Re: [WSG] Google and HTML5

2006-01-26 Thread Peter Asquith
Geoff Deering wrote: Do others feel there are *elements* of presentation creeping back into the structure? Absolutely, header and footer elements, to my mind, break the semantics of separating the presentation from content. Once you say this element represents the footer for the section it

Re: [WSG] Google and HTML5

2006-01-26 Thread Christian Montoya
On 1/25/06, Geoff Pack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We could have: html head/head body header/header nav/nav article/article aside/aside footer/footer /body /html If you are going to

Re: [WSG] Google and HTML5

2006-01-26 Thread Miika Mäkinen
More than headers and footers I was a bit worrried seeing an element named small in the list... though actually there might be idea in adding something that gives negative weight, like an opposites of em and strong unimportant or note maybe?On 1/26/06, Peter Asquith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Geoff

Re: [WSG] Google and HTML5

2006-01-26 Thread Paul Novitski
At 11:52 PM 1/25/2006, Geoff Deering wrote: header/header nav/nav article/article aside/aside footer/footer Do others feel there are *elements* of presentation creeping back into the structure? ... The second

Re: [WSG] what cms system

2006-01-26 Thread Alexorbit
hey buddy, joomla its the first CMS to apply a valid xhtml+css plus Ajax admin functions... try do get it. http://joomla.org here you can find a lot of cms www.opensourcecms.com cheers 2006/1/18, kvnmcwebn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: hello all,just a quick question,What one of these cms systems

Re: [WSG] Google and HTML5

2006-01-26 Thread Christian Montoya
On 1/26/06, Miika Mäkinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: More than headers and footers I was a bit worrried seeing an element named small in the list... though actually there might be idea in adding something that gives negative weight, like an opposites of em and strong unimportant or note maybe?

Re: [WSG] Google and HTML5

2006-01-26 Thread Miika Mäkinen
Christian, that was my point... small atleast *sounds* presentational (thought it could indicate text that is less important) and that was why I wasn't happy to see it's included in HTML5... http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-smallOn 1/26/06, Christian Montoya [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [WSG] what cms system

2006-01-26 Thread Absalom Media
Alexorbit wrote: hey buddy, joomla its the first CMS to apply a valid xhtml+css plus Ajax admin functions... try do get it. http://joomla.org here you can find a lot of cms www.opensourcecms.com http://www.opensourcecms.com This is a pretty old thread. Can the admins please shift

Re: [WSG] Screen-Print-Wireless

2006-01-26 Thread Absalom Media
Miika Mäkinen wrote: I remember seeing one test on the @media handheld support and found it: http://htmldog.com/ptg/archives/55.php and a conclusion at http://www.htmldog.com/ptg/archives/56.php I guess the main issue still is that sizable chunk of mobile browser share (Pocket

Re: [WSG] Google and HTML5

2006-01-26 Thread Designer
Peter Asquith wrote: Geoff Deering wrote: Do others feel there are *elements* of presentation creeping back into the structure? Absolutely, header and footer elements, to my mind, break the semantics of separating the presentation from content. Once you say this element represents the

Re: [WSG] Google and HTML5

2006-01-26 Thread Designer
Christian Montoya wrote: If you are going to make a tag for every element on the page you might as well just serve an xml document with a stylesheet. I assume everyone knows this can be done, yes? It's not like we are talking about something new. I'd be really interested in knowing how

Re: [WSG] Google and HTML5

2006-01-26 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Christian Montoya wrote: On 1/25/06, Geoff Pack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We could have: html head/head body header/header nav/nav article/article aside/aside footer/footer /body /html If

RE: [WSG] Google and HTML5

2006-01-26 Thread Geoff Pack
Christian Montoya wrote: On 1/25/06, Geoff Pack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We could have: html head/head body header/header nav/nav article/article aside/aside footer/footer

RE: [WSG] what cms system [CLOSED AGAIN]

2006-01-26 Thread Peter Firminger
Please keep CMS discussion to the CMS list. Log into the WSG website and adjust your mail list preferences please. This thread was closed a week ago. Peter From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of AlexorbitSent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 8:02 PMTo:

[WSG] Font Replacement With PHP

2006-01-26 Thread Chris Kennon
Hi, I recall, although from where unsure, a standards compliant method of embedding a font within a site with PHP. Can someone shed some insight on this? __ Respectfully, Christopher Kennon Principal/Designer/Programmer -Bushidodeep bushidodeep (http://bushidodeep.com/)

Re: [WSG] Google and HTML5

2006-01-26 Thread Christian Montoya
On 1/26/06, Designer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian Montoya wrote: If you are going to make a tag for every element on the page you might as well just serve an xml document with a stylesheet. I assume everyone knows this can be done, yes? It's not like we are talking about something new.

Re: [WSG] Font Replacement With PHP

2006-01-26 Thread Justin Owens
sIFR would probably be the method to which you are referring. http://wiki.novemberborn.net/sifr/What+is+sIFR Justin On 1/26/06, Chris Kennon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I recall, although from where unsure, a standards compliant method of embedding a font within a site with PHP. Can

RE: [WSG] Font Replacement With PHP

2006-01-26 Thread Jacobus van Niekerk
Hi, Here's the URL http://artypapers.com/csshelppile/pcdtr/ Kind Regards Jacobus van Niekerk Creative Consultant web: http://www.catics.com/ | http://www.freelancecontractors.com tel: +27 21 982 7805 fax: +27 88 021 982 7805 Skype: catics1

[WSG] ASP, PHP and Ruby - oh my!

2006-01-26 Thread Joseph R. B. Taylor
Guys and Gals, There's certainly a mass of hype surrounding Ruby these days. It raises this question for me. I usually still use classic ASP for my server-side stuff, but have begun playing with PHP as well, since ASP is obviously over whether its a good tool or not. Now Ruby is pounding

Re: [WSG] ASP, PHP and Ruby - oh my!

2006-01-26 Thread Stephen Stagg
In my, suitably humble, opinion, PHP 'is a good thing' and so I'm going to keep using it for the foreseeable future. The only thing that'll make me really use RUBY is when people start wanting sites upgraded when they are already using it. This may come across as a bit of a

Re: [WSG] ASP, PHP and Ruby - oh my!

2006-01-26 Thread Svip
As far as I have read and tried Ruby, it is basically just a new language, in my opinion PHP is still the best Server Side Language around, but perhaps I should do some more tries on Ruby as I have thus far. Besides, Ruby on Rails is a simple form of Ruby, where very little programming is

Re: [WSG] ASP, PHP and Ruby - oh my!

2006-01-26 Thread Wayne Douglas
Joseph R. B. Taylor wrote: [...] since ASP is obviously over whether its a good tool or not. [...] Thanks, www.asp.net ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for

Re: [WSG] ASP, PHP and Ruby - oh my!

2006-01-26 Thread Martin Heiden
Joseph, on Thursday, January 26, 2006 at 15:49 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote: I usually still use classic ASP for my server-side stuff, but have begun playing with PHP as well, since ASP is obviously over whether its a good tool or not. Now Ruby is pounding on my door, claiming to be the

[WSG] Cite in blockquote

2006-01-26 Thread Svip
I looked from attributes in the blockquote tag on w3schools.com (which I use when I forget some tags, since they have a pretty good reference list). It said that 'cite' is an attribute for the source of a blockquote, which makes sense. However, when I tried to use it, I saw no difference, not

RE: [WSG] ASP, PHP and Ruby - oh my!

2006-01-26 Thread Peter Goddard
I'll echo Wayne's comment. Has nobody heard of ASP.Net or .NET 2.0 Framework. It's the only serious rival to Java and PHP. If you are developing server side code then .NET/Java/PHP are the way to go. If you want a rich user experience with application like UI then ajax/atlas will interface with

Re: [WSG] Cite in blockquote

2006-01-26 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Quoting Svip [EMAIL PROTECTED]: But my question is; does any browser use the cite attribute in the blockquotes? None that I'm aware of, no. -- Patrick H. Lauke __ re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively [latin : re-,

Re: [WSG] ASP, PHP and Ruby - oh my!

2006-01-26 Thread Tom Livingston
On 1/26/06 11:20 AM, Peter Goddard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's the only serious rival to Java and PHP. ColdFusion is a much easier language and far more powerful... -- Tom Livingston Senior Multimedia Artist Media Logic www.mlinc.com

Re: [WSG] ASP, PHP and Ruby - oh my!

2006-01-26 Thread James Bennett
On 1/26/06, Svip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Besides, Ruby on Rails is a simple form of Ruby, where very little programming is required, but gives you less control of it, in my opinion. But I thank thee again for bring up the language in question. No, Ruby on Rails is a framework built in Ruby

Re: [WSG] ASP, PHP and Ruby - oh my!

2006-01-26 Thread Joseph R. B. Taylor
Ok, SORRY for starting this thread, I didn't intend to start a classic argument over server languages. I just wanted to get a feel for how many of us standards guys are adopting Ruby, or they plan to stick with PHP/other in the foreseeable future. Joseph R. B. Taylor Sites by Joe, LLC

RE: [WSG] Cite in blockquote

2006-01-26 Thread Ted Drake
I believe Jeremy Keith or PPK has a javascript that pulls the cite attribute out of the blockquote and places it as a link after the blockquote. It looks like a research paper citation/footnote. ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick

Re: [WSG] Cite in blockquote

2006-01-26 Thread Juergen Auer
Hello Svip, On 26 Jan 2006 at 17:10, Svip wrote: But my question is; does any browser use the cite attribute in the blockquotes? I know a little sample from the german Html-bible SelfHtml: Look at http://de.selfhtml.org/html/text/anzeige/blockquote_cite.htm Right-Click on the blockquote

Re: [WSG] Font Replacement With PHP

2006-01-26 Thread Jan Brasna
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dynatext -- Jan Brasna :: www.alphanumeric.cz | www.janbrasna.com | www.wdnews.net ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints

Re: [WSG] ASP, PHP and Ruby - oh my!

2006-01-26 Thread Jan Brasna
It's not about Ruby or PHP, this is not a case for a language. Only frameworks matter. So the standards guys just pick a RAD (aka just add water...) framemork, be it Ruby on Rails for Ruby or CakePHP (Symfony, Claw, Zephyr) for PHP, that are pretty much the same effective. -- Jan Brasna ::

RE: [WSG] Cite in blockquote

2006-01-26 Thread Ted Drake
I think the actual answer should be. The cite attribute is not displayed by any browser. However it is available if you right click on the blockquote and look at the properties. It is also available for some future semantic web research. I use it often since it only takes a few moments to add it

Re: [WSG] Cite in blockquote

2006-01-26 Thread Jeremy Keith
Ted Drake wrote: I believe Jeremy Keith or PPK has a javascript that pulls the cite attribute out of the blockquote and places it as a link after the blockquote. Here's a quick'n'dirty version: http://24ways.org/advent/dom-scripting-your-way-to-better-blockquotes There's a longer version

Re: [WSG] ASP, PHP and Ruby - oh my!

2006-01-26 Thread Justin Owens
ColdFusion is built in Java... On 1/26/06, Tom Livingston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/26/06 11:20 AM, Peter Goddard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's the only serious rival to Java and PHP. ColdFusion is a much easier language and far more powerful... -- Tom Livingston Senior Multimedia

Re: [WSG] Cite in blockquote

2006-01-26 Thread russ - maxdesign
It said that 'cite' is an attribute for the source of a blockquote, which makes sense. However, when I tried to use it, I saw no difference, not something when I hovered the blockquote or right clicked. It is also possible to display the cite attribute using attribute selectors, (except in

Thread Closed : Re: [WSG] ASP, PHP and Ruby - oh my!

2006-01-26 Thread James Ellis
Hi all I'm closing this thread as it is off topic for the list. Feel free to discuss the use of server side languages in relation to web standards on the list. X vs Y is better left off the list as it really has nothing to do with web standards (read the guidelines). Thanks James --- admin. On

Re: [WSG] Cite in blockquote

2006-01-26 Thread Svip
Oh my, that is extremely well, I like that. Thank you very much for that information. :) Is it possible to export it as a link (a) instead of plain text using content:? Regards, Svip - sviip.dk On 26/01/06, russ - maxdesign [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It said that 'cite' is an attribute for the

[WSG] Staring at the CSS with bloodshot eyes

2006-01-26 Thread Veine Vikberg
Trying to understand where I have gone sooo wrong This looks ok in IE (surprise eh?) however Mozilla, Opera and Mac IE 5.1 / OS8.6 it breaks and looks awful. I have now stripped the css to the bare minimum for requirements and uploaded a fresh copy of it, it validates but it doesn't mean

Re: [WSG] Staring at the CSS with bloodshot eyes

2006-01-26 Thread Stuart Sherwood
You'll need to supply so links Veine. :) Cheers, Stuart ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help

RE: [WSG] Staring at the CSS with bloodshot eyes

2006-01-26 Thread Scott Swabey
Hey Veine Unfortunately, without being able to see it, it means as little to us as it does to you! A link to the site/page in question would be useful. Regards Scott Swabey Design Development Director Lafinboy Productions www.lafinboy.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: [WSG] Staring at the CSS with bloodshot eyes -DUH

2006-01-26 Thread Veine Vikberg
http://www.jpfco.com/testdesign/new/ been one of those days I'm afraid ;) -- Original Message -- From: Veine Vikberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:55:05 -0500 Trying to understand where I have gone sooo

Re: [WSG] Staring at the CSS with bloodshot eyes -DUH

2006-01-26 Thread Juergen Auer
Hello Veine, add a 'clear:both;' to ..rightcolumnfront and #contentlow Regards Juergen Auer Jürgen Auer, http://www.sql-und-xml.de/ Web-Datenbanken zum Mieten Friedenstr. 37, 10 249 Berlin Tel.: (030) 420 20 060 Fax: (030) 420 19 819 [EMAIL

[WSG] The dilemma: tabular data with sublevels

2006-01-26 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
I am tearing my hair out over the decision on how to best format following data: We start with a list of items and subitems: Item 1 - SubItem 1.1 - SubItem 1.1.1 - SubItem 1.1.2 - Subitem 1.2 Item 2 - SubItem 2.1 ... Sounds very much like a collection of LIs, right? Well, the

Re: [WSG] The dilemma: tabular data with sublevels

2006-01-26 Thread Paul Novitski
At 04:46 PM 1/26/2006, Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] wrote: [Add] [Edit] [Delete] Item 1 [Add] [Edit] [Delete] - SubItem 1.1 [Add] [Edit] [Delete] - SubItem 1.1.1 [Add] [Edit] [Delete] - SubItem 1.1.2 [Add] [Edit] [Delete] - SubItem 1.2 ... Andreas, I could argue either list

RE: [WSG] The dilemma: tabular data with sublevels

2006-01-26 Thread Paul Bennett
You're saying that Add is a definition of Item 1 dtItem 1/dt dda href=?add=123Add/a/dd dda href=?edit=123Edit/a/dd ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

Re: [WSG] The dilemma: tabular data with sublevels

2006-01-26 Thread Joshua Street
Hmm I'd strongly contest a definition list. Maybe nested UL's would be better... but Item 1 cannot be sensibly/reasonably _defined_ as Add, or Edit, or Delete. On 1/27/06, Paul Novitski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andreas, I could argue either list or table, but I'd be inclined to make it a

RE: [WSG] The dilemma: tabular data with sublevels

2006-01-26 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
The problem with putting the links into a nested UL is that the list wouldn't make sense anymore in the end. We would have the subitems in nested ULs as well as the links. Links and subitems cannot be treated semantically the same: li Item 1 ul liAdd/li liEdit/li

RE: [WSG] The dilemma: tabular data with sublevels

2006-01-26 Thread Paul Novitski
At 05:39 PM 1/26/2006, Paul Bennett wrote: You're saying that Add is a definition of Item 1 dtItem 1/dt dda href=?add=123Add/a/dd dda href=?edit=123Edit/a/dd At 05:44 PM 1/26/2006, Joshua Street wrote: Hmm I'd strongly contest a definition list. Maybe nested UL's

RE: [WSG] The dilemma: tabular data with sublevels

2006-01-26 Thread Scott Swabey
So is the alternative unstructured content? liItem 1 a href=#Add/a a href=#Edit/a a href=#Delete/a /li Maybe a combination of nested ordered and unordered lists would be more suitable. ol liItem 1 ul liAdd/li liEdit/li

RE: [WSG] Staring at the CSS with bloodshot eyes

2006-01-26 Thread Veine Vikberg
Even with the link supplied - either all of you are asleep - or am as stumped as I am at this point ;) ~Veine Link again: http://www.jpfco.com/testdesign/new/ -- Original Message -- From: Scott Swabey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To:

RE: [WSG] The dilemma: tabular data with sublevels

2006-01-26 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Swabey Sent: Friday, 27 January 2006 2:29 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] The dilemma: tabular data with sublevels So is the alternative unstructured content?

RE: [WSG] The dilemma: tabular data with sublevels

2006-01-26 Thread Peter Levan
Could you do something like ul liItem 1 div class=editfunctions[Add] [Edit] [Delete]/div/li ul liSubitem 1.1 div class=editfunctions[Add] [Edit] [Delete]/div/li ... /ul ... /ul and use css positioning to move the div to the left of the list? -Original Message- From: Andreas Boehmer

RE: [WSG] The dilemma: tabular data with sublevels

2006-01-26 Thread Geoff Pack
How about this: style type=text/cssli span {float:right; margin-right:30%;}/style ul lispan[ Add | Edit | Delete ] /spanItem 1 ul lispan[ Add | Edit | Delete ] /spanSubItem 1.1 ul lispan[ Add | Edit | Delete ] /spanSubItem 1.1.1/li