Re: [WSG] Background image not visible in ie

2009-04-29 Thread Ben Dodson

Hi Lyn,

I've tested it in IE7 and it works ok, but just isn't working in IE6  
(it loads but is blue at one end rather than white).  The reason for  
this is that you're using a transparent PNG which isn't supported on  
IE6 and below.  There are tons of examples of this (and how to fix it)  
on this mailing list but I've put a link below which should get it  
working for you.


http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000103.html

Cheers,

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On 29 Apr 2009, at 06:44, Lynette Smith wrote:


Good afternoon

http://www.westernwebdesign.com.au/zoobridal/index.html

IE is not showing the background image on #container.  Have only  
just noticed this.  Cannot find any reason for it to be so.  I  have  
a very similar site with  a background image  on #container  and it  
has no problems in IE.


Can anyone spot the problem?  I would be most grateful.

Kind regards

Lyn

www.westernwebdesign.com.au
Affordable web design -  Perth

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Re: [WSG] Background image not visible in ie

2009-04-29 Thread Ben Dodson
It does of course require JavaScript which isn't strictly necessary as  
you can get the same effect with just CSS (especially for the purposes  
of the example given initially).


With regards to background image positioning, I'm fairly sure there is  
no way to stop it going to position (0,0) as that's how the Microsoft  
Filter works.


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On 29 Apr 2009, at 13:46, James Leslie wrote:



The guys over at unit interactive also have a help script to help  
fix the issues with transparent PNG images in IE6.


http://labs.unitinteractive.com/unitpngfix.php



 I highly recommend this script very handy and concise. The one  
problem I have noticed with it is that it doesn't respect background  
position on background images - everything goes to (0,0) . If this  
is ok, it is a great solution and can of course be applied via a  
conditional comment meaning no superfluous code for 'decent' browsers.


James

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Re: [WSG] PNG - how cross-browser standard reliable?

2009-04-27 Thread Ben Dodson
Only if they are PNGs with alpha transparencies - these are not  
supported in IE6 amongst others (although there are hacks).  If it's  
just a straightforward image, then PNG will be absolutely fine.


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On 27 Apr 2009, at 10:46, Mike Kear wrote:

I’m looking at a whole bunch of icons to use in a new app I’m  
building, and rather than convert them all to gifs,   I was thinking  
of leaving them as the .png format they are now.They work on all  
the browsers I use, but I’m wondering what everyone else’s  
experience has been of using .pngs in web pages.


Last time I tried using a png, I found it worked ok in some browsers  
and not in others.   Is this still a relevant issue?


Cheers
Mike Kear
Windsor, NSW, Australia
0422 985 585
Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer
AFP Webworks Pty Ltd
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Re: [WSG] meta tag questions

2009-02-24 Thread Ben Dodson
I don't know about the Dublin Core issue but my gut feeling with  
geo.position and your example would be that of course the bed and  
breakfast in Pisa, Italy should have their location as the hotel will  
always be in the same place.  I think that you've looked at the issue  
from the wrong side in that you assume it would only show in regional  
searches (e.g. an italian search engine) whereas in actual fact it  
should show up in a global search for that region - e.g. if I search  
for hotels pisa italy I would expect it to show up as it's  
geo.position clearly states that is where it is and so the search  
engine can be 100% sure that it is in the area I'm looking for.


I haven't done any tests, etc, but that is what I would expect of the  
tag.  How much difference it makes in terms of SEO will be harder to  
gauge as I doubt that adding that tag will make you rank higher (as  
the search engines cater for the lowest possible denominator) but it  
should help in terms of specific search queries.


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On 24 Feb 2009, at 11:21, Bob Schwartz wrote:

I have questions regarding two types of meta tags, Dublin Core and  
geo.position:


1. Dublin Core: I have only been able to find older studies (2000)  
regarding the possible improvement in search engine positioning  
through the use of these tags. The conclusion in these olders  
studies was no significant imporvement, however they did go on to  
say that in the future these tags will play a more important role.  
Has that future arrived or are these tags essentialy still code  
bloat?


2. geo.position: According to Wikipedia geo.position tags help in  
returning regional search requests, or as they put it: It  
understandably makes little sense to look for a baker and find one  
who has his shop in a completely different town. If this is the  
case, then it would seem putting geo.position tags on a bed and  
breakfast site in Pisa, Italy that is trying to reach potential  
guests around the world would not be a good idea. Anyone have any  
experience or thoughts regarding these tags?


Thanks,

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Re: [WSG] iphone should not be part of your url

2008-07-20 Thread Ben Dodson
I don't personally have a problem with having iphone in a URL as it is
generally used for applications that are very specific to the iphone.  Yes,
perhaps there should be versions for other devices (e.g. Nokia) but the
reality is that most developers won't bother making specific sites for these
users and instead use a generic mobile stylesheet.  The difference with the
iPhone is that it's the latest bandwagon in town and that the majority of
iPhone owners will use the internet on the phone (whereas the majority of
Nokia phone owners won't use the web browser on the phone).  It also has a
very specific style and so companies will try and cater to this (e.g. the
facebook web app was designed to look like a native iPhone application).

Of course, now there is the App store and the ability to run third party
applications, I'm sure a lot of these iPhone specific websites will
disappear as the developers move to offering a built in solution.

Ben

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On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Svip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 When I say the largest mobile browser, I mean the browser that can
 handle more content and layouts on a mobile device than any other.  I
 have seen plenty of mobile phone browsers.  I admit Opera Mini is
 great, but the Safari on the iPhone does give you the full experience
 as you would on your laptop/desktop.

 Now, personally, I don't mind sites specifically for mobile devices,
 cause they are lower in content, which is something you'd like on a
 mobile device, due to the limitations of the screen and the cost of
 transfer.

 But while I realise that 3G is limited in the US, there is no place
 yet where the mobile device industry is developed enough to allow for
 full blown websites on mobile devices.  Which I believe is Apple
 taking a step too early.

 Regards,
 Svip

 P.S. I live in Denmark.

 2008/7/20 Keryx Web [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
  Svip skrev:
 
  I see where you're coming from, but let's not forget that the iPhone's
  browser is (as of right now) the largest mobile browser, in the
  fashion, that it is basically the same browser you get on your
  computer.
 
  The good thing about the iPhone is that suddenly USA is getting to know
 the
  mobile web. The bad thing is that USA seems to believe that the mobile
 web =
  iPhone.
 
  In Scandinavia, where I live, most people are *not* that impressed with
 the
  iPhone, nor is it the largest mobile browser. We have been surfing the
 web
  on our 3G phones for quite some time now. But we welcome all (US)
 Americans
  to the 21st century!
 
 
  Lars Gunther
  (who probably will get himself a Nokia N96 when it comes out, and even
 today
  would take an N95 over the iPhone)
 
 
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Re: [WSG] AJAX short courses london

2008-06-01 Thread Ben Dodson
Just thought I'd throw my 2 cents in.

I've always learnt things from either books or from chatting with other
developers in IRC (there are no doubt some ajax specific groups - I
recommend #jquery for the jQuery library which is my particular ajax weapon
of choice).

Accreditations are definitely not required in the web development world -
the worst developers I've interviewed are always the ones with
accreditations whereas the best have just taught themselves or been taught
by their peers!

Cheers,

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On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Joe Ortenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 so where else can you be taught in bed for £50*
 (*stop sniggering in the back there!)

 and as for accreditation, some of my best developers were not accredited
 and their experience counted for much more than any course could provide.
 They are much better at independent thinking, self-study for things they
 need to know more about, and less likely to get stuck in a conceptual rut.

 Joe

 On May 30 2008, at 22:39, James Jeffery wrote:

 Only problem with the Lynda.com DVDs is sometimes they can be outdated.

 Although, this one is £50 and looks good. I might actually buy this, i like
 watching the movies when in bed.

 http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?ID=480

 On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 9:51 PM, Joe Ortenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  I agree.
 I have rarely seen any course in web technologies that you couldn't get
 further for much less money with either a video tutorial from places like
 lynda.com or from good how to books from great publishers like new
 riders, friends of ed, o'reilleys, etc.

 you can study at your own pace, replay and review difficult bits, skip
 over others, and the resource stays with you..


 On May 27 2008, at 05:28, Jennie K wrote:

 If you are not after accreditation try this website www.lynda.com - it's
 all online and you study at your own pace.  I've recommended the training to
 numerous people and they have all said it is of good quality.  You can try
 some of the free courses before  committing - there are also books and cds
 if you don't like the online version.

 On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Paul Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

 Hi all,

 I hope this is on topic. I'm trying to find a short course on AJAX in
 london and having troubles finding one that is of a reasonable price
 (IE- less than £300 for a half day). Could anyone recommend me one or
 possibly a good school to look into?

 Thanks for any help,
 Paul


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Re: [WSG] Conditional styles not being used on first-run

2008-05-24 Thread Ben Dodson
Hello,
Here is quite a good article on how to automatically version your js and css
files to prevent caching issues:

http://particletree.com/notebook/automatically-version-your-css-and-javascript-files/

Cheers,

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On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 5:42 AM, David Hucklesby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 On Fri, 23 May 2008 10:53:49 +0100, Steven Workman wrote:
  Hi everyone,
 
 
  I'm having a problem with an element I've created for my current project.
 It's
  basically a styled rounded-corner box with a title (it looks like a
 fieldset but is
  correctly structured HTML). To get all my padding working correctly I'm
 using
  conditional styles for IE6, but some users are reporting that they have
 to refresh
  their screens (press F5) in IE before the positioning works correctly!
 
  Have any of you heard of this before? Is there a way around it? Any
 recommendations?
 

 If it's a caching issue, as Matt Fellows suggests, consider versioning
 your CSS -- naming it screen_1_2.css for example. The name
 change will ensure that the old one is not used.

 Giving images, CSS, and scripts a far future expires date will speed
 up subsequent visits to your site, but does have the effect of
 sticking in the cache like this, as it is intended to do.

 Cordially,
 David
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Re: R: [WSG] Firefox skips dropdown and multi-select list with tabbing (?)

2008-05-05 Thread Ben Dodson
If it's a mac issue, the most usual cause is that full keyboard access isn't
enabled.  Solve this by going to System Preferences - Keyboard  Mouse -
Keyboard Shortcuts - select the All Controls radio button in the full
keyboard access section at the bottom of the pane (not in the scrollable
area).
This drove me nuts in Firefox on a mac for ages (especially why trying to
use phpMyAdmin which requires tabbing through a lot of radio buttons that
Firefox would just ignore!)
Hope that solves your problem :-)

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On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 1:39 AM, Essential eBiz Solutions Ltd 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I would say it's the mac that's causing your problems.

 I'm running XP Pro with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB;
 rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14

 Good to see Magneto being put to good use. Still rebuilding my server to
 take it with it's new approach to the database connecton.


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 tabbing (?)


 On May 4, 2008, at 4:00 PM, Essential eBiz Solutions Ltd wrote:

  Just tabbed through the whole checkout forms in FireFox without any
  problems
 

 This is VERY ODD!!!  What version of FF /platform do you use?
  I am on Mac, FF v2.0.0.14. I wish I can capture the tabbing in
 action so that I can show you :(

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Re: [WSG] How to make diagonal lines change color?

2008-04-11 Thread Ben Dodson
Completely unrelated but a minor bugbear from me - If you disable images,
then you can't read your links as they are white and the usual browser
background color default is white.  This can be remedied by adding a
background color of black to your body so that the links will now become
visible when images are disabled.  You can test this easily by using the Web
Developer toolbar for Firefox.
Cheers,

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On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Laert Jansen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 Hello everyone.

 Well there´s something I want to do but I have no idea if it´s possible to
 be done and how would I do this.

 My website (www.laertjansen.com) has some two color diagonal lines as a
 bg.

 What I want to do is: On the mouse over color X it becomes color Y
On the mouse over color Y it becomes color
 X

 Is it possible to be done?

 Thanks a lot for any help

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Re: [WSG] Dreamweaver CS3

2008-04-04 Thread Ben Dodson
If you're using a mac then I must highly recommend TextMate (
http://macromates.com/) as the best text-editor I've ever used.  It has full
syntax highlighting but it's real power comes with snippets, code blocks
you can program yourself.  For example I can type if and press tab and it
will automatically change to if ($var) { } whilst pressing tab again
highlights to each variable or block allowing you to overwrite it.  You can
write your own which makes it incredibly powerful and there are hundreds
built in for all sorts of different programming languages!
I've been using it for around a year and a half now and have never had any
problems - it's also very cheap in comparison to other editors.  If you're
using Windows, then someone wrote a port of TextMate called E-Texteditor
which can be got from http://e-texteditor.com/ - again very good (not quite
as good as TextMate) and allows you to use the snippets and bundles from
TextMate which makes it good in a development environment with multiple
OS's.

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On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Ted Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I use Dreamweaver in code view. However, it makes it easy to convert a
 semantic marked-up word document into valid code, is easy to organize
 code,
 and I am used to the key commands.

 That probably describes dozens of editors for different people.

 If it comes with a package, you're in good shape. If not, you may want to
 consider cheaper options

 Ted

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 I think its  very handy even though i hardcode most stuff.
 Its good for organizing your work flow, with document tabs and what not.
 The code is pretty clean these days and theres a good built in validator.
 I think even object embedding (.flvs and what not) is pretty unobtrusive.

 Sorry if thats off topic.


 James Jeffery wrote:
  I've been thinking about buying the new version of Photoshop and
  Illustrator, as i just purchased a new dual core iMac. Currently i use
  BBEdit but im thinking about switching to Dreamweaver as i might
  aswell purchase the creative suite. Is the new dreamweaver any good
  for us developers?
 
  This may not seem related to web standards but i feel it does because
  back when i used dreamweaver - it was the days when it bloated out
  your code and caused friction for many developers.
 
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Re: [WSG] IE8 news - stats

2008-03-09 Thread Ben Dodson
As mentioned previously, people with illegal copies of XP can now upgrade to
IE7 -
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2007/10/04/internet-explorer-7-update.aspx

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On 09/03/2008, Andrew Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 John,

 most of the IE6 users I know are not thieves, they are clients that use
 IE6 as part of their SOE. One organisation alone has several thousand IE6
 users. They do not choose their browser, nor their O/S.

 Cheers, Andrew

 Andrew Boyd
 Consultant
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 transform business through Consulting, People and Technology
 
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 Subject: RE: [WSG] IE8 news - stats


 Consider that a fairly significant proportion of IE6 users cannot upgrade
 as
 they're using  illegal copies of Windows XP. One of my clients did a
 fairly
 large study (anonymous) where 18% of 10,000 users were using cracked
 copies
 of Windows - I'm just wondering how much that'd sway the stats. For
 myself,
 I'd be unwilling to support people who steal rather than go to linux-based
 operating systems. Unfortunately, it's impossible to tell the difference!

 John Hancock
 Identity

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 Well, if you'd like some stats from a .au site with very much
 non-technical, typically Australian-sourced traffic:

 1.  Internet Explorer / Windows 44,549  80.32%

 1.  7.0 23,965  53.77%
 2.  6.0 20,507  46.01%
 3.  5.5 47  0.11%
 4.  5.0117  0.04%
 5.  5.0 16  0.04%
 6.  5.2311  0.02%
 7.  4.5 3   0.01%
 8.  4.0120.00%
 9.  5.2220.00%
 10. 4.0 10.00%

 2.  Firefox / Windows   6,581   11.86%
 3.  Safari / Macintosh  2,352   4.24%
 4.  Firefox / Macintosh 828 1.49%
 5.  Mozilla / Linux 623 1.12%
 6.  Opera / Windows 150 0.27%
 7.  Firefox / Linux 121 0.22%
 8.  Mozilla / Windows   48  0.09%
 9.  Konqueror / Linux   37  0.07%
 10. Internet Explorer / Macintosh   24  0.04%

 So, 80% Windows IE, split between 7  6 - I too expect to see most of
 the IE7 users migrate to an IE8 Gold release quite quickly, but that
 IE6 will hang around for much longer.

 warmly,
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Re: [WSG] Firefox developer toolbar

2008-03-08 Thread Ben Dodson
At present, no it doesn't - Hopefully it will do soon though!  You can keep
up to date at the authors website at http://chrispederick.com/

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On 08/03/2008, Hayden's Harness Attachment [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I hope this is not off topic. I have the web developer toolbar working
 great with Firefox 2.x. Does the web developer toolbar support Firefox 
 3.0beta 3?

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Re: [WSG] Links are not hot in ie8

2008-03-06 Thread Ben Dodson
I agree, the page that microsoft loads by default in IE8 (their own site)
breaks horribly because of an embedded map - You'd think that they would fix
the start-up page of the new beta as it doesn't really give off the best
impression!

Ben

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On 06/03/2008, Al Sparber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 From: Thierry Koblentz [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 I think it's going to be a fun ride...
 

  http://tjkdesign.com/test/ie8/links.asp


 I hope people are using IE8 for its intended purpose of Technical Beta.
 Microsoft's own home page does not work very well and major sites (like
 Adobe.com and Yahoo are rendered in degrees of chaos). In the event this
 beta gets out in the wild and folks start using it as their default
 browser
 for general surfing, I'd recommend a little warning:

 http://www.projectseven.com/testing/ie8/pmm/

 You'll see an alert box if you use IE8.


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Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-06 Thread Ben Dodson
It depends on how Microsoft are going to get users to upgrade - If they do a
forced upgrade then that figure could go down and presumably if a service
pack for vista comes out it will include IE8 in it by default so hopefully
it will be more like a year and a half rather than 2 and a half.

My main hope is that the number of IE6 users will decrease rapidly as there
are still over 20% of the market according to the W3C statistics.
Apparently Microsoft were going to do a forced upgrade from IE6 to IE7 at
the end of Feb but I don't know how well that has gone (or if it has at
all).

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On 06/03/2008, Genau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 How many time you guys think that will take to at least 70% of ie7 users
 update their browsers?

 I estimate 2/half years ... anyone can predict?


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 Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 5:14 PM
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 Yeap, it sucks!

 I'll find a solution to that!

 Regards,
 Luiz Gustavo Aleagi Nunes
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 On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 5:04 PM, tee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  I decided to be the brave and die first IE's victim :-)
 
   Very Bad! my IE 6 is gone, IE 7 standalone is working. The
   installation took over 15 minutes.
 
   How do they expect we test the browser by disable the the previous
   version(s) ??
 
 
 
 
 
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   On Mar 5, 2008, at 11:32 AM, aleagi wrote:
 
Yeah, I'm afraid to install it and kick IE6 and 7 out of my box!
   
Anyone with the guts to do it? @:D
   
Regards.
Aleagi
.
   
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Patrick H. Lauke
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Anybody installed the IE8beta1 yet?
   
 
 http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/readiness/Install.htm
Wondering if this nukes IE7 and embeds itself into Windows, or if
it can
run standalone...
   
P
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Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-06 Thread Ben Dodson
 The impact on XP is similar. Those not opting to allow WGA installation or
attempt it
 but fail cannot upgrade from IE6.

http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThisA=/article/08/01/17/Microsoft-warns-businesses-of-autoupdate-to-IE7_1.html

I agree with you on W2K, but XP users can now upgrade to IE7 without having
to have the WGA stuff and apparently this is being forced through
auto-update so there should be a noticeable drop in IE6 users.

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On 06/03/2008, Felix Miata [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On 2008/03/06 20:09 (GMT) Ben Dodson apparently typed:


  My main hope is that the number of IE6 users will decrease rapidly as
 there
  are still over 20% of the market according to the W3C statistics.
  Apparently Microsoft were going to do a forced upgrade from IE6 to IE7
 at
  the end of Feb but I don't know how well that has gone (or if it has at
  all).


 IE6 won't be going away before W2K goes away, unless IE7 and/or IE8 is
 released for W2K. Last I checked, WGA didn't apply to W2K, leaving it as
 the
 only supported yet readily pirate-able doz version. The impact on XP is
 similar. Those not opting to allow WGA installation or attempt it but fail
 cannot upgrade from IE6.

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Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-05 Thread Ben Dodson
I've just installed and it seems a lot better than IE7 - A few pages I have
that have differences between IE7 and firefox now render exactly like
firefox which is good :-)

The switch to IE7 mode is a good bonus to have but there are a few weird
things such as the url in the address bar is always greyed out apart from
the domain name which is a bit weird (and I can't quite understand why
they'd put that in).

I need to give it a full testing but it seems quite good so far!

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On 05/03/2008, Jason Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I gave it a go...  (thanks for the link).. Installed fine...
 But I had to reinstall my Logitech mouse drivers...
 I love having to navgiate web pages using the keyboard.
 Just goes to show how dependant we are on the mouse!




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 Subject: Re: [WSG] IE8 news


 Ok I got it installed...

 Since I don't had the last updates in my machine, IE8 forced me to do it.

 And I did...

 Now I can't have IE6, it's updated!

 I have IE7 standalone running properlly.

 I'll digg to find a IE6 standalone version that worked with Ie8!

 For the rest, everything looks fine.

 Good lucky to you all!

 Regards,
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  I got a spare computer to test this on. Thanks for the heads up about
 the
   availiblity of the beta.
 
 
 
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   From: aleagi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
 

  Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 8:32 PM
   Subject: Re: [WSG] IE8 news
 
 
 

  Yeah, I'm afraid to install it and kick IE6 and 7 out of my box!
 
   Anyone with the guts to do it? @:D
 
   Regards.
   Aleagi
   .
 
   On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Patrick H. Lauke 
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   Anybody installed the IE8beta1 yet?
   
   

 http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/readiness/Install
 .htm
 Wondering if this nukes IE7 and embeds itself into Windows, or if it
 can
 run standalone...
   
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Re: [WSG] Experience with Adobe Contribute

2008-03-02 Thread Ben Dodson
Hi,

The latest version of Contribute (CS3) is not actually that bad.  We use it
all the time for our clients at work and generally the feedback is quite
good.  Contribute allows you to edit the text on a page just like you would
with something like Word or Dreamweaver. You can also set it to create
rollbacks so if anything gets messed up you can always undo what you've
done.

My recommendation would be for you to download the 30 day trial from Adobes
website and have a play with it yourself.  You could also ask your client to
download it and have a play to see if it meets their needs before you pay
for a license.

With regards to standards, it will edit any site but if the site you have
created is standards compliant then it will output in a compliant way as
well (it might not be semantic or the best way to do something but it will
validate!).  With creating new pages, you can either create a HTML template
with which they can use for new pages, or they can simply copy an existing
page and just edit the text.  This is normally fine for day-to-day use.

As I say, the best thing to do is to download the trial and give it a go and
see if it meets your needs.

Cheers,

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On 02/03/2008, Martin Heiden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Elizabeth,

 Saturday, March 1, 2008, 11:08:47 PM, you wrote:

 ES I understand that Contribute would allow them to make changes to
 content
 ES without messing with the coding/navigation.  Does anyone have
 experience
 ES with this product?  Is it possible/easy to set up to maintain
 ES standards-compliance?

 I once did some testing with Contribute 1.0 and didn't experience any
 problems with standard conformance. Contribute is a cut down
 Dreamweaver which only allows to change content in
 Dreamweaver-Templates. Adobe lately put a lot of work into
 Dreamweaver to make at easy to develop standards-based sites, so I
 guess that you won't have any problems if you change the templates.

 regards


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Re: [WSG] Experience with Adobe Contribute

2008-03-02 Thread Ben Dodson
Rob Crowther wrote:
 As far as I'm aware, though I may be wrong - this was Contribute 3 and I
 didn't look in too much detail, you can't force users to only use styles
 out of your existing stylesheets.

In Contribute CS3 you can set it up so that they can only use styles from a
specific style sheet.  You can also set it so that they can't control font
size, colours, etc, etc.  We do this for all of our clients as when we
didn't they managed to break their websites within about 30 minutes!

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On 02/03/2008, Rob Crowther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Elizabeth Spiegel wrote:
  I understand that Contribute would allow them to make changes to content

  without messing with the coding/navigation.  Does anyone have experience

  with this product?  Is it possible/easy to set up to maintain

  standards-compliance?
 
 You can limit the areas they can edit by using Dreamweaver templates,
 and there are a number of options within Contribute where you force
 standards compliance, but some strange stuff will still happen.  For
 instance, if one of your users decides they want a nice, bright red
 message in the middle of their copy it achieves this by adding a style
 section in the head of the document.  The style section will not be
 automatically removed if the red text is deleted.

 As far as I'm aware, though I may be wrong - this was Contribute 3 and I
 didn't look in too much detail, you can't force users to only use styles
 out of your existing stylesheets.


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Re: [WSG] Unobtrusive JavaScript (was: generate data)

2008-02-26 Thread Ben Dodson
Hi,

Although I'm a jQuery man myself, it's good to see someone actively
encouraging the use of unobtrusive javascript although I would make one or
two tweaks.  Wouldn't it be better to add your class hooks to the p rather
than to an a as at present, if the user had javascript disabled then they
would have a link saying toggle that would take them to the top of the
page if clicked.  Even better would be to insert the a using javascript so
that if you have javascript disabled you don't even get the option to toggle
visibility - the item is just there.

Just a thought!

Cheers,

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On 26/02/2008, Chris Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi,

 I've written a small set of helper functions that will allow you to
 unobtrusively add JavaScript to a web page. It's built on the back off the
 prototype library so you'll need that as well. See the details here:
 http://www.stillbreathing.co.uk/projects/performer/performer.html

 A couple of examples. 1) If you want to create a toggling element you can
 do this:

   pa href=# class=togger rel=toggleelementToggle the visibility
 of the toggleelement element/a/p

   div class=hider id=toggleelementThis element will be toggleable
 (is that a word?)/div

 The hider class on the toggleable element will hide the element only if
 JS is enabled, so if it's not the element will never be hidden. Of course
 you can add additional classes both to the link and the toggleable element,
 and you can set the href attribute of the link to whatever you want.

 2) Loading remote content into an element (known as AJAX)

   pa href=# class=loader rel=targetelement rev=targetpage.phpLoad
 content/a/p

   p id=targetelementTarget element/p

 When the link with class loader is clicked the element with the id
 targetelement will be filled with the content from the targetpage.php
 page.

 If anyone needs any more information please get in touch.

 Chris

 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
 Behalf Of Ray Leventhal
 Sent: 25 February 2008 20:20
 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
 Subject: Re: [WSG] re: generate data

 tee wrote:
  Hi, I really enjoyed reading this thread, especially the responses from
  Georg and Breton, and thank you Dwain for asking the question.
 
  I have heard a lot about unobtrusive js but thus far it's more like a
  buzzword to me because I understand no JS.
 
  Can one recommend which JS library is more accessibility user-friendly
  (is there such word?!). I know the jquery, mootool, prototype, Dojo,
  Extjs, YUI libraries, and have recently used the jquery for accordion
  menu  and prototype for glider (sliding gallery like the one in
  Panic.com), but I don't know enough to settle for one that is relatively
  small size and unobtrusive. Everybody claims he is unobtrusive, and I
  have difficulty to settle down with one.
 
  Thanks!
 Hi tee,

 An interesting thread indeed.

 I can't recommend any JS libraries as I'm only now cutting my teeth on
 JS, but I can wholeheartedly recommend a book on JS which focuses on
 graceful degradation and manipulation of the DOM:

 DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model
   by Jeremy Keith


 HTH,
 -Ray



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Re: [WSG] [ADMIN] MIND YOUR OOO MESSAGE!

2007-12-21 Thread Ben Dodson
You could surely block all emails that have out of office in the
subject that would cut out about 90% of them!

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On 21/12/2007, Chris Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I belong to 20+ email lists, yet this is the ONLY list upon which OOF
 messages show up.  I'm sure the many thousands of members on those lists
 aren't that conscientious.  There has to be something that YAHOO and other
 list programs are doing to prevent them from getting through.  And it can't
 be that complicated, since some of them are managed by non-technical
 individuals.

  From: Lea de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Subject: [WSG] [ADMIN] MIND YOUR OOO MESSAGE!
 
  SO! Make sure you set your Out Of Office message so it doesn't reply to
  your mailing lists.
  It takes a little more effort, but it stops us thinking you're a dork.
  And you aren't one.
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Re: [WSG] Markup an Address?

2007-08-10 Thread Ben Dodson
 Looking for best practice markup for addresses.

There is an ADDRESS attribute  in HTML but this is usually for the
purpose of defining the address of the author (rather than the address
of what you're discussing in the content).

The best thing to do would be to use the hCard microformat which is
specifically designed for displaying contact information - find out
more at http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard - There are quite a few
examples there and links to live sites so you can see how they've
coded the address.

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Re: [WSG] (X)HTML Best Practice Sheet goes live

2007-08-10 Thread Ben Dodson
It's http://keryx.se/resources/html-elements.xhtml (hyphen instead of
underscore).

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Re: [WSG] Site check Please - new thread

2007-05-16 Thread Ben Dodson

http://web-strategists.com:888


You've got a transparent background-color set somewhere as all of the
white space on the sides of the content and under the footer is
currently browser default (mine is set to pink so I can see sites that
aren't defining background-colors!).  This prob isn't much of a
problem but everyone should be aware that people might have changed
their browser default and it'll make your site look bad.

Nice site though :-)

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Re: [WSG] colour matching transparent png files

2007-04-11 Thread Ben Dodson

Please don't give up on PNG for the sake of one old make of browser!
Give IE 5/6 Windows its own style that's usable but not quite as
pretty.


That has 42.3% of the market share.
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

I use 24bit transparent pngs on my sites and then use a behavior.htc file to
correct it in IE5 / 6 Windows - works fine (apart from with background-image
as positions don't work so well).


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Re: [WSG] Site Check: lagunadesigns.com.au

2007-03-07 Thread Ben Dodson

Hey Dylan,

Great job on the site - it looks really good!  I particularly like the way
you've added click to return home on your logo, a really nice touch.

Only criticism I would say is not to do with the standards or anything, but
I'd give a rough idea of how long it takes you to build each type of website
(e..g personal - 3-5 days, etc)

Anyway, nice site!

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Re: [WSG] Javascript to check for Handheld Devices

2007-03-01 Thread Ben Dodson

Search Engines don't read JavaScript but the question wasn't about
search.

Lots of mobile devices think that they are actually screen browsers so this
may be causing some problems - My phone (Nokia N73) has 2 browsers; one that
reads handheld sheets and one that reads screen sheets.

Can I ask what javascript you are trying to serve that would be different on
a handheld browser rather than a screen browser?

Ben


On 01/03/07, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Will major search engines for phones take any notice of javascript?

Google
http://www.google.com/xhtml/
Ask
http://m.ask.com/

They ignore stylesheets even if you make one for small screens!
They strip the page headers of meta tags, linked javascript gone is my
guess?
Should we give up making pages for small screen?
Just W3C validate and accessibility test.

Some user agents in server logs show a different user agent phone type
like nokia et al.

Tim



On 01/03/2007, at 8:25 PM, Lee Powell wrote:

 Hi

 I'm currently developing a stylesheet for handheld devices. However
 while testing I have noticed that the javascript I've written for
 screen browsers is still being implemented while testing with
 handhelds, causing a few problems.

 Does anyone have any advice on how I can check if the device accessing
 the page is handheld or screen and offer up the relevant javascript?

 Thanks

 Lee


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