[WSG] img and input tags in xhtml strict

2006-01-14 Thread tochiromifune
Hello, My pages fail the w3c validation test because my img and input tags do not have the correct parent element (as far as I understand it). THe nesting is this: body div noscript img Or: body div img Or: body div input What is wrong exactly? Thank you for your help. Chris

Re: [WSG] Active Links

2006-01-14 Thread Alexis
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 09:16 am, Justin Carter wrote: Hope that helps. Maybe someone else can suggest another idea... Well, i use m4 macros - each (static) page on the site is generated from an m4 source file, which (via an include) contains a macro to only generate items in the nav menu which

RE: Tabluar forms WAS: Re: [WSG] br the correct use.

2006-01-14 Thread kvnmcwebn
fieldset legendWhat's your favourite colour?/legend input type=radio name=colour id=colour_black value=black / label for=colour_blackblack/label input type=radio name=colour id=colour_white value=white / label for=colour_whitewhite/label /fieldset I just made a form

Re: [WSG] pdf graphics

2006-01-14 Thread David Thompson
On 13 Jan 2006, at 14:50, Joseph R. B. Taylor wrote: This may be a bit off-topic, but I saw a few people mentioning GIMP. I'm a long time Photoshop user (since version 5.0), and Photoshop has been one of the excuses for staying a Windows user. The GIMP is a very capable program with a

Re: [WSG] br the correct use.

2006-01-14 Thread David Thompson
On 13 Jan 2006, at 22:33, Paul Novitski wrote: This is one of those points we'll never all agree on but love to argue. Personally I think the use of BR to separate address lines is problematic, is functioning as a presentational element, and should span voice=British-upper-classMost

Re: Tabluar forms WAS: Re: [WSG] br the correct use.

2006-01-14 Thread Lachlan Hunt
kvnmcwebn wrote: fieldset legendWhat's your favourite colour?/legend input type=radio name=colour id=colour_black value=black / label for=colour_blackblack/label input type=radio name=colour id=colour_white value=white / label for=colour_whitewhite/label /fieldset I

[WSG] flash popup blockers

2006-01-14 Thread kvnmcwebn
Hello, Does anyone have any experience/advice with the ufo(or even satay) methods for flash embeding and pop-up blocking issues. I mean do they set some of them off like the standard object embed method seems to do now? Specifically the ones that require you to grant permission to load a swf.

Re: Tabluar forms WAS: Re: [WSG] br the correct use.

2006-01-14 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Lachlan Hunt wrote: table !-- name, gender and DOB rows omitted -- ... tr thFavourite Colour/th td labelinput type=radio name=colour value=black / black/label labelinput type=radio name=colour value=white / white/label /td /tr /table

Re: [WSG] br the correct use.

2006-01-14 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
David Thompson wrote: div class=vcard span class=fnAnthony Blair/span span class=addr span class=typeWork/span: span class=street-address10 Downing Street/span span class=localityLondon/span span class=postal-codeSW1A 2AA/span span

Re: [WSG] Active Links

2006-01-14 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Unless I'm missing something, I'm surprised that nobody mentioned what I thought was the most common way to do this with static content: assign an id or class to each navigation bar link, and also assign an id or class to the body element. then, in your css, define rules that match up the

[WSG] Technical Aberrations?

2006-01-14 Thread Bruce
A bit ago I had a question on pdf image files which was answered by quite a few, and appreciated. I'm a bit of a beginner at standards and been making sites for a quite a few years and online ten. In that time I have made quite a few sites, starting with tables, and recently moved to CSS and

Re: [WSG] Technical Aberrations?

2006-01-14 Thread wendy
Bruce, Can you not place pdfs into Photoshop document and then crop and carry on from there with properly-sized image, or am I not understanding something? Wendy Bruce wrote: ...] twenty pdf files of small images of various shapes, images vary but are around 61x72px and each one on a

Re: [WSG] pdf graphics

2006-01-14 Thread Alvaro Mouriño
What do you mean by 'usability'? Because there is no such thing as user-friendliness, it just depends on the interface you are used to. If you spent 40 years of your life using command line, I'm sure you wouldn't find M$ Windows (R) so intuitive. The same applies if you've been using Photoshop

Re: [WSG] Technical Aberrations?

2006-01-14 Thread Bruce
wendy wrote: Bruce, Can you not place pdfs into Photoshop document and then crop and carry on from there with properly-sized image, or am I not understanding something? Wendy I have separated one to actual size, the images are angled, but the edges are square out of photoshop. I don't mean

Re: [WSG] pdf graphics

2006-01-14 Thread Paolo Dodet
YUP, I couldn't agree more with you. Paolo Dodet

Re: [WSG] Active Links

2006-01-14 Thread Paul Novitski
At 07:18 AM 1/14/2006, Patrick H. Lauke wrote: assign an id or class to each navigation bar link, and also assign an id or class to the body element. then, in your css, define rules that match up the two. ... ul lia href=/ id=navhomehome/a/li lia href=/portfolio/ id=navportfolioportfolio/a/li

Re: [WSG] Active Links

2006-01-14 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Patrick H. Lauke wrote: Unless I'm missing something, I'm surprised that nobody mentioned what I thought was the most common way to do this with static content: I think it was mentionned by Josh already (2nd post to this thread). Thierry | www.TJKDesign.com

Re: [WSG] semantic way to use subscript or superscript

2006-01-14 Thread Keryx webb
I agree to a large extent, but sometimes one has to consider: 1. Using MathML or CML is not an option as they are not supported by most (actually used) user agents. CML, one can argue, is also not a W3C-standard. 2. For very simple math or chemistry MathML and CML could be considered

Re: Tabluar forms WAS: Re: [WSG] br the correct use.

2006-01-14 Thread Terrence Wood
On 15 Jan 2006, at 4:11 AM, Patrick H. Lauke wrote: From an accessibility/assistive technology point of view it's worth noting, though, that many screen readers have different modes for tables and forms, and the user needs to switch between them. I seem to remember that it's not

Re: Tabluar forms WAS: Re: [WSG] br the correct use.

2006-01-14 Thread Terrence Wood
On 15 Jan 2006, at 10:09 AM, Terrence Wood wrote: My thinking is this: A form is a device to enable user to interact with the site owner. A table is the representation of data recorded at discrete intervals (or some other discrete dimension). Oh, and one more point. I'd use my 2 second

Re: [WSG] Active Links

2006-01-14 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Thierry Koblentz wrote: I think it was mentionned by Josh already (2nd post to this thread). Doh...serves me right for only skimming over the thread rather than reading it ;) -- Patrick H. Lauke __ re·dux (adj.): brought back;

[WSG] This resource has not been published but has been approved

2006-01-14 Thread Martin Espericueta
Hello All! 1) I was just wondering how long before this article gets published? 2) And is this list the proper way to ask this question ,~) Page in question: http://webstandardsgroup.org/manage/resource_display.cfm?resource_id=337 Snip Accessibility tips

Re: [WSG] pdf graphics

2006-01-14 Thread Joshua Street
We're waaay OT now, but I can't resist just posting this last message for those thinking about Photoshop-GIMP migration. GIMPshop! is a re-working of The GIMP's interface to make it more Photoshop-like. I haven't used it myself, because I recently went (was coerced into going) the other way (i.e.

Re: [WSG] legend wierdness in IE

2006-01-14 Thread Sarah Peeke (XERT)
BTW I have found this article: http://jeffcroft.com/blog/archives/2004/10/styling_fieldset_and_legend. php which talks about an IE underscore hack using: fieldset{position:relative} legend{position:relative;_top:-0.5em} Does anyone recommend using this in light of IE7? Thoughts, suggestions

Re: [WSG] pdf graphics

2006-01-14 Thread Bruce
woops, sorry sent 2 the same, the main page was supposed to be one with no text. Hope they weren't too big. Bruce - Original Message - From: Joshua Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 7:08 PM Subject: Re: [WSG] pdf graphics We're

Re: [WSG] legend wierdness in IE

2006-01-14 Thread Justin Carter
On 1/15/06, Sarah Peeke (XERT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW I have found this article: http://jeffcroft.com/blog/archives/2004/10/styling_fieldset_and_legend. php which talks about an IE underscore hack using: fieldset{position:relative} legend{position:relative;_top:-0.5em} Does anyone

[WSG] Semantic Addresses (WAS br the correct use)

2006-01-14 Thread Kat
This is what happens when uni students are on holidays and have nothing defined set to do! ;) Lachlan Hunt, Peter Firminger et al. was talking about the use of br / for addresses, (and I am not saying they are right or wrong!!!), I just want to explore an idea I had while reading their