Re: [WSG] RE: OT? - spam in forms: use beyesian filters!

Chris, We're not talking about general email spam, we are talking about spam that is submitted through forms - potentially to other people if auto-responders are involved. James On 2/16/07, Chris Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This seems just insane. I use akismet for the web site, exc

Re: [WSG] RE: OT? - spam in forms: use beyesian filters!

d email will think you don't exist. I discovered that some of the spammers allow a small window which you can return email to them as bounced but after some time that return email address will not work. That's about most of what I know to prevent spam and exploits of my mail system. T

Re: [WSG] RE: OT? - spam in forms: use beyesian filters!

but if I don't find a good alternative soon I might also be forced to use them as the spambots out there get smarter and more capable to getting around basic obsticles like form fields being named differently or checks on ips. This was me 6 months ago ^ I just had to give in to using a CAPTCH

Re: [WSG] OT? - spam in forms

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 p

Re: [WSG] OT? - spam in forms

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 ran

Re: [WSG] OT? - spam in forms

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 t

Re: [WSG] History of CSS Question

Here here to nested declarations On 1/12/07, Andrew Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Christian Montoya wrote: > By whacky you mean lovely, correct? Can I just go on the record for > saying that I think the format is wonderful? > >> For something being used to format (X)HTML, I would have expec

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

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 cu

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

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 thin

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

e: as soon as you change the background color of a button, 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

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

oes not seem valid to me. Mike -- *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&#x

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

Here's one for you. OK, we are all in agreement that its not a good idea to change the default cursor. But even Krug's "Don't Make Me Think" has a pointer (the finger cursor) hovering over a button on the front cover of his book - yet in IE and Firefox buttons have the cursor. Personally I thin

Re: [WSG] Stylesheet problem

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: @import "/css/styles.c

Re: [WSG] Styling Dynamic Text Replacement

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? > > This is a nifty technique, cer

Re: [WSG] Styling Dynamic Text Replacement

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? CK *

Re: [WSG] WebSite Feedback

but being accused by you On 11/25/06, 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 someo

Re: [WSG] WebSite Feedback

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 wa

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

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 you

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

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 designe

Re: [WSG] Correct markup for a chat board?

*frowns* On 10/24/06, Lachlan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: morten fjellman wrote:> Hi list,> I'm marking up a chat board, and I'm wondering how I should tag the actual > message? The message would typically be:> NickName says:> Ain't this cool?>> I was thinking a DL, like this:>> > NickName