[WSG] Mixing innerHTML and DOM - test and question

2006-03-20 Thread Keryx webb
Yet another test/demo-case, this time it's about innerHTML and W3C DOM. I have a question towards the end... Trying to explain to my students how innerHTML works and how DOM-methods work, and why one should not mix them, I set up the following page:

Re: [WSG] Announcing GrayBit v0.5 Beta

2006-03-12 Thread Keryx webb
Mike at Green-Beast.com wrote: Russ, Steve, Thank you. Mike Cherim http://green-beast.com/ http://accessites.org/ http://graybit.com/ Hmm. I tried one of my sites, but except for the index-page, it does not pick up my CSS-file. See

[WSG] Encoding test page

2006-03-12 Thread Keryx webb
Hello all! I month or so ago Lachlan and I had a discussion concerning how browsers interpret different ways of specifying charsets. I've written a small test-page, located at: http://ne.keryx.se/xhtmldemo/encoding_tests.php (That server is primarily intended for the use of my students and

[WSG] IE7 and scripting

2006-03-11 Thread Keryx webb
There has been much talk about improved CSS-support in MSIE 7, but what about improved ECMAScript and DOM-support in MSIE 7? Except for non Active-X XMLHttpRequest I've yet to see any explanations about improvements in this area. Anyone who has? I played (a small) part of reporting IE's

[WSG] Intrapage-navigation and Jakob Nielsen

2006-02-28 Thread Keryx webb
Hello again! A few days ago there were some postings concerning Jakob Nielsens alertbox in which he condemned the use of intra-page links. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/within_page_links.html I wrote him the following feedback, slightly condensed: --- your article on intra-page links or at

Re: [WSG] content type etc

2006-01-18 Thread Keryx webb
Lachlan Hunt wrote: That makes no sense whatsoever! You never need to use the meta element for content served over HTTP for *any* browser. IE supports the HTTP headers just fine: I agree with Lachlan, to 90 %. If I recall things correctly, this is how things *should* work. 1. If the

Re: [WSG] semantic way to use subscript or superscript

2006-01-14 Thread Keryx webb
I agree to a large extent, but sometimes one has to consider: 1. Using MathML or CML is not an option as they are not supported by most (actually used) user agents. CML, one can argue, is also not a W3C-standard. 2. For very simple math or chemistry MathML and CML could be considered