On 01/08/12 00:29, Isabel Santos wrote:
I could generate both xml and html but that isn't very elegant,
and would not optimise the resources.
Unless you serve the XHTML files with a MIME type of application/xml or
application/xhtml+xml, which will break things in IE9, the browser will
treat
On 26/07/2012 23:41, Isabel Santos wrote:
I decided to use polyglot markup, allthough it involved serving it as
text-html for old trident browsers, to be able to include xml content on
the site (wich I'm still learning).
What XML content do you need to include? If you just stick to regular
On 20/07/2012 17:47, coder wrote:
How can I make a web page appear as the latest version in all browsers,
i.e., perform a cache bypass? And I don't mean for me - I mean for all
visitors to the page? Is it possible?
??
Once it's cached in the browser there's not much you can do about it,
the
On 30/06/2012 07:10, tee wrote:
In scholarly paper and report, we often use number (e.g.. 1, 2. 3, displays in
sup) in between paragraphs when referencing others' work. What is the name of
the tag used in such manner in HTML or ebook format?
The microformats community lists a rel=footnote
On 30/12/2011 12:32, coder wrote:
I just wonder what the view of some 'anti-new windows' folk is towards
using tabs? I would have thought that tabs are the new 'new windows'??
They're still *my* tabs. I'll open a new one when I want to, not when
you want to.
Rob
On 30/12/11 17:32, coder wrote:
You just aren't getting this, are you Rob.
I beg to differ.
We're talking about what you
do if you don't know there are options.
I provided you links to advice based on research with real users, they
advocated against opening new windows because it confuses
On 29/12/11 17:53, Hassan Schroeder wrote:
Why should *web apps* be unconditionally constrained from the same
context-driven behavior?
You ask an interesting question: are we talking about web apps or web
sites? Does the answer make a difference? Can a user tell the difference?
Rob
On 29/12/11 18:02, coder wrote:
Most people don't even know what a back button is!
Apparently most people do:
The Back button is the lifeline of the Web user and the second-most
used navigation feature (after following hypertext links).
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990530.html
Though I
On 20/12/2011 23:44, Chris Price wrote:
One advantage I can see in
opening a new window (on a larger screen at least) is you can dismiss
the page by closing that window rather than feeling you are being taken
somewhere you don't want to go. Is this context sensitive?
Yes it is context
On 16/12/2011 10:42, Rick Faircloth wrote:
Why not create a rule to filter out messages with “out of office”
in the subject or text of the message, instead of leaving the
group, entirely.
Well for a start, if you had such a rule you wouldn't have received his
message.
But if that worked,
On 25/05/11 05:24, Marvin Hunkin wrote:
tried to build the project, and got a error 86 in the web.confi file,
about autehntification.
and using windows authentification, and sayin needed form authentification.
There are two places where you need to configure authentication:
1. In your
On 10/03/11 13:17, Anthony Gr. wrote:
I think, it's doesn't work but h2 is not a first child element in
parent element (div).
Yes, the example page contains both positive and negative examples.
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On 06/03/11 20:22, tee wrote:
but I can never get h2:first-child works
Here's an example, specifically using h2 elements since you mentioned them:
http://www.boogdesign.com/examples/css3/first-child.html
By default, every element has a blue border, but any element which is a
:first-child
tee wrote:
I have this:
a[href*=site.com] {color: #e21;background: #555;}
Then I added this thinking this will tell the browser to give external link
with a white background, but all links are with white background.
[href^=http]{color: #e21;background: #fff;}
The http overrules the one with
On 01/10/10 20:03, Ted Drake wrote:
I'm on the fence right now about headers.
I've seen use of h2's without a header wrapper in a section. This gives screen
readers structure, but it breaks the HTML5 outline methodology.
Shouldn't you change it to an h1 when it goes in a header.
The outline
Oliver Boermans wrote:
I don't have any personal experience with this stuff but your
discussion rereminded me of a page I bookmarked recently:
http://jdbartlett.github.com/innershiv/
Yep, that looks like the root of the problem: doesn't work in Internet
Explorer when an element's content is
Steven Tan wrote:
Also ran into an issue when i was using js templating with html5 tags. Html5
shiv only ran once when the document loads. Either need call it again or use
html4 tags. I am choosing html4 tags for now. Sigh.
All the HTML5 shiv is doing is calling document.createElement against
On 28/09/10 14:10, Steven Tan wrote:
No, it doesn't. But if you use html5 tags in your templating, then it might.
Just something to watch out for.
Sorry, I'm not sure what you're saying here: no it doesn't what? It
might what?
One of my templates create a section and header for about 20
Steven Tan wrote
So watch out if you rely on js libraries that do something like this:
$(body).append(sectionsomething/section);
$(section).text(new something); // this line will throw an error in IE.
Hope that makes sense.
Ah, I understand, interesting. I've done some example cases:
On 28/09/10 23:41, Steven Tan wrote:
Strange, I expected the innerHTML part to fail. Any idea why that works?
Nope! I expected one or the other of the two (DOM and innerHTML) to fail
as surely jQuery is using one or other of them underneath?
I haven't had time to dig in to the jQuery source
On 27/09/10 22:46, tee wrote:
Are these HTML5 tags inline elements by default or it's that (the latest)
Firefox and Opera not yet supporting them? I thought they are of block elements.
Firefox 4.0 will have support in the default stylesheet for the new
HTML5 elements. It'll also have the
Luke Hoggett wrote:
In some cases client may have to pay (TypeKit) but they do have at least
have the option of picking a font that is close to what they need.
Also check out FontDeck:
http://fontdeck.com/
You can server the fonts for free to a limited number of IPs without
buying a
Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
On 19/08/2010 10:13, David Storey wrote:
So the section or article elements could be taken out of context and
displayed elsewhere but retain their h1 headings.
You could, but I still use the h1 to h2 inside the sections because no
browser uses the sectioning algorithm
David Storey wrote:
maybe, but any is not backwards compatible so not really an option to
use any time soon, and is (AFAICT) a Mozilla only extension that is not
in any specification. As it isn't even in any spec, even if it does get
accepted by the CSS working group, it will take ages to be
On 18/08/10 17:51, tee wrote:
This example doesn't look very semantic to me :-) Is there a tag that can
replace or substitute the use of headings?
If you properly nest your section and article elements then you can
use just h1 everywhere:
section
h1Monday/h1
article
h1First post/h1
On 18/08/10 21:16, Prisca schmarsow wrote:
See this HTML5 doctor's site article:
http://html5doctor.com/the-hgroup-element/
The example with the strapline that article links to is this:
hgroup
h1a href=http://miniapps.co.uk/; title=Home
pagespanMiniApps/span/a/h1
h2HTML5 apps for Apple
Rob Crowther wrote:
Or, as you say above, does the user
have to visit each page? I'll have some time this afternoon so I'll
probably just try it myself :)
Just wanted to confirm: I tested this last night in Firefox 4.0 beta -
any manifests linked to in pages downloaded by another manifest
On 13/08/10 05:17, Ryan Seddon wrote:
Yeah that is a good point. Although doing so would require the person to
visit each page which has it's own manifest before it will be cached.
Have you ever tried caching pages which themselves have manifests?
If you're referring to the page which
Ryan Seddon wrote:
If you make an update to the manifest file it will
re-download every asset listed in the manifest.
You can split resources across multiple manifest files, though, as far
as I can tell, the you only get one manifest per page. Have you ever
tried caching pages which
Hi Andrew
Andrew Harris wrote:
Is the offline storage tool in HTML5 designed for this sort of heavy lifting?
are there storage limitations?
on an iPad?
Can you confirm, are you referring to Web Storage[1] or Offline
Resources[2]? Web Storage is really just cookies on steroids and
probably
Cesar Raymond Santos wrote:
You may also want to try out:
http://findmebyip.com/litmus/
It looks nice, though I wonder about how they're testing some of their
stuff. eg. Chrome 5 apparently has full support for all the new HTML5
forms stuff, but it doesn't actually offer any UI for things
On 12/03/10 19:29, Thierry Koblentz wrote:
If I recall, unless you buy a license, you are not allowed to use Jaws for
testing
Jaws will work for forty minutes without a license, then you have to
reboot to get another forty minutes. The license specifically denies
you using this forty minutes
On 12/03/10 20:52, Thierry Koblentz wrote:
As a side note, there is a great article on WebAim about how to use NVDA:
http://www.webaim.org/articles/nvda/
Another good article on NVDA here:
http://www.marcozehe.de/articles/how-to-use-nvda-and-firefox-to-test-your-web-pages-for-accessibility/
Lorrie Laskey wrote:
Do screen readers exist for Linux operating systems?
Just came across this tutorial for Orca:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9978
Rob
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Lorrie Laskey wrote:
Do screen readers exist for Linux operating systems?
Yes, there's Orca for GTK/Gnome:
http://projects.gnome.org/orca/
Rob
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designer wrote:
If any of you guys are around at this time, I'd be really grateful if
you could have a look at:
http://www.betasite.fsnet.co.uk/gam/altgam/gwelanmor.html
It is very simple stuff, but I'd be interested if you could see anything
'wrong'/undesirable/not semantic etc. For
Gaspar wrote:
This problem will be solved, I hope, with the use of section and
header in HTML5.
Indeed, in HTML5 the meaning of h1-6 is 'headings for the sections with
which they are associated' - multiple h1 elements in a page is not a
problem:
http://dev.w3.org/html5/markup/h1.html
A
Peter Goddard wrote:
It does require more effort than just using the standard control
toolkits supplied by Microsoft [...] Additionally, there are best
practices available which enable the placing of the server
generated javascript to one area of the page (after the html) and
JSON/AJAX/MVC
James Jeffery wrote:
Anyone got any good resources on developing for mobile browsers?
Try http://dev.mobi/
Rob
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Nancy Gill wrote:
I can't figure out why it has to load the process three times in order
to run.
It runs every tab in a separate process, plus one main one for the
browser. This means a crash on a single page won't bring down the whole
browser, it also means there is, for the first time in
David Storey wrote:
thing it adds is giving you more brownie points for validating, while
not allowing WAI-ARIA to work if JavaScript is turned off.
I would have thought that, if JavaScript was turned off, the ARIA stuff
wouldn't be too useful. As its purpose is to communicate dynamic
James Ellis wrote:
you can run either version from the relevant file
location, but not at the same time.
You can run any number of versions at the same time, but you have to use
separate profiles - the profile can only be active in one instance at a
time.
You have to use the -no-remote
Jason Grant wrote:
All suggestions are very much appreciated.
You might want to have a look at the MIT Software Engineering for Web
Applications course for ideas:
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-171Fall2003/CourseHome/
There's also a book and video
Cole Kuryakin wrote:
2. Aside from it's semantic nature, is there really any functional use for
formatting data using microformats?
For some practical examples of doing stuff with hCard:
Online service to translate hCard into vCard (ie. put directly into your
contacts application:
Elizabeth Spiegel wrote:
I understand that Contribute would allow them to make changes to content
without messing with the coding/navigation. Does anyone have experience
with this product? Is it possible/easy to set up to maintain
standards-compliance?
You can limit the areas they can edit by
Michael Horowitz wrote:
In the free market their tends to be high and low quality products
It's not a free market, it's a market for lemons.
Rob
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Michael Horowitz wrote:
It would be a wonderful world.
I can't imagine how government does anything but lower standards in
these areas.
Assuming you're being serious, I would love to hear your reasoning for
this. With most things even remotely technical now happily existing in
a market
Mike Brown wrote:
[Mike - see, the problem is this guy is only a part-time web developer.
If he was full-time, he'd totally have time and be able to solve the
verbalise the text into every spoken language problem.]
The funny thing for me was his later comment - someone else mentioned
JAWS,
Hayden's Harness Attachment wrote:
I do not know if this is off topic. If it is please excuse me. I have
the web developer toolbar that works with Firefox upto 1.5 and when I
try to upgrade for my Firefox 2.x, I get an error.
What error are you getting? Web Developer Toolbar works just fine
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote:
The hiding effect gained by 'CC' is used by many to justify hacking
and to declare their solutions valid - because the validator doesn't
complain.
It is ultimately laziness, but I don't want to have to expend the mental
effort to distinguish between invalid CSS that is
SosCpdGMail wrote:
Hello Ted
There is, somewhere, a reference or tutorial of how can we read and learn
about the structural way and css?
I would recommend the Friends of Ed book, HTML Mastery: Semantics,
Standards, and Styling by Paul Haine:
Stuart Foulstone wrote:
PDF is a document file format, not a Web technolgy. Whilst you may say
that it's use on the Web has become standard that does not make it a Web
Standard (except by some tortuous abuse of semantics).
HTML is a document file format. While there may be an argument to be
Designer wrote:
The hcard example makes every line a div and just seems,
frankly, daft.
But you don't have to use divs, (nearly) any element will do, the key is
mostly the class names. Maybe having a look at some of the 'examples in
the wild' will be more instructive:
James Jeffery wrote:
Interesting, although i didnt read a word of it, its all in dutch, but i
got the english summary.
I tried translating it with Babelfish, the result was somewhat
incoherent but more intelligible (to me) than Dutch.
As for certification, its useless as one pointed out,
Apple have released a new beta version with security patches:
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce//2007/Jun/msg0.html
Rob
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Gary Barber wrote:
Main problem I have with safari is on win xp sp2 none of the fonts it
wants to use render at all. Makes life very interesting.
I'm getting the same thing - no fonts render at all, including those
that are part of the chrome, so I can't even type in any URLs...
Pressing
Simon Moss wrote:
FWIW I have been running iTunes and Quicktime on this machine - I wonder
if that has anything to do with it?
I have Quicktime (which I've tried updating) but not iTunes. I also
have Swift (open source webkit based browser) installed which may be
upsetting things.
I have
Roberto Gorjão wrote:
Well, I have quicktime and iTunes. I don't have Swift. I still got all
the reported problems in my Win XP SP2: no fonts and crashing bug
button. And no, deleting the two .ttf files didn't solve it.
I think I've found most of the solution now, following reading this
David Storey wrote:
For styling the page handheld stylesheets should be used. For
JavaScript issues I don't know of a way to specifically detect if it is
a handheld, and browser sniffing is far from ideal on mobile due to many
reasons.
Could you give an element a specific style in the
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