RE: [WSG] SEO, fact or fiction

2008-03-07 Thread Stuart Foulstone
Hi, Search robots are essentially blind users. Design to Web accessibility standards and you remove all the clutter that can get in the way of bots traversing your site and also include information that they might otherwise miss (e.g. through alt attributes). The easier it is to find keywords

RE: [WSG] SEO, fact or fiction

2008-03-07 Thread Stuart Foulstone
Hi, Search robots are essentially blind users. Design to Web accessibility standards and you remove all the clutter that can get in the way of bots traversing your site and also include information that they might otherwise miss (e.g. through alt attributes). The easier it is to find keywords

Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-07 Thread Andrew Maben
On Mar 7, 2008, at 1:18 AM, Michael MD wrote: when I look at the server logs here I still see almost as many IE6 users as IE7 users. This prompted me to look back at our logs (US public library: 10 branches, about a million circulating items, and in a town with a large state university

RE: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-07 Thread michael.brockington
I use XP on two different corporate networks. Both have auto-update blocked, and will remain on IE6 for the foreseeable future. I don't think this is uncommon, but we will need to wait and see. Until now, the general practice appears to be to support the latest two versions of IE, but I think for

Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-07 Thread aleagi
Hello Mike, I agree with you. There's a lot of users still working in obsolete machines or/by option, browsing with IE6. I think IE7 was a transition state to the web standards rendering, like Windows Me was to 98 from 2000. Microsoft likes to do things like that... I do believe that IE7 will

[WSG] Online Survey Consultation Tools

2008-03-07 Thread Faul, Mark
Hello everyone, We are currently researching and evaluating tools for both online consultation and online surveys for our public website and intranet. If you are currently researching tools for online consultation and/or online surveys, which tool(s) are you considering and why? If your

Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-07 Thread Designer
Michael MD wrote: when I look at the server logs here I still see almost as many IE6 users as IE7 users. (the server logs are from a public events/nightlife website which gets a pretty diverse range of people visiting it) The following stats (representing 15694 users of all kinds) are for

Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-07 Thread Keryx Web
aleagi skrev: Hello Mike, I agree with you. There's a lot of users still working in obsolete machines or/by option, browsing with IE6. That would be all of my colleagues - and me if I want to access the intranet for our town. It won't work in MSIE 7 (and hence not in MSIE 8 with any

[WSG] Navigation menu problem

2008-03-07 Thread Kevin Arrowsmith
Hi All, Im having a problem getting a menu to look right in IE6, it can be found at http://darkvirus.homeip.net/~darkness/h2/new/ IE7 and FF seem fine but IE6 seems to put a margin under each link and I cant seem to get rid of it (IE8 only seem to change the background colour when the

Re: [WSG] Navigation menu problem

2008-03-07 Thread akella
hello, Study this one http://www.brunildo.org/test/IEWlispace.phpThere are a lot of combinations, fast dirty hack would be to give li's hasLayout li{zoom:1} On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 11:50 PM, Kevin Arrowsmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Im having a problem getting a menu to look

Re: [WSG] Navigation menu problem

2008-03-07 Thread aleagi
Heloo there, Try this: * html #nav li a { height: 1%; } I guess this can do the trick. Best Regards, Luiz Gustavo Aleagi Nunes - Nosce te ipsum - http://sapiensdc.com.br On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 6:50 PM, Kevin Arrowsmith [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [WSG] Navigation menu problem

2008-03-07 Thread Thierry Koblentz
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Arrowsmith Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 1:50 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Navigation menu problem  Hi All, Im having a problem getting a menu to look right in IE6, it can be found at

RE: [WSG] Navigation menu problem

2008-03-07 Thread Kevin Arrowsmith
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thierry Koblentz Sent: 07 March 2008 22:32 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] Navigation menu problem From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Arrowsmith Sent:

Re: [WSG] Navigation menu problem

2008-03-07 Thread Юрий Артюх
/*/ #nav a {position:relative;} /**/ Thierry, will this be seen only by IE8? 8 марта 2008, в 00:31, Thierry Koblentz написал(а): From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Arrowsmith Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 1:50 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG]

RE: [WSG] Navigation menu problem

2008-03-07 Thread Thierry Koblentz
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ? Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 3:22 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Navigation menu problem /*/ #nav a {position:relative;} /**/ Thierry, will this be seen only by IE8?

[WSG] Firefox developer toolbar

2008-03-07 Thread Hayden's Harness Attachment
I hope this is not off topic. I have the web developer toolbar working great with Firefox 2.x. Does the web developer toolbar support Firefox 3.0 beta 3? Angus MacKinnon Infoforce Services http:ééwww.infoforce-services.com It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.

Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-07 Thread IceKat
Hey, I've been watching some of the IE8 conversations. I got it just yesterday and tried it. While it may pass the Acid2 test flawlessly (and only be a beta) it takes up /masses/ of memory. My computer isn't exactly a dinosaur but it still paused whilst trying to type using IE8. How powerful