On Jan 30, 2008 1:31 AM, Thomas Thomassen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
They don't want to default to IE8 rendering because of what happend with
IE7. It broke website. Not only that but IE is used so much outside the
browser as well. It's a platform. Intranet apps. HTA apps. Even help files
uses
On 10/20/07, russ - maxdesign [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The same happens when they come across this sort of link when reading the
page contents. A link saying continue reading gives them absolutely no
context. They have to guess from associated content what you are pointing
to.
And yet... here
On 3/3/06, Brian Cummiskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The problem, is that they give you non-standards code, onMouseOver
status bar changes, etc etc but you aren't allowed to change the
code, for its against their TOS.
This is somewhat tangential, but for a while I've been toying with the
On 3/3/06, Chris Kennon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A accessibility/usability quirk was posed to me and led to a me
neither response. I've yet to encounter a font for the web that has
a distinction between the uppercase letter O and the number 0. If
such a font exist, which is it?
My first
On 2/27/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But in all seriousness, if you were setting up a website for a client who
has never been on the web before (no server logs to analyse) and is
marketing their gates/fencing business, would you try and support 4.0
browsers?
For a given
On 2/16/06, Rick Faaberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't have that little down-pointing arrow (probably not using the same
browser as you are). After 12 clicks, I probably wouldn't even remember the
original site's title anyway.
I was being somewhat facetious, but every browser I have within
On 2/16/06, Rick Faaberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's much simpler to close that new window that has all that history in it
and go right back to my site, which is where I need my audience to be. :-)
One click to close the window.
Two clicks to summon the appropriate Back functionality.
Does
On 2/1/06, Herrod, Lisa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There's no need to judge people. Everyone has a choice to work the way they
want to. It may not be the best, or your way, but you don't know their
reasons and they may be trying their best.
And yet, in many other industries, I was doing my best
On 1/26/06, Svip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Besides, Ruby on Rails is a simple form of Ruby, where very little
programming is required, but gives you less control of it, in my
opinion. But I thank thee again for bring up the language in
question.
No, Ruby on Rails is a framework built in Ruby
On 11/17/05, Patrick H. Lauke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Linking back to my philosophical question at the beginning: is web
development a subset of software development, or is it - for lack of a
better term - the development of an experience. A related point from
that: should web applications
On 10/12/05, Craig Rippon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Genuine question:
Is this because they visit, it doesn't work, and they don't come back,
forever losing them as a customer?
Probably not. Linux users tend to be running either a Gecko-based
browser (Mozilla, Firefox, Galeon and Epiphany being
On 10/12/05, Paul Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
but there should be something similar which uses the KDE desktop.
Knoppix uses KDE from (rather rusty) memory
http://www.Knoppix.org
It does. There's also a KDE version of Ubuntu called Kubuntu:
http://kubuntu.org/
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On 10/13/05, Peter Firminger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you've gone against all sane advice and used CSS hacks then you knew
exactly what you were in for with future browsers and potential problems.
A hack is a hack is a hack. Calling a hack a conditional comment
doesn't magically make it
On 10/7/05, Martin Jopson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, from John Derek's responses, am I correct in thinking there's no use
for the Meta Keywords or Meta Description tags anymore?
Any web resources/ reference for this information?
I'd like a bit more knowledge before questioning Hitwise.
In
On 10/4/05, Felix Miata [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've installed a lot of Linux distros, and surprisingly few install Vera
by default, though they usually include them on the installation media.
Weird. I've not had a Linux install anytime in the past couple of
years that didn't install the
On 10/4/05, Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How useless is that?! People who subscribe to Jakob Nielsen's newsletter are
*not* normal. They are people who show interest in Usability, people who
have got an above average understanding of Website Structure and Web
On 10/3/05, Felix Miata [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Most Linux systems have neither Verdana
nor Arial installed, at least not by default.
True, but these days nearly every Linux distribution ships the free
Bitstream Vera font set, which includes a sans-serif with metrics
similar to Verdana. Also,
On 10/3/05, Lea de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What specifically is the Lucida Sans addressing?
Most distributions these days ship the Bitstream Vera fonts, but not
all. Lucida Sans, however, is about as universal as you can get on
Linux and gives you one last fall-back to aim at before
On 9/7/05, Kris Khaira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- what if we move these away from the top. Then what?
What if you have a div with id brand which contains your company's
name in an h1 with id company_name? What if a later reorganization
of the site moves that h1 into a different container
For some reason this evening, every time I went to Google I was
redirected to http://www.google.com/xhtml, which serves up an XHTML
1.0 Mobile DOCTYPE pointing to
http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/xhtml-mobile10.dtd, and uses a MIME-type
of 'application/xhtml+xml'.
I'm guessing from that DOCTYPE that
On 4/12/05, Ben Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are you faking your user-agent? (eg, Chris Pederick's User-Agent
Switcher for Firefox)
I'm not faking my user-agent, nor do I have any WML extensions. In
fact, I'm on a brand-new copy of Firefox (just installed Ubuntu Linux
on this computer) and
On Apr 9, 2005 4:39 AM, Absalom Media [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please, scott, I'm being spammed to death with your post in this thread
endlessly repeating in the WSG list.
The first of the junk copies had an address 'IMB Recipient 1
[EMAIL PROTECTED]' listed as a recipient in
addition to the
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:22:29 +0800, Bert Doorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What other options are there, apart from complex, expensive CMS setups
(or forgetting about standards)?
Why not use a simple, free CMS like Wordpress or Textpattern? Both are
free (as in speech and as in beer), fairly
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 22:09:58 +1100, Chris Stratford
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- BTW -
How does a disabled person see that message about POP mail?
I cant see ANY source on the page.
I wonder what JAWS or other screenreaders would do when they load the
page...
Unless the screen reader is simply
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 13:42:14 +1100, Chris Stratford
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wow, I only just realised that Gmail would have to have the WORST
accessibility for everyone.
I just wanted to get the HTML code for the site.
And there have to be about 10 frames inside frames.
Yeah, Mark Pilgrim
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 18:52:54 -, designer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Surely, the argument against the double space is only a short step away from
it's logical extension: don't have paragraphs either, just have continuous
text . . .?
The logic behind both is surely the same?
No. The logic
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 08:33:41 +1100, Lachlan Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Something which no one has mentioned is the possible accessibility
benefits of the extra spacing following the period. My thoughts are that
the extra spacing will more easily distinguish the sentence for all, but
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 11:49:55 +1100, Geoff Deering [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please explain why you would use a transitional DTD where a Strict one is
valid and works just as well?
Depends on the client and how they'll be maintaining their site; I've
handed sites over to clients before who were
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 12:50:56 +1100, Geoff Deering [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you have a document that validates as doctype Strict, then why declare it
as transitional? For what reason are such decisions made? That is my
point, not all these other arguments about where to or where not to use
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 10:17:14 -0500, David Laakso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The home page for this site has 100 HTML errors, 11 CSS errors, uses
inline styles, and sets the fonts in points.
NVU is largely the brianchild of Mozilla Project member Daniel
Glazman, who has been working on it as a
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 10:30:51 +, john [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Forgive me if this doesn't specifically relate to standards, but perhaps
it does.
I'd file it under best practices myself.
I'm simply wondering about the grammatically-correct double space after
a period. For years, it's
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 15:22:45 -0500, Wayne Godfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oh really? That's a laugh. All Microsoft is interested in is sticking a very
large hose directly into your wallet to suck as much cash out as possible.
This is the 8000-pound gorilla who believes in web standards as long
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 00:17:00 -0600 (CST),
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
They suggested that the looks that are out, or dated are, ...Retro;
Swiss/Euro; Minimal; that standards-compliant look, which I thought some
of you might find an interesting read.
Two columns plus header and
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 01:41:27 -, Rene Saarsoo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But using the 'br' isn't any good too. Maybe this line with
the br should be instead a heading followed with a paragraph?
Depending on how many of these items there are, a definition list
might work well also.
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