Re: [WSG] UK Standardistas - PAS 78

2006-04-03 Thread Nick Cowie
Joe Clark did and he blogged about it http://blog.fawny.org/2006/03/21/pas78/ as only Joe can ;-)-- Nick Cowie http://nickcowie.com

Re: [WSG] IE 7 beta 2 and IE6 Standalone

2006-04-28 Thread Nick Cowie
TeeI have been running IE7 beta 2 and IE6 Standalone on XP SP2 AMD PC without a problem. IE7 beta 2 worked like a charm and I only used IE6 (along with IE4, IE5 and IE5.5) for site testing. So I have not pushed IE6 too hard, just for testing sites locally and a couple of sites. I will check the

Re: [WSG] Australian Govt guidelines

2006-05-08 Thread Nick Cowie
I'm looking for some australian govt accessibility guidelines - both disability wise and other cases like content management for dial up connection speed etc.You didn't specify FedGov, so I thought I'd throw this at you:The VicGov Acessibility Toolkit

Re: [WSG] CSS problem

2006-05-11 Thread Nick Cowie
JohnGiven your fluid layout, the only way to stop the input boxes breaking out is to give them a relative width (ie relative to their container)input: { width: 85%;} works in FF on a PC-- Nick Cowiehttp://nickcowie.com

Re: [WSG] Goals for FF Text Zoom?

2006-05-22 Thread Nick Cowie
Other than being totally pig headed and building sites that will not break not matter what the level of text zoom.As a rule of thumb, I am with Gunlaug All resizing steps in IE/win. 8 - 10 steps (or 200%) in Mozilla / Firefox, Safari and Opera I don't worry too much about smallest is IE, but it

Re: [WSG] HELP: Disappearing text and other problems in IE

2006-05-25 Thread Nick Cowie
A lot of your problems relate to using relative font sizes (you use % for font size) and expecting them to line up neatly over an image when you use pixels to size your images. Warren is right just quickly - I can see that you have position:absolute - but u dont specifiy a position WHERE. also -

Re: [WSG] Accessibility standards - for commercial consumption

2006-05-27 Thread Nick Cowie
Gian Sampson-Wild wrote: - WCAG 2.0 has *not* been released yet. Success criteria such as parsedunambiguously and baseline may change significantly before then. I would notrecommend completing any work until WCAG 2.0 has been released as a W3C RecommendationAgreed we need to wait, but if WCAG 2.0

Re: [WSG] Pixel Perfect

2006-06-04 Thread Nick Cowie
Adobe Acrobat has the ability to capture a website as a pdf documentWhen I last used it with Acrobat 4 in about 2001, it's rendering engine then was quite different to other browsers at the time (IE5 and NN4.7). The differences that your client is seeing is probably due to differences in

Re: [WSG] Pixel Perfect

2006-06-05 Thread Nick Cowie
Bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quote:The differences that your client is seeing is probably due to differencesin rendering engine. ie the Adobe engine is not standard compliant. Is great info!!!**I should of written:The differences that your

Re: [WSG] Why is Border Getting Eaten

2006-06-06 Thread Nick Cowie
If you float div#pagebody the border will returnAn element that contain floated elements must be floated to retain their height. Hopefully somebody can explain it fully (and better than that). -- Nick Cowiehttp://nickcowie.com **The discussion

Re: [WSG] Pixel Perfect

2006-06-09 Thread Nick Cowie
Adobe Acrobat has the ability to capture a website as a pdf documentWhen I last used it with Acrobat 4 in about 2001, it's rendering engine then was quite different to other browsers at the time (IE5 and NN4.7). The differences that your client is seeing is probably due to differences in

Re: [WSG] Can it be done?

2006-06-29 Thread Nick Cowie
You can make your flash object fluid by providing a % width via CSS. Unfortunately it does have one problem, you need to provide the flash object with both a width and height to keep it proportional.However it is not impossible, go to my blog, a couple of posts

Re: [WSG] Centering forms

2006-06-29 Thread Nick Cowie
From a quick look at the code:It has to do with the float: left; on input and label elements. (it is to do with floated block elements and non-floated parents)I would say the 1px margin around #contorno is actually only a single line. The quick fix is add another div to contain #contorno, lets

Re: [WSG] Re: what do you use instead of embed

2006-07-10 Thread Nick Cowie
Personally I use a little bit of _javascript_ to handle the eolas patent in IE and the does not have flash alternative content issue, SWFobject is my personal choice. An equally good alternative is Unobtrusive Flash Objects-- Nick Cowiehttp://nickcowie.com

Re: [WSG] help needed with position of text links

2006-07-10 Thread Nick Cowie
On 11/07/06, Germ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but i was wondering if there was another better css way??? use padding, padding: top right bottom left;note : after padding, which is missing in your CSSpadding: 1px 10px 1px 1px; will get the text 10px from the right edge, (note box model problems with

Re: [WSG] Displaying page in different resolutions

2006-07-27 Thread Nick Cowie
screen. -- Nick Cowie http://nickcowie.com **The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help**

Re: [WSG] Displaying page in different resolutions

2006-07-27 Thread Nick Cowie
Tom wrote:How about this then: http://www.positioniseverything.net/articles/jello-expo.htmlIt works well for the normal computer monitors 800px, 1024px and even 1280px wide monitors at 72dpi or 96dpi. It is what happens when you try and view them on a WXGA 15.4 screens which are 1680 pixels wide

Re: [WSG] Form playing havoc with nav (maybe)

2006-08-17 Thread Nick Cowie
SeonaIt is out of alignment for me on IE6 on Win2k.No idea why, except it looks like IE does not want to play with ul#nav being absolutely positioned. Suggestion position it relative by using float: right; and a margin. -- Nick Cowiehttp://nickcowie.com

Re: [WSG] Safari doesn't like transparent flash

2006-10-22 Thread Nick Cowie
Safari is not to blame it is the Mac (and also Linux) versions of the flash plugins. You get the same results with Firefox on OsX, when overlaying HTML over flash 50% of the time flash appears above, the other 50% of the time below the HTML no matter which one has the higher z-index or is last in

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

2006-10-28 Thread Nick Cowie
The article appear based around one person, Leonie Watson opinions and they are very different to mine and probably most people on this list. Leonie Watson quote about CSSHowever, that's quite a new technology, it's only been around a couple of years, and a lot of designers are still very wary of

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

2006-10-28 Thread Nick Cowie
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Re: [WSG] Standards sites with clever use of Flash?

2006-10-31 Thread Nick Cowie
The best I can offer is one that use flash for vector images and scales depending on the width of your browser window. (try a few size c=variations)http://nickcowie.com/It is a proof of concept and there are some problems anybody not using a windows flash player (ie Mac or *nix). More details

[WSG] An alternative to browsercam

2006-11-01 Thread Nick Cowie
Screenshots of a site of your choosing of from various browsers and it is freehttp://browsershots.orgvia D. Keith Robison -- Nick Cowiehttp://nickcowie.com ***List Guidelines:

Re: [WSG] CSS resources for Graphic designers?

2006-11-13 Thread Nick Cowie
It is all dependant on how willing your graphic designer is to let go of certain features of their design. (ie font choice on menu items).It works a lot easier if you have website guidelines and/or corporate style guide. (I had four - State Government website guidelines, State Government style

Re: [WSG] Firefox and flash -missing border

2006-11-21 Thread Nick Cowie
Bruce It looks exactly the same for me in FF2 and IE6 on W2k. Is you problem with FF on a Mac or *nix box? because their flashplayer works differently. -- Nick Cowie http://nickcowie.com *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] Does this hurt accessibility

2007-01-04 Thread Nick Cowie
Read http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/12/29/wordpresscom-please-stop-using-snap-preview/ Lorelle gives couple of examples of how it impacts on low vision users. -- Nick Cowie http://nickcowie.com *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] ainput//a - how wrong?

2007-01-09 Thread Nick Cowie
, they are js files for ie only. If you turn of js all javascript, .htc .js and inline stops working. 7 I have never had problems with hover.htc and IE5, 5.5 and 6 on windows. -- Nick Cowie http://nickcowie.com *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] 3 questions: flash, aimg and Ad Sense

2007-01-11 Thread Nick Cowie
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Re: [WSG] Images enlarging themselves

2007-01-11 Thread Nick Cowie
#img li img and add it to ul#img li should fix the problem -- Nick Cowie http://nickcowie.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help

Re: [WSG] Re: 3 questions: flash, aimg and Ad Sense

2007-01-11 Thread Nick Cowie
put the logo in a iframe and that should fix it. I thought iframe was deprecated in xhtml strict. I think it is too However, I think it is the only way to get flash to play fair, so looks like it will have to be html 4.01 strict or xhtml transitional -- Nick Cowie http://nickcowie.com

Re: [WSG] Styling form elements in Safari

2007-01-31 Thread Nick Cowie
you much more control. See http://nickcowie.com/presentation/s5-button.html for more details. The downside with the the button element is you have to more work to get IE to play right. -- Nick Cowie http://nickcowie.com *** List

Re: [WSG] Form Widgets

2007-02-07 Thread Nick Cowie
work for IE on PC If you want to compare what differences apply with Safari, Camino and Opera on Mac with input and button type=submit see slides 3 to 7 of http://nickcowie.com/presentation/s5-button.html -- Nick Cowie http://nickcowie.com