Some good reading / opinions on this here. ( esp. in Comments )
http://www.9rules.com/whitespace/design/iframes_vs_overflow.php
Regards
Chris Blown
On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 15:10, Chris wrote:
Hi,
I the process of a design that begs overflow: auto; what is theopinion
on this wonderful
Is there any way you can convince your client that custom scrollbars are
are bad idea? Because
1. oh boy, they are (they're less accessible, they're less
functional, they act unpredictably, their implementation is
invariably mind-bogglingly complicated), and
2. while it's
Well personally I prefer overflow: auto to frames, because frames
slices up your document...
I much prefer to have a single page - be just that... a single page,
not a seperate document.
Also you dont need to worry about stylesheets not applying to the frame
etc...
I havn't used frames since
Title: Re: [WSG] overflow: auto;
On 6/14/04 11:21 PM t94xr.net.nz webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent this out:
excellent example
www.t94xr.net.nz/plinks/ http://www.t94xr.net.nz/plinks/
Camz
Doesn't work in Safari, though?
Rick Faaberg
On Tuesday, June 15, 2004, at 04:29 PM, Rick Faaberg wrote:
On 6/14/04 11:21 PM t94xr.net.nz webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent this out:
excellent example
www.t94xr.net.nz/plinks/ http://www.t94xr.net.nz/plinks/>
Camz
Doesn't work in Safari, though?
Rick Faaberg
Which Safari? Works OK in
On 6/14/04 11:46 PM Nick Gleitzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent this out:
excellent example
www.t94xr.net.nz/plinks/ http://www.t94xr.net.nz/plinks/
Camz
Doesn't work in Safari, though?
Rick Faaberg
Which Safari? Works OK in 1.0.2 on 10.2.8...
Nick
1.2.2
I don't get scrollbars.
On 6/14/04 11:54 PM Rick Faaberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent this out:
excellent example
www.t94xr.net.nz/plinks/ http://www.t94xr.net.nz/plinks/
Camz
Doesn't work in Safari, though?
Rick Faaberg
Which Safari? Works OK in 1.0.2 on 10.2.8...
Nick
1.2.2
I don't get scrollbars.
Title: Re: [WSG] overflow: auto;
Doesnt it?!
http://www.danvine.com/icapture/detail/51923.html
works ok on iCapture?
Title: Re: [WSG] overflow: auto;
On 6/15/04 12:18 AM t94xr.net.nz webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent this out:
Doesnt it?!
http://www.danvine.com/icapture/detail/51923.html
works ok on iCapture?
Do we know they have 1.2.2?
It still doesn't work on my 1.2.2 (v125.8), that's for sure.
Rick
Lachlan Hardy wrote:
Chris Stratford wrote:
So its incorrectly loading the media for SCREEN...
and wont load CSS from one method either...
This is fairly typical of small-screen devices. Since most web
developers don't use CSS properly yet, and many of those who do don't
create handheld CSS,
On 6/15/04 12:29 AM t94xr.net.nz webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent
this out:
www.t94xr.net.nz/plinks/ http://www.t94xr.net.nz/plinks/
Camz
I meant to say I get the scrollbars but no arrow buttons to use for
scrolling.
Rick Faaberg
Can you use your wheel on the mouse?
There's no way
On 6/15/04 12:45 AM Rick Faaberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent this out:
www.t94xr.net.nz/plinks/ http://www.t94xr.net.nz/plinks/
Camz
I meant to say I get the scrollbars but no arrow buttons to use for
scrolling.
Rick Faaberg
Can you use your wheel on the mouse?
There's no way to
Here's a quick (and probably stupid) accessibility question regarding
screen readers.
labelspanS/spanearch/label
I assume the a screen reader will read this out as Search and not S
earch.
Andy Budd
http://www.message.uk.com/
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The discussion
Hi all
I came across the following from W3C's WAI Interest Group email list.
Costs are as follows:
All 3 days: $400 for full registration ($300 for student registration)
Day Pass: $150 for daily registration (incl GST.). (so $300 for 2 days, $150
for 1 day)
Its in Melbourne and one of the
Tested with JAWS 4.02, and yes, it reads it as search.
That's not to say, though, that all screenreaders behave this way...
Let me guess...underlines for accesskeys ?
One thing that worries me about doing those sorts of things is that
the result is very...non semantic. Not sure how, say, search
Hello WSG,
I'm having very strange problems with the site I'm working on. I've
been given the unenviable task of going through someone else's CSS to
fix any bugs in IE 5 Mac PC. Fixed the IE5 PC bugs but am stuck with
this odd behaviour in IE5 Mac.
Basically the content in the left hand
Hi,
It works in my safari :)
On Monday, June 14, 2004, at 11:21 PM, t94xr.net.nz webmaster wrote:
excellent example
www.t94xr.net.nz/plinks/
Camz
- Original Message -
From: Chris
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 5:10 PM
Subject: [WSG] overflow: auto;
Hi,
I the
On 15 Jun 2004, at 12:34, Andy Budd wrote:
I agree with you. It's not the nicest way of doing this. I think
using the :first-letter pseudo-element selector would probably be a
better bet.
Much neater, until you need accesskeys for both Search and Services of
course. I'm sure some clever
On 15 Jun 2004, at 17:55, Richard Rutter wrote:
Anyone fancy a bit of fun making that work? Would it actually be
useful?
If you want something doing...
A script which uses the DOM to automatically underline the letter of a
link text which matches its accesskey:
Hey, that looks interesting, Richard.
You got me thinking. Nice one :o)
Mike Pepper
(thoughtful) Accessible Web Developer
www.seowebsitepromotion.com
www.gawds.org
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of Richard Rutter
Sent: 15 June 2004 22:15
To:
Hi
Try hiding the CSS from this magnificent piece of software by using
the \*/ hack as outlined elsewhere in a thread here (try
mail-archive.com) - it's called the backslash hack, It's the only hack
I've employed as users on OS 8 and 9 have no upgrade path.
Does tend to bloat the CSS a tad as
Hi all,
I have redesigned a site from Dreamweaver table city to XHTML 1.0
strict. It's mostly gone well, but Internet Explorer 5.2 for Mac has a
couple of issues. The one I'm trying to solve right now is apparent on
this page: http://www.organicdance.com.au/organicdance/site/about
It seems
Joe,
Don't know if this will help at all, and I haven't looked closely at
the code (I don't envy your job there at all!) but it does look as
though whatever it is has a cumulative effect. So each time you roll
over a link, the affected left hand margin items jump down the same
distance again.
I will be out of the office on Wednesday, 6-16-04.
If you need assistance please contact another Business Career Services team member at
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See
This method uses GD, which unfortunately is the only bundled graphics
library available in php. GD is fine for most purposes, it can be a little
memory intensive at times though. The problem here is that the function
imagegettfbbox() is sometimes unpredictable and may not get the correct
height
On Jun 16, 2004, at 9:58 am, Viktor Radnai wrote:
I have redesigned a site from Dreamweaver table city to XHTML 1.0
strict. It's mostly gone well, but Internet Explorer 5.2 for Mac has a
couple of issues. The one I'm trying to solve right now is apparent on
this page:
opinion
Whatever the technique, using images for headings is, to me, backward,
pixel perfect, print thinking.
I visited the site - I only have a modem connection. I dind't like the way
the headings disappeared, got replaced with image placeholders which
slwly filled up with text that was
It is a combination of javascript show/hide thingies and having
absolute positioned blocks in the middle of the source code. A possible
workaround is move the whole code block(s) for those submenus either to
the very beginning of the page, or at the very end.
Philippe
On Jun 16, 2004, at 10:52
I took a look at the example page, and in FireFox .9 and a broadband
connection, it took a good couple of seconds before the images showed up
properly. I was considering using some sort of image replacement for my new
design of my journal, and I was highly considering this one. But I'm really
not
On Jun 12, 2004, at 6:27 PM, Christopher Kennon wrote:
...
Interestingly, there really is little value to including file extensions such as gif, . jpg , .js, and so on. The browser does not rely on these values to render a page; rather it uses the MIME type header in the response. Knowing
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