Looking at it in Chrome it's two canvas elements (one for the animation, one
for the shadow) with a noscript fallback:
canvas id=calder width=400 height=300 style=margin-left: -48px;
z-index: 0; cursor: move; /canvas
canvas id=calder_shadows width=400 height=300
From: cat soul
Sent: 10 November 2010 23:32
Great! Most everyone else is saying HTML5 is 10 years off and not to
code for it, not to worry about it until then.
HTML5 as a finished, published spec may be 10 years off, but there are plenty
of HTML5 features you can use right now with some
From: David Dorward
Sent: 11 November 2010 10:30
On 11 Nov 2010, at 09:18, Chris Taylor wrote:
In fact, this is HTML5-style - !doctype html - but will work fine in all
browsers (as far as I know).
When you come to perform basic QA using a validator, on the other hand, you
get very
I have stats from a few websites which show a similar picture:
Financial services site (5800 visitors over the last couple of months):
Internet Explorer 80.12%
Firefox9.52%
Safari 5.71%
Chrome 3.52%
Mozilla0.34%
Opera 0.29%
And for
Marvin,
Sitepoint have a good article on font stacks which I've found to be a very easy
way of making text look quite a bit better:
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/eight-definitive-font-stacks/
Regards
Chris
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From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org
Hi,
tee said:
However, seeing that HTML 5 has given hr tag a new purpose:
http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#the-hr-element
http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#flow-content-0
quote:
The hr element represents a paragraph-level thematic break, e.g. a
scene change in a story,
On Behalf Of Rachel Radford
Sent: 24 June 2009 14:51
Subject: RE: [WSG] RE: Using background images on submit buttons
I fear the only proper solution while using .Net is for the HTML that is
produced to change!
Rachel, have you had a look at the CSS control adapters
Toggling the visibility of elements while respecting accessibility is one of
the features of Performer (http://performerjs.org). A new site is currently in
the works with much better documentation, but if you’re interested in using
this drop me a line off-list and I’ll be glad to help.
Chris
From: Chris Knowles
I wouldn't be waiting for ARIA to get out of draft before using it :) It
has pretty good support in browsers already so get stuck in. And because
essentially all you are doing with ARIA is adding attributes to tags,
the worst that can happen is your pages no longer
From: Chris Knowles
yes, so you still run your code through the validator and make sure it
only fails on the ARIA attributes - that way you save yourself a whole
lot of trouble. I don't really understand inserting attributes with
javascript just so you get a tick from the validator? Maybe
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From: Chris Knowles
does that actually work? My understanding is that one problem ARIA
addresses is that when javascript alters the DOM, assistive technologies
don't necessarily get notified of the changes. So do they get notified
that you've injected ARIA
From: Foskett, Mike
Subject: RE: [WSG] JS patterns
Solution:
Instead of adding an onclick to a heading, try adding a
link to the heading then put the onclick on that.
Use the id of the hidden div as the link href and you're
done.
Best practice observed and everyone's happy.
I agree
Hi Brett,
The problem isn't this:
var whatever = document.getElementById(layer);
I's this:
onhover=namedFunction('timer')
What you're doing is mixing JavaScript in the HTML of the page. What you should
do is use a listener on your link to see when it is hovered over. This code
uses the
Is not acceptable to put event handlers like onhover and onclick
in an HTML page? Sorry, but I am still learning JavaScript.
Not if you want to do things the Proper Way :0) The term for keeping JavaScript
out of the HTML page is Unobtrusive JavaScript, and we do it for the same
reasons we
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McLaughlin, Gail
Sent: 19 November 2008 16:50
I'm wondering if anybody here knows of a way to use analytics data
to help determine a good guess or idea of which users are using
screen readers to access data, or having trouble with
Hi,
This is the one I've used with good success:
http://www.frequency-decoder.com/2006/10/02/unobtrusive-date-picker-widgit-update.
It has a lot of options set from the CSS classes of an input type=text
element.
Chris
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From: John Unsworth
Sent: 09 July 2008 14:37
It's a bit late of night, but if I read this right, if this section
(as it is a form, right?) is wrapped in a fieldset you can then hide
both labels and use legend to identify that's it's postcode
That's certainly an
On 3 Jul 2008, at 22:16, Al Sparber wrote:
When a block of text exceeds the viewport width, that means
horizontal scrolling for *each line* - a royal PITA.
I kid of think you are speaking for yourself ;-)
Rick Lecoat replied:
Well, he's speaking for me as well.
Me too. I find that
Michael,
What if JavaScript isn't enabled or available on my smartphone? I presume your
websites are not for people accessing the web while on the move, as well as
people whose preference or requirement is to use a web client without
JavaScript.
These standard[s] freaks you seem to think so
Michael said:
Are you willing to work 3 days extra for each project to implement the
usability / accessibility regulations in order to follow the web standard
in order to create a better website that the client will not pay for or
even understand what they are paying for...??
I try to quote
for the last 2 years but sometimes I am just chopped by the shoulders
because noone else have any idea
of what I am talking about...
Michael
Chris Taylor wrote:
Michael said:
Are you willing to work 3 days extra for each project to implement the
usability / accessibility regulations in order
The HTML Validator for Firefox works in offline mode, as far as I’m aware:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/249
Chris
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dwain
Sent: 17 April 2008 05:11
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Website
Here's the shorthand for what you want to do:
.someClass
{
border: 1px solid #CCC;
border-width: 1px 2px 2px 1px; /* top, right, bottom, left */
border-bottom-color: #666;
border-right-color: #666;
}
Obviously if all your borders have the same color you can forget the last 2
lines, which makes
Hi,
I'd say use a list, for two reasons. Firstly you said im generating a
stronglist/strong of page links, and secondly a heading should be a
heading for something that comes after it in the content. So not this:
h3apage name/a/h3
!-- something should be here... --
h3apage name2/a/h3
But this
Hi,
I've written a small set of helper functions that will allow you to
unobtrusively add JavaScript to a web page. It's built on the back off the
prototype library so you'll need that as well. See the details here:
http://www.stillbreathing.co.uk/projects/performer/performer.html
A couple of
to toggle visibility - the item is just
there.
Just a thought!
Cheers,
Ben
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On 26/02/2008, Chris Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I've written a small set of helper functions that will allow you
From: Joe Ortenzi
Sent: 21 December 2007 07:32
Why not simply make people register for it? Then you
have their details and if you make the registration
process intelligent, they will be aware they are being
tracked and more likely to behave. All sorts of benefits
and if the discussion
While I think the Opera complaint has firm ground to stand on, there's one
thing in David's announcement to this group I'm unsure about.
We think these actions are essential for the
evolution of web standards and the open web,
which Microsoft is hindering due to it's dominant
market share
But even for a relatively small site having a sitemap will help some users find
what they want quickly. Those people are the same ones who will scan the index
of a book before flicking through the pages.
I've done that on this site: http://www.2plan.com/ despite it only being 15
pages or so.
There's a new project by the name of Buddypress which is a open source social
networking platform build on Wordpress MU. I believe Andy is trying to make it
as standards-compliant as possible. See it at http://buddypress.com.
Chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Your select name attribute is New_URL but you're looking for a POST
attribute called id. Change your PHP script to $_POST[New_URL] and it
should work.
Chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Paul Collins
Sent: 10 July 2007 15:58
To:
I'd agree with the SEO expert, H1 should be saved for the most important
heading on a page - which is not generally the company name. So in your
example I'd say that Rugby World Cup 2007 Packages should be in a H1.
However that means it's probably not going to be the first heading element
on the
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Page Structure
Chris Taylor wrote:
However that means it's probably not going to be the first heading element
on the page, which is frowned upon by some. Can anyone else expand on the
reasons for that?
I think we need to be careful how we
I could do what other frameworks I've worked
with do and wrap the whole table in a form
and name elements with a parseable delimiter...
input type=text name=foo$row$1 ... /
This is the type of solution I've used in the past, and then put the save
button in the last column of each row,
In this case I don't care about semantics as much as not
having to do funky backend parsing and fighting css bugs
because of the naming conventions in my controls..
Thankfully this will never see production and just
reminds me of the hackish days from the past..
Those hackish days, I
with links?
On Behalf Of Chris Taylor
Have you tried the button element? As far as I know that can be
styled
pretty much how you want. I used it on this page:
http://www.searchandgo.com/weather/United-States/New-York-City/ - the
New
York City exchange rates text on the left is a button.
Clever
Have you tried the button element? As far as I know that can be styled
pretty much how you want. I used it on this page:
http://www.searchandgo.com/weather/United-States/New-York-City/ - the New
York City exchange rates text on the left is a button.
I may have missed the point of your question,
to the Future
Chris Taylor wrote:
Thanks for the input everyone, it looks like old-school tables with inline
styles is the way to go, unfortunately.
You may be right, if it were me, I'd install an old copy of Frontpage or
dreamweaver and use that... matching the era of the tool with the era
Hi all,
I've been asked to write a website that MUST work in Netscape 4.03 and
IE 3 for Windows 3.1. When you've stopped laughing I'm afraid I have to
say I'm serious, and there's no chance at all that the people connecting
to the site will upgrade.
So, any tips to do this without reverting all
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Behalf Of David Dorward
Sent: 12 June 2007 17:09
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Back to the Future
On 12 Jun 2007, at 17:04, Chris Taylor wrote:
I've been asked to write a website that MUST work in Netscape 4.03 and
IE 3 for Windows 3.1. When you've
Hi Kevin,
The most obvious way to do this is using JavaScript. There are loads of
different JavaScript methods, however I've come up with a small library of
functions based on the Prototype framework that lets you do this kind of
this, completely unobtrusively and without non-standard markup.
Hi Kevin,
The most obvious way to do this is using JavaScript. There are loads of
different JavaScript methods, however I've come up with a small library of
functions based on the Prototype framework that lets you do this kind of
this, completely unobtrusively and without non-standard markup.
I absolutely agree about dated structures, and this technique is well
used by millions of blogs around the web. Apache's mod_rewrite makes
this pretty easy, and can also handle very complex URI translations. The
bottom line for me is to end up with a URI that is obvious and easy for
the user to
Wow, I seem to have kicked off quite a ruckus. From what has been said I
believe the situation isn't as bad as I thought, certainly no worse than
in business/industry. There is still a long way to go, but we're getting
there.
So, points to note:
1) Syllabus documents may be out of date, or just
to happen and b) I will learn to keep my big gob shut :0)
Regards
Chris Taylor
www.stillbreathing.co.uk
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?
And, a larger question for us all: what are we as web standards and
accessibility evangelists to do about the continued ingorance and apathy
towards this vital subject, especially in academia? Let's hope that the
recent Target website court case in the US highlights the cause.
Chris Taylor
) is being repeated, then doing all manner of
strange things when the menu is rolled over.
I've had a look through QuirksMode but not found quite the same problem.
Can the wise persons on this esteemed list please point me in the right
direction?
Many thanks
Chris Taylor
Senior Web Developer
That's actually no different to being a student, with the
exception
that the lecturer has got a full time job in addition to having to
learn all the stuff they have to then teach.
...and that's no different from having a full-time job as a
developer,
and having to research - and
Exactly. I was actually thinking the other day, browsers
should be more like compilers... they should refuse to parse
incorrect code. Then the enforcement would be on the output
end, too.
Perhaps some clever person could write a Firefox extension that does
this - if Chris Pederick is on
forward-thinking banks.
They also have some (brief) information about their design here:
http://www.barclays.co.uk/accessibility/web_design.htm
regards
Chris Taylor
Senior Web Developer
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Jeremy,
How much JavaScript do you know?
Enough to get myself in trouble! Reading Stuarts' book has enlightened
me to loads of really useful things, but I realise that as far as
scripting languages go (compared to, say, PHP or VBScript) I am just
scraping the surface of JavaScript.
What kind
On Jul 8, 2005, at 1:37 AM, Chris Taylor wrote:
I've been using the dash and period in ID names a lot recently (part
of an unobtrusive DOM scripting set of functions I've been developing)
and not found any problems yet in any of the Win browsers. Whether IDs
formatted like this functionName
I've been using the dash and period in ID names a lot recently (part of
an unobtrusive DOM scripting set of functions I've been developing) and
not found any problems yet in any of the Win browsers. Whether IDs
formatted like this functionName.-fe-4r-6s-ef-s5-ef.2000 will work in
older browsers or
As mentioned in a thread last week (?) the DHTML Utopia book is well
worth a read, and kudos to the author and publisher for making it.
However you should also check out the unobtrusive javascript site at
http://www.onlinetools.org/articles/unobtrusivejavascript/ (and the
others found at
Hi,
I'm having difficult aligning a background image the way I want to. The
markup is like this:
div class=percent2019.65%/div
I have a collection of classes (called percent0 to percent100) which
have a nice gradiated background image. I'm trying to position the
background image on the left of
Thanks everyone, I got it working. One again the standards ninjas prove
their worth!
Chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of russ - maxdesign
Sent: 27 June 2005 13:12
To: Web Standards Group
Subject: Re: [WSG] Background image alignment -
I've not read those, but I can recommend Stuar Langridge's excellent DHTML
Utopia: Modern Web Design using JavaScript and DOM
(http://www.sitepoint.com/books/dhtml1/) which covers pretty much all aspects
of modern JavaScript development. And, what's more, stresses the use of
unobtrusive
I presume everyone is aware of the 1-side-A4 cheatsheets available at
http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com/cheat-sheets/? There's CSS, MySQL, mod_rewrite
and PHP available for free.
Chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cole Kuryakin -
2005 00:07
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] WSG Meetings for the rest of us
Chris Taylor wrote:
Anyone else in the UK want to have our own meeting and show the Ozzies
how it's really done? ;0)
Can't spill the beans just yet, but there are plans currently being
worked
I'm near Leeds as well, but I'd come to London for a meeting (probably not on a
monthly basis, though). As someone has said, how do we go about organising
this? Surely we just need a date and a venue - and if there's only a few people
then anywhere that we can get a laptop and projector would
Or, as it might be technically easier, providing an audio (MP3/OGG) file
of the seminars and the presentation slides would be great.
Anyone else in the UK want to have our own meeting and show the Ozzies
how it's really done? ;0)
Chris
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Hi,
I'm writing a function to do all manner of clever stuff and need to
create very complex ID attributes for links. As far as I know the only
valid characters you can use in an ID (and as a class name, too) are:
A-Z, a-z, 0-9, _, -
Is that true? Are there any other valid characters that I can
Great, thanks. I'm very pleased that I can use periods and colons, that
makes it much easier. Because this system will only be reading the ID
through the DOM and not referring to it for style reasons I'm going to
stick with the underscores. However I'll remember that advice for the
future.
Many
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Behalf Of Robin Berjon
Sent: 07 June 2005 16:22
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Valid characters in ID attribute
Chris Taylor wrote:
Great, thanks. I'm very pleased that I can use periods and colons,
that makes it much easier.
Not sure this applies to your case
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gunlaug Sørtun
Sent: 26 May 2005 17:46
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: Subject: DIVs and horizontal scroll -- WAS: RE: [WSG] the
mysteries of float - i seek enlightenment
Chris Taylor wrote:
I'm trying to get a very wide table to appear inside a DIV
Hi,
I'm trying to get a very wide table to appear inside a DIV and scroll
horizontally, but not vertically. Take a look at
http://www.egton.net/yearview/index.html to see what I mean. What I
would like is for the calendar table to be horizontally scrollable
inside Tapes due in - Year View DIV.
Hi,
Posted this with an incorrect subject first time, sorry about that. The
end of the week looms and my brain is starting to shut down.
I'm trying to get a very wide table to appear inside a DIV and scroll
horizontally, but not vertically. Take a look at
http://www.egton.net/yearview/index.html
Hi,
Is there a CSS equivalent for the age-old image properties
'align=left' and 'align=right'. When these are used any text that is
next to the image is automatically lined up with the top of the image.
Using 'float: left' keeps the text level with the bottom of the image.
Example:
Source:
pimg
Excellent, many thanks.
Chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gunlaug Sørtun
Sent: 25 January 2005 14:28
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Image alignment and text
Chris Taylor wrote:
Is there a CSS equivalent
As I read your mail I was going to suggest the hidden DIV with a
show/hide toggle button, then there it was at the bottom. I try to stay
away from popup windows where I can. When I've needed to do this, and I
you have enough space on the page, I've shown the help in a
nicely-formatted (light
-
MySQL, SQL Server, Access, XML etc. If anyone knows of one I'd
appreciate the info.
Thanks
Chris Taylor
Senior Web Developer
Egton.net
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I agree in part with your first comment. The problem is that a lot of
the time (I would guess) most people want a complete test in a
browser/platform they don't have access to - useability, standards,
validity etc etc. BrowserCam is great, but doesn't give you any help
regarding useability - other
The solution you posted is user oriented. What about developers ?
Surely ANY solution has to be user orientated. After all, we are
designing sites for users, not for developers.
Chris
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Behalf Of Javier
Sent: 18
Looks good (I've only tried it in Win/Firefox so far) but the thing that
immediately struck me is that you have all the MIDI files in the site
root. I know this isn't a standards issue, but wouldn't it be better to
split them into alphabetical folders? Maybe I'm a data structure
nutcase, but that
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