Re: [WSG] Is it still necessary to encode ampersands?

2010-06-30 Thread Susan Grossman
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Nancy Johnson njohnso...@gmail.comwrote: I think you said it very nicely. The sites I am work on, one agency designs and gives initial html mock-up and we hook it up to an CMS system and the client adds content. Could it be managed better? yes, but that is

Re: [WSG] validator error or my code?

2010-03-27 Thread Susan Grossman
156 E651 The value of the 'for' attribute must match the 'id' of a control element in the same form: E895 [WCAG v2 1.3.1 (A)] Reference to a missing or incorrect 'id' attribute: label for=sp3 but the ID for sp3 is there.

Re: [WSG] Reset Forms

2009-02-23 Thread Susan Grossman
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Todd Budnikas to...@missiondata.comwrote: A question came up today inquiring about a design my company has recently completed. There is currently in the design an option to reset the form on one of the pages. Does anyone have any opinions on the usefulness of

Re: [WSG] Checking My Page

2009-01-14 Thread Susan Grossman
ps: so here's the url to the site. http://tracs.co.nz/marvin/ E-mail http://tracs.co.nz/marvin/E-mail: startrekc...@gmail.com MSN: sttartrekc...@msn.com Skype: startrekcafe We Are The Borg! You Will Be Assimilated! Resistance Is Futile! Star Trek Voyager Episode 68 Scorpian Part One

Re: [WSG] re: Firefox v3 and opacity on opacity

2008-12-26 Thread Susan Grossman
Does anyone using FFv3.05 on XP or Vista have mouse-over display issues with the code? If so, or not, what OS are you using? Yes - 3.05 on Vista and I get the hover problem. I was quite surprised? I don't get it on any of the other browsers I'm running on Vista. -- Susan R. Grossman

Re: [WSG] Standards and Adobe Contribute

2008-11-03 Thread Susan Grossman
On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 5:53 AM, James Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hi Guys, A client wants to use Adobe Contribute for content management. Is there any point writing standards complient code or will contribute butcher the code anyway? Can I use php at all with contribute? Would love to

Re: [WSG] RE: Accessible date picker widget

2008-10-30 Thread Susan Grossman
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 3:38 AM, Chris Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hi, This is the one I've used with good success: http://www.frequency-decoder.com/2006/10/02/unobtrusive-date-picker-widgit-update. It has a lot of options set from the CSS classes of an input type=text element. Chris

Re: [WSG] Drupal - Standards Compliant and Crossbrowser Dropdown Navigation Widget?

2008-10-20 Thread Susan Grossman
I am in the process of working with a developer on a Drupal project and I was wondering if there was any Standards Compliant and/or Semantically Correct widgets for Drupal out there... specifically for dropdown navigation (which is a primary concern of mine) or other things... Thanks, Jim

Re: [WSG] re: Semantic use of rel and rev in anchors

2008-10-20 Thread Susan Grossman
Could someone tell me if the following use of rel and rev are semantically accurate? a href=#tandc rev=appendixTCs/a ... div id=tandc ... /div a href=tandc.html rel=appendixTCs/a I'm currently developing a pop-up method specifically for Terms Conditions. One where the TCs

Re: [WSG] re: Semantic use of rel and rev in anchors

2008-10-20 Thread Susan Grossman
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Susan Grossman wrote: Since there are no standard values for rel http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/types.html#h-6.12 are the standard link types for REL and REV. They are open to use with other values

Re: [WSG] Drupal - Standards Compliant and Crossbrowser Dropdown Navigation Widget?

2008-10-20 Thread Susan Grossman
Our core business is building sites with Drupal. We focus on XHTML 1.0 strict compliance and are striving towards full adherence of the New Zealand e-government web guidelines which cover accessibility, and various other considerations. We've found Drupal to be remarkably pliable with

Re: [WSG] Drupal - Standards Compliant and Crossbrowser Dropdown Navigation Widget?

2008-10-20 Thread Susan Grossman
Our core business is building sites with Drupal. We focus on XHTML 1.0 strict compliance and are striving towards full adherence of the New Zealand e-government web guidelines which cover accessibility, and various other considerations. We've found Drupal to be remarkably pliable with

Re: [WSG] labels as input wrappers + h6 in place of legend

2008-10-19 Thread Susan Grossman
I have an obsession with web form styling - I cannot stand ugly web form :-) Fieldset, label and input tags are enough for basic and nice styling, no extra div needed. fieldset legendspanContact Information/span/legend label for= xyz/label

Re: [WSG] Making an image come right up to a list

2008-07-30 Thread Susan Grossman
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Michael Horowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tried all the resettings and added the css to remove default margins from elements and still have the issue. Michael Horowitz Your Computer Consultant http://yourcomputerconsultant.com 561-394-9079 Did you

Re: [WSG] Making an image come right up to a list

2008-07-30 Thread Susan Grossman
I have a div within that div I have a menu set as a ul followed right underneath by an image. Currently there is unwanted space between the list elements and the image. There doesn't seem to be any padding or margins that would cause

Re: [WSG] Making an image come right up to a list

2008-07-30 Thread Susan Grossman
Sure just put it up at http://horowitzfamily.net/ Also wondering why my footer is so far down Michael Horowitz - I think your footer is way down because 1) you have a height set of 650 on the left nav 2) You're clearing all floats and putting the fotter at the bottom of

Re: [WSG] w3c link checker

2008-01-08 Thread Susan Grossman
http://search.cpan.org/dist/W3C-LinkChecker/ i looked at the downlad file and it's a tar.gz. i run windoze. how would i install it on a windoze box? dwain There's a free program for unzipping that type of file. Once the link checker is unzipped it'll also work on windows

Re: [WSG] File comparison tool for Dreamweaver CS3

2007-12-26 Thread Susan Grossman
On Dec 26, 2007 7:31 AM, Erickson, Kevin (DOE) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The BEST file compare software I have seen and used is the open source WinMerge http://winmerge.org/ I have been using ExamDif for lots of years and haven't seen anything I like better

Re: [WSG] Colors for web design

2007-12-14 Thread Susan Grossman
Anyone know a good online resource or book that discusses how to decide the best color combinations for use on the web. -- Michael Horowitz I like visuals and use sites like this for color: http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html -- Susan R. Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [WSG] Web Standards Presentation

2007-11-27 Thread Susan Grossman
Since this is the Web Standards group, I'd like to ask if some members would be willing to look over the information I have gathered and I am developing and would comment, critique, correct, etc. on everything I have presented. Nice Start - though if I was talking Standards I'd also talk

Re: [WSG] Visual Design Of Websites

2007-07-11 Thread Susan Grossman
Here are some helpful links: Color Design: http://www.sessions.edu/career_center/design_tools/color_calculator/index.asp and Color Theory: http://www.color-wheel-pro.com/color-theory-basics.html Sample CSS Page Design Layouts for understanding how templates layout

Re: [WSG] Who's A Front End Developer?

2007-07-05 Thread Susan Grossman
I would classify myself as a front-ender, but not because of my focus on design work - or my greater aptitude in ecma, css and markup compared to my php, asp or python. I think the greater qualification comes in standards awareness and interest/participation in the development of

[WSG] Opening a New Window for Print View (dif from a print style sheet)

2007-06-15 Thread Susan Grossman
Generally I use print stylesheets to handle all my print views, but I'm working on an application that after they enter form data we're going to offer them a print view that shows the data in a format that is the legalstyle (I deal with mandates). To do this I'm going to offer a link styled as a

Re: [WSG] stand alone blog software

2007-05-24 Thread Susan Grossman
I have happily used and hosted Moveable Type ( http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/) on my small servers for years. The updates when they come out install easily too and had no real learning curve. The templates are easy to customize to compliant, accessible xhtml. Susan On 5/24/07, Michael

Re: [WSG] ive given up on css

2007-05-16 Thread Susan Grossman
Today i just told them to go back to using table based layouts and i will restrict my designs accordingly- i cant listen to the whining anymore. What would you have done in this situation? Back to your original topic - the client is always right in the end. You can present white papers and