Re: [WSG] Teaching CSS
On 3/17/07, Cole Kuryakin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With that lengthy pre-amble, I've got to ask – is there a GREAT book out there that steps through the learning process of CSS right from the bare bones that both I and my new artist can use? You're going to get lots of recommendations for great books. I don't know if there is one book that will suit exactly what you have in mind, so you may have to invest in a few volumes for your library. One title that I like a lot, that may be useful if your designer is used to doing things the old-school table-based way, is Dan Cederholm's Bulletproof Web Design. It outlines common problems, the old-school solution, and how the same thing can be done better with CSS and good markup. Good luck! K. -- Kay Smoljak business: www.cleverstarfish.com standards: kay.zombiecoder.com coldfusion: kay.smoljak.com personal: goatlady.wordpress.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] tabular data
Is there a definition of what is considered tabular data (or is it in the eyes of the beholder)? If you would put it in a spreadsheet, it belongs in a table. Your example is tabular data. -- Kay Smoljak business: www.cleverstarfish.com standards: kay.zombiecoder.com coldfusion: kay.smoljak.com personal: goatlady.wordpress.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] It's times like this you remember how far you've come
On 3/4/07, Lea de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should be approaching your client and explaining that you have some problems with the markup thats been supplied to you and its going to take longer than you anticipated, because you had assumed that the other contractor would be supplying professional work. Hey Mike - it's annoying when things like this happen. I've had similar things happen in the past and I usually tell the client that the other company's work is sub-standard, but also say that they should take it back to the other company and ask for a new version that is: a) W3C standards-compliant b) bandwidth-efficient c) in line with current best practices This does two things: it tells the client you're not just bad-mouthing the other company to try and get the work yourself, and also spreads the word to the other company that it's time to stop partying like it's 1999. Whatever you decide to do, you should definitely NOT be recoding their work without being paid for it. -- Kay Smoljak business: www.cleverstarfish.com standards: kay.zombiecoder.com coldfusion: kay.smoljak.com personal: goatlady.wordpress.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] css generating i.e security pop up
On 2/28/07, Darren West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This behaviour is by design, for security reasons when the script is sourced locally (ie. if you load the website and script from your local machine) you will see this alert; I don't get the message and neither will other visitors. To add to this, if you need to preview locally, add this mark of the web line to the head of the document: !-- saved from url=(0014)about:internet -- That will suppress the local warning. Nice-looking site btw. -- Kay Smoljak business: www.cleverstarfish.com standards: kay.zombiecoder.com coldfusion: kay.smoljak.com personal: goatlady.wordpress.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Re: Website Directory Structure - Best Practice
On 3/21/06, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This happened to me recently with a news article on Yahoo news I think. I can't remember what article it was or where I followed the link from, but it was rather annoying not being able to read it. I found this out the hard way, I maintain a site with science news for kinds. Yahoo only keeps news items up for a few weeks, then they just disappear. Now everytime I want to link to an article I have to double-check the archives of the site in question to try and work out how far they go back and if it's safe to link. Their site breaks, my site breaks. Link rot is an ugly thing. I agree there are some things that need to go from a site, and not come back... but generally, the URI's should definitely stay, and at least go somewhere else. I think everyone here is arguing two separate points. A URI and the content at that URI are two separate things. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.zombiecoder.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] Certified Usable
On 3/20/06, Steve Olive [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Their page is generated from the Shado CMS built by Straker Interactive Ltd so I assume getting real WAI validation would be nearly impossible for their own web site. Just a quick note: I've played a little with Shado CMS and I'm fairly certain that it allows you to create your templates however you wish - I'd be willing to bet that this is one case where the problems *cannot* be blamed on the CMS. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.zombiecoder.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] AIMIA Awards
On 2/28/06, Miles Tillinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think they're missing a category: BEST ACCESSIBILITY That's just one of the reasons why Port80 ran the inaugural WA Web Awards last year (http://www.wawebawards.com.au). Standards and Accessbility was one of the categories and although not all of the finalists were standards compliant, it was one of the many judging criteria used (our own Russ Weakley was one of the judges). Overall, the proportion of standards-based entries was quite high and I expect that to just get better and better. Planning is already underway for the 2006 awards and as Port80 is now expanding to other states (Canberra has started, i think Brisbane will be next) and countries (Rochester New York) in the future other state-based web awards may start popping up. In short: support any initiatives that start in your area, if a standards-friendly awards program is something you'd like to see! -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.zombiecoder.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] No style
On 1/31/06, Taco Fleur - Pacific Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to specify in CSS that a certain area is to have no style at all. All browsers have a default style sheet, and there's differences between the default styles in different browsers, so there's no such thing as 'no style'. The closest you'll get is to specify the same padding, margins, font etc as your most common browser displays when no author styles are specified. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.zombiecoder.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] 2 Q: New web site, which DTD I should use? and Compresion
That's devious! I love it! On 2/1/06, Joshua Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've found that the BEST way to make developers co-operate is to quietly put a bit of PHP in the header to serve application/xhtml+xml to browsers that support it, then watch them scratch their heads as previously-not-quite-well-formed pages that were parsed as soup -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.zombiecoder.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] IE, selecting text, and lots of absolutely positioned elements
Hi Josh,
There's a big bug, that's for sure. There *is* a javascript fix, but
it has some small side effects itself (a page flicker when the page
first loads in IE browsers with their cache set to check every time).
The original site I found the fix on is no longer there, but I
deployed it on this site: http://www.primarysales.com.au/
The code is:
// fix absolute positioning text selection problem with IE6
if (window.createPopup document.compatMode
document.compatMode==CSS1Compat){
document.onreadystatechange = onresize = function fixIE6AbsPos(){
if (!document.body) return;
if (document.body.style.margin != 0px) document.body.style.margin = 0;
onresize = null;
document.body.style.height = 0;
setTimeout(function(){ document.body.style.height =
document.documentElement.scrollHeight+'px'; }, 1);
setTimeout(function(){ onresize = fixIE6AbsPos; }, 100);
}
}
HTH,
Kay.
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On 1/23/06, Joshua Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At least, I'm fairly certain the absolutely positioned elements are
causing the problem(s).
I can't give an example page (NDA, and it's too complex to bother
recreating -- the complexity is probably part of the reason it's so
bad when text is selected/copied), just wondering if anyone else has
created sites in which absolute positioning is used extensively -- to
the (unintentional) detriment of text selection capabilities, and,
most importantly, if there are any known solutions to this problem.
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Re: [WSG] H1 Image Replacement and Search Engine Rankings
Firstly, you can look into one of the many, many image replacement techniques that are about to allow a graphical title with a textual alternative for text-only user agents such as search engine spiders. I don't know which is currently considered the best so I can't advise you on that, but I'm sure someone else can and will. Secondly, many people are of the opinion that the H1 should be different on each page - that the H1 should reflect the main heading of the page, not the site heading/company name. Makes semantic sense to me, anyway. I believe that H1 elements are weighted more highly in the search engines than h2 or h2 elements, for what's it's worth, but from comments made on this list previously it's somewhat of a matter of conjecture as to whether search engines pay any attention to them at all. From comments made on Matt Cutts' blog I think that at least Google places some weight on them, but probably not anywhere near as much as on other elements such as the page title. That's really OT for this list, however... a forum like SEOChat.com would probably be more helpful to you on matters concerning SEO. Cheers, K. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.zombiecoder.com/ On 1/19/06, Brewer, Dorian E. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using an image replace in my CSS for H1 tags in a new template I am developing on my companies' intranet site. Our intranet consists of a portal homepage and hundreds of sub sites. The sub sites header would be the graphical H1 tag. Every sub site would have a different header and unique graphical H1. I am wondering if by using that same template on our public site if it will hurt us in search engine rankings? The catch is the graphical H1 tag would be the same on every page since the header is the same throughout the site. Are the header tags weighed equally whether they are H1, H2, H3, etc.? ** 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] Plesk (hosting control panel system) and web standards support
On 1/12/06, James Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd check out a Plesk demo and look under the hood - probably the best bet. Or just install it on a demo site and see what happens. One of the gripes I have is that 90+% of these off the shelf systems hand you a frontend and a backend in one inseparable lot. It would be great to have an application say here's the data you requested from the backend, present it yourself if you like... Thanks James, that's what I'll do... I was just hoping someone else had been there before! I was horrified to find a java-based templating system underneath HSphere that allowed you to set the colours in the font tags and the backgrounds of table cells - a massively complex undertaking for what could be far more easily accomplished with a stylesheet. But enough ranting from me... -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.zombiecoder.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 **
[WSG] Plesk (hosting control panel system) and web standards support
The company I work for is moving our hosting systems to Plesk. One of the tasks that will probably fall to me is adding some of our branding to the Control Panel interface itself. I've worked with the HSphere control panel system in the past and customizing the look and feel has been a nightmare - has anyone had any experience with Plesk who could comment on whether it uses web standards (I doubt it but it doesn't hurt to dream) or perhaps just good CSS? Is it easy to modify? Thanks! -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.zombiecoder.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] Best Web Standards thing I learnt in 2005.
Not the best thing I learnt, but the best thing I did: going to Web Essentials. I can't wait for next year. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.zombiecoder.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] Can't select text on IE
On 11/16/05, CHAUDHRY, Bhuvnesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The problem: Using IE6, I am unable to select a part of the text from the
content area. When I try to select a para or a line, all the text on the
page within the parent div tag including the side menu bar get selected.
There is a JavaScript workaround - I'm not sure where I got this but
it's fixed the problem on one of my sites where it was occuring (code
at the end).
It introduces a page flash under certain cache settings in IE,
however. So it depends what's more important to you and your client,
the flash or the text selection.
Regards,
Kay.
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// begin code
// fix absolute positioning text selection problem with IE6
if (window.createPopup document.compatMode
document.compatMode==CSS1Compat){
document.onreadystatechange = onresize = function fixIE6AbsPos(){
if (!document.body) return;
if (document.body.style.margin != 0px) document.body.style.margin = 0;
onresize = null;
document.body.style.height = 0;
setTimeout(function(){ document.body.style.height =
document.documentElement.scrollHeight+'px'; }, 1);
setTimeout(function(){ onresize = fixIE6AbsPos; }, 100);
}
}
// end code
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Re: [WSG] Never ending cross browser problems! Lets just do IE!
On 10/19/05, Taco Fleur - Pacific Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there someone who can tell me why the widths are not the same in different browsers for this layout? It appears that in IE the second column gets pushed of the screen due to the left column being bigger. Kay, sorry but this looks like a major problem to me in IE. So make it a few pixels narrower, to allow some wiggle room? -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.zombiecoder.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] Couple of question - Image Map etc.
Hi Taco, On 10/16/05, Taco Fleur - Pacific Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.startregistration.com Validate your HTML first - at least then you can eliminate HTML nesting errors as the cause of your problem. Then post back and we'll give you a hand. Cheers, K. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.zombiecoder.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] Couple of question - Image Map etc.
that means there's a nesting error.. start from the top and make sure everything is closed. K. On 10/16/05, Taco Fleur - Pacific Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, but that's what I did, whatever is there, does not make any sense to me at all, for example; Line 43 column 11: document type does not allow element H2 here; missing one of OBJECT, MAP, BUTTON start-tag. What does that mean? The rest is the same, what is it talking about that I can't put a p element in the place it is? -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.zombiecoder.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] Chinese food and web standards
On 10/13/05, Ian Fenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a lovely new em-based page on Chinese food that works fine in practically everything apart from Netscape 6.2 and Konqueror 3.05. 1) Is it acceptable to go live with a layout that doesn't work with either of these two browsers? (I notice that a number of prominent web standardista websites have done so) Netscape 6 was based on a beta version of the Mozilla rendering engine - I forget which one exactly, but pre 1.0 - and for this reason it's hard to support. Considering that Netscape is up to version 8 now, I would not include this browser in my support profile (thanks to Eric Meyer's WE05 presentation for introducing me to this term!). I can't comment on Konqueror - I don't test in that browser, and the market share of Linux in general in my own web site stats is next to nil. I like the design, by the way - very tasty! I especially like the favicon - nice touch. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.zombiecoder.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] Chinese food and web standards
My layouts are pretty basic, so I doubt it wouldn't work. I think the number of people out in the general public using Linux on the desktop is infintismally (sp?) small. On 10/13/05, Craig Rippon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and the market share of Linux in general in my own web site stats is next to nil. Genuine question: Is this because they visit, it doesn't work, and they don't come back, forever losing them as a customer? Craig Rippon Brisbane, Australia ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help ** -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.zombiecoder.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] Chinese food and web standards
Hi Craig, On 10/13/05, Craig Rippon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kay, thanks. I am a web development student at college and this point came up in a lecture, just curious to get opinions. While it's important to be accessible to everyone, harsh economic realities dictate that you have to draw the line somewhere with browser support. Your own logs are the only real way to determine where that line lies. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.zombiecoder.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] Chinese food and web standards
On 10/13/05, Nick Cowie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want to test in Linux, get a copy of Ubuntu live CD, drop the CD into your drive, reboot from the CD and you have a fully function Linux box, unfortunately it uses the Gnome desktop which knocks out testing Konqueror, but there should be something similar which uses the KDE desktop. According to Ben whom I'm sitting here now with, Knoppix (which also runs off a CD/USB Stick or whatever) uses KDE - knoppix.org. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.zombiecoder.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] Meta Keywords?
Hi Martin, On 10/7/05, Martin Jopson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could anyone please clarify the situation for Meta Keywords and also Meta Description. If possible also a web resource that states clearly these issues. Others have already given a range of good responses. To add to the discussion I believe that the search engine Sensis uses the meta keywords tag, although I cannot remember where I picked up that idea. While it may not drive as much traffic to your site as Google, the amount of television advertising and content site partnering they have been doing in Australia makes them worth considering (for Australian sites) IMHO. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.zombiecoder.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] Top Ten Web Design Mistakes - yeah, right!
On 10/4/05, Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Somebody pointed out this article by our friend Jakob Nielsen to me: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/designmistakes.html I'm not one of Jakob's fans... but in my limited experience, text size is one of the few things that annoy people so much they actually complain. I've been involved with the Perth International Arts Festival site for the past four years and the most common recurring complaint we've had is the text is too small. Of course, after explaining how font-size adjustment works and explaining to people they've probably accidentally held down ctrl while scrolling their mouse wheel in IE, that problem goes away (and the user often thanks us for educating them on that feature). Almost every other complaint - and there are not all that many - are people commenting on the actual content not meeting their needs, or to do with linked sites we have no control over - in other words, nothing to do with the construction or implementation of the site itself. I think Jakob is probably quite spot on in this case. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.zombiecoder.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] Secure Credit Card Field
On 9/19/05, Stuart Sherwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: autocomplete=off I would check MSDN to see if there's a meta tag equivalent you can use. I know with their imagetoolbar parameter, you can put a meta tag in the head of the document to apply the same effect. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.zombiecoder.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] a: class border width problem
On 9/18/05, kvnmcwebn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Im using the class .corner to insert a bg image in the button.
It works apart from the stuborn bottom border that wont go away.
Any explanations for this?
Could it be a specificity problem? Instead of .corner{} try #drNav a.corner{}.
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/*css*/
#drNav a {
margin: 0px;
float:left;
display:block;
_display:inline-block;
padding: 4px 12px;
color: #ff;
text-decoration: none;
width: auto; border-bottom: 4px solid #99;
_height:1%;
}
.corner {
background: url(../botcorn.gif)
bottom left no-repeat; border-bottom: 0px;
}
/*html*/
ul id=drNav
li class=cornera href=webhome.htm Web amp br/
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Re: [WSG] a: class border width problem
sorry, didn't look closely enough... that would be #drNav li.corner a{}
On 9/18/05, Kay Smoljak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 9/18/05, kvnmcwebn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Im using the class .corner to insert a bg image in the button.
It works apart from the stuborn bottom border that wont go away.
Any explanations for this?
Could it be a specificity problem? Instead of .corner{} try #drNav a.corner{}.
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/*css*/
#drNav a {
margin: 0px;
float:left;
display:block;
_display:inline-block;
padding: 4px 12px;
color: #ff;
text-decoration: none;
width: auto; border-bottom: 4px solid #99;
_height:1%;
}
.corner {
background: url(../botcorn.gif)
bottom left no-repeat; border-bottom: 0px;
}
/*html*/
ul id=drNav
li class=cornera href=webhome.htm Web amp br/
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Re: [WSG] firefox for OS9?
On 8/6/05, Drake, Ted C. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for a possibly off-topic post. We have a client on our intranet that needs to look at our site on OS9.2. I couldn't find information on the Firefox web site about compatibility with this platform. Does anyone know where I could send this person for more advice? I had a client with OS9 who were using Netscape 4 (!), and I got them to upgrade to Netscape 7. The later builds don't support OS9, but earlier ones do, so if you look around you should be able to find one. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] My life as an 800x600 leper (was: Site Check: Broadleaf)
On 7/26/05, SunUp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i build web sites. i'm over 40. i have 20/20 vision. i work (and play) at 800x600. i LIKE it. I use a TabletPC to surf the web, on my lap, with a stylus, in portrait mode - so, 768x1024 instead of the other way around. So horizontally, that's narrower than your standard 800x600 screen. I also have a 17 LCD that runs at 1280x1024 natively... sometimes I use it in the loungeroom, lying on the floor or couch, with the font size cranked up 5 or 6 times so I can read comfortably from a distance. Also, I gotta say sometimes I change down to 800x600 to test something, and the type just renders so beautifully at that res I can stare at it for hours. Then I get sick of scrolling :) I think accessibility is starting to be as much about accommodating *any* browsing situation as much as accommodating disabilities. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] My life as an 800x600 leper (was: Site Check: Broadleaf)
On 7/26/05, TN38 [Admin] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not starting to, it always has been. What I meant was that more people are starting to see it that way. Although way too many people still think accessible sites are for blind people :) -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] Right column Float prob?
On 7/27/05, Ben Logan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a more elegant solution to make this visible to 1024 but pushed over to the right on 800 by 600 (I appreciate this is breaking usability princinples) Putting the ad banner *within* your page container div (holdingarea) and adding a width to this element would force a scrollbar for lower resolutions. HTH, K. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] correct use of BR tag
On 7/27/05, Julián Landerreche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. The cat isbr /in the kitchen (no spaces between the tag and the words) 2. The cat is br /in the kitchen (one space before the tag) 3. The cat isbr / in the kitchen (one space after the tag) 4. The cat is br / in the kitchen (one space before and after the tag) My feeling would be 2 or 3, because if all the tags were programmatically removed, there would be a single space left between the words. Option 1 would then read The cat isin the kitchen which would be wrong. Option 4 would read The cat is in the kitchen which isn't correct either (although better than option 1). -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] Firefox top margin
On 7/25/05, Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great guess, Dwain! You were right. I would have hoped that any margin I set to #masthead h1 would have been applied inside #header - #masthead. Annoying. I suppose that explcitly applying position: relative to it might have done the trick. Margins are always applied to the outside of the element, and padding is applied to the inside. There is an excellent tutorial on CSS positioning at http://www.brainjar.com/ which explains how all the elements and their properties interact - I must have read it 20 times over when I started. Another good tip is to use Firefox or Mozilla with the web developer toolbar, and turn on outline block level elements. This shows you the exact space that each element is occupying. Cheers, K. -- Kay Smoljak new standards blog: http://kay.zombiecoder.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 **
[WSG] footer technique
Looks like someone has found a mostly-reliable CSS-only solution to that common footer problem - getting a footer to stick to the bottom of the viewport no matter how long or short the content is, which doesn't overlap the content when the window is resized: Explanation: http://solardreamstudios.com/learn/css/footerstick/ Example: http://solardreamstudios.com/_img/learn/css/footerstick/footerstick.html Apparently it doesn't work in IE5 Mac or Safari. IE5 Mac I can mostly live without, but Safari is a bit of a bugger. I don't have a Mac here so I can't test - I'm curious as to whether it can be made to degrade acceptably. Could someone with a Mac please check the test page? Thanks! -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] looking for an accessibility reference on why text-only is bad
On 7/9/05, Patrick H. Lauke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another importantproblem is that all too often sites have a text-only option *instead* of making their main site accessible. Thanks for bringing this up again... after further discussion with the client I discovered that they wanted the text-only version so their staff on satelite phones in remote areas could access info... which is fair enough! We'll give them a totally stripped down version using the CMS. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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 **
[WSG] looking for an accessibility reference on why text-only is bad
We're doing a tender for a client that has requested a text-only version of the site, for accessibility reasons. Now, *I* know that that's ridiculous and text-only is not an acceptable alternative to an accessible site, but I need some good verbage/references to explain that (and what we propose instead) but I'm kinda lost for the right words. Does anyone know of a good online article/resource to help me out? Something specific to Australian legislation would be fantastic. Thanks! -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] looking for an accessibility reference on why text-only is bad
On 6/30/05, Richard Czeiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use a styleswitcher to to display your 'text-only' courier-based stylesheet We *could* do that... but I'd rather educate the client :) To answer my own question, soon after posting (isn't that always the way) I found this very good article on Webcredible: http://www.webcredible.co.uk/user-friendly-resources/web-accessibility/text-only.shtml -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] looking for an accessibility reference on why text-only is bad
On 6/30/05, Richard Czeiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If after trying to educate the client (a 10 minute phone conversation you're NOT going to get paid for), and they still want a text only page just because we think it's best, then cave in... Actually, in this case the client has had someone write the tender for them - they quite freely admit that they know nothing and are looking for guidance. But I know your pain, we have lots of we know best clients too :) Thanks Jan too - that's a pretty concise summary. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] html nowrap question
On 6/28/05, Drake, Ted C. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's my question. What is the proper way to put nowrap in a td? It currently looks like td nowrap I would think it should be td nowrap=nowrap or something like that. Yep, that's correct! -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] Page structure - navigation
On 6/24/05, Dennis Lapcewich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is more important to you, getting a high ranking on a search engine so potential customers (who may or may not become a real customer) are able to find the site, or keeping the customers you already have by offering site navigation that is easy to locate and use? The client is requesting that the navigation be placed at the bottom of the *source code* and then positioned at the visual top of the page using absolute positioning - so there is no usability issue. It's a technique I use a lot, for search engine optimisation and accessibility reasons, and there's absolutely no problem with it. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] inline-block support?
On 5/31/05, kemie guaida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was sure that there was some major browser not implementing display:inline-block, but in a quick test firefox 1.03, Opera 7 8 and even IE 6 are interpreting it correctly.I have yet to test on a mac, but that would seem to cover a lot of users. Anything I'm missing? Any recent documentation on browser support? I've never really thought about it before, but now I'm intrigued... what specific, real-world problem could be solved by the use of display:inline-block? Thanks, K. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] A way to skip a Flash-intro if Flash is not installed?
On 5/24/05, Patrick H. Lauke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Out of interest: why not simply provide the alternative content inside the OBJECT element, as per specification? If the OBJECT itself can't be displayed (e.g. Flash is not installed), then the alternative is displayed...all without getting any scripting involved. I thought that if Flash wasn't installed, the browser would prompt you to download and install it rather than just displaying the alternate content? I use JavaScript detection for cases where the Flash content is not important and I don't want the user to be bugged to install Flash every time they visit the page. I could be wrong - I don't think I tested it with the alterate content actually in the object tag. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] A way to skip a Flash-intro if Flash is not installed?
I'm not here to bash Flash - used properly, I'm a big fan. My concern when I developed the JavaScript detection method we use was to find a way that would work seamlessly as expected without nagging the user in as many different situations and browsers as possible - including IE5 which seems a bit funny in how it handles plugins. JavaScript detection seemed to be the safest way. K. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.com/ On 5/25/05, heretic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought that if Flash wasn't installed, the browser would prompt you to download and install it rather than just displaying the alternate content? Not necessarily - plus many browsers now give the option to *disable* the plugin which may result in different behaviour. For example I use Opera 8 with plugins disabled; which simply returns the alternate content (if any) as per specification. What I've found is most Flash sites just return a blank screen (oddly enough, they don't turn up in Google much either). ** 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] Best way to train someone in css and web standards
On 5/23/05, Cole Kuryakin - x7m [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the opportunity to hire two people in the next few weeks to help me with my one-man-band web development business. Problem is, these two know only the most basic aspects of HTML and don't know anything about CSS or web standards. I would recommend Zeldman's Designing with web standards as a good primer, on both how to approach web standards and why. My copy has been around our office several times now and is looking rather dog-eared and annotated. I'm still not allowed to take it home! K. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] very frustrated
On 5/17/05, Kvnmcwebn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just curious-Does anyone here do asp and if so would using the ala custom corners method for a basic wrapper/template be very difficult to convert over to asp? While a competent server-side programmer in any language should be able to do almost anything in terms of layout, I am always cautious when using alistapart's custom corners technique, as it's unfortunately very easy to break. I have used it on several sites - in fact including one I did last weekend - but I would be wary of handing a site over to someone else that used that technique. The main problems I find are that if your content becomes very long or very short, the panels start breaking up, plus resizing browser text size can cause havoc. I've also had some problems with visual artifacts appearing in IE6. By the sounds of it, your programmer simply doesn't want to be bothered with a complex layout that's out of their tabular comfort-zone. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] Playing a sound file - what is the best way?
On 5/18/05, Geoff Deering [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) I have never come across a browser, which installed with Macromedia Flash pre-installed. IE6 comes with Flash player pre-installed. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] Playing a sound file - what is the best way?
On 5/18/05, Geoff Deering [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IE6 comes with Flash player pre-installed. All versions, or a specific implementation/installation? I can't say for sure, but my feeling is that it's all versions. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] Space-saving Form Select vs Space-hungry HTML List
Dan wrote: What is the 'official' word on the use of form selects as an alternative to space hungry HTML lists? I would avoid doing this for any kind of significant navigation as search engine spiders would not follow the navigation. I'm not sure how it would fare accessibility-wise either. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] Problem with print friendly and name anchor
On 5/14/05, Lily Miu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? I believe is needed in order for XHTML to be validated. Sorry Lily, this isn't actually helping with your print stylesheet problem, but I thought I'd step in and do some CSS Myth-Busting (TM). For a start, according to Anne van Kesteren (one knowledgable dude) it's not actually an XML prolog, it's an XML declaration. More info here: http://annevankesteren.nl/archives/2004/08/xml-declaration Secondly, the XML declaration is not required for validation. It is recommended by the W3C, but is not necessary. The reason why some people recommend that you DON'T include the XML declaration is because in IE6, if anything exists in the document above the doctype declaration, be it a comment, an xml declaration, ANYTHING, IE6 goes into quirks mode or old-browser-emulation mode. This causes IE6 to imitate IE5, with the broken box model and other nasty bugs. Other people say that you SHOULD include the XML declaration for that very reason - to reduce the number of rendering engines that you're trying to accomodate. I haven't seen much discussion of that point of view lately, so perhaps people are moving away from it (IE5's market share is definitely dropping throught the floor). Hope that's helpful, K. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] print css crashing ie6
On 5/10/05, Gallagher, Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a 3-column css page that crashes IE6 when I try to print or print preview. Can anyone suggest a possible cause? Yep, I've had that before... in my case it was to do with absolutely positioned divs, IIRC. I fixed it by adding a print stylesheet and changing position:absolute to position:relative (as well as removing unnecessary navigation and a few other things). -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] Form Validation error
On 5/5/05, tee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, have anybody done the e-commerce site that is fully xhtml validated? This one is valid: http://www.australianopalsrus.com.au This one still has a few minor issues that are being fixed: http://www.elizabethsbookshop.com.au -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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: {Spam?} Re: [WSG] IMAGE(was Mystical belief etc)
Vincent Flanders only includes business and/or public service sites as web sites that suck - he has stated in the past that he considers personal sites, entertainment sites etc to fall under different rules. Plus he's a lot more with it than Jakob, and more of a standards evangelist which Mr Neilsen is most definitely not. K. On 4/20/05, Kvnmcwebn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does the webs sites that suck guy compare to Jacob Neilson? -sort of the same rhetoric eh? To me the web is a functional and creative/expressive medium. ** 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] 309 Validation errors - Reliance Petroleum
On 4/16/05, Steven Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The other most noticable thing off the bat was the drop down menu and top nav disappears entirely with JavaScript disabled. Companies often don't care about accessibility... regardless of whether they should or not (obviously we all think they should)... but I wonder what the person responsible for picking a web designer would think if you told them them that Google can only see about five pages of that site? -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] Hidden Content
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 10:46:23 +0100, Mike Foskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't actually believe that CSS styling will make any difference to search engine ranking. These robots spend enough time trawling through the HTML content. It would be time wasted to cross reference the content against: visibility, display, colours used, z-index and positioning. You can see what search engines request by looking at your log files. They've never requested my css files. However, I read somewhere a Google staff member said something like we reserve the right to index css files or not which means they may start in the future. Does anyone actually know of a page barred, blacklisted or banned by Google? I somehow doubt they ever do. They do ban sites - it happened to one of my clients (although nothing to do with css) and it took about eight months of campaigning to get the site included again. However, the biggest risk is your competitors - if I see a site spamming a search engine I report it. Many people do the same, and there *have* been cases of the engines taking action. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] Standards compliant site, clients wants to make updates themselves
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 00:28:47 +0800, Bert Doorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Contribute sounds like a good idea, but it means I have to learn to use Dreamweaver and its template system. Plus the customer needs to learn how to use Contribute. Too hard. You don't have to use DW templates - that's just one suggestion for limiting the areas they can update. Also, learning the product takes about ten minutes for anyone - I haven't had a client yet who hasn't been amazed at how easy it actually is. I guess if you're happy to say to the client if you want a CMS I can't help you that's fine. Personally, I wouldn't dream of turning a client away, but that's just me! -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] Standards compliant site, clients wants to make updates themselves
What other options are there, apart from complex, expensive CMS setups (or forgetting about standards)? I've had a lot of success with Macromedia Contribute. You can pick up a copy for around AUD $220 from Harvey Norman or Harris Technology, it totally respects server-side code and standards, and if you use Dreamweaver templates you can specify which parts of the page the client is allowed to edit. It's very squarely targeted at *maintenance* rather than you can use this to build your own web site. Highly recommended! -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] Targeting Mac IE5.1 on OSX
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:27:46 +0100, kemie guaida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you can use IE's conditional comments, which let you target specific versions of IE: Unfortunately, conditional comments are Windows only :( -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] Follow up from Brisbane meeting
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:35:14 +1000, Josh McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Secondly - I consider myself fairly well versed in the voodoo that is javascript, but what in the flamin hell is that IE7 script? I got halfway down the thing adding spacing and indentation in the hope it would become readable, but all I got is... WTF?. Why all this horrible, horrible chicanery when a couple of IE css expressions should do the trick? The IE7 script is VERY heavily optimised for size/download speed, cos there's a LOT in it. You used to be able to download the commented version from http://dean.edwards.name/ - although I haven't checked recently. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] newbie with popup menus question
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:06:27 -0700, Devendra Shrikhande [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Till now I have been using Fireworks to create popup menus for web sites. Just saw this, looks like there were never any replies... Devendra, if you're still listening, Fireworks menus are actually really bad, accessibility-wise and from a web standards perspective. I would highly recommend checking out the Suckerfish menus - http://www.htmldog.com/articles/suckerfish/dropdowns/ - they're simple, lightweight, search engine friendly and all round fantastic. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] Standards?
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 09:57:46 -, designer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can appreciate that I am getting a 'quality' product, but from a practical point of view, what am I getting that improves my business? As far as visitors to my site are concerned there seems to be no advantage - after all, my competitor's sites may well be outdated, but they do actually WORK, so my customers don't see any benefit. The advantages are geared towards both the business-owner and the user: - lower bandwidth intensive/cheaper to host (probably not an issue for your particular client) and also faster-loading for the end user - easier to update/redesign in the future - more accessible (presumably, depending on what was replaced) - *perhaps* more search engine friendly (again, depends what was replaced) - forwards-compatible, browser-wise - available to a wider audience of browser-users What's not to like? :) Zeldman's book talks about each of these ideas at length. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] Search Engines and CSS
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 12:24:29 +1000, Lea de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, not particularly - the search engines dont seem to be semantic at all. In my experience - and seo is part of my job - search engines *do* place higher relevance on keywords inside H1 tags. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] Navigation Help
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 00:21:14 +, James Oppenheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But how would make it so the top level navigation is still highlighted when the mouse moves down into the dropdowns. I am using images at the moment and I would like them to stay highlighted. The Sons of Suckerfish dropdown menu is a more robust version of the original, and uses less JavaScript too. I have seen them implemented with the top level staying highlighted, so I know it's possible - that was one of the things our designers complained about when suckerfish first came out. http://www.htmldog.com/articles/suckerfish/dropdowns/ -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] Connditional Comment / @import Problem in IE 5.0.1
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 10:31:02 -0500, Michael Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did a little more testing and things get stranger. IE 5.0.1 breaks when I use: Hmm... you said you're using the standalone IE versions, right? I'd test in a real IE 5.01 before you write it off completely if I were you... those standalone versions are very, very confused about their identities :) -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] Connditional Comment / @import Problem in IE 5.0.1
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 23:22:26 -0500, Michael Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have a test machine with IE 5 loaded, but again, given that I am saying [if IE]--no version specified--I think the chances of it being some kind of standalone quirk are slim. Personally I wouldn't trust the standalone versions to be accurate for anything. I have a Virtual PC image with Windows 98 SE and IE 5.00.2614.3500 and Windows 2000 with IE 5.50.4134.0600 - but no 5.01, unfortunately. If you'd like me to take some screenshots anyway just send the link. Cheers, K. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] Connditional Comment / @import Problem in IE 5.0.1
On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 15:48:22 -0500, Michael Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I included the conditional comment, a rather large gap would appear at the top of the page. At first, I thought something in the IE stylesheet was causing the problem, snip I've seen something similar when the conditional comment syntax wasn't quite right. The way they handle GT and LT is a little odd... I'd check what you have against MSDN. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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 **
[WSG] What can you say to a site like this?
One of my goals for the coming two years is to learn some basic German, Italian and French for my planned trip through Europe at the end of 2006. I decided to try and find some information about TAFE courses online. Big mistake - I should have just called them :) Check out the Central TAFE web site in Firefox: http://central.tafe.wa.edu.au/ First thing: they have a make text larger button at the bottom of the screen. Cool - except that every single piece of text on that entire page except for the font-size enlarger is an image. So all that hitting that button will do (on the home page at least) is make the font-size enlarger bigger. Adding insult to injury, the font-size didn't seem to be affected in the body text of any subsequent page, only on some links. When I tried to search for couse information, I received a JavaScript alert telling me Your browser needs updating. This site will not function correctly with your current browser. Almost all the links try to open in new windows too. I tried turning off JavaScript to stop the annoying alerts but then nothing works. So, I sat down to compose a letter of eduction and complaint, however I didn't really know what I should say. I managed to resist the urge to simply yell I hope you're not teaching any web design courses (actually I know they are) or My browser needs updating? YOUR WEB SITE NEEDS UPDATING!. I could sit down and try to explain about Firefox and accessibility, but will it make any difference? Who's going to get that message, some enrolments officer who will bin it straight away? Does anyone have a boiler-plate your site sucks, buddy email that they'd like to share? Perhaps the Web Standards Group should develop one, with links to official information sources for government, standards bodies etc? -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] What can you say to a site like this?
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 23:20:42 -0500, Felix Miata [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could send this page, or link to it: http://members.optusnet.com.au/~night.owl/morons.html I think that's probably counter-productive. It's not that they are morons, it's that they're a quite-large educational organisation, probably government-run (not sure on the specifics there) and I get the feeling that site is a culmination of many, many levels of beaurocracy and probably a stinky CMS someone somwhere along the line paid an obscene amount of money for. A case of them muddling along, updating and occasionally forcing someone to hack in new features (like the font-size switcher[1]) and NOT proactively fixing it, as opposed to someone purposely making it bad. My aim in sending a letter of outrage/complaint is to try to bring someone attention that because of what they're NOT doing, their site is a) not serving their market; and b) most probably illegal. K. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.com/ [1] Imagined conversation: Some pointy-haired boss: Oh dear, what about all this accessibility legislation? 17yo work experience dude who's just completed their Certificate in Multimedia: Don't worry, I'll put in a font-size increaser! ** 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] Semantic Sanity Check
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 15:28:47 -0800, Ben Curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These are smart people I'm working with, but they think solely about presentation. I'm looking to push them on just the right concepts. Did I miss any? Am I off base on some? I started doing exactly what you're trying to do about 18 months ago, albeit with a smaller team (I think there were about four coders back then). I am pleased to say that now, we are a fully standards-compliant shop and nothing new goes out the door that doesn't validate and have basic accessibility measures. New hires are vetted extensively for their attitude towards web standards - even the designers who don't actually write any HTML are expected to be aware of the issues. However, it's a slow process. I'd say it took about a year to get everyone thinking in the right way - and that meant lots of transitional table-based layouts and pages that didn't quite make the grade went out the door. You have to be very careful, as pushing the validation issue especially when someone's already under pressure can turn them against the whole idea very easily. I found that I needed to be around to help out with browser issues a lot - at first the attitude to layout problems very much is it works fine *my way*... if you want it *your* way, you'd better come up with a fix yourself. After a while though that goes away as people get more empowered with what they're doing. I recommend buying a few books to have around - my copy of Zeldman's book in particular has been around the office a few times, in fact I haven't even laid eyes on it since October. As for your document, if search engine optimisation is important in your work at all that's a great way to explain the importance of semantic markup - Google sees span class=headingWidgets/span and says yep, some text. Google sees h1Widgets/h1 and says aha! I've found a page exclusively about Widgets!. Another important thing is to demonstrate tools that will make their lives easier like the Firefox Web Developer Toolbar and the htmlhelp.com crawling validator, and make sure everyone knows how to get them and how to install them. Good luck! -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] making money out of web standards
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 13:08:30 +0800, Wong Chin Shin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Designers, how would YOU approach selling this concept? Or would you? 2) Managers, what would catch YOUR attention in a pitch geared towards this? I'm not really either... but I can tell you that the company I work for lists standards compliance and accessibility in a small paragraph about halfway through our quotes - unless the quote is for a large organisation specifically concerned with accessibility (this happens occasionally) OR has asked for a standards-based redesign (this has happened once). We sell sites based on fulfilling the business needs of the organisation - that the web site will be fast-loading, satisfy relevant accessibility laws and work cross-browser is a given. Having said that, I know that there *are* companies out there who do market themselves from a web standards perspective. The biggest-seller in my experience is search engine optimisation. Many people have woken up to the fact that they need to be found in Google, and as Sir Zeldman says, Google is the blind billionare - who loves clean, semantic markup. Admittedly having good markup is not all you need to do for effective search engine optimisation, but it's certainly a good start, and also an awesome selling point. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] rationalising my refusal to support IE/NS4
Thanks for your ideas everyone, I'll definitely add some of those things. I have also pointed out that their existing site doesn't work too well in Netscape 4 (or with Flash disabled, for that matter). On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 15:46:30 +0800, Nick Cowie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it is a WA gov site they are quoting four year old state government guidelines which have not been updated and are unlikely in the near future. It's a WA school, so I'm betting that's where they got it from. Is that document online or can someone email me a copy off list? Sorry if it's getting a bit off-topic, I was really searching for words that would say your requirements are bad for web standards and accessibility and therefore bad for your site which I think is mostly on-topic. Cheers! -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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 **
[WSG] rationalising my refusal to support IE/NS4
Hi guys, I have a requirements document here that I'm quoting for, that mentions that the web site should be optimised for IE4 and Netscape 4. Now, I'm not really blaming the client here - they obviously have no idea what it is they're asking and have probably based it off quote they got to do their site in 1999. However, I would like to educate them on why supporting these dinosaurs is not a good idea. I have added my standard blurb about cross-browser and cross-platform support, including that older browsers will receive a plain 'unstyled text' version of the site, which will still allow all content to be fully accessed. What I then want to say is that Fully supporting version 4 browsers (which are now nearly 8 years old) is possible, however extra construction and testing time will be required. We would not recommend supporting fully these browsers, as the visual design possibilities will be limited, the accessibility of the site lessened, and download time increased. I'm feeling like this whole week is one big Friday afternoon, and that somehow sounds rather lame. Can anyone recommend any other reasons or throw in some kick-arse buzzwords to make me look good? -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] Western Australian Government Website
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 16:52:38 +0800, Nick Cowie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the main problems with the WA gov sites is that a little over two years ago a large number of govt departments got amalgamated. Most of my peers have spent the last couple of years trying to get three, four or more sites into a single logical structure (and boy it is fun with all the internal polictics involved). I spoke to my friend at the Dept of Premier and Cabinet, and she said that the particular web site we're discussing here is somewhat of a problem as it's managed by a different department to the main state government stuff. They're currently discussing getting rid of it completely. Anyway, it will be interesting to see what they come up with when the new common badging is released. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] Western Australian Government Website
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 16:05:49 +1100, Natalie Buxton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip http://www.wa.gov.au/ snip Alas, I was wrong and it's killing me how poor it is in relation to standards, accessibility and usability. I know some of the people involved with upgrading the web sites for the entire WA government to a common look and feel. As far as I understand it will be happening in the next few months (ie, before the election is called, at which point all non-essential changes to the sites are frozen). While I'm not sure if 100% validation is one of their goals for the new site, I do know that accessibility is a big issue for them and I have no doubt the new sites will be much, much better than what's there now. I believe that several years of planning and discussion has gone into the project! I might drop an email to someone and try to find out more... Cheers, K. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] Firefox screen-reader emulator
On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 12:14:18 -0500, Jeffrey Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've never seen a *real* screen-reader There's a number of different screenreaders available for testing. Some are free, others have trial periods. I recently installed the demo version of JAWS under Virtual PC - it will run for 40 minutes, which gives you plenty of time to test a few sites. I would highly recommend it for everyone, even if you're not specifically concerned about accessibility. Here's some others: Window-Eyes (demo version): http://www.gwmicro.com/demo/index.php Simply Web 2000 (free): http://www.econointl.com/sw/ JAWS (demo version): http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_products/software_jaws.asp IBM Homepage reader (demo version): http://www-3.ibm.com/able/solution_offerings/hpr.html pwWebSpeak (free): http://www.soundlinks.com/pwgen.htm emacspeak (free, Linux): http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/ -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] Semantic Breadcrumbs
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 10:54:54 +1300, Andy Kirkwood | MOTIVE
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Been following the breadcrumb (BC) discussion, and think it may come
down to defining the *purpose* of the BC. Through a process of
distillation I've arrived at the following conclusions;
The ('correct') semantic markup of a BC should be based on what the
BC primarily 'means'.
While the breadcrumbs discussion over the last few days has been
vaguely interesting - the long drawn out squabbling over semantics
reminds me why I don't bother following the Usenet HTML/CSS newsgroups
anymore! - I'd have to ask if breadcrumbs are really that important.
This is veering off-topic rapidly, but here's an interesting
discussion on real world data on the use of breadcrumb navigation
which suggests they're not utilised by most average users:
http://www.humanfactors.com/downloads/oct04.asp#kath
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Re: [WSG] Firefox screen-reader emulator
On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 01:21:14 +, Patrick H. Lauke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kay Smoljak wrote: There's a number of different screenreaders available for testing. Some are free, others have trial periods. I recently installed the demo version of JAWS under Virtual PC - it will run for 40 minutes, which gives you plenty of time to test a few sites. I'll have my usual rant here, nothing personal: the demo versions of screenreaders (and any other software) are made available by the developers so that you can evaluate the product and decide whether you're going to purchase the full version or not. If you keep using the demo version for proper testing, you're breaking the terms of the demo license. I absolutely agree Patrick. I was merely responding to the previous poster's statement that he'd never even seen a real screen reader. If you're going to test regularly, you should definitely purchase one - I'm still trying to decide which is the most widely used. I believe the demo licence for JAWS has a provision for testing sites... -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] Text selection in CSS layouts
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 16:10:20 -, Aaron Pollock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone help as to why (in IE at least) it's not possible to select/copy text without selecting other content automatically in this page? There's a JavaScript fix - http://blog.tom.me.uk/2003/07/23/boie6selecta.php - but the problem with it is that if you have IE set to not cache (ie check pages against the server every time) each page flickers when first loaded. Luckily it's usually only web developers who have that option set, and they should know better than to use IE :) I've never seen that z-index fix before, Johannes - I'll have to try it out. Thanks! -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] another problem with new site
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 22:19:24 +, john [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been getting several emails from visitors saying they're using AOL or Netscape 7.1 and they're not seeing the CSS. Check the list archives - this came up just last week, It sounds like your server is serving the css files as text/plain instead of text/css. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] It's so frustrating. Webstandars, accesibility and Firefox as a sales argument.
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 15:57:29 +0800, Vicki Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I rarely even mention web standards to clients anymore unless they are snip Amen! -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] optimising CSS?
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 18:23:15 -0500, Jeffrey Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While nothing will beat the old-fashioned 'by-hand' approach, Topstyle's 'style sweeper' does a pretty good job. Another handy feature of TopStyle is the orphan class finder. I don't have it on this machine so I forget exactly where it is, but if you set up a Top Style site you should see the option. Basically it finds classes and ids in your css that aren't used in your HTML, and classes and ids used in your HTML that aren't defined in your css. Very handy!. K. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] Discussion Threading
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 14:04:34 +1100, Jixor - Stephen I [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any mail clients that will automatically thread discussions? I use news groups regularly and comparatively the discussion list is very annoying and cumbersome. Although it's not trendy to mention it, Outlook will handle threads quite acceptably if you choose Arrange By - Conversation from the View menu :) -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] Careers in web standards
We've become a little more cynical... we don't expect to find new employees with web standards experience already (although we did find and employ one in the last year). Usually we ask have they heard of web standards, how much do they use css, and try to guage if they are going to be open to the idea of doing things a different way. We're fairly resigned to the fact that we need to train new people. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.com/ On 25 Nov 2004 11:25:56 +1100, Andrew Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's very interesting and tallies completely with my experience. Mind you, I advertised for a bookkeeper with MYOB skills recently and more than half the applicants didn't have that and quite a few had no bookkeeping experience or training at all! On Thursday, 25 November 2004 11:06 AM, Ryan Nichols [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My company was recently looking for a XHTML/CSS coder who practices web standards development. We were looking for someone with strong CSS skills, who could implement complex designs in table-less css, practiced standards based semantic markup, and was fluent in accessible XHTML. No programming or design skills needed. I thought it might be interesting to this group on what kind of response we got: ** 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] Shared Div heights
On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 17:19:17 +, Kimberly Lightholder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The question: is it possible to have the div on the left expand along with the one on the right so that their respective bottoms always align? If your left column is fixed width, you could try faking it with a background image, ala Faux Columns (http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fauxcolumns/). -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] CSS drop-down menus
On the Perth Festival site last year (actual page no longer online) we used some JavaScript to hide and display the Flash movie when the drop down menu was activated. As the Flash was eyecandy only, it didn't matter - we figured that if someone was examining the menu, they weren't watching the page anyway. K. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.com/ On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 08:38:48 -0700, Shane Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This works on Mac Firefox, but not in Safari or IE. On Oct 31, 2004, at 1:22 AM, Florin Cojitza wrote: object type=application/x-shockwave-flash data=banner.swf width=250 height=50 param name=movie value=banner.swf / param name=quality value=high param name=bgcolor value=#ff param name=wmode value=transparent img src=banner.jpg width=250 height=50 alt=banner /object ** 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] Duplicate navigation?
On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 17:11:38 +1000, Ben Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm wondering if this is possible: to have content inside of a div displayed in two places on my page? Not with CSS. You sound like you need some kind of server-side scripting include - either SSI, PHP, ColdFusion, ASP etc. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] IE misbehaving with a list
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 15:43:35 +1000, Anura Samara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, just using the basic version of the CSS rollover lists, I'm finding that MS IE 5 is adding a gap between list items if I add any font declarations anywhere eg. adding font-family and/or font-size to the containing DIV or the UL, LI or A elements. Try removing all line breaks between your list items, ie: ulliitem one/liliitem two/li/ul Cheers, K. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] CSS - How the max size of a .css file
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 15:36:20 -0200, Genau Junior [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to know, how is the max size of a .css file for a website with a plenty of functionalities and different style pages. Try running a few sites through http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/ - the analyzer gives specific recommended sizes for each component of a page (css, js, html, images), and reasons for each too. Another useful tool that reports on similar aspects is http://www.sitereportcard.com/ Cheers, K. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] Looking for party animals
Don't forget to sign up if you're in Perth too! On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 23:51:40 +1000, Nigel McFarlane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.openforce.at/mozparty2/?view=AU -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] Adding full doctype to pages
Hi Lyn, On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 13:09:28 +0800, Lyn Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using the full doc type !DOCTYPE HTML public-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd; on my main page. I thought I should add it to all the other pages but when I did so, the contents of the left column moved towards the center in IE and Opera so I took it off and things reverted to normal. You should definitely have a full doctype on every page - without it your pages are not valid. The differences are due to IE and Opera going into quirks mode - emulating old (bad) browser behaviour - when no doctype is present. If you post the pages exhibiting the problem, I'm sure someone here will be able to give you some idea as to why. Cheers, Kay. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] Tables, is it Standard?
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 09:55:42 -0400, Olajide Olaolorun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would like to know if Tables is standard. You see, I have been into web standards for some time now nut I still use Tables and would like to know if it is standards Tables are valid HTML, but in the spirit of web standards, they are discouraged for layout. Essentially, if you're marking up the kind of data that you'd find in a spreadsheet, use a table. If you're talking about laying out a page structure, you should look at using CSS positioning instead, there's a lot of advantages. The best tutorial I've found on how CSS positioning works is http://www.brainjar.com/css/positioning/ - I had it saved on my PDA and read it every morning on the train ride into work for weeks, until it really sank in. Cheers, K. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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] netscape gasp/ 4.7 emulator
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 08:47:12 -0700, Ted Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know an online resource that emulates netscape 4.7? Why not just install it on your dev machine? It's not that bad... http://browsers.evolt.org has an archive with heaps of different versions. K. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04 http://we04.com/ Web standards, accessibility, inspiration, knowledge To be held in Sydney, September 30 and October 1, 2004 See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] Overflow on select or options
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 06:47:39 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so no one can give me an answer on this one? Even whether it not at all possible? I want the text to overflow if the value of the option is greater than the width... Duuno, Taco. Anything to do with styling form widgets is highly OS-dependent, so most people probably don't bother. K. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04 http://we04.com/ Web standards, accessibility, inspiration, knowledge To be held in Sydney, September 30 and October 1, 2004 See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] web essentials briefing/ westciv CSS Guide
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 19:43:36 +1000, Hugh Todd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you're based in Oz however you'd be a fool to miss it. Why, though? The calibre of the people looks fantastic, but would it be worth spending $750 to see them? I really, really, really, REALLY wish I could go, but making the trip across the Nullabor is just not possible this year (moving into our new house in three weeks time). The calibre of speakers looks great, and from my experiences attending MXDU these past two years, a major part of attending conferences like these is the social and networking aspect. Where else will you get to hang out with html geeks, standards nazis and css heads? You can learn stuff just by osmosis. Yet another reason to support conferences like these is to encourage the industry to hold more. Damn, I *so* wish I could go! K. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04 http://we04.com/ Web standards, accessibility, inspiration, knowledge To be held in Sydney, September 30 and October 1, 2004 See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] Absolute positioning vs floats
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 09:49:52 +0100, Mike Foskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally, I go with floats every time. Absolute positioning relies on the display size too much. I try to mix it up a bit - there's lots of browser bugs with floats (think Mac IE5). Absolute positioning is fantastic for stuffing the navigation and masthead fluff down the bottom of the source code (good for screen readers and search engines). You go with what suits the project. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04 http://we04.com/ Web standards, accessibility, inspiration, knowledge To be held in Sydney, September 30 and October 1, 2004 See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
[WSG] Fluid-fixed design
I know the subject doesn't make a lot of sense :) I have the winning combination of a web site design (photoshop file only), a prima donna graphic designer and a difficult client. The design was initially created to be fixed width, typical blog style centered and dropshadowed with curvy panels, but the client wanted it to be fluid (or at least expand to higher resolutions). Due to some swirly background work, the only place the design can safely expand is through the centre. That means a background graphic hanging off the left hand side, another hanging off the right hand side, and another background image as the main panel background. Does anyone know of a layout doing this that I can steal implementation ideas from? I'm trying to avoid using a table, although I may go that route, because I'd like to use absolute positioning to make the source order search engine friendly. Thanks for any pointers... -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04 http://we04.com/ Web standards, accessibility, inspiration, knowledge To be held in Sydney, September 30 and October 1, 2004 See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] cutoff bug in Safari?
Cool, thanks Phillipe! That fixes it. it is a bit the same as this problem http://dev.l-c-n.com/safari/duplicate_float.php I did think that I was using position:relative for a reason though... I think it was so I could absolutely position child elements. Hmmm... I'll have to check all the pages to see if I ever actually did any of that. Cheers! -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04 http://we04.com/ Web standards, accessibility, inspiration, knowledge To be held in Sydney, September 30 and October 1, 2004 See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
[WSG] cutoff bug in Safari?
Hi guys, I'm seeing a problem in Safari (1.2.3) - the kind of thing I would expect from IE :) The footer of my template isn't displaying. On long pages, the bottom of the text is cut off too - halfway through a line in fact. The scrollbar just won't go any further, and selecting the text and trying to drag down doesn't work either. The layout is a simple single column fixed width affair using absolute positioning to stuff the main navigation and masthead fluff down the bottom, out of the way of search engines. I've cut everything right down to the basics but I still can't see it, and Google is not being helpful. Has anyone seen anything like this before? http://203.59.70.252/wsg/ Thanks for any advice or pointers! -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04 http://we04.com/ Web standards, accessibility, inspiration, knowledge To be held in Sydney, September 30 and October 1, 2004 See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] IE print bug crashes page
I had some problems with IE crashing when trying to print a while back, I think it had something to do with absolute positioning (can't remember though - there was also a bug with Mozilla not printing the bottom of the pages). I fixed it by adding a print stylesheet with everything unnecessary set to display:none. Sorry, that probably doesn't help you too much! K. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.com On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 13:56:20 +1000, Gavin Cooney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a page that when someone tries to print it in IE 6 on windows, it crashes the browser. There's nothing fancy in it, and i've stripped it down so i know the problem only happens when something is the second line of the table. ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04 http://we04.com/ Web standards, accessibility, inspiration, knowledge To be held in Sydney, September 30 and October 1, 2004 See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] Tabindex tags not necessary here?
It's not difficult to test... just try navigating your site/filling out your form and see what happens. For a site that really needs to set the tabindex, check out the new Australian white pages redesign... http://www.whitepages.com.au - try searching for a phone number using only the keyboard. Ick. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.com On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 02:59:48 +0200, John Britsios [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a question: Doesn't my web site pages here http://www.webnauts.net have a logical navigation structure, therefore I do need to use the Tabindex tags? * 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] divs and copying their content
Hmmm... interesting. This looks like a possible soultion: http://lists.evolt.org/archive/Week-of-Mon-20020902/121759.html I don't think this is an acceptable solution at all... putting IE in quirks mode causes all sorts of side-effects - keyword font size for example will go all huge, and it will use the IE5 box model... yuck. another page about it here: http://blog.tom.me.uk/2003/07/23/boie6selecta.php This looks interesting... if it works in an external file, I think I'll add this to my box of standard tricks. Good one! K. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.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 *
