Re: [WSG] [OT] users - IT literate?

2008-05-16 Thread Matthew Pennell
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Michael Horowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However when it comes to literacy most people using websites are computer competent or they wouldn't be surfing the web in the first place. Sorry, but that's complete speculation. In my experience, a large proportion

Re: [WSG] IE6 background image positioning problem

2008-05-16 Thread Matijs
And I've spent more time that I should have on this site already! At least I've fixed up the lefthand nav so it holds together, and displays correctly in IE6 (which is as low as we have to go here). We all feel your pain ;) Anyway, good luck with the site and I'm sure you'll get it to work the

Re: [WSG] possible to make absolute position moves down with fontsize resize?

2008-05-16 Thread Thomas Thomassen
Add some padding at the bottom of the content with the same size as the absolutely positioned element. That should prevent the preseeding content to not overlap. You might have to do some position and size adjustments to make it all fit again after you add the padding.

[WSG] possible to make absolute position moves down with fontsize resize?

2008-05-16 Thread tee
Lately I have coded many templates that clients wanted an element that aligns horizontally and has it stayed at the bottom of a content block. The only way I could think is using absolute position, but it creates an overlapping problem with font size resize. I am curious if there is a

RE: [WSG] Accessibility for HTML Email

2008-05-16 Thread michael.brockington
I'm guessing you don't actually administer a corporate size spam-filtering 'solution' do you? (The word solution should really be in quadruple quotes, 'cos it ain't one.) Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick H. Lauke Sent:

Re: [WSG] [OT] users - IT literate?

2008-05-16 Thread Rick Lecoat
On 16 May 2008, at 06:50, Matthew Pennell wrote: In my experience, a large proportion of computer/web users struggle to understand online concepts that we expert users take for granted. Many regular surfers have no idea how to interact with a scroll bar - and there are lots of people who

Re: [WSG] [OT] users - IT literate?

2008-05-16 Thread Stuart Foulstone
But that's not because lots of people don't know how to use the address bar, its because MOST PEOPLE find it easier to type partial URL's into Google rather than typing the whole URL into the address bar - plus if you make a slight error you get prompted for the correction rather than just told

RE: [WSG] [OT] users - IT literate?

2008-05-16 Thread michael.brockington
Have to disagree with you there - just because some people do it for a good reason doesn't mean that the illiterate aren't. Certain people that I know, type the full, exact URL for a site into the Google search box in the middle of the page, wait for the results to load, then click the first link

Re: [WSG] [OT] users - IT literate?

2008-05-16 Thread Matthew Pennell
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Stuart Foulstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: its because MOST PEOPLE find it easier to type partial URL's into Google rather than typing the whole URL into the address bar And which user research are you basing your PROCLAMATION on? -- - Matthew

Re: [WSG] possible to make absolute position moves down with fontsize resize?

2008-05-16 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Lately I have coded many templates that clients wanted an element that aligns horizontally and has it stayed at the bottom of a content block. The only way I could think is using absolute position, but it creates an overlapping problem with font size resize. I am curious if there is a

[WSG] PHP Standards

2008-05-16 Thread Ian Chamberlain
Fingers crossed this is not too far off topic; being a newby to PHP; any clues where I can find how-to's, snippets, libraries or even application suites built from PHP that are built to a good minimum standard please. I am guessing that PHP is much like JavaScript in that a lot of what is

Re: [WSG] help with menu positioning

2008-05-16 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
tee wrote: Tell me, what do you like for Christmas gift ? An internet-connection that is extremely fast and works all the time ;-) (Maybe I'll get one before Christmas, but I'm not holding my breath.) Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no

RE: [WSG] Accessibility for HTML Email

2008-05-16 Thread James Leslie
I like the idea of a title tag being used i.e.- a href=mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title=e-mail address - [EMAIL PROTECTED]first name last name/a I don't know what you would gain by this Any bots harvesting email addresses will just pick up on the address in the href. Unfortunately, I think the

Re: [WSG] PHP Standards

2008-05-16 Thread Designer
I think that it's basically your responsibility Ian, in that there are many sources of snippets available and if you use them you just validate the generated code and put right what is wrong in the php. Then, you check for best practice too . . . Bob Ian Chamberlain wrote: Fingers crossed

Re: [WSG] PHP Standards

2008-05-16 Thread Andrew Maben
On May 16, 2008, at 11:32 AM, Ian Chamberlain wrote: Fingers crossed this is not too far off topic; being a newby to PHP; any clues where I can find how-to's, snippets, libraries or even application suites built from PHP that are built to a good minimum standard please. I am guessing

Re: [WSG] PHP Standards

2008-05-16 Thread Matthew Pennell
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Ian Chamberlain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fingers crossed this is not too far off topic; being a newby to PHP; any clues where I can find how-to's, snippets, libraries or even application suites built from PHP that are built to a good minimum standard please.

Re: [WSG] PHP Standards

2008-05-16 Thread Andrew Boyd
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 3:32 AM, Andrew Maben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you asking about PHP Standards or (X)HTML Standards within the context of PHP? Even the sloppiest of PHP (or any server-side scripting) can deliver impeccable standards-compliant markup, and conversely even the most

Re: [WSG] possible to make absolute position moves down with fontsize resize?

2008-05-16 Thread tee
On May 16, 2008, at 6:30 AM, Robert O'Rourke wrote: While that will work quite nicely you could also avoid absolute positioning altogether. Because those ordered lists are all nicely lined up you could set the min-height rule on them instead of .box_res and .box_biz eg. add this:

Re: [WSG] [OT] users - IT literate?

2008-05-16 Thread James Ellis
Hi Reading through all the replies on this topic is quite interesting. The one thing that you can be sure about in web work of any kind is (aside from taxes) that users will interact with an interface in ways we never dreamed of - using their fridge, a keyboard, a mobile, the wrong address bar

Re: [WSG] PHP Standards

2008-05-16 Thread James Ellis
Hi Using both Tidy (1) and HTML Purifier (2) can improve tag soup no end -- although even they have their limits. They also add a bit to processing time, especially HP as it is written in PHP - you can solve that issue with page caching, though. (1) php.net/tidy (2) htmlpurifier.org HTH James

Re: [WSG] [OT] users - IT literate?

2008-05-16 Thread David Hucklesby
On Fri, 16 May 2008 14:01:01 +0100 (BST), Stuart Foulstone wrote: But that's not because lots of people don't know how to use the address bar, its because MOST PEOPLE find it easier to type partial URL's into Google rather than typing the whole URL into the address bar - plus if you make

Re: [WSG] possible to make absolute position moves down with fontsize resize?

2008-05-16 Thread David Hucklesby
On Fri, 16 May 2008 02:00:37 -0700, tee wrote: Lately I have coded many templates that clients wanted an element that aligns horizontally and has it stayed at the bottom of a content block. The only way I could think is using absolute position, but it creates an overlapping problem with