Re: [WSG] how important are validation-programs?

2006-03-03 Thread Roger Herbert
The validator will help resolve and prevent those unexpected results in your work, such as an element being the wrong colour because it's inheriting values from somewhere you hadn't anticipated. In that case, explicitly setting the colour will make sure it's set to the value you're

Re: [WSG] FOUC Safari 2.0

2005-06-16 Thread Roger Johansson
will be in the next update. /Roger -- http://www.456bereastreet.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **

Re: [WSG] the use of reset buttons on forms

2005-06-15 Thread Roger Johansson
-unfriendly. Yes, very unfriendly: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/2416.html /Roger -- http://www.456bereastreet.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some

Re: [WSG] Standards and ADS

2005-06-14 Thread Roger Johansson
.456bereastreet.com/archive/200409/ content_negotiation_adsense_and_comments/ The iframe created by the ad script still contains old-skool tag-soup though. No way around that. /Roger -- http://www.456bereastreet.com/ ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] Validation error question for XHTML Strict

2005-05-06 Thread Roger Johansson
On 6 maj 2005, at 08.01, tee wrote: But it is in the div Example: div id=form form method=post action=form.cgi input type=hidden name=postmode value=QUANTITYBOXES / You need a block level element _inside_ the form element: form div input / /div /Roger -- http://www

Re: [WSG] Valid blockquote scenarios?

2005-05-06 Thread Roger Johansson
-level content) and Q is intended for short quotations (inline content) that don't require paragraph breaks. So yes, the p (or some other block-level element) is necessary, and it goes inside the blockquote element. /Roger -- http://www.456bereastreet.com

Re: [WSG] Valid blockquote scenarios?

2005-05-06 Thread Roger Johansson
On 6 maj 2005, at 22.57, Lukasz Grabun wrote: Roger Johansson wrote: Unless I'm misreading the W3C Recommendation, blockquote elements can only have block-level content. That makes the second example incorrect. From http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/text.html#h-9.2.2 : So yes, the p (or some

Re: [WSG] best practice?

2005-04-28 Thread Roger Johansson
/ css_tips_and_tricks_part_2/ /Roger -- http://www.456bereastreet.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **

[WSG] Accessible dropdown menus

2005-04-14 Thread Roger Johansson
links. Neither of these techniques seem to get it all right. At least as far as I can tell. So, have any of you implemented a horizontal, single level dropdown menu that you are completely happy with when it comes to accessibility? /Roger -- http://www.456bereastreet.com

Re: [WSG] Accessible dropdown menus

2005-04-14 Thread Roger Johansson
and disadvantages of drop downs. http://www.alistapart.com/articles/hybrid/ - all code inclusive. Hi, Thanks for responding, but nope, neither of those is what I'm looking for. /Roger -- http://www.456bereastreet.com/ ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] Main Content won't Center Align in IE

2005-04-01 Thread Roger Johansson
IE Doesnt understand margin: auto IE6 does, as does IE5/Mac. Only if you are worried about IE5.*/Win do you need the text-align hack. /Roger -- http://www.456bereastreet.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

Re: [WSG] Making accessible a one-text field form with an image submit button?

2005-03-20 Thread Roger Johansson
elements with type=image. /Roger -- http://www.456bereastreet.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **

Re: [WSG] Change to application/xhtml+xml breaks background colour.

2005-03-20 Thread Roger Johansson
+xml, you may be interested in something I wrote a while ago: http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200501/ the_perils_of_using_xhtml_properly/ /Roger ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

Re: [WSG] Making accessible a one-text field form with an image submit button?

2005-03-19 Thread Roger Johansson
button, or have a blank one, but this sort of defeats the purpose in my opinion... ideas? If you're determined not to show the label, you can use CSS to hide it from visual browsers. /Roger -- http://www.456bereastreet.com/ ** The discussion list

Re: [WSG] quot; or in copy?

2005-02-16 Thread Roger Johansson
On 17 feb 2005, at 03.14, David R wrote: I mean, provided you send the document from the server as unicode, why must we resort to entities for non-reserved characters? You don't. If you use unicode, you don't have to use character references. /Roger

Re: [WSG] Around We Go

2005-02-16 Thread Roger Johansson
/ flexible_box_with_custom_corners_and_borders/ /Roger -- http://www.456bereastreet.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **

Re: [WSG] Why DO floats not stretch their containers?

2005-02-10 Thread Roger Johansson
Containing Floats article explains it pretty well: http://www.complexspiral.com/publications/containing-floats/ /Roger -- http://www.456bereastreet.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] Your opinions about my weblog's new layout

2005-01-16 Thread Roger Johansson
horizontally. I'm guessing that you're floating the tabs and didn't specify a width for them, which IE/Mac needs. FYI: I tried taking a look at your old (current) layout, but something crashes Safari every time. Not sure what causes it. HTH /Roger -- http://www.456bereastreet.com

Re: [WSG] Slightly OT... Interview with IE Dev team

2005-01-06 Thread Roger Johansson
.456bereastreet.com/archive/200412/ internet_explorer_is_already_breaking_the_web/#comment2433 /Roger -- http://www.456bereastreet.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints

Re: [WSG] Slightly OT... Interview with IE Dev team

2005-01-06 Thread Roger Johansson
to that (either because they aren't allowed to, or because they just don't know). /Roger -- http://www.456bereastreet.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints

Re: [WSG] Slow loading of CSS

2005-01-03 Thread Roger Johansson
just been lucky? /Roger -- http://www.456bereastreet.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **

Re: [WSG] Checking in as many browsers as possible

2004-12-19 Thread Roger Johansson
was released in 1994. It's like checking your stuff in Windows 95. Spend some money on a used iMac or PowerMac G4 instead. It doesn't have to be very new - basically anything released after 1998 will do (just make sure it can run Mac OS X) - so it won't cost you a lot. /Roger -- http://www

Re: [WSG] accessible image form buttons

2004-12-16 Thread Roger Johansson
your own controls). [1] http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200410/ styling_even_more_form_controls/ /Roger ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints

Re: [WSG] LOCAL XHTML TESTING - HOW TO DO IT?

2004-12-12 Thread Roger Johansson
Page Info), and alert you of any well-formedness errors. /Roger -- http://www.456bereastreet.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list

Re: [WSG] Defining A Definition List

2004-11-29 Thread Roger Johansson
? /Roger -- http://www.456bereastreet.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **

Re: [WSG] turkish text - can you assign a language or encoding to a div?

2004-11-22 Thread Roger Johansson
for the whole document. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/dirlang.html#adef-lang /Roger -- http://www.456bereastreet.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints

Re: [WSG] discussion at juicy studio: It's all in the MIME

2004-11-10 Thread Roger Johansson
/ [2] http://keystonewebsites.com/articles/mime_type.php [3] http://www.autisticcuckoo.net/archive.php?id=2004/11/03/content- negotiation Note the function in [3] to convert XHTML to HTML before sending it as text/html. /Roger -- http://www.456bereastreet.com

Re: [WSG] Input File Format

2004-10-08 Thread Roger Johansson
CSS rules. For each form control, there are screen shots from a whole lot (well, eleven right now) of different browsers and operating systems: http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200409/styling_form_controls/ /Roger -- http://www.456bereastreet.com

Re: [WSG] Mac site check please...

2004-09-28 Thread Roger Johansson
the mess. I successfully implemented this in a recent project, so you can make ASP.NET based sites validate :) [1] http://aspnetresources.com/ [2] http://aspnetresources.com/articles/HttpFilters.aspx /Roger -- http://www.456bereastreet.com

Re: [WSG] website will not show in Safari

2004-09-25 Thread Roger Johansson
it to iso-8859-1 and it should work better. /Roger -- http://www.456bereastreet.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04 http://we04.com/ Web standards, accessibility, inspiration, knowledge

Re: [WSG] website will not show in Safari

2004-09-25 Thread Roger Johansson
://www.unfolded.net/webdesign/parker-wasp-t.php using a WaSP template w/o character encoding. Both pages display in Safari, with no obvious problems. /Roger -- http://www.456bereastreet.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud

Re: [WSG] question about iframe accessibility

2004-09-21 Thread Roger Johansson
. /Roger -- http://www.456bereastreet.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04 http://we04.com/ Web standards, accessibility, inspiration, knowledge To be held in Sydney, September 30

Re: [WSG] Better Flexible Rounded Corners Option? and Site Check

2004-09-09 Thread Roger Johansson
/ /Roger -- http://www.456bereastreet.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04 http://we04.com/ Web standards, accessibility, inspiration, knowledge To be held in Sydney, September 30

Re: [WSG] Better Flexible Rounded Corners Option? and Site Check

2004-09-09 Thread Roger Johansson
On 9 sep 2004, at 15.11, JW wrote: It shows fine in Firefox, Opera 7 and IE6 but it breaks in IE5. Any solutions? Probably box model related, if it breaks in IE5 and not IE6. I don't have IE5/Win handy here to take a look. In what way does it break? /Roger -- http://www.456bereastreet.com

Re: [WSG] Your Mozilla Vote Counts!

2004-08-22 Thread Roger Johansson
On 22 aug 2004, at 17.23, Vlad Alexander ((XStandard)) wrote: Mozilla fans, we need your help. The Mozilla version of the standards-compliant XHTML WYSIWYG editor XStandard is almost ready. Will that make it work on the Mac as well? I suspect not, but I'm hoping :-) /Roger -- http://www

Re: [WSG] The Tables Revenge

2004-07-06 Thread Roger Johansson
you're styling is tabular data, obviously). If you use a table, you're stuck with a table, and if later on you want to change the layout, you will probably need to edit the HTML as well as the CSS. /Roger -- http://www.456bereastreet.com

Re: [WSG] Please use plain text in emails

2004-07-05 Thread Roger Johansson
On 5 jul 2004, at 06.58, Hugh Todd wrote: So, please use plain text in emails if you want to be read. I second that. Tiny, unreadable text = I hit the delete key. /Roger -- http://www.456bereastreet.com/ * The discussion list for http

[WSG] Middle Div gets shoved around in IE

2004-06-16 Thread Roger Williams
, Roger * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help *

Re: [WSG] Safari and Opera

2004-06-05 Thread Roger Johansson
( with even) the latest version of Opera for windows. Has anyone got a way of doing it? No. Styling form elements the same across platforms and browsers is not possible, since several browsers use the operating system's native widgets, and ignore most attempts at styling them. /Roger -- http

Re: [WSG] Correct way to swap style sheets based on Browser?

2004-05-31 Thread Roger Johansson
@import, and will load the css file in the above example. However, if you specify the URL in a slightly different way it won't: @import css/modern.css; /Roger -- http://www.456bereastreet.com/ * The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] quotes on q tag

2004-05-31 Thread Roger Johansson
; } q:before { content: ; } q:after { content: ; } The above does not work in IE5/Mac, so people using that will get double quotes. This way you can use the typographically correct quote marks for the language used, and not the standard that all browsers seem to add by default. /Roger -- http://www

Re: [WSG] IE Max-width Emulation and Auto Centre

2004-05-31 Thread Roger Johansson
are wrapped in the links, and are treated as inline content, they get an underline on hover, just like the text below them. You can fix it by adding display:block to the .model img rule. /Roger -- http://www.456bereastreet.com/ * The discussion list

[WSG] CSS and PhpNuke

2004-03-02 Thread roger
would just like to see some. If anyone has any other recommended Open Source CMS systems out there please pass them along as well. Thanks, Roger * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *

[WSG] centering rigid content

2004-02-15 Thread roger
clear:both; in both of the upper div's, is this the wrong thing? As always all comments are appreciated. Roger * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *

RE: [WSG] centering rigid content

2004-02-15 Thread roger
at the top of the page in Safari. I have no idea what its doing in IE6 (if anyone wants to tell me you can spare the gory details =) ). So what is the deal here? I have put clear:both; in both of the upper div's, is this the wrong thing? As always all comments are appreciated. Roger

RE: [WSG] centering rigid content

2004-02-15 Thread roger
. Original Message Subject: RE: [WSG] centering rigid content From: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, February 15, 2004 2:57 am To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Roger The problem you describe is happening in FireFox too. The centerctr div is not being cleared - add clear:both

RE: [WSG] centering rigid content

2004-02-15 Thread roger
at this in IE6 and tell me how FUBARed it is? www.desertstandard.net/yv2/ cheers roger Original Message Subject: RE: [WSG] centering rigid content From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, February 15, 2004 9:03 am To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] alright i removed the clear: both; from

RE: [WSG] centering rigid content

2004-02-15 Thread roger
itself so much. thanks again. Original Message Subject: RE: [WSG] centering rigid content From: LC 55 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, February 15, 2004 11:22 am To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Screenshot from Opera 7 @ http://lc55.co.uk/test/yv.jpg Sorry Roger, but the search box seems

RE: [WSG] centering rigid content

2004-02-15 Thread roger
borrowing heavily from what others have given, what is the proper way of giving credit? roger Original Message Subject: Re: [WSG] centering rigid content From: JLE Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, February 15, 2004 5:40 pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] re pixy.cz approach

RE: [WSG] misbehaving footer

2004-02-13 Thread roger
but would like to use the nav bar that you created if you dont mind. I will have to check everything in IE6 first of course, dammit. Thanks for your help it is very appreciated. Roger Original Message Subject: Re: [WSG] misbehaving footer From: Michael Donnermeyer [EMAIL

RE: [WSG] horizontal nav bar nightmare

2004-02-12 Thread roger
there is something going on at www.desertstandard.net/yv2/teachers.shtml with the footer bar. its like a missed closing a div somewhere but I cannot find it. Anything you guys can recommend about increasing the accessibility as well? Thanks again, Roger Original Message Subject: RE: [WSG

[WSG] Help i broke it all!

2004-02-10 Thread roger
can see everything but the Nav bar does not work and the upper right hand image is displaced. In MAC IE 5.2 everything works great but the background image does not show up. The CSS validates and the HTML is good save a few img close tags and what not. Oh please help! Sincerely, Roger

RE: [WSG] horizontal nav bar nightmare

2004-02-10 Thread roger
ooops sorry, www.desertstandard.net/yv/ Original Message Subject: Re: [WSG] horizontal nav bar nightmare From: Paul Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, February 10, 2004 10:50 pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Roger, I am getting a 404 page not found with that URL. Regards