RE: [WSG] Standards Publication

2005-05-30 Thread Nick Cowie
Chris wrote: Has any knowledgeable soul read: Web Standards Design Guide (Internet Series) No and I am not racing out to order it either. I am slowly reading Kevin Ruse's previous book in that series - XML for Web Designers Using Macromedia Studio MX 2004 and while I learning a bit about

[WSG] multi-lingual

2005-05-30 Thread john
Hello. I have a question. I've been doing a lot of multi-lingual sites lately, and I usually separate them into individual sites based on language, and indicate so properly in the code. However, one of my clients wants two languages integrated into one site (basically two languages, one

Re: [WSG] multi-lingual

2005-05-30 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day However, one of my clients wants two languages integrated into one site (basically two languages, one next to the other, but in different colors). My question is, how do I code this so that it makes sense? For individual languages sites, I add: lang=en xml:lang=en (changing the

Re: [WSG] style sheet set up - ADMIN

2005-05-30 Thread russ - maxdesign
ADMIN Please remember a few basic guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm - Trim replies where possible - Code samples are fine, but not full pages of html or css code - much better to link to these items The last post was a prime candidate for trimming AND linking! Russ

Re: [WSG] multi-lingual

2005-05-30 Thread john
Ah, I see. What about mixing languages in the KEYWORDS and DESCRIPTION? Is that a problem? ~john _ Dr. Zeus Web Design http://www.DrZeus.net content without clutter on 5/30/2005 10:00 AM Bert Doorn said the following: G'day However, one of my clients wants two

[WSG] Signature markup

2005-05-30 Thread Tatham Oddie
Guys n' gals, What would be the best way to mark-up something like: All the best, Tatham Oddie They aren't really separate paragraphs so this is wrong: pAll the best,/p pTatham Oddie/p This just looks hideous: p All the best,br /

Re: [WSG] multi-lingual

2005-05-30 Thread Bert Doorn
john wrote: Ah, I see. What about mixing languages in the KEYWORDS and DESCRIPTION? Is that a problem? From http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#edef-META : - META and search engines A common use for META is to specify keywords that a search engine

Re: [WSG] Signature markup

2005-05-30 Thread Joshua Street
On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 20:06 +1000, Tatham Oddie wrote: This just looks hideous: p All the best,br / Tatham Oddie /p Really? That's a shame, because I have a feeling that's correct. They're not in separate paragraphs, but they are on separate lines,

Re: [WSG] multi-lingual

2005-05-30 Thread john
Oh, duh. If all else fails, read the W3 specs. If that doesn't work? Follow them. Thanks again. ~john _ Dr. Zeus Web Design http://www.DrZeus.net content without clutter on 5/30/2005 11:08 AM Bert Doorn said the following: john wrote: Ah, I see. What about

[WSG] Hardcore CSS problems - http://testdrive.whatcanido.com.au/

2005-05-30 Thread Tatham Oddie
Guys n gals, I have a fairly hardcore CSS implementation in the works and its almost there. However, Im having a few minor bugs. Guess where? Did I hear you say IE6Win? *applause* Basically: The cap on the bottom block is positioned incorrectly. Any text in the bottom block,

Re: [WSG] Signature markup

2005-05-30 Thread john
I'd have to agree. It's not a list, and shouldn't be marked up as one. It's a single paragraph with a line break. Looks pretty straight-forward if you ask me. ~john _ Dr. Zeus Web Design http://www.DrZeus.net content without clutter on 5/30/2005 11:10 AM Joshua

Re: [WSG] Signature markup

2005-05-30 Thread Joshua Street
The whole notion that it should be marked up as a list kind of reminds me of this post... http://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2005/03/31/too_far/index.php I think we're all in danger of doing that! Josh On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 12:17 +0100, john wrote: I'd have to agree. It's not a list, and

RE: [WSG] Signature markup

2005-05-30 Thread Tatham Oddie
Ok... Thanks for your help. I was just checking there wasn't some funky über-geeky new way of doing it... If I'm smacking all my neighbours and clients over the head about semantic mark-up I want to make sure I'm doing it properly. Thanks, Tatham Oddie Technical Director, Fuel Advance

RE: [WSG] multi-lingual

2005-05-30 Thread Richard Ishida
Hello John, See http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/language-decl/en/all.html#Slide006 0 and http://www.w3.org/TR/i18n-html-tech-lang/#ri20040728.121358444 The lang and xml:lang attributes can and should only specify one language at a time, as they indicate the language of the text you

Re: [WSG] Definition lists for comments in blogs

2005-05-30 Thread Rowan Lewis
What would be wrong with doing something like this? h3Comment Title/h3 p Posted by foobar on foobar /p div p Comment text /p /div On 5/30/05, Andrew Krespanis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heh, well if the blockquote approach is considered overkill, you'll choke on what I actually use for my

RE: [WSG] style sheet set up

2005-05-30 Thread Richard Ishida
FWIW, my personal preference within a CSS file is to group all the properties relating to a particular selector into a single declaration. I've seen many people declare properties for, say, p in multiple locations. That makes it difficult to get a complete picture of the styles applied for p. I

Re: [WSG] Definition lists for comments in blogs

2005-05-30 Thread Ben Ward
What would be wrong with doing something like this? h3Comment Title/h3 p Posted by foobar on foobar /p div p Comment text /p /div Nothing 'wrong', as such. The div surrounding the 'comment text' paragraph is superfluous and could be dropped, but semantically it's pretty sound. The

Re: [WSG] Standards Publication

2005-05-30 Thread Chris Kennon
Hi, Will pass on this one. Thanks. C On May 30, 2005, at 12:39 AM, Nick Cowie wrote: Chris wrote: Has any knowledgeable soul read: Web Standards Design Guide (Internet Series) No and I am not racing out to order it either. I am slowly reading Kevin Ruse's previous book in that

Re: [WSG] Where to start?: Need to make a really junk code page to standards-compliant

2005-05-30 Thread Ingo Chao
Jack Saat schrieb: I have a really Junk code page you can view on http://www.extraheight.com/ and need to make this code standards-compliant. But want keep the same layout minus of course the clear view problems. There is so much junk in the code and I do not know where to start. :( From the

Re: [WSG] Where to start?: Need to make a really junk code page to standards-compliant

2005-05-30 Thread Jan Brasna
Drop it all and start from scratch, the layout is quite simple. -- Jan Brasna aka JohnyB :: www.alphanumeric.cz | www.janbrasna.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] Hardcore CSS problems - http://testdrive.whatcanido.com.au/

2005-05-30 Thread Zulema
Tatham Oddie wrote: I have a fairly hardcore CSS implementation in the works and its almost there. However, Im having a few minor bugs. Guess where? Did I hear you say IE6Win? *applause* The URL is: http://testdrive.whatcanido.com.au/ Optimisation hasnt been started yet so dont complain too

Re: [WSG] style sheet set up

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Re: [WSG] style sheet set up

2005-05-30 Thread Chris Kennon
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Re: [WSG] style sheet set up - THREAD CLOSED

2005-05-30 Thread russ - maxdesign
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Re: [WSG] Definition lists for comments in blogs

2005-05-30 Thread Rick Faaberg
On 5/30/05 4:49 AM Rowan Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent this out: What would be wrong with doing something like this? h3Comment Title/h3 p Posted by foobar on foobar /p div p Comment text /p /div The only thing I can think of is: are you aware of the origin of fubar (which is the

RE: [WSG] Definition lists for comments in blogs

2005-05-30 Thread Christie Mason
That may be because most people don't know it's an acronym. Foobar IS F.U.B.A.R. Christie Mason -Original Message- Rick Faaberg The only thing I can think of is: are you aware of the origin of fubar (which is the correct spelling of foobar)? It's totally weird how usage of fubar has

Re: [WSG] Definition lists for comments in blogs

2005-05-30 Thread Ben Bishop
The discussion of Definition lists for comments in blogs has been a great so far. Please don't stray off-topic. Ben WSG Core That may be because most people don't know it's an acronym. Foobar IS The only thing I can think of is: are you aware of the origin of fubar

Re: [WSG] Definition lists for comments in blogs

2005-05-30 Thread Jan Brasna
Foobar IS F.U.B.A.R. It isn't, it's only derived from it. See http://kb.iu.edu/data/aetq.html -- Jan Brasna aka JohnyB :: www.alphanumeric.cz | www.janbrasna.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See