[WSG] First table-free site - part 2

2004-06-20 Thread Mary Wright
Thanks to the help of other list members, my new website is coming along nicely, but now I have another question. See www.zebragraphics.co.uk/newzebra/pages/brochures/babtaca5.html for a sample page from the portfolio section of the site. I have tried and failed to come up with a way of

RE: [WSG] First table-free site - part 2

2004-06-20 Thread Iain Gardiner
Hi Mary, I would suggest wrapping the two paragraphs in a division and floating it right. So something like: div id=content h2BABTAC - br British Association of Beauty Therapy and Cosmetology/h2 div id=descr p8pp A5 membership application brochure. /p

[WSG] font-family support

2004-06-20 Thread Lea de Groot
I designed a site recently, and I put the main content block in serif. I do not care, I thought, what particular serif this appears in - let it default to the users chosen serif. And that 0.1% of users who have actually defined a preferred, obscure serif may be pleased :) But. I had

Re: [WSG] Disabilities Survey (was: Re: Accessibililty and the positioning of navigation)

2004-06-20 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
Mordechai Peller wrote: Before meeting David I always read that navigation should be last I nthe source. I asked David this when he came to talk to the WSG recently and he said emphatically: The navigation should go before the content. This proves once again the difficulty of perfect

Re: [WSG] font-family support

2004-06-20 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Jun 20, 2004, at 9:54 pm, Lea de Groot wrote: I designed a site recently, and I put the main content block in serif. I do not care, I thought, what particular serif this appears in - let it default to the users chosen serif. And that 0.1% of users who have actually defined a

[WSG] Tim Berners-Lee - Keeping Web Universal

2004-06-20 Thread Tim Shortt
Thought this might interest the group: http://www.iht.com/articles/525584.html * 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] Accessibililty and the positioning of navigation

2004-06-20 Thread Nico Morgan
Thank you all for your comments. It's interesting to read that everyone has their own slightly different take on the subject so I will go with the flow and try to cover as many bases as possible! Nico * The discussion list for

Re: [WSG] Disabilities Survey

2004-06-20 Thread Anders Nawroth
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: One question had me wondering of late: do screen readers read the link element in the head, do they 'see' this as a link in their list ? Examples: link rel=bookmark href=#contents title=Read the article / !-- points to the contents area -- link rel=bookmark

[WSG] IE ABBR tag

2004-06-20 Thread Luc
Hello list, Somehow my abbr tag doesn't seem to work in IE. Is it my system or is there really something wrong? http://www.dzinelabs.com/projects/newdzine.php -- Best regards, Luc http://www.dzinelabs.com Powered by The Bat! version 2.11 with Windows 2000

Re: [WSG] IE ABBR tag

2004-06-20 Thread Ian Main
Hi Luc, IE windows doesn't support abbr. Here is a couple of ways to solve the issue. http://www.sovavsiti.cz/css/abbr.html http://www.jasonkarldavis.com/scripts/abbrhack/ Ian www.e-lusion.com Hello list, Somehow my abbr tag doesn't seem to work in IE. Is it my system or is there

RE: [WSG] Site Check / Improvements

2004-06-20 Thread Michael Andrews
Hi Sarah , Nice site. Just had a quick look and the only thing I picked was no-text re-sizing in IE6. Have you tried using ems. Michael From: Sarah Peeke (XERT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WSG] Site Check / Improvements Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004

RE: [WSG] invalid xhtml

2004-06-20 Thread Andrew Sione Taumoefolau
Hi Patrick, or you could convert it to xhtml 1.0 strict, which *may* still be sent as text/html XHTML 1.0 strict is still XML, which means that you should not send it as text/html. Hey look! Angels, on the head of that pin! :) Cheers, Andrew