Re: [WSG] IE7 news

2006-07-28 Thread David Dixon
Actually, Microsoft are going to be pushing IE7 as a high priority update through Windows Update. http://news.com.com/Microsoft+tags+IE+7+high+priority+update/2100-7350_3-6098500.html So for many people (at those who have automatic updates turned on), IE 7 will be installed automatically

[WSG Announce] Ten questions for Steve Faulkner

2006-07-28 Thread russ - maxdesign
This is a one-way list for WSG Announcements Steve Faulkner has many years experience as a web developer and accessibility consultant. As well as his ongoing consulting work, he presents runs workshops at conferences, and guest lectures at universities

[WSG Announce] Some links for light reading (28/7/06)

2006-07-28 Thread russ - maxdesign
This is a one-way list for WSG Announcements This email covers: - Links for light reading - New books - Events -- LINKS FOR LIGHT READING -- Microsoft to Push IE 7.0 via Automatic Updates

Re: [WSG] IE7 news

2006-07-28 Thread Jason Foss
Just read that here too: http://mezzoblue.com/archives/2006/07/27/priority/ If the timing is as Dave suggests, that doesn't leave much time to get everything behaving in IE7! Time to start stressing!!! On 28/07/06, David Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, Microsoft are going to be

Re: [WSG] IE7 news

2006-07-28 Thread Tom Livingston
On 7/27/06 7:42 PM, Jason Foss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most people on XP won't upgrade to IE7, so we'll have to test IE7 on XP for a realtively small percentage I expect. It's being pushed as a High Priority update. You don't think the majority will update because M$ says I should

Re: [WSG] w3c inspecting icon factory

2006-07-28 Thread Christian Montoya
On 7/28/06, Tee G. Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.iconfactory.com/news.asp?day=1 Very very interesting! Could be a good education for client on web standards Cheers, tee Maybe it's a quicktime problem, but that crashes FF, IE, and Opera on my Win XP SP2 machine. Too bad really, I

Re: [WSG] IE7 news

2006-07-28 Thread Christian Montoya
On 7/28/06, Tom Livingston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/27/06 7:42 PM, Jason Foss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most people on XP won't upgrade to IE7, so we'll have to test IE7 on XP for a realtively small percentage I expect. It's being pushed as a High Priority update. You don't think the

RE: [WSG] Suckerfish Dropdown problem - IE

2006-07-28 Thread Ted Drake
This is an ugly fix, but can lead you toward to solution. Try placing the entire list in one line, removing the whitespace between the list items. At least try this for the first few list items. This is a common problem in IE6 with horizontal list elements. You can fix it by adding

Re: [WSG] IE7 news

2006-07-28 Thread L. Robinson
Donna Jones wrote: IE6 - does anyone know if there is one or being worked on? (even though i don't remember his name, i'd look it up) who figured out how to do the stand-alone IEs - that was/is so remarkable! http://browsers.evolt.org/ **

RE: [WSG] IE7 news

2006-07-28 Thread Joe
But FWIW, users will apparently be giving the ability to go back to IE 6 if they don't want/like IE7. Interesting. Funny. Isn't the whole point of a software upgrade to make it better and more usable than the previous? If Microsoft is worried about users not liking IE7 then they should

Re: [WSG] Suckerfish Dropdown problem - IE

2006-07-28 Thread Micky Hulse
Ted Drake wrote: This is an ugly fix, but can lead you toward to solution. Try placing the entire list in one line, removing the whitespace between the list items. An alternative to all on one line fix is this (view source, check-out how he did his list menus): Ruthsarian Layouts Tank!

Re: [WSG CMS] CMS Suggestions for Evaluation

2006-07-28 Thread David McKinnon
We're using an older version of Content Server from Fatwire http://www.fatwire.com/cs/Satellite/CSPage_US.html It's definitely enterprise level. Our version uses JSP tied together with XMl -- it would be worth a look. David McKinnon Martin Heiden wrote: Hi! We are looking for a XML based

RE: [WSG] eCensus Web Site Accessibility

2006-07-28 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: listdad@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Sent: Saturday, 29 July 2006 11:41 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] eCensus Web Site Accessibility Who is really pushing the case for accessibile website standards

Re: [WSG] w3c inspecting icon factory

2006-07-28 Thread Tee G. Peng
On Jul 28, 2006, at 7:43 AM, Patrick Haney wrote: To be honest, I'm not sure why they didn't go with animated GIFs to do this. I'm sure the file size would've been larger, but no plugins are necessary and I've seen plenty of pixel art animations done with GIF. Can animated GIFs

Re: [WSG] IE7 news

2006-07-28 Thread Al Sparber
From: Roberto Gorjão [EMAIL PROTECTED] Right now, I work with XP SP2 (home edition, sigh!) and IE6. I have IE3, IE4, IE5 and IE5.5, all as standalone versions. The standalone hack should only be used as a last resort by web designers who cannot afford the luxury of dedicated testing machines

Re: [WSG] IE7 news

2006-07-28 Thread Roberto Gorjão
That's true! Al Sparber wrote: While a lot of people use the standalone hack, it should be stated that it is a hack and does have potential problems. ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

Re: [WSG] IE7 news

2006-07-28 Thread Tee G. Peng
On Jul 28, 2006, at 7:39 PM, Al Sparber wrote: From: Roberto Gorjão [EMAIL PROTECTED] Right now, I work with XP SP2 (home edition, sigh!) and IE6. I have IE3, IE4, IE5 and IE5.5, all as standalone versions. The standalone hack should only be used as a last resort by web designers who

RE: [WSG] eCensus Web Site Accessibility

2006-07-28 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: listdad@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Sent: Saturday, 29 July 2006 11:41 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] eCensus Web Site Accessibility Who is really pushing the case for accessibile website