Re: [WSG] Sending correct MYME-TYPE and content
Quoth Pierre-Henri Lavigne at 02/11/07 05:03... snip / What do you think about ? I suppose if the trick works, everyone will use it. I never heard about it before. Any informations / suggestions about it ? Setting MIME type by accept string for XHTML is certainly used - I use it myself. The thing that is missing from your implementation is giving any regard to the weight, or the user agent's this is what I prefer number. Let me know if you would like to see the code I use, which takes into account the weight factor. Cheers M -- Matthew Smith IT Consultancy Web Application Development Business: http://www.kbc.net.au/ Personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Art and accessibility - my opinion ;)
A great example of Faust in practice: http://www.ivyhotel.com/ Bravo! I took a quick (and only quick) look in Lynx and got a meaningful site. I think that this could be a first. And also a last, as this example neatly takes away any excuse for a primarily Flash-based site to be inaccessible. I seem to recall this all started talking about awards - whoever did the Ivy Hotel design should certainly be in the running for one. Cheers M (Still can't get over it working well in Lynx.) -- Matthew Smith IT Consultancy Web Application Development Business: http://www.kbc.net.au/ Personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Art and accessibility - my opinion ;)
Quoth jonnysoco at 02/02/07 09:41... http://jrgraphix.net/research/flash_dock.php Ah, that's what a Mac dock looks like; haven't seen a Mac for about eight years. Eeeew! The animation nearly made me seasick ;-) Do Macs have a means of turning the animation off for those (like me) who cannot tolerate screen motion? (A bit off-topic, I know, but I believe that accessibility/standards doesn't stop at the content, but extends to software and OS.) Cheers M -- Matthew Smith IT Consultancy Web Application Development Business: http://www.kbc.net.au/ Personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Wikiasari
Quoth Jermayn Parker at 02/01/07 16:14... http://germworks.net/blog/2007/02/01/wikiasari has anyone looked into this much?? I only myself heard of it today and did a quick read, test and write up... Interesting. After a couple of minutes of looking, I couldn't work out how to do a search! I might look again later. M -- Matthew Smith IT Consultancy Web Application Development Business: http://www.kbc.net.au/ Personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Remove 3D Border Effect from Firefox Tables
Quoth Mark Harris at 01/31/07 12:01... Michael MD wrote: That might be fine for webmail accounts where you are using a web browser but what about desktop email clients? (yes Outlook/Outlook Express use IE to render html.. but what about others?.. can you be sure everyone's email client can even render tables? maybe I might be seen as old fashioned in this regard... but for email I prefer PLAIN TEXT - at least you can be sure everything can read that!) I second that emotion! I think that the best practice is to only send HTML emails if the recipient consents to it. Personally, I would say that the only thing that belongs in an e-mail is plain text (no virii, no waiting for graphics, no inline graphics that are so helpful to spammers, no distracting colours, etc...), but at very least give the recipient the choice. I am on several mailing lists with large corporations (mostly electronic component manufacturers), and nearly all of them present the mail format option on sign-up. Good on 'em. M -- Matthew Smith IT Consultancy Web Application Development Business: http://www.kbc.net.au/ Personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] CMS software
Quoth Noah at 01/25/07 20:31... OK...but does anyone know of a good CMS that is compliant and/or in xHTML? Remember, a CMS is only as good as its users/authors. With a perfect CMS, with styles/templates that use well-formed XHTML and CSS, the result can still be total rubbish if mis-used. When you find a solution that suits, this is just the start. User education is the next step. (I am currently writing a toolkit for creating CMS applications that includes validation through HTML-Tidy - don't know if any of the current offerings have got this, but worth looking for, as it may be a plugin if not in the native code.) Cheers goodnight M (Last night of comet-watching round here) -- Matthew Smith IT Consultancy Web Application Development Business: http://www.kbc.net.au/ Personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] AIMIA finalists
Quoth Noah at 01/24/07 11:10... Nothing bugs me more than a super-cool looking site that shows off the ability of the artist who built it, yet does nothing for the idea, product or service it promotes. Or, of course, breaks the law. Accessibility is a legal requirement in Australia[1], although I get the impression that people keep forgetting this for some (convenient?) reason. An accessibility check should be done before any site/company is even put in the running for any form of award, otherwise the organisers are - to put it bluntly - condoning crime. Anyone failing the preliminary check could be given an accesibility information pack, a list of those who can help put things right. Well, I'm off to ram-raid a supermarket, but it's OK, as I'll do it artistically ;-) Cheers M 1 - http://www.hreoc.gov.au/disability_rights/standards/www_3/www_3.html#s2_2 -- Matthew Smith IT Consultancy Web Application Development Business: http://www.kbc.net.au/ Personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] AIMIA finalists
Quoth Milosz A. Lodowski - New Media Designer at 01/24/07 11:32... But any design without art, feeling and emotions is trivial and boring We can be artistic and accessible, and need to prove it time and time again to dispel the myth that accessible is ugly. Artists and techies can work together - I've done it before AND we were still talking to each other at the end ;-) -- Matthew Smith IT Consultancy Web Application Development Business: http://www.kbc.net.au/ Personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Average Page Sizes
Samuel Richardson wrote: What is considered an acceptable total page size for the web these days? Clearly the smaller the better but I’ve put together a fairly graphic heavy travel website with a homepage size of about 300k. With GZIP switched on in the server I imagine that this will be reduced fairly substantially (we have some huge stylesheets that will compress well). Three things to remember: 1) There are still a large number of people accessing the Internet via modems - not everyone has a broadband connection. 2) There is an increasing number of people accessing the Internet via wireless devices which, like modems, can be incredibly slow. 3) Only serve gzip'd content if the requesting user agent says that it can handle it, through the accept headers. (And for how long are we going to use that ancient compression algorithm, when we have bzip2?) If this is a travel Web site for travellers on the road, and if you cannot avoid being graphic heavy, you may wish to consider offering an alternative, fast, version for mobile users and those accessing the Internet through public terminals in out-of-the-way places, with slow connections. I would say that the front page of the site should be as light (minimum download sizes) as possible, so that you are catering for all users; content elsewhere on the site can be media-rich for users with high-speed connections, who can choose to view this rather than forcing heavy content on all users. Should you have, or have access to, a mobile phone with a Web browser (I mean real Web, rather than WAP), this will give you first-hand experience of what it is like, not only to have a slow connection, but a small screen. Cheers M -- Matthew Smith IT Consultancy Web Application Development Business: http://www.kbc.net.au/ Personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] You definitely have to see...
Quoth Milosz A. Lodowski - New Media Designer at 01/19/07 14:41... http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/01/13/30-dark-designs-you-shouldve-seen/ I just get a 500 error. Cheers M -- Matthew Smith IT Consultancy Web Application Development Business: http://www.kbc.net.au/ Personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Multiple versions of IE on same PC
Quoth Nick Lazar at 01/17/07 21:57... snip/ It's a (free) package that has IE 3, 4.01, 5.01, 5.55 6 all bundled together. All you need to do is download it and run it like any normal .exe, and hey presto, you have the full set of IE releases all working side by side on the same PC in less than 5 minutes! (And yes, it works with IE7) snip/ For those who develop under Linux, ies4linux[1] provides similar functionality, although it does not go back to the more ancient (3,4) versions. This uses Wine for the emulation layer, but looks after all the downloads and configuration. It should be noted that ies4linux does not provide a genuine IE7 - it runs (somehow) the IE7 rendering engine inside IE6. This means that one loses some functionality - tabs, RSS reader, but nothing that would impact on its usefulness for validating Web content on multiple user agents. Please note, for those running such systems on a non-Microsoft plaform, one MUST have a valid Windows (95+, I believe) to run IE legally. For me, this solves the problem of having to have a dual-boot machine or, even worse, a separate one just running Windows. Cheers M References 1 - http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page -- Matthew Smith IT Consultancy Web Application Development Business: http://www.kbc.net.au/ Personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Opera problem, too much padding on first load
Quoth Christian Montoya at 01/18/07 07:07... On this page: http://www.texto.de/wp-plugins/ When you first load in Opera 9.0, the header is bumped down a bit and doesn't line up with the background. If you refresh, it fixes itself. I don't see this problem in any other browsers. I don't see this problem in Opera 9.1 (Linux), but do on Firefox 2.0.0.1 - and the problem does NOT go away with a refresh. Cheers M -- Matthew Smith IT Consultancy Web Application Development Business: http://www.kbc.net.au/ Personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
[WSG] Free Screen Readers (was: Logo and H1's)
Quoth Rob O'Rourke at 01/13/07 08:25... I've not managed to get a screen-reader working very well for testing so far, does anyone know of one (preferably free) that provides a fairly typical screen reader experience? JAWS is a bit out of my price range. You could try the Fangs[1] extension for Firefox. Fangs renders the page as text, but the text that would (probably) be spoken by Jaws. I have never managed to get it working myself, but it may be worth a look. Cheers M References 1 - http://www.standards-schmandards.com/projects/fangs -- Matthew Smith IT Consultancy Web Application Development Business: http://www.kbc.net.au/ Personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Visited Links and Accessibility
Quoth Dwain Alford at 01/11/07 18:09... for accessibility purposes in using color (on links and visited links, etc.) i would recommend using the color contrast analyzer from http://www.accessibleinfo.org.au/ http://www.accessibleinfo.org.au/ since web sites need to be accessible to everyone, don't forget the color blind, so make sure your colors work for them not just those with normal color vision. I find excessive colours distracting and confess that I am guilty of displaying visited and unvisited links the same, and only changing on focus/hover. With the colour blindness issue taken into consideration as well, would it not be better, therefore, to style visited links in a manner where colour is not involved at all? Not being a CSS guru, I would need to check what options are available, but something like a line over and under the word for visited links may be a possibility. Cheers M -- Matthew Smith IT Consultancy Web Application Development Business: http://www.kbc.net.au/ Personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Background images turned off? (was Visited Links and Accessibility)
Quoth Barney Carroll at 01/11/07 20:48... @Matthew: And the only 'tampering' Opera Mini does as far as styling is concerned is ignore background-image rules? Or does it not render images, full stop? On its own, Opera Mini doesn't do a lot to the content; however, those of us with slower (pre-3G) and expensive connections - we pay by the kilobyte - may be inclined to turn all images off for time/economic reasons. Just like going back to the old, slow, modem days. The challenges of presenting content to Opera Mini are: 1) Keeping the total data size to a minimum 2) Dealing with a very, very small screen 3) No plugins (I have not checked to see whether JavaScript is handled or not.) M -- Matthew Smith IT Consultancy Web Application Development Business: http://www.kbc.net.au/ Personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] including files with php produces 12px margin height ???
Quoth Mihael Zadravec at 01/12/07 07:21... OH BOY This is realy making me crazy! All they by now! It happens in IE 6, IE 7 and Opera 9.01... In firefox it looks like it renders it properly.. Still OK in all browsers when done by hand? I don't know what programming tools you have in Windows, but I would be inclined to write both the hand-coded and PHP generated code to a pair of files and then compare them, using something like the Unix diff utility. Also check the MIME types that the two versions are being presented as. I know that Firefox will render things differently depending on the MIME type with which XHTML content is served - normally margins around the page changing. When creating pages dynamically, I believe it safest to control everything. PHP has a tendency to set its own default headers, which can confuse the issue. I would suggest, at a minimum, you use PHP's header() to control Content-type and cache control. Having done all my early work in Perl, where what you write is what you get, I had some initial problems with PHP, where it tried to be too helpful. Taking back full control of the headers can fix this. If you need any code samples, contact me off-list; I am in the process of writing a CMS (Content Management System) toolkit in PHP, some of which may help you. Cheers M -- Matthew Smith IT Consultancy Web Application Development Business: http://www.kbc.net.au/ Personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] seo url
Quoth Mihael Zadravec at 01/10/07 19:55... Hello! What would you consider to be better: [1] www.domain.com/index.php/something http://www.domain.com/index.php/something or [2] www.domain.com/something.com http://www.domain.com/something.com or [2] www.domain.com/index.php?page=something http://www.domain.com/index.php?page=something I know that the best would be www.domain.com/something http://www.domain.com/something, but there is no mod_rewrite option enabled.. Well, the first thing that I would do would be to seek to enable mod_rewrite, but [1] would be second best choice, as it does not involve a query string. Whilst [1] is not a human friendly URI, it is much easier to work with when using a software user agent (I have written these before), because there is no query string to parse. To software, having index.php in the middle of a URI is no worse than having some-directory. However, mod_rewrite is still the best option. If you are not running the server yourself, you need to talk to your hosting provider and convince them that this is the way that things are done nowadays. Cheers M -- Matthew Smith IT Consultancy Web Application Development Business: http://www.kbc.net.au/ Personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Background images turned off? (was Visited Links and Accessibility)
Quoth Barney Carroll at 01/11/07 02:21... On the issue of background-images: I had never heard of people turning off background images before coming to the list. I now include Opera Mini in my suite of user agents that I use for testing. Whilst I use the emulator for most work (no useage charges), when I do use it on my mobile phone, I tend to have all graphics disabled to save load time and the horrendous data charges from our national telco. Remember folks, mobile Web users are on the increase (I'm sure it's not just me!) and should be catered for. Another reason for sites to work perfectly sans-images. Cheers M -- Matthew Smith IT Consultancy Web Application Development Business: http://www.kbc.net.au/ Personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] my world, my country.. :(
Quoth Rob O'Rourke at 01/11/07 03:57... Just my two pence but I think what you really need to do is add an audio layer to that flash site. As an example one of the sites we host (its not at all accessible code-wise) has audio to say hello and indicate what you can do on a page. I think similar use of audio on that site to read it from the flash would be a nice touch. Then it'd be accessible to blind users who don't have a screenreader too (...they must exist) Unanticipated sound can cause issues. I have problems with Web content that a) makes noises without asking and/or b) has movement without asking.* Please don't do this, unless it is by activation of a 'play audio' control. Cheers M * Presentation: The Forgotten Difficulties - Fatigue and the Web http://www.smiffysplace.com/ozewai2006/ -- Matthew Smith IT Consultancy Web Application Development Business: http://www.kbc.net.au/ Personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] my world, my country.. :(
Quoth Mihael Zadravec at 01/10/07 04:45... This is realy sad... but this is the website of a Blind peopele comunnity Škofja Loka from Slovenija (where I live, but in Ljubljana...) Center slepih in slabovidnih Škofja Loka http://www.css-sl.si/ any comments on the code, usabillity and accessability issues? This is how the first page renders with Lynx: CSS - Center slepih in slabovidnih kofja Loka [EMBED] Anyone without Flash would not be able to get past this (unnecessary) first page. (On Opera Mini, on my mobile phone, I just see part of the title and a blank screen.) As regards the Flash itself, it took me some time, waving the mouse cursor over the screen in Firefox before I found the one link in the content. This was scarcely visible on my 1680x1050 laptop display. HTML pages generally are not a problem in this respect, because I have a minimum font size set. Having followed the link, the next page is all deprecated markup. The text on the next page I can make bigger. However, the table-based layout does not get bigger meaning that there is very little of the larger text displayed, and that I am unable to scroll what is there. The menu either uses a font with a shadow or is using images as text (I did not look at the source of the iframe); whatever the technique used, the effect is of blurred text which is very hard to read. If you are looking to fix this site, I think that it would probably be quicker to start from fresh, using XHTML and CSS. Cheers M -- Matthew Smith IT Consultancy Web Application Development Business: http://www.kbc.net.au/ Personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] XML driven websites
Quoth Bruce at 01/05/07 18:51... Is this referring to the actual page being xml or source of data? Reason I ask is that I find I am increasingly using xml for data source and parsing it for webpages. Which seems the best way to go really, as the source of the data matters not, and the result is standard xhtml. Agreed. One can use the most obscure XML internally but, with the right XSLT transformation, can turn it in to good XHTML (or even HTML). M -- Matthew Smith IT Consultancy Web Application Development Business: http://www.kbc.net.au/ Personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] XML driven websites
Quoth Mihael Zadravec at 01/05/07 18:57... hm... actual page being xml. Using anything but XHTML or HTML as the language served would cause major accessibility issues, especially for older user agents that do not understand XML and would not be able to refer to a DTD. Certainly, use it internally, but only serve what is being expected (XHTML or HTML), unless you have total control of your audience, such as in an intranet situation. M -- Matthew Smith IT Consultancy Web Application Development Business: http://www.kbc.net.au/ Personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] XML driven websites
Quoth Mihael Zadravec at 01/05/07 19:12... What would than be the right xslt transformation? Is than the source code of a web document xml or xhtml? Sorry for strange questions, but I am a bit confused :) If it is convenient for you to handle your data as XML, you can use any XML vocabulary you like, as this is purely internal. When you are presenting your content to the world, you need to change it to a form that the world recognises. As not all user agents (browsers) are able to handle XML stylesheets (XSLT), you need to write one that will transform your XML into XHTML; what your Web Server sends out would only be XHTML. Hope this makes it less confusing... Cheers M -- Matthew Smith IT Consultancy Web Application Development Business: http://www.kbc.net.au/ Personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Does this hurt accessibility
Quoth John S. Britsios at 01/05/07 14:44... We are thinking of implementing this service http://www.snap.com/about/spa1A.php on our web site, and our question is, if you think that it can hurt our site accessibility in someway? As this appears to use some sort of pop-up, I would like to think that users can control their experience by being able to turn this off. (If I found this on a site, I would use Adblock to kill the scripts. I can't cope with any form of movement on the screen, especially when big chunks like this jump into view unanticipated.) Or better still, have it off by default and invite the user to enable previews. Cheers M -- Matthew Smith IT Consultancy Web Application Development Business: http://www.kbc.net.au/ Personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] New UK rules
Quoth Designer at 01/03/2007 11:32 PM... My service provider sent the following out in the latest newsletter. I was not aware of this, so in case any of you weren't aware either, I include it here: REGULATION ISSUE snip/ Welcome to the EU*! I've noted that a lot of German sites have an Impressum, that I'd guess is the same thing; I seem to remember someone telling me that it is a legal requirement. However, Impressum is generally a page, with a link to it. Repeating the same information on the footer of every page is not, in my opinion, in the spirit of the Web. Obviously an idea of someone still living in the paper age... Cheers M *European Union. -- Matthew Smith IT Consultancy Web Application Development Business: http://www.kbc.net.au/ Personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG CMS] Looking for CMS that meets these requirements: Please advise.
Quoth Micky Hulse at 12/14/06 09:36... IIRC, I have heard good things about Drupal -- never used it though... but it looks like it would be a good pick for my requirements. I've played with Drupal a couple of times, but have never delved too deep. Most things look OK, but the URI scheme is ghastly, although I guess that it should be possible to change that without too much effort. Someone on another list (some site in Italy) was claiming good WCAG compliance with a template they had produced. You might want to search for Drupal on the WAI Interest Group mailing list if you decide to go the Drupal route, and see what they were doing. Cheers M -- Matthew Smith IT Consultancy Accessible Web Application Development Business: http://www.kbc.net.au/ Personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy ** Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **
