Re: [WSG] Re: ARIA

2008-08-11 Thread David Dorward
On 10 Aug 2008, at 23:49, Hassan Schroeder wrote: David Dorward wrote: (Obviously you have to validate against a DTD that includes ARIA features) Right, and the only thing I could find relating to this was: !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC Accessible Adaptive Applications//EN This is a public

[WSG] Tables for product=price list

2008-08-11 Thread James Jeffery
In the past I have tryed to avoid tables as much as possible and sometimes going as far as using lists for data that should be placed in tables. I am trying to sway away from the 'never use tables' crowd and have started to use them when they need to be used. I am working on a tattoo website and

Re: [WSG] Tables for product=price list

2008-08-11 Thread James Jeffery
Here is the current mark-up h3Body Art/h3 table captionBody Art Price List/caption thead tr thProduct/th thPrice/th /tr

Re: [WSG] Tables for product=price list

2008-08-11 Thread Rob Enslin
Hi James, My understanding is that if the content is tabular data / data list in nature then tables should be used. If your page had a dynamic element to it - say being able to sort your product by price then the best way to mark it up is by tables (IMO)... with JS. Would be interesting to get

Re: [WSG] Tables for product=price list

2008-08-11 Thread silky
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 6:01 PM, James Jeffery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the past I have tryed to avoid tables as much as possible and sometimes going as far as using lists for data that should be placed in tables. I am trying to sway away from the 'never use tables' crowd and have started to

Re: [WSG] Tables for product=price list

2008-08-11 Thread Stuart Foulstone
A list is the most appropriate for a list. The fact that price list states list DOES mean a list should be used - when you use the term list that's what the user then expects it to be. If you don't want to use a list (for whatever pedantic reason) then don't call it one. If you want to use a

Re: [WSG] Tables for product=price list

2008-08-11 Thread James Jeffery
Disagree. Many shopping carts on the web have product lists or summarys marked up in a table. When you look at it from the point of view where one column is the products and the other is the price, and another is VAT per product its more semantic to do it that way. Again, just because something

Re: [WSG] Tables for product=price list

2008-08-11 Thread Stuart Foulstone
On Mon, August 11, 2008 10:38 am, James Jeffery wrote: Disagree. ... Again, just because something is a list does not mean it should be in a list. Take for example students grades. The school needs to list the name, the subject, the expected grade, the outcome (30/30) and a percentage

Re: [WSG] Tables for product=price list

2008-08-11 Thread Rob Enslin
James, sounds like you've answered your own question/doubt then? Perhaps you should head your 'list' as h1Prices/h1 and not h1Price List/h1? 2008/8/11 James Jeffery [EMAIL PROTECTED] Disagree. Many shopping carts on the web have product lists or summarys marked up in a table. When you look

Re: [WSG] Tables for product=price list

2008-08-11 Thread silky
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Stuart Foulstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, August 11, 2008 10:38 am, James Jeffery wrote: Disagree. ... Again, just because something is a list does not mean it should be in a list. Take for example students grades. The school needs to list the

Re: [WSG] Tables for product=price list

2008-08-11 Thread James Jeffery
And the same can be said for my example where each row has data relating to the product, size, color info and price. On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Stuart Foulstone [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Mon, August 11, 2008 10:38 am, James Jeffery wrote: Disagree. ... Again, just because

Re: [WSG] Tables for product=price list

2008-08-11 Thread James Jeffery
Even if it where product and price, as in my origional example, a table is still more semantic because the data in the rows relate to the columns i.e. product and price. On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:38 AM, James Jeffery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And the same can be said for my example where each

Re: [WSG] Tables for product=price list

2008-08-11 Thread James Jeffery
Rob, Yeah I have now after extensive research. I have headed the table with a caption and it uses a h3. There are various parent sections above the table that use h2 and h1. Cheers. On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Rob Enslin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James, sounds like you've answered your

RE: [WSG] Tables for product=price list

2008-08-11 Thread michael.brockington
Calm down everyone! In this case, though no doubt someone can find a dictionary that disagrees with me, a list could usually be said to be synonymous with a 'single column table' and conversely, a data table is a set of parallel lists - they are both special cases of each other. On that basis, I

Re: [WSG] Tables for product=price list

2008-08-11 Thread Ian Chamberlain
Not sure web users would care a whole lot if the heading was prices or price list. Thanks for the debate chaps; I have struggled over this issue on and off for some time and this has helped me to define a simple rule which works for me. [The rule]If the list has multiple columns check

Re: [WSG] Tables for product=price list

2008-08-11 Thread James Jeffery
Ian and Micheal, you summed up what I was about to write. Some people got really defensive. My argument all along was that a list should not always be marked up as a list as such. Take ebay for example, they even go to the extent of calling their results 'lists'. You can see this on results pages

Re: [WSG] Tables for product=price list

2008-08-11 Thread designer
One way to look at it is that a simple list is a list (in the html sense), whereas a relational list is tabular, so it goes in a table. So, a simple list of 'things to do' would use an HTML list, whereas a list which required data giving more information about the primary list element (a

Re: [WSG] firefox treatment of wrapper overflow height

2008-08-11 Thread Nathan de Vries
On 18/07/2008, at 7:45 AM, David Hucklesby wrote: Of course, there are several other ways to enclose floats that do not require that extra DIV. I would have thought that the method described by PIE [1] would be the only sane way to do this. -- Nathan de Vries [1]

Re: [WSG] Re: ARIA

2008-08-11 Thread Hassan Schroeder
David Dorward wrote: It doesn't really reject it, it just warns you that the combination doesn't make much sense. Sigh. Semantics. That was one suggested DOCTYPE that I found -- and no, I'm not sure at this point where -- but regardless, do you know the answer to the *original question*:

Re: [WSG] Tables for product=price list

2008-08-11 Thread Viable Design
I vote table. It's not really a list, regardless of the title you put on it. It's a chart. Jo On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 4:01 AM, James Jeffery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the past I have tryed to avoid tables as much as possible and sometimes going as far as using lists for data that should be

Re: [WSG] Re: ARIA

2008-08-11 Thread David Dorward
On 11 Aug 2008, at 15:14, Hassan Schroeder wrote: David Dorward wrote: It doesn't really reject it, it just warns you that the combination doesn't make much sense. Sigh. Semantics. That was one suggested DOCTYPE that I found -- and no, I'm not sure at this point where -- but regardless,

Re: [WSG] Re: ARIA

2008-08-11 Thread David Dorward
On 11 Aug 2008, at 15:47, David Dorward wrote: http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/ says: ?xml version=1.0? !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML+ARIA 1.0//EN http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/DTD/xhtml-aria-1.dtd ... except that

Re: [WSG] Re: ARIA

2008-08-11 Thread David Storey
On 11 Aug 2008, at 16:47, David Dorward wrote: On 11 Aug 2008, at 15:14, Hassan Schroeder wrote: David Dorward wrote: It doesn't really reject it, it just warns you that the combination doesn't make much sense. Sigh. Semantics. That was one suggested DOCTYPE that I found -- and no, I'm

RE: [WSG] firefox treatment of wrapper overflow height

2008-08-11 Thread Thierry Koblentz
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nathan de Vries Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 6:11 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] firefox treatment of wrapper overflow height On 18/07/2008, at 7:45 AM, David Hucklesby wrote:

Re: [WSG] Re: ARIA

2008-08-11 Thread David Dorward
On 11 Aug 2008, at 16:16, Hassan Schroeder wrote: David Dorward wrote: When will the W3C validator support ARIA? As I said Now. Using your provided DTD, a simple test file results in: 1. Error Line 2, Column 76: could not get /MarkUp/DTD/xhtml- aria-1.dtd from www.w3.org (reason given

Re: [WSG] Re: ARIA

2008-08-11 Thread Hassan Schroeder
David Storey wrote: When will the W3C validator support ARIA? I've no idea for HTML, but I'm not sure it is 100% important. If the rest of your code is valid and the only thing that is invalid is the WAI-ARIA stuff then that would be good enough for me... You're missing the point -- I

Re: [WSG] Re: ARIA

2008-08-11 Thread David Storey
On 11 Aug 2008, at 17:26, Hassan Schroeder wrote: David Storey wrote: When will the W3C validator support ARIA? I've no idea for HTML, but I'm not sure it is 100% important. If the rest of your code is valid and the only thing that is invalid is the WAI-ARIA stuff then that would be

R: [WSG] Re: ARIA

2008-08-11 Thread Diego La Monica
Hi Hassan and everybody, I think that we have to take a while of silence and think about what is *necessary* and what is *pointless*. Well. I'm member of W3C PFWG but I'd like to stress that what follows is my opinion and does not reflect necessary the opinion of the whole Group. Well, I

Re: [WSG] Re: ARIA

2008-08-11 Thread Hassan Schroeder
David Storey wrote: Then your solutions are either to do as the W3C suggests and use the class attribute for WAI-ARIA role names, and add afterwards using JavaScript/DOM, or validate before adding the ARIA stuff, then add when you are sure the rest of the mark up is correct. or just ignore

Re: [WSG] Re: ARIA

2008-08-11 Thread Rob Crowther
David Storey wrote: thing it adds is giving you more brownie points for validating, while not allowing WAI-ARIA to work if JavaScript is turned off. I would have thought that, if JavaScript was turned off, the ARIA stuff wouldn't be too useful. As its purpose is to communicate dynamic

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