On Aug 25, 2011, at 10:15 PM, Jay Tanna wrote:
Personally I don't go out of my way to do anything special. I
design the site as it comes and if some people can't access it -
tough luck. There is no point in spending any additional time or
money in buying specialist tools for people
I would suggest that cater to isn't the most positive terminology
to use with respect to those with disabilities.
it implies some sort of not-really-necessary bending over backwards
and engaging in some huge hassle and great imposition.
if you think of doing business as offering a product
I hope I'm not bending/breaking the purpose of the list but wanted
opinions on best practices for preparing images for use on web pages
where there are color backgrounds, and the image must have some of
that background color in them.
Example: you want to place an image with a drop shadow,
The technique of using a graphic to communicate an email address in
order to foil spiders or harvesters, like this:
bob at domain dot com
seems pretty clever. Yet, when I think about the alt text for that
image, I'm wondering if that alt text could be exploited by spiders...
would it be
On Nov 29, 2010, at 4:38 PM, Ted Drake wrote:
If a spider could read the alt attribute, don't you think they
could read the href attribute?
Alt=j...@smith.com or href=mailto:j...@smith.com;
It doesn't matter where you put the valid email address, the
spiders will find it. However, messing
On Nov 29, 2010, at 9:10 PM, Grant Bailey wrote:
This article might also help:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/spam/
wow...
wonder why the author didn't suggest the form method?
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Hi, Jon;
Thanks for the offer of more info on this, and sorry for bending
(breaking?) the main purpose of WSG!
Any info you can offer on this subject would be a huge help!
cs
On Nov 26, 2010, at 2:25 PM, Jon @ The PixelForge wrote:
Again, I'm not sure if this deserves place in WSG, but
On Nov 23, 2010, at 4:24 PM, Thierry Koblentz wrote:
How key is IE 6, and are people simply not going with this kind of
fixed menu?
You can use the following for IE6, but be aware that CSS
expressions are
evil!
#elementToBeFixed {
position:fixed;
}
* html {
background:
Here is a link illustrating what I mean:
http://thinkplan.org/menupersist.jpg
What are peoples' thoughts on this kind of menu? I'm told that IE 6
doesn't support this kind of menu...IIRC, it involves
position: fixed;
How key is IE 6, and are people simply not going with this kind of
Hello;
I am assuming that alt text will be heard and not read. If this is
so, it need only be there and could be any size, correct?
How do people handle alt? format it with h6 and call it good?
thanks for any advice!
cs
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On Nov 12, 2010, at 5:15 PM, Oliver Boermans wrote:
Alt text does become visible when the image has yet to, or has failed,
to load. In which case it is most certainly worthy of consideration. I
believe (in most browsers?) this text will inherit any font attributes
assigned to the IMG tag or
On Nov 11, 2010, at 9:31 AM, Micky Hulse wrote:
I just finished reading HTML5 for web designers, and I thought it was
a pretty good introduction to HTML5.
http://books.alistapart.com/products/html5-for-web-designers
An easy read. Very short book.
Cheers,
Micky
I see that one of the choices
On Nov 11, 2010, at 11:47 AM, Micky Hulse wrote:
Howdy!
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:23 AM, cat soul cats...@thinkplan.org
wrote:
I see that one of the choices is the eBook form...can that be read
on a Mac?
Good question!
Looks like the ebook includes PDF, ePub, and mobi formats.
I am
Any thoughts on which we ought to be using, and what information
ought to be up at top of an HTML page, along with !DOCTYPE, etc?
Thank you,
cs
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On Nov 10, 2010, at 3:14 PM, Ted Drake wrote:
Thierry's right. It's time to start making those baby steps into
HTML5.
But you'll also need to add your charset and lang definition
!doctype html
html lang=en
head
meta charset=UTF-8
Great! Most everyone else is saying HTML5 is 10
why did I get this set of 5 replies to this thread 12 times?
did any body else get it 12 times, too?
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, cat soul wrote:
Any thoughts on using CSS hover properties to show larger images?
The scenario I'm envisioning is one where you'd have small
thumbnails of samples, and hovering the mouse over them would
invoke a hover state in which a larger version of that same image
would appear...Larger
will there be/can there be a new command/property which can be read
by each device the way it needs to be?
could there be soon a touch command so that you could write the
code like:
hover, do this. If no hover, then touch, do this. If no touch, then
__ and do this
?
On Oct 20,
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On 10/20/10 10:44 AM, cat soul wrote:
Yes, and while we're on the topic of things that won't work on
phones and iPadsis there anything else we need to know about
that also won't play nice with those
Help me if I mis-interpret the writer's fine article, but this
pertains to Javascript rollovers, too.
The end user doesn't know and doesn't care whether that thing popping
up was a CSS Hover, or a Javascript rollover. S/he only knows that,
by innocently mousing around, something popped up
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On 10/20/10 1:19 PM, cat soul wrote:
I thank you for that link, David.
The picture I am developing now is this: HTML and CSS should be
used strictly
I agree thoroughly, Hassan. Yet as this is a best-practices
discussion and group, and since we've been hearing that these things
A) don't always work and B) aren't always well-received by end users,
we're left with a need.
And that need is to know: out of the universe of what we can do,
Heh! That is pretty funny!
However, clients may have the need to ensure a universal experience.
One example of this is in their brand values, which may call for a
certain look and feel. If a person experiences one thing on their
iPad and another experiences something different on their HP
tee...you are quite right to point that out..every medium has its
booby traps and difficulties..I've spend my share of time wrangling
with recalcitrant files myself.
cs
On Oct 20, 2010, at 4:11 PM, tee wrote:
Fixing PostScript error is like knowing browser quirks
Any thoughts on using CSS hover properties to show larger images?
The scenario I'm envisioning is one where you'd have small thumbnails
of samples, and hovering the mouse over them would invoke a hover
state in which a larger version of that same image would
appear...Larger meaning 400x600
On Oct 14, 2010, at 12:09 PM, Christian Snodgrass wrote:
Basically image maps can be used, but they aren't usually a good
idea. A better method would be to split it up into separate images
and smash them together to look like one map. This lets you add alt
tags and what-not to make it
On Oct 14, 2010, at 4:19 PM, Christian Snodgrass wrote:
I'm not saying image maps should never be used... I'm saying that
you should keep in mind alternatives because image maps are
frequently abuse
That is completely clear and understandable.
And, I would as (as I don't know) are image
On Sep 29, 2010, at 1:59 AM, Sam Sherlock wrote:
MS is on board but for vista windows 7 users only
Quite true. All for-profit companies are in things for themselves.
No news flash there.
But if I could tease out the original purpose of my question once
more, it'd be to say that Flash
I hope that this is within the scope of this list...
Some months back, you may have read Steve Jobs saying that Flash
could easily be replaced by a combo of CSS and h264, or something
very similar.
My CSS skills don't empower me to see how this could be..could
somebody shine a light on
On Sep 28, 2010, at 5:01 PM, Sam Sherlock wrote:
Kroc Camen video for everybody
http://camendesign.com/code/video_for_everybody
I think Steve Jobs is thinking about everyone using Safari browser
(or another modern browser that support h.264 not ff3.6 but ff4
will maybe, chrome does)
but
years ago.
cs
On Sep 28, 2010, at 7:00 PM, Sam Sherlock wrote:
transitions with css
here http://timvandamme.com/ some icons use transition with css
with in .vcard
in firefox the icons just use hover active
- S
On 29 September 2010 01:12, cat soul cats...@thinkplan.org wrote:
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