you know who I'd like to see interviewed? That Russ guy who runs that cool site... :) -- Kay Smoljak Senior Developer/QC Leader/Search Optimisation PerthWeb Pty Ltd -

Re: [WSG]

2004-05-28 Thread Chris Blown
I would like to see a third version that uses a combination of the two, the best of each method merged.. The Hybrid Approach. Regards Chris Blown On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 17:41, Gary Menzel wrote: Sergio Villarreal has written 'Tables Vs. CSS - A Fight to the Death', a SitePoint article where

Re: [WSG]

2004-05-28 Thread Chris Blown
to compromises. I'd rather have as much presentation in CSS as possible with one table than the horrible mess shown in that article. Its an easy choice really. Regards Chris Blown Jamie Mason wrote: Tables are for tabular data only, not for use for layouts as a positional grid. The only time

Re: [WSG] Re: Hybrid layouts

2004-05-28 Thread Chris Blown
of it... :) Chris Blown PS. I only just realised that the original thread had no subject, I completely missed that one.. I need a beer.. Alan Milnes wrote: I think part of this debate is because many developers have years of experience and know all the tricks of getting tables laid out how they want

Re: [WSG] Browsers Emulator - On open source [OT]

2004-05-26 Thread Chris Blown
Sorry, I just couldn't let this one go.. Its a common misconception that you cannot sell open source software. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html ;) On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 11:56, Justin French wrote: Screw opensource -- I would pay serious cash for such a tool! This is MUCH better

RE: [WSG] Browsers Emulator

2004-05-25 Thread Chris Blown
That's true, running IE6 under Linux via wine [1] even introduces extra quirks and bugs, which I sometimes falsely blame IE for until I go an actually check on XP. It does work relatively well though, and its handy for quick testing. Regards Chris Blown [1] http://www.winehq.com On Wed, 2004

Re: [WSG] naming a form so it validates?

2004-05-23 Thread Chris Blown
You should be able to do all your client side checking using DOM access methods. The name attribute in form is no longer needed nor desirable. Rough example input type=text id=name value= name=Name/ if ( document.getElementById(name) == ) { alert(Please enter a name); } Cheers Chris

Re: [WSG] naming a form so it validates?

2004-05-23 Thread Chris Blown
Ooops, that should of been ;) if ( document.getElementById(name).value == ) { alert(Please enter a name); } On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 11:26, robert e. lee wrote: I have had a form up for a long time and it vallidates as xhtml 1.0 transitional. But I have to wonder why it is that I

Re: [WSG] Safari on x86

2004-05-21 Thread Chris Blown
That's what we did. We have one little lonely eMac in our office for browser testing and other Mac related development projects. It was a necessary upgrade since the old Power PC 7200/120 just couldn't cope anymore. Chris On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 16:19, Michael Donnermeyer wrote: You'd be better

Re: [WSG] Tables are bad because...

2004-05-19 Thread Chris Blown
. The popular response to Andy's article that using the odd table without nesting them, is simple practical advice. I don't really think the odd table is that detrimental to our efforts of advocating web standards. Regards Chris Blown

Re: [WSG] Tables are bad because... Crazy idea for validation.

2004-05-19 Thread Chris Blown
At some stage, but that does look different to what I recall. Certainly a step in the right direction. On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 14:22, Mark Stanton wrote: Hi Chris Have you tried turning on verbose output? This can be done by going to the extended interface at

Re: [WSG] CSS support table?

2004-05-17 Thread Chris Blown
For Mozilla based browsers, have a look here. http://devedge.netscape.com/toolbox/sidebars/ Though no mention of browser support, links into the correct section of the w3c are very helpful. Chris On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 01:46, Razvan Pop wrote: !!blue wrote: Hi all, Where can I find some

RE: [WSG] csscreator.com multimenu

2004-05-10 Thread Chris Blown
vertical-align : bottom; On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 15:54, theGrafixGuy wrote: A CSS question - I have some centered text formatted via a class in div id= and I need it at the bottom of the div but still HORIZONTALLY centered - how? Thanks for the help in advance Brian

Re: [WSG] Question on javascript

2004-05-06 Thread Chris Blown
to upgrade, offering some of the benefits. Surprisingly most people upgrade when provided a link. Regards Chris Blown http://hinterlands.com.au On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 09:19, Mark Stanton wrote: I agree with Ryan - coding for specific browsers is a futile excerise. We do use javascript quite

Re: [WSG] CSS: writing-mode / MS runs W3C?

2004-05-03 Thread Chris Blown
You've caught me out Simon! I might of let that statement play devils advocate, so I could get up on the soap box for a bit. ;) Regards Chris Blown On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 00:58, Simon Jessey wrote: I'm afraid you've misinterpreted what I was trying to say, Chris. What I was trying to say

Re: [WSG] CSS: writing-mode / MS runs W3C?

2004-05-02 Thread Chris Blown
) Microsoft might just sit up and take notice. The real issue is, Microsoft have the power, resources and money to free these features to the world and truth be told they don't care... Regards Chris Blown * The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] marquee text

2004-04-21 Thread Chris Blown
Have a look at http://devedge.netscape.com/toolbox/examples/2001/stock-ticker/ Regards Chris Blown http://hinterlands.com.au On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 16:22, Jackie Reid wrote: My client has asked me for a section of scrolling text dammit! Have searched online...cant find anything other

Re: [WSG] Ten Questions for Eric Meyer - a WSG interview

2004-04-20 Thread Chris Blown
Nice work Russ.. keep them coming! Eric's level headed attitude never fails to impress. Regards Chris Blown http://hinterlands.com.au On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 13:01, russ - maxdesign wrote: Hi all, Announcing an exciting addition to the WSG site. I have been interviewing a range of high profile

Re: [WSG] Footer on the very bottom of the viewing port

2004-04-08 Thread Chris Blown
Hey Mike, Check here http://scott.sauyet.name/CSS/Demo/FooterDemo2.html Regards Chris Blown http://hinterlands.com.au On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 17:01, Mike Kear wrote: I want to have a footer stuck to the bottom of the browser window, but if the window reduces in size, the footer goes over

Re: [WSG] New CSS site

2004-03-11 Thread Chris Blown
Very nice Peter. Smooth and clean is all good. I used to play around with Cinema 4D on the go ole Amiga. Heh, that brings back some fond memories. ;) Cheers Chris Blown http://hinterlands.com.au On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 11:49, Universal Head wrote: Hi all Just about to be officially

Re: [WSG] New CSS site

2004-03-11 Thread Chris Blown
You can put the favicon.ico file in the webroot. This works without the need for any markup. However this doesn't work for IE. Works fine other browsers. IE is also picky about the file format. Cheers Chris Blown http://hinterlands.com.au On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 13:35, Universal Head wrote

Re: [WSG] Dynamically populating stylesheets?

2004-03-09 Thread Chris Blown
see anything its all black? Regards Chris Blown http://hinterlands.com.au On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 15:38, Beau wrote: You can do this with something like PHP, just a script that does something like this link rel=stylesheet type=text/css href=cssmaker.php / ?php header('Content-type: text/css

Re: [WSG] SimpleBits ripped - is this for real?

2004-03-04 Thread Chris Blown
Yeah, sorry I should of mentioned that Dan Cederholm is well aware of it. On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 12:57, Michael Zeltner wrote: oops, it has already been reported... too late... * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/

RE: [WSG] turning back to the dark side...

2004-03-04 Thread Chris Blown
That's good advice. BTW. Using tables doesn't automatically make your markup invalid. You can happily use tables and still get 100% compliant markup. Chris Blown http://hinterlands.com.au Why not just relax a little and do a table for the part that's giving you all the heartburn, and move

Re: [WSG] Nicely styled Hx tags

2004-03-03 Thread Chris Blown
this font. From my experience with Linux Times is the most common. font-family : Times New Roman, Times, serif; Regards Chris Blown Dave Shea has some nice examples of using Times New Roman, half way through the article at: http://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2003/07/24/times_new_ro

Re: [WSG] Nicely styled Hx tags

2004-03-03 Thread Chris Blown
agree with the idea that using the content property for adding content is a bad idea, but using content for replacement is not so bad as everyone is making out. Anyway since only a couple of browsers support this, its not a real alternative, yet... Cheers Chris Blown Perhaps this quote of John

[WSG] CSS3 Hyperlink Presentation Module - Working Draft

2004-02-29 Thread Chris Blown
direction. Any thoughts? Cheers Chris Blown * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *

RE: [WSG] Styleswitching

2004-02-26 Thread Chris Blown
Good stuff.. Mike. Not sure if its just me, but I noticed that the Acoustic Emission Instrumentation link only hovers when my mouse is over Instrumentation Linux FireFox 0.8 ( gtk2 / xft ) Cheers Chris Blown On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 13:45, Michael Kear wrote: Whooh! I just launched my

RE: [WSG] Styleswitching

2004-02-26 Thread Chris Blown
The menus div is overlapping sidemenu causing the top entry in the menu to miss its hover selector ( at least in FireFox here ) Regards Chris Blown On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 15:18, Chris Blown wrote: Good stuff.. Mike. Not sure if its just me, but I noticed that the Acoustic Emission

[WSG] W3C 1st draft of the CSS media type reader

2004-02-25 Thread Chris Blown
The first draft of the 'reader' media type. Published to get some early feedback, especially on whether 'reader' is necessary and implementable. http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-css3-reader-20040224/ * The discussion list for

Re: [WSG] silly question about meta tags

2004-02-25 Thread Chris Blown
meta tags should generally be added to each page, listing keywords that are accurately relevant to the content on the page. Keep the list short and precise. Cheers Chris Blown PS. Not all search engines read nor care about meta keywords On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 15:16, Universal Head wrote

Re: [WSG] silly question about meta tags

2004-02-25 Thread Chris Blown
this technique, very handy for checking keywords. Cheers Chris Blown On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 15:16, Universal Head wrote: Dumb question but ... Do you repeat your META tags on every page of your site, or only the index page? Thanks Peter

Re: [WSG] Debrief and thanks to Russ Peter

2004-02-23 Thread Chris Blown
Sorry I missed it guys, looks like I missed a good one.. damn! Thanks for posting the presentation slides.. Regards Chris Blown On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 22:50, t.lucas wrote: Tonight was my first WSG meeting and I'd just like to say a big thanks to Russ and Peter for organising such a great

RE: [WSG] Aural Property in CSS2???

2004-02-18 Thread Chris Blown
in CSS. http://www.voicexml.org/specs/multimodal/x+v/11/examples/ Still a long way to go... Regards Chris Blown Another interesting point is that (AFAIK) screen readers have some of the worst CSS support out of any of the browsers barring lynx (which doesn't support CSS at all). I think most

RE: [WSG] Cache Tutorial

2004-02-17 Thread Chris Blown
. Thanks Chris Blown On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 13:41, Mark Stanton wrote: I really don't think this is OT at all. HTTP is the basis of everything we do and is very much a web standard. I think that if you put the following line of code in your stream.php file: header(HTTP/1.0 304 Not Modified

[WSG] Patents and Open Standards

2004-02-17 Thread Chris Blown
/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/ http://xml.coverpages.org/patents.html [ Warning : Super Long ] Regards Chris Blown * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *

Re: [WSG] Cache Tutorial

2004-02-16 Thread Chris Blown
. During standard image requests the web server responds with a 304 Not Modified response when the image is cached, so that the browser doesn't bother to reload the image. I cannot seem to emulate this behaviour via a fpassthru() PHP call. Regards Chris Blown On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 10:04, Mark

[WSG] Friday Afternoon Funny

2004-02-12 Thread Chris Blown
! Cheers Chris Blown * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *

Re: [WSG] Friday Afternoon Funny

2004-02-12 Thread Chris Blown
?) is about the right line length - @ alistapart although where it is I don't know as the search function has disappeared from that site. Cheers James Chris Blown wrote: Thought I'd share this one with everyone, we received a list of corrections today from one of our clients, and we found

[WSG] W3C Recommendations RDF OWL

2004-02-10 Thread Chris Blown
-grammar-20040210/ Regards Chris Blown * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *

Re: [WSG] code for a form

2004-02-09 Thread Chris Blown
If you need something quick then http://www.hotscripts.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?bool=ANDquery=contact+formcatid=all On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 18:02, Universal Head wrote: I don't know if this is on-topic or not, but can anyone direct me to a simple way of creating a form that has a few fields that

Re: [WSG] RE: Opening pages in new windows... [We're done here] [OT]

2004-02-08 Thread Chris Blown
. Cheers Chris Blown A bit of protocol. Might be best to start a new thread (and paste in any quotes) rather than changing the subject if changing the topic completely. Makes it easier for people that view the list via threads on mail-archive.com. Much of the recent discussion under the heading

Re: [WSG] Strange IE5 Mac rendering

2004-02-05 Thread Chris Blown
Mark Maybe try adding #textContent p { width: 450px; margin-right: 0; color: #564370; margin-top: 1em; } Cheers Chris Blown On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 18:46, Mark Stanton wrote: Hi All Just a quick one that only seems to affect IE5/MAC: http

Re: [WSG] Some more links...

2004-02-03 Thread Chris Blown
Not being that Mac savy, I assume it's possible to have both v1.0 and v1.2 installed on the same machine? Safari 1.2 is out for mac-heads: http://www.apple.com/safari/ * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/

[WSG] Flowchart using CSS

2004-02-02 Thread Chris Blown
Hey How would one markup a simple flowchart using xhtml / css? A few ul? Hardest part is how to do the connecting lines.. Any ideas? Cheers Chris Blown * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *

Re: [WSG] centering block in IE5 problem

2004-02-01 Thread Chris Blown
this? #box { position : absolute; left : 50%; width: 120px ; margin-left : -60px; /* Half box width */ } Chris PS... Does anyone have an idea about how to do this with a absolutely

Re: [WSG] Background PNGs in IE/Win?

2004-01-29 Thread Chris Blown
Just for the record... I wouldn't recommend using this, but it does work. This is totally a DirectX hack and only works in Windows IE. filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='images/image.png',sizingMethod='scale'); Regards Chris Blown PS. I am not totally against CSS

Re: [WSG] Real world use of standards

2004-01-28 Thread Chris Blown
decides to bung in invalid markup, or maybe a particular application framework doesn't yet support the markup correctly. If IE wasn't such a pain, then standards are really a no brainer, write once works everywhere, hmmm one day.. soon I hope.. Cheers Chris Blown On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 11:06

Re: [WSG] Floats of the Fluid and Fixed kind

2004-01-27 Thread Chris Blown
Thanks Tonico Looks great. Cheers Chris Blown A few months ago I need to do this for a project. It was one of my first pure CSS layouts. It's done with positioning not floats. The abstract HTML: div id=min-heightnbsp;/div divContent/div div id=footerFooter/div CSS: #min-height

[WSG] Image Replacement Methods

2004-01-26 Thread Chris Blown
Hey There are quite a few sites around that cover these already, but I did as a bit of a learning experiment. http://hinterlands.hcit/testing/css_image_replacement.html Cheers ChrisB More : http://www.mezzoblue.com/tests/revised-image-replacement/

RE: [WSG] Image Replacement Methods

2004-01-26 Thread Chris Blown
Um, yeah... sorry guys... /* feeling silly */ http://www.hinterlands.com.au/testing/css_image_replacement.html @Russ : Did you correct the URL by hand? ChrisB On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 14:48, Mark Stanton wrote: Hey Chris Can you double check that URL - looks broken. Cheers Mark

Re: [WSG] more usable forms

2004-01-22 Thread Chris Blown
I was quite surprised when I first saw the way that some Mac browsers highlight focused inputs with a light blue border. If only :focus was better supported by IE. and PNG's and.. and.. ChrisB On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 13:42, Mark Stanton wrote: Nice article on making forms a bit nicer.

[WSG] More browser share stats..

2004-01-19 Thread Chris Blown
http://www.onestat.com/html/aboutus_pressbox26.html I always doubt the accuracy of these stats, since various browsers default their user_agent to IE6. Anyway, no surprises, IE still holds the crown... ChrisB * The discussion list for

Re: [WSG] Rave or Valid point

2004-01-18 Thread Chris Blown
Yes, I get the same with Firebird under Linux, though gtk1/2 support is much better than it once was. Is Camino still in development? Its uses native widgets, doesn't it? ChrisB It's also for this very same reason that I dislike what Mozilla does with form widgets, which (at least on Mac OS

Re: [WSG] big trouble...still!

2004-01-14 Thread Chris Blown
This may be a caching issue. I tried it here and its OK on IE v6 ChrisB On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 13:38, stuart wrote: Received and e-mail today regarding the unexpected crashing of this page *still* http://www.weddingphotography.com.au/prices/index.htm

Re: [WSG] [OT] Just an opinion - no offense intended

2004-01-12 Thread Chris Blown
I understand where you are coming from Taco. This sort of feeling is not uncommon for mailing lists and forums that cover potentially complex subject matter. The fear of being flamed is usually unwarranted though. People are subscribed to this list to learn, help out and generally promote web

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