Re: [WSG] Validation and Accessibility Reports out side of the W3C

We actualy got around it using Dreamweavers RegEx support in its Find and Replace On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 04:59 , Mordechai Peller [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: Mark Harwood wrote: Now we have just run a SiteMore.com check on part of the development site and it has come back kicking and screaming

Re: [WSG] PHP CSS Your Here Effect

/index.php?p=9 Mark Harwood Phunky.co.uk / Xhtmlandcss.co.uk / Zinkmedia.co.uk On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 10:52 , Chris Kennon [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: Hi, Thanks, but when testing locally with my php/mySQL server, a blank page appears in the browser. What did I goof? $menu = Home

Re: [WSG] IE's New JavaScript Blocking Feature

onKeypress too Mark Harwood -- Phunky.co.uk / Xhtmlandcss.co.uk / Zinkmedia.co.uk -- Currently looking for Freelance / Contract work ** The discussion

Re: [WSG] IE's New JavaScript Blocking Feature

: Mark Harwood Remeber to put onKeypress too I'd disagree. I've had this rant before, but here goes: onclick is not a device specific handler. Onclick is also activated by the keyboard (e.g. hitting return when focus is on a link). It's a misnomer, and should really be onactivation or something

RE: [WSG] IE's New JavaScript Blocking Feature

On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 16:05 , Derek Featherstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: My vote: let the automated checkers moan about this all day. Ignore them. Don't add onkeypress in the name of accessibility and device independence... Try telling that to SOCTiM who check all local council sites, they take

[WSG] Validation and Accessibility Reports out side of the W3C

, guess its like the FA over ruling FIFA :S Many Thanks Mark Harwood Phunky.co.uk / Xhtmlandcss.co.uk / Zinkmedia.co.uk / Currently out of contract ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

[WSG] What you think? And will it work

of things? Should I use one of them creative commerce thingies? Ps. Sites not live yet hence lack of content :) Many thanks Mark Harwood Phunky.co.uk / xhtmlandcss.co.uk / zinkmedia.co.uk / Currently looking for work

RE: [WSG] What you think? And will it work

to WordPress. It's published under the same CC you're referring to. On the concept: well, someone had to do it. On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 19:44:13 -, Mark Harwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://xhtmlandcss.co.uk/index.php?p=4 Well all weekend ive finally been getting this site sorted after about

[WSG] Creating Nice Pop-Ups

in a second but i thought id just rattle all you brainheads on the list. dunno if you would class a accessible issuse worth use of the list, but if not im sorry. Thanks anyways Mark Harwood Phunky.co.uk / Zinkmedia.co.uk

Re: [WSG] Creating Nice Pop-Ups

Its ok ive figured it out for my self, please someone give me the lists dunse hat please! all you need for nice popups are... href=http://www.phunky.co.uk/; onclick=window.open(this.href); return false; onkeypress=window.open(this.href); return false; Thanks anyways Mark Harwood

Re: [WSG] css snippet

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 04:44 , Bennie Shepherd [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: Am I just dense? :o) Think you answered the question you self fella... Ive never known it possible to use a wildcard (*) to select all elements, it would be nice but i dont think its possible Mark Harwood

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

Developer () www.seowebsitepromotion.com GAWDS Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.gawds.org -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]','','','')[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark Harwood Sent: 18 October 2004 12:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WSG] should you refuse to support IE

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

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 12:58 , john [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: Doesn't ditching IE run contrary to the whole idea of accessibility and using Web standards? It does, but im not really ditching IE im more just refusing to add the fix's for th PNG-LOGO and sorting the margin/padding issuse with the

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

, but some of you have pointed out the extact worrys i had if i did so... Cheers guys, as usual full of help :D Mark Harwood -- Phunky.co.uk / Xhtmlandcss.co.uk / Zinkmedia.co.uk

Re: [WSG] Letterhead/footer using print style?

Lorenzo, If you placed some div's with say a class of printOnly you could hide them in you normal style sheet but then show them in you print one. That would solve your problem very simply Mark Harwood --- Phunky.co.uk / Zinkmedia.co.uk

Re: [WSG] shrinking p whitespace

Hi Rick, Welcome to the group :D as for the whitespace around the P have you removed padding and margin from it? and if so have you removed it from any surrounding elemenets? thats normaly the main cause of whitespace around a P Hope that helps you on your way a bit... Mark Harwood

Re: [WSG] PNG with alpha trans in IE

2 seconds in google and you could found it yourself... But here you go http://www.koivi.com/ie-png-transparency/ Mark Harwood -- Phunky.co.uk / Zinkmedia.co.uk / Xhtmlandcss.co.uk

Re: [WSG] Article: Ten CSS tricks you may not know

Ten CSS tricks — corrected and improved http://tantek.com/log/2004/09.html#d07t1434 Mark Harwood --- phunky.co.uk / zinkmedia.co.uk / xhtmlandcss.co.uk ** The discussion list for http

RE: [WSG] Horizontal Scroll

On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 15:58 , Mark | Carbon Chip [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: Use overflow-x: scroll Sadly overflow-x and overflow-y are only currently supported in IE at the moment Mark phunky.co.uk / zinkmedia.co.uk / xhtmlandcss.co.uk

Re: [WSG] commonly used order of styles within a css class

,margin,padding) dunno why tho, guess its just habit! Mark Harwood --- phunky.co.uk / zinkmedia.co.uk / xhtmlandcss.co.uk ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters

RE: [WSG] Scalable Inman Flash Replacement Technique

this? Time Screen readers should pick up the text in the stylesheet, not the flash object! i've tested it on a current project (http://www.southtyneside.info/project_area/cleadonpark/) works really well! Mark Harwood http://phunky.co.uk http://zinkmedia.co.uk

Re: [WSG] background image on a horizontal list.

a { width : 100px ; background : #99cc00 ; padding : 5px ; } Hope that help's fella Mark Harwood -- phunky.co.uk / zinkmedia.co.uk / xhtmlandcss.co.uk ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] CSS competition

Sound's very nice johna i shall deffently be submitting one or two templates for you! Would you have any problem with me also offering the one's i submit to you on my new project xhtmlandcss.co.uk ? or would you like soley right's to them? Many Thanks Mark Harwood

[WSG] Re: Xhtmlandcss.co.uk Email

... Cheers Mark Harwood http://phunky.co.uk http://zinkmedia.co.uk ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04 http://we04.com/ Web standards, accessibility, inspiration, knowledge To be held

Re: [WSG] Job Posting

Good Morning Marc, Just want to ask before i reply but would you be tempted by someone oversea's? Im willing to relocate just dont know all the in's and out's of if i would be able to or not straight away?! Anyway thought id ask first before i submit my resume to you. Many Thanks Mark Harwood

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

H all i do is place a set of [span] tag's around the text and make the [a] tag a block element and give it the background image... Much like i've done on http://phunky.co.uk/2005/ in the menu... Nice and simple! ** The discussion list for

Re: [WSG] pagesauce.com

Yeh, its not a bad idea... im waiting to be able to change www.southtyneside.info in to XHTML and get rid of the crappy code that there old designer did... Hardest thing is working for a company that thinks there the dog's bollox but when someone from outside there office comes in a show there

Re: [WSG] pagesauce.com

Deffo! i think the UK designer you was on about was the guy that made the hugely popular Odeon cinema site, that in the end grew more popular then the Offical one! It was ok untill people started getting confused with which site was offical and which was just a listing of show times...

RE: [WSG] Fixed vs flexible layouts

Well i think i found the best of both worlds... and Fluid/Elastic Design http://www.southtyneside.info/project_area/southtyneside/xhtml/elastic.asp :) * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

Re: [WSG] Smooth fonts with CSS

You mean to Anti-Alias them... Sadly there no way you can do this just thru CSS, you could use Shaun Inmann's Flash Replacement Trick, which scans you code and replaces what you select with Flash http://www.shauninman.com/mentary/past/ifr_revisited_and_revised.php Ive used it on many projects

Re: [WSG] Fixed vs flexible layouts

Well im just swaying away from my gotta keep it fixed way of thinking and slowly getting on with Stretch it like a rubber Johnny as i still dont think a full fluid layout works 100% of the time. But an Elastic one does! As you can still set your width's and if you do everything in EM's

Re: [WSG] Hacks

or even to nudge some sizing information a pixel or two down. Hacks are dirty and we should try and avoid them at all costs but sometimes we just need to do it, for the sake of IE mainly Mark Harwood http://phunky.co.uk/2004/ * The discussion

RE: [WSG] Hacks

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 20:55 , Geoff Deering So I pose another question, if it was a perfect world and it supported CSS properly, what percentage of your development time would be saved on each project? Very little now, as i've developed a standard for all my sites, which you can tell via the

[WSG] Submenu bug in FireFox...

wrong! Also do you like the way it looks (in IE at least) shud be able to totaly Increase and Decrease (by the time i finish!) it to any size! Many Thanks Mark Harwood www.phunky.co.uk/2004/ *Currenly looking for Employment!* * The discussion list

Re: [WSG] Why do web developers user Firefox?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is the Firefox browser used by Web Developers? What does it have that makes it a good tool? - over other browsers? Why not Opera? A good developer should have all browser installed which everone he uses as his default is down to his personal prefrence

Re: [WSG] Submenu bug in FireFox...

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 14:44 , Mordechai Peller [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: ul {float : left;} means ALL UL's are floated left, including the nested ul. The nested ul is floated in it's parent li. The solution: ul ul {float : none;} Thank you thats the bit i missed!! Yeah i was thinking of doing it

[WSG] Keeping heights equal...

is that the correct way to do it? cos if so its not working on http://www.southtyneside.info/project_area/Leisure_project/final/ Im only having the problem in FireFox where it wont strech the height of the #widthContainer div which holds the entire site. Works fine in IE! Any help would be great! Mark Harwood

Re: [WSG] Keeping heights equal...

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 10:45 , Joe Leech [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: I think this is a problem 99% of people on this list have had. And alas there is no simple solution. Alistapart has a great article that at least makes it seem like both divs are the same height.: Thanks joe, but im sure i've

[WSG] Web Accessability IE Toolbar

Just incase none of you have come accross this bt i think its kinda kewl and handy... http://www.nils.org.au/ais/web/resources/toolbar/index.html Have fun! Mark Harwood www.phunky.co.uk * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] hand coding versus code generators

manager and code view.. and i wouldnt change it for the world, unless homesite had the ftp/file manager that Dreamweaver has Mark Harwood zinkmedia.co.uk * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] IFR

Show me your HTML cos im betting you have not named it right, and when the JavaScript scan's you HTML it wont find what its looking to replace... as for editing the Flash! it couldnt be simpler... Load, select text feild, set text, export... simple!

Re: [WSG] XHTML Transitional - Strict

myself of the list and ill do me best to help! Mark Harwood Phunky.co.uk * 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] Standard Hacks?

media=screen is not a hack, thats statin the proper display device target for the relavent stylesheet. Hacks are things like the IE Underscore hack, they tend to be workarounds for CSS properties that are not yet implemented in certain browsers or that need slightly differnt values, theres

[WSG] Min-Width IE Workaround ?

Im starting to create a Fluid CSS design, which im finding to be quite and arse in IE... But anyways, i've got the basic layout created, but i would now like to have a min-width, but just cant think of a way of getting it to work in IE. So what im asking is... Does anyone know a min-width work

Re: [WSG] Anti-spam mailto encoders using Character Entity Evasion

It does now... why not use the content: selector and set your email in there ;) Shame IE dont like Content: tho! * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on

RE: [WSG] Make em' pay for IE

[EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: RE: [WSG] Make em' pay for IE I agree word for word with Mark on this Jamie Mason: Design -Original Message- From: Mark Harwood WebMail [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 June 2004 12:23 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] Make em' pay

Re: [WSG] Make em' pay for IE

In other words, you'll lie to your client because you think they're too stupid to understand that dealing with the problems in IE is one of the costs of doing business and no less real than paying taxes and the electric company. Im sorry but i can safely say that i have no need to lie to my

Re: [WSG] SkillSwap

Still kinda Useful info! Phunky * 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] Help validating a Counter script

Erm im not 100% sure but if you just stick it in a external .js page and doe the normal Script inclusion wouldnt that get around the nasty JavaScript and let it validate? * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

RE: [WSG] Help validating a Counter script

I never even checked his actual code :E assumed he knew what he was doing, just didnt know what to do with the JavaScript... On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 19:35 , Bert Doorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: Message G'day A couple of hints... 1. Close the meta tags: meta name=description

Re: [WSG] Should web standards cost more?

Could not agree more! End of the day validating a site is the least of you worries, unless that is what the client overall wants. To be honests i wouldnt even charge extra for a valid site, as in my eyes any true web developer should make sure it validates anyway, as it shows they know what

Re: [WSG] Should web standards cost more?

In a perfect world, but we always no when it comes to standards unless your keeping it simple i would never quote a hourly rate. Would rather go flat fee and get a even medium and make sure i get the job done, and keep the client happy and willing to come back... take

[WSG] Coming to Oz, looking for Freelance...

it will only be short work. But anything would be great. So if anyones got anyone they would reccomend send a link my way :D thanks Mark Harwood www.phunky.co.uk * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

[WSG] FireFox not playing with Height:Auto

Good morning People, Im Just having a mess around on a site, but for sum reason Firefox does not want to work with height:auto on a div that needs to strecth the one it's contained in. I rember someone tellin me before about a tecnique with clear:all that would make the content below where it

Re: [WSG] FireFox not playing with Height:Auto

D'oh! Thats the badger! Clear:Both not clear:all... Sorry brain dead moment On Tue, 18 May 2004 20:39 , Chris Stratford [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: Hey, there is no CLEAR: ALL method... http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_class_clear.asp I think you mean: CLEAR: BOTH... Mark Harwood WebMail

RE: [WSG] Form not formatting correctly in Opera7.1

Its due to #form label,input, select,textarea { display : block; } If you give it display:inline then it will stay within you divs Thats a nice little bug Operas got there! As a rule I always give form elements display:inline Kind regards, Mark Harwood -Original

Re: [WSG] Last error on Validator

Title: Message Yes you should, If its in your HTML it should me amp; not Thats why we validate :) - Original Message - From: Taco Fleur To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 10:11 AM Subject: [WSG] Last error on Validator

Re: [WSG] Problems getting Mozilla to like Floats

:D eeeK trust me not to validate before posting!!! Ta for that little float tip :) thats worked a treat! Thanks very much for your help, great stuff that the first reply fix's the problem :D Many Thanks Mark Harwood www.phunky.co.uk On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 23:08 , russ weakley [EMAIL PROTECTED