RE: [WSG] Forget about Opera and Mac (and Windows Vista) ??

2006-10-26 Thread Taco Fleur
OK, so opera isn't playing by the rules... Can I change padding: 0 to padding: 0 0? I've gone like a madman through the site and changed all occurrences of padding: 0 to padding: 0 0 And I assume padding: 4px would become padding: 4px 4px, correct? - FYI: changing from...

RE: [WSG] Forget about Opera and Mac (and Windows Vista) ??

2006-10-26 Thread Taco Fleur
PS: is there anything else out there other than http://www.browsercam.com They seem to be pretty pricy *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

Re: [WSG] Forget about Opera and Mac (and Windows Vista) ??

2006-10-26 Thread John Faulds
Not if you sign up to a group purchase: http://www.fundable.org/groupactions/BrowserCamGroup On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:47:28 +1000, Taco Fleur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS: is there anything else out there other than http://www.browsercam.com They seem to be pretty pricy

RE: [WSG] Forget about Opera and Mac (and Windows Vista) ??

2006-10-26 Thread Taco Fleur
Have you used that yourself? Is anyone else using it? If I understand it correctly, the pool gets build up till there is enough money to buy a subscription and then that login gets shared among everyone? Still think those prices are out of this world, they would get everyone signing up if they

Re: [WSG]

2006-10-26 Thread Olly Hodgson
On 26/10/06, James Oppenheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would normally use a dl for this. You still can :) Just apply the relevant class to the data's parent object - in this case, the dd, e.g. dtPhone:/dt dd class=tel01234 456 789/dd And no, you don't need to use an address element here.

Re: [WSG] Forget about Opera and Mac (and Windows Vista) ??

2006-10-26 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Taco Fleur wrote: PS: is there anything else out there other than http://www.browsercam.com They seem to be pretty pricy Depending on your needs and equipment, you may be able to set up everything you need on your own PC for free! Assuming you're running Windows, the following is all

Re: [WSG] Forget about Opera and Mac (and Windows Vista) ??

2006-10-26 Thread Donna Jones
Taco Fleur wrote: Have you used that yourself? Is anyone else using it? If I understand it correctly, the pool gets build up till there is enough money to buy a subscription and then that login gets shared among everyone? No, everyone doesn't share the same login, its totally separate from

RE: [WSG] accesibility lawsuit

2006-10-26 Thread Chris Taylor
I love this quote: The blind have more access to information than they ever had in history - but that's only true to the extent that Web accessibility is maintained, Danielsen said. The technology is out there, and we don't need barriers to be put in our way. Give us a way in. If that's not a

Re: [WSG] accesibility lawsuit

2006-10-26 Thread Frances Berriman
It's interesting how things crop up at the same time. I blogged yesterday about screen reader software and have been discussing this on an accessibility list also. It's not just poor websites we have to be thinking about but rubbish screen reader software too. Yes - vive la revolution, but not

RE: [WSG] Accessible Multi-Column List

2006-10-26 Thread michael.brockington
Have you considered styling your LIs so that they sit side-by-side within the list? Then you would have one single list, with list items taking up 49% of the width of the list, giving the appearance of two columns on screen, but only one physical list for accessibility. I am sure there are many

RE: [WSG] Accessible Multi-Column List

2006-10-26 Thread Sarah Peeke (XERT)
This solution would be great, except that I need the list to remain alphabetical *vertically*. Have you considered styling your LIs so that they sit side-by-side within the list? Then you would have one single list, with list items taking up 49% of the width of the list, giving the appearance

Re: [WSG] Accessible Multi-Column List

2006-10-26 Thread Sarah Peeke (XERT)
Hi Paul The methods I describe in this article use ems for positioning, not pixels: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/multicolumnlists/ My favorite method is the last (#6). Have you found that it doesn't survive cross-browser? I'd be interested in your findings. I saw your example 6,

Re: [WSG] Accessible Multi-Column List

2006-10-26 Thread Tim
Thanks Paul, A great read of the options for multi column lists. You have helped another activist and cat lover trying to give up using Tables. Thanks Tim On 26/10/2006, at 7:34 PM, Paul Novitski wrote: At 10/26/2006 01:44 AM, Sarah Peeke (XERT) wrote: Basically I need to show a list of

Re: [WSG]

2006-10-26 Thread Adam Darowski
That's the thing, it seems, about Microformats. The biggest hangup at the beginning is thinking they are more complex than they are. I first thought that you had to make sure all the divs and spans and whatnot were in line with all the examples I saw. Then I later found out that it's seriously

Re: [WSG]

2006-10-26 Thread Frances Berriman
Yep. That's totally the trick. Just believe in the simplicity. Mark up everything beautifully and semantically - then add in the microformat class names. Nothing more to it - *honest*. On 10/26/06, Adam Darowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's the thing, it seems, about Microformats. The

Re: [WSG] Accessible Multi-Column List

2006-10-26 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Oct 26, 2006, at 7:26 PM, Sarah Peeke (XERT) wrote: The methods I describe in this article use ems for positioning, not pixels: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/multicolumnlists/ My favorite method is the last (#6). Have you found that it doesn't survive cross-browser? I'd be interested

Re: [WSG] Forget about Opera and Mac (and Windows Vista) ??

2006-10-26 Thread Tom Livingston
On 10/26/06 1:28 AM, Taco Fleur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The issues with IE 5 Mac are dead easy to fix. I'll go along with the 'dead' part. Again, as long as stats don't show otherwise, It's not that uncommon for folks to drop Mac _IE_. Heck, Microsoft did. But Safari, Mac FF, Mac Opera

Re: [WSG]

2006-10-26 Thread Mike at Green-Beast.com
This wasn't for me, but thanks for the info all the same. Confirmation I should say. I saw the original question and did a little research, then found an hcard generator via Wikipedia and I ended up thinking wow, that's a lot of divs for an address block (kinda silly). Then I figured that was

Re: [WSG] a js snippet that can generate xhtml/css validation links

2006-10-26 Thread Hassan Schroeder
Thierry Koblentz wrote: I run WAMP, and when I test a php version of my test page, I get the exact same result as in IIS. What does PHP have to do with SSI?? Apache has an INCLUDES filter and parses SS-Includes, no? But do you mean SSI or IIS? I'm not sure I understand that question.

Re: [WSG] accesibility lawsuit

2006-10-26 Thread Michael Yeaney
I agreeI find it amusing (concerning??) that screen readers are omitted from these discussions, like there's nothing more they can do. Any other product out there that falls short (on any feature / ability) gets called on it - immediately. Screen readers should be no different, IMO. Mike

Re: [WSG] a js snippet that can generate xhtml/css validation links

2006-10-26 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Hassan Schroeder wrote: Thierry Koblentz wrote: For the sake of completeness -- i.e. terminating a thread most folks are probably tired of :-) It has been an interesting thread for me. I had no idea that Apache and IIS returned different DOCUMENT_URI values when using echo in an Include...

Re: [WSG] accesibility lawsuit

2006-10-26 Thread Adam Darowski
I was just thinking yesterday... what is holding the open source community back from developing good screen reader software? There are a lot of smart people out there that obviously care about this. Is there some sort of hangup I don't know about? Thanks,adamOn 10/26/06, Michael Yeaney [EMAIL

Re: [WSG] Accessible Multi-Column List

2006-10-26 Thread Paul Novitski
At 10/26/2006 05:58 AM, Mike at Green-Beast.com wrote: Not sure if this one's messed up on various platforms/browsers but I think it's stable. It might yet another option for you. It's good and resizes well in everything *I've* tested it in (including IE7). The ordering is left - right - down,

Re: [WSG] Accessible Multi-Column List

2006-10-26 Thread Mike at Green-Beast.com
Hello Paul, Thanks for the feedback. I did note it was left - right - down so it was more or less just an option for if wanting a presentational list in that format (not sure if it's wrong or fractured per se). That said, maybe I'll have to offer it the other way in a future experiment. I do

Re: [WSG] accesibility lawsuit

2006-10-26 Thread Mel
on 26/10/2006 19:12 Adam Darowski said the following: I was just thinking yesterday... what is holding the open source community back from developing good screen reader software? You mean like: http://www.oatsoft.org There are a lot of smart people out there that obviously care about this.

Re: [WSG] Accessible Multi-Column List

2006-10-26 Thread Paul Novitski
At 10/26/2006 11:54 AM, Mike at Green-Beast.com wrote: Thanks for the feedback. I did note it was left - right - down so it was more or less just an option for if wanting a presentational list in that format (not sure if it's wrong or fractured per se). Sure -- perhaps I shouldn't have used

Re: [WSG] Forget about Opera and Mac (and Windows Vista) ??

2006-10-26 Thread Kevin Futter
On 26/10/06 5:47 PM, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Taco Fleur wrote: PS: is there anything else out there other than http://www.browsercam.com They seem to be pretty pricy Depending on your needs and equipment, you may be able to set up everything you need on your own PC for

Re: [WSG] Accessible Multi-Column List

2006-10-26 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Paul Novitski wrote: If you haven't already, please read my List Apart article http://alistapart.com/articles/multicolumnlists/. I'd love it if you could improve on any of those techniques or come up with ones I hadn't considered. Hi Paul, What about this one?: http://www.tjkdesign.com/test/

Re: [WSG] Accessible Multi-Column List

2006-10-26 Thread Mike at Green-Beast.com
Thanks Paul, I will for sure. Part of my learning methodology is to roll up my sleeves and get my hands dirty so to speak, but often before doing my experiments I do like to take a look around to see what others have done, then I try to do things differently. To experiment. That's the fun

Re: [WSG] Accessible Multi-Column List

2006-10-26 Thread Paul Novitski
At 10/26/2006 04:06 PM, Thierry Koblentz wrote: Paul Novitski wrote: If you haven't already, please read my List Apart article http://alistapart.com/articles/multicolumnlists/. I'd love it if you could improve on any of those techniques or come up with ones I hadn't considered. Hi Paul,

RE: [WSG] Forget about Opera and Mac (and Windows Vista) ??

2006-10-26 Thread Taco Fleur
Ahh I see, better undo all those fixes that weren't fixes ;-) How about giving it a height of 100%? *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

Re: [WSG] Accessible Multi-Column List

2006-10-26 Thread John Faulds
http://www.christianmontoya.com/2006/09/18/revisiting-image-rollovers/ If you're talking about the Ryan Rollovers that you link to, it looks very similar to the Gilder-Levin method which is mentioned at http://www.mezzoblue.com/tests/revised-image-replacement/ (dated 2004) and was updated

Re: [WSG] Accessible Multi-Column List

2006-10-26 Thread Christian Montoya
On 10/26/06, John Faulds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.christianmontoya.com/2006/09/18/revisiting-image-rollovers/ If you're talking about the Ryan Rollovers that you link to, it looks very similar to the Gilder-Levin method which is mentioned at

Re: [WSG] Accessible Multi-Column List

2006-10-26 Thread Mike at Green-Beast.com
Lol, MIR is taken... I did not know. Mike - Original Message - From: Christian Montoya [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 7:54 PM Subject: Re: [WSG] Accessible Multi-Column List On 10/26/06, Mike at Green-Beast.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[WSG] DOM created table markup [was: Accessible Multi-Column List]

2006-10-26 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Christian Montoya wrote: On 10/26/06, Paul Novitski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10/26/2006 04:06 PM, Thierry Koblentz wrote: Paul Novitski wrote: If you haven't already, please read my List Apart article http://alistapart.com/articles/multicolumnlists/. I'd love it if you could improve on

Re: [WSG] cell is not a member of a group specified for any attribute.

2006-10-26 Thread Donna Jones
Tee, see if this is what you want: table tr td class=firstsectioncolumn 1/td td class=secondsectioncolumn 2/td td class=secondsectioncolumn 3/td /tr tr class=third_section_with_two_columns td colspan=1column 1/td td colspan=2column 2/td /tr /table You had the word

Re: [WSG] link:active = keyboard focus?

2006-10-26 Thread Stuart Sherwood
It seems keyboard focus is totally independent of mouse focus. If you first tab through a menu and then switch to the mouse and give an item focus (without clicking on the page), you will have two items in focus. Any idea why :focus doesn't activate display:block on the sub nav?

Re: [WSG] DOM created table markup [was: Accessible Multi-Column List]

2006-10-26 Thread Christian Montoya
On 10/26/06, Thierry Koblentz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian Montoya wrote: On 10/26/06, Paul Novitski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10/26/2006 04:06 PM, Thierry Koblentz wrote: Paul Novitski wrote: If you haven't already, please read my List Apart article

Re: [WSG] Image replaced rollovers

2006-10-26 Thread Christian Montoya
On 10/26/06, John Faulds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but I still don't know how image replacement is similar to image rollovers. Because they're *image replaced* rollovers. Did you notice that Ryan's rollover, um, changes on roll-over? Yes I did. All that's different from the Gilder-Levin

Re: [WSG] link:active = keyboard focus?

2006-10-26 Thread Christian Montoya
On 10/26/06, Stuart Sherwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems keyboard focus is totally independent of mouse focus. If you first tab through a menu and then switch to the mouse and give an item focus (without clicking on the page), you will have two items in focus. Let's not confuse

Re: [WSG] DOM created table markup [was: Accessible Multi-Column List]

2006-10-26 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Christian Montoya wrote: On 10/26/06, Thierry Koblentz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't agree :-) IMO, the goal should be to deliver the *cleanest* document possible, with the least amount of structural hack, hook, etc. In the example I posted, one can't get cleaner than that. The only issue

Re: [WSG] Forget about Opera and Mac (and Windows Vista) ??

2006-10-26 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Taco Fleur wrote: Ahh I see, better undo all those fixes that weren't fixes ;-) How about giving it a height of 100%? If it's still Opera 9 you're trying to fix, then 'height: 100%' will work - at least in the window-version. Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no

RE: [WSG] Forget about Opera and Mac (and Windows Vista) ??

2006-10-26 Thread Taco Fleur
Yes, that’s right. Will give this a go, thanks. -Original Message- From: listdad@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gunlaug Sørtun Sent: Friday, 27 October 2006 12:59 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Forget about Opera and Mac (and Windows

Re: [WSG] DOM created table markup [was: Accessible Multi-Column List]

2006-10-26 Thread Paul Novitski
At 10/26/2006 06:31 PM, Thierry Koblentz wrote: IMO, the goal should be to deliver the *cleanest* document possible, with the least amount of structural hack, hook, etc. You mean like 40 lines of JavaScript to morph the markup of a 16-item list? In the example I posted, one can't get cleaner