Re: [WSG] WANAU - anyone heard of them?

2007-04-11 Thread Andrew Harris
Tim, if there's no sandwiches, I'm not going. ... ;-) seriously though, I think you have a point, but I don't think your approach will achieve anything. It's like howling at the developers of IE because they were part of a team that brought us a dodgy browser. There are many many good folk

[WSG] opacity

2007-04-11 Thread Michael MD
For a little while, I went down the path of opacity: 0.5; but quickly found that nothing could be done to reverse the effect for children of the object - they all went wishy washy too! actually I've been having problems with opacity with text too... fine in Firefox but IE doesn't seem to

Re: [WSG] WANAU - anyone heard of them?

2007-04-11 Thread Tim
Thanks Andrew for correcting me and you too Russ. Was I ranting or being prejudiced against sandwiches as a metaphor for procrastination? The latter I thought. Sorry. I don't mind being alienated if a scape goat is required. If there were a page of Aust uni reviews detailing errors in each

Re: [WSG] opacity

2007-04-11 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
For a little while, I went down the path of opacity: 0.5; but quickly found that nothing could be done to reverse the effect for children of the object - they all went wishy washy too! That is the expected behaviour. opacity [1] applies to the whole box (and its descendants), it is _not_

Re: [WSG] WANAU - anyone heard of them?

2007-04-11 Thread Ben Buchanan
Hi Tim, I'd say Universities are probably aware of the issues with their sites, they just don't have a magic wand to wave to get everything fixed. Universities have massive amounts of information to provide and generally a minimal budget to provide it. Despite that, they are held to very high

RE: [WSG] opacity

2007-04-11 Thread John 'Max' Maxwell
actually I've been having problems with opacity with text too... fine in Firefox but IE doesn't seem to recognise it. There are ways of making opacity work across all browsers: http://www.hendel-blackford.com/about.htm is that what you mean?? Can you give a practical example of what you're

[WSG] Re: digest for wsg@webstandardsgroup.org (Away until 16/04/2007)

2007-04-11 Thread Marian WEATHERSTONE
I am currently away until Monday 16 April 2007. If you have an enquiry please contact: Martha Herewini on 9391 9048 or Saikat Choudhury on 9391 9769 Regards, Marian Weatherstone Web Support Officer NSW Department of Health

Re: [WSG] colour matching transparent png files

2007-04-11 Thread David Hucklesby
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:13:07 +1000, Andrew Harris wrote: Learned friends - hope you can help me. I am having trouble matching transparent png files to html background colours. The dodgy test page here: http://www.woowoowoo.com/pngtest/ illustrates the effect. twe melb wrote: As far as i

Re: [WSG] colour matching transparent png files

2007-04-11 Thread Ben Dodson
Please don't give up on PNG for the sake of one old make of browser! Give IE 5/6 Windows its own style that's usable but not quite as pretty. That has 42.3% of the market share. http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp I use 24bit transparent pngs on my sites and then use a

Re: [WSG] WANAU - anyone heard of them?

2007-04-11 Thread Katrina
Tim wrote: Who are this group, what have they done in previous forums since 2004. I can only add that as a university student of South Australia, I enrolled in and enjoyed Denise Wood's Accessible Interactive Media where all sorts of accessibility was included (eg. captions on video clips

[WSG] Accessible Forms - empty labels (??)

2007-04-11 Thread Bojana Lalic
Hi all Accverify fails my code because my input element does not contain the alt attribute or label. I don't want any text displayed before or after the query text input element. Should I wrap a label around the input element and then hide it using css? How do I get around this

[WSG] There's no back button on this website...

2007-04-11 Thread John Horner
Interesting anecdote in the latest AlertBox, particularly in the light of our recent users don't know what the back button is discussion... In testing an e-commerce site last month, for example, one user complained: This is missing a feature to go back to the previous page. I found this

Re: [WSG] Accessible Forms - empty labels (??)

2007-04-11 Thread Micky Hulse
Bojana Lalic wrote: I don’t want any text displayed before or after the query text input element. Should I wrap a label around the input element and then hide it using css? How do I get around this accessibility issue? Me personally, I setup my form normally using label/input, then apply

Re: [WSG] There's no back button on this website...

2007-04-11 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 12/04/07, John Horner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Put another way, the injunction is don't comply *unthinkingly* with user requests -- don't give them what they say they want, give them what they *mean* they want... That's a very good point. I've often found that outside of the world of

Re: [WSG] colour matching transparent png files

2007-04-11 Thread David Hucklesby
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:58:05 +0100, Ben Dodson wrote: Please don't give up on PNG for the sake of one old make of browser! Give IE 5/6 Windows its own style that's usable but not quite as pretty. That has 42.3% of the market share.

[WSG] best standard / format for imbeded mp3 player in browser

2007-04-11 Thread Benedict Wyss
Hi all, just wondering which (free) mp3 player works best cross browsers with minimal code etc etc All opinions and suggestions welcome. Thanks, Ben *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] colour matching transparent png files

2007-04-11 Thread Joshua Street
On 4/12/07, David Hucklesby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 8-bit PNG works very well, even in IE 5.01. Graphics programs such as Photoshop add a lot of cruft to PNG files, so you need to get an optimizing tool. The result will likely be significantly smaller than a GIF. This is true. Alpha info

Re: [WSG] best standard / format for imbeded mp3 player in browser

2007-04-11 Thread BKDesign Solutions
http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=Flash_MP3_Player Best I know of overall Bruce P bkdesign solutions - Original Message - From: Benedict Wyss To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 11:26 PM Subject: [WSG] best standard / format for imbeded mp3 player in

Re: [WSG] best standard / format for imbeded mp3 player in browser

2007-04-11 Thread James Ellis
Hi Ben a href=/path/to/file.mp3file.mp3 [50 Kb]/a works well and allows people to play the file in the player of their choice (maybe they even have their browser set up to do this if they want). They can also download it for later playing. If you want to play it inside a browser then I'm sure