Re: [WSG] Center aligning links with a specified height

2005-08-22 Thread dwain alford
Adam Burmister (DSL AK) wrote: Hi everybody, Long time reader - first time poster here. I've currently got a doozie that I've been struggling with for hours. The final product looks simple enough, but I can't for the life of me get it - help me WSG, you're my only hope. is there a url where

Re: [WSG] tabbing through links

2005-08-22 Thread Terrence Wood
Head on over to http://juicystudio.com/article/ie-keyboard-navigation.php#comment10 (and #comment11) for a great IE focus bug fix that doesn't sully your html source. kind regards Terrence Wood. On 22 Aug 2005, at 12:59 PM, Andy Kirkwood|Motive wrote: Watch out for IE keyboard navigation

[WSG] vertical alignment

2005-08-22 Thread Duncan Stigwood
Hey list, Since ditching tables I've lost the ability of vertical alignment, so I've been using line heights for vertical positioning. For vertically centred, this works best in IE. By setting a line height in px, font resizing doesnt affect this value and the text stays perfectly aligned in

[WSG] Specifying Web Standards and Accessibility Requirements

2005-08-22 Thread David Nicol
Hello all, I often hire freelancers to do visual design and template coding work for me. To make project communication easier I plan to draw up a document to detail my requirements with regard to standards-compliant coding and accessibility. It is my intention that this document would be

Re: [WSG] Specifying Web Standards and Accessibility Requirements

2005-08-22 Thread David Nicol
Thanks for the excellent link Michael - much appreciated. ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help

[WSG] apologies and Microsoft question

2005-08-22 Thread Drake, Ted C.
Sorry gang for not unsubscribing temporarily. I hope I didn't send out a truckload of out of office reminders. I was at the Business Blog Summit in San Francisco. Microsoft had a large presence; they even bought our support by handing out some absolutely fab messenger bags. Regardless of my

Re: [WSG] Specifying Web Standards and Accessibility Requirements

2005-08-22 Thread Michael Wilson
David Nicol wrote: 1. Has anyone else created a document of this nature and, if so, would they be willing to share it? Hi, Roger Johansson, of 456 Berea Street, put together a guide he calls Developing With Web Standards: Recommendations and best practices [01]. It's not as detailed as an

Re: [WSG] apologies and Microsoft question

2005-08-22 Thread dwain alford
Drake, Ted C. wrote: Did I mention how cool the bag was? Must like IE7...Must like IE7... Must like IE7 For some reason, this keeps repeating in my mind every time I pick up the magnificently useful and hip bag. dunt, dunt, dunt, another one bites the dust. ;^) -- Dwain Alford [EMAIL

Re: [WSG] vertical alignment

2005-08-22 Thread dwain alford
Duncan Stigwood wrote: Have I given up too quickly on 'vertical-align'? Is there something i'm missing which is preventing it from working? if memory serves me well, which it tricks me sometimes, i think you can do this in your css: {display:table-cell;vertical-align:center;}

Re: [WSG] vertical alignment

2005-08-22 Thread designer
But it doesn't work in IE . . . , naturally. Bob dwain alford wrote: Duncan Stigwood wrote: Have I given up too quickly on 'vertical-align'? Is there something i'm missing which is preventing it from working? if memory serves me well, which it tricks me sometimes, i think you can do

Re: [WSG] vertical alignment

2005-08-22 Thread Jan Brasna
Have I given up too quickly on 'vertical-align'? Is there something i'm missing which is preventing it from working? Its own specification. See the specs which display values use the vertical-align. -- Jan Brasna aka JohnyB :: www.alphanumeric.cz | www.janbrasna.com

Re: [WSG] vertical alignment

2005-08-22 Thread Jan Brasna
But it doesn't work in IE . . . , naturally. http://www.jakpsatweb.cz/css/css-vertical-center-solution.html -- Jan Brasna aka JohnyB :: www.alphanumeric.cz | www.janbrasna.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

Re: [WSG] vertical alignment

2005-08-22 Thread dwain alford
designer wrote: But it doesn't work in IE . . . , naturally. Bob dwain alford wrote: Duncan Stigwood wrote: Have I given up too quickly on 'vertical-align'? Is there something i'm missing which is preventing it from working? if memory serves me well, which it tricks me sometimes, i

[WSG] my head is sore

2005-08-22 Thread Jen Simmons
I've been beating my head against a wall all weekend, trying to create a new site using css for positioning. Clearly there are a few things I'm not getting about which tag goes in which spec / what's the best approach to create a free floating centered body of fixed width. I'd much appreciate

Re: [WSG] vertical alignment

2005-08-22 Thread Duncan Stigwood
that's perfect then. because in IE it doesnt resize a px line-height. Thanks guys :) ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list

RE: [WSG] Center aligning links with a specified height

2005-08-22 Thread Adam Burmister \(DSL AK\)
Sorry for delays in replying - http://labs.flog.co.nz/css-help/ has an example image of what I'm after and some XHTML and CSS code to look at. Hopefully that will explain it far better than I have previously :) - A -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: [WSG] my head is sore

2005-08-22 Thread Kenny Graham
The only problem I see in IE (IE6/Win) is that the sidebar's unordered list isn't lined up correctly. That's because IE uses margins to indent lists by default, and gecko uses padding. And you specified margin: 0 for the list, which removed the indent in IE. I recommend setting the padding to 0 in

Re: [WSG] Center aligning links with a specified height

2005-08-22 Thread Kenny Graham
Try keeping them inline, and setting line-height to 40px. As long as word-wrap doesn't become a factor, that should work fine. But since you're using pixels, I'm guessing word-wrap would already cause problems anyway.

Re: [WSG] Center aligning links with a specified height

2005-08-22 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 23 Aug 2005, at 7:48 AM, Kenny Graham wrote: Try keeping them inline, and setting line-height to 40px.  As long as word-wrap doesn't become a factor, that should work fine.  But since you're using pixels, I'm guessing word-wrap would already cause problems anyway. Hmm... line-height on

Re: [WSG] Center aligning links with a specified height

2005-08-22 Thread Kenny Graham
I got it working in firefox and almost in IE/Win (height is way bigger than it's supposed to be in IE) by changing the li a in Nick's example to: li a { background: #eee; display: inline-block ; /*height: 50px;*/ line-height: 50px; font-size: 14px; padding: 17px 20px; } Now, keep in mind

RE: [WSG] Center aligning links with a specified height

2005-08-22 Thread Adam Burmister \(DSL AK\)
Title: RE: [WSG] Center aligning links with a specified height I think Ive found a solution it requires a separate padding style for IE though. http://labs.flog.co.nz/css-help/solution.htm ul { list-style-type:none; background: #cfc; height: 40px; overflow: hidden; } li a {

Re: [WSG] Center aligning links with a specified height

2005-08-22 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 23 Aug 2005, at 8:41 AM, Adam Burmister ((DSL AK)) wrote: Could somebody please check it in Safari? Hmm again - not quite. See http://www.omnivision.com.au/test/safari.gif Sorry, gotta go to work right now - I'll check in later and see how you're doing... N

RE: [WSG] Specifying Web Standards and Accessibility Requirements

2005-08-22 Thread Peter Williams
From: David Nicol To make project communication easier I plan to draw up a document to detail my requirements with regard to standards-compliant coding and accessibility. It is my intention that this document would be re-usable - it should be applicable to all projects we handle in the

[WSG] iCalendar Questions

2005-08-22 Thread Matt Hampel
Does anyone have any good iCalendar resources to share? Other than hCal, I can't find many good iCal examples, let alone tutorials. I hope this is an appropriate question for the WSG -- if not, where else could I look for answers? Matt Hampel

Re: [WSG] iCalendar Questions

2005-08-22 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Matt Hampel wrote: Does anyone have any good iCalendar resources to share? Other than hCal, I can't find many good iCal examples, let alone tutorials. I hope this is an appropriate question for the WSG Aeh...how do you think this relates to web standards? -- if not, where else could I look

Re: [WSG] iCalendar Questions

2005-08-22 Thread Bruce
Matt Hampel wrote: Does anyone have any good iCalendar resources to share? Other than hCal, I can't find many good iCal examples, let alone tutorials. I hope this is an appropriate question for the WSG -- if not, where else could I look for answers? Matt Hampel I would also be interested, a

Re: [WSG] iCalendar Questions

2005-08-22 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Patrick H. Lauke wrote: Aeh...how do you think this relates to web standards? Hmm...after my initial snappy comment I realised you meant the iCal/hCal *formats*, rather than the actual iCal application...so my reaction was admittedly a tad uncalled for. Apols. -- Patrick H. Lauke

Re: [WSG] Accessibility, the possibilities

2005-08-22 Thread Jason Foss
User testing? On 23/08/05, Stuart Sherwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, First, I'd just like to check I understand something correctly. Validation for WAI AAA = WCAG 1.0 Priority 3. Is this correct? Ok, we can validate for: * W3C HTML/XHTML * CSS * WAI * Section

RE: [WSG] my head is sore

2005-08-22 Thread Peter Williams
From: Jen Simmons http://www.redbonepress.com/index1.htm and the css is at: http://www.redbonepress.com/redbonestyles.css The three elements: masthead, sidebar and main content just don't want to stay where they belong. It looks good (and very similar) in both IE6 and FF1.06 on Win XP

Re: [WSG] Accessibility, the possibilities

2005-08-22 Thread David Pietersen
Hi all, Sorry to be a pain, but I am new to this list. Is there a place somewhere that lists the tools/techniques for doing the below? Ok, we can validate for: * W3C HTML/XHTML * CSS * WAI * Section 508And I've recently learnt about accessibility checks for: * Colour blindness * Contrast *

RE: [WSG] Accessibility, the possibilities

2005-08-22 Thread Ben Wrighton - StraightForward
Hey Dave, Try looking ingoogle 1st ;) . Ben -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of David PietersenSent: Tuesday, 23 August 2005 2:29 p.m.To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.orgSubject: Re: [WSG] Accessibility, the possibilities Hi all, Sorry to

RE: [WSG] Accessibility, the possibilities

2005-08-22 Thread Ben Wrighton - StraightForward
Sorryall, That was meant to be off-list. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Ben Wrighton - StraightForwardSent: Tuesday, 23 August 2005 2:53 p.m.To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.orgSubject: RE: [WSG] Accessibility, the possibilities Hey Dave,

RE: [WSG] Accessibility, the possibilities

2005-08-22 Thread Peter Williams
From: David Pietersen ...tools/techniques for doing the below? Ok, we can validate for: * W3C HTML/XHTML * CSS * WAI * Section 508 David, The W3C maintain a useful website that has validators for x/html and css. http://validator.w3.org/ http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

RE: [WSG] Accessibility, the possibilities

2005-08-22 Thread Damian Sweeney
Hmm, alistapart is back with a funky new design and structure alistapart has many articles on accesibility http://www.alistapart.com/topics/accessibility/ should be: http://www.alistapart.com/topics/userscience/accessibility/ Damian **

RE: [WSG] Accessibility, the possibilities

2005-08-22 Thread Peter Williams
From: Damian Sweeney Hmm, alistapart is back with a funky new design alistapart has many articles on accesibility http://www.alistapart.com/topics/accessibility/ should be: http://www.alistapart.com/topics/userscience/accessibility/ Damian, Your link gave me a 404. I'm really not sure

RE: [WSG] Accessibility, the possibilities

2005-08-22 Thread Damian Sweeney
Well, this is curious. I get a 404 for http://www.alistapart.com/topics/accessibility/ and a page full of articles for http://www.alistapart.com/topics/userscience/accessibility/ Can anyone break this deadlock? Damian From: Damian Sweeney Hmm, alistapart is back with a funky new

Re: [WSG] Accessibility, the possibilities

2005-08-22 Thread Rick Faaberg
On 8/22/05 10:18 PM Damian Sweeney [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent this out: I get a 404 for http://www.alistapart.com/topics/accessibility/ Works for me. and a page full of articles for http://www.alistapart.com/topics/userscience/accessibility/ 404 Okay, now everybody immediately clear caches