Just came across this thread and by coincidence I had been told about the site and tossed off this email to them:
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I thought I would take the time to make you aware of some problems with your website.
The site does not communicate to Mac users at all. In Safari 2, the most common MacOSX
Three cheers for Web Standards evangelism! Kudos for making the effort to spread the
gospel, but I don't know if I agree with the approach. Fair enough that you'd like to
win the job, but the end of the email starts sounding like marketing spam. A
political approach might be more effective
Sorry, I'm away Thurs AM for study.
I will read your email when I return. For any urgent Intranet queries or
assistance please contact Marion Haworth on 02 9230 8542 or
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Many thanks,
Leon Wild.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/05/04 18:15
You're right, but in my defense I didn't
Jeez mate give me a break. Just because every site I've done doesn't get the little W3C gold star doesn't mean I'm not making professional sites. And since I've been making sites since the web started, and designing for years before that, some jobs go back ten years. They were cutting edge enough
Mark Stanton wrote:
Well at least someone has found a use for it -
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/05/02/user-friendly-feeds
That's just the beginning ;)
XML is by far more powerful than what we see today. The bottleneck is
the client software. I'm very anxious to see new technologies like
Sorry mate (and the WSG). I was merely giving you my reaction to your
post. I was just saying that If I was in the shoes of the person you
emailed, my first reaction would be to go and visit your site. On
visiting said site I'd think,
what a loverly looking flash portfolio with lot's of nice
Tim Lucas wrote:
If you don't need to serve valid XML, and you can not systematically
serve well formed XML documents, then I recommend sticking with a less
strict data format (such as XHTML transitional).
XML is a strict data format and, like most, can't reliably be written
by hand without
I thought XHTML transitional _is_ XML. In what way is XHTML
transitional is a less strict data format?
It's a transition. It's a half-way house between HTML 4 and XHTML as it
is intended (XHTML Strict).
Patrick Griffiths (PTG)
http://www.htmldog.com/ptg/
I thought XHTML transitional _is_ XML. In what way is XHTML
transitional is a less strict data format?
It's a transition. It's a half-way house between HTML 4 and XHTML as it
is intended (XHTML Strict).
Patrick Griffiths (PTG)
http://www.htmldog.com/ptg/
I thought XHTML transitional _is_ XML. In what way is XHTML
transitional is a less strict data format?
It's a transition. It's a half-way house between HTML 4 and XHTML as it
is intended (XHTML Strict).
Patrick Griffiths (PTG)
http://www.htmldog.com/ptg/
http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/05/04.html#a7387
Robert Scoble writes:
While we're on it, this page has one falsehood. It says that the next version of Internet Explorer won't come out until Longhorn. That is absolutely NOT true. The next version of Internet Explorer comes with a ton of
On 05/05/2004, at 10:09 PM, Patrick Griffiths wrote:
I thought XHTML transitional _is_ XML. In what way is XHTML
transitional is a less strict data format?
It's a transition. It's a half-way house between HTML 4 and XHTML as it
is intended (XHTML Strict).
Are you saying that XHTML transitional is
On 06/05/2004, at 12:03 AM, Chris Bentley wrote:
On 05/05/2004, at 10:09 PM, Patrick Griffiths wrote:
I thought XHTML transitional _is_ XML. In what way is XHTML
transitional is a less strict data format?
It's a transition. It's a half-way house between HTML 4 and XHTML as
it
is intended (XHTML
At 16:02 5/5/2004 +0200, Tonico Strasser wrote:
http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/05/04.html#a7387
Hm, will they make it more standards compliant as well? Will it work in
older versions of Windows?
Hum, I don´t believe.
Presto (Opera) and Gecko (Mozilla) engines pass a profound redesign of
I thought XHTML transitional _is_ XML. In what way is XHTML
transitional is a less strict data format?
It's a transition. It's a half-way house between HTML 4 and XHTML
as
it
is intended (XHTML Strict).
Are you saying that XHTML transitional is a less strict data
format
than XML
Hi all,
Last week several of you chimed in to help me fix an IE weirdness in my
nav list on this page: http://www.pcc.com/benchmark/welcome.html
The same thing is happening (space between the 'buttons') on this page:
http://www.pcc.com/benchmark/financial.html
seems that the if/else statements
While I'm at it, can someone tell me why my a:link:hover rule is working
perfectly in IE and not at all in FF? The nav buttons on the left are
working, but links in the text and in the top nav are not.
www.pcc.com/benchmark/financial.html
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Barbara Dozetos [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Did you just add a visited state?
I like the lay out and it seems to work in Mozilla.
Jack Kennard
Web Designer Marketing
dba/ Web Sailing Designs
http://www.websailingdesigns.com
404 459-6621
New Presidential slogan:
Avoid the Mud slinging, take a trip.
Barbara Dozetos wrote:
While I'm at it,
Do you have your CSS in order: link, visited, hover, active? Sometimes
if they are out of order it causes the problem you described.
http://www.456bereastreet.com/lab/developing_with_web_standards/
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of
Hello Everyone:
This is my first post to this list and I do hope it is not off topic.
I am creating a web site and am working on the home page (fairly new web
designer, too). Normally, I make the page small so it can be seen by older
monitors but this time I wanted to see if I could have it fill
that's the problem -it's not working once they're visited doh!
Jack Kennard wrote:
Did you just add a visited state?
I like the lay out and it seems to work in Mozilla.
Jack Kennard
Web Designer Marketing
dba/ Web Sailing Designs
http://www.websailingdesigns.com
404 459-6621
New Presidential
I notice there are a lot of sites in this group, that are using javascript.
Are they mostly for determining browsers and then redirecting,
or ?
--
Jack Kennard
Web Designer Marketing
dba/ Web Sailing Designs
http://www.websailingdesigns.com
404 459-6621
New Presidential slogan:
Avoid the Mud
I'm not clear to what your problem is from the email? You have 3
graphics (at least the only three that are showing up in FFox + IE6).
One is a solid purple column, one is a city and is horizontal, and the
other is a purple to white blender for the city bottom edge.
In FFox and IE, your
I never got into the idea of redirecting browsers to different pages
using JS. Using standards to make web pages renders that practice
obsolete for the most part since you get a one page serves all product
in the end.
If I use JS on any pages it is usually to make remembrance cookies on a
Not sure how to tackle this ...
I have a two column table - in the right hand column is a div. I have a print style
sheet and would like this div to position itself at the end of all other content in
the print version.
Is this possible?
Thanks
WP
Wendy Phillips
Job Ready (Learning
I agree with Ryan - coding for specific browsers is a futile excerise.
We do use javascript quite a bit but its usually to provide additional
funcitonality to users who are able to handle it. The empahsis is on
people still being able to use the site without javascript. This could
include things
Yes, I found out what was wrong. I didn't know you had to put the width
and height in the cell tag as well as in the img src tag :)
Re designing for 800x 600 or 1024x768, I think I will do that. From what I
am reading, stretching the city horizontal graphic will degrade the quality
and I
Phillips, Wendy spoke the following wise words on 6/05/2004 9:17 AM EST:
I have a two column table - in the right hand column is a div. I have a print style
sheet and would like this div to position itself at the end of all other content in
the print version.
Is this possible?
Ahh now see if
Hi people,
Can anyone tell me where to find a JAWS style screen reader (without the
hefty price tag) for testing purposes.
Thanks,
Luke
*
The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/
See
Re designing for 800x 600 or 1024x768, I think I will do that. From
what I am reading, stretching the city horizontal graphic will degrade
the quality and I can't take that risk
Yes, stretching out the image manually by forcing widthheight
properties on the tag itself with distort and
Thank you for all the good tips!! I am a relative beginner but I love it!!
I am just learning CSS, too.
At 08:31 PM 5/5/2004, Ryan Christie wrote:
Re designing for 800x 600 or 1024x768, I think I will do that. From what
I am reading, stretching the city horizontal graphic will degrade the
some useful links re: screen readers
http://www.iso.gmu.edu/~swidmaye/portfolio/edit797assistivetech.htm -
*An Introduction to Screen Readers*
http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_downloads/jaws_form.asp - jaws demo
(doesnt expire ?)
http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol4/accessibility_no14.htm -
On 05/05/2004, at 10:09 PM, Patrick Griffiths wrote:
I thought XHTML transitional _is_ XML. In what way is XHTML
transitional is a less strict data format?
It's a transition. It's a half-way house between HTML 4 and XHTML as it
is intended (XHTML Strict).
No its not. There is no such thing as a
Sorry folks! looks like I forgot to turn off read receipts when I
upgraded to Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 . Theyre set to off now.
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Neerav Bhatt
http://www.bhatt.id.au
Web Development IT consultancy
Your message
To: WSG
Subject: [WSG] screen reader - links
Sent:Thu, 6 May 2004
Document Type Definition. It defines what all the tags mean.
YoYoEtc wrote:
What is DTD?
At 09:03 PM 5/5/2004, Chris Bentley wrote:
On 05/05/2004, at 10:09 PM, Patrick Griffiths wrote:
I thought XHTML transitional _is_ XML. In what way is XHTML
transitional is a less strict data format?
It's a
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