is nav? my example is here: http://squatspace.com/lucaphp/nuca/index2.htmhope this makes sense cheers lucas ...basic email netiquette:http://www.georgedillon.com/web/netiquette.shtml
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is quite good for simple things like word processing (once you've
trained the program to respond to your voice properly) but how would
it go with coding?
Any advice or suggestion would be greatly appreciated.
Regards
Brad Lucas
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end of
the PDF).
If anybody has feedback or questions please feel free to write me.
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Javascript accessibility and JAWs (also, see comment 14 for discussion
of JS onload problems)
http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2005/06/you_shouldve_be_1.html
Javascript best practices
http://
Quoting Geoff Deering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Can I ask what commercial and/or open source CMSs developers on this list
> use, which ones they prefer, ones they don't like (and for what reasons).
As per the guidelines please post CMS related questions to [WSG-CMS]:
http://webstandardsgroup.org/go/r
ed from loading until they are
asked to display themselves. This also helps because many style sheet
rules containing images often don't apply to the elements of the current
page.
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Lee Roberts spoke the following wise words on 29/06/2004 11:43 PM EST:
Would someone please explain why the WSG thinks Section 508 is what should
be used?
Sure, if you explain what on earth you're talking about.
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ngle stylesheet containing everything as it's easier
for *me* to maintain.
There is no cardinal rule -- simply deliver the solution that is best
for your client.
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CSS fundamentals are set in stone.
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Accessibility tools for Flash:
http://www.hisoftware.com/macromedia_flash/
A few articles:
http://www.washington.edu/accessit/articles?23
http://evolt.org/article/rdf/4090/57431/index.html
HTH
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Some posting guidelines and information for Nancy, Amit and all of our
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Nancy: If your email is to Russ then please send it directly to Russ. If
you then find out information which is relevant to web standards and
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pl
Some posting guidelines and information for Nancy, Amit and all of our
new members.
Nancy: If your email is to Russ then please send it directly to Russ. If
you then find out information which is relevant to web standards and
that the majority of this list will care to read your post, then,
pl
Ryan Smith spoke the following wise words on 19/06/2004 3:58 PM EST:
Another newbie here. I’ve just sent my site live and wanted some
constructive feedback from both designers and developers. The xhtml
validates & I’m working on getting it ‘strict’. Although there are a
couple of usability issue
The attitude at the moment is that it's not a high priority for web
developers to ensure their documents are 100% valid. If you're going to
do this then simply don't serve it with a mime-type of xhtml+xml.
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security -- but that's not
exactly a web standards issue now is it ;)
If you really want to make a difference don't try and get everybody to
change to IE. Go and grab the closest web designer that has no idea
about web standards and bring them to the next WSG meeting.
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>
> --
> Neerav Bhatt
> http://www.bhatt.id.au
> Web Development & IT consultancy
> Mobile: +61 403 8000 27
>
> http://www.bookcrossing.com/mybookshelf/neerav
>
> Tim Lucas wrote:
> > Well assuming the different colouring is there just for separation then
reat:
http://www.squidfingers.com/code/dhtml/?id=divscroller2
http://www.squidfingers.com/code/dhtml/?id=divscroller
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to use it just be aware that the browser (or any user
agent) is not under any obligation to acknowledge it's existence.
As alternative user agents increase in use amongst both the community
and less-abled users it's even more important to be aware of this
particular gotcha (especi
auto;
width: 750px;
}
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e a bit different from the few other b&w blogs.
All round nice job. Your work (both design and coding) has improved
significantly since you signed up to the list a long while back =) Have
you done any paid work?
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family declarations
- Consider line-height for your fonts
And personally a lil splash of colour (just one or two complements) to
make your site a bit different from the few other b&w blogs.
All round nice job. Your work (both design and coding) has improved
significantly since y
you'd gone CSS-P it wouldn't be a problem :)
Mozilla supports "display: block" on the s, but alas IE does not.
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Chris Bentley spoke the following wise words on 5/05/2004 9:45 PM EST:
I thought XHTML transitional _is_ XML. In what way is XHTML transitional
is a "less strict data format"?
oops you're right. I should have suggested HTML.
...that's what you get when you post after beers at the pub. ;)
-- tim
ht
ap="nowrap".
Likewise for disabled="disabled", checked="checked" and noshade="noshade".
If you want an explanation: XML requires all attributes to be in the
attribute="value" format. SHORTTAG is a remnant from SGML (of w
ap="nowrap".
Likewise for disabled="disabled", checked="checked" and noshade="noshade".
If you want an explanation: XML requires all attributes to be in the
attribute="value" format. SHORTTAG is a remnant from SGML (of w
ng it a PDF when it's been told its
receiving a ZIP.
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r first clue that you probably should be using a table.
You can style tables to your hearts content so I see no reason why you'd
bother trying to emulate them using divs.
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Andrew Krespanis spoke the following wise words on 21/04/2004 12:46 AM EST:
Ok, I'm a full-time student, and as such, I'm full-time broke :(
I'm VERY keen to attend this seminar, and I'm wondering if any other
students want to band together and try for some kind of "group
discount"? Email me if
you've set a 600px width for #content. Shouldn't you be letting the UA
set it's own margins for printing?
Also, have you considered including a rule in the print stylesheet for
those using CSS3 capable browsers to print the URL of links?
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smime.
xhtml-modularization/DTD/xhtml-target-1.mod
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russ weakley spoke the following wise words on 13/04/2004 6:14 PM EST:
Forgot to mention, 10% discount for WSG members!
Is that on top of the student discount? (not that I have the money
anyway... lol)
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Quoting theGrafixGuy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Now, my site is better, but still not where I want it, CSS will definitely
> bring it more inline but alas, I need to find a good lightweight,
> customizable and powerful shopping cart program to replace the VERY VERY
> tables heavy OSCommerce.
Might wan
russ weakley spoke the following wise words on 21/03/2004 1:58AM EST:
The WSG site was built very quickly when we first put the group together
(just over a year ago). It is very much overdue for a redesign. In the
spirit of group ownership, we thought it would be a good idea to open the
process up
Peter Firminger spoke the following wise words on 19/03/2004 9:15PM EST:
Tim mentioned an NNTP (news) in the last 24 hours but this is not likely to
happen I'm afraid. Integrating the list and an nntp server isn't that simple
(with the server software I have available) and the list is (and will
rem
Leslie Riggs spoke the following wise words on 19/03/2004 2:13 AM EST:
If only I could get to Sydney...but it is not to be.
Anybody got a DV-Cam? Maybe for meetings we could video guest speakers
(with their permission of course), type up transcripts and post both to
the website along with their c
Gyrus spoke the following wise words on 19/03/2004 1:46 AM EST:
Just a request - could we change subject lines when the subject changes?
Actually, I can't remember how the thread became the FIR thread...
But anyway, I'm sure I'm not alone in liking the ability to scan my list
inboxes for subjec
Thanks Russ, Peter and David.
That's great news -- can't wait!
-- tim
russ weakley spoke the following wise words on 19/03/2004 12:43 AM EST:
We have a special presenter for the night - David Woodbridge.
David works at the Royal Blind Society. His jobs is to evaluate client
websites from a blin
Have a look at the thread posted last month by the f2network team.
-- tim
Neerav spoke the following wise words on 10/03/2004 10:19 AM EST:
When preparing a proposal for a potential client or trying to convince
your management, what are the tried and true methods used by WSG members
to convince
Peter Firminger spoke the following on 6/03/2004 12:26 PM EST:
Relative vs Absolute Links
I agree with James first answer. Change hosts! I can see absolutely no
reason for this apart from an idiot ISP. Speaking of idiot ISPs... Was it
TPG (http://www.tpg.com.au/help_desk/activate.html - This form i
My brace style of use is K&R (Kernighan and Ritchie -- or what you call
'goofy') but I prefer to read GNU style, then BSD style (what you called
'lined up method').
I guess it goes back to my C programming days. If wateva team I'm
working with doesn't like it then it's only 2 lines of perl to c
Just received an email[1] from my SMH subscription stating they've
launched a new website, SMH.com.au technology:
http://www.smh.com.au/technology
I have to admit. I was a little cynical and was preparing myself for an
onslaught of presentational markup and zilch semantic markup. Off I went
a
Bloody webmail gremlins. Killed half of my newlines to!
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LC 55 spoke the following wise words on 24/02/2004 2:28 AM EST:
Gremlins in the works or what chaps?
Check the date on this original message below.
Regards, JG
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tandards. Image replacement is a good tool to have but certainly
not the most accessible way to markup and display an image.
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[1] Screen Reader Visibility Testing
http://eleaston.com/bob/screenreader-visibility.html
[2] mezzoblue - revised image replacement
http:/
Rex Chung spoke the following wise words on 19/02/2004 10:51 AM EST:
does anyone know if there's a keyboard shortcut [in Internet Explorer] for jumping to the next headings (h1,h2,h3 etc) on the page?
Nope.
http://balasainet.com/iesupersite/support/keyboardshortcuts.htm
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Justin French spoke the following wise words on 19/02/2004 9:48 AM EST:
A bit obvious, but also ridiculously time consuming on anything more
than 2 pages :)
Unless you use the developer extension for FireFox... then it's just a
matter of right clicking in the browser window then going
WebDevel
Anybody had any experience at protecting a CSS-P layout from their CMS
users?
Stuff like collapsing margins and what-not could really cause things to
bugger up.
I'm thinking of wrapping the editable areas in a single-celled table.
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I've done a CSS pure layout and only have two bugs to squash (I
think/hope) before I can continue with the rest of the project. I've
tried everything to get rid of them but nothing is working.
Page is here:
http://www.toolmantim.com/staging/playtest_2cols.html
and the css is here:
http://www.t
If anyone could think of a better way to do this, or even an
efficiency tweak I would be very grateful.
How about using iteration instead of recursion?
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Can you please quickly checkout:
http://www.toolmantim.com/staging/playtest.html
and tell me if it looks ok in your browser.
Also, does anybody know how to fix the disappearing footer colour when
the window is resized very small? I'm quite sure it has to do with
collapsing margins but I can't fi
Thanks Michael!
-- tim
Michael Donnermeyer spoke the following wise words on 13/02/2004 3:01 PM
EST:
Don't blame you. IE has been on my last nerve recently...ALOT.
I wouldn't use the hack...it's a rather minor issue anyway, and the
hack could cause other issues to arise...not to mention it's
Sorry.. forgot to include the URL:
http://www.toolmantim.com/staging/main_layout.htm
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Thanks Michael,
One small this I saw is in IE the footer text
runs into itself if the window is resized too small, say 600-700 pixels
wide or smaller.
I'm choosing to ignore IE's lack of support for min-width.
Other than that and the usual mystery
horizontal scrollbar, no probs.
Is it wor
Thanks Chris, looks fine!
-- tim
p.s. It's best to send attachments privately and off the list. Posting
a link is ok though =)
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Chris Stratford spoke the following wise words on 12/02/2004 7:17 PM
EST:
Attached are two screenshots of your website a
Could you please check the following framework for a layout i'm doing:
http://www.toolmantim.com/staging/main_layout.htm
Intended display (horizontally liquid with no borders):
http://www.toolmantim.com/staging/main_layout.gif
Thanks everyone,
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A widely used, simple and secure Perl script is nms Formmail, a
replacement for the popular and insecure 'MSA formmail':
http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/scripts.shtml (compatibility package)
It's a cinch to setup -- you'll find setup instructions in the zip file.
Be careful when setting up the c
hahahaha
Lindsay Evans spoke the following wise words on 9/02/2004 12:13 PM EST:
The irony is just too much:
http://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2004/02/06/spot_the_err/index.php
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Nice work, but you might wanna run that menu through a spell checker =)
- tim
Chris Stratford spoke the following wise words on 8/02/2004 12:45 AM EST:
www.neester.com
check it out now :D
its my first shot at XHTML so im also learning more about CSS while im
at it!
:)
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Can't have a look but I find the best thing to do when this happens is
to use Mozilla's DOM inspector (Tools->Web Development->DOM Inspector).
Load up the DOM inspector, put in the URL. Then navigate the DOM tree
until you find the node of the offending object.
In the properties pane click the d
russ weakley spoke the following wise words on 2/12/2003 10:28 AM EST:
New CSS site just launched - The man in blue:
http://www.themaninblue.com/home/home/
I love it! Flows with my style exactly... argh... soo nice!
Makes me want to go and fix up my own thang.
- tim
at least it's the cleanest hack around... and not hard to do a search in
your CSS to remove them when needed.
- tim
russ weakley spoke the following wise words on 22/11/2003 9:05 PM EST:
Not a big fan of hacks but interesting anyway...
http://www.pixy.cz/blogg/clanky/cssunderscorehack/
Russ
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Thanks David,
The border-bottom fixed it gewd!
cheers
- tim
David McDonald spoke the following wise words on 22/11/2003 2:22 AM EST:
Tim,
It's a known bug in IE - see:
http://nemesis1.f2o.org/bugs_t?bname=Creeping%20Text
And
http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/creep.html
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I have a serious case of text going walkies off the left hand side of
the page in IE:
http://www.twoslabs.com/
Anybody have any idea why this is happening?
Cheers,
tim
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Have you considered Browser Cam? ( www.browsercam.com )
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Miles Tillinger spoke the following wise words on 29/10/2003 11:18 AM EST:
If there is a better way to do it I'm open to suggestions...
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Can you write VB? then you are almost there :^)
My first GUI program when I was much younger was a VB6 program. Haven't
touched it since then so I'd imagine it would take a fair effort to get
up to scratch...
Meanwhile I am sitting here making a template for a CMS-driven site browser-
Why do I have this little elf in my left ear whispering "learn dot
net"... i wish he'd go away
russ weakley spoke the following wise words on 25/10/2003 7:00 AM EST:
OK, rumours spread thick and fast around the blog community. This is the
latest.
Ryan Dawson - Why there hasn't been developme
Wonder why i've never come across this before...!
thanks Chris!
Chris Bentley spoke the following wise words on 18/10/2003 2:31 PM EST:
How'd he do the diagonals?
maybe big borders...
http://www.infimum.dk/HTML/slantinfo.html
http://www.tantek.com/map.html
and... wait for it it works in IE!
IMO he could cut that CSS down by at least half by putting the repeated
properties in their own class... unless the purpose was to do it all
with IDs.
How'd he do the diagonals?
- tim
russ weakley spoke the following wise words on 18/10/2003 5:30 AM EST:
Hi Russ,
Ahh well that makes sense now! I knew they /had/ to have a width, didn't
realise you could (relatively) safely leave it out.
I tried method 1 and it was horrible due to the large difference in
widths of the items.
Method 2 works great on IE6/Firebird/Mozilla.
I've tried the technique
Thanks Russ, great tutorials!
One question about the floating list item article.
Because inline list items have a fixed gap between them, and floated
list items need a width attribute, is the following layout not possible
with pure CSS:
http://www.toolmantim.com/test/primaryNav.gif
The techniq
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