[WSG] programming skill required - thanks for the response

2004-04-26 Thread Universal Head
Thanks for the response folks I've got a few good people to choose from now! No more submissions required! Cheers Peter Universal Head  Design That Works. 7/43 Bridge Rd Stanmore NSW 2048 Australia T (+612) 9517 1466 F (+612) 9565 4747 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] W www.universalhead.com

[WSG] 2 WSG reminders

2004-04-26 Thread russ - maxdesign
1. Deadline for WSG design competition Friday 30th April, 2004 All design submissions must be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] by 5pm Friday 30th April (Sydney time GMT + 10). A bit slow in submissions so far. Remember, apart from leaving your mark, there is also a free copy of Dan Cederholm's book "Web

[WSG] programming skill required

2004-04-26 Thread Universal Head
Hi Hope you all don't mind me asking this on the list, but I need a programmer to do a few things I cannot. Specifically, at the moment, a form script for a site I'm working on. If you can whip these things off efficiently and intelligently and don't mind working with a perfectionist designer, dr

Re: [WSG] Trying to add... THREAD CLOSED

2004-04-26 Thread Ben Bishop
Hi Jake, This thread has been closed, but please feel free to help Brian out via private email. Thanks Ben Jake Badger wrote: whoops, still haven't been able to test it, but I see I'm, missing a dot, so it should be: * The discussion list fo

Re: [WSG] Thread closed : Trying to add a back to top link

2004-04-26 Thread James Ellis
Jake This thread has been closed as it's off topic. Please continue in the discussion room Cheers James Jake Badger wrote: whoops, still haven't been able to test it, but I see I'm, missing a dot, so it should be: echo "top" * The discussion l

Re: [WSG] Trying to add a back to top link

2004-04-26 Thread Jake Badger
whoops, still haven't been able to test it, but I see I'm, missing a dot, so it should be: echo "top"; > I think it's something like > > echo " ["QUERY_STRING"]."#top\">top"; > > but that's off the top of my head (as we don't have an SQL enviroment > at work for me to test it with). > > Jak

Re: [WSG] Trying to add a back to top link

2004-04-26 Thread Jake Badger
I think it's something like echo "top"; but that's off the top of my head (as we don't have an SQL enviroment at work for me to test it with). Jake > Hello, > > I am trying to add a back to top of page link to PHP dynamically generated > pages. The header and footers for these page never cha

RE: [WSG] 100% table inside auto width div

2004-04-26 Thread dean burge
thanks jason. adding a doctype to the example code fixed that, but uncovered more problems which i managed to figure out with the help of the article you posted. i noticed i have white space being output in my jsp template before the doctype line - tidying that up fixed the problem. -d Jason Tu

[WSG] Ten questions for Keith Robinson

2004-04-26 Thread russ - maxdesign
Interview number 2 is live: Keith Robinson (of Asterisk fame) talks about web standards, frustration, validation, accessibility, usability and the Golden Triangle. http://webstandardsgroup.org/features/keith-robinson.cfm Thanks Russ * The discu

Re: [WSG] print headers/footers

2004-04-26 Thread Gary Menzel
> I've done that with a header for the print version only, but because we > can't reliably control page breaks, I'm lost on how to make sure our > logo shows up on each printed page. All is fine if it prints out to > only one page, or even two, because I can use both a header and a > footer, but t

RE: [WSG] print headers/footers

2004-04-26 Thread Darian Cabot
I'm fairly sure the page-break-after won't help here. That doesn't add some thing after a page break. E.g. it can't be used to stick a logo after every page break (to show on the top of each new page). page-break-after tells the browser to break the page after the element. For example... p {page-

Re: [WSG] Amaya ---- Piece Of Crap...

2004-04-26 Thread Vlad Alexander \(XStandard\)
I think XStandard will meet most of your criteria - stable, user-friendly, lightweight, standards-compliant and FREE. As far as platform independent - maybe sometime in the future :-) Regards, -Vlad XStandard Development Team XStandard - XHTML 1.1 WYSIWYG editor - Original Message - Fro

[WSG] Accesskey and other accessibility features

2004-04-26 Thread theGrafixGuy
I run site that is for the most part wrapped around a shopping cart – as such, each page can contain a HELL of a lot of links – particularly when accessing the categories section of the available products. However despite this, I want to improve the site accessibility as much as possible. I

Re: [WSG] Amaya ---- Piece Of Crap...

2004-04-26 Thread Tonico Strasser
Chris Stratford wrote: Hey Everyone... Is it just me, or is the Amaya validator a piece of junk?? Does anyone here use it at alll??? Amaya isn't a validator, is it? It's a quite good XHTML editor IMHO. I wrote some structured documentation with Amaya, the keyboard shortcuts are nice. I quess it's

RE: [Maybe Spam] RE: [WSG] print headers/footers

2004-04-26 Thread Robert O'Neill
Doh! article URL   http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=129919&liFlavourID=1             I think we will have to wait for some decent case law before we fully realise how this will effect web designers. A recent article in computer weekly 'Ignoring disabled web acces

RE: [Maybe Spam] RE: [WSG] print headers/footers

2004-04-26 Thread Robert O'Neill
I think we will have to wait for some decent case law before we fully realise how this will effect web designers. A recent article in computer weekly 'Ignoring disabled web access will lead to legal action, warns DRC' illustrates that this might not be too far away..           --

Re: [WSG] print headers/footers

2004-04-26 Thread Sarah Sammis
> http://www.codestyle.org/css/media/FAQ.shtml#printmargins says that this > cannot be done > > " Q: How can I control print headers and footers with CSS? > > The page numbers, URL, date and other peripheral information that may be > printed with a Web page cannot be controlled by CSS in mains

[WSG] Amaya ---- Piece Of Crap...

2004-04-26 Thread Chris Stratford
Hey Everyone... Is it just me, or is the Amaya validator a piece of junk?? Does anyone here use it at alll??? more info here: http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/BinDist.html Cheers -- Chris Stratford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Http://www.neester.com * T

RE: [WSG] print headers/footers

2004-04-26 Thread P.H.Lauke
> From: Barbara Dozetos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] > but > because we > can't reliably control page breaks, Page-break-after should be supported since IE4.0 (not tested it though) http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/page.html#page-break-props P Patrick H. Lauke

RE: [Maybe Spam] RE: [WSG] print headers/footers

2004-04-26 Thread P.H.Lauke
However, if it comes to court, the case will - in my mind anyway - have to be made about specific features that are or aren't discriminating, and not (just) general principles. As I said - and I don't think we're disagreeing here, just want to spell it out - you *can* design for the majority, as

RE: [WSG] print headers/footers

2004-04-26 Thread P.H.Lauke
Actually, by default most browsers (nowadays anyway) seem to leave out background images (and colours...and borders...etc) on printouts; this needs to be explicitly *enabled*. P Patrick H. Lauke Webmaster / University of Salford http://www.salford.ac.uk > -Ori

RE: [WSG] print headers/footers

2004-04-26 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day A graphical page background should repeat on each page when printed (unless the user has turned printing of images and backgrounds off), so perhaps put the logo in as a background (for the print style sheet) and add appropriate padding to the page. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design

[Maybe Spam] RE: [WSG] print headers/footers

2004-04-26 Thread Robert O'Neill
It was not Barbara's features I was highlighting (please don't take that the wrong way), just the fact that generally designing a web site for a majority, inherently means you are discriminating against a minority.   Minorities rule in a court of law.         -

RE: [WSG] print headers/footers

2004-04-26 Thread Mark Thomas
The only method I can think of is to use a server side control to maybe split the page content down into "manageable" chunks, by manageable, I mean take a reasoned guess as to how much page content will fit onto one printed page :( ), and then present a control page to users whereby they can print

RE: [WSG] print headers/footers

2004-04-26 Thread P.H.Lauke
In this particular case though, I'm assuming the styling that Barbara is after is only an "extra" feature, some eye candy, and that the printouts still make sense on browsers that don't support print styles...so, as well meant as the warning was, let's not lose sight of the real issues. If I sa

Re: [WSG] print headers/footers

2004-04-26 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
>I don't believe there's a way to control the actual headers/footers printed on a >page by a browser. That'd be like trying to change the default buttons on the >browsers' toolbars. But someone correct me if I'm wrong, cuz that'd be kinda >interesting if that *could* be controlled. :D Well,

Re: [WSG] print headers/footers

2004-04-26 Thread Zulema Ortiz
Barb, I don't believe there's a way to control the actual headers/footers printed on a page by a browser. That'd be like trying to change the default buttons on the browsers' toolbars. But someone correct me if I'm wrong, cuz that'd be kinda interesting if that *could* be controlled. :D A s

Re: [WSG] print headers/footers

2004-04-26 Thread Robert O'Neill
Just a quick note to all UK designers out there (can't speak for other countries), if you design with 'most of our visitors' in mind be afraid, very afraid. A printed page with headers and footers stating Disabilities Discrimination Act 1995 could be heading your way soon.   Unless your des

Re: [WSG] print headers/footers

2004-04-26 Thread Barbara Dozetos
I've done that with a header for the print version only, but because we can't reliably control page breaks, I'm lost on how to make sure our logo shows up on each printed page. All is fine if it prints out to only one page, or even two, because I can use both a header and a footer, but the pag

Re: [WSG] print headers/footers

2004-04-26 Thread Neerav
http://www.codestyle.org/css/media/FAQ.shtml#printmargins says that this cannot be done " Q: How can I control print headers and footers with CSS? The page numbers, URL, date and other peripheral information that may be printed with a Web page cannot be controlled by CSS in mainstream Web

RE: [WSG] print headers/footers

2004-04-26 Thread P.H.Lauke
As far as I'm aware, those are handled by the user agent and outside of the "remit" of CSS, if you will... Personally, it would strike me as being an interference with the users' expected behaviour if you changed that... Patrick Patrick H. Lauke Webmaster / Univers

Re: [WSG] print headers/footers

2004-04-26 Thread Barbara Dozetos
I should have added that I'm looking for something that works in IE for 98 as the lowest common denominator... That's what most of our visitors use. Barb Barbara Dozetos wrote: Hi all -- Me again, working on a print style sheet. Is there some way to control the headers and footers that are au

[WSG] print headers/footers

2004-04-26 Thread Barbara Dozetos
Hi all -- Me again, working on a print style sheet. Is there some way to control the headers and footers that are automatically added to a page printed from a browser? Can I add something to the line where the page numbers are? Barb -- Barbara Dozetos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physicia

Re: [WSG] International meetings

2004-04-26 Thread Andy Budd
Peter Firminger wrote: In the members section of the WSG site, you can see how many people are in your area at the bottom of the members homepage ( http://webstandardsgroup.org/manage/login_view.cfm ). Cool, there are two other people from Brighton on this list. Andy Budd http://www.message.uk.c