Re: [WSG] Triggering POSTs with links?

2007-06-25 Thread Paul Novitski
At 6/20/2007 07:52 AM, Richard Ishida wrote: I put together a box that expands to accommodate larger text in translation, but I forgot that text on a submit button doesn't wrap :O Original: http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-css-charset.en.php#endlinks (see the box to the right)

RE: [WSG] Triggering POSTs with links?

2007-06-21 Thread Chris Taylor
Cheers, I thought that when I went back to it as well. I'll get that done very soon. Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thierry Koblentz Sent: 20 June 2007 17:49 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] Triggering POSTs

RE: [WSG] Triggering POSTs with links?

2007-06-21 Thread Richard Ishida
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike at Green-Beast.com Sent: 21 June 2007 05:18 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Triggering POSTs with links? Thierry Koblentz wrote: I came up with this: http://www.tjkdesign.com/lab

Re: [WSG] Triggering POSTs with links?

2007-06-21 Thread Mike at Green-Beast.com
Richard Ishida wrote: It's annoying that it doesn't work so well in Opera, but I'd rather give the problem to Opera users than IE users. This also seems a much more sensible approach. I guess I should contact Opera and see if we can't get this 'fixed'. I'm bummed it doesn't work as well in

Re: [WSG] Triggering POSTs with links?

2007-06-21 Thread Sander Aarts
Richard Ishida schreef: It's annoying that it doesn't work so well in Opera, but I'd rather give the problem to Opera users than IE users. Ouch! That hurts man... *** List Guidelines:

Re: [WSG] Triggering POSTs with links?

2007-06-21 Thread Sander Aarts
Why do need a POST anyway if I may ask? cheers, Sander Richard Ishida schreef: I put together a box that expands to accommodate larger text in translation, but I forgot that text on a submit button doesn't wrap :O Original:

[WSG] Triggering POSTs with links?

2007-06-20 Thread Richard Ishida
I put together a box that expands to accommodate larger text in translation, but I forgot that text on a submit button doesn't wrap :O Original: http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-css-charset.en.php#endlinks (see the box to the right) First problematic translation:

RE: [WSG] Triggering POSTs with links?

2007-06-20 Thread Chris Taylor
, of course. It happens regularly with me. Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Ishida Sent: 20 June 2007 15:52 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Triggering POSTs with links? I put together a box that expands

RE: [WSG] Triggering POSTs with links?

2007-06-20 Thread Richard Ishida
/rishida/blog/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ishida/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Taylor Sent: 20 June 2007 16:11 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] Triggering POSTs with links? Have you tried the button

RE: [WSG] Triggering POSTs with links?

2007-06-20 Thread Richard Ishida
://www.flickr.com/photos/ishida/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Ishida Sent: 20 June 2007 17:08 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] Triggering POSTs with links? Aha! Yes, that seems to do the job, if I set

RE: [WSG] Triggering POSTs with links?

2007-06-20 Thread Thierry Koblentz
On Behalf Of Chris Taylor Have you tried the button element? As far as I know that can be styled pretty much how you want. I used it on this page: http://www.searchandgo.com/weather/United-States/New-York-City/ - the New York City exchange rates text on the left is a button. Clever... I'd

Re: [WSG] Triggering POSTs with links?

2007-06-20 Thread Alan Trick
I don't know if this is important to you, but you should really use GET, not POST. POST is supposed to be used when you're actually doing something to a page like submitting data. There, you're just getting a form. See http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html Alan Trick Richard

Re: [WSG] Triggering POSTs with links?

2007-06-20 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
On 20 Jun 2007, at 17:37:59, Richard Ishida wrote: Hmm. On the other hand.. It works fine in Firefox, Opera, Safari (Win), but not in IE :(( Grr. Have you specified the type attribute with value submit? Although the spec states that this is the default, IE defaults to the value button

RE: [WSG] Triggering POSTs with links?

2007-06-20 Thread Thierry Koblentz
On Behalf Of Richard Ishida Hmm. On the other hand.. It works fine in Firefox, Opera, Safari (Win), but not in IE :(( Grr. AFAIK, the only thing that works in IE is to use a br / within the string... OT: really enjoyed your presentation at @media in San Francisco the other week :-) ---

RE: [WSG] Triggering POSTs with links?

2007-06-20 Thread Richard Ishida
Fitzsimons Sent: 20 June 2007 18:17 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Triggering POSTs with links? On 20 Jun 2007, at 17:37:59, Richard Ishida wrote: Hmm. On the other hand.. It works fine in Firefox, Opera, Safari (Win), but not in IE :(( Grr. Have you specified

RE: [WSG] Triggering POSTs with links?

2007-06-20 Thread Richard Ishida
Of Thierry Koblentz Sent: 20 June 2007 18:46 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] Triggering POSTs with links? On Behalf Of Richard Ishida Hmm. On the other hand.. It works fine in Firefox, Opera, Safari (Win), but not in IE :(( Grr. AFAIK, the only thing that works

RE: [WSG] Triggering POSTs with links?

2007-06-20 Thread Thierry Koblentz
On Behalf Of Richard Ishida Thanks, Thierry. Yes, I'm beginning to conclude that that's the only thing that I can do, too. It doesn't really solve the problem though, when you have flexibility wrt box size or fonts, accessibility zooming, etc. Oh well... I came up with this:

Re: [WSG] Triggering POSTs with links?

2007-06-20 Thread Sander Aarts
Thierry Koblentz schreef: I came up with this: http://www.tjkdesign.com/lab/button.asp But it requires to move the text out of the button :( In Opera (9.21) not all of the text is clickable. *** List Guidelines:

RE: [WSG] Triggering POSTs with links?

2007-06-20 Thread Thierry Koblentz
On Behalf Of Sander Aarts Thierry Koblentz schreef: I came up with this: http://www.tjkdesign.com/lab/button.asp But it requires to move the text out of the button :( In Opera (9.21) not all of the text is clickable. Hi Sander, thanks for the feedback. I just checked in Opera 8.5

Re: [WSG] Triggering POSTs with links?

2007-06-20 Thread Mike at Green-Beast.com
Thierry Koblentz wrote: I came up with this: http://www.tjkdesign.com/lab/button.asp But it requires to move the text out of the button :( I'm sort of just catching the end of this, but are you guys talking about something like what I did on my daughter's blog [1]? [1]

RE: [WSG] Triggering POSTs with links?

2007-06-20 Thread Thierry Koblentz
On Behalf Of Mike at Green-Beast.com I'm sort of just catching the end of this, but are you guys talking about something like what I did on my daughter's blog [1]? [1] http://sarahcherim.com/ (look at the Contribution Cow on the sidebar) I didn't use button (not sure if that's was the