Re: [WSG] site check

2006-02-17 Thread Charlie Bartlett
On 2/17/06, kvnmcwebn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://63.134.237.108/ This enables a blind user to see the document and navigate it easily. Can your consultant find a cure for world hunger, as well as enabling the blind to see? ;-) ** The

[WSG] Yahoo! Auto Response

2006-02-17 Thread nptucker
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[WSG] Question - th appearing in scope of another th

2006-02-17 Thread Jamie Mason
Title: Question - th appearing in scope of another th Hi all, I'm not sure how to word this so might make no sense at all... :) ...I've never been sure what the context of a table cell is which is following more than one th in the same scope. When a new th appears, does it append to the

Re: [WSG] site check

2006-02-17 Thread Stephen Stagg
-Original Message- From: Felix Miata [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Please tell us which combination(s) of display size and resolution and at which DPI values your description applies to: 13 on 800x600 ... 13 on 1152x864 -- !!! Sadist :) ... 21 on 2048x1536 22 on 2048x1536 Less than

RE: [WSG] Question - th appearing in scope of another th

2006-02-17 Thread Patrick Lauke
Jamie Mason When a new th appears, does it append to the previous header? Or replace/start again the context of it's scope? Is it something that is/can be affected by use of tbody's possibly? Or should this never occur and the structure of the data be rethought? I may be wrong, but I'd

RE: [SPAM] - RE: [WSG] Question - th appearing in scope of anot her th - Email found in subject

2006-02-17 Thread Jamie Mason
Title: RE: [SPAM] - RE: [WSG] Question - th appearing in scope of another th - Email found in subject Thanks Pat, What I'm asking is not how to do something, but what the header of the D1 td is represented as being in that situation - given it's in the path of 2 ths. Is A1 disregarded in

RE: [WSG] site check: FONT sizes

2006-02-17 Thread kvnmcwebn
i might leave this site the way it is but on my next site i will try and implement a font size adjuster. lisa, If you provide the user with a Javascript pop-up window that they right-click to display a pretty flash-based font-increasing app, the user could increase the font as much as they

RE: [WSG] site check: FONT sizes

2006-02-17 Thread Patrick Lauke
kvnmcwebn lisa, If you provide the user with a Javascript pop-up window that they right-click to display a pretty flash-based font-increasing app, the user could increase the font as much as they like. It's known as the 'Clydesdale Hack'. can you give me an example of the

RE: [WSG] site check: FONT sizes

2006-02-17 Thread kvnmcwebn
Lisa forgot to put the sarcasm tags around her content. She wasn't being serious there... ...lisa please stop horsing around... i guess i will have to research the issue more... try and find the balance.. -best kvn ** The discussion list

Re: [WSG] Overflow and inheritance problems with a 2-column layout

2006-02-17 Thread Drew Trusz
On 2/16/06, John Latter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://evomech2.blogspot.com/2006/02/re-evomech-re-peer-review-and-genetic.html Its a 2 column layout and I think the relevant css code is: div#mainClm{float:right;width:66%;padding:30px 7% 10px 3%;border-left:dotted 1px #E0AD12;}

Re: [WSG] site check: FONT sizes

2006-02-17 Thread Felix Miata
kvnmcwebn wrote: i guess i will have to research the issue more... try and find the balance.. When your page respects the user's decision what size fonts are most appropriate for him, your page needs no resizer, because the user won't need to again resize just for having visited your page.

Re: [WSG] site check

2006-02-17 Thread Paul Sturgess
On 2/16/06, Joshua Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The BIGGEST thing I can see wrong with this site is the image map. Obviously the link areas aren't regular shapes, so even if you were to use a UL (navigation list) with positioned LI elements you couldn't achieve the same effect... May I

Re: [WSG] site check: FONT sizes

2006-02-17 Thread Hassan Schroeder
Felix Miata wrote: When your page respects the user's decision what size fonts are most appropriate for him, your page needs no resizer, because the user won't need to again resize just for having visited your page. He's presumably already done that in his browser. ..which is the utterly

Re: [WSG] site check: FONT sizes

2006-02-17 Thread Felix Miata
Hassan Schroeder wrote Fri, 17 Feb 2006 07:36:35 -0800: Felix Miata wrote: When your page respects the user's decision what size fonts are most appropriate for him, your page needs no resizer, because the user won't need to again resize just for having visited your page. He's presumably

Re: [WSG] Overflow and inheritance problems with a 2-column layout

2006-02-17 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
John Latter wrote: http://evomech2.blogspot.com/2006/02/re-evomech-re-peer-review-and-genetic.html The first problem (which occurs on Firefox but not IE6) can be seen at the bottom of the above page where the sidebar text overflows into main content area. I have tried to fix it myself but with

Re: [WSG] site check: FONT sizes

2006-02-17 Thread Bert Doorn
Hassan Schroeder wrote: Felix Miata wrote: When your page respects the user's decision what size fonts are most appropriate for him, your page needs no resizer, because the user won't need to again resize just for having visited your page. He's presumably already done that in his browser.

Re: [WSG] site check

2006-02-17 Thread Felix Miata
Stephen Stagg wrote Fri, 17 Feb 2006 10:42:53 +: From: Felix Miata [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Please tell us which combination(s) of display size and resolution and at which DPI values your description applies to: 13 on 800x600 ... 13 on 1152x864 -- !!! Sadist :) ... 21

Re: [WSG] site check: FONT sizes

2006-02-17 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Hassan Schroeder wrote: Felix Miata wrote: When your page respects the user's decision what size fonts are most appropriate for him, your page needs no resizer, because the user won't need to again resize just for having visited your page. He's presumably already done that in his browser.

Re: [WSG] Overflow and inheritance problems with a 2-column layout

2006-02-17 Thread John Latter
Thank you Gunlaug, I'm quite new to css and had to read your comments several times before they even began to sink in! I chose the current Doctype largely out of ignorance but also because I believed that browsers would be more tolerant of bad/incorrent css coding - the word 'strict' made me

RE: [WSG] site check

2006-02-17 Thread kvnmcwebn
felix, dont mean to throw another log on the fire...but i think the font size can vary somewhat depending on the nature of the content. -best kvn ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

Re: [WSG] site check: FONT sizes

2006-02-17 Thread Mark Harris
Hassan Schroeder wrote: Felix Miata wrote: When your page respects the user's decision what size fonts are most appropriate for him, your page needs no resizer, because the user won't need to again resize just for having visited your page. He's presumably already done that in his browser.

Re: [WSG] site check: FONT sizes

2006-02-17 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Mark Harris wrote: Then you should try educating them, rather than 'managing' them So then educated users set their preferred font size, and then (apart from a few sites that do the right thing and don't go below 100%) the rest of the web appears even smaller (or in any case differently

Re: [WSG] site check: FONT sizes

2006-02-17 Thread Felix Miata
Patrick H. Lauke wrote Fri, 17 Feb 2006 22:26:54 +: Mark Harris wrote Sat, 18 Feb 2006 10:39:00 +1300: Then you should try educating them, rather than 'managing' them So then educated users set their preferred font size, and then (apart from a few sites that do the right thing and

Re: [WSG] site check: FONT sizes

2006-02-17 Thread Mark Harris
Patrick H. Lauke wrote: Mark Harris wrote: Then you should try educating them, rather than 'managing' them So then educated users set their preferred font size, and then (apart from a few sites that do the right thing and don't go below 100%) the rest of the web appears even smaller (or in

Re: [WSG] Overflow and inheritance problems with a 2-column layout

2006-02-17 Thread Steve Olive
I would recommend using the XHTML 1.0 Transitional DTD instead of HTML 4.01 - for the simple reason that there is a bit more tolerance for user-friendly options but you are following the XML standards of lower case tags and attributes, all tags being closed, preferably CSS for positioning but

Re: [WSG] Question - th appearing in scope of another th

2006-02-17 Thread Gez Lemon
On 17/02/06, Jamie Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...I've never been sure what the context of a table cell is which is following more than one th in the same scope. The section on table rendering by non-visual user agents in the HTML specification [1] will shed some light. When a table cell

Re: [WSG] Overflow and inheritance problems with a 2-column layout

2006-02-17 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Steve Olive wrote: I would recommend using the XHTML 1.0 Transitional DTD instead of HTML 4.01 - for the simple reason that there is a bit more tolerance for user-friendly options but you are following the XML standards of lower case tags and attributes, all tags being closed, preferably CSS

Re: [WSG] Overflow and inheritance problems with a 2-column layout

2006-02-17 Thread Christian Montoya
On 2/17/06, Steve Olive [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would recommend using the XHTML 1.0 Transitional DTD instead of HTML 4.01 - for the simple reason that there is a bit more tolerance for user-friendly options but you are following the XML standards of lower case tags and attributes, all tags

Re: [WSG] Overflow and inheritance problems with a 2-column layout

2006-02-17 Thread John Latter
On 18/02/2006 Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: John Latter wrote: Thank you Gunlaug, I'm quite new to css and had to read your comments several times before they even began to sink in! :-) ...and I've just started ;-) Just take your time and get the basics right from the beginning. Much easier

Re: [WSG] Overflow and inheritance problems with a 2-column layout

2006-02-17 Thread John Latter
Thanks Steve! The Firefox extensions will be useful (providing I understand what they do) - I also have HTML-Kit which I haven't used for ages. I recently downloaded a new version but have yet to find out how to put HTML Tidy into it again. Could I have a link to your template please? John