RE: [WSG] WSG Meetings for the rest of us

2005-06-09 Thread Chris Taylor
Or, as it might be technically easier, providing an audio (MP3/OGG) file of the seminars and the presentation slides would be great. Anyone else in the UK want to have our own meeting and show the Ozzies how it's really done? ;0) Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [WSG] WSG Meetings for the rest of us

2005-06-09 Thread Kvnmcwebn
Anyone else in the UK want to have our own meeting and show the Ozzies how it's really done? how about northern ireland? ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for

Re: [WSG] problem with utf-8 page encoding

2005-06-09 Thread Anders Nawroth
Vaska.WSG skrev: The Chinese websites I have looked up have latin1 style urls...no sign of Chinese text anywhere in there. Look at: http://zh.wikipedia.org/ Works in FF1 IE6 and the URLs look really nice in Opera8 (and sometimes in IE too). I have no other browsers here right now. Seems

Re: [WSG] WSG Meetings for the rest of us

2005-06-09 Thread Nancy Johnson
I live in eastern US. Much as I would love to visit Austrailia, it is out of the question for now at least. I think some sort of video of your events would be great! Nancyakella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what about ukraine?there are four of usbut only two of us know each other... On 6/9/05,

Re: [WSG] A software question

2005-06-09 Thread Alan Trick
I don't think there's a really good answer to this question. It really boils down to using what ever your comfortable with and will let you get the job done. Personally, I use plain text editors with syntax highlighting and I hate Dreamweaver (i've used 2002), but others feel differently and

Re: [WSG] WSG Meetings for the rest of us

2005-06-09 Thread Leslie Riggs
Then there's this one Deaf WSG member who's gonna ask for some kind of captioning/subtitling of the video/audio... Leslie Riggs I live in eastern US. Much as I would love to visit Austrailia, it is out of the question for now at least. I think some sort of video of your events would be

Re: [WSG] WSG Meetings for the rest of us

2005-06-09 Thread Asela
Seconding Kazuhito's ideas. We were talking on another list (Web Standards Tokyo)about howmuch we miss WSG meetings. Common folks it's 2005 we could do something with our video cameras and internet connections. Any positive feedback from Australia ??? --- Kazuhito Kidachi [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [WSG] WSG Meetings for the rest of us

2005-06-09 Thread Alan Trick
Yes, this would be great. I live in Canada, and being a student and all, I don't have the time, nor the money to visit Australia. If some one could release audio tapes or something, it'd be much appreciated. :) Alan Trick Cole Kuryakin - x7m wrote: Man, oh man, would I love to attend some

Re: [WSG] absolute positioning, objects inputs

2005-06-09 Thread Alan Trick
The select issue is an IE bug. As far as I know, there's no workaround. With the flash, I believe you have to set a property on your embed tag (wMode='opaque', but don't quote me on that). I'm not very familiar with Flash. Alan Trick Jamie Mason wrote: http://www.engineerrecords.com/abspos.htm

Re: [WSG] WSG Meetings for the rest of us

2005-06-09 Thread Peter Costello
Hey Chris, Keen as to hook something up. I went to about 4 or 5 Sydney Meetings befor I moved to London. Surely theres a big enough standards community that a monthly gig could get organised. Don't know how you go about organising such events. List Dads, is this something that could work?

RE: [WSG] WSG Meetings for the rest of us

2005-06-09 Thread Ben Logan
Hi Peter/Chris Definately up for attending any UK specifically London events Cheers Ben -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Costello Sent: 09 June 2005 17:35 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] WSG Meetings for the rest

Re: [WSG] WSG Meetings for the rest of us

2005-06-09 Thread Ben Curtis
Then there's this one Deaf WSG member who's gonna ask for some kind of captioning/subtitling of the video/audio... One free audio download per subscriber. To get your next free download, you must submit at least 250 words of transcribed text. After you've transcribed 1000 words, you can

[WSG] Accessible form test

2005-06-09 Thread Erwin Heiser
Hi all, I'm sorry for sending this againg but the link for the new form was wrong, that's what happens when you've been staring at a screen for too long... I¹m pretty new to marking up forms so I decided to ³get it right² right from the start. I¹ve recoded a contact form they are using on a

RE: [WSG] WSG Meetings for the rest of us

2005-06-09 Thread Dennis Lapcewich
I would love to be back in OZ and attend a SYD or MEL meeting but there is this pond in the way. :) Dennis Lapcewich USDA Forest Service Webmaster

RE: [WSG] WSG Meetings for the rest of us

2005-06-09 Thread Lisa B. McLaughlin
I live near Leeds and am a newbie with web standards. I'd like to attend anyway if there is a meeting up north. Lisa Lisa B. McLaughlin, NCW [EMAIL PROTECTED] AllSpunUp Web Designs for Small Businesses with Big Visions   ** The discussion

[WSG] Attention Auckland

2005-06-09 Thread Darren Wood
Your local WSG Core members have finally pulled it together and organised an informal WSG meet. The plan is to meet at the Belgium Beer Garden in Takapuna for a 'meet n greet', casual geekfest. Let's have a bit of a natter. Let's exchange war stories. Let's drink and celebrate the fact that web

Re: [WSG] Accessible form test

2005-06-09 Thread Peter Ottery
Hi Erwin, there'd be other people on the list that could comment on the use of access keys etc i'm sure. At a stretch I'd kinda consider some aspects of the visual presentation part of the broad spectrum that is accessibility though - or at least usability. i like thisarticle that looks at the

Re: [WSG] A software question

2005-06-09 Thread Angus at InfoForce Services
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RE: [WSG] Accessible form test

2005-06-09 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Erwin Heiser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 10 June 2005 3:27 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Accessible form test Hi all, The new form is here: http://www.pixelsandtext.be/tests/newform.html I've read Joe Clarks book

Re: [WSG] Accessible form test

2005-06-09 Thread Terrence Wood
The only purpose definition lists in forms serve is to provide some visual formatting in cases where CSS is turned off. There was some discussion on the technique at simplebits around a year or so ago, and it is basically just substituting one set of tags for another (dl, dt, dl in lieu of

Re: [WSG] Accessible form test

2005-06-09 Thread Steven . Faulkner
Hi Erwin 1. i would ditch the accesskeys: see these articles for why: http://wats.ca/articles/accesskeys/19 http://wats.ca/articles/accesskeyconflicts/37 2. use javascript to clear the comments textarea on focus (if it contains the default text). 3. mark up abbreviations and acronyms abbr