Re: Using CSS instead of JS for accessibility (was Re: [WSG] CSS Expandable Menu)

2010-06-29 Thread daniel a. thornbury
 
I used to use cssplay menus 6+ years ago but they're not the friendliest or 
most compliant to work with. 

I really like superfish - i've been using that for a few years with no problems 
at all. and I find it very easy to customise. 
http://users.tpg.com.au/j_birch/plugins/superfish/

I haven't really drilled down on it but it degrades nicely - works well in IE 
without any weird conditionals - and all my sites are XHTML strict compliant. 

- daniel 
hellodan...@mac.com

On 29/06/2010, at 8:21 PM, David Dorward wrote:

> 
> On 29 Jun 2010, at 11:04, de...@littlegent.com wrote:
> 
>> I'd recommend using one from http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menus/
>> 
>> The trick is deciding which one to use, really. =)
> 
> 
> Having taken a quick look, I'd run a mile from them.
> 
> The first one I looked at was missing and pointed me somewhere else, which 
> assured me that I've love a newer version and directed me to 
> http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menus/final_drop.html
> 
> It was wrong, I don't love it. It seems to have all the problems I described 
> earlier (although it does, at least, bother to have basic links at the top (I 
> wonder how many people bother to put something useful that that can 
> substitute for the menu on those pages…)
> 
> DEMOS
> 
> 
> This hideous excuse for markup can't be worth removing the dependancy on JS, 
> can it? (Especially since you need to implement the same fallbacks anyway!)
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> David Dorward
> http://dorward.me.uk
> 
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Re: [WSG] VALLIDATION HELP

2009-09-13 Thread daniel a. thornbury


Well, it's fortunate that this is not an English validation list,  
because so many of the posters would fail abysmally. Having worked at  
an RTO I'm curious how someone involved in training a Certificate IV  
level course could have such poor spelling and grammar. I do, at  
least, admire someone involved in web training to be enthusiastic abut  
adopting some standards compliant training.


Marvin: Your banner is the tag that is not closed - make the following  
correction and all is well (as far as the validator is concerned).




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The errors at the bottom occur because the validator reaches the end  
of the document, finding closing tags for the encapsulating parent  
tags, without ever finding the close for that div.


~ daniel

On 13/09/2009, at 8:24 PM, Alan Coleman wrote:


This guy should not be allowed anywhere near a computer let alone code
WebPages.
He gets everyone else to fix his stuff ups.

Regards
Alan

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Sent: Sunday, 13 September 2009 3:44 PM
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Subject: [WSG] VALLIDATION HELP

hi.
well thanks for that.
got my css vallidated.
now can you help.
vallidating another student project.
and cannot seem to find the errors.
will paste my contents of the text file and the vallidation error  
page.

can you help and to help me to locate where the problem is.
cheers Marvin.

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http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>



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Re: [WSG] My best practice HTML sheet

2009-06-25 Thread daniel a. thornbury


Very useful!

...but I would love the PDF or ODT versions to be available so I can  
print it up to stick onto the wall for quick-reference (and to make me  
look a little smarter)...


On 26/06/2009, at 5:28 AM, Keryx Web wrote:


Hello all!

I have updated my best practice table at

http://keryx.se/resources/html-elements/

I've switched from XHTML to HTML and I've added an experimental  
layout with rotated column headers in Firefox 3.5 (JS required, but  
progressive enhancement is used).


Please report any content issues.

Please report any problems in FFox 3.5.

Known issue: The checkmarks (✓) do not work in MSIE or Webkit based  
browsers. It does not make the table less understandable though.


--
Keryx Web (Lars Gunther)
http://keryx.se/
http://twitter.com/itpastorn/
http://itpastorn.blogspot.com/


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Re: [WSG] Box model in IE7

2009-04-24 Thread daniel a. thornbury



On 24/04/2009, at 7:47 PM, Rimantas Liubertas wrote:
And there is NOTHING wrong with pixel sizes.


On 2009/04/24 12:47 (GMT+0300) Rimantas Liubertas composed:
On the contrary, everything is wrong with pixel sizing fonts,  
because any
"size" in px totally disregards the size the visitor has set in his  
browser

prefs,



I wouldn't agree with Felix's statement at all, and tend to think  
Rimantas is correct - there is NOTHING wrong with px font sizes. They  
are not absolute and browsers are able to modify the size without any  
problems. You are merely suggesting the font size. i.e.: increasing  
the preferred font size in the browser still adjusts pxs - if the  
browser does not behave this way then it's a browser problem, not the  
designers.


Likewise, font sizes are irrelevant for accessibility. All  
accessibility software and screen readers should be able to scale the  
fonts accordingly, if not then it's an issue with the accessibility  
software. It's easier to keep track of em and percentage sizes for  
site wide but px is


Joe Clarke gave a great presentation on this at @media 2007 titled  
"When Web Accessibility Is Not Your Problem", notes available here: http://joeclark.org/appearances/atmedia2007/#fonts


~ daniel a. thornbury


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