RE: [WSG] New front page for http://abc.net.au/

2005-08-05 Thread Vinod Sharma
Please don't send this type of message. regd vinodGeoff Pack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll fix this soon.thanks,Geoff. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Hope Stewart Sent: Friday, 5 August 2005 11:10 AM To: Web Standards Group Subject: Re:

RE: Politically Correct Terminology (was RE: [WSG] New front page for http://abc.net.au/)

2005-08-05 Thread Christopher M Kelly
As a Person with a Disability, I prefer Person/User/Whatever with a Disability. People First Language. Although, I tend to refer to myself as a gimp, but that's really something used within some parts of the wheelchair culture. Wouldn't recommend you use it. :) Christopher M. Kelly, Sr. (GM22)

Re: [WSG] Firefox DOM and whitespace (bug?)

2005-08-05 Thread Ben Curtis
On Aug 4, 2005, at 2:45 PM, Patrick Ryan wrote: User agents have always (and will always) ignore whitespace in their display of XHTML. Should the DOM ignore it too? I recognize that's kind of backward logic, but it's certainly the practical view. Useragents better *not* ignore whitespace

Re: [WSG] IE question - user style sheets

2005-08-05 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Peter Firminger wrote: You have a usability/accessibility issue with the onChange event on the style switcher. Take it out and add a button to submit it. Try NOT using your mouse and tab through to that form instead, then try and arrow down and you'll see the issue. Even something like

[WSG] firefox for OS9?

2005-08-05 Thread Drake, Ted C.
Sorry for a possibly off-topic post. We have a client on our intranet that needs to look at our site on OS9.2. I couldn't find information on the Firefox web site about compatibility with this platform. Does anyone know where I could send this person for more advice? I did find the Opera

[WSG] Flash and Standards

2005-08-05 Thread Bruce
Hi all, I'm sure this has been covered someplace, but when actually running into it on a busy schedule...you know the rest. A simple flash button for audio, from wimpy. Validator says: There is no attribute for: embed src=""> Nor for: quality, name, width, height, pluginsPage, and of course

Re: [WSG] Flash and Standards

2005-08-05 Thread Bruce
http://blog.deconcept.com/flashobject/ Typically, I found this 2 minutes after sending above, is this the answer to flash and standards? Thanks in advance Bruce Prochanu BKDesign Solutions - Original Message - From: Bruce To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Friday,

Re: [WSG] firefox for OS9?

2005-08-05 Thread sam sherlock
As far as I know web browsers for os9 are limited however against my expectations you should be able to get a build of firefox / mozilla here http://www.mozilla.org/download.html (scroll to the bottom of the page) safari camino are only supported in osX as far as I know. atb Sam Drake,

RE: [WSG] Flash and Standards

2005-08-05 Thread Drake, Ted C.
Hi Bruce The flash satay seems to be the standard for flash http://www.alistapart.com/articles/flashsatay/ There is a new technique, I believe. But this works pretty darn well. Ted From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Sent: Friday, August

Re: [WSG] Flash and Standards

2005-08-05 Thread sam sherlock
I have been using FlashObject for sometime now, indeed I have posted here before asking what members of the list think of the technique. You may be interested to know that makepovertyhistory.org uses the flashObject technique, as an alternative there is also ufo

Re: [WSG] Flash and Standards

2005-08-05 Thread Jan Brasna
http://blog.deconcept.com/flashobject/ answer to flash and standards? Yep, IMHO better than Satay. -- Jan Brasna aka JohnyB :: www.alphanumeric.cz | www.janbrasna.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

Re: [WSG] Flash and Standards

2005-08-05 Thread Bruce
The Web Standards Group is an awesome resource. Thank you, I received three answers within minutes that completely resolved the problem with three alternate solutions, each valid and comprehensive, and I might add, interesting and informative. Bruce Prochnau BKDesign Solutions- receives more

Re: [WSG] Flash and Standards

2005-08-05 Thread dwain
Bruce wrote: I'm sure this has been covered someplace, but when actually running into it on a busy schedule...you know the rest. i've used this and it validates: object data=opening.swf width=550 height=377 type=application/x-shockwave-flash param name=movie value=opening.swf

Re: [WSG] firefox for OS9?

2005-08-05 Thread Terrence Wood
If you need to support OS9 then the best browser on that platform is IE5/MAC. There are builds of Moz 1.4 and an unsupported 1.7 (I think from memory). Opera V6/MAC is not very good on IMO, and lot's of web sites appear broken in it - I don't recommend it. kind regards Terrence Wood. On

RE: Politically Correct Terminology (was RE: [WSG] New front page for http://abc.net.au/)

2005-08-05 Thread Vicki Berry
Christopher M Kelly wrote: As a Person with a Disability, I prefer Person/User/Whatever with a Disability. People First Language. I think if anything has come out of this, it's that on this list no one is going to be right when talking generally, because what's right for one person/culture

Re: [WSG] firefox for OS9?

2005-08-05 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On 6 Aug 2005, at 9:30 am, Terrence Wood wrote: If you need to support OS9 then the best browser on that platform is IE5/MAC. There are builds of Moz 1.4 and an unsupported 1.7 (I think from memory). As Sam pointed, the most recent Gecko builds that run on OS 9 are the Wamcom builds, or

Re: [WSG] a few more issues with page layout with definition list

2005-08-05 Thread sam sherlock
i spotted this in the css div#thumbnailheaders dt dd {float:right; width:100px;} should'nt it be div#thumbnailheaders dl dd {float:right; width:100px;} atbSam Rachel Radford wrote: There are many ways of making a css rule so that different browsers see it differently (do a google search