Re: [WSG] Web standards presentation

2005-05-22 Thread tee
Hi Mike, this is such a creative and entertaining way to introduce web standards. Kudos! Will the site be permanent? I have bookmarked it and hope to show to potential clients when explanation of web standards is needed and let them understand web standards is important for their sites. tee

[WSG] best way to approach markup of an address

2005-05-22 Thread Bruce Gilbert
for an address, which way is best address 1st linebr / 2nd linebr / 3rd linebr / /address or address1st line/address address2nd line/address address3rd line/address TIA! -- ::Bruce:: ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/

Re: [WSG] best way to approach markup of an address

2005-05-22 Thread Juergen Auer
On 22 May 2005 at 15:57, Bruce Gilbert wrote: for an address, which way is best address 1st linebr / 2nd linebr / 3rd linebr / /address or address1st line/address address2nd line/address address3rd line/address Hello Bruce, I do actually not know the DTD, but the second

Re: [WSG] best way to approach markup of an address

2005-05-22 Thread Ben Ward
I would go for the first one, since in this I think the br / is given semantic value as a separator (even though, technically the element has zero semantic value). The first set of markup would by default display a nice, multi-line formatted address in all browsers and could be formatted into a

Re: [WSG] best way to approach markup of an address

2005-05-22 Thread Lea de Groot
On Mon, 23 May 2005 06:48:55 +1000, Geoff Deering wrote: The first is correct, but address should only be used when referencing the author of a document. http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/address.html http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_5.html#SEC5.5.3 It's not used for general

Re: [WSG] best way to approach markup of an address

2005-05-22 Thread Ben Ward
Lea - I think the problematic part of the address / element as described in Geoff's link is the part reading authorship for the current document. Yes, wrapping a street address is correct. However, it specifies that the address must be related directly to the document (e.g. the author's or owner

Re: [WSG] best way to approach markup of an address

2005-05-22 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Geoff Deering wrote: The first is correct, but address should only be used when referencing the author of a document. Arguably, though, if these are the contact details of the company whose site you're on, then it *is* correct (as they would, in the wider sense, be the authors of their site

Re: [WSG] best way to approach markup of an address

2005-05-22 Thread Geoff Deering
Lea de Groot wrote: On Mon, 23 May 2005 06:48:55 +1000, Geoff Deering wrote: The first is correct, but address should only be used when referencing the author of a document. http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/address.html http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_5.html#SEC5.5.3 It's not

Re: [WSG] best way to approach markup of an address

2005-05-22 Thread Geoff Deering
Patrick H. Lauke wrote: Geoff Deering wrote: The first is correct, but address should only be used when referencing the author of a document. Arguably, though, if these are the contact details of the company whose site you're on, then it *is* correct (as they would, in the wider sense,

[WSG] label tag wrapping around checkbox

2005-05-22 Thread Peter Ottery
sports fans, if you had part of a form that had a checkbox that when checked enabled a file upload input, how would you mark that up? the result should look something like this: http://skunkworks.farcrycms.com/wsg/label/label.gif but i wasnt sure what the label tag/s would/should wrap around...

[WSG] flash satay firefox bug

2005-05-22 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
A small heads-up to alert those (myself included) using the flash satay method http://www.alistapart.com/articles/flashsatay/ of an annoying variation of an old bug in firefox: The flash satay method has become a widely used technique for embedding flash into valid XHTML documents. However,