Re: [WSG] Adobe Installation Nightm Mares

2011-12-09 Thread John Unsworth
works as a public forum and another user may have an answer for you. Good luck Marv! Cheers, John Unsworth *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join

Re: [WSG] which programming or web development tools which works well with jaws

2011-08-18 Thread John Unsworth
and not web standards :) My other suggestion would be to write to the guys behind NVDA (or join the forum). They are blind computer developers and likely have some experience that could assist you. Hope this is helpful somehow and congrats on the study decision, Cheers John Unsworth On 18

Re: [WSG] major web site project

2011-08-10 Thread John Unsworth
the very best with the project. Kind regards, John Unsworth *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***

Re: [WSG] major web site project

2011-08-10 Thread John Unsworth
Sorry folks, quick correction here. Instead of 'education site for non-web geeks.' what I really meant was 'non-geek web users'. All the best, John Unsworth *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] setting up visualf web developer with iis

2011-05-24 Thread John Unsworth
this information explained. Cheers WSG'ers John Unsworth *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] Horizontal Menu Bar Help Needed

2011-03-28 Thread John Unsworth
' from Sitepoint, and 'HTML Dog, The best-practice guide to XHTML CSS' by Patrick Griffiths enough. All the best, John Unsworth *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] Site for Vision Impaired

2010-11-26 Thread John Unsworth
impaired then whilst a pleasing design a good thing, not at the expense of the information your audience is after. Hope this is helpful, Cheers, John Unsworth *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe

Re: [WSG] HELP WITH SETTING UP A CMS PROJECT

2010-09-15 Thread Sunday John
You may want to use use Wordpress for a start but consider TYPO3 for a professional development. Sunday John Solutions Provider Phone: 234 802 322 8712, 234 7029513356 Website: www.raphsonsolutions.com Email: sun...@raphsonsolutions.com --- @ WiseStamp Signaturehttp

[WSG] Re: WSG Digest

2010-07-31 Thread john
Hello I am on holiday until Monday 9th August. If you need to speak to someone in the team before then please contact Richard Garbutt for operational issues and Dr Andy Jupe for financial or contractual matters. Best wishes John Cowles

[WSG] Re: WSG Digest

2010-07-30 Thread john
Hello I am on holiday until Monday 9th August. If you need to speak to someone in the team before then please contact Richard Garbutt for operational issues and Dr Andy Jupe for financial or contractual matters. Best wishes John Cowles

[WSG] Re: WSG Digest

2010-07-29 Thread john
Hello I am on holiday until Monday 9th August. If you need to speak to someone in the team before then please contact Richard Garbutt for operational issues and Dr Andy Jupe for financial or contractual matters. Best wishes John Cowles

[WSG] Re: WSG Digest

2010-07-28 Thread john
Hello I am on holiday until Monday 9th August. If you need to speak to someone in the team before then please contact Richard Garbutt for operational issues and Dr Andy Jupe for financial or contractual matters. Best wishes John Cowles

[WSG] Re: WSG Digest

2010-07-27 Thread john
Hello I am on holiday until Monday 9th August. If you need to speak to someone in the team before then please contact Richard Garbutt for operational issues and Dr Andy Jupe for financial or contractual matters. Best wishes John Cowles

[WSG] Re: WSG Digest

2010-07-26 Thread john
Hello I am on holiday until Monday 9th August. If you need to speak to someone in the team before then please contact Richard Garbutt for operational issues and Dr Andy Jupe for financial or contractual matters. Best wishes John Cowles

Re: [WSG] [Job] Senior Freelance Web Designer | Melbourne

2010-07-13 Thread John Unsworth
, let's stop this thread hey? John Unsworth. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***

RE: Using CSS instead of JS for accessibility (was Re: [WSG] CSS Expandable Menu)

2010-06-29 Thread John Stericker
, currently 3rd edition. She recommends a Javascript version for accessibility. I would agree. Best of luck on your journey . . . John -Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of David Dorward Sent: Tuesday, 29 June 2010 8:22 PM

Re: [WSG] Video Accessibility Help

2010-06-15 Thread John Unsworth
and it was Flash8 and given the presentation I mentioned it might be a tool built in?? Of course how this would be handled in HTML5 I'm less clear on:) Didn't really answer your questions directly, but I hope some of this is useful. Cheers, John Unsworth

Re: [WSG] Yes/No structure?

2010-06-03 Thread John Unsworth
markup to use, what is the actual end result of this action and can it be handled a better way? Cheers, John Unsworth On 4 June 2010 12:29, nedlud ned...@gmail.com wrote: I have a web form I'm building and there is a simple yes/no question in it. I got to wondering what the best semantic  mark

Re: [WSG] Yes/No structure?

2010-06-03 Thread John Unsworth
from the W3C who spoke to the WSG in Melbourne some time ago now called Richard Ishida who is all about internationalisation on the web. More links; http://rishida.net/ Cheers, John Unsworth On 4 June 2010 14:41, nedlud ned...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm. I hadn't considered the wording of the actual

[WSG] Monospace font sizing

2010-03-18 Thread John Unsworth
became a question to the group and only lucky chance provided the answer in minutes, and the information was previously unknown to me, I thought I'd share especially to those creating novel font stacks. Cheers, John Unsworth *** List

[WSG] NVDA-screen reader software for windows

2010-03-10 Thread John Unsworth
apologise in advance if people think otherwise. Cheers, John Unsworth *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh

Re: [WSG] character codes and accessibility

2009-11-14 Thread John Unsworth
in the HTML. Regards, John Unsworth 2009/11/15 Luc l...@dzinelabs.com: Good evening list, When you use a character code, e.g. #x00BB; as a list marker (hardcoded in the li), how is that interpreted by a speech browser? Does the user hear those characters as they appear or are they converted

[WSG] Out of Office AutoReply: WSG Digest

2009-10-02 Thread John Roots
I am on leave until 23 October 2009. In my absence please direct all enquiries to: Michael Theophilou: Acting IS MAnager Business Systems michael.theophi...@wesleymission.org.au ** This email and any files transmitted with it

Re: [WSG] using images for my website and accessibility

2009-07-14 Thread John Unsworth
to either be able to create my own images, or have them supplied to me and then proceeded with the understanding that the client has already cleared there use. Thus far no problems. Hope this might help. John Unsworth. 2009/7/14 Marvin Hunkin startrekc...@gmail.com: hi. tried looking for these images

Re: [WSG] Website Creation Documentation Standards

2009-05-05 Thread John Unsworth
park when I assumed you meant deliverables, as best as I can tell there is only techniques that work for you, rather than a standard such that the W3C would endorse. Hope some of this is helpful. John Unsworth    List,    I am a web designer as a hobby and have run into a situation where    I am

RE: [WSG] IE and the button element

2009-02-23 Thread John Horner
Thanks for all the discussion so far. It seems I'll have to re-code. I will definitely not be using Javascript. It seems entirely logical to me that there should be such a thing as a button, which can exist outside a form, which has an HREF attribute or can be wrapped in an anchor. But if there

RE: [WSG] IE and the button element

2009-02-23 Thread John Horner
and the button element On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, John Horner wrote: Thanks for all the discussion so far. It seems I'll have to re-code. I will definitely not be using Javascript. It seems entirely logical to me that there should be such a thing as a button, which can exist outside a form, which has

[WSG] IE and the button element

2009-02-22 Thread John Horner
I adopted the use of the button element in an application I'm working on, used like this: a href=foo.htmlbuttonfoo/button/a one main reason I liked buttons is that they can be disabled with an attribute, which was useful for things like keeping a next button everywhere, so that the layout

RE: [WSG] Re: Html markup suggestions

2009-02-10 Thread John Horner
OK, I'll bite, what makes you say that there are no suitable microformats? Where did you look? -Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Porkandpaws Sent: Wednesday, 11 February 2009 8:26 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org

RE: [WSG] Fw: The Great Firewall of Australia

2008-12-02 Thread John Horner
Just want to put in a plug for Radio National's coverage of this topic so far: The Media Report: http://abc.net.au/rn/mediareport/stories/2008/2405376.htm Australia Talks: http://abc.net.au/rn/australiatalks/stories/2008/2419136.htm Disclosure, RN is where I work. -Original Message-

RE: [WSG] URL length best practices

2008-11-04 Thread John Horner
Just a quick note that if you're going to shorten Do collaborative online groups need to be successful to make a URL, it would be better, from the SEO viewpoint, to cut out the common words, do, need, to etc. So, your URL would be collaborative-online-groups-successful.html not

Re: [WSG] Accessibility Transcripts for Audio and Video

2008-10-19 Thread John Unsworth
the Adobe website. Not surprisingly a quick google search provides some info, and this link looked informed. http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=Making_Video_Accessible Not exactly your question answered, but hope it might of helped. Cheers, John Unsworth

[WSG] Question about presenting numeric percentages and accessibility.

2008-10-15 Thread John Unsworth
thanks, John Unsworth. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

[WSG] Re: .NET sites which are XHTML 1.0 strict

2008-10-09 Thread John Polling
, let alone really understand what it means. (I may be generalising here a bit, but I'm right in most cases). John Polling Senior Web Developer White Agency Links: -- [1] http://www.sjplaw.co.uk/ [2] http://www.white-agency.co.uk/ [3] http

[WSG] Incorporating Terms and Cons in signup page

2008-09-30 Thread John Unsworth
signup document. I hope I've been clear, and I guess I'm interested in anything similar to this in best practice, accessibility and standards. Cheers for just being there folks, John Unsworth *** List Guidelines: http

[WSG] Position and peace of mind

2008-09-03 Thread John Unsworth
search terms might be trying to find the answer to this via Google. Generally the whole IE thing I ignore until required. Wow! I didn't intend to take so long, but would appreciate feedback even if it's just on one point. Sincerly, John Unsworth

Fwd: [WSG] Position and peace of mind

2008-09-03 Thread John Unsworth
-- Forwarded message -- From: John Unsworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 4 Sep 2008 14:05 Subject: Re: [WSG] Position and peace of mind To: Kepler Gelotte [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 04/09/2008, Kepler Gelotte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John, It would really help when you have

Re: [WSG] resetting input boxes

2008-08-07 Thread John Unsworth
Was just walking back from work when it occurred to me I should of specified that I was referring to Safari 2.1, sadly I'm stuck on a Hackintosh so no opportunity to run Safari 3. John Unsworth *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] resetting input boxes

2008-08-07 Thread John Unsworth
), and at least in Safari (not yet tested on IE7) it was fixed. Firefox, Opera and Camino all rendered the stripes as expected. Can anyone possibly explain that? Cheers people, John Unsworth. *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] Re: Form (layout/accessibiity)

2008-07-09 Thread John Unsworth
the input use for screen readers. To all the more experienced members, please step forward to clarify or correct my advice. Your faithfully, I've got no signature set up, John Unsworth, New Web Designing Bloke. On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 6:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have created a form which acts

[WSG] Good HTML/CSS training in Sydney?

2008-07-01 Thread John Horner
I'd be interested in hearing recommendations for good standards-based HTML and CSS training in the Sydney area. I'm looking at MaxDesign's website, of course, but not seeing specific dates for upcoming courses. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. The information

RE: [WSG] html vs. html

2008-06-22 Thread John Horner
Just to point out something that hasn't been mentioned as far as I can see -- of course, you can map file types to extensions on a webserver however you like. You could set .JPG to serve as HTML if you wanted. The original creators of Blogger, Pyra, used .pyra as their extension so I have no idea

[WSG] Background-position in percentage

2008-06-03 Thread John Horner
I've just spent a bit of time looking at how background-position works when expressed as a percentage: background-position: 90%; and I'm wondering why it works the way it does. Here's the best way I can describe the effect of (90%, x-axis) positioning with percentages: to position the image

RE: [WSG] need some help

2008-04-10 Thread John Horner
Does the coder need to be in London? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joseph Ortenzi Sent: Thursday, 10 April 2008 10:00 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] need some help Hi All London Standardistas! Hope this little job

Re: [WSG] Dreamweaver8

2008-04-07 Thread John Hancock
Please, please, please everyone. Discuss web standards on the web standards group mailing list, and my text/WYSIWY editor is better than yours on the HTML Editors mailing list... If there isn't one, feel free to set it up. thanks, Grumpy John

Re: [WSG] Why is u deprecated?

2008-03-26 Thread John Hancock
b (bold) and i italic haven't actually been deprecated is that the HTML working group were worried it would lead to the misuse of other presentational tags, indeed such as em and strong, which should be considered whenever you use these 'newer' tags! cheers, John Kepler Gelotte wrote: Hi, I

Re: [WSG] Re: WSG Digest

2008-03-18 Thread John Unsworth
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Re: [WSG] SEO, fact or fiction

2008-03-17 Thread John Hancock
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Re: [WSG] IE 8 and grey

2008-03-17 Thread John Hancock
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RE: [WSG] IE8 news - stats

2008-03-09 Thread John Hancock
. For myself, I'd be unwilling to support people who steal rather than go to linux-based operating systems. Unfortunately, it's impossible to tell the difference! John Hancock Identity -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lea de Groot Sent: Sunday, 9

RE: [WSG] SEO, fact or fiction and myths

2008-03-09 Thread John Hancock
to set them or don't have the requisite server access. How do you justify these? Cheers, John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike at Green-Beast.com Sent: Monday, 10 March 2008 12:52 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG

Re: [WSG] SEO, fact or fiction

2008-03-06 Thread John Hancock
a pretty small niche in web standards. I feel that more on the subject would take my response away from Web Standards, so feel free to contact me off-list if you want to discuss further. best wishes, John Hancock Identity [EMAIL PROTECTED] t: +61 2 8012 2967 f: +61 2 9799 6135

Re: [WSG] CMS review

2008-02-28 Thread John Faulds
Me, personally, I wouldn't use a CMS that produced mark-up like that. Especially not when I know there are others out there that will do a better job (haven't explored Powerfront too closely to find out whether it's possible to alter the output mark-up). I'd have to ask though: why are you

Re: [WSG] CMS review

2008-02-28 Thread John Faulds
Please consider that a cms is a tool too allow people to add there own content. So the inline styling may in fact be added by the end user. For the example site linked to - http://www.goodshepvic.org.au/ - I didn't even get as far down to what might've been user entered content. Incomplete

RE: [WSG] Screen Standards - was alachu

2008-02-27 Thread John Hancock
users. John. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Hucklesby Sent: Thursday, 28 February 2008 4:41 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Site review - alachua co library On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:42:07 -0500, Felix Miata wrote

Re: [WSG] Site review - alachua co library

2008-02-26 Thread John Hancock
usually have a 17 TFT or lower to test on for 'the great unpixeled'. kind regards, John Hancock Identity [EMAIL PROTECTED] t: +61 2 8012 0274 f: +61 2 9799 6135 *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] books

2008-02-19 Thread John Faulds
And now you don't even need to buy Sitepoint reference material: http://reference.sitepoint.com/css On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:50:59 +1000, Paul McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would also reccomend the Sitepoint books. Work well as a reference when your working too, or just forgot something

RE: [WSG] hello - [OT]

2008-02-15 Thread John Hancock
, please at least mark it as such so the rest of us can hit the delete button without checking it first for relevant information! Kind regards, John Hancock Identity From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Ortenzi Sent: Friday, 15 February 2008 6:32 PM To: wsg

Re: [WSG] tableless forms !!!

2008-02-12 Thread John Faulds
Plenty of references here: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2006/11/11/css-based-forms-modern-solutions/ On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:01:26 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi , Could anyone tell me which is the best way to build a form without tables in w3c standards. I would really appreciate

RE: [WSG] an accessible question: server-side vs client-side validation

2008-02-11 Thread John Horner
A website I was working on, client wants client-side validation, something fancy, something Ajax. The whole point of AJAX is that it's *not* client-side. It's both. So your client is a little confused if they said that.

Re: [WSG] use of p in li

2008-02-11 Thread John Faulds
the flaw in this approach is the potential for adding divs for styling purposes only which is hardly ever necessary. I'm not saying that at all. Every layout is going to have containers; use the ones you've already got. Adding styles for every element has the potential for 'bloating' your

Re: [WSG] use of p in li

2008-02-10 Thread John Faulds
I'd say the only time you need to use paragraphs inside list items is when a list item's content is made up of more than one paragraph. On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:13:54 +1000, Tim MacKay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Taco, In the case of the example you provided I'd say definitely no need for

Re: [WSG] use of p in li

2008-02-10 Thread John Faulds
If you have two paragraphs you might want to reconsider the use of a list. I don't agree. Consider as an example a 'list' of services - it may take more than one paragraph to adequately describe each service, but it is still a list. -- Tyssen Design http://www.tyssendesign.com.au Ph:

Re: [WSG] use of p in li

2008-02-10 Thread John Faulds
If the lists have a number of levels like Services Web Site Development Graphics SEO and more About Us Me You Someone else I'm not talking about presenting a list of links; I'm talking about presenting the actual content on a page. From your example above, it's

Re: [WSG] use of p in li

2008-02-10 Thread John Faulds
Assign the paragraph style to a HTML tag that is surrounding all other tags? If so, I would not feel comfortable with that. Why not? If this is your HTML: div class=content psome text/p ul lisome text/li /ul /div This .content { color: red; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5 } makes more

Re: [WSG] use of p in li

2008-02-10 Thread John Faulds
If you apply the style to the container, then you don't need to assign styles individually to different elements (except where you want them to be different). On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:22:52 +1000, Taco Fleur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Tim, What I mean by duplicate style is that if I

Re: [WSG] PHP includes

2008-02-05 Thread John Faulds
Also is their a preference in web standards for using PHP includes or something like SSI? SSI stands for server side include which is essentially what a PHP include is. The only difference is the syntax used to call the include. -- Tyssen Design http://www.tyssendesign.com.au Ph: (07)

Re: [WSG] long description and its implementation

2008-02-02 Thread John Faulds
You don't need a longdesc in that example because you're already linking to it by an anchor. On Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:34:09 +1000, dwain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: here's the link to the example: http://studiokdd.com/sandbox/abstract-christian-art-new-testament.html i have the jesus and

Re: [WSG] Explorer woes with list dropdowns

2008-01-28 Thread John Faulds
IE6 doesn't respect the *:hover pseudo selector if I remember rightly... It only supports it for anchors, e.g a:hover You may have to look at a small bit of javascript to 'activate' this behavior. No, because he's using one of Stu Nicholl's js-free menus. The trade off is a lot of IE

Re: [WSG] Compatibility and IE8

2008-01-24 Thread John Faulds
It's disturbing how well lemurs can illustrate the issue, too: http://www.katemonkey.co.uk/article/48/x-ua-lemur-compatible (the Zeldman lemur cracked me up completely) That's awesome! We can opt to save our energy for standards-based browsers and not bother learning new versions of IE.

RE: [WSG] Developing for Mac Browsers

2008-01-13 Thread John Horner
can I safely develop in non Mac versions and expect my web sites to behave the same on the Mac? Behave? Yes. But... I don't think anyone's made this point yet -- one key difference between the platforms is the display of form elements. Elements like buttons and select menus and checkboxes,

[WSG] Developing for Mixed Browsers - Form Buttons

2008-01-13 Thread John Hancock
takes you to another page). Consistency is key - but remember that users usually browse in only one browser at a time. John Hancock identity.net.au PS. On a side-note, can we keep platform discussion to standards and implementation? 'My computer is bigger/better/faster/stronger' is fairly non

Re: [WSG] Acronym element

2008-01-08 Thread John Faulds
/abbreviation again). -- Regards John --- Tyssen Design www.tyssendesign.com.au Ph: (07) 3300 3303 Mb: 0405 678 590 *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] Re: inline styles theoretical question

2008-01-01 Thread John Faulds
A textpattern form with inline styles, only gets loaded once and when a change is made to it every page on the site is globally updated. You may only have one file to edit, but what gets sent to the browser is still a different page for each entry with the inline styles needing to be

RE: [WSG] Preventing copying of text from web page.

2007-12-20 Thread John Horner
It's rather off-topic, but more to the point it's impossible, and your main task at this point is to explain to your client why even trying to do it is pointless and silly. If they can see the text, the text is on their computer. As Andrew said, either they want their information on the web or

Re: [WSG] BBC in Beta

2007-12-18 Thread John Faulds
Seems like someone is listening! The color buttons is gone No they're not. Unless you're referring to something different. -- Tyssen Design www.tyssendesign.com.au Ph: (07) 3300 3303 Mb: 0405 678 590 *** List Guidelines:

Re: [WSG] BBC in Beta

2007-12-18 Thread John Faulds
Yeah, that's right. I can still see them and they still change the colour of the page. On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 04:31:49 +1000, Kim Kruse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well they are on my computer! (we're talking about the 4 colored buttons that changed the colors of the page... right?) John Faulds

RE: [WSG] BBC in Beta

2007-12-18 Thread John Horner
might do it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Faulds Sent: Wednesday, 19 December 2007 9:12 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] BBC in Beta Yeah, that's right. I can still see them and they still change the colour

RE: [WSG] RE: BBC in Beta

2007-12-18 Thread John Horner
- I really don't like the clock; it's so 1990s - we all have a clock on our computer/phone; I don't think it's needed. I think you're missing the nostalgia, the aah factor embodied in that clock -- British people have spent many *many* hours watching it.

Re: [WSG] BBC in Beta

2007-12-17 Thread John Faulds
Oh come on, let's not be so blinkered that we can't appreciate really good work in most areas! Felix isn't the only one who has a number of issues with the new design and for entirely different reasons - http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/comments/bbc_homepage_redesign/ I'd have to

RE: [WSG] Do we just throw out the img tag

2007-12-16 Thread John Hancock
Personally, I think the img tag has the correct semantics (and attributes) for an image. I'd just keep them for images in paragraphs and use css background for everything else. An object is just that! -Original Message- From: Michael Horowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December

Re: [WSG] Opera files antitrust against MS: standards one part

2007-12-13 Thread John Faulds
First, it requests the Commission to obligate Microsoft to unbundle Internet Explorer from Windows and/or carry alternative browsers pre-installed on the desktop. I can't see that flying. Is anyone going to ask Apple to stop shipping their OS with Safari? On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:05:11

Re: [WSG] Opera files antitrust against MS: standards one part

2007-12-13 Thread John Faulds
Delivering their OSes with half a dozen pre-installed standard-compliant alternatives to IE/win isn't a technical problem, so why not? I'm no lawyer and I'm also no MS fanboy, but I think 'why?' is as equally a valid question as 'why not?'. My latest computer with Vista came pre-intalled

Re: [WSG] Opera files antitrust against MS: standards one part

2007-12-13 Thread John Faulds
but their os should be able to run other optional packages that the customer chooses. Out of all the applications Gav I mentioned previously, all the alternatives are easily installed on Windows (including Vista), and that's certainly the case for other browsers, so I don't really see

Re: [WSG] Comment mark

2007-12-09 Thread John Faulds
It should be: !-- ... -- (no 2nd !). On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:40:52 +1000, Hayden's Harness Attachment [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: !-- ... --! -- Tyssen Design www.tyssendesign.com.au Ph: (07) 3300 3303 Mb: 0405 678 590 ***

RE: [WSG] list image not showing properly LI

2007-12-06 Thread John Hancock
Hi Taco, Have you got a link to the page you're trying to fix this on? Regards, John Hancock Identity -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Taco Fleur Sent: Friday, 7 December 2007 12:51 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] list

Re: [WSG] CMS and site design

2007-12-03 Thread John Faulds
I'd think a little bit more about what you want your CMS to do before jumping in with Joomla. I've only given it a cursory look over before because I wasn't that impressed particularly by the sort of templating it uses and the code it outputs. If your client just wants to edit pages

[WSG] Markup question

2007-11-28 Thread John Faulds
I have to mark up a club constitution where all the paragraphs are numbered but there are also headings that are supposed to relate to paragraphs, e.g.: Heading 1 1. Paragraph goes here 2. Paragraph goes here 3. Paragraph goes here Heading 2 4. Paragraph goes here 5. Paragraph goes

Re: [WSG] Markup question

2007-11-28 Thread John Faulds
want to read the full discussion. John Faulds wrote: I have to mark up a club constitution where all the paragraphs are numbered but there are also headings that are supposed to relate to paragraphs, e.g.: Heading 1 1. Paragraph goes here 2. Paragraph goes here 3. Paragraph goes here

Re: [WSG] Page shift in IE6

2007-11-22 Thread John Faulds
Hi Georg, Yep, that did it. It looks like it was the % padding causing the problem. Huge thanks for the time and effort you spent helping me out on this one! Cheers John On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:56:44 +1000, Gunlaug Sørtun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Faulds wrote: I appreciate all your

Re: [WSG] Iframe navigation accessibility question

2007-11-21 Thread John Hancock
always mention it as a SEO problem if you need to provide a business case for it. kind regards, John Hancock Identity [EMAIL PROTECTED] t: +61 2 8012 0274 f: +61 2 9799 6135 *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] Page shift in IE6

2007-11-21 Thread John Faulds
? Cheers John -- Tyssen Design www.tyssendesign.com.au Ph: (07) 3300 3303 Mb: 0405 678 590 *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help

Re: [WSG] question about max-width's behaviour

2007-11-21 Thread John Faulds
The purpose of max-width loses if it can't overruled the ems behavior. It's not a case of max-width overruling ems. Ems is related to font-size which is why it's used for fluid/elastic layouts - it's *supposed* to increase as you increase the text size. If you don't want your layout to

Re: [WSG] Page shift in IE6

2007-11-21 Thread John Faulds
: John Faulds wrote: Could you show me what you've got in your corrected copy because I'm unsure which values I'm supposed to be tuning? Ok, here's a smooth-working version... * html #wrap { width: 95%; width:expression(((document.compatMode document.compatMode=='CSS1Compat

[WSG] Page shift in IE6

2007-11-20 Thread John Faulds
anyone see what I'm missing? Cheers John -- Tyssen Design www.tyssendesign.com.au Ph: (07) 3300 3303 Mb: 0405 678 590 *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join

Re: [WSG] Page shift in IE6

2007-11-20 Thread John Faulds
Hi Georg, It's at: http://www.gbjt.org.au/css/IE.css On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:08:11 +1000, Gunlaug Sørtun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Faulds wrote: I've got a page shift happening when you hover over certain elements in the right column on this page: http://www.gbjt.org.au

Re: [WSG] Page shift in IE6

2007-11-20 Thread John Faulds
1: the large shifting is easiest solved by deleting all R:P styles on sidebar... #sidebar { position: relative; -- delete z-index: 200; -- delete } I had that there because the top link in the sidebar seems to get partially obscured by the transparent PNG of the ball. I'm sure it was

Re: [WSG] Site check

2007-11-16 Thread John Hancock
in the nav. Although XHTML 1.1 valid, a cursory glance at webxact would show your site fails some of the basic accessibility standards and quality checks. John *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] Navigation - Pseudo Standards?

2007-11-15 Thread John Hancock
screen resolutions. kind regards, John Hancock Identity [EMAIL PROTECTED] t: +61 2 8012 0274 f: +61 2 9799 6135 On 15/11/2007, at 5:02 PM, Christie Mason wrote: We're having an internal discussion about the placement of site navigation (Contact Us, etc) vs Product Navigation (Search, Category 1

Re: [WSG] Web Form Best Practices

2007-11-14 Thread John Faulds
Here's a recent one that might prove useful: http://www.digital-web.com/articles/redesigning_ebay_registration/ On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:55:46 +1000, Howard Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope this question is appropriate for this list. I'm doing some research on best practices for

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