. That is just
nuts. Wow.
Shame on abc.net.au. Wonder if any local laws were broken?
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I don't know what Lachlan meant entirely, but I 100% require plain text and
top-quoting. I usually immediately delete the alternatives without reading.
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I'm leaving. I'll check back in a few months and see what's goin' on.
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Touché!
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I like it when there's a site identifier in the subject of the emails.
Doesn't have to be the site name (so your customer won't find it) but just
some identifier like problems with Mac
that. :-)
I didn't find the site slow in Safari on my Mac, fwiw.
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I didn't find the site slow in Safari on my Mac, fwiw.
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Have you considered Building Accessible Websites by Joe Clark? You
can read it for free online.
http://www.joeclark.org/book/
Does that comprise the entire book, then?
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Have you considered Building Accessible Websites by Joe Clark? You
can read it for free online.
http://www.joeclark.org/book/
Does that comprise the entire book, then?
Never mind. There's a good explanation at the bottom
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I think part of the problem here is that
Great read. Thanks.
You have many valid thoughts, and you express them well. :-)
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in this particular case I was hoping not to
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the content. But it seems I will have to
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Am I the only one getting blank replies from Joshua?
I think there're a bunch of funny characters in his posts as I recently
posted.
Possibly some unicode thing-a-maroo?
I can't read his messages.
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I have been a fly on the wall for some time in this group and I was really
hoping
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it seems like FF is loosing terrain, is w3schools accurate?
It's accurate in my case.
On Mac, I think FF pretty well s*cks - what with stuck menus and stalls and
all that sort of thing. I went back to Safari after about 2
issue that can be resolved by making the image an even number of pixels wide.
700px is even...
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think so, but even that might
bother others, I suppose.
You get my drift, I'm sure.
I'm for something like site check please whatever.com [adult] in the
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Have a link to a thread in the archive?
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Any lesson plans out there, by chance? :-)
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sites have been almost invariably associated
with the table markup.
Umm, so folks who do tables for layout don't care about W3C validation.
This is a revelation?
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And now you've made it a triple. We all understand this happens. Don't
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i just downloaded the accessibar at the mozdev web site. it's got a
built in reader; so if you have speakers or a headset you can hear how
accessible your page is in a reader. it's not superior quality audio,
but it
about my
Java environment and then I had to abort installation.
Wondering if anybody's done the install successfully on OSX, especially on
10.3.9 (and how they did it).
Maybe it shouldn't be on this list though. Email is fine if anybody has
useful info for me.
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I would assume that also, but the installation complained greatly
about my
Java environment and then I had to abort installation.
that's interesting, especially if you have the latest java environment
and turn off proxy and try
again, okay? :-)
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for text resizing that respects users¹ choices and
also gives them an additional option for resizing.
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Seems crazy
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800x600 seems a bit prehistoric...
Now, you should think about getting your shift key fixed! ;-)
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I delete rtf/html posts immediately and other people do too I know for a
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Seems to work in Safari and degrades okay in IE Mac.
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Apparently it doesn't work in IE5 Mac or Safari. IE5 Mac I can mostly
live without, but Safari is a bit of a bugger. I don't have a Mac here
so I can't test - I'm curious as to whether it can be made to degrade
acceptably. Could
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However, I think if we look at the larger use of horizontal rules in
other mediums, we'll see that there's still a place for them on the web,
especially if we want a web that can store content from those other mediums.
Can you
grounded.
I concur. Whenever I've seen a 'newbie' list split, most if not all of the
subscribers are newbies - doesn't exactly advance their science.
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But I don't even open Help Needed type subject
lines.
And I never read HTML/RTF email either. Text is too small.
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Detected what? What did I do so wrong?
Man, I thought I was a good citizen here.
Thank you,
Rick
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What would be wrong with doing something like this?
h3Comment Title/h3
p
Posted by foobar on foobar
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div
p
Comment text
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The only thing I can think of is: are you aware of the origin of fubar
(which is the
it would be at all accurate in the first place).
On FF Mac, just choose File Print and then click on Preview button. No?
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Hi all,
Position This! CSS Positioning Demystified:
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=170513rl=1
I find it slightly humorous/ironic that that page has significant wrapping
problems in Safari. Haven't checked other browsers.
Whatever! ;-)
Rick
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(Safari 1.3 / OS X 10.3.9)
On 24 Apr 2005, at 4:05 PM, Rick Faaberg wrote:
Hi all,
Position This! CSS Positioning Demystified:
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=170513rl=1
I find it slightly humorous/ironic that that page has significant
wrapping
problems in Safari
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Exciting stuff!
Wouldn't be a strange world if we didn't curse developing for IE?
It sure would be! :-)
Lea
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a href=# onclick=alert(msg)Don't Look Now/abr /
This works. But what to do if the message also needs inside?
Can we keep the javascript cr*p off this list? Thanks!
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When a client wants some flashing text for emphasis,
what do you do or tell them?
I've seen some fairly tasteful things done with Flash to provide visual
interest. Maybe something as simple as horizontal scroll or simple animation
standards for our convenience and efficiency - doesn't have
anything to do with the clients' needs unless you have clients that somehow
have a 'nut' for web standards. I don't have any currently.
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You might as well set a trash/junk mail rule. That's what I've done.
HTH
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You might as well set a trash/junk mail rule. That's what I've done.
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We just 'soft launched' a new website, http://www.wirelessforum.org.nz,
so that we can gather a final set of feedback and changes for a Monday
meeting to see the project finished next week.
The entire site is XHTML 1.1,
-6 pixels of margin at the top of the page.
I think that looks attractive generally since the other three sides have big
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I've recently re-done my website.
Everybody put the title or URL of the website in the website check message
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I'm trying to put together a document on navigation principals to improve site
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Should be principles but otherwise I'm looking forward to the result!
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and can't realize that they need to just hit
delete on these things.
The bent people owe you an apology in my opinion.
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or please check this in your PC
browsers.
Also, it would be cool if folks would provide some parenthetical reference
to what website we're talking about since site check occurs with great
regularity - like site check www.mywonderfulsite.com in the email subject.
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Very interesting read. Thanks
I agree about the web standards look. It's generally very tired and bland.
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Jan 2005.
I look forward to your response!
Much of the type is very, very small in Firefox Mac, so I can't read it.
Examples: all the nav_n styles, sidebar, footer, accesskey, and poweredby.
That's just on the first page. I didn't look at any other pages.
HTH
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I'll take into account all the suggestions and critics
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Very, very nice.
Any ideas on how I could put a rounded stripe of color with text in it
across the top of the generated box?
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Jolorence,
What was the URL again?
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- News - Today's News - Detail
Home - News - Yesterday's News - Summary
Home - News - Yesterday's News - Detail
etc.
If you leave any nodes out, you've lost your way.
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less work. Building using standards is a choice not an extra.
Keep studying those apostrophes though - plurals vs. possessives vs.
contractions, etc.!
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begin code
a:hover {
background-color: #dedede;
color: #385468;
text-decoration: none;
}
#navbar-main a:hover, #navbar a:hover {
text-decoration: underline;
}
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The problem is, I don't want the navbar rule
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Here here.
Make that hear, hear and you're on! :-)
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(providing the contrast is pumped up a bit in some areas as per
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Great job overall IMO.
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-justified text, but maybe that's a
personal thing. I just don't really like extra space between words that only
serves to full-justify the text.
Loads fast - clean design - and here I am of Norwegian descent (1/2) and
understand none of the language ;-(
HTH
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Sales figures. Market share. Web stats. Globally, the Mac is under
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Gee, I wish *I* owned 2.5% of *any* global market! :-)
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clicking and scrolling around and clicking etc. in
Safari, eventually the page goes numb - no scrolling, no clicking, no
rollovering works.
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thing is) for all those flags. I recognize one of them - guess which one!
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zones since PHP cannot determine what time zone a client is in, at least in
the research I did a couple of years ago.
Javascript can use the client computer's clock time, but PHP cannot as it's
a server-side language.
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But they can't eat it too!
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HTML: http://www.asic.bc.cx/ASICAboutUs.php
It doesn't appear to work in FF Mac or Safari either.
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PA accesskey=0 HREF=#Table alt=Click here to return table of Contents
(Accesskey ALT + 0)click here to return to table
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http://www.dlaakso.com/
Thanks.
There appear to be some accessibility warnings on WAI and 508.
Cool site!
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If anyone can help, you can either email me personally or keep it on the list.
I'd keep it off list. This list is getting too much questionable content
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is your opinion (and practice) with regard to putting the W3C badges on
you clients' sites?
I'm thinking just don't do it.
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Here are two nicer looking ones
http://blog.dalegroup.net/images/validx.gif (xhtml 1.1)
http://blog.dalegroup.net/images/validc.gif (css)
Michael Dale
Those are pretty nice! Are there more?
Thanks
Rick Faaberg
. Those are generic
family font specs.
p { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Swiss, SunSans-Regular,
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having problems in Safari.
Hi,
What are the problems?
It seems to work pretty well on my 20 screen with Safari. Slightly weird
layout IMO, but it seems to be 100% filled and all that.
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external links going into a new browser window. I can see why some
would like that, but I can also see why others would frown on it.
I don't have a screen reader, but does a screen reader say new window or
something on those links?
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Rick Faaberg
with table layout data...
Or is this a case where its better to bite the bullet and just do it
in a table...?
I vote for it's tabular data - use a table.
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to think about outputting CSS positioning and
stuff from PHP or whatever, although somebody's working on that I'm sure!
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(.video_title is
the relevant style I'm pretty sure).
See anything obvious that's keeping the whitespace so big after the titles?
Stylesheet here:
http://www.lucernemedia.com/css/newestbase.css
CSS and markup mainly validate, with a few margin errors perhaps.
TIA
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as for the whitespace around the P have you removed padding and margin from
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and if so have you removed it from any surrounding elemenets? thats normaly
the main cause of whitespace around a P
All I've specified for p is a
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