Re: [WSG] Spolsky on IE8 flag

2008-03-18 Thread Alastair Campbell
Far too long, and his point is buried somewhere... It is long, but I like the headphone analogy that (I think) makes it easier to understand the 'economics' of the situation. (Does it count as economics when the products are free?) I was very surprised by the IE teams decision to make the new

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2008-03-18 Thread yaanno
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Re: [WSG] IE 8 and grey

2008-03-18 Thread Keryx Web
Keryx Web skrev: Quick question. I have not got IE 8 beta 1 myself... Does it understand grey, spelled with an e - as it should be ;-) I have researched this myself now and will set all confusion to rest! Grey is a valid CSS color name defined in CSS 3, not CSS 2.1. As has been stated

Re: [WSG] Spolsky on IE8 flag

2008-03-18 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Lea de Groot wrote: Joel Spolsky has published an ... interesting article http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/03/17.html Ok, I actually sat down and read Joel's convoluted prose... DOCTYPE is a myth. A mortal web designer who attaches a DOCTYPE tag to their web page saying, “this is

Re: [WSG] generated source

2008-03-18 Thread Alastair Campbell
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 6:00 AM, Michael MD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like the view generated source in the Web Developer Firefox plugin, Firebug is very handy too For html it will display as HTML (without closing slashes) as that is how Firefox interprets things sent as text/html. The

Re: [WSG] Spolsky on IE8 flag

2008-03-18 Thread Alastair Campbell
Patrick H. Lauke wrote: Reference implementation for content marked up in HTML is the W3C validator...again, confused about CSS/DOM? Fair point, but his audience is general technical rather than (knowledgeable) web developers. If you put his post in context of general programming (pre and

Re: [WSG] Re: WSG Digest

2008-03-18 Thread John Unsworth
Assuming it's only a soundtrack and doesn't require any controlling, ie: play, pause, volume, etc. then a tiny .swf containing the music track (again set to loop, without control) could sit fairly unobtrusive, and marked up, at the bottom of your HTML. However as has been pointed out, without that