[WSG] [Off-topic] AngularJS

2012-08-23 Thread James Ducker
Has anyone done much with AngularJS[1]? I'm currently evaluating it as a potential successor to a huge bespoke framework I wrote. The syntax feels a little convoluted at times, but my god does it absolutely blaze through DOM updates! [1]: http://www.angularjs.org/ -- *James Ducker* jame

Re: [WSG] how to force a cache bypass?

2012-08-02 Thread James Ducker
Second that. If you can version the filenames that's definitely the most sure-fire way to make sure users don't cache old copies. James On 3 August 2012 14:39, Emmanuel Negri wrote: > Sometimes a random query string does not work. > > Changing the filename itself wor

Re: [WSG] how to force a cache bypass?

2012-08-02 Thread James Ducker
s, go nuts. James On 21 July 2012 03:22, Rob Crowther wrote: > 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

Re: [WSG] HTML5 and you

2012-07-01 Thread James Ducker
ke wrote: > On 02/07/2012 01:55, James Ducker wrote: > > element.valueAsDate >> >> This property is designed to solve your locale woes, and it is also an >> easy way to feature-detect a browser's native support for the date input >> type. I haven't gon

[WSG] HTML5 and you

2012-07-01 Thread James Ducker
e detection: http://jsfiddle.net/h9jYB/5/ - Opera 12: *Pass *(valueAsDate handling, datepicker present) - Chrome 20: *Pass *(valueAsDate handling, datepicker present) - Firefox 12: *Pass *(no valueAsDate handling, no datepicker) - IE8, IE9: *Pass *(no value

Re: [WSG] Read Speaker?

2012-02-23 Thread James O'Neill
y spend the resources on ensuring their site is accessible and > then provide BrowseAloud to their audience as an addition to that. > Feel free to contact me with any questions. > Cheers, > Gian > > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 8:25 AM, James O'Neill wrote: > >> They just cont

Re: [WSG] Read Speaker?

2012-02-21 Thread James O'Neill
They just contacted and I have not yet talked with them. I am doing some research first. Thanks for the link. Jim On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 14:55, Patrick H. Lauke wrote: > On 21/02/2012 19:39, Steve Green wrote: > >> The merits of ReadSpeaker (and BrowseAloud, which is very similar) have >> bee

Re: [WSG] Read Speaker?

2012-02-21 Thread James O'Neill
than the > fairly narrow range of user groups that benefit from ReadSpeaker. > > ** ** > > Steve Green > > ** ** > > *From:* li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] *On > Behalf Of *James O'Neill > *Sent:* 21 February 2012 19:58

Re: [WSG] Read Speaker?

2012-02-21 Thread James O'Neill
udget for these services (and they are > not cheap) there are much better ways you can spend the money that will > benefit more people. > > ** ** > > Steve Green > > Managing Director > > Test Partners Ltd > > ** ** > > *From:* li...@webst

[WSG] Read Speaker?

2012-02-21 Thread James O'Neill
Any thoughts on the Usability or Accessibility of Read Speaker http://www.readspeaker.com If you have any reports, reviews or comparisons that would be great too. Thanks all, Jjim *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] Re: WSG Digest (On leave - 12 months)

2011-03-10 Thread James Ducker
ndardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > *** > > -- James Ducker Web Developer http://www.studioj.net.au

RE: [WSG] Accessible modal windows / lightboxes

2011-01-21 Thread James Grant
Hi Steve, That's an interesting way to call the lightbox and it works with keyboard controls for me in IE8, FF3.0, FF3.6 border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin-left: 5px; width: 100%;"> Yes, it was tested in all browsers and I just tested it again in Firefox on Windows and Mac - it works ok fo

[WSG] Accessible modal windows / lightboxes

2011-01-20 Thread James Grant
Hi WSG'ers, Does anybody have any experience with creating accessible modal windows, aka lightboxes? While I have seen some great lightbox experiments that do allow keyboard control, I haven't been able to find any that will trigger a screen reader to actually read the content within. My pr

Re: [WSG] disallow IE6 to load the main style sheet

2010-12-18 Thread James Ducker
and the average IE6 user will have an average XP box that will chug like hell on large or JS-or-DOM-complicated pages. - James -- James Ducker Web Developer http://www.studioj.net.au *** List Guidelines: http://we

Re: [WSG] Where are we with Frames?

2010-10-25 Thread James Ducker
> How do people here feel about frames? Sometimes (not often) you might need an iframe, hidden or otherwise, to get around certain technical limitations, but there's no good reason to use framesets for layout, in my opinion.

Re: [WSG] IE6 Finally Nearing Extinction [STATS]

2010-06-13 Thread James Ducker
are likely to be skewed toward people who browse the Internet from work, hence the low Firefox usage. -- James Ducker Web Developer http://www.studioj.net.au *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] help

2010-04-05 Thread James Ellis
s and replies. Doing so will help improve the signal/noise ratio of the WSG mailing list. Many thanks James (admin) On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 4:32 AM, Marvin Hunkin wrote: > hi. > well lost all my project a couple of months ago. > dodgy system restore. > corrupted hard disk. > so with

Re: [WSG] lost my web projects

2010-03-03 Thread James Ellis
Hi As this is a web design & dev list please keep the discussions on-topic. If anyone wants to help Marvin please contact him directly. Thanks James (core admin bod) On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Uday wrote: > Hi Marvin, > > You can try Easy Recovery Pro. if your hard drive

Re: [WSG] Background music on web pages

2010-02-28 Thread James Ellis
James On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Andrew Cunningham wrote: > HI > > On 28/02/2010 6:18 PM, Brett Goulder wrote: > > I would just point your client to some usability articles and educate > > them why background music is very bad. > > > > although I tend to ha

[WSG] Standards based Drupal WYSIWYG Editor

2010-02-26 Thread James O'Neill
I work for a small county government and we are working with a developer to setup a Drupal website. I am of the opinion that the editor can make or break the utilization of the website by our mostly not very savvy employees. If it is too hard or creates work then it will not be used or people will

Re: [WSG] Difference between applied CSS and Computed CSS

2010-02-25 Thread James Ellis
der to the browser. e.g in PHP - which you are doing judging by the file headers. The file extension doesn't matter, it's just text. Cheers James On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Russ Weakley wrote: > Hi Rateb BEN MOUSSA > > > The reason for this can probably be found in on

Re: [WSG] CSS Validation Error

2010-02-04 Thread James Ellis
a box top and bottom with two curved slices but that's a pain to implement in flexible layouts. To answer a question further back, yes border-radius should be last in the list after the vendor extensions. Cheers James > They aren't "guaranteed future-compatible". > >

Re: [WSG] CSS Validation Error

2010-02-03 Thread James Ellis
konquerer */ } Noting that webkit and moz have different names for the rules, watch out for that. Theoretically, when a browser supports border-radius, it should switch from its vendor specific rule to the standard rule. Cheers James On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Thierry Koblentz <

Re: [WSG] Looking for Accessible and Standards based Drupal Main Navigation Module

2010-01-07 Thread James O'Neill
Hey Thierry, Actually, your solution and the Improved Suckerfish thingy were the first two that came to mind. =) Any other options for Drupal out there? Thanks again everyone. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

[WSG] Looking for Accessible and Standards based Drupal Main Navigation Module

2010-01-06 Thread James O'Neill
Greetings all, We are working with an external developer who does speak Accessibility and Usability a bit, but not enough for me. I am looking for accessible and standards based Drupal main navigation module thingy with the specific requirement of being navigable via tabbing, including submenus.

Re: [WSG] Major memory leaking in IE

2009-12-03 Thread James Ellis
Hi Try looking at Drip, an IE memory leak detector: http://www.outofhanwell.com/ieleak/index.php?title=Main_Page (first result in Google) https://ieleak.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/ieleak/trunk/drip/docs/index.html Thanks James On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Mads Erik Forberg wrote: > Y

Re: [WSG] Including a DIV element inside an HREF tag

2009-11-04 Thread James O'Neill
If you are worried about validation an anchor tag cannot have block elements in it, if I remember correctly, which is a little annoying. I think HTML2 and HTML5 correct this. Barring validation, it seems like the way to do it. I am not sure, but you may want to check how IE6 handles this too. O

Re: [WSG] skip links

2009-10-29 Thread James O'Neill
I'm a bit late but here are some good 'skip link' links: http://joeclark.org/book/sashay/serialization/Chapter08.html http://www.webaim.org/techniques/skipnav/ http://juicystudio.com/article/skip-links.php *** List Gu

Re: [WSG] Is page-break-before broken in Webkit?

2009-10-12 Thread James Ducker
Hi there, As a test, try using that style on an element that isn't floated or inside a floated element. - James *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org

[Spam] :Re: [WSG] Converting CSS / Design into Pre-Set HTML widget code

2009-10-12 Thread James Ducker
st Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > *** -- James Ducker Web Developer http://www.studioj.net.au

[Spam] :Re: [WSG] IE6 display issue

2009-10-09 Thread James Ducker
overflow:hidden on the #pics div. Let me know how it goes. - James *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***

Re: [WSG] Local W3C CSS Validator for Windows

2009-10-08 Thread James Ducker
Yeah I have it running on Windows. The easiest way is to install a server that can autodeploy war files, like Tomcat. - James 2009/10/8 David Dorward > > On 8 Oct 2009, at 12:48, Daniel Anderson wrote: > > Can anyone help me with a good W3C CSS Validator that will run on Window

Re: [WSG] styling a select box

2009-10-08 Thread James Ducker
You could just use a regular select, and then use javascript to find it, strip it out, and replace it with your own uber-select. Here's something along those lines: http://ryanfait.com/resources/custom-checkboxes-and-radio-buttons/ - James 2009/10/8 Сергей Кириченко > abandon a

Re: [WSG] Ordered list start value

2009-09-28 Thread James O'Neill
Really, really unfortunately, the only way is through CSS 3's *counter.**Somebody correct me if I am wrong. This is one of the things that really makes me cranky. =(* * * On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 08:02, T. R. Valentine wrote: > What is the proper way to start an ordered list at a value other than

Re: [WSG] internet explorer 8 problems using a screen reader

2009-09-11 Thread James Ducker
Your table is missing its opening tag, , which is *probably* causing your problems. There are also some other markup errors. Please, always validate[1] your web pages before posting questions. - James [1]: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://startrekcafe.alacorncomputer.com/&charset=(de

Re: [WSG] web hosting

2009-09-04 Thread James Ducker
A free host that supports multi-tiered .NET applications... Best of luck! *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstand

Re: [WSG] legal list numbering

2009-08-26 Thread James O'Neill
This straight OL does not work from a pure XHTML 1.0 Strict perspective unless your legal documents conform to the browsers' default list numbering scheme. The *'type'* attribute is not valid in XHTML 1.0 which really annoys me to no end, since I work for a county government. The numbering in a le

Re: [WSG] Multiple IE's for browser testing

2009-08-25 Thread James Ellis
ay to get an IE that matches what site visitors are using, meaning less fubar when debugging an issue. (I don't see the general public browsing with a MultipleIE browser). Note you will need a Windows license for each virtualised Windows machine you use. HTH James On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 0

Re: [WSG] Website Development Training Programs In Wellington

2009-08-22 Thread James Ducker
Python is good too, but harder to find (shared) hosts to support it. - James 2009/8/23 Linda Mitchell > If the Diploma course being considered is ICA50605 and it is taught well > then you should be taught current standards compliant code. I teach at > Southbank Institute of Tech

Re: [WSG] Website Development Training Programs In Wellington

2009-08-22 Thread James Laver
in fact, having CSS on the syllabus at all seems fairly unusual). That said, look very carefully at the courses you're planning to do and possibly collar an existing student and see what they have to say. Just make sure you aren't going to be dev

Re: [WSG] Accessible Forms

2009-08-19 Thread James O'Neill
Hmmm... I do not really remember. I have used both together and separately at different times. By enclosing a form control with a label you will have a little more control over relative styling since you could something like this: label:hover input {outline:solidl} or have more precise p

Re: [WSG] Accessible Forms

2009-08-19 Thread James O'Neill
I think the ID's are required for the 'for' attribute to work for labels, which enables the their clickability. When these labels are clicked on they focus on the element whose ID is in the for attribute. Enter you comments: Plus having ID's associated allows for more sophisticated form error hand

Re: [WSG] table inside a dd?

2009-08-18 Thread James Ellis
_dtd_XHTML-1.0-Strict Meaning you can add pretty much any element inside a dd. Whether it's the best way to do it, is another matter which I think the other replies answer. HTH James On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:18:35 pm Tim MacKay wrote: > Hi all, > > > > Is it semanti

[WSG] How Important Is Web Accessibility?

2009-08-18 Thread James Jeffery
Zooming is present on the majority of modern browsers, so where does this leave elastic layouts, and em's? Should we still develop sites that grow should the user want to increase the text size? Even though it's the lower browsers that do that? I've been out of the scene for a while, so I've lost

RE: [WSG] [Spam] :changing font sizes from within a page.

2009-07-20 Thread James Leslie
>> Comes down to the 'give a man a fish/teach a man to fish' principle >> for me. If you explain to the user how to use their browser settings >> to change the text size then they can use that on any site. > Good in theory -- would you point out a few example sites that have done a good job o

RE: [WSG] [Spam] :changing font sizes from within a page.

2009-07-20 Thread James Leslie
e the text size then they can use that on any site. If you use the 3 A's it only holds up for your site (and breaks if cookies/JavaScript are turned off) James *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guideli

RE: [WSG] Installing More than one version of IE6

2009-07-03 Thread Alex James
Darrin, I too used Internet Explorer Collection as suggested by Adam[1]. I did have to download some windows updates though to get IE8 running. I found the TredoSoft installer messed up form inputs and blocked selects! Thanks, Alex [1] http://finalbuilds.edskes.net/iecollection.htm

Re: [WSG] website fonts

2009-06-23 Thread James Ellis
> > To put what you wrote another way, with a font family list such as your > example, the visitor is at the designer's mercy to see only the designer's > choice of fonts, Yes, that's the point of typography and meeting the requirements of a client specification. Provided it's readable I don't

Re: [WSG] website fonts

2009-06-22 Thread James Ellis
owser for sans-serif display. Some may set it to Times Roman, some to Comic Sans. It'd be nice to try and avoid that ;) Cool site for further reading : http://www.sansseriftype.com/ Cheers James *** List Guidelines: h

Re: [WSG] OT: Dominos Pizza - Looking for someone who's worked there

2009-06-16 Thread James Ducker
For any web service developers out there, here's a link to Dominos Australia's SOAP API: https://internetorder.dominos.com.au/InternetOrderingUIService/UIService.asmx I'm currently writing a command line port of the online ordering system (hobby project). It's alm

Re: [WSG] returning to scroll position in a table inside a fixed hight div

2009-06-14 Thread James Ducker
> exposing all the key > functionality via basic semi-RESTful html Listen to this guy! - James -- James Ducker Web Developer http://www.studioj.net.au *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelin

Re: [WSG] What to do with buttons when a user copies text from a page.

2009-06-12 Thread James Ducker
> For all you know, their purpose in copying text from the page is to illustrate > in a document that aspect of the page layout that includes the controls. That's very true. > A more elegant & bulletproof solution might be to rethink the page layout and > visually place the controls above or to t

[WSG] What to do with buttons when a user copies text from a page.

2009-06-12 Thread James Ducker
a I had would be to simply wrap the buttons in something that is meaningful to most text editors (like a or suffixing them with a ). I'm curious how others might approach this problem. The goal is elegant text selection. - James **

Re: [WSG] Remove CSS inheritance property

2009-06-02 Thread James Ellis
argin : auto; } as it will end up being computed as margin : 0; -- and firefox adheres to that rule. Your best bet is to write your own rule or fiddle with the framework so it doesn't rule your code (can't you specify which stylesheets load ?) Cheers James On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 12:36

Re: [WSG] SEO vs. Accessibility

2009-05-27 Thread James Ellis
methods for detecting tricks to detect keyword spam. SEO is just another word for writing good balanced, content, having decent links in, links out and proper URL redirection methods. Cheers James > > Chris > http://www.cogentis.com.au/ *

Re: [WSG] SEO vs. Accessibility

2009-05-26 Thread James Ducker
> I tend to use a class name like class="accessabilityonly" for these > fields, in the hopes of giving a reviewer at least a clue as to what I I'm the same, I use class="wai" - James **

Re: [WSG] valid meta tags

2009-05-26 Thread James Ducker
Hm, out of curiosity, what validator were you using? - James On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 3:39 AM, designer wrote: > > - Original Message - From: "designer" < > desig...@gwelanmor-internet.co.uk> > To: > Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 11:42 AM > Subject: [

Re: [WSG] valid meta tags

2009-05-26 Thread James Ducker
se for primary languages and uppercase for dialects. That appears to be the standard. At the same time, I don't think it would break validation, but it's worth testing. Example: Australian English is "en-AU" - James *

Re: [WSG] blocking out of office replies [OT?]

2009-05-15 Thread James Ellis
read & send via your mail software if you wish. Thanks James -- admin. On Fri, 15 May 2009 05:15:17 pm dwain wrote: > is there a way to block out of office replies from the list. this has been > discussed before and it seems that the request has been ign

Re: [WSG] SEO - how to upgrade my skills?

2009-05-11 Thread James Farrell
Hi Mike, I recommend you go to SEOmoz.org or seobook.com. James 2009/5/11 Mike Kear > Thanks for that little gem, Luke.I was kind of hoping for advice on > the best way to learn more about SEO, and the most up todate techniques. I > got a bit depressed when I googled SEO, and

RE: [WSG] Background image not visible in ie

2009-04-29 Thread James Leslie
arious social networks at http://social.bendodson.com/ - You might also want to follow me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/bendodson On 29 Apr 2009, at 13:46, James Leslie wrote: The guys over at unit interactive also have a help script to help fix the issues with

RE: [WSG] Background image not visible in ie

2009-04-29 Thread James Leslie
x27;t respect background position on background images - everything goes to (0,0) . If this is ok, it is a great solution and can of course be applied via a conditional comment meaning no superfluous code for 'decent' brow

Re: [WSG] My Site Background Image and css

2009-04-16 Thread James Jeffery
standardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > *** > > -- James Jeffery Web Developer and iPhone Applications Developer m: 07964722061 *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] IE7 CSS fix

2009-04-02 Thread James Ducker
Can you not use a conditional? It's far more reliable than CSS hacks, which may cause problems in future browsers. - James *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

Re: [WSG] IE8: Extensions to CSS

2009-03-26 Thread James Ducker
res that were later incorporated into new standards. They still do this today, but their market share has decreased somewhat. Very simple. - James *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: h

RE: [WSG] IE8 compatibility mode

2009-03-26 Thread James Leslie
g a treat and avoids compatibility view entirely. James *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***

Re: [WSG] IE8: Extensions to CSS

2009-03-26 Thread James Jeffery
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RE: [WSG] IE8 compatibility mode

2009-03-25 Thread James Leslie
> If in doubt, place this meta in page head... > ...and the "Compatibility view" button will disappear in IE8. Using will also have the same effect (getting rid of the compatibility view button and forcing standards mode), but may be a bit more stable against future releas

Re: [WSG] Tiny Buggy IE thing

2009-03-24 Thread James Ducker
uot;; }; void(0); ...and it seemed to work fine. Also, this mailing list isn't for debugging help, etc, etc. Finally, @Krystian: http://www.getfirebug.com/ - will reveal all the info you need fairly easily. - James *

Re: [WSG] Hotlinking prevention does not work

2009-03-21 Thread James Jeffery
*** > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > ******* > > -- James J

[WSG] Blueprint & Grids

2009-03-15 Thread James Jeffery
I use all 4 and leave the one? Sounds like a silly, vaugue, question ... I know. But I'm a little taken by this and am eager to learn because I feel this is going to greatly boost productivity. Thanks -- James Jeffery Web Developer and iPhone Applica

Re: [WSG] Code management advice needed

2009-03-06 Thread James Laver
e which constantly improves and which is always upgraded to the latest version. The only revisions I need to worry about are the one I'm working on and the one that's currently on live. Different strokes for different folks. --James *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***

Re: [WSG] Code management advice needed

2009-03-06 Thread James Laver
;re small. There are a few annoying bugs in git-svn that I've been meaning to patch, however. --James *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***

Re: [WSG] macpro and softwares..

2009-03-05 Thread James Ducker
of being free. Helpful links: http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/ http://www.sun.com/software/products/virtualbox/index.jsp http://www.parallels.com/ - James *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cf

Re: [WSG] Chrome now higher traffic than IE

2009-03-02 Thread James Ducker
** > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > *** -- James Ducker Web

Re: [WSG] Safari 4 and 3.2 Running Simultaneously

2009-02-27 Thread James Ducker
I got fed up trying to deal with multiple browser issues. First you have the issues with IE6 in MultipleIE, now this. Anyway, I just use VMs. Very pain-free. - James *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] E-commerce

2009-02-26 Thread James Ellis
Kevin There have been several discussions on the list regarding ecomm systems, you might find your answers browsing the archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/search?q=ecommerce&l=wsg%40webstandardsgroup.org Thanks James On Thursday 26 February 2009 16:27:17 Kevin Erickson wrote:

Re: [WSG] Copyright Issues

2009-02-17 Thread James Milligan
What about coming up with your own?Not meaning to sound rude, but it could be an opportunity for you. Juts an idea James On 17 Feb 2009, at 10:20, "Marvin Hunkin" wrote: Hi. doing a fruit and veg site, and now asked for permission to use recipes from Delia smith, Ja

Re: [WSG] Implication of empty divs

2009-02-09 Thread James Ducker
On a side note, there is a Firefox addon that reproduces JAWS-like output (in text), called Fangs. Link: http://www.standards-schmandards.com/projects/fangs/ - James *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] Starting with HTML and CSS

2009-02-03 Thread James Ducker
That tutorial seems pretty detailed. Why not have them follow that tutorial, then introduce them to the float property and point them to a tutorial like: http://www.456bereastreet.com/lab/developing_with_web_standards/csslayout/2-col/ - James On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Katrina wrote

Re: [WSG] Clearing a row with floated list

2009-01-31 Thread James Ducker
I fixed it in IE7, though that caused the problem that was occuring in IE7 to occur in Firefox. If you don't mind a conditional, problem solved! See it at: http://studioj.net.au/wsg/pcl.html - James On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Paul Collins wrote: > Thanks for your replies

Re: [WSG] Re: Users who deliberately disable JavaScript

2009-01-30 Thread James Milligan
e one! It's great, and renders webpages brilliantly. Only thing is that it doesn't yet support flash - sorry for going OT here! James -- James Milligan Lake Internet Services www.lake54.com On 30 Jan 2009, at 13:07, "James Leslie" wrote: Another point to note is tha

RE: [WSG] Re: Users who deliberately disable JavaScript

2009-01-30 Thread James Leslie
Another point to note is that many mobile phones have JavaScript enabled so this figure may increase with the expected rise in mobile popularity. *** Sorry - that should have said disabled not enabled ** *** List Guidelines: ht

RE: [WSG] Re: Users who deliberately disable JavaScript

2009-01-30 Thread James Leslie
I recently got my hands on some statistics for a major UK bank who found that 2.7% of their customers have JavaScript disabled. I think this may be a slightly more realistic figure than the techy W3C site. Another point to note is that many mobile phones have JavaScript enabled so this figure may

Re: [WSG] Users who deliberately disable JavaScript

2009-01-30 Thread James Milligan
Well if a sysadmin is going to block js, then he/she will probably block facebook as well PS: I've been on this list for a while but only recenly started reading them! James -- James Milligan Lake Internet Services On 30 Jan 2009, at 12:29, wrote: Agreed - people certainly a

Re: [WSG] friends? - was( Failed A Job :()

2009-01-29 Thread James Jeffery
Aye' I did a task for a friend once. Charged him £100 for a few pages, a nice design etc. He refused to pay. He is a near millionaire, well his assets are worth that much. Business owners don't know how much work is involved sometimes. Even something basic requires some tweaking for browser suppor

Re: [WSG] Failed A Job :(

2009-01-29 Thread James Jeffery
lse. >>> >> >> Wel, I for one, relish at the idea of getting my hands on a Gutenburg >> Bible and reading it… well analysing the lettering and type rather, but hey. >> :-) >> >> >> From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgro

Re: [WSG] Failed A Job :(

2009-01-29 Thread James Jeffery
Indeed. My only problem is I have lost future work from the guy that feeds me these jobs because I failed it, he isn't even understanding my situation and he's a front-end developer aswell. I mean 10 hours to do a whole lot of bug fixing and a near rewite is stupid. Also there was no SV so when I e

Re: [WSG] Failed A Job :(

2009-01-29 Thread James Jeffery
Guys thanks for the response. I hit the sac last night at nearly 6am and was very pissed off, with myself for failing the job. I'm all good now though because at the end of the day it wasn't really my doing. The guy that passed me the work does front-end development all day, I thought it was strang

[WSG] Failed A Job :(

2009-01-28 Thread James Jeffery
Big company, worldwide infact. A great one for the resume but I failed it. I was brought in at the end of the project to fix some bugs. Let me just say that from viewing the source it was majorly flawed! I spent 6 hours on it before handing in the towel right near their deadline. The CSS was unstr

[WSG] Multi Column Category Lists

2009-01-27 Thread James Jeffery
Hey all, Quick question. I have some data pulled from a database (50 of the most recent categories/tags). These are positioned in a list in 2 columns (example below): - Category1Category5 Category2Category6 Category3Category7 Category4

[WSG] Parenthesis around list counters

2009-01-27 Thread James O'Neill
Greetings all, I am curious if it is currently possible to have a list item display its list counter with parenthesis around it such as this: 1. Item 1 (a). sub item 1 The only way I can think of this is via CSS 3 which is not currently widely supported, especially in our

Re: [WSG] Users who deliberately disable JavaScript

2009-01-26 Thread James O'Neill
Our small county site has about 297k visitors last year and about 1.9% (5,700) had Javascript disabled according to SuperStats. On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 14:33, Jessica Enders wrote: > Hi Pascal > > In the JavaScript/Accessibility/form validation discussion you mention "the > growing number of use

Re: [WSG] JavaScript and Accessibility

2009-01-19 Thread james . ducker
pt injected errors anyway. >>>> >>> >>> Agreed, and any decent validation is going to be done server-side >>> validation anyway, so you're going to have to (or at least you should) >>> implement the server-side responses in any case. >>>

Re: [WSG] JavaScript and Accessibility

2009-01-19 Thread james . ducker
e >> JavaScript won't see the glitzy JavaScript injected errors anyway. > > Agreed, and any decent validation is going to be done server-side > validation anyway, so you're going to have to (or at least you should) > implement the server-side responses in any case.

Re: [WSG] JavaScript and Accessibility

2009-01-19 Thread james . ducker
any decent validation is going to be done server-side validation anyway, so you're going to have to (or at least you should) implement the server-side responses in any case. - James -- James Ducker Web Developer http://www.studioj.net.au *

Re: [WSG] Re: Browser / OS Test on website.

2009-01-14 Thread James Ducker
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Re: # Re: [WSG] Beta Testers Needed for BCAT

2009-01-14 Thread James Ducker
een Flash used well and written well it's beautiful. It's amazing. It's like having sunshine flowing through your vains. So, do you blame HTML for every poorly coded website? Do you blame Flash for every bad use of Flash? Anyway, it seems like this entire argument w

Re: [WSG] Checking My Page

2009-01-14 Thread James Jeffery
given your circumstances I have to give you praise for your work. Btw. I am still trying to locate that paper I write for you. As soon as I find it I will email it over. Having to search to the works backup server as it's not on the system. James On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 5:18 AM, Luke Hog

Re: [WSG] Site Review: www.ItsAllaboutYou-studio.com

2009-01-13 Thread James O'Neill
Henrik, Thank you for your feed back. I am working on those now. =) The little globe is used to indicate links to external sites. Perhaps another icon would indicate this better? What would you suggest for the link colors. I prefer colors that make the links stand our and not blend into the rest

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