Re: [WSG] PDFs and other non-html files opening in a new browser window

2009-02-05 Thread Lachlan Hunt
and Firefox users on Mac, for example) will end up with a new blank tab while the PDF opens in the PDF viewer. The best way to deal with the situation is to clearly label the link as being PDF and let the user decide how they wish to proceed. -- Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software http://lachy.id.au/ http

[WSG] Re: As a web developer do you find the 'HTML5 the mark up language' a useful document?

2009-01-28 Thread Lachlan Hunt
doesn't. But for those, like me, who like the single page version, we have that too. http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/ -- Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software http://lachy.id.au/ http://www.opera.com/ *** List

Re: [WSG] Investigating the proposed alt attribute recommendations in HTML 5

2007-08-30 Thread Lachlan Hunt
to a friend? -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] Using target=_blank

2007-07-24 Thread Lachlan Hunt
attributes using script. I oppose any method that makes use of window.open(). -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join

Re: self-closing tags in HTML, was: [WSG] A CMS for POSH sites?

2007-05-29 Thread Lachlan Hunt
) are elements like br, img, meta, etc. Thus, in HTML5, both img and img/ are permitted and mean the same thing. The slash is ignored by the parser. However, the slash is not permitted for non-empty elements. e.g. p/ is not allowed in HTML, though it is in XHTML because XML rules apply. -- Lachlan

Re: self-closing tags in HTML, was: [WSG] A CMS for POSH sites?

2007-05-29 Thread Lachlan Hunt
That can be set in the SGML declaration, but because it's not explicitly set in HTML4, it uses the default. [1] http://www.is-thought.co.uk/book/ [2] http://www.is-thought.co.uk/book/sgml-4.htm#Fig4-4 -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] IE 7 body length problem

2007-05-08 Thread Lachlan Hunt
if you can resolve the issue at source, instead of throwing random hacks at it until it's patched. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] Will HTML5 be a purely presentational language?

2007-04-28 Thread Lachlan Hunt
and few people took the idea seriously because the whole idea is nonsense. HTML5 will not be becoming a presentational language, though it also won't be a strictly and purely semantic language either. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Apr/0391.html -- Lachlan Hunt http

Re: [WSG] Valid and well-formed

2007-04-28 Thread Lachlan Hunt
available for validation. http://valet.webthing.com/page/ -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help

Re: [WSG] commenting javascript in script tags

2007-04-26 Thread Lachlan Hunt
/script-comments -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] colour matching transparent png files

2007-04-10 Thread Lachlan Hunt
. Animated GIFs are the exception, but they should be used sparingly anyway. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join

Re: [WSG] namespace attribute and validation

2007-03-28 Thread Lachlan Hunt
problem. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] Re: Website Directory Structure - Best Practice

2006-03-20 Thread Lachlan Hunt
images, which helps allow the URIs to be maintained perpetually. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting

Re: [WSG] Forward-slash suppresses word wrap in Windows IE

2006-03-20 Thread Lachlan Hunt
) -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **

Re: [WSG] Chinese translations and PHP includes

2006-03-20 Thread Lachlan Hunt
it's an encoding issue, but the computer I'm on at the moment probably doesn't have those glyphs either, so I can't be sure. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

Re: [WSG] Chinese translations and PHP includes

2006-03-20 Thread Lachlan Hunt
) Select the New Document pane. Set the Default Encoding to UTF-8 Check Use when opening existing files that don't specify and encoding Uncheck Use Unicode Signature (BOM) - Unfortunately, the BOM causes problems with PHP and other things, so it's safer to not include it. -- Lachlan Hunt http

Re: [WSG] Re: Website Directory Structure - Best Practice

2006-03-20 Thread Lachlan Hunt
article it was or where I followed the link from, but it was rather annoying not being able to read it. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] Re: Website Directory Structure - Best Practice

2006-03-20 Thread Lachlan Hunt
sorts by date. e.g. /mars/news/2006-03-20 Or maybe: /mars/2006/03/20/article-title -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints

Re: [WSG] Website Directory Structure - Best Practice

2006-03-19 Thread Lachlan Hunt
agree with that. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **

Re: [WSG] IE hacking.

2006-03-19 Thread Lachlan Hunt
will need to see it before they can give such a quote. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting

Re: [WSG] Certified Usable

2006-03-19 Thread Lachlan Hunt
that triggers quirks mode, an xmlns attribute and XML empty element syntax, they really haven't got a clue what they're doing with markup. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

Re: [WSG] tabindex

2006-03-18 Thread Lachlan Hunt
experts will tell you to never use it. http://www.wats.ca/resources/accesskeysandkeystrokes/38 -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] Website Directory Structure - Best Practice

2006-03-18 Thread Lachlan Hunt
will end up changing URIs and that breaks bookmarks, links, etc. If you do have to, make sure you set up appropriate redirects (using HTTP headers, never use meta refresh) -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] Validating and validators

2006-03-16 Thread Lachlan Hunt
will also give some useful warnings that a real XML parser won't, such as reference to a non-SGML character. That's very useful for detecting common mistakes like #146; instead of #x2019;. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion

Re: [WSG] broken sprite - very odd ie6 thing

2006-03-14 Thread Lachlan Hunt
) demonstrating the problem. Besides, if you create a minimal test case (i.e. a document with the minimal amount of code possible to replicate the problem) you may even be able to solve it yourself. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] Re: Encoding test page

2006-03-14 Thread Lachlan Hunt
to the default. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **

Re: [WSG] Re: uppercase CSS and XHTML

2006-03-13 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Designer wrote: Incidentally, I would be interested in any browsers you know which won't support application/xhtml+xml, apart from IE of course. http://www.w3.org/People/mimasa/test/xhtml/media-types/results -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] Re: uppercase CSS and XHTML

2006-03-13 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Designer wrote: Lachlan Hunt wrote: Designer wrote: Incidentally, I would be interested in any browsers you know which won't support application/xhtml+xml, apart from IE of course. http://www.w3.org/People/mimasa/test/xhtml/media-types/results Thanks, Lachlan. I studied the list

Re: [WSG] Absolute Positioning-A Naive Question (Maybe)

2006-03-13 Thread Lachlan Hunt
long way off from implementation. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **

Re: [WSG] Re: digest for wsg@webstandardsgroup.org

2006-03-12 Thread Lachlan Hunt
between that stylesheet and real world browsers) -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **

Re: [WSG] CAPS in stylesheets

2006-03-12 Thread Lachlan Hunt
: It worked in Strict which is why I've been misled for so long. If you're talking about XHTML 1.0 Strict, then it will only work if you're using the wrong MIME type: text/html. Serve your page as application/xhtml+xml and I doubt it will work. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] CAPS in stylesheets

2006-03-12 Thread Lachlan Hunt
not defining strict correctly. Here is a test page which works in FF,IE6: http://urbits.com/_/test.php Add this function call to the top of your PHP file: ?php header(Content-Type: application/xhtml+xml); ? -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] CAPS in stylesheets

2006-03-12 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Joshua Street wrote: (with the exception of our esteemed friend Internet Explorer, which doesn't even attempt to render pages served as anything other than text/html). ...or text/plain. But that's another can of worms :-) -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: innerHTML (was: Re: [WSG] CAPS in stylesheets)

2006-03-12 Thread Lachlan Hunt
) ^| |___doc.write()__| -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **

Re: [WSG] page break when printing

2006-03-10 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Jack Pivac wrote: on 10/03/06 13:56 Lachlan Hunt said the following: I have a page with about 20-30 div's each about 200-300px height. With that many, you may be overusing/abusing the div element. [...] You should probably try and find more semantic elements. So in this case http

Re: [WSG] page break when printing

2006-03-09 Thread Lachlan Hunt
. Unfortunately when printing they sometimes get divided between 2 pages... is there any way round this? http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/page.html#propdef-page-break-inside -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] hr/hr tags

2006-03-08 Thread Lachlan Hunt
valid use cases for HRs. Are there any compelling reasons not to use them? (Apart from them being empty tags). Why would the fact that it's an empty element be a reason not to use it? -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list

Re: [WSG] Styling Fieldset and Legend Elements

2006-03-08 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Thierry Koblentz wrote: I think it worth mentioning that the * html hack works in IE *Mac* too. I forgot about this earlier, but that's the reason for the comment hack to hide from IE5/Mac. /*\*/ * html { ... } /**/ -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] IE Reverse Indent ?

2006-03-08 Thread Lachlan Hunt
comments in CSS. You could place it in an include file of some sort, which gets included in every file. For that, you could use SSI or, if you're using PHP, ASP, JSP, or something like that, you can use their own include functionality. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] Styling Fieldset and Legend Elements

2006-03-07 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Al Kendall wrote: The attached pic is a screen shoot from IE 6. Firefox 1.5 was fine Yes, I know. I think you misread my e-mail. I knew it was broken in IE6, I'm looking for a way to fix it. Any ideas? -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] Styling Fieldset and Legend Elements

2006-03-07 Thread Lachlan Hunt
still required in IE7b2, but that was before I realised that IE7b2 was nothing more than a joke and I probably shouldn't have bothered with it. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

Re: [WSG] Styling Fieldset and Legend Elements

2006-03-07 Thread Lachlan Hunt
specified are safer, but since we do know that * html is equivalent to [if lte IE 6], both are completely safe. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] Styling Fieldset and Legend Elements

2006-03-07 Thread Lachlan Hunt
applying to it would be the least of its problems. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting

[WSG] Styling Fieldset and Legend Elements

2006-03-06 Thread Lachlan Hunt
. The following test case demonstrates how I want it to look and my current solution that works in Firefox. Both examples in the page should look roughly identical http://lachy.id.au/dev/2006/03/fieldset -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] Styling Fieldset and Legend Elements

2006-03-06 Thread Lachlan Hunt
as long as the page is readable, I'm not concerned. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting

Re: [WSG] Question of CSS specificity

2006-03-05 Thread Lachlan Hunt
That will select a href=# class=contentpagetitlelink/a and .contentpagetitle a:link Specificity is the same, but will select differently: p class=contentpagetitle a href=#link/a /p (The p element could be any ancestor element) -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] Site Check/Launch: Edentiti.com

2006-03-02 Thread Lachlan Hunt
with? I couldn't replicate this issue at all. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **

Re: [WSG] Site Check/Launch: Edentiti.com

2006-03-02 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Rob Mientjes wrote: On 02/03/06, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Everyone, A new site I recently developed the front-end for over the past few months, called Edentiti [1], has just officially launched and I wanted to get some feedback... Looks good, everything works. Just not sure

Re: [WSG] Site Check/Launch: Edentiti.com

2006-03-02 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Lachlan Hunt wrote: [1] http://edentiti.com/ The layout can't cope with any degree of font-resizing in any browser, which I think is a weak point. In my testing, I can resize a substantial amount before seeing any problems occur, and even then it's just slightly

Re: [WSG] Site Check/Launch: Edentiti.com

2006-03-02 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Tom Livingston wrote: On 3/2/06 10:31 AM, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [1] http://edentiti.com/ Took _minutes_ for the home page to display, and once it did, it still wasn't finished loading things. Mac OS 10.4.5 Safari 2.0.3 Really? Maybe the server can't cope with the load

Re: [WSG] Site Check/Launch: Edentiti.com

2006-03-02 Thread Lachlan Hunt
nice here? What's Thierrys TIP? Besides that I looks great... and I'm crazy over the form validation. Looks awesome. Thanks. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

Re: [WSG] Site Check/Launch: Edentiti.com

2006-03-02 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Felix Miata wrote: On 06/02/20 06:32 Lachlan Hunt apparently typed: [someone else] wrote: Or better: Is there a way to please both groups? Yes. Don't use small fonts. Don't blame me, I wasn't the designer, just the implementer so I had to. But I also wrote somewhere else

Re: [WSG] Converting the heathen: never again

2006-02-27 Thread Lachlan Hunt
can do. We apologise for the inconvenience. and couldn't bear them being brought up by (cough, splutter) a *customer* What kind of person would rather insult the customer instead of admitting they have a problem? -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] Linking to top of page

2006-02-27 Thread Lachlan Hunt
use that instead: body div id=container ... content ... a href=#containertop/a /div /body -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] Linking to top of page

2006-02-27 Thread Lachlan Hunt
is positioned. If it's not at the top, the page won't be scrolled to the top. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints

Re: [WSG] Linking to top of page

2006-02-27 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Ian Anderson wrote: Lachlan Hunt wrote: It depends where the H1 is positioned. If it's not at the top, the page won't be scrolled to the top. If the H1 isn't at the top of the content, then I'd say there's a pretty good case for saying that the H1 is in the wrong place. I meant

Re: [WSG] Positioning a graphic

2006-02-26 Thread Lachlan Hunt
and right margin. img { display: block; margin: 0 auto; ) IE 5.x doesn't support this method, but that shouldn't matter since it's obsolete anyway. You can just let it degrade gracefully in it. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] Converting the heathen: never again

2006-02-26 Thread Lachlan Hunt
interoperability. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **

Re: [WSG] What is ... XHTML Questions

2006-02-23 Thread Lachlan Hunt
-conforming. (Note: The only exception to this rule is if you only use the US-ASCII subset of any encoding, which is also a subset of UTF-8) -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

Re: [WSG] Page veiwing

2006-02-23 Thread Lachlan Hunt
in the near future. It already went from 640x480 to 800x600 with WinXP (at least on devices that support it). -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] Plain text v HTML on this list

2006-02-22 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Terrence Wood wrote: On 22 Feb 2006, at 2:50 PM, Lachlan Hunt wrote: Outlook users should ...switch to a better mail client that isn't broken. Outllok can be configured to send plain text can't it? It can, but there are a variety of serious problems with Outlook that make it an extremely

Re: [WSG] :before and :after for code tag

2006-02-22 Thread Lachlan Hunt
. Unfortunately. Not natively, but Dean Edwards' IE7 script will add limited support for it. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some

Re: [WSG] Page veiwing

2006-02-22 Thread Lachlan Hunt
maximised. [1] http://chrispederick.com/work/webdeveloper/ [2] http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e59c3964-672d-4511-bb3e-2d5e1db91038displaylang=en -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] Strange empty XHTML element issues in IE FF

2006-02-22 Thread Lachlan Hunt
. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **

Re: [WSG] A legitimate case for pop-ups

2006-02-21 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Patrick H. Lauke wrote: Lachlan Hunt wrote: No, that just demonstrates how ignorant judges can be with regard to technical implementations. The article states: Off topic, but it made me smile thinking about my not so clued up higher management going on about adding a GIF to pages to mean

Re: [WSG] Strange empty XHTML element issues in IE FF

2006-02-21 Thread Lachlan Hunt
. because they're already EMPTY in HTML and don't require end tags. In such cases, the '/' is just handled as part of error recovery, the browser doesn't keep looking for an associated end tag. The same is not true for elements that aren't EMPTY in HTML. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] making table cells share equally

2006-02-21 Thread Lachlan Hunt
pushing the other column to the curb. table { table-layout: fixed; } -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting

Re: [WSG] Plain text v HTML on this list

2006-02-21 Thread Lachlan Hunt
/learn2quote.html http://www.xs4all.nl/%7ewijnands/nnq/nquote.html Note: Outlook users should get Quote Fix or switch to a better mail client that isn't broken. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] Strange empty XHTML element issues in IE FF

2006-02-21 Thread Lachlan Hunt
an HTML4 DOCTYPE and not worry about inserting a space before '/' for empty elements. There is no benefit to be gained from serving XHTML as text/html to the client, even if there are benefits gained from working with XHTML on the server side. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] problem with Conditional Comments

2006-02-20 Thread Lachlan Hunt
provide a URI to a test page demonstrating the problem, you'll be more likely to get much more helpful response if you do. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

Re: [WSG] Font Sizes - Best practice

2006-02-20 Thread Lachlan Hunt
it comes to font sizes, it's better to be slightly too big for some, than too small for others. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] Font Sizes - Best practice

2006-02-20 Thread Lachlan Hunt
exactly that on DVDs and Videos, often on porn sites where the user must agree to being over 18, etc. But from the average user's perspective, it's the main content that's most important. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion

Re: [WSG] A legitimate case for pop-ups

2006-02-20 Thread Lachlan Hunt
implementation details upon those doing the actual implementation. There may be other ways to force upgrading without using a popup and the actual implementation is irrelevant from a legal point of view, as long as the end result is the same. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] TARGET in 4.01 Strict

2006-02-15 Thread Lachlan Hunt
not to see new windows, then they must be ok with them? [1] window.close(), on the other hand, is a pain in the *** thanks to a bug in Firefox, which has only recently been fixed in the trunk -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion

Re: [WSG] TARGET in 4.01 Strict

2006-02-15 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Ian Anderson wrote: Lachlan Hunt wrote: Many users hate popup windows. There are no valid use-cases or reasons for opening a popup window, don't do it. I disagree with this statement. In my opinion, there are several very good use cases. Name one for which a popup window is the only

Re: [WSG] TARGET in 4.01 Strict

2006-02-15 Thread Lachlan Hunt
James Gollan wrote: Lachlan Hunt wrote: Ian Anderson wrote: Lachlan Hunt wrote: I think generalisations like users hate popup windows are perhaps a little unhelpful. But the statement is 100% accurate... It may be technically 100% accurate, but in that case so is the statement users

Re: [WSG] TARGET in 4.01 Strict

2006-02-15 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Stephen Stagg wrote: On 15 Feb 2006, at 12:28, Lachlan Hunt wrote: What I really don't understand is that there are so many people who participate in this and various other mailing lists, newsgroups and forums that actively advise against using popups and explain why they hate them, yet you

Re: [WSG] TARGET in 4.01 Strict

2006-02-15 Thread Lachlan Hunt
is a usability benefit. Browser developers realised a long time ago that alert boxes are useless and annoying. This is why they are moving the much less obtrusive information bar approach. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list

Re: [WSG] TARGET in 4.01 Strict

2006-02-15 Thread Lachlan Hunt
, it would still be completely safe. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **

Re: [WSG] TARGET in 4.01 Strict

2006-02-15 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Jona Decker wrote: Lachlan Hunt wrote: For what reason are they annoying? You can't just say something is annoying because you think something else is better, you have explain what it is about it that is annoying, and perhaps the issue could be addressed to improve the method without resorting

Re: [WSG] TARGET in 4.01 Strict

2006-02-15 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Kevin Futter wrote: On 15/2/06 6:57 PM, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many users hate popup windows. There are no valid use-cases or reasons for opening a popup window, don't do it. If you think you have one, I'd like to hear it, but know this: I've heard many excuses over the years

Re: [WSG] TARGET in 4.01 Strict

2006-02-15 Thread Lachlan Hunt
; } But I think the best option is to completely disable the target attribute to prevent the author from interfering with your decision and make it yourself, every single time. You cannot possibly rely on the author to make the right decision for you, because every user is different. -- Lachlan

Re: [WSG] TARGET in 4.01 Strict

2006-02-15 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Jude Robinson wrote: Lachlan Hunt wrote: There are no valid use-cases or reasons for opening a popup window Well...there's *one*: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/open_new_windows.html No, Jakob is wrong about that one. I know, it's strage, he's rarely wrong about usability issues, but he

Re: [WSG] TARGET in 4.01 Strict

2006-02-15 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Herrod, Lisa wrote: Lachlan Hunt wrote: The users! Please, won't somebody think of the *users*! This line reminds me of something from my favourite show when I was a kid: Fantasy Island. the plane, the plane! :) Actually, it's a slightly misquoted line from Helen Lovejoy

Re: [WSG] [IE 6 Problem] -Container will not align centre to the page.

2006-02-13 Thread Lachlan Hunt
application/xhtml+xml .xht .xhtml (After doing this, you won't be able to view it in IE, only Firefox, Opera and other descent modern browsers, but you will learn a valuable lesson none-the-less) -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

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

2006-02-11 Thread Lachlan Hunt
are trying to make here. There is no difference between refusing access to someone based on physical/mental disability (those that require assistive technology) and someone based on their race, culture, religion, etc. It's unnecessary discrimination either way. -- Lachlan Hunt http

Re: Edit: Re: [WSG] [Please don't flame :)] HTML, XML what's the difference.

2006-02-10 Thread Lachlan Hunt
for an interesting discussion of why DTDs don't define semantics. http://groups.google.fi/group/comp.text.sgml/msg/c3e53dee2c152a81?output=gplain -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

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

2006-02-09 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Angus at InfoForce Services wrote: Most people have JAVAScript turned off, According to what statistics? I think you'll find most people actually have it turned on. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] IE7 Compatibility Team

2006-02-09 Thread Lachlan Hunt
paranoia, I'm sure no-one would mind if you quoted it fully. It sounds like they're probably sending the same template e-mail to hundreds of sites (just customising it to mention specific hacks). -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] Download line in .htaccess

2006-02-09 Thread Lachlan Hunt
the user's system decide what to do with the file. Some may have configured their's to automatically open PDFs, others may have configured it to save it to a file, and others have it set to prompt (e.g. the PDF Download extension). -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] Today's lesson: Respect - be courteous up or leave

2006-02-09 Thread Lachlan Hunt
to quote at all) is often the result users of broken e-mail clients (usually Outlook or some web based mail). I find the best approach is to just set a good example, and hope that others eventually get the idea and/or switch mail clients. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] [Please don't flame :)] HTML, XML what's the difference.

2006-02-08 Thread Lachlan Hunt
, it means nothing. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **

Re: [WSG] [Please don't flame :)] HTML, XML what's the difference.

2006-02-08 Thread Lachlan Hunt
with your markup that it couldn't also do with mine? In fact, both are completely meaningless because both are undefined. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] [Please don't flame :)] HTML, XML what's the difference.

2006-02-08 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Lachlan Hunt wrote: Stephen Stagg wrote: flashmovie{ display:flash;} and then your document reads: flashmovie src=file://a.c.v/me.swf / This shows that you have very little understanding of how the display property works; and probably little understanding of CSS in general. That's already

Re: [WSG] [Please don't flame :)] HTML, XML what's the difference.

2006-02-08 Thread Lachlan Hunt
right, except that in the end, we *are* catering for humans. We just need to do so in a way that allows machines to effectively pass on our messages to the user; and that is what requires well-defined, computer-readable semantics. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] Most semantic XHTML markup possible - your thoughts

2006-02-06 Thread Lachlan Hunt
, .customer-details tr { display: block } .customer-details th, .customer details td { display: inline; } .customer-details th { text-align: left, font-weight: bold; } -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] Multiple language usability query

2006-02-06 Thread Lachlan Hunt
found that discusses this issue. http://girtby.net/archives/2005/10/07/internet-explorer-makes-me/ -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] parse error

2006-02-05 Thread Lachlan Hunt
, the software doesn't always know what's best. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **

Re: [WSG] DIV Target

2006-02-05 Thread Lachlan Hunt
any element. Just add an id attribute. div id=foo.../div Then reference it with the fragment identifer like this. a href=#foofoo/a -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

Re: [WSG] Display:Table

2006-02-04 Thread Lachlan Hunt
technique in the future won't be the multi-column layouts, but the new techniques being worked in the new draft CSS3 Advanced Layout module [2]. [1] http://dbaron.org/log/2005-12#e20051228a [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-layout/ -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

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