RE: [WSG] WCAG Samurai Errata

2007-06-11 Thread Steve Green
The Samurai Errata have no official status so there are no certificates or validators. They have authority tone because that's Joe Clark's style, not because they have any authority. They are some good ideas written by some clever people (or one clever person if you believe some of the theories).

[WSG] resizing text via graphics/text?

2007-06-11 Thread Designer
Good Morning/afternoon/evening, Further to recent discussions on text size, and in particular, using graphics sized in ems so that they resize, I've pondered the use of graphical text when wanting to use an uncommon font. So, I put a heading into a simple graphic (using the required text),

Re: [WSG] resizing text via graphics/text?

2007-06-11 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Designer wrote: Good Morning/afternoon/evening, Further to recent discussions on text size, and in particular, using graphics sized in ems so that they resize, I've pondered the use of graphical text when wanting to use an uncommon font. So, I put a heading into a simple graphic (using the

Re: [WSG] WCAG Samurai Errata

2007-06-11 Thread Alastair Campbell
Steve Green wrote: The process for commenting is a bit shambolic, and it is not clear that comments are particularly welcome. There is no stated process, so people have been commenting in various places in the blogs If you check the various blogs, you'll see Joe has been following them closely

Re: [WSG] resizing text via graphics/text?

2007-06-11 Thread Sander Aarts
Robert O'Rourke schreef: Hello, being able to resize the flash text is pretty sweet. I don't know if you've ever seen sifr (http://www.mikeindustries.com/sifr/) but it's a well put together accessible solution for putting nice anti-aliased fonts on a page. If you can extend it to be

Re: [WSG] WCAG Samurai Errata

2007-06-11 Thread Alastair Campbell
Oops, Joe's just posted the comments email address: samurai at the domain wcagsamurai.org Apologies, -Alastair *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

Re: [WSG] resizing text via graphics/text?

2007-06-11 Thread David Hucklesby
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:36:11 +0100, Designer wrote: Good Morning/afternoon/evening, Further to recent discussions on text size, and in particular, using graphics sized in ems so that they resize, I've pondered the use of graphical text when wanting to use an uncommon font. So, I put a

[WSG] I need to ask a non-web design question from Aussie

2007-06-11 Thread Tee G. Peng
Hello Australians , I am so so so sorry I have to post this to ask you kindly write me offlist so that I can ask the question - (without 'but') this is the only list I know full of Aussie that can give me the information I needed. It is a non-web web standards no web design question so I

[WSG] Safari now on Windows

2007-06-11 Thread Geoff Pack
This will be interesting... Safari 3 Public Beta: http://www.apple.com/safari/ == The information contained in this email and any attachment is confidential and may contain legally privileged or copyright

Re: [WSG] Safari now on Windows

2007-06-11 Thread John Faulds
Just left a comment about this on 456 Berea St - seems to be working OK for me although other Windows users seem to find it pretty much unusable. On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:26:24 +1000, Geoff Pack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This will be interesting... Safari 3 Public Beta:

Re: [WSG] Safari now on Windows

2007-06-11 Thread Karl Lurman
I recommend it to all those developers that are stuck in a Windows environment - I have already fixed a few bugs I would have had to use my bosses Mac to find! My only concern is that at the moment, I can get away with It might not look 100% in Safari, but it still works... With Safari on

RE: [WSG] Safari now on Windows

2007-06-11 Thread Bryan GARNETT-LAW
I've just tried installing on XP SP2, behind a firewall, as soon as I enter authentication details it crashes. Yet at home on Vista it installed and worked fine. Perhaps firewall support is buggy at this stage. Bryan This e-mail is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient you

Re: [WSG] Safari now on Windows

2007-06-11 Thread Michael MD
I recommend it to all those developers that are stuck in a Windows environment - I have already fixed a few bugs I would have had to use my bosses Mac to find! My only concern is that at the moment, I can get away with It might not look 100% in Safari, but it still works... With Safari on

RE: [WSG] Safari now on Windows

2007-06-11 Thread Paul Bennett
a friend called me on the weekend and said he can't find anything newer than IE5 for OS9 but won't upgrade to OSX because it would be way too slow on his G3. (and he doesn't have the money to buy a new machine) now that is something to think about! Ah, nothing like a good bit of hardware

Re: [WSG] Safari now on Windows

2007-06-11 Thread Lucien Stals
-- Lucien Stals Multimedia/Web Developer Academic Development and Support Swinburne University of Technology PO Box 218 Hawthorn, 3122, Australia email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] telephone: +61 3 9214 4474 office: AD223 On 12/06/2007 at 12:21 pm, Michael MD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: iPhone might

Re: [WSG] Safari now on Windows

2007-06-11 Thread Cameron Singe
I normally use the university macs for testing, the scary thing is they still have IE 5.5 as the default browser *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

RE: [WSG] Safari now on Windows

2007-06-11 Thread Philip Kiff
Michael MD wrote: Speaking of Mac browsers - a friend called me on the weekend and said he can't find anything newer than IE5 for OS9 but won't upgrade to OSX because it would be way too slow on his G3. (and he doesn't have the money to buy a new machine) now that is something to think

Re: [WSG] Safari now on Windows

2007-06-11 Thread Gary Barber
Main problem I have with safari is on win xp sp2 none of the fonts it wants to use render at all. Makes life very interesting. It would be nice if there was a way of reporting the bugs you get. At present there appears not to be a way of doing this. Its fine on the Mac -- Gary Barber Blog -

Re: [WSG] Safari now on Windows

2007-06-11 Thread Jake Badger
On the tool bar there is a big bug button, try that. :) Jake On 12/6/2007, Gary Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Main problem I have with safari is on win xp sp2 none of the fonts it wants to use render at all. Makes life very interesting. It would be nice if there was a way of reporting the

Re: [WSG] Safari now on Windows

2007-06-11 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/06/12 12:21 (GMT+1000) Michael MD apparently typed: http://www.apple.com/safari/ Speaking of Mac browsers - a friend called me on the weekend and said he can't find anything newer than IE5 for OS9 but won't upgrade to OSX because it would be way too slow on his G3. (and he doesn't

Re: [WSG] Safari now on Windows

2007-06-11 Thread Nick Gleitzman
Michael MD wrote: Speaking of Mac browsers - a friend called me on the weekend and said he can't find anything newer than IE5 for OS9 but won't upgrade to OSX because it would be way too slow on his G3. (and he doesn't have the money to buy a new machine) now that is something to think

Re: [WSG] Safari now on Windows

2007-06-11 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/06/12 14:40 (GMT+1000) Nick Gleitzman apparently typed: Felix Miata wrote: If all you use it for is running Safari or IE5 or Camino, a G3 is way more than plenty fast enough to run OS X. Yes, but Michael didn't say his friend was 'just' looking to use a browser. I got the

Re: [WSG] Safari now on Windows

2007-06-11 Thread Gary Barber
Press that and it hangs.. a bug activating a bug reporting tool, sweet! I know its beta, but at least apple could have a link to an online bug reporter.. -- Gary Barber Blog - http:/manwithnoblog.com Jake Badger wrote: On the tool bar there is a big bug button, try that. :) Jake On

Re: [WSG] Safari now on Windows

2007-06-11 Thread Jake Badger
It took a while, but it worked for me. Not that I'm claiming it's not buggy as anything. On 12/6/2007, Gary Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Press that and it hangs.. a bug activating a bug reporting tool, sweet! I know its beta, but at least apple could have a link to an online bug reporter..

Re: [WSG] Safari now on Windows

2007-06-11 Thread Karl Lurman
iPhone might be a different thing altogether .. just because a page renders nicely in Safari on a desktop machine doesn't necessarely mean it is going to be very usable on a tiny screen! (I haven't yet seen an iPhone but I assume the screen would be small like a mobile phone screen...?) Point

Re: [WSG] Safari now on Windows

2007-06-11 Thread Michael MD
Speaks volumes for the longevity of Macs, if you ask me. It's equivalent to saying, 'I can only run IE 4.x because I only have a 386 (486? What do I know?) processor and Win 95.' Or whatever. win95 on a 386 - forget it! you are probably talking about win3.1 :-) I had a 386 in the early