further :-(
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/charset.html#h-5.2.2
[2] http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/syntax/1.2/
syntaxref1210.html#15653
[3] http://www.fiddlertool.com/fiddler/
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So any attempt to include markup just for screen readers is
doomed to failure - screen readers don't use markup.
Do screen readers reveal cover-ups ?
Example: http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/wd_chaos_14.html
I don't
On 14 Feb 2007, at 14:49:43, Nick Fitzsimons wrote:
On 15 Feb 2007, at 02:06:11, Michael MD wrote:
Do any screen readers support some kind of metadata or semantic
markup that could be used to embed such content in the page?
No, because screen readers never actually see the markup
On 14 Feb 2007, at 16:44:22, Nick Fitzsimons wrote:
To follow myself up with some hard facts:
OK, I've written up what is hopefully a factual and detailed account
of exactly what's going on with the display:none,
visibility:hidden and left:-px techniques, explaining what
removing the need for the br elements.
This should also help somewhat with the accessibility aspects of the
page.
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the MSIE that Opera includes in its default User Agent string and
decided to charge ahead with the IE version.
Bloody amateurs.
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on marquees
and in showtime listings as I Love Huckabees. This is most likely
because on all promotional material and in the film itself the title
is written with a heart symbol instead of the word heart.'
Perhaps the theater managers should have used a screenreader? ;-)
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Enjoy :-)
On the other hand, browser support is fairly restricted and can be
buggy, especially if you plan to use any DOM Scripting/Ajax type
stuff. For real-world usage, you're better off doing the
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and suchlike:
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On 29 Jan 2007, at 19:58:47, Paul Bennett wrote:
How does one go about finding out whether IE7 is rendering in
quirks or standards/strict mode?
Try this:
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[2] http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/onhavinglayout.html
[3] http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/
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2. Avoid using flyouts completely.
That gets my vote. They're irritating and a usability nightmare. If
clients ask for them it's our job to educate them out of such stupidity.
(Just my 0.02GBP.)
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on the above page, but the key thing
is to trigger hasLayout on the boxes with the creeping text. Try
setting zoom: 1; on them to avoid mucking anything else up (although
that won't fix it for IE6, IIRC).
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Of course, it would help if IE Mobile would stop honouring the
screen styles *as*well*as* the handheld styles...
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@Nick:
I think it's fair to conclude that we simply disagree!
I agree :-)
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It will allow you to walk through the DOM tree for your page;
hasLayout will show up in the Styles pane for all elements having
that most peculiar property.
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Nick Fitzsimons wrote:
On 13 Dec 2006, at 22:18:42, Rob O'Rourke wrote:
I need to get control of what hasLayout and what doesn't before I
can work out what's really going on.
Use Microsoft's IE Developer Toolbar's DOM Inspector:
http
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[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/guidelines.html#content-structure-
separation
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/Overview.html#content-
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Afraid not, the HTML element can only have lang and dir attributes:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/global.html#edef-HTML
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and it works, despite the fact that IE
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Dave Hyatt, who left Mozilla to become lead developer (or something -
don't know his actual title) on Safari, has blogged about it:
http://webkit.org/blog/?p=17
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extension property but, if it flags it as an error rather than a
warning, it's (IMHO) a flaw in the validator:
CSS implementations may not recognize such properties and may ignore
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Bad Thing(tm)
Mike
And there I was thinking the bt in bt.com stood for British
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Fixed it, at least on that browser; not sure what IE will do, but
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That helped to jolt them out of their print-centric attitudes and
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XHTML 1.0 Transitional and HTML 4.01 Transitional include the target
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From the XHTML 1.0 Transitional DTD: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/
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3-IE truncates the 62.5% to 62%:
http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/bugs/browsers/css/IE-Win/
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Just a quick note: this remains the case in IE 7.
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just before
h3 class=summary titleWeb Designer and Developer/h3
so it looks like something to do with the object referencing part
of the page via a URL hash.
As to why you're embedding the page in itself as an object, I really
can't guess...
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constraint on classes.
Therefore 12345 would be a valid class name, but not a valid id.
Oh, and both class and id are case sensitive, so fred and Fred
are different.
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followed by a digit.
Good point, Anders; Charles, please note this as a correction to the
relevant part of my own response to your original question.
I knew I should have double-checked with the CSS spec :-(
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Nick Fitzsimons wrote:
On 20 Oct 2006, at 13:42:51, Anders Nawroth wrote:
Be aware that there are different rules for class names in CSS
vs. HTML!
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#q6
Good point, Anders; Charles, please note
of WinXP
with IE6 and IE7, and also an install of Vista (just in case IE7
somehow behaves differently there). Once I find my Win2k CD, I can
have IE5 and 5.5 too, and I don't have to muck about with standalones
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microformat fits in perfectly with that. Those that want to target it
with CSS will have to be aware of the additional handling they need
to do to work with it according to spec; but that's Somebody Else's
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it is presumably neither. They do however specify
that it can only contain inline content:
!ELEMENT LEGEND - - (%inline;)* -- fieldset legend --
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Producing the image-laden markup server-side would defeat the entire
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Next week, how to do a calendar using unordered lists ;-)
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problem of having no text at all if images
are disabled by CSS isn't.
I don't see that problem occurring on the demo page http://
tjkdesign.com/articles/TIP_6.asp. If I disable images, I see the text.
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appeared for me: FF1.5.0.7, Web Developer toolbar 1.0.2, all on Mac
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against.
The definitions of the Document Type Declaration and associated
requirements might make this clearer:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/global.html#h-7.2
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#strict
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On 14 Sep 2006, at 06:32, Terrence Wood wrote:
On 14/09/2006, at 7:05 AM, Nick Fitzsimons wrote:
On 13 Sep 2006, at 18:46, Kenny Graham wrote:
Internet Explorer Mobile, for one, will load both screen and
handheld media types
Unless use specify Screen apparently.
Yes, I'd come across
will do it for you every time :-)
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for handhelds :-)
If it's for your own site then you might as well just do what works
for you, but if it's a commercial site, or something you're doing for
a client, I'm afraid you're in for a world of pain :-(
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(well, piece of text beginning with http:) doesn't go
anywhere. Did you mean http://cmsmadesimple.org/ by any chance?
It's always worth checking these things before sending them to a
large number of people ;-)
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done it before on your server platform.
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XP run it?
Here you are:
http://browsers.evolt.org/?ie/32bit/1.0 :-)
No idea if it runs on XP or not, although I wouldn't be surprised to
find it did - MS are pretty hot on backwards compatibility...
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and therefore it no longer leaves space for it.
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%block includes %list which includes OL and UL. Oddly enough, LI
appears to be neither block nor inline...
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It sounds like they don't actually understand what XHTML is or how to
produce it, they just want to believe they're using the latest cool thing.
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There is no equivalent for textarea:
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implementation in Beta 1. That version
had no CSS bug fixes whatsoever - they came in Beta 2.
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things like the validation errors, and they don't seem to have inspired
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I'm not sure what he's trying to achieve with markup like:
ulli/li/ul
Maybe it's me. Is the issue was that he had this empty UL sitting around in
his code or is there something wrong with this that I am too
-rule:evenodd; clip-rule:evenodd
viewBox=0 0 2.8e+006 2.11667e+006
xmlns:xlink=http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink;
Why Opera manages to shrink it down to a manageable size, I don't know,
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i repurposed the svg. firefox still doesn't get it but opera 9.01
renders it correctly. is there something i am missing?
dwain
Looking at it in the Firefox DOM Inspector shows it as having width
and height
tree view, select the elements in turn to see what the
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