Re: [WSG] RE: Poetry needing block format but with line-breaks

2010-02-17 Thread Matthew Pennell
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Susie Gardner-Brown susi...@uq.edu.auwrote:

  Oh, thanks Jens – I forgot about that option!! I’ll give it a go .

 And Brad – yes I am using the br / tag, but that stops it being
 block-formatted ...


I did some work for a poetry trust recently, and I set up two different
templates for displaying poems. One allowed for line breaks (so lines would
break correctly), and the other one used pre to preserve formatting for
poems where the shape of the text was important.

- Matthew


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Re: [WSG] Print style sheet

2010-02-17 Thread Lesley Binks
On 17 February 2010 03:42,  c...@fagandesign.com.au wrote:
 Hi all,

 Just wondering about best practice, accessibility and practical
 implementation of a print stylesheet.

 I have been asked to place a different header image in my HTML templates
 specifically for print (only shows when printed and replaces usual header).

 I would like to know if this is deemed acceptable use of CSSAND if a
 hard-coded image has to be downloaded on page load or page print??

 eg.
 div id=print-header style=display:none;
img src=img/elements/print-header.jpg alt=blah blah width=600
 height=254 /
 /div
 div id=header
img src=img/elements/normal-header.jpg alt=blah blah width=800
 height=300 /
 /div

 !-- PRINT STYLESHEET --
 .print-header {display:block!important}
This duplication of content is unnecessary and would be rather
difficult to maintain in the long term.
.The issue has been dealt with  in http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/media.html..

 Use one element id in a document for one element e.g.

div id=header

and then define it differently for  different media as per examples in
that link.n

 @media print {
   #header { font-size: 10pt }
 }
 @media screen {
   #header { font-size: 13px }
 }
 @media screen, print {
   #header { line-height: 1.2 }
 }

This method achieves independence of data (web page content) from
design/style (whether it is screen, print or other media type).

HTH

Lesley


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Re: [WSG] Progressive Enhancement related article

2010-02-17 Thread Tom Livingston
YES! THanks SO much!

Sorry Mr. Clarke ;-)


On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Simon Wilder simon.wil...@gmail.com wrote:
 http://24ways.org/2009/ignorance-is-bliss is that article. Was by Andy
 Clarke for 24ways. I hope this was the one you were after.

 On 16 Feb 2010, at 21:29, Tom Livingston tom...@gmail.com wrote:

 List,

 I recently came across an article - possibly by Roger Johansson -
 where in the article the author discussed a web page design that was
 shown to 2 different people from the same client but in different
 locations. Based on the browser being used, they each received a
 different experience but each loved what they saw, not knowing each
 saw a slightly different experience. It may have been a fictitious
 scenario. Not sure.

 Does this ring a bell with anyone? I am going nuts trying to track it
 back down. It was one of those
 link-in-an-article-that-was-a-link-from-another-article kinda things
 and I unfortunately didn't bookmark it.

 If you know of this article, please forward a link - OFF LIST.

 Thanks a bunch, if you spend any time on this. I appreciate it.

 --


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Re: [WSG] Minimal forms or marking up a search field

2010-02-17 Thread Paul Novitski



A practical distraction for the standardistas and accessibility gurus�

Hoping tap your brain for an alternative perspective on the simple and
common HTML scenario of a site search form.

...


To revisit this topic, I'm considering the 
following and would appreciate feedback:

_

a) Submit button as label:

form ...
   div
  input type=text id=search name=search /
  label for=search
 input type=submit value=Search /
  /label
   /div
/form
_

b) Label hidden from view:

form ...
   div
  label for=search id=search-labelSearch:/label
  input type=text id=search name=search /
  input type=submit value=Search /
   /div
/form

label#search-label
{
position: absolute;
left: -1000em;
}
_

The rationale for both of these is that the 
Search submit button serves as a clear and 
unambiguous label for the input field. In listing 
a) the button is literally the label; in b) there 
is a separate literal label present in the markup 
but hidden from cosmetic view.


Both validate for W3C HTML  Cynthia 528  Accessibilty.

Can you see any problems with them?

I favor a) but it feels edgy.

Regards,

Paul
__

Paul Novitski
Juniper Webcraft Ltd.
http://juniperwebcraft.com 




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Re: [WSG] Minimal forms or marking up a search field

2010-02-17 Thread David Dorward
 
On 17 Feb 2010, at 19:24, Paul Novitski wrote:
 To revisit this topic, I'm considering the following and would appreciate 
 feedback:
 a) Submit button as label:
 b) Label hidden from view:



Neither


The label element is not used for the following because labels for these
elements are provided via the value attribute (for Submit and Reset 
buttons), 
the alt attribute (for image buttons), or element content itself 
(button).

  — http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/WD-WCAG20-TECHS/H44.html

-- 
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http://dorward.me.uk



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RE: [WSG] Print style sheet [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-02-17 Thread Grace, Gordon
You seem to be on the right track, Oliver.

Matthew's response regarding targeting media types is also helpful.  One of the 
implementations I've used before is described below.

Note that:
- The print-only version of the logo is the near-last element in the page.  I 
assume that someone will read all (or most) of the document before printing, 
giving the browser time to download the print-only [hidden] inline image.
- Both images are requested at page load, not at page print
- Background image printing is unlikely to be enabled by default on a user's 
browser, hence the use of inline images
- When printing, the screen version of the logo is entirely hidden, and the 
print logo is positioned absolutely on the top left of the page.
- ContentWrapper is given a top margin related to the height of the printable 
logo (preventing nasty overlaps)
- Both images are downloaded in the same page request.
- I do not regard this as a duplication of content - a print-optimised version 
of a logo may have very different requirements from a screen-optimised version 
of a logo.
- Similar approaches should work for other @media types
- CSS-less browsers will expose both versions of the logo - one at the top of 
the page, one at the bottom (not a deal breaker, IMO).


Markup:
==
html
head
...
link type=text/css rel=stylesheet media=print href=print.css/
link type=text/css rel=stylesheet media=screen href=screen.css/
/head
...
img id=headerLogo ... /
div id=contentWrapper
...
/div
...
img id=printLogo height=80px width=120px .../
...
/body
/html


print.css
==
...

#printLogo {
position: absolute;
  left: 0;
  top: 0;
}

#headerLogo {
display: none;
}

screen.css 
==
...
#printLogo {
display:none;
}

#contentWrapper {
margin-top: 80px;
}

Good luck!

- Gordon

 I have been asked to place a different header image in my HTML templates
 specifically for print (only shows when printed and replaces usual header).

 I would like to know if this is deemed acceptable use of CSSAND if a
 hard-coded image has to be downloaded on page load or page print??

 eg.
 div id=print-header style=display:none;
img src=img/elements/print-header.jpg alt=blah blah width=600
 height=254 /
 /div
 div id=header
img src=img/elements/normal-header.jpg alt=blah blah width=800
 height=300 /
 /div

 !-- PRINT STYLESHEET --
 .print-header {display:block!important}
This duplication of content is unnecessary and would be rather
difficult to maintain in the long term.
.The issue has been dealt with  in http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/media.html..

 Use one element id in a document for one element e.g.

div id=header

and then define it differently for  different media as per examples in
that link.n

 @media print {
   #header { font-size: 10pt }
 }
 @media screen {
   #header { font-size: 13px }
 }
 @media screen, print {
   #header { line-height: 1.2 }
 }

This method achieves independence of data (web page content) from
design/style (whether it is screen, print or other media type).

HTH

Lesley


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