[WSG] Re: WSG Digest (Out of office returning Wed 6 Feb)

2008-02-01 Thread Mark Wooldridge
Hi, I am currently out of the office and will return on Wednesday 6 Feb. In my absence, you may contact Elise Fitzgerald, ITIS Contract Administrator, regarding ITIS business matters. Phone 9268 2962 or email [EMAIL PROTECTED] If the matter is urgent and you cannot reach Elise please contact

Re: [WSG] This IE8 controversy

2008-02-01 Thread kate
Oh dear me lol I am still on IE6 and so I guess jump a version. Kate Bichon Frisé http://jungaling.com/kynismarmissmillie/index.php Borneo http://julienne.wordpress.com/ *** List Guidelines:

Re: [WSG] This IE8 controversy

2008-02-01 Thread Dave Woods
A better approach would be to switch to a more standards compliant browser like Firefox/Opera or Safari ;o) http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ http://www.opera.com/ http://www.apple.com/safari/ (still appears to be in beta for windows though). If you're a web developer/designer, you should

Re: [WSG] linking to images with //

2008-02-01 Thread James Ellis
Hi That's a common enough response when dealing with standards based implementations from companies that either: * do know and don't care * don't know and are scared/worried * do know, do care but don't have the resources * do know but implementation would have internal political implications

[WSG] positioning problems

2008-02-01 Thread Ron Zisman
hey all, i posted this on css-d this morning and couldn't get any takers. both file validate. http://www.ricochet.org/ricochet2/company_principal.html original page (above) validates and goes cross browser fairly well, i think. it has some scaling issues on fonts, messing badly with

[WSG] long description and its implementation

2008-02-01 Thread dwain
i have looked at the html 4.01 specs and i did not see any examples of how to implement the longdesc element. i am working on long descriptions on separate pages for each work of art on my web site. i am planning on placing a D link next to the text title of the work on the main category page.

Re: [WSG] long description and its implementation

2008-02-01 Thread Christian Snodgrass
Longdesc is actually an attribute. It's most commonly used with the img element, though it works for several other multimedia-related options. Basically, you just add the attribute to your img tag, and then the value of the longdesc attribute is the path to the longdesc file. Here is

RE: [WSG] long description and its implementation

2008-02-01 Thread Elizabeth Spiegel
Hi Dwain See Joe Clark's book, Building accessible websites - online at http://joeclark.org/book/sashay/serialization/Chapter06.html Elizabeth Spiegel Web editing 0409 986 158 GPO Box 729, Hobart TAS 7001 www.spiegelweb.com.au From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [WSG] long description and its implementation

2008-02-01 Thread dwain
thanks christian. i did a google search and found what i was looking for. i was saddened by the D link being deprecated. don't know how i'm going to do this, so i've got some testing to do to see how this is going to play out. dwain On 2/2/08, Christian Snodgrass [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [WSG] long description and its implementation

2008-02-01 Thread dwain
thanks elizabeth. the article was helpful. here's my situation. the image that i am using is a link to the longdesc. the title text under the image links to a larger version of the image. now let's ask the standards compliant question. with text in the content specifying the difference

Re: [WSG] long description and its implementation

2008-02-01 Thread dwain
here's the link to the example: http://studiokdd.com/sandbox/abstract-christian-art-new-testament.html i have the jesus and disciples pic set to the long description and the text link to the larger pic. any feedback would be appreciated. dwain On 2/2/08, Elizabeth Spiegel [EMAIL PROTECTED]