Re: [WSG] correct use of BR tag

2005-07-27 Thread Anthony Cartmell
I tested it with Fangs to see what a screen reader would probably say and The cat isbr /in the kitchen came out as The cat is in the kitchen. Personally I don't leave a space before or after I'd go for no space either side of the tag. According to the HTML spec, the br / tag forces a line

Re: [WSG] My life as an 800x600 leper (was: Site Check: Broadleaf)

2005-07-26 Thread Anthony Cartmell
I couldn't agree with you more. If a web designer believes they are worth their salt then they should make their designs accessible on devices when viewed at 800 x 600 pixels... it's a basic rule surely? Me too. I like my sites to work well on mobile phones and PDAs too - where a screen as

Re: [WSG] Learning The DOM

2005-07-18 Thread Anthony Cartmell
Jeremy, How much JavaScript do you know? Some, but not much. Mostly learnt from hacking other people's scripts to get them to do what I want them to do. I spend more time Googling than writing Javascript code from memory. What kind of things about DOM Scripting need clarifying?

Re: [WSG] bitstream

2005-07-13 Thread Anthony Cartmell
While googling on the link rel=# subject posted yesterday, I found this: (http://www.truedoc.com/webpages/intro/index.html) Has anyone used this service if so what is the consensus, barring the in-line styling of the font tags of course? No, I haven't used it, but I've just had a quick

Re: [WSG] font-familly: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif

2005-07-06 Thread Anthony Cartmell
Bitstream Vera Sans is nice, and free. Anthony -- www.fonant.com - hand-crafted web sites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list

Re: [WSG] PNG support

2005-06-16 Thread Anthony Cartmell
http://www.youngpup.net/2001/sleight I don't remember what the problem was that I had with the behavior for doing this, but I found this JavaScript and it works fine. Sadly this doesn't work in Opera 8. Anthony -- www.fonant.com - hand-crafted web sites

Re: [WSG] PNG support

2005-06-16 Thread Anthony Cartmell
Sadly this doesn't work in Opera 8. Why should it? For people who use Opera ;) What I meant was, the page in question doesn't work in Opera 8. They probably need to tweak their browser-sniffing or something, as, as you say, Opera doesn't need anything special to display alpha-channel

Re: [WSG] CSS problems in IE (weird font-size)

2005-06-02 Thread Anthony Cartmell
Nanna, Has any one encountered problems with IE when using CSS style sheets? Yes, _lots_!! Do you have a DTD declaration at the top of your HTML? It can make quite a difference to how IE works with CSS, especially with tables and percentage font sizes. And older versions of IE do

Re: [WSG] CDATA and html tidy

2005-06-01 Thread Anthony Cartmell
Thanks Bert, but I'm finding that a simple import such as: style type=text/css @import url(../CSS/primary.css); /style What about style href=../CSS/primary.css type=text/css / - or are you using the @import for browser-hacking reasons? The CDATA is needed because you have quote characters,