Hello all,
I've got a problem with character set encoding I'd like to rectify. I use
UTF-8 as a matter of convenience and ideology, and don't believe it should
be that much of a problem. My editor (Notepad++) is set to create new files
in UTF-8 without a byte order mark, but when I retrieve files
Joseph Ortenzi wrote:
Can I know why WSGLondon do not make use of the WSG list? I have started
an informal discussion group for London and would really like to help
support the more structured WSGL presentations with a monthly discussion
group, and possibly some planning and organising
Christie Mason wrote:
I can't believe I'm even talking about rights
and shopping in the same sentence.
Are you implying that shopping is a luxury? As horrible as you may find
it, shopping is actually necessary for human survival in a capitalist
society. It's the only way we can acquire
Michael MD wrote:
Are you implying that shopping is a luxury? As horrible as you may
find it, shopping is actually necessary for human survival in a
capitalist society. It's the only way we can acquire goods.
Target is not the only place where people can go shopping ...
OK, so one website
Christie Mason wrote:
I think you'd better check your history books. Changes in culture
occurred first, creating an environment for the laws to be created - for
better or worse. Odd that you chose examples involving a king and a
dictator, not the best examples of the body politic.
Tell me
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In 2000, Bruce Maguire's accessibility complaint against the
Olympics.com website was upheld.
Did this lead to a spate of frivolous, discriminatory lawsuits in
Australia?
Did it lead to any improvement in accessibility of commercial,
government or hobby web
Public, and I work with a small team of specialists.
As far as I see it, the public sector is fairly serious and strong
transferable competencies are demanded from you. As such you tend to get
less nonsense communication with clients, you're constantly developing a
more honest expertise, and
Web Dandy Design wrote:
Hi,
Can anyone advise on the most accessible, open-source CMS between Joomla,
Drupal or Plone?
No takers? I'll answer the question: Plone.
You'll need Python (pretty rare on servers as a whole) as opposed to the
far more widespread PHP to run the shebang, but I find
Spirit Q.9 Gaming wrote:
http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/gallery_click
Can you use this?
Stu Nicholls has done a few :hover lightboxes:
http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/lightbox.html
If you want to be really flash (without flash, naturally)...
http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/image_magnifier2.html
Spirit Q.9 Gaming wrote:
That lightbox and the image will disappear when we move out the mouse
though clicked, should use combo?
What iStockPhoto does is a no-click interface where you just hover over
things to expand them and off to make them disappear. iStock's thing
uses javascript to
Rick,
The key thing to consider is this:
• Invalid *ML will force browsers into defective behaviour. If your
markup isn't written according to the very clear spec, the browser has
to make assumptions. Different browsers make different assumptions at
different times – you are leaving yourself
Breton Slivka wrote:
I explicitly said that graphic
design is *Not* about the visual, or aesthetic appearance.
Graphic design is an integrally visual craft. I cannot conceive of it in
any other medium, unless you're saying its real focus is your college
lectures (it gets even better than
swifr offers cute image modifying effects (including rotation) using
Flash, and degrades gracefully.
http://www.swfir.com/
However it can't do the other things you're asking for by itself. The
problem is really the image rotating - everything else could be done
with lightweight javascript
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Cameron Singe wrote:
I read a book by Christian Heilmann on beginning javascript, I would
rate him as a guru
Definitely. FYI Lars, http://domscripting.com/ is Christian's hub site.
Jeremy Keith should also be above most of these people as popular and
populist (just under PPK, possibly) -
Nick Fitzsimons wrote:
But there's then little point in communicating this fact to a list about
Web Stanbdards, as you are clearly advocating something which is in
breach of said standards.
Steady on, Nick. If he wasn't here you wouldn't be able to tell him this
- it's exactly the right
Designer wrote:
Nick Gleitzman wrote:
Barney Carroll wrote:
...a deceased squirrel foetus
Wow. What an image.
N
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I wondered if you kept one on hand, in your office, for purposes of
validation?
I use it mostly for accessibility tests.
The fur gets a bit
For what it's worth, I often get irritated with 1024x768-mimum layouts,
even though my screen is a wopping 1600x1200.
There's obviously such a thing as incredibly long lines, but even in
cases like the wonderful alistapart.com, I'm irritated that the screen
should necessarily be so wide. I
Nick Gleitzman wrote:
Photoshop and JAWS: sorry, Marvin, but that's just OT for this list.
Stuart Foulstone wrote:
Assistive technology off topic???
It's worth making the point: Don't get intimidated by this - JAWS is a
perfectly legitimate thing to discuss here.
Regards,
Barney
Nick Fitzsimons wrote:
Would you argue that a discussion of the use of Jaws with Microsoft
Excel (which is, judging by the manufacturer's FAQs, one of its
commonest uses) is related to Web Standards?
Only if the .csv was downloaded off the cybercom.
A statement in the root post would easily
Stuart Foulstone wrote:
Hi,
The for attribute should NOT be used when the label tag encloses the
label text.
What are the dangers?
Regards,
Barney
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Hi All:
My name is Puneet, web designer based in Dubai.
Recently I have revamped my website with tableless design and xhtml,
keeping the web standards in mind.
I would really appreciate, if you guys can take a look at :
www.puneetsakhuja.com, and send me your
Open Vision wrote:
No, but that is interesting to hear. My son is severly dyslexic and is
going to start college nxt fall. His counselor suggested just that
program and told us it was the best out there.
I've met several people who swear by Dragon as a dictation tool. A
couple of contacts
Aside from namespace issues, validation deals principally with
well-formedness, as far as I'm aware.
If someone really believes the W3C is of no concern to people focused on
building well-formed documents, they should tell us what definition of
well-formed they are using. Otherwise this
Open Vision wrote:
Let them keep putting them up. As long as we know what's right we can do
a good job and it may keep the competition down! LOL
That's a pretty closed vision! To be honest, the best thing about web
standards is that they're not standard. It makes me employable.
Regards,
Tim wrote:
I reckon you are being cynical Barney :-)
Consider colour blindness, 8% of adult males, you can allow a user to
select a colour scheme.
Consider screen size, alternative stylesheets can improve presentation
of different devices.
I use seven different linked stylesheets on
Grant Novey wrote:
Using the @import stylesheet rule is great if you only want your
stylesheet rules to be picked up by most modern browsers. Netscape 4 and
below and IE 4 and below do not support the @import rule. This allows
you to target stylesheets to specific browser versions.
Does that
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Shelley Purvis wrote:
No, they should be marked up as:
tdnbsp;/td
Bzzzt - wrong answer -- the nbsp; is meaningless.
Meaningless under certain definitions but completely harmless. Besides,
an empty cell is already meaningless. Attack the very notion if you're
truly concerned about a
Hassan Schroeder wrote:
Excuse me? In any DB (or programming language) I use, a null value
is *not* equal or equivalent to a space character.
Wo! Well said, Hassan. You're right, a string to replace null values is
significant. I take back my earlier point - a character could be
introduced
David Dorward wrote:
Barney Carroll wrote:
Wo! Well said, Hassan. You're right, a string to replace null values
is significant. I take back my earlier point - a character could be
introduced with JS, I suppose.
How is that any different? The resulting document is the same.
If somebody's
David Dorward wrote:
Intranet? Where did this start being limited to an intranet?
...
But HTML is not a presentation language, it describes structure /
semantics.
Internet, David. Honestly, HTML may be very nice indeed, but I'd
strongly advise against it for general purpose data-handling.
Tables always get people dancing around the room, mostly drunk.
The presentation seems unusual as does the term 'table' (possibly
because there's only two values per row). But the most common instance
of tables in print is the table of contents, which is exactly like this.
Try arguing that
Rob Kirton wrote:
Barney
I don't see this as being a definition list. 39 does not define Chapter
1, it is an indicator of where to find chapter 1. It is arguably a
table, as in table of contents. Of course it is all a bit of an odd case
considering the web. Web pages aren't paper, and
Mike Brown wrote:
- we don't want to get into a debate as to which usability consultants
are good or not, or even what makes a good usability consultant
Sarah, usability standards conversations are a hot topic over at the
evolt.org list.
Regards,
Barney
Tim wrote:
My meta tag base href were taken out of pages by ask.com the mobile
version http://m.ask.com/
This allowed them to run my site by relative URLs on their server with
fake paypal links en all.
Jesus, that's horrible!
Excuse my ignorance. It seems then, that all the best
Tim wrote:
What a statement! Are we hear for W3C standards or fiction?
ANyone touting for work here should be fairly subject to at least W3C
validation tests!
Or else! What are the standards?
I have to back this. In my mind this is exactly what this list is for.
If people can't go to the
Ian Stalvies wrote:
Um ... as far as I know Hiser, as a rule, don't actually code sites -
they try to focus purely on usability. Which I believe was Sarah's
original request ...
It's still an awful indicator. Although I've seen a lot of Australian
firms selling accessibility, and awards
Nick Roper wrote:
Hi,
A customer has requested that they should be able to navigate between
input fields on a form by using the Enter key - i.e. to replicate the
action of the Tab key.
I've seen examples of Javascript code to do this, but I'd be interested
in any feedback on whether there
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