Re: [WSG] Strange character encoding issue

2008-11-19 Thread Nikita The Spider The Spider
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:05 AM, James Jeffery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Never had a problem with character encodings on web pages, but since I reinstalled the OS on my iMac I have had an issue. Some of my characters, especially when using ' seem to mess up. This is the page, content and

Re: [WSG] Strange character encoding issue

2008-11-19 Thread Nikita The Spider The Spider
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:32 AM, James Jeffery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't own the server. You don't need to own the server to be able to alter its behavior. Many (most?) ISPs allow you to customize aspects of your site. Anyway. I saved as ISO-8859-1, and it works on windows now but not

Re: [WSG] Question about presenting numeric percentages and accessibility.

2008-10-15 Thread Nikita The Spider The Spider
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:01 PM, John Unsworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Just a quick question. I'm writing up a website for a simple brochure site, and the copy I'm provided with refers to something 1/3 of total or colour 2/3 of natural and so on. And it just occured to me, would

Re: [WSG] Looking to source a JAWS version

2008-09-24 Thread Nikita The Spider The Spider
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 4:13 AM, David Dorward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thierry Koblentz wrote: http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_downloads/jaws.asp I don't know about the demo version on that page, but they used to offer a full version that would work for 30 minutes at a time (you needed

Re: [WSG] Encoding odities

2008-07-13 Thread Nikita The Spider The Spider
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Mordechai Peller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Hucklesby wrote: FWIW - The META content-type is only relevant to pages read from a local file-- for example, when someone saves your page to disk. Not true. I recently had some non-local UTF-8 files where some

Re: [WSG] Encoding odities

2008-07-10 Thread Nikita The Spider The Spider
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Barney Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I've got a problem with character set encoding I'd like to rectify. I use UTF-8 as a matter of convenience and ideology, and don't believe it should be that much of a problem. My editor (Notepad++) is set to

Re: [WSG] XHTML 1.1 CSS3 - Is it worth using right now?

2008-05-13 Thread Nikita The Spider The Spider
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 10:57 PM, XStandard Vlad Alexander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HTH wrote: ...server has to do content negotiation in order to send text/html with one doctype (HTML or XHTML 1.0) to IE users and application/xhtml+xml/XHTML 1.1 to everyone else. That means you're

Re: [WSG] XHTML 1.1 CSS3 - Is it worth using right now?

2008-05-13 Thread Nikita The Spider The Spider
suggested is probably adequate (from a practical standpoint) for many Webmasters, but it isn't standards compliant. Given the name of this list, that seems pretty significant. Cheers Original Message From: Nikita The Spider The Spider Date: 2008-05-13 8:43 AM On Mon, May 12

Re: [WSG] XHTML 1.1 CSS3 - Is it worth using right now?

2008-05-13 Thread Nikita The Spider The Spider
it as valid HTML. I encourage you to try that with the W3C validator. You will not get the result you expect. Original Message From: Nikita The Spider The Spider Date: 2008-05-13 7:49 PM On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 3:17 PM, XStandard Vlad Alexander [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [WSG] XHTML 1.1 CSS3 - Is it worth using right now?

2008-05-12 Thread Nikita The Spider The Spider
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Does anyone use XHTML 1.1 Of the doctypes that my validator Nikita saw in one sample period, just slightly over 2% were XHTML 1.1. It's worth noting that most, if not all, were sent with the wrong media type.

Re: [WSG] transitional vs. strict

2008-04-30 Thread Nikita The Spider The Spider
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:06 PM, Hassan Schroeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One argument against the use of transitional doctypes is that they're now more than eight years old which makes them about half as old as the Web itself. Do you want to base your site on what was status quo half

Re: [WSG] transitional vs. strict

2008-04-29 Thread Nikita The Spider The Spider
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Andrew Maben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm finding myself having to justify my work methods to a boss who has almost zero interest in usability, accessibility or standards. (Though I have managed to get into the long-term plan: ...website that is compliant with

Re: [WSG] PNG file sizes

2008-04-16 Thread Nikita The Spider The Spider
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 1:56 AM, Ca Phun Ung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Brown wrote: Rachel May wrote: I created the PNGs in Photoshop (CS3) and just wondering if there are any better tools or ways of saving the PNGs for smaller file size, while still retaining their high quality??

Re: [WSG] Character Encoding Mismatch

2008-04-06 Thread Nikita The Spider The Spider
%2Fwww.beverlywilson.com%2F On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 20:15:19 -0400, Nikita The Spider replied: Kristine, If your server is already specifying the character set (a.k.a. encoding) then you don't need to do so in your HTML. In fact, I'd recommend against doing so, ... The META tag is needed

Re: [WSG] Character Encoding Mismatch

2008-04-04 Thread Nikita The Spider The Spider
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Kristine Cummins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone tell me how to fix this W3C warning – I'm new to understanding this part. http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.beverlywilson.com%2F Kristine, If your server is already specifying the character

Re: [WSG] META content-lang. declared but showing up different (for one person reporting)

2008-03-20 Thread Nikita The Spider The Spider
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Kristine Cummins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I launched a new site a few days ago and received a report that the site is showing in another language and/or foreign characters even though meta http-equiv=content-language content=en / is declared in the HEAD. That

Re: [WSG] Colour Blindness Statistics

2007-11-11 Thread Nikita The Spider The Spider
On Nov 11, 2007 8:33 AM, Rahul Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10-Nov-07, at 6:33 PM, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Rahul Gonsalves wrote: I'm searching for first-hand, authoritative statistics on colour blindness, for use in a formal, academic document. Would anyone be able to point me in

Re: [WSG] Encoded mailto links

2007-10-19 Thread Nikita The Spider The Spider
On 10/19/07, Chris Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I noticed this page also uses entity encoding. This is a solution I have used myself but the more I think about it the more I realise realise how ineffective it is really. take the following PHP code: // some page fetching function $html

Re: [WSG] Encoded mailto links

2007-10-18 Thread Nikita The Spider The Spider
On 10/18/07, Anders Nawroth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Nikita The Spider The Spider skrev: You might be interested in an experiment I ran that compared a few techniques for protecting one's email address from harvesting bots. The short answer: entity references worked very well I

Re: [WSG] Encoded mailto links

2007-10-18 Thread Nikita The Spider The Spider
On 10/18/07, Anders Nawroth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ray Leventhal skrev: As a matter of preference, I generally try to eliminate all mailto: links on any site I've been asked to work on. In place, I use a contact form, Me too :-) But then you get form-post spam after a while ... I

Re: [WSG] Encoded mailto links

2007-10-17 Thread Nikita The Spider The Spider
On 10/17/07, Rick Lecoat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, can anyone tell me what is the best accessible way (if any) of encoding a mailto: link? I want to make the email addresses on a site usable to screen reader users, but don't want them harvested by spambots. Hi Rick, You might be