Re: [WSG] page loads in safari and then jumps to the middle

2006-11-03 Thread James Crooke
Nice page Rob, I like the scrolling mark-up. On 11/3/06, Rob O'Rourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello there, I've been putting my CV together but I don't have a mac for testing,a friend of mine who does said that when the page loads up in safari it immediately jumps to where it says 'Web designer

Re: [WSG] Your email requires verification verify#ClzcCtK3WXzb3aIZxmdB6mR5lyC4TsGV

2006-11-06 Thread James Crooke
doh On 11/6/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The message you sent requires that you verify that youare a real live human being and not a spam source. To complete this verification, simply reply to this message and leavethe subject line intact.The headers of the message sent from your

Re: [WSG] WebSite Feedback

2006-11-25 Thread James Crooke
Everyone should use Gmail, it would solve annoyances 1 to 4. On 11/25/06, Tee G. Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 22, 2006, at 3:36 AM, Luke wrote: I would like to remind you that there is a advertisement in you e-mail signature. Your message implied that the message from Marvin was a

Re: [WSG] WebSite Feedback

2006-11-25 Thread James Crooke
, James Crooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everyone should use Gmail, it would solve annoyances 1 to 4. Actually, the way to solve annoyance 4 is to change your attitude. Telling someone to change their e-mail client is like telling someone to change their browser, and we all know you can't expect

Re: [WSG] Styling Dynamic Text Replacement h#

2006-11-26 Thread James Crooke
They can't, the php code is rendering an anti aliased font to a PNG image - that's all. On 11/26/06, CK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, This technique is most useful, however how can styles override the hard-coded PHP? http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dynatext CK

Re: [WSG] Styling Dynamic Text Replacement h#

2006-11-27 Thread James Crooke
sifr is a great technique! On 11/26/06, J.D. Welch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 26, 2006, at 06:00 AM, CK wrote: Hi, This technique is most useful, however how can styles override the hard-coded PHP? http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dynatext This is a nifty technique, certainly,

Re: [WSG] Stylesheet problem

2006-12-02 Thread James Crooke
Hi Carolyn, This sounds like very strange behaviour. How are you linking to your stylesheet? You should use the following markup to make sure that no matter how deep you are in the sites directory structure, browsers will always look for the CSS file in the virtual path: style type=text/css

Re: [WSG] Using cursor:default; on the whole page but links

2007-01-11 Thread James Crooke
-- *From:* listdad@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *James Crooke *Sent:* Wednesday, January 10, 2007 11:26 PM *To:* wsg@webstandardsgroup.org *Subject:* Re: [WSG] Using cursor:default; on the whole page but links Here's one for you. OK, we are all in agreement that its

Re: [WSG] Using cursor:default; on the whole page but links

2007-01-11 Thread James Crooke
, you have broken the XP themed hover state. Regards James On 1/11/07, Barney Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Patrick Lauke wrote: James Crooke We have conducted usability testing on 100's of sites and my argument is that when you hover over a button and nothing happens, users sometimes

Re: [WSG] Using cursor:default; on the whole page but links

2007-01-11 Thread James Crooke
about. I apologise for not knowing my cursor history. I'd rather not argue over an opinion - I have statistics to do that for me. Cheers guys. On 1/11/07, Nick Fitzsimons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11 Jan 2007, at 12:53:59, James Crooke wrote: So what does everyone think would suit a clickable

Re: [WSG] Using cursor:default; on the whole page but links

2007-01-11 Thread James Crooke
P.S For those that are interested: http://www.kare.com - it's an interesting site! On 1/11/07, James Crooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I thought Microsoft were the first to come up with the different cursor styles. I thought that when Susan Kare (designer of the cursors http

Re: [WSG] OT? - spam in forms

2007-02-13 Thread James Crooke
Bob, I'm not sure how hard your Captcha code is to programatically recognise, but make sure that your not relying on sessions like this: if($_SESSION['captcha_code'] == $_POST['user_code']) because a robot spammer won't create a session, so its like comparing to if they enter nothing in the

Re: [WSG] OT? - spam in forms

2007-02-14 Thread James Crooke
I disagree, Captchas are accessible - providing you supply an audio alternative of course. On 2/15/07, Michael MD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I seem to be going through a spate of getting spam in a form on one of my sites (the one in the link, below, actually.) So I tried using PHP to randomly

Re: [WSG] OT? - spam in forms

2007-02-15 Thread James Crooke
I think it's safe to say that blind AND deaf people surfing with braille devices are a very small minority, and very aware of the limitations of their system. When you target this disabilities group, I guess you have to take the risk of spamming and NOT use CAPTCHA. Again, it comes down to the