Re: [WSG] Web design education

2006-02-14 Thread Ric Raftis
Your comments reminded me that I had neglected to mention something else regarding my TAFE experiences. Perhaps I should mention that I am 50 years of age and attended as a mature age student and not someone out of high school, however despite all amounts of agitating and lobbying, the

RE: [WSG] CSS Holy Gruel

2006-02-14 Thread kvnmcwebn
Hi Al, nice layout, future proof and all, The only bummer is that it sets off my i.e content blocker. -looked at the javascript and my vision got blurry. Is there anything to look out for when playing with the column widths? -thanks kvnmcwebn

[WSG] Re: Web design education

2006-02-14 Thread Drew Whitworth
So here I am With regard to the recent rant about my teaching materials: Most of the material on that site dates from 2003. It was due to be revised last summer but I left for a new job. If the new incumbent has not yet changed it, there's not much that I can do about it. I still have a

Re: [WSG] Target sued over non-accessible site

2006-02-14 Thread Drew Trusz
Legally courts can and will regulate companies. It's been happening for years! We tell them the required minimum wage, the maximum working hours, we regulate overtime, we tell them to put wheelchair ramps in front of their doors, we zone their buildings, we make them get permits, we do health

[WSG] Accessites.org Launches: Good-bye Accessible Site Stereotypes

2006-02-14 Thread Mike at Green-Beast.com
(Some of you may be interested in this. If cross-post, please forgive -Mike) Accessites.org Launches: Good-bye Accessible Site Stereotypes One of the most challenging marriages is that of accessibility with style. Some erroneously think in general terms that the two are in complete

RE: [WSG] Web design education

2006-02-14 Thread Chris Taylor
Wow, I seem to have kicked off quite a ruckus. From what has been said I believe the situation isn't as bad as I thought, certainly no worse than in business/industry. There is still a long way to go, but we're getting there. So, points to note: 1) Syllabus documents may be out of date, or just

RE: [WSG] Re: Web design education

2006-02-14 Thread Chris Taylor
Drew Whitworth said: It does strike me though that the best response of the original poster might have been a polite e-mail to me about it (which to be fair some other posters did do) rather than ranting on a private list about how terrible it all is. All the latter does is exacerbate the

[WSG] JKRowling.com and the militia

2006-02-14 Thread Stephen Stagg
so I visited the JKRowling site a while ago and was impressed by the design of the new site, easy and fun to use. Later, I read some comments on this site about Lightmaker and the worth of their accessibility methods (or suggested lack thereof) Recently I re-visited the site and had some

Re: [WSG] CSS Holy Gruel

2006-02-14 Thread Kevin Ross
Just wondering, Al... is the _javascript_ public domain ?Thx,KROn 2/14/06, Al Sparber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:From: Paul Dwyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wierd... killed half my own post with a bracket:) The rest should read validates once it is removed.much appreciated :-)

[WSG] mysterious right margin in IE (of course)

2006-02-14 Thread Vaska
I can't quite identify where this is coming from. Works just fine in other browsers... IE 5/6 throw a right margin on the entire page...??? http://client.vaska.com/escaut/index8.php Merci... ** The discussion list for

Re: [WSG] CSS Holy Gruel

2006-02-14 Thread Al Sparber
From: Kevin Ross Just wondering, Al... is the Javascript public domain ? The Equal Height column script is and you can read more about it here: http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/css/pvii_columns/index.htm Also feel free to use and abuse the little min-width expressions in the

Re: [WSG] mysterious right margin in IE (of course)

2006-02-14 Thread Vaska
Woops...a colleague pointed out that I didn't set margin/padding to zero on the body. ;) ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list

[WSG] new yahoo user interface library

2006-02-14 Thread Ted Drake
Hi All As you may know, Yahoo has been hiring some very talented web developers over the past year, not to mention purchasing great companies like flickr and de.licio.us. Now, they have opened that wealth of talent to you for free. Yes, Im pimping my bosses. But seriously, this is

RE: [WSG] JKRowling.com and the militia

2006-02-14 Thread Nic
Is added accessibility for people with disabilities such a good thing if it reduces accessibility for the majority? Well, I think the issue here is that there is no need to reduce accessibility for others. There would have been many other ways to approach this issue from what I see, which

RE: [WSG] new yahoo user interface library

2006-02-14 Thread Geoff Pack
Wow Ted, This is seriously cool. Haven't looked through it all yet, but I know I'm going to be using some of this code. The Graded Browser Support page http://developer.yahoo.net/yui/articles/gbs/gbs.html is particularly relevant for this forum. Thanks, Geoff Ted Drake wrote: Hi All

RE: [WSG] new yahoo user interface library

2006-02-14 Thread Miles Tillinger
I am in awe! I'm yet to score a commercial excuse to implement an AJAX solution, but I've been playing around with scriptaculousand other frameworks. This offering from Yahoo is just amazing and looks to provide yet more functionality. I'm sure this will be appreciated by everyone who is

RE: [WSG] new yahoo user interface library

2006-02-14 Thread WINTER-GILES,Ben
ACE. nuf said. ta heaps. benwg *while worshipping from his knees* From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Miles TillingerSent: Wednesday, 15 February 2006 12:02To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.orgSubject: RE: [WSG] new yahoo user interface library I am in awe! I'm yet

[WSG] just sharing the frustration

2006-02-14 Thread Zulema
Hello fellow ponies, I just wanted to share my frustration with having to work late on valentine's day contextualizing copy from a Word doc into html with nested lists galore[1]. Took me about five hours and I might have missed a few. [1]

Re: [WSG] just sharing the frustration

2006-02-14 Thread Samuel Richardson
Depending on which version of word your running (I'm on 2003) you can save a word document as web page, filtered (this then filters out most of the word specific HTML), I'm sure a few smart find and replaces could then clean up/add any code that is not needed or missing. Otherwise you could

RE: [WSG] just sharing the frustration

2006-02-14 Thread Ted Drake
Here's a helpful hint on doing this crap. Use htmlTidy, while I haven't used this, I've heard it's really good. Normally, what I do is create a new basic html page in dreamweaver. I go to the design view and paste the content into the screen. I then switch to code view and run a few search and

Re: [WSG] just sharing the frustration

2006-02-14 Thread Jay Gilmore
Ted Drake wrote: Here's a helpful hint on doing this crap. Use htmlTidy, while I haven't used this, I've heard it's really good. Normally, what I do is create a new basic html page in dreamweaver. I go to the design view and paste the content into the screen. I then switch to code view and run

Re: [WSG] just sharing the frustration

2006-02-14 Thread Zulema
Samuel/Ted/Jay, Wow! I will remember all this for the next time, since I do a lot of Word-to-HTML converting. The crazy thing about this one particular Word doc was that it wasn't in formatted bulleted lists because it was copy extracted from a PDF we got from the client as it seems they

Re: [WSG] TARGET in 4.01 Strict

2006-02-14 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Bert Doorn wrote: The main idea is that one should not open new windows at all, leaving it up to the user to decide, which is why the target attribute was removed. But if you want to (or have to), either go back to transitional or use javascript. You may find some discussions about it in

Re: [WSG] TARGET in 4.01 Strict

2006-02-14 Thread Ric Raftis
Bert Doorn wrote: The main idea is that one should not open new windows at all, leaving it up to the user to decide, which is why the target attribute was removed. G'day Bert, This always seems to be a subject of some debate. For commercial sites, I ALWAYS open a new blank window on a

Re: [WSG] TARGET in 4.01 Strict

2006-02-14 Thread Kim Kruse
Hi Sedar, Try this one http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/popups.asp ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help