Re: [WSG] CSS editors
On Oct 20, 2008, at 1:37 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want to save money and have an all round free open source editor that does CSS, PHP, javascript, and other major languages I would suggest notepad++. Been using it since it was first available and haven't looked at anything else. Mind you, apart from Flash * GIMP, I use notepad++ for all my web design. This probably is off topic so I apology first, however I think it worths mentioning especially for the original poster to note when deciding which one to purchase. I got Textmate and CSSEdit long time ago and had purchased Coda just some 6 months ago, the very reason for it is that I have been working mainly on Magento projects, and because the software runs very slow on local server so I have been working the files directly from the web server. With Coda, I can access entire remote root directory from the leftside of the panel, and the connection is good - 6 months, not a single timeout. I can only open remove file one at a time for Textmate, and my FTP client kept giving me timeout error. In short, Coda is an editor with FTP , but I just love CSSEdit so much I continue using it with Coda. Coda comes with HTML, CSS, Javascript and PHP reference books so this is something very good too. You an even say it's a super light version of Dreamweaver. tee *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
RE: [WSG] re: Semantic use of rel and rev in anchors
Thanks for the replies. That answered my question. Regards Mike Foskett http://webSemantics.co.uk/ Disclaimer 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Drupal - Standards Compliant and Crossbrowser Dropdown Navigation Widget?
Hi Guys, Is it necessary to put titles on links for the purpose of accessibility? a href=# title=this is a title James 2008/10/21 Dave Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello Susan, If you're doing a lot of Drupal development, and you don't already have it, I strongly recommend getting a copy of Pro Drupal Development by John K. VanDyk - the 6.x version of the book is ISBN: 978-1-4302-0989-8 - there's also a previous version focusing on 5.x which is equally indespensible for learning the drupal way of doing things. Cheers, Dave Susan Grossman wrote: Our core business is building sites with Drupal. We focus on XHTML 1.0 strict compliance and are striving towards full adherence of the New Zealand e-government web guidelines which cover accessibility, and various other considerations. We've found Drupal to be remarkably pliable with regard to those changes. Susan, the approach of altering modules that you described will definitely cause you maintenance headaches. I would encourage you to learn as much as possible about Drupal's very sophisticated system of both theme and functionality overrides (called hooks in the Drupal world). ... cut Kind regards, Dave Thanks Dave for the input on hooks, which I have used in a few of the modules and they're real effective and I should've mentioned them. Unfortunately some of the modules I'm trying to use I find I still have to do some changing to. I guess it's my lack of knowledge, but not all modules seem to be equal to me. I'll take your suggestion and do more research and see how I can avoid this entirely, and I haven't done anything in multi-site mode. -- Susan R. Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** -- Dave Lane = Egressive Ltd = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = m: +64 21 229 8147 p: +64 3 9633733 = Linux: it just tastes better = nosoftwarepatents http://egressive.com we only use open standards: http://w3.org Effusion Group Founding Member === http://effusiongroup.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] CSS font-size-adjust
Hi Christian, Christian Montoya wrote on 20-10-2008: http://unitinteractive.com/blog/2008/06/26/better-css-font-stacks/ Back in September 2006 I wrote a piece that reached some similar conclusions to that above http://www.webspaceworks.com/resources/fonts-web-typography/60/ At the time the use of font-size-adjust was an impractical solution due to it's very poor support among browsers... not even consistently across all platforms for firefox. I don't think much has changed in that regard, but would have to check to be sure. The best solution therefore was to use available resources regarding font availability and to plan typography around that, looking for fonts of similar aspect ratio with which to build your family (or stack, call it what you will). I've also setup tables of aspect ratios and x-widths for some common fonts, since aspect ratios don't give necessarily the complete picture (verdana and tahoma share the same aspect ratio, but differ significantly in x-width). http://www.webspaceworks.com/resources/fonts-web-typography/43/ Hope these may be of some use... Cheers Rob *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Drupal - Standards Compliant and Crossbrowser Dropdown Navigation Widget?
James Farrell wrote: Is it necessary to put titles on links for the purpose of accessibility? a href=# title=this is a title No. It can be helpful to clarify the link destination... pWebpages are generally written in a href=http://w3.org/TR/html4/; title=The latest HTML 4 SpecificationHTML/a./p ... but usually isn't needed for accessibility. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] CSS font-size-adjust
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 7:14 AM, Rob Schumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Christian, Christian Montoya wrote on 20-10-2008: http://unitinteractive.com/blog/2008/06/26/better-css-font-stacks/ Back in September 2006 I wrote a piece that reached some similar conclusions to that above http://www.webspaceworks.com/resources/fonts-web-typography/60/ At the time the use of font-size-adjust was an impractical solution due to it's very poor support among browsers... not even consistently across all platforms for firefox. I don't think much has changed in that regard, but would have to check to be sure. The best solution therefore was to use available resources regarding font availability and to plan typography around that, looking for fonts of similar aspect ratio with which to build your family (or stack, call it what you will). I've also setup tables of aspect ratios and x-widths for some common fonts, since aspect ratios don't give necessarily the complete picture (verdana and tahoma share the same aspect ratio, but differ significantly in x-width). http://www.webspaceworks.com/resources/fonts-web-typography/43/ Thanks Rob, I think that just about answers all my questions. Would it be possible for you to update your tables with the Vista fonts? -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] CSS font-size-adjust
On 2008/10/21 18:14 (GMT+0700) Rob Schumann composed: Christian Montoya wrote on 20-10-2008: http://unitinteractive.com/blog/2008/06/26/better-css-font-stacks/ Back in September 2006 I wrote a piece that reached some similar conclusions to that above http://www.webspaceworks.com/resources/fonts-web-typography/60/ Neither of those take into account the recent and current states of FOSS fonts. It would be nice to see yours updated to take into account: 1-DejaVu is a continually developed and better hinted superset of no longer developed Bitstream Vera that has replaced Vera in most Linux distros for several years now. An installation of the OpenOffice.org 3.0 w/ JRE package on WinXP results in 21 DejaVu*ttf files being added to \WINDOWS\Fonts. 2-The Liberation font suite was developed to function as an alternative to installing the Microsoft Core Web Fonts package on Linux. Its single metric equivalent serif (Liberation Serif=Times New Roman), sans-serif (Liberation Sans=Arial/Helvetica) and monospace (Liberation Mono=Lucida Console/Courier New) components are available either by default or as an option with installation of most recent and current Linux distros. 3-Linux fontconfig provides a font stack for fallback. For purposes of this thread, I've made available three examples from major distros: Fedora 10 http://fm.no-ip.com/tmp/Linux/45-latin.conf-fc10 Mandriva 2009 http://fm.no-ip.com/tmp/Linux/45-latin.conf-mdv2009 openSUSE 11.1 http://fm.no-ip.com/tmp/Linux/suse-post-user.conf We have been told in a (IIRC) Novell Bugzilla comment by the fonts team leader Mike Fabian that openSUSE's order within its alias file was set primarily dependent on font quality, particularly in the areas of charset coverage, byte code and hinting. Contrast that to the other two, which leave x-height pretty much a non-issue, seen by the separation between DejaVu Sans and Verdana in both files. -- Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry. James 1:19 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] CSS font-size-adjust
Hi Christian, Christian Montoya wrote on 21-10-2008: Thanks Rob, I think that just about answers all my questions. Would it be possible for you to update your tables with the Vista fonts? I've updated the aspect-ratio/x-widths article to include the 6 'C' fonts of Vista http://www.webspaceworks.com/resources/fonts-web-typography/43/ Updates for other fonts, and to bring font availability tables up-to-date will follow later. Cheers Rob *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] CSS font-size-adjust
On 2008/10/21 23:40 (GMT+0700) Rob Schumann composed: I've updated the aspect-ratio/x-widths article to include the 6 'C' fonts of Vista http://www.webspaceworks.com/resources/fonts-web-typography/43/ At some point you might want to mention that, unlike most monospace fonts, which match each other in width at most or all sizes, Consolas in many common sizes renders considerably narrower, as if called in the next smaller size. You should be able to see examples on http://fm.no-ip.com/auth/Font/fonts-face-samplesM.html Updates for other fonts, and to bring font availability tables up-to-date will follow later. Looking forward to it. :-) -- Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry. James 1:19 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
[WSG] Accessible and cross browser online slide system
Hi guys, I'd like to inform you all that I've developed an alternative to HTML Slidy that claim to be accessible, cross browser and standard like it. The plus is that you can listen the slides with Assistive Technologies and produce a remote presentation: Students (Client) listen the slides while the Teacher (Server) leads them. All information regarding JAST-A-Slide are available on http://jastegg.it/jastASlide/ . I hope that will not be considered as spam, because I'm informing about a standard and compliant software solution. I will appreciate any kind of suggestion aimed to improve the quality and the performance of that script! Cheers! Diego La Monica Web 2.0 - Standards - Accessibility mobile: +39 3337235382 - skype: diego.la.monica web: http://diegolamonica.info - http://jastegg.it *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
[WSG] Accessible and cross browser online slide system
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Re: [WSG] Accessible and cross browser online slide system
Hello Diego, I recommend you check out S5: http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/10/18/ssup5sup-10/ I've used them on quite a few occasions and they work very well so long as you're happy playing with HTML markup. Cheers, Dave PS I suggest turning off email receipts on emails to mailing lists :) Diego La Monica wrote: Hi guys, I’d like to inform you all that I’ve developed an alternative to “*HTML Slidy*” that claim to be accessible, cross browser and standard like it. The plus is that you can *listen the slides with Assistive Technologies* and produce a *remote presentation*: Students (Client) listen the slides while the Teacher (Server) leads them. All information regarding *JAST-A-Slide* are available on http://jastegg.it/jastASlide/ . I hope that will not be considered as spam, because I’m informing about a standard and compliant software solution. I will appreciate any kind of suggestion aimed to improve the quality and the performance of that script! Cheers! Diego La Monica Web 2.0 - Standards - Accessibility mobile: +39 3337235382 - skype: diego.la.monica web: http://diegolamonica.info - http://jastegg.it *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** -- Dave Lane = Egressive Ltd = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = m: +64 21 229 8147 p: +64 3 9633733 = Linux: it just tastes better = nosoftwarepatents http://egressive.com we only use open standards: http://w3.org Effusion Group Founding Member === http://effusiongroup.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
RE: [WSG] Accessible and cross browser online slide system
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Diego La Monica Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 11:17 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Accessible and cross browser online slide system Hi guys, Id like to inform you all that Ive developed an alternative to HTML Slidy that claim to be accessible, cross browser and standard like it. The plus is that you can listen the slides with Assistive Technologies and produce a remote presentation: Students (Client) listen the slides while the Teacher (Server) leads them. All information regarding JAST-A-Slide are available on http://jastegg.it/jastASlide/ . I hope that will not be considered as spam, because Im informing about a standard and compliant software solution. I will appreciate any kind of suggestion aimed to improve the quality and the performance of that script! Hi Diego, It looks good. fwiw, I worked on something like that, but trying to solve the issue with keyboard navigation (as breaking the HTML flow makes tabbing navigation confusing): http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/keyboard-friendly_tabbed-panels/jump-links .asp -- Regards, Thierry | http://www.TJKDesign.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
[WSG] Accessible and cross browser online slide system
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RE: [WSG] Accessible and cross browser online slide system
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Re: [WSG] Accessible and cross browser online slide system
That would be nice. It is kind of annoying. On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Paul Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Lisa, On behalf of other list members, any chance of turning return receipts off? :) Paul *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Accessible and cross browser online slide system
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Paul Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lisa, On behalf of other list members, any chance of turning return receipts off? The read receipt was requested by the original poster. -- Raena Jackson Armitage 0404 108 522 www.raena.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
