Re: [WSG] Layout Problem: Floating Elements with different heights breaks the flow.

2007-02-22 Thread Christian Montoya
wouldn't be semantically correct... it's for things that aren't meant to be put in tables, but making it look like a table would acheive the visual effect you want. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com

Re: [WSG] Layout Problem: Floating Elements with different heights breaks the flow.

2007-02-21 Thread Christian Montoya
after every third item (count%3) will take only a couple lines of code, and is probably the lightest way to achieve this for what works today. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] site check in IE6 - c7designs.com

2007-02-18 Thread Christian Montoya
like I'm on a different site. Besides the footer text being incredibly tiny, the lack of alignment among the form elements makes it look like you just ignored designing that part of the site. IMO, you should at least use some floats to give it a bit of a grid appearance. -- -- Christian Montoya

Re: [WSG] OT? - spam in forms

2007-02-15 Thread Christian Montoya
I wrote here: http://www.christianmontoya.com/2007/02/12/captchas-are-getting-out-of-hand/ -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] print style sheet with dropdown menu

2007-02-11 Thread Christian Montoya
I followed when I designed a print stylesheet) is to remove the navigation completely, and just print the title of the page and the article. If users really want to print a sitemap, then you could just make a sitemap page! -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com

Re: [WSG] Books - CSS/Standards/Accessibility

2007-02-11 Thread Christian Montoya
, tell them to subscribe to this list. I was the only student in my web design class that kept up with WSG and CSS-D and I was always miles ahead of my classmates when it came to CSS and accessibility. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com

Re: [WSG] Avoid non valid css hacks

2007-02-10 Thread Christian Montoya
5 Win/Mac and IE 6. htmlbody is the easiest thing since you never know if someone might wrap another div around #container. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] Books - CSS/Standards/Accessibility

2007-02-09 Thread Christian Montoya
list. There seems to be a lot of printed material out there. Some of it has to shine above the rest. If you want to talk about accessibility, you may as well talk about usability: Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug is the book for that. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net

Re: [WSG] Books - CSS/Standards/Accessibility

2007-02-09 Thread Christian Montoya
list. There seems to be a lot of printed material out there. Some of it has to shine above the rest. Oh, almost forgot: Building Accessible Website by Joe Clark: http://joeclark.org/book/ -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com

Re: [WSG] No. abbreviation glyph

2007-02-08 Thread Christian Montoya
team for an explanation. Regardless, understanding a user's meaning in a single text input is always hard. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] is html done? [was semantics]

2007-02-08 Thread Christian Montoya
On 2/8/07, Geoff Pack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not an expert at any of this, btw. What do XHTML2 and HTML5 give us that we can't do with XML and CSS? Corporate support, to a degree. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com

Re: [WSG] is html done? [was semantics]

2007-02-08 Thread Christian Montoya
devil's advocate here, but only to show how absurd this is.) Welcome to web standards? -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe

Re: [WSG] slightly OT?: Web 2.0 explained in a short, moving video

2007-02-07 Thread Christian Montoya
but not the rest...??? -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL

Re: [WSG] Noobie: Padding-top, padding-bottom

2007-02-07 Thread Christian Montoya
{ color:#00; } (and did you know that font-size100% is usually the default, and line-height 1.0 does not readable text make... [most browsers default at 1.2]) etc... -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com

Re: [WSG] Usability Questions for Quicktime

2007-02-06 Thread Christian Montoya
is exactly why Sarah should go with Flash. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join

Re: [WSG] Form Widgets

2007-02-06 Thread Christian Montoya
similar. Camino, Opera and iCab for Mac behave like Safari. FF is the only one that is liberal with form controls. http://www.456bereastreet.com/lab/styling-form-controls-revisited/submit-button/ -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com

Re: [WSG] HR tag and Semantics

2007-02-05 Thread Christian Montoya
. I know new ideas have been proposed for future versions of (x)HTML, and one example would be XHTML 2 which has sections to separate parts of a page. That offers a lot more for semantics than just having hrs strewn about. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com

Re: [WSG] Usability Questions for Quicktime

2007-02-05 Thread Christian Montoya
never crashes. Regardless of which consumes more resources (and if Flash is slow you are doing it wrong), Flash is much more dependable. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] HR tag and Semantics

2007-02-05 Thread Christian Montoya
On 2/5/07, Kat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian Montoya wrote: On 2/5/07, Andrew Ingram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: one example would be XHTML 2 which has sections to separate parts of a page. That offers a lot more for semantics than just having hrs strewn about. What is the difference

Re: [WSG] Art and accessibility - my opinion ;)

2007-02-05 Thread Christian Montoya
example of an effective business site but it's a decent example of a progressively-enhanced Flash site. Let's not argue about its business merits... that's straying from the topic of web standards. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com

Re: [WSG] Art and accessibility - my opinion ;)

2007-02-02 Thread Christian Montoya
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Re: [WSG] Art and accessibility - my opinion ;)

2007-02-01 Thread Christian Montoya
, a bunch of sites that are pure art and completely inaccessible / hardly usable... what is your point? -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] Art and accessibility - my opinion ;)

2007-02-01 Thread Christian Montoya
On 2/1/07, Milosz A. Lodowski - New Media Designer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you define accessible ? pure text ? Not fair. You picked these sites, so you have to define your criteria. The ball is in your court to answer that question. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net

Re: [WSG] Art and accessibility - my opinion ;)

2007-02-01 Thread Christian Montoya
sense to me. Unfortunately it's not very compatible with screen readers. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] Art and accessibility - my opinion ;)

2007-02-01 Thread Christian Montoya
. Otherwise, I'm done with this thread. G'day. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join

Re: [WSG] Styling form elements in Safari

2007-01-31 Thread Christian Montoya
for that button on submit, it should work just fine. Forms with multiple buttons are impossible using the button tag in IE. A very helpful article here: http://www.digital-web.com/articles/push_my_button/ -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com

Re: [WSG] Creating link arrows/icons in css

2007-01-30 Thread Christian Montoya
... I would probably put the image at the beginning instead of the end. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] Standards War - HTML 5 vs XHTML 2.0

2007-01-27 Thread Christian Montoya
to learn everything all over again. It is a disappointing situation right now but at least there is work being done on all fronts. My $0.02: I'm looking forward to HTML 5 more. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com

Re: [WSG] IE layout problem

2007-01-27 Thread Christian Montoya
but not 100% of .main... Why does the table have 100% width? Why not auto width? If you are explicitly applying a width of 100% to the table, in the markup or the CSS, take it away. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com

Re: [WSG] Table and list problem

2007-01-26 Thread Christian Montoya
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Re: [WSG] css conventions

2007-01-25 Thread Christian Montoya
a div.container rule... but working without a .container rule at all is pointless. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] website checker

2007-01-23 Thread Christian Montoya
point 1 is a clue to what qualifies: navigation area == list preceded by a heading. No, I'm certain that area has to do with image maps. Since you don't have any, you get N/A. If you had one it would analyze it. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com

Re: [WSG] Average Page Sizes

2007-01-20 Thread Christian Montoya
, and at 56k speed a 300k homepage sounds like far too much. * http://tools.arantius.com/css-compressor -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] Average Page Sizes

2007-01-20 Thread Christian Montoya
personal pages or useful advice for a travel site trying to make money from as many people as possible? -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

[WSG] Opera problem, too much padding on first load

2007-01-17 Thread Christian Montoya
remember how to fix it. Any ideas? -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm

Re: [WSG] Logo and H1's

2007-01-16 Thread Christian Montoya
page doesn't quite work for them. Then again, it's not the main content of the page... maybe some users don't care if they can't see it at all. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] Shadows on a div?

2007-01-13 Thread Christian Montoya
to you, let me know and I'll try to put together an example. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] Shadows on a div?

2007-01-13 Thread Christian Montoya
On 1/13/07, Mihael Zadravec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/13/07, Christian Montoya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/13/07, Mihael Zadravec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/13/07, Tom Roper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, ... The problem I've got a the minute is I've built

Re: [WSG] Tabbed Navigation newspaper websites review

2007-01-12 Thread Christian Montoya
seem like the slick cool solution here, but it's very natural and predictable for users which means less time scratching heads and more time reading the actual articles, which is good for you. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com

Re: [WSG] Logo and H1's

2007-01-12 Thread Christian Montoya
rather than the title of the site, that's a much better option. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] Background images turned off? (was Visited Links and Accessibility)

2007-01-11 Thread Christian Montoya
, but backwards compatibility is always good for business. And that's all IMO. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] History of CSS Question

2007-01-11 Thread Christian Montoya
to format (X)HTML, I would have expected XML or something... Formatting it as XML sounds like a good idea for machines and would be nice as an alternative but I think the current format is much more convenient for writing CSS by hand. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com

Re: [WSG] Using em's as unit measure

2007-01-07 Thread Christian Montoya
) that is causing the difference in IE. Try the universal selector: * { margin:0; padding:0; } which should remove the discrepancy between browsers, and then go about eliminating margin and padding individually on different elements until you find the one that caused the problem. -- -- Christian Montoya

Re: [WSG] Does this hurt accessibility

2007-01-04 Thread Christian Montoya
, and there isn't much use to having a picture preview of a link you are hovering over. And as Matthew said, that sudden movement can be jarring for users. -- -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http

[WSG] liquid designs hall of fame round 2

2006-12-20 Thread Christian Montoya
the 5. If you have a moment feel free to visit and cast your vote: http://www.cssliquid.com/2006/news/vote-for-hall-of-fame-round-2/ If you have any comments you can comment on the site or send me an e-mail directly, no need to reply on-list. Thanks in advance. -- -- Christian Montoya

Re: [WSG] The Decline of Print Styles

2006-12-02 Thread Christian Montoya
, etc) with the fore-knowledge of variety of devices? If we have embraced a lack of control on screen, why not also embrace the lack of control for print? Print has its own standards, and while CSS has some capabilities for it, PDF is an accepted standard that works well. -- -- Christian Montoya

Re: [WSG] WebSite Feedback

2006-11-25 Thread Christian Montoya
, 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 that to work. Besides, Gmail may be fancy but I doubt it is very accessible. -- -- Christian Montoya

Re: [WSG] WebSite Feedback

2006-11-25 Thread Christian Montoya
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Re: [WSG] Forms in XHTML 1.1

2006-11-24 Thread Christian Montoya
, and that includes *all* inline elements within a form. You always have to do: form block level ... inlines ... /block /form Or you can do: form block ...inlines... /block block ...more inlines... /block /form I don't have a philosophical answer as to why, but that's the rule. -- -- Christian Montoya

Re: [WSG] WebSite Feedback

2006-11-22 Thread Christian Montoya
And the rest of those headers should be reserved for the internal pages. That way it isn't confusing to have a main page that claims to be 4 different pages. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... portfolio.christianmontoya.com

Re: [WSG] CSS resources for Graphic designers?

2006-11-14 Thread Christian Montoya
On 11/14/06, Barney Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do most people have ClearType turned off, though? Sadly, I see enough people without it to say that if it isn't on by default, they will never turn it on themselves. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com

Re: [WSG] Replacing target attribute in form

2006-11-13 Thread Christian Montoya
(with .. instead of .. /) and you'll never have to worry about maintaining any javascript hacks. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... portfolio.christianmontoya.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] CSS resources for Graphic designers?

2006-11-13 Thread Christian Montoya
Photoshop or ImageReady; those programs are for making graphics, not webpages. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... portfolio.christianmontoya.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

[WSG] semantics for a binary tree?

2006-11-12 Thread Christian Montoya
). My initial reaction was just, keep using the table. Thoughts? Thanks in advance. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... portfolio.christianmontoya.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] Font-sizing in quirksmode

2006-11-12 Thread Christian Montoya
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Re: [WSG] Replacing target attribute in form

2006-11-12 Thread Christian Montoya
have it redirect to a thank you page. Otherwise, a great solution is to stop trying to fake the standards and just use HTML 4.01... it's clean, well-supported, and it allows targets. No need to rely on Javascript for something that was never broken. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com

Re: [WSG] Replacing target attribute in form

2006-11-12 Thread Christian Montoya
On 11/12/06, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian Montoya wrote: Otherwise, a great solution is to stop trying to fake the standards and just use HTML 4.01... it's clean, well-supported, and it allows targets. XHTML 1.0 allows the target attribute too in the Transitional DOCTYPE

Re: [WSG] Synthetic speech is not only for the blind

2006-11-11 Thread Christian Montoya
serve your website with nonstandard table markup. It's like PDF generation; you don't *need* markup that's clean and semantic, just an expensive backend that will do all the work necessary to reformat the content into a PDF. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com

Re: [WSG] Font-sizing in quirksmode

2006-11-11 Thread Christian Montoya
. Let's just say font-sizes are problematic on these 120 dpi screens; and yes, I try to stick to Firefox for the consistent font sizing. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... portfolio.christianmontoya.com *** List

Re: [WSG] Font-sizing in quirksmode

2006-11-11 Thread Christian Montoya
On 11/11/06, Felix Miata [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006/11/11 22:17 (GMT-0500) Christian Montoya apparently typed: Some users (like me) considered that 20 pixel font default a bug (because the scaling is sooo bad) Please explain what you mean by bad scaling. What I meant was that you can

[WSG] zefrank on web developers

2006-11-10 Thread Christian Montoya
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Re: [WSG] Font-sizing in quirksmode

2006-11-09 Thread Christian Montoya
/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** You could use conditional comments, or just size the text in pixels... or find a way to remove those comments! -- -- Christian

Re: [WSG] best way to style the Tags?

2006-11-06 Thread Christian Montoya
. design (38) 6. movies (27) Without any styling at all, this conveys a lot more information than a tag cloud, the semantics are more straightforward, and the markup is much lighter. But this is all IMO; I'm open to what others have to say. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com

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

2006-11-06 Thread Christian Montoya
but can you please stop replying to this e-mail? It's SPAM and replying to it only clogs up the list. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... portfolio.christianmontoya.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] Rotten Standardistas

2006-11-03 Thread Christian Montoya
be lowering to their level, and besides these people tend to be able to create their own flame wars very easily by themselves! Yeah, I see that now. I guess there's no need to do any sorting, I was just concerned about us turning misunderstandings into serious disagreements. -- -- Christian Montoya

Re: [WSG] Are we turning the tide?

2006-11-03 Thread Christian Montoya
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Re: [WSG] Additional space between sentences ?

2006-11-03 Thread Christian Montoya
On 11/3/06, Nathan de Vries [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 04/11/2006, at 1:22 PM, Christian Montoya wrote: Because the solution (yes, solution for a silly problem) has to work when the document is PRINTED. That means that it has to be either a plain HTML or print CSS technique. When I open up

Re: [WSG] Rotten Standardistas [WAS: Articles/reasearch/experience of screen readers]

2006-11-02 Thread Christian Montoya
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Re: [WSG] Rotten Standardistas

2006-11-02 Thread Christian Montoya
On 11/2/06, Tony Crockford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian Montoya wrote: Otherwise I will just have to keep on assuming that these specters don't exist. There are one or two font-size fanatics that will accuse you of not respecting your users if you feel the need to set a font size other

Re: [WSG] IE 7 freezes liquid, jello

2006-11-02 Thread Christian Montoya
it what it is: a bug. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... portfolio.christianmontoya.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join

Re: [WSG] IE 7 freezes liquid, jello

2006-11-02 Thread Christian Montoya
the viewport, which is not how zoom works... both implementations have their issues, and a simple text-resizing feature would probably be helpful for both browsers. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... portfolio.christianmontoya.com

Re: [WSG] Standards sites with clever use of Flash?

2006-10-31 Thread Christian Montoya
remember, but not find again, was for an ISP (I think), had a web2.0-look with dark background and some cartoon-animated buttons. Allthough I'm looking for more than that. ~Eys Off the top of my head: http://www.dp3marketing.com/ -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com

Re: [WSG] Standards sites with clever use of Flash?

2006-10-31 Thread Christian Montoya
On 10/31/06, Christian Montoya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/31/06, Eystein Alnaes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To the list, I'm looking for webstandards/css complaint sites with flash in them. Clever flash, flash that looks Ajaxy, heavy good actionscripting, innovative menus, generic random

Re: [WSG] list-style: decimal

2006-10-31 Thread Christian Montoya
between the numbers and the text. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... portfolio.christianmontoya.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join

Re: [WSG] Flash is more accessible than CSS?

2006-10-29 Thread Christian Montoya
implemented though... it's sort of slow and choppy compared to highlighting basic HTML text, but it's there. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... portfolio.christianmontoya.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] Flash is more accessible than CSS?

2006-10-28 Thread Christian Montoya
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Re: [WSG] Accessible Multi-Column List

2006-10-26 Thread Christian Montoya
. Did you notice that Ryan's rollover, um, changes on roll-over? Not that any of this is on topic, so I'll leave it at that. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... portfolio.christianmontoya.com *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] DOM created table markup [was: Accessible Multi-Column List]

2006-10-26 Thread Christian Montoya
On 10/26/06, Thierry Koblentz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian Montoya wrote: On 10/26/06, Paul Novitski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10/26/2006 04:06 PM, Thierry Koblentz wrote: Paul Novitski wrote: If you haven't already, please read my List Apart article http://alistapart.com/articles

Re: [WSG] Image replaced rollovers

2006-10-26 Thread Christian Montoya
links is that Ryan's moving the background-image on :hover. The image replacement method is still the same. Oh ok, I get it now. Well, I imagine Ryan might have looked up Gilder-Levin at some point... but that's his call, not mine. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com

Re: [WSG] link:active = keyboard focus?

2006-10-26 Thread Christian Montoya
, trackball. Mice are silly. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... portfolio.christianmontoya.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join

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

2006-10-25 Thread Christian Montoya
directive didn't work in shtml pages (only include), but it *does*. I guess this is one more reason to never use htm or html, but at least shtml. No? What would be the reason for choosing htm or html for file extension? Youthful ignorance? -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com

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

2006-10-25 Thread Christian Montoya
the referrer, so you can easily validate any site as long as the link is in your browser. The day more and more features are provided by the browser and not by the website, the day the Internet moves forward. - me -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... portfolio.christianmontoya.com

Re: [WSG] accesibility lawsuit

2006-10-25 Thread Christian Montoya
? Then, as long as the sites fit those standards, then maybe it would be easier to assume that the screenreaders can understand them? Maybe these standards could be called, oh, I don't know... ... wait for it... webstandards? -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com

Re: [WSG] tabindex doesn't work

2006-10-24 Thread Christian Montoya
are tabbing through forms (first tab takes you to menu, not the next form field). -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... portfolio.christianmontoya.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

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

2006-10-24 Thread Christian Montoya
, very easy to do with PHP, for example, and just about any other decent scripting language. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... portfolio.christianmontoya.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] IE6 - IE7

2006-10-19 Thread Christian Montoya
to be much safer than IE 6? I mean, I know it probably won't be more stable, but safe? IE 6? Hmmm? -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... portfolio.christianmontoya.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] IE6 - IE7

2006-10-17 Thread Christian Montoya
for IE6. What would be the pros and cons of each method? I have a hunch (just a hunch) that the standalone of IE 6 will be more stable than that of IE 7. Don't know if it's true, but if it is, then you would probably be better off having IE 6 as a standalone. -- -- Christian Montoya

Re: [WSG] SiteAdvisor.com

2006-10-13 Thread Christian Montoya
rates whether or not pages are good, bad, or marginal, based on installation of spyware/adware, generating spam e-mails, etc. People *use* this? -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... portfolio.christianmontoya.com

Re: [WSG] SiteAdvisor.com

2006-10-13 Thread Christian Montoya
the option to send them complaints is not available yet...this is actually making me really mad. SiteAdvisor was founded in April 2005 by a group of MIT engineers I'm starting to wonder about those MIT engineering programs... -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com

Re: [WSG] can the legend include block level elements

2006-10-13 Thread Christian Montoya
or insert headers into the legend for the screen reader to generate the header-based navigation. I would ditch the legend and just use a header, unless some screenreaders would ignore it... then you would be in a difficult situation. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com

Re: [WSG] would someone tell me where

2006-10-13 Thread Christian Montoya
://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/images/vcss There should be more around the validator page: http://validator.w3.org/ -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... portfolio.christianmontoya.com *** List Guidelines: http

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

2006-10-12 Thread Christian Montoya
at what standard means to someone from the programming world. * I plan to move there soon. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... portfolio.christianmontoya.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

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

2006-10-11 Thread Christian Montoya
. Playing with CSS properties always works regardless of the tag, as long as it is a block by default in this case. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... portfolio.christianmontoya.com *** List Guidelines: http

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

2006-10-11 Thread Christian Montoya
and are static. One way or another, the problem is not with the DLs, and I can't imagine why the programmer *can't* do this with DLs at all. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... portfolio.christianmontoya.com *** List

Re: [WSG] swift - only windows browser with a webkit?

2006-10-10 Thread Christian Montoya
. Interesting. I had some problems with Swift and had to uninstall it. I think it had to do with the face that it's just too young and buggy right now. The live CD option sounds a lot better. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... portfolio.christianmontoya.com

Re: [WSG] *Pure* CSS drop down menu

2006-10-06 Thread Christian Montoya
sub-lists align left, which makes it very unintuitive when hovering over upper-items along the right. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... portfolio.christianmontoya.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] Bad Design Principles

2006-10-04 Thread Christian Montoya
totally different. In which case I would say: this will never market well... it does nothing at all for search engines which pretty much ruins the whole point of having an info/about us site like this. It's just too bad that the guys at Hanser got ripped off. -- -- Christian Montoya

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

2006-10-04 Thread Christian Montoya
room for improvement. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... portfolio.christianmontoya.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm

Re: [WSG] is DL deprecated? (was: looking for site-ot)

2006-10-04 Thread Christian Montoya
be the right thing, when there is clear columnar data and only one DD per DT. Which reminds me... I can think of one time that I was guilty of doing that. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... portfolio.christianmontoya.com

Re: [WSG] Bad Design Principles

2006-10-04 Thread Christian Montoya
On 10/4/06, Christian Montoya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/4/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Need I say anymore? www.hansermusicgroup.com Thoughts? ... this will never market well... it does nothing at all for search engines which pretty much ruins

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