Re: [WSG] Background music on web pages

2010-02-28 Thread William Donovan
distracted and with music turned off. It can also make for slow download older browser issues. Do check what existing web users are using and doing as well. William Donovan - (from his Google android phone) On 01/03/2010 7:38 AM, William Parry williampa...@gmail.com wrote: You could say that you're

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2009-06-21 Thread William Donovan
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2009-06-20 Thread William Donovan
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Re: [WSG] Melbourne meetings

2009-04-01 Thread William Donovan
Strange that you saw only that one. We definitely still have them bi-monthly at Loop bar just off Bourke Street, the last one was in Feb with Kevin Yank. There is another in April and more to come. thanks for the heads up and keeping an eye out for them. William Donovan mobile: 0403 263 284

Re: [WSG] Melbourne meetings

2009-04-01 Thread William Donovan
yep. If you subscribe to the Melbourne announcement list, you should receive the updates. William Donovan mobile: 0403 263 284 2009/4/2 Cameron McCormack c...@mcc.id.au William Donovan: Strange that you saw only that one. We definitely still have them bi-monthly at Loop bar just off

Re: [WSG] Chrome now higher traffic than IE

2009-03-03 Thread William Donovan
You don't by any chance use chrome yourself while you're developing? I noticed that I mainly use Firefox and I had to stop going back to the site after it was built to allow the data / statistics to clean themselves of my bias. William Donovan mobile: 0403 263 284 2009/3/3 Mike Kear w

Re: [WSG] Chrome now higher traffic than IE

2009-03-03 Thread William Donovan
site, they receive a particular type of user, as would other sites. William Donovan mobile: 0403 263 284 2009/3/3 Foskett, Mike mike.fosk...@uk.tesco.com Tesco’s (a major UK online retailer) stats concur with Matt’s results within 1%. mike *From:* li...@webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] Issue with breadcrumbs and FX

2009-02-18 Thread William Donovan
why not have the background on the breadcrumb div instead of a span that has an absolute position and a width of 10 and multiple layers of background images. William Donovan mobile: 0403 263 284 2009/2/19 Lynette Smith smithlyne...@bigpond.com Good morning Have just started a site and run

Re: [WSG] Issue with breadcrumbs and FX

2009-02-18 Thread William Donovan
for web developers finding bugs William Donovan mobile: 0403 263 284 2009/2/19 William Donovan donovan.will...@gmail.com why not have the background on the breadcrumb div instead of a span that has an absolute position and a width of 10 and multiple layers of background images. William

Re: [WSG] Failed A Job :(

2009-01-29 Thread William Donovan
Good point Dennis, plug away. It's all part of the challenge and there needss to be people leading the path for others to follow. Well done for atleast trying for them James. William Donovan mobile: 0403 263 284 2009/1/29 Eyemax Studios i...@eyemaxstudios.net Unfortunate, you as a developer

Re: [WSG] Failed A Job :(

2009-01-29 Thread William Donovan
Hang on, did I miss something or is this completely OT (off topic). Bible's, Gutenberg, print type faces... Web Standards...? William Donovan mobile: 0403 263 284 2009/1/30 Simon Pascal Klein kle...@klepas.org On 30/01/2009, at 4:16 AM, Fred Ballard wrote: I've read that the Gutenberg

Re: [WSG] headings to divide sections

2008-11-30 Thread William Donovan
Hi know that vision australia do like the implementation of a text position to be -px and have a :focus added to bring it into view. If I find the site they recommended as a good implementation of this I'll pass it onto the list. William Donovan 2008/12/1 Ben Lau [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi

Re: RE: [WSG] Learning JavaScript properly

2008-09-18 Thread William Donovan
I can vouch for Simply JavaScript by Sitepoint as well. I used it in combination with some of their other javascript books. William Design [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can personally vouch for Simply JavaScript by Sitepoint. Very good book for the beginner level. -Original

Re: [WSG] Z-index

2008-09-04 Thread William Donovan
you may need to put some more positioning on the header and some leading room above the folio to account for the gap required for FF and IE7 and possibly others. I'd ask the question on the relevance of maintaining the header as it is so large and will take up a lot of screen real estate

Re: [WSG] Web Application Accessibility

2008-08-19 Thread William Donovan
Is this spam? Andy Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am conducting a study into the accessibility of Internet application frameworks for a thesis in computer science and I would be grateful if you would take the time to complete the following test, its very short and would help a lot

Re: RE: [WSG] Web Application Accessibility

2008-08-19 Thread William Donovan
Chris, I got it twice as well. Hence the spam question. I doubt it is in the system twice. do you generally get new posts twice? William Melbourne CORE Ash, Chris \(SYD-MWG\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just got the below email twice. Do i have two instances of my email in your database

Re: Re: [WSG] Lawsuits for inaccessible websites

2008-08-17 Thread William Donovan
Thats correct Andrew, I had to investigate this for a redesign of a federal government web site. Government departments and agencies in Australia are at the mercy of the law, but as Andrew stated the level of compliance is measured against a persons assessment of the level of discrimination

Re: Re: [WSG] Standards compliance and Autocomplete

2008-06-30 Thread William Donovan
I have had the same question fluttering around in my head. the thought process for me begins with Accessibility: can other people still get to the search result that the auto complete is attempting to show if the are using a screen reader or have javascript turned off, or there are bugs (like

Re: [WSG] Please unsubscribe me

2008-06-30 Thread William Donovan
/ __ * From: William Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:21:57 +1000 Subject: Re: Re: [WSG] Standards compliance and Autocomplete I have had the same question fluttering around in my head. the thought process for me begins with Accessibility: can other

Re: RE: [WSG] Please unsubscribe me

2008-06-30 Thread William Donovan
__ Co-lead, Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force http://webstandards.org/ __ * From: William Donovan

Re: [WSG] Css validation

2008-06-25 Thread William Donovan
I would say plug your code directly into the W3C CSS validator http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/#validate_by_input and delete the hacks. However i have used hacks before and found that they did still pass through the validator. Could there be errors in your hacks. Also, just as a note,

Re: RE: [WSG] Mobile phone support of CSS

2008-06-24 Thread William Donovan
I agree, this is not web standards. However remember they could be following web standards with their CSS version. and I don't think it is just in the UK, it is every where for Vodafone. Which not only defies any effort you made to put the thing together for presentation standards as well. I

Re: [WSG] Breadcrumbs showing organisational structure and usability

2008-06-06 Thread William Donovan
Hi Lib, this may be off topic and more a usability question. however I see relatedness in how to structure them semantically and to benifit those that may wish to use them. I find that they can be a nice to have to assist users, however if you have to tab through these, they become extra

Re: [WSG] Accessibility and Joomla

2008-05-22 Thread William Donovan
Depending which version of Dreamweaver you have, There was a plug-in for Dreamweaver that assisted you in setting up Joomla templates and made sure all the keyword section where added to interface with the CMS. William Susie Gardner-Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I¹m just starting to

[WSG] restricting width in the body tag

2008-03-26 Thread William Donovan
Hi all, I wanted to ask a question of better practice and current standards view. Is it better to have a header and footer stretch across the width of the browser window or be restricted to the width of the defined. left aligned content area. Leaving lots of vacant white space for people with

Re: Re: [WSG] restricting width in the body tag

2008-03-26 Thread William Donovan
that is not something that happens or is monitored. William Chris Broadfoot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: William Donovan wrote: Hi all, I wanted to ask a question of better practice and current standards view. Is it better to have a header and footer stretch across the width

Re: [WSG] Story Boards

2007-10-09 Thread William Donovan
can think of is that Visio has a lot of application for other purposes such as relational database design, flowcharts. does anyone know if this may help Marvin William Donovan marvin hunkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. doing a project for my website development course. now, part

Re: Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread William Donovan
Which idea of accessability should be imposed? Yours? Mine? Certainly not a judge who likely has no concept of the situation or technology. Cases like this lead to red blooded legislation that takes far too long to fix, and even longer to repeal. Why didn't you just say this at the