Re: [WSG] Lengthy form buttons

2005-12-07 Thread Tim Burgan
Hi Nick, Does button type=submit still submit a form by default, or does it require javascript to do so? If it doesn't require javascript.. why doesn't everyone use button type=submit? Tim Nick Cowie wrote: One way around this is to use button type=submit instead of input type=submit

Re: [WSG] Lengthy form buttons

2005-12-07 Thread Tim Burgan
Thanks Nick, Nick Cowie wrote: The button element is the new kid on the block it was only introduced in 1997 with HTML 4.0 http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-html40-970708/interact/forms.html#edef-BUTTON input has be around a lot longer. http://nickcowie.com No kidding! RIP:

Re: [WSG] news scroller and standards

2005-11-15 Thread Tim Burgan
As a nice looking example: Apple's news ticker www.apple.com. Tim The Visual Process wrote: As pointed out already there are plenty of Javascript options which are standards compliant, try google. However scrollers look horrible, you may want to go for something like they have one the bbc

Re: [WSG] CSS and PHP

2005-11-14 Thread Tim Burgan
Just a quick note that'll help: In the URL, the special characters (such as ampersands, question marks, etc) need to be converted to html character entities. You can find entity codes from: http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm For example: ampersand can be #38; or amp; question mark is #63;

[WSG] Visited links

2005-11-11 Thread Tim Burgan
In CSS, if I style my visited links so they are purple, as so... a:visited { color: purple; } ...once the user has visited a particular link, from then on the color for that link will not be purple. Once the content for that visited page is updated, does the browser realise the linked page

[WSG] Bridging the gap in IE

2005-11-07 Thread Tim Burgan
Hi, I'm using image replacement on a H1 element. The problem I'm having is that the content under the H1 is fine in Firefox, but is pushed much further down the page in IE6. An example shows it clearly: HTML: http://timburgan.com/css-test/index.htm CSS:

[WSG] XHTML as text/html what Tantek said.

2005-10-26 Thread Tim Burgan
Hi, Can someone please inform me about the disadvantages about the fact the XHTML is served as text/html to IE? (1) What does this mean? (2) Is it only IE? (3) Isn't HTML 4 or XHTML Transitional served as text/html? (4) Why does it matter that XHTML Strict should be served as

Re: [WSG] Checking in as many browsers as possible

2004-12-19 Thread Tim Burgan
Hi Wayne, Wayne Godfrey wrote: Am I having Firefox problems because the latest Netscape is also on my Mac OSX (Panther) as well? The latest version of Firefox has been acting strangely ever since I installed Netscape (or thereabouts). I can't seem to quit Firefox without it remaining in the menu

Re: [WSG] Checking in as many browsers as possible

2004-12-19 Thread Tim Burgan
I was going to make a post about browsers also, but it fits directly into your post also... Is it necessary to test the same browser on different platforms (e.g. IE6 on Win2000 AND WinXP), or ok to just test all available windows browsers in XP? Tim

[WSG] repositioning markup

2004-12-16 Thread Tim Burgan
Hello, If I have an XHTML document containing tags in the order: h1Heading One/h1 pParagraph/p h2Heading Two/h2 pParagraph/p How are these tags styled with CSS so that there are positioned in and out of order on the page with no relation to each other.. but when viewed in a text browser it

[WSG] Learning to design Accessibility

2004-11-25 Thread Tim Burgan
. Is there a resource that's available that is able to fill the gaps in my knowledge regarding accessibility? Thanks for your time. Tim -- Tim Burgan. Website Development Graphic Design E [EMAIL PROTECTED] W www.timburgan.com ** The discussion

Re: [WSG] Learning to design Accessibility

2004-11-25 Thread Tim Burgan
This is brilliant! Thanks for the kick-start everyone. Tim -- Tim Burgan. Website Development Graphic Design E [EMAIL PROTECTED] W www.timburgan.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] Drop Shadow

2004-11-24 Thread Tim Burgan
for in the same way that Nick describes, and have been very happy with the result. Andy Budd's website [1] uses this technique if you want to see a real-word example in action. [1] http://www.andybudd.com/ Tim -- Tim Burgan. Website Development Graphic Design E [EMAIL PROTECTED] W