Re: [WSG] IE 7 check please

2007-10-14 Thread Donna Jones
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Re: [WSG] IE 7 check please

2007-10-14 Thread Donna Jones
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Re: [WSG] pop-up - onblur question

2007-03-30 Thread Donna Jones
and give it a class or id. That you'll need someone else to explain to you, since I know how to borrow code to make this happen but don't fully understand how it works. ;) I feel clever enough for now! thanks again! best donna -- Donna Jones Portland, Maine 207 772 0266 www.westendwebs.com

Re: [WSG] pop-up - onblur question

2007-03-29 Thread Donna Jones
. so, ended up trying to fix this but have no clue how to do it. -- Donna Jones Portland, Maine 207 772 0266 www.westendwebs.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] pop-up - onblur question

2007-03-29 Thread Donna Jones
it to prevent the link being followed. i suppose i understand what you're saying but i don't know javascript, i don't know the syntax, so pretty impossible for me to implement. cheers donna -- Donna Jones Portland, Maine 207 772 0266 www.westendwebs.com

Re: [WSG] pop-up - onblur question

2007-03-28 Thread Donna Jones
, to see if I could duplicate what you were talking about and couldn't ... thanks again. Donna -- Donna Jones Portland, Maine 207 772 0266 www.westendwebs.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] pop-up - onblur question

2007-03-28 Thread Donna Jones
response. cheers donna -- Donna Jones Portland, Maine 207 772 0266 www.westendwebs.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL

[WSG] pop-up - onblur question

2007-03-27 Thread Donna Jones
it. is there something i can use instead? many thanks in advance. :) Donna -- Donna Jones Portland, Maine 207 772 0266 www.westendwebs.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] PopUp windows

2007-03-07 Thread Donna Jones
, is that i do *so much* stuff with the keyboard. i can go a long time without touching the mouse and i do think its better - you're varying your actions much more with the keyboard. my two cents, cheers donna -- Donna Jones Portland, Maine 207 772 0266 www.westendwebs.com

Re: [WSG] Target sued over non-accessible site

2006-02-09 Thread Donna Jones
%20Toolsnumpg=10id=402 hu. it doesn't say it will install on Mozilla, but visited with mozilla and it did - works fine. does anyone have any opinion as to how accurate it is? other users here? cheers Donna -- Donna Jones Portland, Maine 207 772 0266 http://www.westendwebs.com

Re: [WSG] Dean Edwards IE7... just PNG support?

2005-12-27 Thread Donna Jones
Joshua Street wrote: Hmm, thanks. Should learn to RTF... website... or something :P HOWEVER! When I do that, IE6 with XPSP2 gives me security warnings and blocks it by default... then, it kills my typography (though positioning and image replacement and backgrounds all stay okay) whilst doing

Re: [WSG] Justify this

2005-12-14 Thread Donna Jones
Al Sparber wrote: From: Paul Noone [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, I've been interested in the whole justified text issue for a while and think Joshua raises an interesting point. I don't generally use it to style paragraphs because I personally don't like its appearance but I wasn't aware

Re: [WSG] Scrolling in IE5.5

2005-12-13 Thread Donna Jones
Hi Joe, i ck'd it with my standalone IE5.5 and IE5.1 and it showed with scroll bars and scrolled with the mouse. donna Joseph Lindsay wrote: Hi folks, I have an issue with IE5.5 (who doesn't?). This page: http://www.ermanz.govt.nz/no/newsletters/20051118.html displays without scroll-bars,

[WSG] italic and validator

2005-12-11 Thread Donna Jones
okay, hi everyone: a short question, i intend it to be, at least. is i (italic) deprecated in xhtml? and even better, could someone point me to a w3c page that talks about what is deprecated in xhtml? and, second part of that, why does the validator validate it if it is deprecated. many

Re: [WSG] italic and validator

2005-12-11 Thread Donna Jones
and stay aware of that. also, really neat to get clear on the html4.01 specs following through in to xhtml 1.0. anyway, thanks again! Donna Donna Jones wrote: okay, hi everyone: a short question, i intend it to be, at least. is i (italic) deprecated in xhtml? and even better, could someone

Re: [WSG] real xhtml - last question!

2005-12-08 Thread Donna Jones
Thanks for persuing this, i'm trying to understand, too. designer wrote: . . . before I go back to html 2.0! But seriously, in my continuing quest to understand/get a feeling for mime types etc, I've made two files now : thearea.html and thearea.xhtml. What I did was to make the xhtml

[WSG] talking points for standards

2005-12-05 Thread Donna Jones
Dear CSS Listers: in another thread, someone essentially asked why code like this, in trying to convince a friend. I don't think he's getting very good answers but at any rate, it made me think of a problem I'm having and I've decided to make a new thread. A non-profit that i've maintained

Re: [WSG] talking points for standards

2005-12-05 Thread Donna Jones
Kim Kruse wrote: I tell my clients that the only way you can measure if your website (code wise) is any good is by using the industrial standards set by the W3 and the validators. This also means that if you can't maintain the site anymore any semi skilled coder should be able to take over.

Re: [WSG] talking points for standards

2005-12-05 Thread Donna Jones
Terrence and all: thank you for all your replies. Lea said she thought accessibility was my strongest suit and I agree with that. At least font-size increase is something that can be seen on the surface, and perhaps other accessibility issues that I haven't thought about. I did think today

Re: [WSG] talking points for standards

2005-12-05 Thread Donna Jones
Peter J. Farrell wrote: Donna Jones wrote: ... I'm afraid the budget is eaten up by the PR firm and so the NP is feeling badly that I'm in the position, once again, of donating a lot of my time. Ideally, in their view, i think, they'd like for me to say, yes, the PR's code is great

Re: [WSG] XML Declaration

2005-12-04 Thread Donna Jones
- Creating an xhtml 1.0 document. - Cleaning out 'human bugs' in HTMLTidy - 'convert to xml'. - Serving it as 'xhtml' with the extension '.xhtml' to browsers that can make anything out of it - Opera, Moz/FF, Safari - internally and on line. Info: application/xhtml+xml - no errors -

Re: [WSG] MSIE standalone from quirksmode and conditional comments

2005-11-19 Thread Donna Jones
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Marco van Hylckama Vlieg wrote: I'm using the standalone MSIE 5.01 and 5.5 from www.quirksmode.org to tweak a design for IE5 and 5.5. Is it just me or don't these versions pick up conditional comments for various older IE versions? here is the fix, if you or

Re: [WSG] Advanced CSS Training and Publications

2005-10-17 Thread Donna Jones
So I'm appealing to the list for suggestions on advanced CSS publications and on-line training. Respectfully, Chris Chris, re on-line training, you might want to check out the courses at international webmasters association/html writers' guild. http://www.hwg.org/ i got a wonderful head

Re: [WSG] Is a colon after a form label necessary?

2005-10-13 Thread Donna Jones
Hi Gail. i was just thinking about this last night. After recently reading Eat Shoots and Leaves i've become more aware of punctuation and how it aids in the rhythm of words, and phrases, and thus comprehension. it would seem to me that a colon would help a screen reader user. and your

Re: [WSG] Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility with Firefox

2005-09-06 Thread Donna Jones
/issue44/lauke/ snip On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 23:40 -0400, Donna Jones wrote: does anyone have an url for this? tried finding it on moz and couldn't and really would like to try it out. http://accessibar.mozdev.org/ /snip ted, this is an accessibility tool bar; quite different from the web

Re: [WSG] Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility with Firefox

2005-09-03 Thread Donna Jones
does anyone have an url for this? tried finding it on moz and couldn't and really would like to try it out. tia Donna Rick Faaberg wrote: On 8/23/05 10:25 PM dwain alford [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent this out: i just downloaded the accessibar at the mozdev web site. it's got a built in

Re: [WSG] Site Check: Broadleaf

2005-07-27 Thread Donna Jones
Mugur Padurean wrote: Hello, reality check here. Quoting the US and Australian available IT infrastructure, as a good reason for building huge web pages, is wrong for at least three reasons: I surely didn't mean to be doing that, please see below. 1. Over 90% percent of the world population

Re: [WSG] Site Check: Broadleaf

2005-07-26 Thread Donna Jones
Mugur Padurean wrote: Hello, reality check here. Quoting the US and Australian available IT infrastructure, as a good reason for building huge web pages, is wrong for at least three reasons: I surely didn't mean to be doing that, please see below. 1. Over 90% percent of the world population

Re: [WSG] Site Check: Broadleaf

2005-07-25 Thread Donna Jones
This article only discusses reducing the HTML size. which if you take a look at the site is already rather anorexic. Loading an image once, caching it for potentially weeks, and not loading anything other than small HTML pages as they browse the rest of the site seems like the smartest way it's

Re: [WSG] Site Check: Broadleaf

2005-07-25 Thread Donna Jones
Terrence Wood. On 26 Jul 2005, at 4:30 AM, Donna Jones wrote: I surely can't tell any difference between the way this site loads and many of them in cssgardens - in fact, i just found an official one, and its background is 185K. found another, 100K. another 136K. most much smaller

Re: [WSG] Site Check: Broadleaf

2005-07-25 Thread Donna Jones
Not exactly a clean user experience then. Particularly troublesome when designers rely on the background image and define colour for their text to be readable against it, but fail to provide fallback background colour. Zengarden is an experimental site, showcasing in many cases how one can

Re: [WSG] Text messes up in Internet Explorer - newbie

2005-07-12 Thread Donna Jones
hi Bruce: There are some errors in your html that may be causing it. Validate your code and then see what's happening. if you don't have firefox installed with its webdev extension you probably should and that's maybe the easiest way to get to the validator. if you need more help with that

Re: [WSG] Text messes up in Internet Explorer - newbie

2005-07-12 Thread Donna Jones
of hours spent over little things make one want to give up and use tables or something. Seriously. Just frustrated I guess... yes, can relate and probably most of the people on this list have felt the same way. Bruce Donna Jones wrote: hi Bruce: There are some errors in your html that may

Re: Fw: [WSG] Text messes up in Internet Explorer - newbie

2005-07-12 Thread Donna Jones
, padding and margins set to 0 Standards are great, and I know there is a learning curve, but when one is trying to exist and make a living, dozens of hours spent over little things make one want to give up and use tables or something. Seriously. Just frustrated I guess... Bruce Donna Jones wrote

Re: [WSG] Absolute position problem in IE

2005-06-26 Thread Donna Jones
tee wrote: The site looks fine under IE6 on my PC. Nice job. Thanks but are your sure the menu is working??? It obviously doesn't in my IE 5/6 (both W2K and XP home); hover disappear and links are not clickable. tee Hi Tee: I just looked - and the menus aren't working for me. I

Re: [WSG] Absolute position problem in IE

2005-06-26 Thread Donna Jones
The two images work fine and the left column seems working fine except it doesn't stay where I want it to be, Tee, I figured this out. Change the width of your #leftColWrapper to 92px, the same as is in your books class. Small consolation though, in face of the Dean Edwards(IE7) conflicts,

Re: [WSG] Web standards as a selling point?

2005-04-12 Thread Donna Jones
down to money, doesn't it? regards Georg -- Donna Jones West End Webs http://www.westendwebs.com/ 772-0266 ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting

Re: [WSG] web design presentation: advice?

2005-04-11 Thread Donna Jones
it was therapeutic to write it :) cheers, h -- Donna Jones West End Webs http://www.westendwebs.com/ 772-0266 ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list

Re: [WSG] Really strange results

2005-04-04 Thread Donna Jones
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Re: [WSG] Float help

2005-03-14 Thread Donna Jones
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[WSG] safari help!!

2005-01-29 Thread Donna Jones
. best wishes and tia, Donna ps, this is the most css I've ever done, but am taking a class right now through iwa. -- My name is Donna Jones and I approve of this message. http://www.westendwebs.com/ 772-0266 http://www.portlanddems.org

Re: [WSG] safari help!!

2005-01-29 Thread Donna Jones
, if anyone wants to help I won't be unhappy about that, but I don't expect it. Take care everyone. best Donna Donna Jones wrote: Hi everyone: I had signed up for this group some months ago and it was so over-my-head that I un-subbed when I had to be away a bit and just re-subbed tonight

Re: [WSG] Web Accessability IE Toolbar

2004-07-14 Thread Donna Jones
to be very chatty but just thought i'd say a few words and see if i could get that toolbar! :-) TIA and thanks to the list admin and thanks to all the regular contributors. warm regards, Donna Jones Lee Roberts wrote: Congratulations to NILS for such a fantastic tool. Your use of the simulator

Re: [WSG] Web Accessability IE Toolbar

2004-07-14 Thread Donna Jones
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