Re: [WSG] unobtrusive js, document.submit IE

2007-03-05 Thread James Denholm-Price
Hi Chris, Perhaps your question is more suited to a JS/DOM list/blog (e.g. evolt.orgor others [1]) than WSG? More JS-type guys there, but I'll give it a go: An example page would be helpful (I've mocked-up a quickie at [2])... but I wonder if the probem is your assumed DOM structure? On

Re: [WSG] two column equal width fixed centred layout

2005-08-19 Thread James Denholm-Price
On 8/19/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a best practice for having two columns of equal width side by side in a fixed width layout? I mean, is it better to float both columns left, or one left and one right etc. Are there any examples of this somewhere? You could try

Re: [WSG] Printed web pages with text cut in half at the bottom of the page?

2005-08-11 Thread James Denholm-Price
Hi Bennie [EMAIL PROTECTED], On 8/11/05, Bennie, Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone encountered the problem, when printing a web page, where the last line of text is being cut in half? By this I mean that the top half of the letters print on one page and the bottom half print on the

Re: [WSG] Firefox JS Image function

2005-08-02 Thread James Denholm-Price
Hi Ben all @WSG: On 8/2/05, Ben Logan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following website uses a Javascript function and a target layer to display a new image every time the page refreshes. http://www.theleadsgroup.co.uk/ This works fine in IE browsers and in Firefox/Mozilla browsers it seems

Re: [WSG] AJAX and accesibility

2005-06-29 Thread James Denholm-Price
Check out Derek Featherstone's follow-up to his talk at @media for some interesting viewpoints: http://www.boxofchocolates.ca/archives/2005/06/12/javascript-and-accessibility#more-72 1. You probably always have to do the back end stuff anyway, even if you can process lots of stuff that used to be

Re: [WSG] javascript/DOM resources

2005-06-29 Thread James Denholm-Price
Hi Ted [EMAIL PROTECTED], Just trawling through list emails this seems to have had no replies so my 2p: I'm sure I remember Jeremy Keith (http://adactio.com/) proposing a central archive of modern JS scripts but can't quite find it right now ... try starting from e.g.

Re: [WSG] Blockquote or Q?

2005-06-28 Thread James Denholm-Price
Apologies for being a bit slow on the uptake but the always informative Roger Johansson (456bereastreet) has this useful article [1] which supports what's been said and provides useful links to the HTML4 spec. James [1]

Re: [WSG] DOM tutorials/books?

2005-05-04 Thread James Denholm-Price
On 5/3/05, Zulema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any good books or tutorials that I can read/follow to learn all about the DOM? If you're looking for a book my favourite is Flanagan's JavaScript: The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly) James **

Re: [WSG] Imaginary Borders

2005-01-27 Thread James Denholm-Price
Hi Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED], On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:39:42 -0800, Chris Kennon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the following code the tr#n rules are not taking. I've looked around and have no reason for this failure. Would someone assist? This has been discussed on css-discuss before, e.g. [1].

Re: [WSG] DOM and Standard

2004-12-08 Thread James Denholm-Price
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 16:33:27 -0500, berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, but I already found this link. What I was looking for was theory. I'd heartily recommend the O'Reilly JavaScript: The Definitive Reference by David Flanagan -- it has a good section on HTML4 events as well as DOM (Gecko)

Re: [WSG] QuickTime and XHTML validation

2004-11-05 Thread James Denholm-Price
Hi Antonio all @ WSG, On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 09:28:24 +0100, Antonio wrote: Could someone tell me what to do to get validated an XHTML page with a QuickTime video embedded? Here is the page : http://www.temposi.com/index.html The validator doesn't like the embed tag as it's not in the XHTML

Re: [WSG] heading background continues across container width

2004-10-02 Thread James Denholm-Price
On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 16:16:43 +1000, Neerav [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im experimenting with some techniques from dan cederholms book Web Standards Solutions and found that setting a background image like so h1 , h2 , h3 , h4 , h5 { text-align : left; padding-bottom: 14px;

Re: [WSG] New website launch

2004-09-20 Thread James Denholm-Price
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 00:20:04 +0100, Ian Fenn wrote: I've launched my first website using web standards for a client: http://www.housedoctor.co.uk/ Checking the website in browsercam: http://www.browsercam.com/public.aspx?proj_id=98657 ...it doesn't seem to be rendering quite right in IE5 or

Re: [WSG] New website launch

2004-09-20 Thread James Denholm-Price
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 08:08:29 -0400, Ryan Christie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This seems weird to me as the layout uses a fixed width centred div of 700px and html has min-width:700px specified + there's an extra div#mozscroll which is also 700px so the browser really ought to add scrollbars

Re: [WSG] So stuck.. Nested UL's and IE 6

2004-09-10 Thread James Denholm-Price
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 15:01:25 -0400, J Rodgers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is IE 6 doing what it does to the left nav on this page? http://pole.uwaterloo.ca/cpadev/engtest/howdoesitwork.html I want it nested, I know li id= would save me a load of grief. IE 6 seems to take the line from the li

[WSG] Comments + browser tests sought for web page (novel?) scripting

2004-09-07 Thread James Denholm-Price
Dear [EMAIL PROTECTED], I'm a newbie to the list but a fan of standards-based design and am hopefully beginning to get the hang work of some accessibility issues. I'm currently experimenting with some scripting ideas in an existing site. The old site is at http://www.kingston.ac.uk/maths but I'm

Re: [WSG] Browsing without images

2004-09-05 Thread James Denholm-Price
On Sat, 04 Sep 2004 14:16:26 +0100, Patrick H. Lauke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You just realised it, but this has been a huge part of the whole image replacement discussion from the beginning. http://www.google.com/search?q=accessibility+image+replacement+css No, there's no way to test if