Re: [WSG] Accessibility does not matter!
I whole heartily agree with you Tee, and more importantly with Tim Berners-Lee, the Internet as a whole was invited for the people to share information, and how can information be shared if accessibility is limited, even on intranet's if the system is built from the beginning to be widely accessible. When I first started learning about writing code for Standards Compliancy, and made sure I followed the outlines, I soon found myself writing in that manner automatically, it's just a matter of learning. And in this day and age, what decent developer builds software for web or otherwise does it without learning new techniques. If those developer's are not willing to adapt to the needs of consumers, they should steps aside, and take up another profession. Sorry, but I get beaten out of jobs myself due to these amateurs, only to have those client's come back to me, stating they went somewhere else 'cos it was cheaper, and they haven't been given the accessibility or editable options I discussed with them. Also, to the person in the previous comments (don't remember who it was, I do this via email), that stated something about when jQuery is no longer supported in Browser's. You need to do a little homework before making such claims. jQuery is a JavaScript framework, hence it's JavaScript, which is support in almost every Browser, and JavaScript won't be getting dropped from Browser's for a very long time, and in fact it's been around before it was implemented and support in Browser's. Being Netscape in fact. If anything should or would get dropped, it should be these bulky have to install into the user's OS third party add-ons, such as Flash, Silverlight, and so on. On a personal note Tee, you seem to be of the mind of following or have heard of Esoteric Agenda? tee wrote: Accessibility is: 1% of equality [1] + 99% of empathy :) Internet is invented by the West, Web-standards movement was originated in the West, all those corporates that make software, have a big influence and dominated the market (Microsoft, Freedom Scientific, Adobe...) are all from the West. Western mindset is all about freedom of *fill_in_blank* + equal access + right of use, but empathy is quick lacking the way I see it. Green business has a term, greenwashing, perhaps we should have a term for accessibilty-washing, that is, 1% of equality minus 99% of empathy, I often think that this is the reason why web accessibility is slow crawling, because there isn't profit in making accessible software, web application, websites , etc. And it's that empathy that one has that makes one willing to run extra miles to make an accessible website, but one's effort is limited, on this notion, I can understand some of Jason's argument, though I don't agree with him. Some culture in the East has the notion of empathy but lack of freedom of *fill_in_blank* + equal access + right of use, and they have to learn the Web-standards and accessibility knowledge using English and learn from the West. I am pretty certain Tim Berners-Lee on The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect includes 99% of empathy. tee *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
Re: [WSG] @font-face?
You could precache the font, or edit the font removing the character's not needed to make the overall file size smaller. designer wrote: I recently tried a simple @font-face test, via font-squirrel, using a font similar to Bookman. Unless There are tweaks that I don't know, I wouldn't use it on a site that mattered because of the delay. The ordinary font appears, then after some time (seconds, but very noticeable) the embedded font appears. Has anyone else found this? http://www.betasite.fsnet.co.uk/gam/DejaVu/demo.html Thanks, Bob *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
Re: [WSG] Semantically codes syntax highlighting
Make your own Foskett, Mike wrote: Hi all, I’m about to do a set of yearly updates on my personal website. This time around I thought I’d add syntax highlighting to the code examples presented. After looking at a few highlighters the best visually appeared to be SyntaxHighlighter http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342site=startbigthinksmall.wordpress.comurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcode.google.com%2Fp%2Fsyntaxhighlighter%2F by Alex Gorbatchev. But even with The beauty of code http://startbigthinksmall.wordpress.com/2008/10/30/beautyofcode-jquery-plugin-for-syntax-highlighting/ jQuery update it just doesn’t cut it semantically (every line in its own table). May I ask the group what they would use or recommend? Regards Mike Foskett http://websemantics.co.uk/ This is a confidential email. Tesco may monitor and record all emails. The views expressed in this email are those of the sender and not Tesco. Tesco Stores Limited Company Number: 519500 Registered in England Registered Office: Tesco House, Delamare Road, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire EN8 9SL VAT Registration Number: GB 220 4302 31 *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
Re: [WSG] Major memory leaking in IE
Interesting, I've had similar problems all the way through each IE incarnation, I had a quick look at your example, with no luck, but then I didn't test it in IE. You would think M$ would have been able to fix this problem by now, as it looks like it's a similar problem as I've always experienced, but was able to get around it by splitting data up into smaller chunks, and renaming vars to single chars, and removing white space which also helps speed the code up and reduce file size. Regards, StudioJunkyard.com Mads Erik Forberg wrote: Hello, can anyone help me debug the major memory leakage in IE on this page; http://www.prisguide.no/kategorier/mobiltelefon It seems to be the JavaScript when rendering new results after selecting a filter. I have tweaked it a bit, but seems to be very messy in IE. Runs with the jQuery 1.3.2 JS-lib. PS: Don't worry about IE6, we don't support it. :) It's just IE7 and IE8. Kind regards, Mads *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
