Marvin,
I doubt that there is any accessible image map editor out there in the
wild. This editor must be able to interpret the image. For this exercise
you'll definitely need help by someone who is able to draw the areas.
When this part is done, you can put the alt-attributes at the img and
area
Hi Bob!
May I add another wrapper div? Try the following. Probably you want
to tweak some withs and margins.
Regards,
Martin.
!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd;
html xmlns=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml;
head
meta
Tee,
Wednesday, December 31, 2008, 8:52:02 AM, you wrote:
t OK, finally got it working this time. All I needed is adding this :
t meta http-equiv=content-script-type content=text/tcl /
Do you really use TCL in your page? I guess you want to change it to
meta http-equiv=content-script-type
Elaine,
on Friday, July 25, 2008 at 11:42 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote:
I'm looking for some advice on the best way to put together the navigation
for the following design:
http://www.webdandy.co.uk/navigation-slice.jpg, so
that it's standards compliant and accessible (and if at all
Kane,
on Friday, April 11, 2008 at 03:03 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote:
If I HAD to do something like this, I would create a Gif image that had a
transparency where you wanted the colour change.
Yes, but you should use a PNG with alpha-transparency. The lines are
diagonal, so you need some
Olá!
on Thursday, March 20, 2008 at 15:38 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote:
and the html where the word launch should have another a a:hover
div class=menu
ul
liBittencourt Lopes/li
lispanRole./spanWebsite design/li
Kevin,
well, I think it ist completely off topic, but anyway:
You mean that http://my.server.com/folder/file.html shows the same
HTML document as https://my.server.com/folder/file.html ?
Make sure you use only relative links in the .html so that the
secure connection is used for all
Elizabeth,
Saturday, March 1, 2008, 11:08:47 PM, you wrote:
ES I understand that Contribute would allow them to make changes to content
ES without messing with the coding/navigation. Does anyone have experience
ES with this product? Is it possible/easy to set up to maintain
ES
dwain,
!-- Document Head ===--
!ENTITY % head.misc (script|style|meta|link|object)*
!-- content model is %head.misc; combined with a single
title and an optional base element in any order --
!ELEMENT head (%head.misc;,
((title,
Simon,
on Friday, January 18, 2008 at 15:24 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote:
I am on a webpage...how do I know what page the browser was previously
showing.
I think Javascript History object is the ticket...but STRICT mode in Firefox
seems to tell me that I don't have permission to access
James,
I guess that you have to count down in your for-loop. You modify the
DOM while iterating over the nodes, so the model changes while you
are working at it. If you start with the last element, you don't
mess up the references.
for(var j=inputs.length-1; j=0; j--) { ... }
regards
Rick,
on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 at 13:50 Web Standards Group wrote:
On 15/11/07 (11:15) Ross said:
document.write
inline event handlers (like onclick)
browser sniffing
In summary, then, does anyone recommend me hanging onto Visual
Quickstart Guide: JavaScript and Ajax (6th
Hi!
Serdar Kilic schrieb:
The address element is a perfect candidate to be marked up using hCard.
address
ul class=about vcard entry-author
liName: span class=fnSerdar Kiliç/span/li
liLocation: span class=adrSydney/span/li
liWeb: a href=http://weblog.kilic.net; class=url
Bob,
on Thursday, March 15, 2007 at 15:59 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote:
I've been modularizing like this for years:
link href=../../as/cs/com.css rel=stylesheet type=text/css
media=screen
link href=../../as/cs/p7pmv0.css rel=stylesheet type=text/css
media=screen
link
Soeren,
on Thursday, March 9, 2006 at 18:42 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote:
for an input type=file we like to design the button and, if
possible, the background-color for focus.
Does anybody know how to do that?
The link in the fieldset 'Upload a file to the W3C Validator.':
Ted,
Tuesday, February 28, 2006, 3:13:42 AM, you wrote:
TD I'm using button with an image per Thierry's suggestion. I didn't want to
TD use background image on an input because there are some browser
TD inconsistencies and I didn't want to use an image in the input due to some
TD accessibility
Nic,
Saturday, February 25, 2006, 4:36:34 AM, you wrote:
ns On 2/24/06, kvnmcwebn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
your prob right but what about that flash as a css background someone was
posting about here a while back??
ns does anyone know about the possibility of using a flash
ns object as a
Georg,
Saturday, February 25, 2006, 9:47:58 AM, you wrote:
GS Adam Morris wrote:
Ok. I added a min-width to the #content which seems to stop the
page breaking up under 1000px. I also used the javascript fix for IE
but... now then it seemed that IE dropped apart at widths OVER
1200px!
Joseph,
Friday, February 24, 2006, 5:06:39 PM, you wrote:
JRBT I have a min-width applied to my wrapper div of 842px, and a width set
JRBT to 95%. That way it doesn't squish up (in small resolutions) too much
JRBT and force floats downward.
You can try the javascript-solution that Al Sparber
Sean,
Friday, February 24, 2006, 8:08:57 PM, you wrote:
SJ scroll down to the section on embed multimedia, it has info on how to embed
SJ flash using CSS.
I really doubt that it is possible to embed flash by CSS. All these
methods use the (X)HTML object tag. And this is mandatory to embed
flash
David,
on Monday, February 20, 2006 at 21:47 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote:
On the subject of trying to please everyone
I know that it is impossible to please everyone, but I'd like to find
a method which makes the world better for at least one person without
doing any harm to others ;-)
Hi!
I read a lot of threads about font-sizing lately, but I still did
not catch the point of best practice yet.
I use to set the body font-size to 62.5% for getting 1em = 10px at
default settings. (It's much easier for me and the browser to
calculate round values...) Then I increase
Hi,
on Monday, February 20, 2006 at 12:57 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote:
A far more fundamental group of people (which I already mentioned
in my first email on this discussion) is of course that of
the clients who pay for web design/development.
That's one point.
The other problem that I
Paul,
on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 at 11:39 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote:
What's wrong with this?
hxThe following are the days of the week/hx
ol
liMonday/li
liTuesday/li
liWednesday/li
/ol
regards
Martin
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Darren,
on Monday, January 30, 2006 at 12:26 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote:
http://ta.rt-ms.net/2/properties.html
http://ta.rt-ms.net/2/propertydetails.html
You've got some problems in your HTML:
1. with/height attributes of img tags don't accept units.
2. the inputs need name attributes
Stephen,
on Monday, January 30, 2006 at 17:01 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote:
Should an agent's address really be a definition list??
I only wrote that I would do it that way.
If you want that sort of semantic pedantry, the markup should be:
block tag
hxAcme Estate Agents/hx
dl
Joseph,
on Thursday, January 26, 2006 at 15:49 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote:
I usually still use classic ASP for my server-side stuff, but have begun
playing with PHP as well, since ASP is obviously over whether its a good
tool or not.
Now Ruby is pounding on my door, claiming to be the
Joshua,
on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 at 23:56 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote:
innerHTML doesn't work with XHTML, etc,. I know... and it's not a DOM
method... but do people consider it okay to use when it seems
otherwise impractical to use standard methods?
Do you know the discussions at
Miika,
Today is my quirksmode day ;-)
http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2005/10/_and_the_winner_1.html
http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/coding_techniques/memory_leaks/index.html
I tend to use .onclick for attaching events to links, because it has
fewer cross browser issues than the
Lynne,
on Tuesday, January 10, 2006 at 04:19 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote:
On 1/10/06, Martin Heiden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Document Type Definitions were AFAIK first used by SGML and later
for defining XML and XHTML. Because of the limitations of the DTD
Language XML Schema has been
Karl,
on Tuesday, January 10, 2006 at 10:34 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote:
A Document Type Definition defines a set of declarations that conform
to a particular markup syntax.
That's much better!
regards
Martin
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Paul,
on Wednesday, January 4, 2006 at 17:35 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote:
You can't use the :hover pseudo class on any element other than an
anchor in IE unfortunately. I don't have time to look too far, but
with a brief search I found this link that mentions it:
Rowan,
Did you try the easy clearing method?
on Thursday, January 5, 2006 at 10:09 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote:
CSS:
dt {
float: left;
clear: left;
width: 9.5em;
font-weight: bold;
text-align: right;
}
dd {
margin-left: 9.5em;
}
Paul,
on Wednesday, January 4, 2006 at 15:48 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote:
I thought the Gilder/Levin/Shea Enhancement Method was best, but
you can't have a hover state on a graphic link using this.
Example HTML would be:
a id=header title=Revised Image Replacement
tee,
you need a preloader (javascript) or better use css rollovers:
http://wellstyled.com/css-nopreload-rollovers.html
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/slidingdoors2/
and the flicker will disappear.
regards
Martin
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tee,
on Tuesday, December 27, 2005 at 13:03 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote:
Hi mysterious E. Interesting approach! It seems to work and a real
quick fix.
I have tested on PC/Mac: Safari, FF, Netscape, Mozilla, iE and Opera.
Can you guys confirm?
http://gb.lotusseeds.com/menutest_2.html
tee,
on Tuesday, December 27, 2005 at 18:19 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote:
and this is the cure (without causing problem in PC' IEs):
#siteOption li a span {
text-indent: -16000px;
font-size: 1px;
}
http://gb.lotusseeds.com/macie.html
Tee,
on Thursday, December 22, 2005 at 10:03 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote:
I am working on a page that involves with hundred of address in
different locations/cities. What is the best way to do?
unordered list, definition list or table data?
I am thinking to make two columns for
Elton,
on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 at 15:33 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote:
I have a swf file in my page.
Google will not index. I can print the content of swf in a div with
display:none.
Is it a good practice ? Does anyone have a better idea ?
Yep! Use standards and some proprietary
Stephen,
Our statistic of last week:
1024x76840753 60.4%
1280x1024 14808 21.9%
800x600 51967.7%
1152x86428784.3%
na 18082.7%
1400 x ?693 1.0%
1600x1200 494 0.7%
1440 x ?307 0.5%
1680 x ?172
Philippe,
on Friday, December 16, 2005 at 09:46 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote:
On 16 Dec 2005, at 5:28 pm, Martin Heiden wrote:
Our statistic of last week:
[snipped]
Those numbers refer to the resolution of the monitor, right ?
What would this tell me about the size of the browser
Gunlaug,
on Friday, December 16, 2005 at 11:36 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote:
Martin Heiden wrote:
IMHO there are too much fixed-width sites out there to make a sidebar
usable with a x-resoultion 1024px.
Unless one uses Opera and has it set to 'fit to window width'.
Lots or variables
Hi,
on Monday, December 12, 2005 at 15:01 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote:
Sorry, but I have to disagree.
Tables as well as divs, spans etc. are containers. They are both html
elements. I don't think that any standard has suppressed the table
element from html and in my dictionary, hacking
Frederic,
on Thursday, December 8, 2005 at 11:32 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote:
let's say that you have to built sites that are going to be maintained by
non-techies, and you know they are going to use Dream weaver, what should
you do?
Upgrade Dreamweaver/Contribute to the current version
Bob,
on Tuesday, December 6, 2005 at 18:57 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote:
These connected to a linked JS in the head:
1. a href=http://www.fotografics.it; onclick=popUp
(this.href,'elastic',500,650);return false;nbsp;powered by:
FotoGrafics/a
a href=http://www.fotografics.it;
Peter,
on Wednesday, December 7, 2005 at 12:31 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote:
Martin Heiden wrote:
Do it on the serverside!!!
Maybe I'm a cycle head, but it seems silly to use computation cycles
(although very little) to compute a year that changes only once per
year. Use a server
Tom,
on Monday, September 19, 2005 at 14:57 you wrote:
Martin's correct, class=red is putting presentation in the markup.
I disagree. span style=color:#f00;some_text/span is puttiing
presentation in the markup. class=red is still a class that can be
changes in the sheet. In my mind, the
Martin,
that's not possible all selectors work the other way around. You
could assign a class or, if you don't need it for other things, the
id to the td tag. If this isn't possible on the server side, use
javascript to do so.
regards,
Martin
am Mittwoch, 14. September 2005
Brendan,
Am Mittwoch, 10. August 2005 um 12:41:53 haben Sie geschrieben:
I have changed tact with my problem with the suggestions I
received. I'm now trying an absolute layout and I think I'm closer,
but IE is still nabbing me with it's insistence that the Flash
application must be set to
Brendan,
cue organ music I've faltered my brothers (and sisters) - I ran
screaming back to my javascript skills - crying for a solution to my
woes - help me be strong! I used some javascript to calculate the
heights and widths and set some dimensions of the divs and flash.
Have you tried to
Bruce,
I guess I cannot communicate what I mean.
I have an image on my own website of a sunset.
I put it in the banner div as an image and set the width to 100%.
I am perfectly happy with it, it looks good and stretches to fit all
resolutions. There is nothing wrong with it at all.
At 1024
Hi!
Am Dienstag, 12. Juli 2005 um 05:33:00 haben Sie geschrieben:
Am I alone in feeling that hr should be depreciated in favor of CSS
borders? Especially with section in the XHTML 2.0 drafts, what
semantic or even structural value does hr have? Every argument for
its retention that I've
Nathan,
Am Dienstag, 12. Juli 2005 um 14:04:09 haben Sie geschrieben:
Similarly, strong and emphasized elements are derivations of bold
and italicized type, respectively. If you think about listening to a
speech verses reading a speech, the oral form gives much less
meaning to these
Nathan,
Am Dienstag, 12. Juli 2005 um 15:37:41 haben Sie geschrieben:
In speech, I would say we do a similar thing...not the same. There are
rules for italics (refering to a particular thing, like a book or a
word) that don't refer to any verbal usage. You wouldn't want screen
readers to
Russ,
Roger Hudson and I have been conducting some tests into the difference
between id and headers vs scope - to see which of these options was
more widely supported in assistive devices.
Thanks for this very informative article!
I've got a question regarding a similar problem. I've got to
Erwin,
Am Mittwoch, 29. Juni 2005 um 19:16:22 haben Sie geschrieben:
I¹ve not been able to find another method of embedding flash in a page so
that it still validates.
I use IE Conditional Comments:
!--[if IE]
object
Jan,
Am Donnerstag, 30. Juni 2005 um 10:28:18 haben Sie geschrieben:
I use IE Conditional Comments:
Isn't it a bit overkill?
Why do you think so?
I had some problems with flash satay and IE 5.x so I switched over to
this method. And if you don't use loads of small flash movies in a
page
Jan,
So I started to use the FlashObject...
And I don't like to depend on JavaScript... ;-)
But it's good to have both methods: you can choose.
Martin
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Chris,
I recall some controversy surrounding when to use em and i, could
someone clarify proper use?
Simply don't use i, because it is visual markup. Think about what
you really want. Is it emphasis, use em, is it just something visual
use span class=someclasstext/span. And try to give the
Patrick!
Am Donnerstag, 2. Juni 2005 um 18:11:30 haben Sie geschrieben:
I agree with you in all points but this one. Even in XHTML 1.0 the
lang-Attribute is needed.
At the risk of splitting very fine hairs even further: *needed* or
*allowed* ? I'd tend to think the latter...
You are right!
Neerav,
we develop for Firefox and test while developing from time to time
in Opera (7). If everything is done, we check in IE6 and Safari and
tweak the code (using conditional comments for IE).
After that we check in IE5 (Win), but just if anything breaks the
layout completly.
IE5
Simon,
Am Dienstag, 10. Mai 2005 um 18:32:05 haben Sie geschrieben:
object classid=clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-44455354
codebase=http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0;
width=400 height=300
param name=movie
Jamie,
what about something like this:
[help|high contrast|text too small?]
--
[logo]
[tab][tab][tab][tab] [login form]
Hi!
In a (ugly) javascript I try to test if window.location.replace
exists, before I use it:
if(window.location.replace) window.location.replace(href);
else window.location.href = href;
This works well in IE = 5.5, Safari, Netscape and Mozilla. IE 5.0
seems to have a different
Bert,
Am Freitag, 22. April 2005 um 11:10:20 haben Sie geschrieben:
Sending this off-list since it doesn't appear to be standards
related (it's not DOM ECMAscript?)
IMHO it is on topic, because following the standard it should be
possible to test, if a method exists.
Without seeing why you
Hugues,
HB Blockquote for sure, and like Alan suggest, make use of normal tags inside.
HB And let me give you a nice trick to insert language specific quotemarks :
HB If you declare the language in your HTML tag like html lang=fr-ca ...
HB you can define inside your CSS what kind of quote mark to
Kornel,
Am Donnerstag, 14. April 2005 um 13:29:47 haben Sie geschrieben:
KL There is a very easy way of doing forms without tables:
KL label {display: inline-block; width: 10em;}
KL I prefer doing forms that way, because I'm styling code
KL that I don't have full control of and I don't like to
Hi!
Is there a way to take an object (flash) out of tab order?
The problem:
Our site uses flash for a small animation. There isn't any
link/button inside the flash, just graphics. At least in Firefox on
PC (IE does this job well) the focus gets lost in the flash while
tabbing
Kevin,
Am Freitag, 8. April 2005 um 01:32:08 haben Sie geschrieben:
K sorry for my ignorance what is the tab order?
I'm not sure if it is your ignorance or my insuficient knowledge of
the english language ;-)
What I mean is:
You can step through the links/objects/form elments on a HTML page
Diona,
Am Freitag, 8. April 2005 um 15:24:36 haben Sie geschrieben:
dk What happens if the tabindex is specified as null? Is it still included
dk in the stack?
Yes, it is. It's the same as don't specify a tabindex at all.
I found out that it is a feature and that there is a workaround in
Hi!
Am Mittwoch, 6. April 2005 um 16:31:09 haben Sie geschrieben:
to I will wish to use external fonts (noncommon to pcs, obtained through
to server by the pagina Web) for my designs with css, somebody knows like
to doing it?
If you just need it for headings or smaller paragraphs, this may be a
Hi!
I split the rules into different files:
general.css
layout.css
elements.css
In these files I try to use container centric selectors. That
means: if the XHTML is structured like this:
div id=container1
div id=container2
div id=container3
p/p
/div
Lea,
Am Donnerstag, 7. April 2005 um 15:01:34 haben Sie geschrieben:
LdG On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 14:22:04 +0200, Martin Heiden wrote:
I split the rules into different files:
general.css
layout.css
elements.css
LdG Are you seeing much overhead in load time?
LdG I've put off doing
Tee,
Am Dienstag, 5. April 2005 um 15:47:49 haben Sie geschrieben:
t This is the page I'd working on now. The body and the menu buttons are in id
t so it works but doesn't pass the validation of course.
t http://www.lotusseeds.com/big5.htm
t .div id=siteOption
t ul
tli id=homea
Tat,
Am Sonntag, 3. April 2005 um 16:02:19 haben Sie geschrieben:
TO I'm trying to have a link open in a new window (like I've done a million
TO times). however the validator doesn't like this.
TO This page is not Valid XHTML 1.1
TO http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xhtml11-20010531/ !
You seem to
Tat,
Am Montag, 4. April 2005 um 08:14:22 haben Sie geschrieben:
MH uncomment the target section, give it a name and put it inside your
MH site. Then modify the doctype of your pages to point at the new
MH driver.
Sorry, actually you have to add this section:
!-- Target Module
Matt,
Am Dienstag, 22. März 2005 um 00:14:11 haben Sie geschrieben:
M That way users without Flash can still link through to the target page.
M Any Ideas?
You can pass the URL to a Flash variable by using the param-Tag and/or
the URL of the Flash itself.
This looks like:
object
Hi!
Am Dienstag, 22. März 2005 um 11:01:34 haben Sie geschrieben:
RP I would use code something like this:
RP object type=application/x-shockwave-flash data=play.swf width=460
height=300
RPparam name=movie value=play.swf /
RPparam name=pluginspage
RP
Kornel,
Am Dienstag, 22. Mrz 2005 um 14:40:02 haben Sie geschrieben:
KL Use conditional comments around object tags.
Sometimes one can't see the forest, 'cause there are too many trees...
Thanks
Martin.
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Irina,
Am Freitag, 4. Februar 2005 um 05:50:36 haben Sie geschrieben:
IA Does anybody knows how to set the width of a file input field in Firefox?
Take a look at the form.css in res under your firefox installation
directory. There you will find the following styling:
/* file selector */
Hi!
IMHO the problem is, that the address tag is an inline element. I
would like to use it like this:
address
dl
dtname/dt
ddstreet/dd
ddcity/dd
ddcountry/dd
ddphone/dd
ddemail/dd
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