Re: [WSG] Expected behaviour of links to external websites

2011-12-23 Thread matt andrews
On 20 December 2011 13:09, Alex Mironov alexmiro...@graphicdesignservices.ato.gov.au wrote: [snip] I was wondering if anyone had any views/resources as to whether users should remain in the same window or should be taken to a new window/tab when they click on an external link? Short answer:

Re: [WSG] search page vallidation

2010-01-20 Thread Matt Fellows
Marvin, I believe someone mentioned it earlier, but removing the br / tags just prior to the /ul tag should resolve the issues that you are having with xhtml validation. Cheers, Matt *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] The 'Some Links for Light Reading' posts

2009-09-22 Thread matt andrews
Absoutely, I'll echo that. There are some real gems in there. Thanks, Russ. 2009/9/23 Susie Gardner-Brown susi...@uq.edu.au: Hi there I’d just like to send a big thank you to Russ Weakley for taking the time to collate and send this to WSG Announce each week! I always find really

Re: [WSG] Accessible websites

2009-07-07 Thread matt andrews
2009/7/8 Dennis Lapcewich dlapcew...@fs.fed.us: Dennis Lapcewich wrote: While I agree with your general sentiment, I have to say I find the assertion that all people aged 35-40 or more are for all intents and purposes [...] web disabled and [...] in immediate need of web accessibility

Re: [WSG] Installing More than one version of IE6

2009-07-03 Thread matt andrews
2009/7/3 Matijs mat...@gmail.com: For what it's worth. Microsoft have—for several years now—offered free Windows XP images with IE6/7/8RC and now IE8 as well in Microsoft Virtual PC format. Microsoft Virtual PC (the application) is also available for free, making this the most acurate and

Re: [Spam] :RE: [WSG] Accessible websites (was: accessible free web hosting account)

2009-07-01 Thread matt andrews
2009/7/2 Dennis Lapcewich dlapcew...@fs.fed.us: If you are unsure that web accessibility should play a role, take this test.  In a group of people have everyone stand up.  Those who are unable to stand may remain seated.  Now pose these three requests, in order: 1)  If you are wear glasses,

Re: [WSG] returning to scroll position in a table inside a fixed hight div

2009-06-14 Thread matt andrews
2009/6/15 raven rav...@mail.ru: Keep in mind as always that a JavaScript solution will not work in user agents not running JavaScript, which can include search engines, mobile devices, assistive technology, browsers in certain corporate contexts in which JavaScript is globally turned off or

Who's responsible (was Re: [WSG] add to favorites?)

2009-03-25 Thread Matt Morgan-May
On 3/25/09 12:12 PM, Rick Faircloth r...@whitestonemedia.com wrote: The correct design (and web standards that are adhered to or not) is that design for which the client is paying. Sorry, but that just reads to me like a way to excuse slipshod work. It is one thing to figure out any old way to

Re: [WSG] macpro and softwares..

2009-03-05 Thread Matt Morgan-May
Try ies4osx. I haven't, but have heard it works: http://www.kronenberg.org/ies4osx/ As for software, I'm partial to Dreamweaver. And Contribute. And Flex Builder. :) But I've also heard good things about Aptana, and I've been happy with TextWrangler, which did all I used BBEdit for, free. - m

Re: [WSG] Javascript Accessibility

2009-03-03 Thread Matt Morgan-May
As someone who's on the working group producing ARIA, I have to say the editors have done a pretty remarkable job in terms of documenting a specification that hasn't even advanced past Working Draft. First, there's the spec itself: http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/ Then there's the User Agent

Re: [WSG] Javascript Accessibility

2009-03-02 Thread Matt Morgan-May
On 3/2/09 2:02 AM, Mathew Robertson mat...@optusnet.com.au wrote: Its been possible to do ARIA style accessibility since about 1995 - its just now that people are starting to care. Not sure what value you were hoping to add to the conversation, but MSAA, the Windows accessibility API, didn't

Re: [WSG] The notion of accessibility [was: Javascript Accessibility]

2009-03-02 Thread Matt Morgan-May
On 3/2/09 3:15 PM, Hassan Schroeder has...@webtuitive.com wrote: Matt Morgan-May wrote: Look at the Atlas project that was unveiled this week, as an example. ref? http://www.280atlas.com/ One of the developers is actually talking about ARIA right now: http://rossboucher.com/2009/03/01

Re: [WSG] Implication of empty divs

2009-02-10 Thread Matt Morgan-May
Andy's technically correct, and it's true that pointing to the main content of the document is good for accessibility, though not because of semantics so much as that you can point to it in a Skip to main content link. id='mainContent' doesn't communicate any semantics by itself. (That's

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

2009-02-05 Thread Matt Morgan-May
On 2/5/09 1:30 PM, Carolyn Diaz carolyn.d...@gmail.com wrote: I know this is an old school type question, but we are very divided about this. The people on our usability team are with Nielsen, but others (like me) are not so sure. Isn't accessibility to new windows a problem as it changes the

Re: [WSG] Users who deliberately disable JavaScript

2009-01-30 Thread matt andrews
2009/1/27 Patrick H. Lauke re...@splintered.co.uk: As good as it is to hear anecdotal evidence from expert users such as list members here, I'd say it's much more important to bring some actual live user stats to the table. Last time I checked JS stats (around 12 months ago) at the site I work

Re: # Re: [WSG] Beta Testers Needed for BCAT

2009-01-14 Thread Matt Morgan-May
On 1/14/09 5:38 AM, Christie Mason cma...@managersforum.com wrote: Plus, I'd be curious as to availability of the Flex server in remote hosts. I haven't seen any offer it, is it still so pricey(?), but I also haven't been looking for it. Flex hasn't been sold on a server basis since 1.5, which

Re: [WSG] Re: WSG Digest

2009-01-13 Thread Matt Morgan-May
On 1/10/09 8:26 AM, Alan C Whiteman acwhite...@visualis.us wrote: In the end, Flash is not only an obnoxious medium in 90% of its usage ...which is not a problem owing to the platform but rather its authors... (Besides, that's consistent with Sturgeon's Law: 90% of everything is crap.) it's

Re: # Re: [WSG] Beta Testers Needed for BCAT

2009-01-13 Thread Matt Morgan-May
On 1/12/09 2:20 AM, michael.brocking...@bt.com michael.brocking...@bt.com wrote: Quote: The fact is that many educators have found that they can use Flash to teach their students effectively. I think you (and those teachers that you refer to) are mistaking an effective lesson, for effective

# Re: [WSG] Beta Testers Needed for BCAT

2009-01-09 Thread Matt Morgan-May
Hi, Excuse me for jumping in here, especially (in this case) as a Flash partisan. But I fail to see how this kind of project can be anything other than a good thing overall. What I don't understand is why people are instantly critical of projects that are actually attempting to increase access

Re: [WSG] Reset form fields to default values when user clicks the refresh/reload button in there Browser, not on the page.

2008-11-13 Thread Matt McKeon
to default# (or 0). For a select element you can add the attribute selected=selected the the option you want set by default. As for text inputs, you can just use value=Some Default Text in the input and that will show when the page loads, or is reloaded. HTH -Matt

Re: [WSG] Accessible and cross browser online slide system

2008-10-22 Thread Matt Ryall
poster. The software this list uses actually seems pretty bad at filtering out stuff like this. Good list management software strips out read-receipt headers [1] as well as blocking the automated out-of-office messages that seem to plague this list. Regards, Matt [1] For example

Re: [ADMIN] THREAD CLOSED [WSG] XSLT: looping through ancestors looking for a specific node

2008-07-28 Thread Matt Fellows
Standards even when it hits me in the face. I'll now go back to my corner... Cheers, -- Matt Fellows http://www.onegeek.com.au/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

[ADMIN] THREAD CLOSED [WSG] XSLT: looping through ancestors looking for a specific node

2008-07-27 Thread Matt Fellows
Sorry, Grant, this is off topic for this list. Everyone, if you have a response for Grant please send it off list. Cheers, Matt -- Matt Fellows WSG Core Member http://www.onegeek.com.au/ *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] To stretch an image within a div ??

2008-07-08 Thread Matt 0000
I completely understand everyone's comments on image enlargement using professional graphic applications vs. browsers using their cheesy routines. What I didn't know was if I had missed any use of proper techniques within CSS to achieve what I needed. My first post exposes the approaches I am

Re: [WSG] To stretch an image within a div ??

2008-07-07 Thread Matt 0000
, *Kepler Gelotte* Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156 Normandy Dr., Piscataway, NJ 08854 www.neighborwebmaster.com phone/fax: (732) 302-0904 -- *From:* Matt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Sunday, July 06, 2008 12:37 AM *To:* Kepler Gelotte *Cc:* wsg

[WSG] To stretch an image within a div ??

2008-07-05 Thread Matt 0000
was in favor of tables. What is the standards compliant way to handle this ? Thanks, Matt *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL

Re: [WSG] To stretch an image within a div ??

2008-07-05 Thread Matt 0000
; } div.footer { clear: both; } I had tried chaning the width and overflow. No visible effects were observed. Have I logically omitted or overlooked something here ? Thanks again, Mathew On 7/5/08, Kepler Gelotte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Matt, If you stretch the img (you can't

Re: [WSG] Structuring CSS

2008-06-09 Thread Matt Fellows
of structuring comes at a cost because a number of requests need to be made to the server. You're certainly right with the cost in terms speed, by increasing the number of CSS files, but what about the cost of development time, readability and re-usability? -- Matt Fellows http://www.onegeek.com.au

Re: [WSG] Should we design for 800x600 screens?

2008-06-09 Thread Matt Fellows
position though - I would agree with Jakob Nielson in the general sense, keeping my audience in mind. But knowing your user's will give you more insight into what you _should_ do. -- Matt Fellows http://www.onegeek.com.au/ [1] - http://www.useit.com/alertbox/screen_resolution.html [2] - http

Re: [WSG] Link Help please

2008-06-04 Thread Matt Fellows
It should be href=xxx.css not href(xxx.css) -- Matt Fellows http://www.onegeek.com.au/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help

Re: [WSG] Marking up company logo

2008-05-29 Thread Matt Fellows
, then there is no need for the surrounding p tag. Some people (including myself) feel uncomfortable with the img floating by itself, so wrapping it in a div id=header or something is a nice alternative. -- Matt Fellows http://www.onegeek.com.au

Re: [WSG] Conditional styles not being used on first-run

2008-05-23 Thread Matt Fellows
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Re: [WSG] Centering all items in a li

2008-05-18 Thread Matt Fellows
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Re: [WSG] Centering all items in a li

2008-05-18 Thread Matt Fellows
lol I think I will leave this one alone, I think i'm making you're job more difficult instead of the other way around! Please do send through your solution when you find it so I can have that 'light bulb' moment. Cheers, -- Matt Fellows http://www.onegeek.com.au

Re: [WSG] Centering all items in a li

2008-05-17 Thread Matt Fellows
A demo would be helpful, but have you tried something along the lines of the following: div id=footer ul lia href=/link1Link1/a/li lia href=/link2Link2/a/li ... /ul /div div#footer{text-align:center;} div#footer ul li{display:inline;list-style-type:none; } Cheers, -- Matt Fellows http

Re: [WSG] Centering all items in a li

2008-05-17 Thread Matt Fellows
other. Or am i still missing something? -- Matt Fellows http://www.onegeek.com.au/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL

Re: [WSG] Older Browsers

2008-05-12 Thread Matt Fellows
server logs/analytics, you might be able to see that only .07% (~500 of about 700,000 on our site) actually use MSIE 5.0. Then you can make the argument that it is not worth it. Cheers, Matt -- Matt Fellows http://www.onegeek.com.au

Re: [WSG] accessible client side form validation

2008-04-22 Thread Matt Fellows
I humbly suggest my own: http://www.onegeek.com.au/articles/programming/javascript-form-validation.php:) Completely unobtrusive and requires only valid XHTML. If you have a little bit of JS knowledge you can easily extend the functionality. Cheers, Matt On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Casey

Re: [WSG] Floating model: FF counterintuitive

2008-04-17 Thread Matt Fellows
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Re: [WSG] WCAG 2 implementation site

2008-03-11 Thread Matt Fellows
a similar approach that integrates access key's into these menu's as well. Is there a reason for not using 'accesskey' at all? Cheers, Matt On 3/12/08, dwain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: nice job! has the feel of web 2.0. dwain Web 2.0? Am I looking at the wrong site (http://lflegal.com

Re: [WSG] WCAG 2 implementation site

2008-03-11 Thread Matt Fellows
Interesting. Thanks Thierry! On 3/12/08, Thierry Koblentz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Fellows Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 4:33 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] WCAG 2

Re: [WSG] strong element being more semantical and accessible for required field

2008-02-25 Thread Matt Fellows
that of the surrounding content. I am unsure as to if it is more important that the label? But I can see a clear benefit for blind users. So what do we do? Cheers, Matt P.S. Although a while away, we do have these sorts of things to look forward to: * http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-diff-20080122

Re: [WSG] strong element being more semantical and accessible for required field

2008-02-25 Thread Matt Fellows
if the form is broken over several pages (have I already entered this information?). Cheers, Matt *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help

Re: [WSG] strong element being more semantical and accessible for required field

2008-02-25 Thread Matt Fellows
In some cases that's an excellent solution (what I've been using for a while) but unfortunately power users will dial down verbosity so much that they will quiet legends as well. A blind power user I know told me * is best. He also told me nothing else is needed, but he's a person and that

Re: [WSG] strong element being more semantical and accessible for required field

2008-02-25 Thread Matt Fellows
statistical significance however so it might be a while before I have something useful. Cheers, Matt On 2/26/08, Mike at Green-Beast.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Matt, that the following legend is superflous and prevents logical grouping. fieldset legendRequired/legend

Re: [WSG] PNG in IE6

2008-02-21 Thread Matt Fellows
If you have Adobe CS, you can try exporting the PNG image as PNG-8. Cheers, Matt http://www.onegeek. http://www.onegeek.com.aucom.auhttp://www.onegeek.com.au On 2/21/08, Amrinder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I looked for the working of .png image in internet explorer and found two

Re: [WSG] Best Practice to Offer Different Formats of Documents

2008-02-16 Thread Matt Fellows
. Cheers, Matt [1] - http://www.askthecssguy.com/2006/12/showing_hyperlink_cues_with_cs_1.html On 2/16/08, dwain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/16/08, Joe Ortenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Icons also help people make quick choices and allow you to provide the documents in a tabular format when

Re: [WSG] hello - [OT]

2008-02-15 Thread Matt Fellows
on a limb here - does anybody else feel the same? If so, do you have a suggestion as to how we can better the quality of the list? Matt On 2/15/08, John Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please can this be closed? It's far off any standards related topic. Possibly the only thing I can see

Re: [WSG] an accessible question: server-side vs client-side validation

2008-02-12 Thread Matt Fellows
and implementing your specific needs. I've still got a bit of work to do on it, but you can certainly get an idea. The url is: http://www.onegeek.com.au/articles/programming/javascript-form-validation.php I'd be happy to help you if you need, just shoot us through an email. Cheers, Matt On 2/12/08

Re: [WSG] an accessible question: server-side vs client-side validation

2008-02-12 Thread Matt Fellows
, Matt On 2/13/08, tee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Matt, thank you very much! Your JS library looks very interesting and I certainly will play with it. I see that the radio group has not been implemented, is this something coming out soon? The web form has radio buttons with multi-selection

Re: [WSG] Styling forms

2008-02-05 Thread Matt Fellows
Forms should be marked up as you would anything else; If you are placing a paragraph in the form you should use a p. If you are placing a list inside the form you should use a ul/ol, if you are placing headings inside the form you should use h1-h6 etc. etc. The inputs should be arranged using

Re: [WSG] This IE8 controversy

2008-01-29 Thread Matt Fellows
A great point Casey. MS have taken the first major step in moving towards a standards compliant industry and we, the web designer, are complaining that it's going to break our old sites hacked up for IE6/IE7. The saying says 'we can't have our cake and eat it too', but in fact we can. We have

Re: [WSG] Explorer woes with list dropdowns

2008-01-28 Thread Matt Fellows
A JavaScript function that you might be interested in is called the 'Suckerfish' technique. It is a well known problem that IE is difficult at best in these situations so to avoid lots of css hacks etc. you can use a little bit of JS instead. It's accessible, standards compliant and easy to use.

Re: [WSG] email abuse (OT)

2007-12-06 Thread Matt Fellows
This is not the appropriate forum to be raising these types of issues. There are plenty of places elsewhere from which you can find more information about spam detection and filtering. My suggestion would be to start with Google, as they are your particular email host. Cheers, -- Matt OneGeek

[WSG] To autostretch a page border

2007-08-16 Thread Matt 0000
I have a 2 pixel wide page border that needs to maintain its autostretched limit to the browser window, as it gets filled with content. The code I've supplied below *apparently* does what's needed in IE6. It doesn't work the same with Firefox 2.0. Resizing the browser window behaves expectedly in

Re: [WSG] Auto scaling within a table's background image

2007-08-02 Thread Matt 0000
objects and several other inherent delays. However, the current approach is more for prototyping purposes as well as settling an off-topic pending point. Could you show me how to correctly position the image overlay in the content-reserved portion in my example. Thanks, Matt On 8/1/07

Re: [WSG] Auto scaling within a table's background image

2007-08-01 Thread Matt 0000
to acheive the same effect. Matt On 8/1/07, Hassan Schroeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt wrote: I guess there were a couple of concerns raised. One of them was the justification of the table's use. I chose it only because it is currently the only way I know to put pretty borders (outer

[WSG] Auto scaling within a table's background image

2007-07-31 Thread Matt 0000
this without resolving to a Javascript or CSS hack ? Matt *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] Auto scaling within a table's background image

2007-07-31 Thread Matt 0000
of this, several such tables will form part of a bigger table (this concept is quite similar to a thumbnail view of a slide show) If you perceive the general idea, perhaps you might have examples that illustrate this using CSS ? Matt On 7/31/07, Mark L Hedley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just use CSS

Re: [WSG] Auto scaling within a table's background image

2007-07-31 Thread Matt 0000
almost all of my needs, except for the fact that the image won't fit completely within the table background defined space. Matt On 7/31/07, Daniel Kendrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt, Give me more details. What type of border is this around your page content? like if you had a square you have

[WSG] Organising Infinity: A Web Content Management symposium, Brisbane - Saturday June 2, 2007

2007-05-31 Thread Matt Bailey
standards within the context of Web Content Management at universities and other large organisations. Apologies for late notice, but for those in Brisbane (or who might be in Brisbane on Saturday!) if you're interested, would be great to see you there. Best Regards, Matt QUT is hosting

Re: [WSG] Web design education

2006-02-16 Thread Matt Robin
at large (!) I greatly appreciate insights from educators (or former educators) such as yourself - because it gives other web design professionals a greater sense of what the educational establishments are teaching to the next generation of potential web professionals. Regards,Matt

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

2006-02-09 Thread matt andrews
On 10/02/06, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. Indeed. I can report from some recent testing on the sites I work on

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

2006-02-09 Thread matt andrews
On 10/02/06, Angus at InfoForce Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lachlan and Matt Thank you for the information. I should recheck. Do you have information about International web users? For the sites I referred to as having less than 0.1% of members with Javascript turned off, the users

Re: Moral High-horse - was Re: [WSG] Failed Redesign and the Media

2006-02-01 Thread matt andrews
On 01/02/06, russ - maxdesign [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a far-from-guru-status Web Standards supporter/coder (I try) I have witnessed, on this list and on another css-specific list, quite a bit of condescending and 'forced-opinion' type of replies. It doesn't make for a nice atmosphere

Re: [WSG] Failed Redesign and the Media

2006-01-30 Thread matt andrews
On 31/01/06, Kat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kat wrote: Their answer was that they used the table-based layout because they did not like the way style sheets render in IE, and that encoding is not utilised for search engine reasons. Wow. Those guys *really* have some catching up to do.

Re: [WSG] Help with CSS ul

2005-12-17 Thread matt
Jose - Probably a margin padding issue. Try reducing the padding margin and position the bullets with the xy positioning on the background rule for the li or a:li. I'm not that great with css, you'll probably get some better answers. Have a nice holiday. Matt Hello, Does anyone can help me

Re: [WSG] Pipe separated lists

2005-12-13 Thread matt andrews
On 12/12/05, Gunlaug Sørtun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...I'm just not sure it makes really good sense to add any kind of separators between links since they don't add any value from a usability point of view. They are just visuals that may come out as noise. I agree with you, Georg. My

Re: [WSG] italic and validator

2005-12-11 Thread matt andrews
On 12/12/05, Bert Doorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm, so (to go along with the Google debate), we can save more bandwidth by omitting html, head and body? Interesting. Indeed, and Rimantas did just that in his version: http://rimantas.com/bits/google/google.html I'm slightly wary of doing

Re: [WSG] *Why* doesn't Google validate? was New logo scheme was talking points for standards

2005-12-10 Thread matt andrews
On 10/12/05, Christian Montoya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/9/05, Lea de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/12/2005, at 1:20 AM, matt andrews wrote: Hi Lea, I completely agree. Google have somehow developed a blind spot when it comes to meeting even the basics of current web

Re: [WSG] *Why* doesn't Google validate? was New logo scheme was talking points for standards

2005-12-09 Thread matt andrews
On 09/12/05, Lea de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 08/12/2005, at 10:29 PM, James Ellis wrote: Having a valid frontend has nothing to do with whether an organisation attempts to be socially responsible. I'm sure there are heaps of slightly dodgy organisations out there that hire

Re: Fw: [WSG] Call for Site Check

2005-11-29 Thread Matt Harris
to the home page. (: Best regards, -Matt Harris www.focusontheclouds.com

Re: [WSG] firefox 1.5 is official

2005-11-29 Thread matt andrews
On 30/11/05, Felix Miata [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, the question remains, does a release version profile with web dev installed work without doing anything special when upgrading the release version from 1.0.x to 1.5? And the answer is: yes. (for me, on WinXPSP2, from 1.0.7, with planets in

[WSG] Call for Site Check

2005-11-28 Thread Matt Harris
mostly on the PC, so Mac users, let me know if you run into any obvious problems. Everything should be working good in Firefox and Opera - only thing that is missing in IE is the hover effect for photo lists. Looking forward to your input and thanks for your help! -Matt Harris

Re: [WSG] starting ordered lists from a number other than 1

2005-11-23 Thread matt andrews
On 23/11/05, Geoff Pack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree with Bert - use the start attribute and a transitional dtd. It's cleaner, more concise, and captures exactly the semantics of what you are doing. You don't need the div around the text info though. Of course you could always write

Re: [WSG] Verb this link (WAS Click here--reference)

2005-09-21 Thread matt andrews
On 21/09/05, Blank Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/21/05, Lea de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not on this don't use verbs boat at all because I haven't yet found (or just missed :( ) a justification for it. While I don't by default, or even often, use a verb in a link,

[WSG] Know any standard's compliant WYSIWYG XHTML editors for a CMS integration?

2005-08-26 Thread Matt Harris
up-to-date reviews of the latest and greatest WYSIWYG editors? Best regards, Matt Harris www.focusontheclouds.com

Re: [**] [WSG] Know any standard's compliant WYSIWYG XHTML editors for a CMS integration?

2005-08-26 Thread Matt Harris
a link to the list? Thanks! Matt Harris www.focusontheclouds.comOn 8/26/05, scott reston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:you're probably about to get an invitation to join the CMS list from about 5 people... that's probably a better forum for the question...that said, i've been happy with XStandard

[WSG] iCalendar Questions

2005-08-22 Thread Matt Hampel
Does anyone have any good iCalendar resources to share? Other than hCal, I can't find many good iCal examples, let alone tutorials. I hope this is an appropriate question for the WSG -- if not, where else could I look for answers? Matt Hampel

Re: [WSG] Need recomendations for CMS system

2005-08-17 Thread Matt Hampel
I'll second the Textpattern reccomendation. It's free, and the learning curve is very reasonable. It's easy for complete beginners to use the system. And it cuts development time by a siginifigant ammount because it uses a logical, non-constraining template system. Matt On 8/16/05, morten

Re: [WSG] Site Review Please - www.SalmonRecipes.Net

2005-08-02 Thread Matt Harris
Nicely done! I have a quick question for you (or anyone)... what is the purpose of this code? #content-ctr:after{ display:block; visibility:hidden; content:.; clear:both; height:0; }/* \*/* html #content-ctr{height:1%}/* */ -- Thanks! Matt Harris www.focusontheclouds.com On 8/2/05, David Laakso

Re: [WSG] Site Review Please - www.SalmonRecipes.Net

2005-08-02 Thread Matt Harris
Thanks, David!On 8/2/05, David Nicol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt,I'm reliably informed by our in-house CSS 'guru' that you'll find youranswer here@http://www.positioniseverything.net/easyclearing.html Hope this makes some sense.CheersDavid

Re: [WSG] Problem in Firefox on initial page load only

2005-07-27 Thread matt andrews
On 27/07/05, Hope Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 27/7/05 8:00 PM, Jorge Laranjo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the bottom of the page, you have a p class=clear/p make that p class=clearnbps;/p p class=clearnbsp;/p Note, nbsp; and not nbPS; When I've needed to clear a floated,

Re: [WSG] A Fixed Understanding

2005-07-27 Thread matt andrews
On 28/07/05, Chris Kennon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Thanks, where I got confused is with the static attribute which does not take top, right, bottom and left values(http:// www.w3schools.com/css/pr_class_position.asp). So if an item is not positioned when using fixed, it is fixed

Re: [WSG] Understanding inheritance (well, trying to)

2005-07-24 Thread matt andrews
CSS specificity, not asking for a change in markup. Suggest you read Russ' earlier reply closely. cheers, matt andrews. On 25/07/05, John Yip wrote: When the ID and the CLASS have the different value on the same attribute, the ID always wins. However, you can use span/span to achieve what you

Re: [WSG] Page check please - lionsq3

2005-07-21 Thread matt andrews
On 22/07/05, Rob Unsworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I need some help in checking the following page is rendering Ok in IE 5.x and IE 6. I am unable to test in these browsers due to a hd crash and the subsequent decision it was time to refurbish my system. Until finished I have no

[WSG] small and big : accessibility usage?

2005-06-14 Thread Matt Thommes
Is there any reason at all to ever use small, and big? I know they are visual elements, but I thought I heard somewhere that small represents a tonal adjustment, for screen readers - such as *lowering* the tone of voice. em and strong provide levels of emphasis - but is there an opposite to

Re: [WSG] Exporting inline CSS

2005-05-31 Thread Matt Thommes
Quick question, I have a client with lots of HTML file that have inline CSS. (Over 300 docs) Good Lord, what was that previous author thinking!?? There's no escaping this problem - you're just gonna have to start from scratch. Don't waste your time with export/import methods. MATTHOM

[WSG] CSS selectors: next adjacent element?

2005-05-24 Thread Matt Thommes
I know in CSS, there is a method to select the 'first child' of an element, as well as the 'first adjacent element', within an element. However, is there a way to select the 'next adjacent element' - within the same parent? Example: div class=picture /div h3Headline/h3 pParagraph text/p

Re: [WSG] CSS selectors: next adjacent element?

2005-05-24 Thread Matt Thommes
Do you mean something like div.picture + h3 {...} I'm pretty sure I mean that - I am, perhaps, confused on what the plus (+) sign does. I was under the impression that your example meant this: div class=picture h3.../h3 /div .. rather than this: div class=picture ... /div h3.../h3

[WSG] CSS list spacing: margin or line-height?

2005-05-18 Thread Matt Thommes
I've noticed that the CSS 'line-height' property provides extra spacing between list items, such as in an ordered list, unordered list, as well as definition lists. In the past, I've always used the 'margin' property to add spacing between list items. IE: ul li { margin-bottom: 5px; } However,

Re: [WSG] Playing a sound file - what is the best way?

2005-05-17 Thread Matt Thommes
I would use Flash to play the audio and provide an alternative link to the sound file as alternative content Yes, I agree. Flash is extremely versatile with handling audio files - and if you have even just a little experience with Flash, you can easily export a SWF file with an MP3 embedded.

Re: [WSG] Formatting tables

2005-05-10 Thread Matt Thommes
Do you have a link to the table in question so we can see whats not working (and the way you want it to work?) hint : border-collapse : collapse; gets rid of the need for cellpadding and cellspacing in the html Yes, it's better to put all your presentational code in the CSS. I am

Re: [WSG] Valid blockquote scenarios?

2005-05-08 Thread Matt Thommes
Thanks for all of your help! MATTHOM On 5/7/05, James Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi The WDG HTML 4.0 reference is a good guide to determine these things: http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/block/blockquote.html Cheers James

[WSG] Valid blockquote scenarios?

2005-05-06 Thread Matt Thommes
Hello, I'm having some trouble deciding if certain blockquote scenarios are valid, or semantically correct. Example 1: pblockquoteTEXT/blockquote/p OR blockquotepTEXT/p/blockquote OR blockquoteTEXT/blockquote - Is the p even necessary? If so, does it go INSIDE or OUTSIDE the blockquote?

Re: [WSG] Headings within ul Navigation

2005-05-04 Thread Matt Thommes
Why do you want all those header tags in there- for display purposes? I don't think it's invalid - I just don't see the purpose yet It's probably better to just class the ul or li, such as ul class=heading1, and then style all those headings for the correct appearance. Matthom matthom.com/

Re: [WSG] Firefox bug?

2005-05-01 Thread Matt Thommes
I experience this vertical line problem quite a bit. It only happens on my Mac - using Firefox. It's something to do with Firefox, because it doesn't seem to happen in any other browser. Also, I don't recommend Firefox for the Mac. For the PC, it's great. The Mac version has issues. MATTHOM

[WSG] A HREF around a Flash Object?

2005-03-21 Thread Matt
wondered if there is a standards compliant way that I can wrap an A HREF around the flash object, so that the hyperlinking is controlled by the web page, not the flash file? That way users without Flash can still link through to the target page. Any Ideas? Cheers, Matt

Re: [WSG] GMail... Terrible!

2005-02-15 Thread matt andrews
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:54:59 +1000, Gary Menzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are plenty of accesible free webmail clients available. Explan to me why GMail has to make it's product accessible to everyone? It's not that Google *has to* make GMail accessible, semantic, minimal, and all the

[WSG] Thumbnail Image overlapping container DIV - Help Please

2005-02-04 Thread Matt
ignore the fact that i might have heavy CSS (its much better than my old nested table tag soup). Cheers, Matt ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints

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