RE: [WSG] font standards today

2006-08-24 Thread Chris Williams
Title: Re: [WSG] font standards today Youre right, this is a very good discussion. The argument made by many is that you dont get it, the web is a whole new paradigm. And that you should just let the user control everything. But that argument is specious. Its as bad now as it was in the

RE: [WSG] font standards today

2006-08-24 Thread Chris Williams
Of course the argument is that, I as the user have selected a default font for my browser that I like, or that I can easily read, or that is the right size for my vision, or... and you, as the web site creator have no right to override that. Therefore, you shouldn't specify a font at all,

RE: [WSG] font standards today

2006-08-31 Thread Chris Williams
Let us become weary of this thread, for at the proper time we will give up reading it. Chris 8:31:06 -Original Message- From: Felix Miata Subject: Re: [WSG] font standards today yadda, yadda -- Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we

RE: [WSG CMS] Strict CMS

2006-09-08 Thread Chris Williams
At the risk of taking this thread somewhere else completely, I would suggest you consider Wordpress (wordpress.org). Yes, it's a blogging tool, but in point of fact it's little more than a CMS with a bent toward blogging. My whole site (http://clwill.com) is driven by it, and yet the blog is

Re: [WSG CMS] Re: digest for cms@webstandardsgroup.org

2006-09-10 Thread Chris Williams
Title: Re: [WSG CMS] Re: digest for cms@webstandardsgroup.org The comments about joomla vs. wordpress are simply wrong. First, its an article about how to get wordpress to work inside joomla and why thats hard. Duh... As the old joke goes: if it hurts when you do that, dont do that. Second,

Re: [WSG CMS] Re: digest for cms@webstandardsgroup.org

2006-09-10 Thread Chris Williams
Don't want to come off as the WP zealot here, but some of the busiest blogs in the world are run on WP... It has the horsepower... From: Absalom Media [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG CMS] Re: digest for cms@webstandardsgroup.org MT, Expression and WP, whilst functional for blogs *and*

Re: [WSG CMS] Re: digest for cms@webstandardsgroup.org

2006-09-10 Thread Chris Williams
Title: Re: [WSG CMS] Re: digest for cms@webstandardsgroup.org Forgot to mention that my site was achieved without modifying core WP code. Its all a theme and one small plug-in (about 30 lines of code). From: Chris Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG CMS] Re: digest for cms

RE: [WSG] I Hate Internet Explorer Pt 2

2006-09-13 Thread Chris Williams
Sure. http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ -Original Message- From: Hrvoje Markovic Subject: Re: [WSG] I Hate Internet Explorer Pt 2 Is there somewhere a list of what/how IE interperates html/css differently from, let's say Firefox? And how to make a page work in both?

Re: [WSG] Bad Design Principles

2006-10-04 Thread Chris Williams
I'm a big fan of the way its only response to resizing of the text is to scoot further and further down the page. Nothing else changes. Very user friendly. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WSG] Bad Design Principles Thoughts?

Re: [WSG] Bad Design Principles

2006-10-04 Thread Chris Williams
What, the fact that there is none? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] Bad Design Principles I do see a glaring CSS mistake though. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

RE: [WSG] Bad Design Principles

2006-10-04 Thread Chris Williams
OK then: 1) Completely invisible to Google and other search bots 2) Tiny type that is readable only by 20-year old eyes, and it gets even smaller the further you drill into the site. 3) No response to UA changes in type size to resolve #2 4) Patently inaccessible to those with disabilities.

RE: [WSG] Article: using JS to plug IMG in headings

2006-10-04 Thread Chris Williams
How about a perfect image replacement technique rather than the... -Original Message- From: Thierry Koblentz Subject: Re: [WSG] Article: using JS to plug IMG in headings 1. conforming absolutely to the description or definition of an ideal type

RE: [WSG] Re: [css-d] Double space after a period]

2006-10-15 Thread Chris Williams
This has clearly veered off topic, and I'm just waiting for a moderator comment... :) It's not really that complicated. Just look for a capital letter following a period, pay attention to quoted strings, and Mr., Ms., etc. and replace the intervening white space(s) with nbsp; . I use a couple

Re: [WSG] Re: [css-d] Double space after a period]

2006-10-15 Thread Chris Williams
My only modification of this would be to use nbsp; rather than nbsp; nbsp;. It appears to me that some UA's word wrap the former better. From: Peter Firminger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WSG] Re: [css-d] Double space after a period] I'd search for a double space following a period and

RE: [WSG] Double space after a period

2006-10-17 Thread Chris Williams
This horse is long since dead, and I apologize for continuing this rather silly typographic conversation, but several people have said this (computer typefaces are smarter than a typewriter). Simply put, computer typefaces are not magic, and they do not somehow magically deduce their

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

2006-10-24 Thread Chris Williams
You don't need a snippet of code. Just put in: http://validator.w3.org/check/referer And http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer These will check the page that called them... From: Tee G. Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I wonder if there is (free) js code out there that can generate

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

2006-10-24 Thread Chris Williams
Assuming that the user in this case is the developer who is developing the site (the only one who has a reason for the output), then they can unblock it... From: Patrick H. Lauke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] a js snippet that can generate xhtml/css validation links As long as the

Re: [WSG] Using JS to generate navigation links [was: a js snippet that can generate xhtml/css validation links]

2006-10-25 Thread Chris Williams
Nice script. One quibble... You say validate section 580, but it's section 508 :) From: Thierry Koblentz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WSG] Using JS to generate navigation links [was: a js snippet that can generate xhtml/css validation links] This is an unobtrusive script that will generate

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

2006-10-25 Thread Chris Williams
On my site, the links only appear when an administrative user is logged in. From: Patrick H. Lauke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] a js snippet that can generate xhtml/css validation links Oh great, so for the mere mortal users these already cryptic and useless links can become even

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

2006-10-25 Thread Chris Williams
Slapping head with a great Homer-esque Doh... Thx... From: Christian Montoya [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] a js snippet that can generate xhtml/css validation links For that, you might as well just put the links in your toolbar... when you click a link in your toolbar (such as your

Re: [WSG] Additional space between sentences ?

2006-11-02 Thread Chris Williams
There was quite the flame war on this topic about a month ago, you might want to check archives... You will certainly get some responses in the why would you do that, it's old-school, and it's wrong variety. But I insist on it as well on my site, and I have done a great deal of research on how

RE: [WSG] Additional space between sentences ?

2006-11-06 Thread Chris Williams
Here is how I do it, in PHP: $text = preg_replace(/([.!?]|#8230;)(#8221;|#8217;|\x22|\x27|\))?\s+([A-Z])/ , \\1\\2nbsp; \\3, $text); $text = preg_replace(/(Mr.|Mrs.|Ms.|Dr.|Drs.)nbsp; /, \\1 , $text); (Of course this got all hammered by line-wrap in this email, but you get the idea.) First one

Re: [WSG] Hardware/OS setup recommendations

2006-11-18 Thread Chris Williams
The Apple 30 display has a native resolution of 2560x1600. From: Felix Miata [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] Hardware/OS setup recommendations If 1536 or more vertical exists, it might not be too bad, but I've never seen one.

Re: [WSG] Hardware/OS setup recommendations

2006-11-18 Thread Chris Williams
I have two on my desk right in front of me. From: Felix Miata [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] Hardware/OS setup recommendations Know anybody who has seen one? I've only seen pictures of one. *** List Guidelines:

Re: [WSG] Gap in IE

2006-12-05 Thread Chris Williams
Might be a red-herring, but have you tried removing all the blank lines between your divs in the HTML?? From: Jermayn Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WSG] Gap in IE In IE underneath the top section a gap appears while in firefox it doesnt. I have come accross this problem before but cannot

RE: [WSG] semantics : was-[HR tag and Semantics]

2007-02-07 Thread Chris Williams
Oh dear god, can someone please stick a fork in this thread... it's long past done. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL

RE: [WSG] OT? - spam in forms

2007-02-13 Thread Chris Williams
Captcha's are evil, not accessible, and a real pain for the end user. Maybe use akismet (http://akismet.com)? If you look on the development page, there are a number of people who have written tools that work with the akismet API (it's quite simple). Perhaps you could just pass the message part