[WSG] Automatisch antwoord bij afwezigheid: digest for wsg@webstandardsgroup.org

2007-04-25 Thread Edwart Visser
Ik ben vandaag (25 april) een aanstaande vrijdag (27 april) niet aanwezig. Tijdens mijn afwezigheid kunt u voor dringende zaken contact opnemen met Alexander Kroon ([EMAIL PROTECTED] - 050 368 88 88). Met vriendelijke groet, Edwart Visser Wisdom ***

[WSG] and : Which Order?

2007-04-25 Thread Mordechai Peller
Semantically, which is better: or My thoughts are the latter, as the is closer to the word or phrase to which it's referring. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstan

Re: [WSG] and : Which Order?

2007-04-25 Thread Michael Turnwall
I agree that it should be text since the text is actually a definition. --Michael Turnwall Mordechai Peller wrote: Semantically, which is better: or My thoughts are the latter, as the is closer to the word or phrase to which it's referring. **

Re: [WSG] and : Which Order?

2007-04-25 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Mordechai Peller wrote: Semantically, which is better: or My thoughts are the latter, as the is closer to the word or phrase to which it's referring. In those situations, I always try to reason it out loud to myself...the one I had quite often in a recent project was vs Am I linki

Re: [WSG] and : Which Order?

2007-04-25 Thread Mordechai Peller
Patrick H. Lauke wrote: In those situations, I always try to reason it out loud to myself... In your example: is this the defining instance of a link, or are you linking a defining instance? I'd think the latter. in your case. My thoughts paralleled that, though your vocalization would probabl

[WSG] RE: digest for wsg@webstandardsgroup.org

2007-04-25 Thread Chris Skene
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[WSG] commenting javascript in script tags

2007-04-25 Thread Andrew Harris
'morning all, It is common and often recommended practice to comment javascript placed in a document. The reason cited is that 'very old browsers' that do not understand the script tag may print the raw code. How old are we talking? Has anyone ever se

Re: [WSG] commenting javascript in script tags

2007-04-25 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Andrew Harris wrote: 'morning all, It is common and often recommended practice to comment javascript placed in a document. ... While I'm on the topic - what about the whole thing? Use external scripts, and you avoid both issues quite elegantly. P -- Patrick H. Lauke ___

Re: [WSG] commenting javascript in script tags

2007-04-25 Thread Andrew Harris
On 4/26/07, Patrick H. Lauke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Use external scripts, and you avoid both issues quite elegantly. Thanks Patrick - I should point out that this question is mostly in regards to a case where the bulk of the js is an external script. I just need to occasionally insert a var

Re: [WSG] commenting javascript in script tags

2007-04-25 Thread David Hucklesby
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:26:41 +1000, Andrew Harris wrote: > 'morning all, > > It is common and often recommended practice to comment javascript placed in a > document. > > > > Netscape 2 introduced JavaScript (Livescript) in 1995. Netscape 1 did not recognize t

Re: [WSG] commenting javascript in script tags

2007-04-25 Thread Stuart Foulstone
Hi, HTML is not "required to be forgiving of minor errors and omissions". It's the normal PC based browsers such as IE, Netscape and Mozilla that developed alongside non-standards coding (and Dreamweaver) that had to be forgiving of errors - not HTML per se. A mobile lightweight browser that doe

Re: [WSG] commenting javascript in script tags

2007-04-25 Thread Stuart Foulstone
Hi, Could you explain why the script snippet has to be in the head? Will it have some some adverse effect on other pages if in a common external file? If so, why can't it be in an additional .js file, called only by that page? Stuart On Thu, April 26, 2007 2:47 am, Andrew Harris wrote: > On 4