Hi Marvin.
Also, please try our Opera Web Standards Curriculum section 27 entitled CSS
basics, written and contributed by Christian Heilmann.
Here is the hyperlink to it:
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/27-css-basics/
Hope this helps you out a bit,
Med vennlig hilsen / Kind regards,
Frank
Hi Kevin,
If you wish to write HTML5, the start attribute has been rescued from its
deprecated state and may be used when needed. Here is the HTML5 working
draft describing it: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/semantics.html#attr-ol-start
Validating HTML5:
W3C:
Hi T. R.,
Unless you are writing HTML5, @start is deprecated and will not vaildate. To
solve this, please have a look at David Storey's article:
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/automatic-numbering-with-css-counters/
Hope this helps,
Med vennlig hilsen / Kind regards,
Frank M. Palinkas
Indeed. Spot on Captain!
Med vennlig hilsen / Kind regards,
Frank M. Palinkas
Technical Writer, Opera Software
Documentation Localization
Core Engineering Consumer Products
Mobile: (+47) 95 17 61 11
http://dev.opera.com/articles/accessibility/
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 7:52 AM,
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Frank Palinkas wrote:
Med vennlig hilsen / Kind regards,
Frank M. Palinkas
Technical Writer, Opera Software
http://dev.opera.com/articles/accessibility
Med vennlig hilsen / Kind regards,
Frank M. Palinkas
Technical Writer, Opera Software
http://dev.opera.com/articles/accessibility/
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Lorrie Laskey lrmal...@bellsouth.netwrote:
List,
I am a web designer as a hobby and have run into a situation where I am not
Med vennlig hilsen / Kind regards,
Frank M. Palinkas
Technical Writer, Opera Software
http://dev.opera.com/articles/accessibility/
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Lorrie Laskey lrmal...@bellsouth.netwrote:
List,
I am a web designer as a hobby and have run into a situation where I am not
Hi Naveen,
Please take a look at the following Dev Opera articles on mobile web
development:
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/designing-and-developing-mobile-web-site/
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/designing-and-developing-mobile-web-site-1/
Hi Clare,
Please see if this, or any part of it will be of help:
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/accessible-context-sensitive-help-with-u/
There are two formats described with working examples and code samples.
Hope this may be of help.
Med vennlig hilsen / Kind regards,
Frank M. Palinkas
IMHO, not very semantic in nature. We need the button element to be able to
carry a valid link-type attribute. Enclosing it in a form just don't cut it.
It must be able to stand by itself as an alternative means to activate a
hyperlink, as another aspect of its functionality.
Med vennlig hilsen /
[mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] *On
Behalf Of *Frank Palinkas
*Sent:* 23 February 2009 12:56
*To:* wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
*Subject:* Re: [WSG] IE and the button element
IMHO, not very semantic in nature. We need the button element to be able to
carry a valid link-type attribute. Enclosing
Hi All,
For your guide, Molly Holzschlag, a well-known Web standards advocate,
instructor, and author has joined the Opera Software team. Please refer to
Molly's blog for her own thoughts on this at:
http://www.molly.com/2009/02/13/i-am-an-opera-singer/
Med vennlig hilsen / Kind regards,
Frank
Hi All,
If you haven't seen this yet, it may be of practical use when and if needed:
Validating (X)HTML + ARIA: http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/?p=107
Written by Steve Faulkner, Technical Director - TPG (The Paciello Group)
Europe, Director - Web Accessibility Tools Consortium from his blog.
To follow up on Micky, Christian and Rimantas, here's the latest info on
HTML 5:
HTML 5 Draft Recommendation — 20 November 2008:
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/
The Web Developer's Guide to HTML 5 - W3C Editor's Draft 19 November 2008
(written by my colleague,
James, please take a look here:
http://dev.opera.com/articles/mobile/
This is a collecton of developer articles on mobile technology at the
dev.opera.com.
Kind regards,
Frank M. Palinkas
QA Documentation/Technical Writer
Opera Software ASA, Oslo, Norway
http://www.opera.com/
If I may add to David's info, please check these sixteen mobile web
articles/tutorials on dev.opera.com. They may be of help:
http://dev.opera.com/articles/mobile/
Frank M. Palinkas
QA Documentation/Technical Writer
Opera Software ASA, Oslo, Norway
http://www.opera.com/
Hi Michael,
Although not in book format, Opera Software has released The Web Standards
Curriculum which can be found at:
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/1-introduction-to-the-web-standards-cur/
This may be of reference and help.
Kind regards,
Frank M. Palinkas
Opera Software
Hi Tee,
As James mentioned, what is the Bug Report number (#) you were issued with?
I'll follow up here for you.
Kind regards,
Frank
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:58 PM, tee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I posted a message about Opera bug last december and filed a bug report.
Recently I discovered
Hi Paul,
There are fifteen articles here on designing, etc. for Opera Mobile and
Opera Mini.
http://dev.opera.com/articles/mobile/
Hope this may be of help.
Kind regards,
Frank Palinkas
Opera Software
On 6/24/08, Paul Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying to find
Hi Jens-Uwe,
Apologies for the late reply - I'm in the middle of an inter-continental
move from Johannesburg to Oslo.
If I can help, please take a look at my article on dev.opera.com -
Accessible Context Sensitive Help with Unobtrusive DOM Scripting:
Hi James,
It may also be worth looking at Microsoft's Visual Studio 2008 Web Designer
Express Edition - it's completely free (It has nothing to do with the
Expression series of tools). It has IDE Source Code Editors for (X)HTML,
XML, CSS, and JavaScript, etc. You can also download the limited
Hi folks,
After almost two months of phone interviews and written tests, late yesterday I
received an offer from Opera, Oslo for the Technical Writer position they had
open. I'm still in shock. Some of you know I've been trying to get out of here
for a while, and finally the work has paid off.
Thanks Kate!
One thing I failed to mention: the value of being a member of this list is
priceless.
Kind regards,
Frank
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of kate
Sent: 02 February 2008 03:25 PM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re:
, 2008 9:54 AM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Behavior Effecting Presentation or Structure - Precedence?
Frank Palinkas wrote:
Am I correct in thinking that behavior should target structure first, and if
necessary, presentation second?
Frank,
when you have a choice I don't
Hi Kevin, and thanks. I think I've found a simpler way to handle this. Please
see my next reply to Chris Knowles.
Kind regards,
Frank
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Sent: Monday, 07 January, 2008 10:57 AM
To:
Hi Chris,
(My apologies to the list moderators if this is getting to Behavior orientated.)
If so, then I'm not sure there's ever really a choice. e.g. in your
example you would need to use both methods to cover a) and b):
a) would need you to set the style to display: none
and b) would need
Brilliant! Thank you Chris.
Frank,
try this...
if (typeof document.removeChild != undefined) {
var div = document.getElementById(remove);
div.parentNode.removeChild(div);
} else {
document.getElementById(remove).style.display = none;
}
if you're doing a lot of checking throughout
Hi All,
I hope everyone has had a pleasant, restful and blessed holiday.
May I pose a question regarding the Behavior layer with its intended effect on
presentation or structure? I'm looking for an answer according to best practice
and standards, as to which layer should we target to achieve a
To follow up on David's message to us, here's a video from Opera Watch
featuring Hakon Wium Lie (co-father of CSS and a principal owner of Opera) on
the subject at hand.
http://operawatch.com/news/2007/12/opera-cto-talks-about-the-operas-antitrust
-complaint-against-microsoft-video.html
My
Hi Philippe,
How can we encourage the other (non-Mozilla) browser manufacturers
to add support for this very useful feature?
If I understand your question, please download, install, and have a look at
Opera (release version 9.4).
The tool I think you're looking for can be found by going to:
May I just follow on to Patrick's astute advice. A very common misconception
standards/accessibility designers/developers have is that the title
attribute, regardless of the element it resides in, is turned on/activated by
default in most assistive technology devices. It's not. From my experience
Hi Rahul,
If it will help, please see my new Fast Track tutorial, Building Accessible
Static Navigation with CSS at my web page: http://frank.helpware.net. The
markup and css of the navigation section is graphically explained with design
emphasis being directed to color blind, hard-of-seeing and
Hi All,
For those who may be interested, I've published three new Fast Track
tutorials to the http://frank.helpware.net site:
Building Accessible Static Navigation with CSS
Calling Accessible Context-Sensitive Help with Unobtrusive DOM/JavaScript *
Creating Auto-line Numbered Code Blocks with
For those who may be interested and haven't seen this yet, here's the address
to a CodeProject article on Silverlight 1.1 Alpha:
http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/SLFun.asp
The 1.1 Alpha now incorporates the use of C# managed code and ASP.Net.
Kind regards,
Frank M. Palinkas
Microsoft
Alexander,
What good will it do you if the correct answers are supplied and you have
absolutely no concept as to why they are correct?
Time to do some research, study, and experimentation, like everyone else.
Kind regards,
Frank
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
findings yet.
Kind regards,
Frank
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Christian Montoya
Sent: Tuesday, 30 October, 2007 7:48 AM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] SilverLight
On 10/30/07, Frank Palinkas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
/* And where we can't make a decision on your behalf, we offer a quick way to
set up accessibility through our tools. */
Concerning AJAX and Silverlight - I only pray that their interpretation ARIA
is not just another opera solo.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL
the DOM elements before they are displayed?
And...yes, please - I'd love to get the zip.
I will try to upload an example of my approach and send you the URL
one evening this week.
Cheers,
Simon
*
From: Frank Palinkas [EMAIL
Interesting. Some observations.
I downloaded and installed the Silverlight SDK 1.0. I built the example
project in VS 2005 running on WinXP Pro SP2 with no problems. However, it
would be better to run this on Vista with the Orcas Beta (VS 2008) because of
the generic XAML, WPF and .Net 3.0 and
Hi Simon,
I’m working on a similar issue using unobtrusive DOM/JavaScript to produce
the expand/collapse effect of nested unordered list items in a navigation
tree structure. This method (related containers) allows activation by both
mouse and keyboard, and the expanded nested list items
Hi Steve,
If I may follow on to Rebecca's query and based your reply, is it then
considered good practice (in general) _not_ to add title attributes and
values to hyperlinks?
Kind regards,
Frank
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Steven
), then don't place it in the title
attribute on links.
On 24/10/2007, Frank Palinkas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Steve,
If I may follow on to Rebecca's query and based your reply, is it then
considered good practice (in general) _not_ to add title attributes and
values to hyperlinks?
Kind
Hi James,
Tony has given you some great advice. If I may add to that, although it may
be difficult depending on the circumstance, try to keep a cool head at all
times. Your integrity comes first, backed up by your intellectual property.
If it may help you in your studies, I can email you
Responding to Paul,
I'm doing the same, with the addition of a note to the user that a new window
will open upon activation of the icon/hyperlink. Some may think this is
overkill, but I'd rather have the user aware of what's going to occur.
Kind regards,
Frank
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From:
Hi Kit,
Don't know if this will help, but Simon Willison created an
addLoadEvent(func) to get multiple scripts loading correctly on a page.
Please see his blog:
http://simonwillison.net/2004/May/26/addLoadEvent/
Kind regards,
Frank M. Palinkas
Microsoft M.V.P. - Windows Help
W3C HTML Working
Hi Marvin,
In April of this year I came across an add-in template for Microsoft Visio,
enabling a user to produce wire-frames and more within the Visio work
environment. Here is the address to the web page and small downloadable
package:
http://www.guuui.com/issues/02_07.php
Maybe this
Indeed! Without any doubt, I own a ton to all of you, especially the
moderators.
Kind regards, with due respect and admiration,
Frank
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Designer
Sent: Tuesday, 25 September, 2007 12:28 PM
To:
Hi John,
Thought I'd send this off-list to you:
Commercial Sector: I build web-based tech documentation for the development
division of an international logistics/supply chain company - Supergroup
Trading Ltd in South Africa (can't wait to get outta here).
Non-profit Sector: I produce gratis
Hi,
IMHO I would like to add one important factor to this. Money.
From my experience, regardless of how pretty, wow, etc., a client wants
their site to be, what they're really saying to you is that they need it to
produce a load of money for them. Keep that foremost in mind when design
Title: Bericht
Baie Welkom
Koen!
First, many thanks for reviewing my Fast
track tutorial and providing constructive feedback. I'm glad you decided to join
the WSG and mailing list, and provide us with your Hollands insight when needed.
There are many helpful and learned individuals here,
- correct link
On Aug 10, 2007, at 12:53 AM, Dean Edridge wrote:
Frank Palinkas wrote:
Kind regards,
Frank M. Palinkas
Microsoft M.V.P. - Windows Help
W3C HTML Working Group (H.T.M.L.W.G.) - Invited Expert
M.C.P., M.C.T., M.C.S.E., M.C.D.B.A., A+ Senior Technical
Hi Lars,
Thanks for the hard work and time taken to do this. It's appreciated.
May I make one suggestion please? The character reference (#10003;) you're
using for the checkmark symbol does not render in IE6 or below. However, it
does render perfectly in the latest versions of Opera, Firefox,
I'm with you also. However, as a tech writer I don't have the luxury of
calling the shots on which method is employed by a dev project team. I
decided to be ready for both external and internal calls from the app.
Kind regards,
Frank
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Hi Matthew,
Being the tech writer for a software dev division, when calling
context-sensitive help from a web form is needed I use unobtrusive
DOM/Javascript to either let a user open a popup within the app window
(traditional method) or call the help from within (embedded) each form field.
I
Hi Andrew,
I would say the most important _thing_ in a newspaper is the title of lead
story for that part of the day. The analogy to a web document would be the
topic name of the page and be marked up as the h1. The name of the newspaper
itself doesn't offer any timely information or _news_.
Hi All,
Just a quick question and please pardon my ignorance..
If the global site navigation on a page is marked up below the content, and
then floated left (or right) to bring it visually next to the content in a
two column manner, is it good practice to include a Skip to Content link as
part
, it's very easy to hide these links from other
standard browsers if you so wish, so it's not really much of an
overhead to include them.
Hope this helps,
David
On 28/06/07, Frank Palinkas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All,
Just a quick question and please pardon my ignorance..
If the global
@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Skip to Content?
On 28 Jun 2007, at 6:50 PM, Frank Palinkas wrote:
If the global site navigation on a page is marked up below the
content...
Hang on - if your nav is *below* the content, wouldn't the link be
better as 'skip to navigation'?
I think
FWIW, my take would be:
//
div id=masthead
p id=headerimg id=logo alt=Glory Days src=images/GloryDays.gif /
tickets, accommodation travel packages for major events throughout the uk,
europe and worldwide
/p
h1 id=topicRugby World Cup 2007 Packages/h1
/div
I'd like to add Gez Lemon to the list please.
Kind regards,
Frank
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Behalf Of Barney Carroll
Sent: Tuesday, 19 June, 2007 12:48 PM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] JavaScript gurus - exercise in
: Friday, 08 June, 2007 8:26 AM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] WCAG Samurai Errata
On 08/06/07, Frank Palinkas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
/* Guideline 9.4: Do not attempt to create your own tab order. That
is a job for a browser and adaptive technology. */
When
June, 2007 9:53 AM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: RE: [WSG] WCAG Samurai Errata
Matthew Pennell wrote:
I think it's been shown that just about all keys interfere with someone's
shortcuts,
whether it's a browser, screenreader, foreign characters, or whatever.
Frank Palinkas wrote
Hi Michael,
Not sure if this will help you, but on occasion I've been presented with .pdf
files to convert to (x)html for web-based tech docs. I do this manually by
creating templates in the Visual Studio 2005 markup source code editors, and
then copy and paste the content from the .pdf's. This
Hi Kane,
If it’s of help:
/* Guideline 9.4: Do not attempt to create your own tab order. That is a job
for a browser and adaptive technology. */
When and where needed (in web forms for instance), I create a tabindex order
starting with the number 11 and proceed from there. This usually
but that doesn't mean that the resulting document actually makes any sense
whatsoever...
Thank you Patrick. Especially to those using assistive devices.
Kind regards,
Frank M. Palinkas
Microsoft M.V.P. - Windows Help
W3C HTML Working Group (H.T.M.L.W.G.) - Invited Expert
M.C.P.,
Thanks Schalk!
Please keep us informed?
Frank
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Schalk Neethling
Sent: Wednesday, 30 May, 2007 11:36 AM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Content Management issue ?
Hey there All,
This
Hi John and Mike,
Just a question please?
For simple forms, I really like the technique of separating Required from
Optional fields. Instead of dividing the form into two fieldsets
(Required/Optional) would it be semantically/accessibly correct to instead
use a header element (for example h4) to
If I read you right, sure it does. You can use unobtrusive DOM/JavaScript to
replace the onclick event handler in the (x)html markup with a rel attribute
in the a/a element. If the DOM/JavaScript is turned off, the page will
open through the link supplied as normal in a full, new window. Also, an
', or even 'progressive
enhancement' as it is a fundamental change in behaviour.
Mike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Palinkas
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 11:35 AM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: RE: [WSG] wa state
FWIW, my interpretation of what constitutes tabular data relies on the
meaning of the data being directly associated to its grid coordinates, i.e.
the intersection of a column and row. The column coordinate + the row
coordinate gives specific meaning to the data located at the intersection of
If I may add one other point that hasn't been touched on yet (that I'm aware
of)...
IMHO, if the elimination of either the table Column coordinate or Row
coordinate takes place, it will break the semantic nature of the table
element. If you continue to use the table element with one coordinate
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