Re: [WSG] W3C's new Plan for HTML

2006-10-31 Thread MarcLuzietti
Maybe if we had a trade association / union we could elect someone to represent us and pay membership dues to send the person. There've got to be at least 6-7000 standardistas who could chip in a buck. -- Marc Luzietti Flagship Project Bayview Financial, L.P. (305) 341-5624 Also, it's great t

[WSG] Cleaning the body

2006-10-16 Thread MarcLuzietti
I'm trying to clean as much JS crud from the body as I can. My JS skills are still somewhat limited. I have a couple methods I wish to eliminate from the body but still have available. How do I do it? onkeydown="function1();" onsubmit="function2();" oncontextmenu="return true;" It's for an int

Re: [WSG] programmmer said: difination list not a standard practise

2006-10-11 Thread MarcLuzietti
I think the problem is that standard and standards have different meanings. By standard practice, the programmer means that definition lists are rarely used (which is true, if you're dealing with old-school web designers / programmers). So standard practice and practicing standards means two op

Re: [WSG] Bad Design Principles

2006-10-04 Thread MarcLuzietti
Hah! So much for a cursory scan. All I did was look at the design. -- Marc Luzietti Flagship Project Bayview Financial, L.P. (305) 341-5624 > For its intended audience, I don't see the problem. It's targetted at > artists, > who usually have a higher threshhold for PIA designs and prefer more >

Re: [WSG] Bad Design Principles

2006-10-04 Thread MarcLuzietti
For its intended audience, I don't see the problem. It's targetted at artists, who usually have a higher threshhold for PIA designs and prefer more interesting layout, typography, design, etc. Not every website is intended for the lowest common denominator. I do see a glaring CSS mistake though

[WSG] The DOM

2006-09-07 Thread MarcLuzietti
Can I ask a DOM question here? Is there a way to use JavaScript and the Dom to make an element be focusable? -- Marc Luzietti Flagship Project Bayview Financial, L.P. (305) 341-5624 *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.or

Re: [WSG] font standards today

2006-08-24 Thread MarcLuzietti
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_alternative Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I'd like to 2nd Felix's opinion. In fact, I want to take this even further. Why should anybody even bother hiring a web designer at all? All anyone needs is their little cousin who has pir

[WSG] list elements

2006-08-21 Thread MarcLuzietti
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_alternative Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Are list elements (ul, ol, li, etc.) block level or not? My HTML book is no help on this subject and I don't seem to be able to find the answer in the W3C specs for HTML 4.01. -- Marc L