Re: [Rails-spinoffs] Re: Text sizing

2006-07-06 Thread Andrew Tetlaw
On 07/07/06, Eric Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Seems to me the 76% and em sizing solution is a hack. The person who developed that hack took 250 screenshots to find just the right way to achieve the results they were after. I admire the use of experimentation but I doubt it is maintainable

Re: [Rails-spinoffs] Tab Panes - IE layout issues fixed

2006-07-06 Thread Justin Chen
Very cool stuff.  How do you make the AJAX call correlate to an actual tab click rather than an external link?JustinOn 5/2/06, Marco M. Jaeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Layout issues in IE should be fixed: http://net4visions.com/dev/tabs/tabs.html There still some css issues in Oper

RE: [Rails-spinoffs] JavaScript Compression

2006-07-06 Thread Martinez, Andrew
How aboutnot reviving week old posts. Just let them go Jeremy, just let them go. -Andrew Martinez -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Maninder, Singh Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 12:56 PM To: rails-spinoffs@lists.rubyonrails.org Subject: RE

RE: [Rails-spinoffs] JavaScript Compression

2006-07-06 Thread Maninder, Singh
Jeremy on fire! :)) ___ Rails-spinoffs mailing list Rails-spinoffs@lists.rubyonrails.org http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-spinoffs

Re: [Rails-spinoffs] JavaScript Compression

2006-07-06 Thread Jeremy Kitchen
On Monday 26 June 2006 07:40, Sam wrote: > Can JavaScript files be gzip'ed in advance, stored on a server and > delivered reliably to all browsers? Any browser exceptions? apache's mod_gzip allows this functionality. -Jeremy -- Jeremy Kitchen ++ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pirate-party.us/ -

Re: [Rails-spinoffs] iframe ... does it have an innerHTML ?

2006-07-06 Thread Jeremy Kitchen
On Wednesday 28 June 2006 07:53, Martinez, Andrew wrote: > Most people agree, that creating textNodes is the correct way to handle > adding text to a DOM node. Other than that here are the arguments: > > Using innerHTML: you could use innerHTML += "my text" to append text as well > and that will ju

Re: [Rails-Spinoffs] Autocompleter without a default choice

2006-07-06 Thread Jeremy Kitchen
On Thursday 29 June 2006 01:06, Scott Fortmann-Roe wrote: > Hi, > > I have an ajax auto completer for a text field in a form. All's good. > > Unfortunately, I also want the form to be submitted when the user hits > 'return' in the text field. > > This combination of circumstances means that if the

Re: [Rails-spinoffs] Event.observe for href

2006-07-06 Thread Jeremy Kitchen
On Wednesday 28 June 2006 14:12, Sam wrote: > > I'd like to have an onclick triggered by a href, but since href's > > don't have id's, how do I use the Event.observe syntax with an href? > > Just put an ID on the href. It's allowed. or, if you feel like finding the element some other way, use tha

Re: [Rails-spinoffs] Event.observe

2006-07-06 Thread Jeremy Kitchen
On Wednesday 28 June 2006 13:00, Keith Davis wrote: > I figured out what the problem is. I thought JavaScript watched the ID > not the name. err... well document.getElementById() on any *sane* browser uses the ID attribute. on IE, it uses the name as well. Go figure. 2 + 2 = 5 for very long v

RE: [Rails-spinoffs] Text sizing

2006-07-06 Thread Bauser, Joseph (Joe)
Anderson, Eric wrote: > I understand companies have policies about installing unapproved 3rd > party software. But most sane companies should have some channel to get > software approved that is needed. If they have hired a disabled person > who has low vision problems and they are unwilling to

Re: [Rails-spinoffs] dynamic generation of iframes and writing to them

2006-07-06 Thread Jeremy Kitchen
On Monday 03 July 2006 15:27, Seth Dillingham wrote: > > document.write should die a slow, horrible, painful death. Please avoid > > using it at all costs. > > Which, of course, would make Scriptaculous.require die along with it. ;-) yes, I'm aware it uses document.write, but it has a good reason

RE: [Rails-spinoffs] Text sizing

2006-07-06 Thread Sam
> Default font sizes: Firefox 18px, IE 16pt. This amounts to about 2px of > difference in the defaults > Setting body {font-size:12px} (or any fixed size) will set both IE and > Firefox identical display sizes. To avoid diminishing the accessibility, a > user control should be provided on the pa

[Rails-spinoffs] Re: Text sizing

2006-07-06 Thread Eric Anderson
Bauser, Joseph (Joe) wrote: time. However, what about a web based application which a user may use at work and may not be given the option of having Firefox installed on their provided computers? (As is the case with a few of my co-workers in the past). I understand companies have policies abou

RE: [Rails-spinoffs] Re: Text sizing

2006-07-06 Thread Sam
I'm not sure I understand this rational. It seems like the correct method for making a font the same size across all browsers is to used a fixed font size (px or pt). Under these situations IE is not accessible. This to me seems like a fine situation and no additional user control should be ne

RE: [Rails-spinoffs] Re: Text sizing

2006-07-06 Thread Bauser, Joseph (Joe)
This is an excellent point, but I part of your rational. You state that this is like providing an audio recording for the website. I'd argue that the recording exists and not making these small sacrifices is like denying it to the impaired. As designers the responsibility is ours to make sure th

[Rails-spinoffs] Re: Text sizing

2006-07-06 Thread Eric Anderson
Sam wrote: Setting the css body {font-size: 12px} or {font-size: 12pt} will cause IE to disable the browser's "View Text Size" control. I guess this is why percentages are preferred over px/pt in CSS-only solutions. (Crippling the view text-size reduces the accessibility for persons with poor v