[WSG] Writing authoritative content

2008-10-25 Thread Edward Clarke
of your clients work and perhaps you'll have great success as an author and we can all read and learn, as I've previously mentioned, we're all students of the Web. Regards, Edward Clarke www.ebizconsultancy.co.uk -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

RE: [WSG] Writing authoritative content

2008-10-25 Thread Edward Clarke
from seasoned coders here, after all, it's something you'll be expecting your readership to do ;) WSG is a very productive list for students of standards so you're definitely in the right place. I wish your magazine every success. Regards, Edward Clarke www.ebizconsultancy.co.uk -Original

RE: [WSG] Writing authoritative content

2008-10-25 Thread Edward Clarke
Andrew, I'm not sure who those questions were aimed at but does the medium matter if the information is the same? It's the validity of the content that's at question here. Regards, Edward Clarke www.ebizconsultancy.co.uk -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [WSG] *Why* doesn't Google validate?

2005-12-08 Thread Edward Clarke
Google is the preferred search engine of use for the majority of users of assistive devices due to its clear and simple layout; another example of the 'religion of the perfection of writing to W3C standards' not always required to deliver accessibility and usability. Edward Clarke ECommerce

[WSG] Re: UK Government Web Accessibility

2005-12-01 Thread Edward Clarke
regional list members are around but a heads up would be good. Offline mails welcome to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edward Clarke ECommerce and Software Consultant   TN38 Consulting http://www.tn38.net http://blog.tn38.net   Creative Media Centre 17-19 Robertson Street Hastings East Sussex TN34 1HL

RE: [WSG] javascript and no script -- best practices

2005-08-21 Thread Edward Clarke
There's an article for accessible popups over at http://www.alistapart.com/articles/popuplinks/ The code you posted has some issues that will need to be dealt with. thanks for the citehelp/cite with my last question. now i have a page with javascript opening a new window from a link.

RE: [WSG] ie css rollovers prob

2005-08-20 Thread Edward Clarke
Yes! You're using :hover on the list item not the hyperlink. Remember, you're coding for IE. Run the hyperlink as display:block and hover that to give consistent results. IE has no support for :hover on anything other than the a tag. having some probs with getting simple css rollovers to

RE: [WSG] html design - best practices

2005-08-18 Thread Edward Clarke
Without trying to drag this on Ben, I still fail to see the purpose of using the B tag over the SPAN tag and don't genuinely believe I'm declaring my own preference as a standard. If backward compatibility is the only argument then it only goes slightly further back than SPAN so the weight of that

RE: [WSG] Semantic Calendar

2005-08-18 Thread Edward Clarke
On Aug 17, 2005, at 8:31 PM, T. R. Valentine wrote: On 17/08/05, Scott Swabey (Lafinboy Productions) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does a calendar (single month) qualify as tabular data, are ordered lists a better fit, or should I be looking at another option? IMO, a calendar is always

RE: [WSG] html design - best practices

2005-08-17 Thread Edward Clarke
You are correct, it hasn't been 'officially' deprecated but as visual tags and not logical ones; CSS offers a better long term solution. http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xhtml2-20050527/elements.html seems to agree. Regarding books, if you carry extra [per book] information in the context of the

RE: [WSG] html design - best practices

2005-08-17 Thread Edward Clarke
the same side on this issue. Edward also points out: On Aug 16, 2005, at 11:51 PM, Edward Clarke wrote: You are correct, it hasn't been 'officially' deprecated but as visual tags and not logical ones; CSS offers a better long term solution. When there are only semantically inappropriate tags

RE: [WSG] Site Check: Broadleaf

2005-07-25 Thread Edward Clarke
The problem is youre designing for a technology [DSL], not accessibility. May I suggest a handheld stylesheet to alleviate some of the problem with a large media screen footprint? Edward Clarke ECommerce and Software Consultant TN38 Consulting http://blog.tn38.net

RE: [WSG] Site Check: Broadleaf

2005-07-24 Thread Edward Clarke
I suspect the 120Kb footprint of the background image is of more concern to most visitors. Edward Clarke ECommerce and Software Consultant TN38 Consulting http://blog.tn38.net Creative Media Centre 17-19 Robertson Street Hastings East Sussex TN34 1HL United

RE: [WSG] Visual Studio/.net general question

2005-07-23 Thread Edward Clarke
Theres nothing wrong with any of the server side scripting languages if you build the client side output yourself. Edward Clarke ECommerce and Software Consultant TN38 Consulting http://blog.tn38.net Creative Media Centre 17-19 Robertson Street Hastings East Sussex

Re: [WSG] site check please

2005-07-22 Thread Edward Clarke
Re: http://www.tdrake.net/joan/index-liquid.html I think a nice Georgia font would go down well with that template. Edward Clarke ECommerce and Software Consultant TN38 Consulting http://blog.tn38.net Creative Media Centre 17-19 Robertson Street Hastings East Sussex

RE: [WSG] Two questions: SEO document structure and font resizing

2005-07-20 Thread Edward Clarke
If you mean what does body{display:none;} do for SEO? then the answer is not very much. Taking Googlebot and Slurp as examples, they dont parse CSS or script, they want content within the HTML and thats it. Most hidden elements, i.e. white text on white background or display: none; for

RE: [WSG] Base tag and the selecting of body text in IE

2005-07-20 Thread Edward Clarke
It's an IE bug/feature. A nuisance I have to admit. The BASE tag though??? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Foskett Sent: 20 July 2005 10:29 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] Base tag and the selecting of body text in IE

RE: [WSG] Base tag and the selecting of body text in IE

2005-07-20 Thread Edward Clarke
Not a name exactly but youre entitled to make one up if you wish. Ive had this problem before but a while back. Try: base href="" instead of base href="" / and see how you go. Eddie http://blog.tn38.net/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [WSG] Two questions: SEO document structure and font resizing

2005-07-20 Thread Edward Clarke
I would like to assume that if anyone fell for that, someone would give them a slap. ;) Edward Clarke ECommerce and Software Consultant TN38 Consulting http://blog.tn38.net Creative Media Centre 17-19 Robertson Street Hastings East Sussex TN34 1HL United Kingdom

RE: [WSG] Learning The DOM

2005-07-18 Thread Edward Clarke
Mark's site is useful too. http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/ Eddie. http://blog.tn38.net/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Kennon Sent: 18 July 2005 19:29 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Learning The DOM Hi, As many of