RE: [WSG] Outlook 2010
Nathan de Vries writed: In other words, Microsoft are effectively creating their own HTML- email standard, authorable and viewable in Microsoft tools only. So, what else is new? :o) -- I made magic once. Now, the sofa is gone. http://blog.dwacon.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
RE: [WSG] My best practice HTML sheet
This is very useful. Thanks! -- I made magic once. Now, the sofa is gone. http://blog.dwacon.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
RE: [WSG] Outlook 2010
Michael MD wroted: WHY do I have to stuff around with regedit to be able to do view source in current versions of Outlook? Can you pass on that trick? I would love to be able to view source... -- The generation that took acid to escape reality is now taking antacid to deal with reality http://blog.dwacon.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
RE: [WSG] website fonts
Angus MacKinnon related: Internet Explorer defaults to a 12 point font and Firefox defaults to a 16 point font. Of course, fonts are adjustable in the browser (with some exceptions for hard coded fonts) so a user's preferences may be an override in many cases. -- I made magic once. Now, the sofa is gone. http://blog.dwacon.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
RE: [WSG] website fonts
Paul Novitski declared: plain text HTML cannot force fonts on us that we do not choose to see. Hmm... wonder if that explains why WEFT and BITS never quite caught on... ;~) -- The generation that took acid to escape reality is now taking antacid to deal with reality http://blog.dwacon.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
RE: [WSG] Fonts
Marvin Hunkin [startrekc...@gmail.com] ink wired:
why and how can i display the other fonts on my site?
Are you using font face=foo tags in your HTML code? Then, those fonts
should appear *unless* they are not on your (or the people surfing to your web
site) system.
If you want to embed fonts that others may not have, Google terms like “free
fonts” or “downloadable fonts” (check to make sure they can be embedded) and
then embed the font with code like this:
STYLE TYPE=text/css
--!
@font-face {
font-family: Arial;
font-style: normal;
font-weight: normal;
src:url(http://www.foobar.com/EOTfileName.eot);
}
--
/STYLE
Hope that helps.
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RE: [WSG] FeedBack Form Spam
Marvin Hunkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ink wired: i keep getting spam e-mails. snip how do i protect my self against this sort of thing. Human-only precautions such as a CAPTHA for form entry helps, as does some anti-spam features on your web server. However, my server gets hammered with thousands of spam a day... and I got so frustrated with that sort of thing that I changed my feedback form to a text field that saved the contents into a CSV file. Bots and other spam bounced harmlessly away. However, would you believe people HAND TYPED spam into the form? Who has that kind of time on their hands? Oh... yeah... spammers. Now, the only form of contact I accept is snail mail. Not many scammers will pay 42¢ to spam you... -- I made magic once. Now the sofa is gone. http://blog.dwacon.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
RE: [WSG] Google chrome... Coming very soon...
There is an interesting and very humorous comic that describes Chrome: http://books.google.com/books?id=8UsqHohwwVYCprintsec=frontcover#PPA19,M1 I like the multi-threading. -- The generation that used acid to escape reality is now taking antacid to deal with reality. http://blog.dwacon.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
RE: [WSG] Facebook downgrading support for IE6
Also Spracht Jens Brueckmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] In my opinion this is worst practice. First priority should be for a website to make the content available to as many people as possible. Browser discrimination is at least as bad as accessibility and usability violations. I remember back when the first IE releases came out and Netscape was the dominant browser that many sites intentionally shut out IE users and put up a Netscape Only splash screen. There were a number of sites that I wanted to visit that had this provision... and I was forced to buy Netscape. Granted... that isn't the case now with just about every available browser being free. However, the spirit is the same and only hurts innocent users. -- The generation that used acid to escape reality is now taking antacid to deal with reality. http://blog.dwacon.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
RE: [WSG] Images Paragraph Width
Just a thought... but perhaps a blockquote would better suit your design requirements than a p? -- The generation that took acid to escape reality is now taking antacid to deal with reality http://blog.dwacon.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
[WSG] Making TIF files accessible
Our customer has thousands of TIFF files that need to be converted into an accessible format. We tried an inexpensive shareware that does the TIFF to PDF conversion with OCR... but while the final output looks normal to the eye, readers and search filters see spaces and/or periods between each letter of every word... resulting in a long stream of generally incomprehensible gibberish. The customer is willing to loosen the purse strings for a real solution. Any suggestions based on experience or knowledge of the market for software that will spider a directory structure and convert (with OCR) the files? Thanks in advance! -- I made magic once. Now, the sofa is gone. http://blog.dwacon.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
RE: [WSG] H1 and the img tag
Schalk Neethling [EMAIL PROTECTED] ink wired: There is a general practice to use text replacement when it comes to company logo's on websites. Not sure if I follow. Are you saying to use Proctor and Gamble rather than the PG logo? I don't see why that would be necessary for any web site. One can make an image tag accessible with alt and other metadata within the tag. would there be any objection to wrapping the company logo image with an H1 one tag? Do you mean to put the image with a large text side-by-side? One can do that I would imagine, but no one will knock down your door with a warrant if you do any of the aforementioned. Or, have I missed the point entirely? -- I made magic once. Now, the sofa is gone. http://blog.dwacon.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
RE: [WSG] Webstock recordings now available
Also Spracht Thierry Koblentz: On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Mike Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://webstock.org.nz/past/recordings.php Enjoy! Could anyone download these files? I couldn't download them either Overall access to the site seems slow. I figured I would try copying the links into GetRight, and let it get whatever whenever until we're good to go. Knock on wood. Glad to see Molly is on the agenda. I think my next job will have to be her baggage handler. -- I made magic once. Now, the sofa is gone. http://dwacon.blogspot.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
RE: [WSG] SEO, fact or fiction
I will throw my 2 cents in and say that nothing is more annoying than going to a web site and suddenly being bombarded with loud music you don't want to hear. In face, I got an add-in for Firefox so that I could safely use MySpace without a cacophony of noises playing without my control. Keep in mind -- there is no way to set the volume for a web-based music track. If I have volume up because I am listening to low-gain audio and then a web page plays something at top decibel... there go my ear drums if I'm wearing headphones... Just my 2 cents. -- The generation that took acid to escape reality Is now taking antacid to deal with reality http://dwacon.blogspot.comhttp://dwacon.blogspot.com/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
RE: [WSG] HTML5 Working Draft
James Pickering [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Input/Participation is needed - don't miss these opportunities to have your say. Sounds like a fun weekend project.. while the snow falls out here on the Eastern USA. Also, will be a nice change from all of the OASIS standards that have been coming my way. -- Servatis a maleficum... http://dwacon.blogspot.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
RE: [WSG] PDF files on web site
Angus at InfoForce Services ink wired: The PDF file is an article to be posted on a web site. What is the best web standard approach and instructions You can embed the PDF with code like this: [object classid=clsid:CA8A9780-280D-11CF-A24D-44455354 width=??? height=??? id=myPDF] [param name=SRC value=myPDF.pdf] [/object] -- Dwacon www.dwacon.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
RE: [WSG] pdf graphics
Marilyn Langfeld wrote: Photoshop has a pdf import dialog box that allows you to decide on the page if it's multipage pdf, ppi, rgb vs cmyk, size. You can export JPG out of Adobe right? Worst case -- do an ALT + Print Screen and paste into Photoshop. Or, perhaps a utility like SnagIt? -- Dwacon http://dwacon.blogspot.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
RE: [WSG] editor
Artemis ink wired: Could you pretty please elaborate on rubbish? I mean, I know what you're saying, but I am curious as to what code Frontpage and Dreamweaver puts out that is rubbish. Like many M$ tools, FrontPage assumes that it is smarter than you are and puts non-standard items into your code. However, it is possible to disable that behavior and hand-edit your code as desired. Still, it rates a C-minus at best... a slight improvement over notepad. I admit being lazy and using FP (after disabling the rubbish features) for my personal web coding only because it came free with M$Office and the intellisense feature comes in handy. However, I have been considering upgrading my old copy of UltraDev to the latest DreamWeaver. Rumor has it M$ will be creating a new FrontPage that incorporates functionality from the old InterDev tool and perhaps some of the .NET Enterprise IDE functionality. I get M$ products free with my company-paid MSDN so I might take a peek at it, but only for home use -- never for my clients. -- Dwacon www.dwacon.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
RE: [WSG] Check
Running the page through the translator at babelfish.altavista.com was good enough to translate the text. Looks good. -- Dwacon www.dwacon.com From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 2:16 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Check Hi guys, please check my new experiment. A Xhtml Websites List Directory. Sorry but is in italian language. http://www.gizax.it/vtre/xwl.php?pag=0 cheers Daniel http://www.gizax.it ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
RE: 'users with disabilities' WAS: [WSG] New front page for http: //ab c.net.au/
Leslie Riggs wrote: Following web standards is all well and good, but how are you going to stream the audio when you can't hear it, if you can't do it this? How do you know your method will WORK? Some people can be thick -- even when well-intentioned. But on the subject of streaming -- I find that very few streaming broadcasts use captioning. Most television broadcasts have closed captioning as mandatory and the ability to transmit text with radio broadcasts is being used (although, more as an added feature). I imagine the wild-west unregulated state of the web makes such enforcement difficult at best. I am sure there would be howls of protest if some licensing, such as an FCC license for broadcasting, would be mandatory for the web -- and perhaps there should be some citizens band version of the web (which the spammers will overrun) and a professional version. Interesting thought... Dwacon www.dwacon.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
