Re: [WSG]shorthand doesn't work for bg position (was auto-hiding bottom part of bg image when resizing fontsize

2007-06-20 Thread Tee G. Peng
On Jun 18, 2007, at 12:24 PM, Robert O'Rourke wrote: By the way, I have a question regarding fixed background position it doesn't work in this way in Safari and Firefox either. #container {background: url(image.jpg) fixed no-repeat} so I changed to #container {background-position: fixed}

Re: [WSG]shorthand doesn't work for bg position (was auto-hiding bottom part of bg image when resizing fontsize

2007-06-20 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Jun 20, 2007, at 3:57 PM, Tee G. Peng wrote: Strange! it really doesn't work for me for my testing in Safair, Firefox and Opera. I tried placing 'fixed' before and after the 'no-repeat', also after the x/y positions. Here is the test page:

Re: [WSG]shorthand doesn't work for bg position (was auto-hiding bottom part of bg image when resizing fontsize

2007-06-20 Thread Tee G. Peng
Hi Philipe, I forgot to mention, in the below page, if you make the screen shorter show that it shows vertical srollbar, and try scroll the page, you can see there 'writing, coaching...' headline image being moved. Here is the test page:

[WSG] fieldset for single input field

2007-06-20 Thread ben van 't ende [netcreators]
Hi, We are building a form generator for a CMS (TYPO3). The question came to our mind if it would be necessary to wrap a single input field in a fieldset. To my best of knowledge a fieldset is meant to group fields. gRTz ben -- netcreators :: creation and innovation www.netcreators.com -

Re: [WSG]shorthand doesn't work for bg position (was auto-hiding bottom part of bg image when resizing fontsize

2007-06-20 Thread Tee G. Peng
On Jun 20, 2007, at 12:46 AM, Tee G. Peng wrote: In this page, http://project.lotusseedsdesign.com/wandahennig/ where I removed 'fixed' in the background property, and have it replaced in 'background-position', the headline image doesn't move. Am I missing something obvious? OK, I

RE: [WSG] Certifications / Exams / Accreditations / Qualifications

2007-06-20 Thread James Leslie
I was wondering If anyone could suggest any credible certifications, exams, qualifications etc. in: * Web Standards * Accessibility * SEO * Site Building / Design * etc. That would be worthwhile taking/having on my CV as well as being useful from a learning point of view. I have an old

RE: [WSG] Certifications / Exams / Accreditations / Qualifications

2007-06-20 Thread Web Man Walking
Hi Thanks for your reply. I was kind of thinking the same thing as you and a wee bit investigation revealed not a lot. I am indeed in the UK (Scotland) and have a degree in Computer Science from way back :-) You may be right about the portfolio and keeping up to date but some way to qualify

[WSG] Triggering POSTs with links?

2007-06-20 Thread Richard Ishida
I put together a box that expands to accommodate larger text in translation, but I forgot that text on a submit button doesn't wrap :O Original: http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-css-charset.en.php#endlinks (see the box to the right) First problematic translation:

RE: [WSG] Triggering POSTs with links?

2007-06-20 Thread Chris Taylor
Have you tried the button element? As far as I know that can be styled pretty much how you want. I used it on this page: http://www.searchandgo.com/weather/United-States/New-York-City/ - the New York City exchange rates text on the left is a button. I may have missed the point of your question,

RE: [WSG] Triggering POSTs with links?

2007-06-20 Thread Richard Ishida
Aha! Yes, that seems to do the job, if I set an appropriate width. Many thanks, Chris. What a great list this is. RI Richard Ishida Internationalization Lead W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ http://www.w3.org/International/

RE: [WSG] Triggering POSTs with links?

2007-06-20 Thread Richard Ishida
Hmm. On the other hand.. It works fine in Firefox, Opera, Safari (Win), but not in IE :(( Grr. RI Richard Ishida Internationalization Lead W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ http://www.w3.org/International/ http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog/

RE: [WSG] Triggering POSTs with links?

2007-06-20 Thread Thierry Koblentz
On Behalf Of Chris Taylor Have you tried the button element? As far as I know that can be styled pretty much how you want. I used it on this page: http://www.searchandgo.com/weather/United-States/New-York-City/ - the New York City exchange rates text on the left is a button. Clever... I'd

Re: [WSG] Triggering POSTs with links?

2007-06-20 Thread Alan Trick
I don't know if this is important to you, but you should really use GET, not POST. POST is supposed to be used when you're actually doing something to a page like submitting data. There, you're just getting a form. See http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html Alan Trick Richard

Re: [WSG] Triggering POSTs with links?

2007-06-20 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
On 20 Jun 2007, at 17:37:59, Richard Ishida wrote: Hmm. On the other hand.. It works fine in Firefox, Opera, Safari (Win), but not in IE :(( Grr. Have you specified the type attribute with value submit? Although the spec states that this is the default, IE defaults to the value button

RE: [WSG] Triggering POSTs with links?

2007-06-20 Thread Thierry Koblentz
On Behalf Of Richard Ishida Hmm. On the other hand.. It works fine in Firefox, Opera, Safari (Win), but not in IE :(( Grr. AFAIK, the only thing that works in IE is to use a br / within the string... OT: really enjoyed your presentation at @media in San Francisco the other week :-) ---

RE: [WSG] Triggering POSTs with links?

2007-06-20 Thread Richard Ishida
Thanks, Nick. I did have the attribute set already, but it doesn't seem to help. Here is my code now: form action=/International/2007/06/surveyform.php method=post pbutton class=interaction type=submitimg src=/International/icons/mailus.gif alt= / Envianos un comentario/button/p input

RE: [WSG] Triggering POSTs with links?

2007-06-20 Thread Richard Ishida
Thanks, Thierry. Yes, I'm beginning to conclude that that's the only thing that I can do, too. It doesn't really solve the problem though, when you have flexibility wrt box size or fonts, accessibility zooming, etc. Oh well... Glad you enjoyed the talk. Cheers, RI Richard Ishida

RE: [WSG] Triggering POSTs with links?

2007-06-20 Thread Thierry Koblentz
On Behalf Of Richard Ishida Thanks, Thierry. Yes, I'm beginning to conclude that that's the only thing that I can do, too. It doesn't really solve the problem though, when you have flexibility wrt box size or fonts, accessibility zooming, etc. Oh well... I came up with this:

Re : [WSG] Safari now on Windows

2007-06-20 Thread Pierre-Henri Lavigne
The staff members of your enterprise in charge of selling services / web sites can use the following text as an argument to not support IE Mac: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/internetexplorer/internetexplorer.aspx?pid=internetexplorer You can easily hide css by using the @import

[WSG] Business case for web standards

2007-06-20 Thread Jon Whitehead
Hi all a uk wiki - business case for standards http://icant.co.uk/webstandardsforbusiness/pmwiki.php cheers Jon *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

Re: [WSG] Triggering POSTs with links?

2007-06-20 Thread Sander Aarts
Thierry Koblentz schreef: I came up with this: http://www.tjkdesign.com/lab/button.asp But it requires to move the text out of the button :( In Opera (9.21) not all of the text is clickable. *** List Guidelines:

Re: Re : [WSG] Safari now on Windows

2007-06-20 Thread Sander Aarts
Pierre-Henri Lavigne schreef: The staff members of your enterprise in charge of selling services / web sites can use the following text as an argument to not support IE Mac: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/internetexplorer/internetexplorer.aspx?pid=internetexplorer They only recommend

[WSG] intuitive text resizer for accessibility toolbar

2007-06-20 Thread Benedict Wyss
Hi all, I just searched on google and found a couple that left me feeling rather mentally limp, so your my next port of call. please pass back links to a text resizer that has the following ability: - specify tags - specify divs - decent instruction, not weak attempts - leave me

RE: [WSG] Triggering POSTs with links?

2007-06-20 Thread Thierry Koblentz
On Behalf Of Sander Aarts Thierry Koblentz schreef: I came up with this: http://www.tjkdesign.com/lab/button.asp But it requires to move the text out of the button :( In Opera (9.21) not all of the text is clickable. Hi Sander, thanks for the feedback. I just checked in Opera 8.5

Re: [WSG] Triggering POSTs with links?

2007-06-20 Thread Mike at Green-Beast.com
Thierry Koblentz wrote: I came up with this: http://www.tjkdesign.com/lab/button.asp But it requires to move the text out of the button :( I'm sort of just catching the end of this, but are you guys talking about something like what I did on my daughter's blog [1]? [1]

RE: [WSG] Triggering POSTs with links?

2007-06-20 Thread Thierry Koblentz
On Behalf Of Mike at Green-Beast.com I'm sort of just catching the end of this, but are you guys talking about something like what I did on my daughter's blog [1]? [1] http://sarahcherim.com/ (look at the Contribution Cow on the sidebar) I didn't use button (not sure if that's was the

Re: [WSG] intuitive text resizer for accessibility toolbar

2007-06-20 Thread Benedict Wyss
To expand a bit further: What is the standard? - multiple inc/decreases? - restore or not to restore? - a single increase and a single decrease? - no decrease? - simple v complex JS? - no inc or decrease? even I also need to change the sizes of multiple elements in the main

Re: [WSG] intuitive text resizer for accessibility toolbar

2007-06-20 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/06/21 00:12 (GMT-0400) Benedict Wyss apparently typed: I just searched on google and found a couple that left me feeling rather mentally limp, so your my next port of call. please pass back links to a text resizer that has the following ability: I think what you want is to reinvent