Re: [WSG] A California meeting? was Brisbane July Meeting - Report

2004-07-19 Thread Andy Budd
Krassy wrote: San Diego, CA here...2 hours south of Marina Del Rey. Blimey, you must drive fast. I spent 2 days driving between San Diego and LA. Sure I did stop off on the way, but even so, 2 hours! Andy Budd http://www.message.uk.com/ * The

Re: [WSG] A California meeting? was Brisbane July Meeting - Report

2004-07-19 Thread rfaaberg
Maybe I'm missing the joke but yahoo maps shows SD to LA at around 125 miles. Push your ride to 70 mph and it's two hours max, excepting traffic. Sorry if I missed the joke. :-) Rick Faaberg Krassy wrote: San Diego, CA here...2 hours south of Marina Del Rey. Blimey, you must drive

Re: [WSG] A California meeting? was Brisbane July Meeting - Report

2004-07-19 Thread Andy Budd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe I'm missing the joke but yahoo maps shows SD to LA at around 125 miles. Push your ride to 70 mph and it's two hours max, excepting traffic. Sorry if I missed the joke. :-) No Joke. I just honestly thought SD was further away that that. I guess I was probably

[WSG] on holiday summer 2004

2004-07-19 Thread john rosbottom
2003 - 04 was a very busy year and nearly all my annual leave has accumulated to the end of the year. I will be on leave from 20 July to 31 August. I will not be reading email during this period but will catch up with you in September. This message is an auto-response posted 11 July 2004 to

Re: [WSG] RTF editor (like SOedit) for Macs?

2004-07-19 Thread Magnus
Check out Editize. It´s working in Safari, IE, Mozilla etc for OS X. http://www.editize.com / Magnus On 2004-07-19, at 07.41, Barry Beattie wrote: hi all is there an RTF editor that can run on a mac? if not in safari, then mozilla for OSX? the flash one kicking around is a bit feature thin thanx

RE: [WSG] Semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on a esthetics, web standards, and usability

2004-07-19 Thread Chatham, Will
I use Wordpress too on my personal Blog. After doing a lot of testing, I settled on it for it's ease of use and standards compliance. The only thing tricky I have found is that you have to be careful when you cut paste text into a blog entry. If there are any special characters, it will throw

RE: [WSG] Mac IE 5.2 and horizontally presented lis

2004-07-19 Thread Scott Reston
Thanks, Anton. Turned out that the thing that made the difference was giving the lis a width. The problem is that, since I'm using text, the lis don't have a set pixel width. Since all of my text is expressed in ems, I'm working on going back and defining margins and widths for those lis in

Re: [WSG] Semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on a esthetics, web standards, and usability

2004-07-19 Thread Chris Stratford
I have coded my own blog. www.neester.com took me about 4 days to et working. now its working great! I have added bbcode to make it simple for me to format. simply a [b] or [i]... URLs are auto converted etc... its perfect for me. i really HATE using pre-written code. I feel like such a

Re: [WSG] A California meeting? was Brisbane July Meeting - Report

2004-07-19 Thread Sean Corfield
On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 09:52:55 -0700, Tricia Fitzgerald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about a more central USA location like Chicago, IL? I suspect we'll end up having a whole bunch of regional meetings if this is going to happen at all. I'm in the Bay Area, California and Sacramento is *just*

RE: [WSG] Semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on a esthetics, web standards, and usability

2004-07-19 Thread Chatham, Will
I have coded my own blog. www.neester.com That's nice. But for those of us who don't have time, don't wish to reinvent the wheel, are not necessarily interested in learning that much programming, and wish to support a standards-based open source community effort, packages such as Wordpress are

RE: [WSG] A California meeting? was Brisbane July Meeting - Report

2004-07-19 Thread Nancy Johnson
Being from Boston, I can see attending a New England regional meeting every few months. I noticed people from Massachusetts, VT, CT, and Maine on the list, I cannot see flying to Chicago on a regular basis. Nancy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

[WSG] Re: Does a CSS file load all graphics or only page relevant ones?

2004-07-19 Thread Mike Foskett
Hi all, Does anyone happen to know exactly when a graphic is loaded from a CSS description? E.G. Assuming different files for: XHTML and CSS. XHTML: Page1.html only uses #bannerpage1 Page2.html only uses #bannerpage2 When Page1 is first loaded it loads the global CSS which contains:

Re: [WSG] Re: Does a CSS file load all graphics or only page relevant ones?

2004-07-19 Thread Chris Stratford
I cannot provide any proof of this. but I believe it would only load it when its displayed. the CSS wont parse and execture BANNERPAGE2, unless its caled from Page2.HTML I always thought of CSS as a list of SUBROUTINES, and the HTML is the Class calling the subroutines... if there is no need to

RE: [WSG] A California meeting? was Brisbane July Meeting - Report

2004-07-19 Thread Ted Drake
If there were a california meeting, my vote goes for L.A. Sacramento, is well, Sacramento. Not exactly my idea of a place to visit and spend an extra day. San Francisco is great, but expensive. L.A. is more central, has plenty of room, and can be affordable. Of course, if my job covered the

Re: [WSG] A California meeting? was Brisbane July Meeting - Report

2004-07-19 Thread Tricia Fitzgerald
I'm in Idaho and San Francisco would get my vote for a California meeting location. On Jul 19, 2004, at 9:34 AM, Ted Drake wrote: If there were a california meeting, my vote goes for L.A. Sacramento, is well, Sacramento. Not exactly my idea of a place to visit and spend an extra day. San

RE: [WSG] A California meeting? was Brisbane July Meeting - Repor t

2004-07-19 Thread Grossman, Susan
Title: RE: [WSG] A California meeting? was Brisbane July Meeting - Report Now that's not very nice. Sacramento has lots to offer and is close to Folsom Lake, Lake Tahoe, lots of national forests and state parks, has the best farmer's markets in the state, doesn't have the traffic and

[WSG] Re: Does a CSS file load all graphics or only page relevant ones?

2004-07-19 Thread Kim Brooks Wei
Mike, I believe you're mixing your metaphors here. CSS are descriptions, as you say. Therefor, CSS contains no images. It merely identifies the images which will be utilized in particular situations and references their location so the browser can go and find the particular image being called.

Re: [WSG] Re: Does a CSS file load all graphics or only page relevant ones?

2004-07-19 Thread Justin French
On 20/07/2004, at 2:03 AM, Chris Stratford wrote: I cannot provide any proof of this. but I believe it would only load it when its displayed. the CSS wont parse and execture BANNERPAGE2, unless its caled from Page2.HTML I too believe this is the way it's *intended* to work, although there are

RE: [WSG] Re: Does a CSS file load all graphics or only page relevant ones?

2004-07-19 Thread Dan Webb
Surely you can just test by pointing a CSS file at some kind of simple server that echos to the console whenever it gets a request. If you ran it on your local machine it should be reasonably accurate. I've got a little java HTTP mirror server thing you could use actually.

Re: [WSG] Re: Does a CSS file load all graphics or only page relevant ones?

2004-07-19 Thread Lea de Groot
On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 16:42:18 +0100, Mike Foskett wrote: Does anyone happen to know exactly when a graphic is loaded from a CSS description? Its browser dependent - each one will be different. I'm told that Safari 1.0 grabbed all the images in the css when the file was loaded, but this has

[WSG] Ten quick tests to check your web site for accessibility

2004-07-19 Thread russ - maxdesign
Ten quick tests to check your web site for accessibility http://www.accessify.com/tutorials/ten-quick-tests.asp Russ * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on

Re: [WSG] A California meeting? was Brisbane July Meeting - Report

2004-07-19 Thread Lachlan Hardy
Sean Corfield wrote: Question to Peter - is the city/state level membership information available in aggregate so we can figure out what might work for regional US meetings? Well, I wouldn't dare speak for Peter, but the member location list he indicated previously in this discussion -

[WSG] aDesigner

2004-07-19 Thread Tim Shortt
Has anyone had a chance to try IBM's aDesigner, and if so, what are your thoughts? Tim * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting

[WSG] Underlining tabbed to links

2004-07-19 Thread Ben Cameron
Hi all, I have been trying to get a link to underline and change colour when tabbed to. I succeeded in getting the link to change colour when tabbed over, but try as I might, it won't underline it. I've tried all the normal methods with text-decoration:underline and different link pseudo class

Re: [WSG] Underlining tabbed to links

2004-07-19 Thread russ - maxdesign
Hi Ben, Please send the list a sample url so that people can see exactly what you have done and will then be better informed to help you. Russ Hi all, I have been trying to get a link to underline and change colour when tabbed to. I succeeded in getting the link to change colour when

Re: [WSG] Underlining tabbed to links

2004-07-19 Thread Chris Stratford
I believe it only really works in IE. and only when TABBING forward, not backward (SHIFT+TAB) You need to set the: a:active { } atrribute russ - maxdesign wrote: Hi Ben, Please send the list a sample url so that people can see exactly what you have done and will then be better informed

Re: [WSG] Underlining tabbed to links

2004-07-19 Thread Steven . Faulkner
This method works in IE 6/ netscape 7/ mozilla 1.3 (requires use of javascript event handlers) a href=contrast.html style=text-decoration:none; onfocus=this.style.textDecoration='underline' onblur=this.style.textDecoration='none'Reduced Contrast Simulation/a | a href=test.html