Re: [WSG] Table Cells and display: block

2008-06-03 Thread Anthony Green

Bar charts,

I have a table of data and I would like to use CSS to manipulate it.
FF and Safari have no problem on Mac/Win just IE doesn't alter the display
properties of TDs

Replies from the internal list suggest its another IE Bug


> Do you have a little more context maybe? What is it you're trying to do?
> Sounds a bit odd to display a table cell as a block tbh.

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Anthony Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> I've tried Google and the archives but no luck
>>
>> I have an issue with IE not applying display:block to table elements: tr,
>> td, tr etc



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Re: [WSG] AJAX short courses london

2008-06-03 Thread Paul Collins
Oh yes, I'm not bothered about Accredations really. More concerned
about the quality of the course and most employers I've come across
are more concerned with your experience.

Cheers again!

2008/6/3 Paul Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi all,
>
> Sorry, I lost this thread. Perhaps you are right about the online
> training with Video. I just find it easier to have someone to ask face
> to face - you learn quicker that way.
>
> I'll look into this IRC thingo, never actually taken a look.
>
> Thanks for your replies.
> Paul
>
>
> 2008/6/3 Jennie K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> You are probably right - it's just some employers demand accreditation -
>> although I am in Aus not UK (so Í'm sure it's different here).  I learnt
>> most of my skills on the job and from books but ended up getting some kind
>> of accreditation as well.
>>
>> Also just wanted to let you know its $50 US dollars not pounds - so you
>> might find it is only 25 UK pounds
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 3:38 AM, Ben Dodson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Just thought I'd throw my 2 cents in.
>>>
>>> I've always learnt things from either books or from chatting with other
>>> developers in IRC (there are no doubt some ajax specific groups - I
>>> recommend #jquery for the jQuery library which is my particular ajax weapon
>>> of choice).
>>>
>>> Accreditations are definitely not required in the web development world -
>>> the worst developers I've interviewed are always the ones with
>>> accreditations whereas the best have just taught themselves or been taught
>>> by their peers!
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Ben
>>>
>>> --
>>> e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> w: http://bendodson.com/
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Joe Ortenzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

 so where else can you be taught in bed for £50*
 (*stop sniggering in the back there!)
 and as for accreditation, some of my best developers were not accredited
 and their experience counted for much more than any course could provide.
 They are much better at independent thinking, self-study for things they
 need to know more about, and less likely to get stuck in a conceptual rut.
 Joe
 On May 30 2008, at 22:39, James Jeffery wrote:

 Only problem with the Lynda.com DVDs is sometimes they can be outdated.

 Although, this one is £50 and looks good. I might actually buy this, i
 like watching the movies when in bed.

 http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?ID=480

 On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 9:51 PM, Joe Ortenzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I agree.
> I have rarely seen any course in web technologies that you couldn't get
> further for much less money with either a video tutorial from places like
> lynda.com or from good how to books from great publishers like new riders,
> friends of ed, o'reilleys, etc.
> you can study at your own pace, replay and review difficult bits, skip
> over others, and the resource stays with you..
>
> On May 27 2008, at 05:28, Jennie K wrote:
>
> If you are not after accreditation try this website www.lynda.com - it's
> all online and you study at your own pace.  I've recommended the training 
> to
> numerous people and they have all said it is of good quality.  You can try
> some of the free courses before  committing - there are also books and cds
> if you don't like the online version.
>
> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Paul Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I hope this is on topic. I'm trying to find a short course on AJAX in
>> london and having troubles finding one that is of a reasonable price
>> (IE- less than £300 for a half day). Could anyone recommend me one or
>> possibly a good school to look into?
>>
>> Thanks for any help,
>> Paul
>>
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Re: [WSG] AJAX short courses london

2008-06-03 Thread Paul Collins
Hi all,

Sorry, I lost this thread. Perhaps you are right about the online
training with Video. I just find it easier to have someone to ask face
to face - you learn quicker that way.

I'll look into this IRC thingo, never actually taken a look.

Thanks for your replies.
Paul


2008/6/3 Jennie K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> You are probably right - it's just some employers demand accreditation -
> although I am in Aus not UK (so Í'm sure it's different here).  I learnt
> most of my skills on the job and from books but ended up getting some kind
> of accreditation as well.
>
> Also just wanted to let you know its $50 US dollars not pounds - so you
> might find it is only 25 UK pounds
>
> On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 3:38 AM, Ben Dodson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Just thought I'd throw my 2 cents in.
>>
>> I've always learnt things from either books or from chatting with other
>> developers in IRC (there are no doubt some ajax specific groups - I
>> recommend #jquery for the jQuery library which is my particular ajax weapon
>> of choice).
>>
>> Accreditations are definitely not required in the web development world -
>> the worst developers I've interviewed are always the ones with
>> accreditations whereas the best have just taught themselves or been taught
>> by their peers!
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Ben
>>
>> --
>> e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> w: http://bendodson.com/
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Joe Ortenzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>> so where else can you be taught in bed for £50*
>>> (*stop sniggering in the back there!)
>>> and as for accreditation, some of my best developers were not accredited
>>> and their experience counted for much more than any course could provide.
>>> They are much better at independent thinking, self-study for things they
>>> need to know more about, and less likely to get stuck in a conceptual rut.
>>> Joe
>>> On May 30 2008, at 22:39, James Jeffery wrote:
>>>
>>> Only problem with the Lynda.com DVDs is sometimes they can be outdated.
>>>
>>> Although, this one is £50 and looks good. I might actually buy this, i
>>> like watching the movies when in bed.
>>>
>>> http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?ID=480
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 9:51 PM, Joe Ortenzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

 I agree.
 I have rarely seen any course in web technologies that you couldn't get
 further for much less money with either a video tutorial from places like
 lynda.com or from good how to books from great publishers like new riders,
 friends of ed, o'reilleys, etc.
 you can study at your own pace, replay and review difficult bits, skip
 over others, and the resource stays with you..

 On May 27 2008, at 05:28, Jennie K wrote:

 If you are not after accreditation try this website www.lynda.com - it's
 all online and you study at your own pace.  I've recommended the training 
 to
 numerous people and they have all said it is of good quality.  You can try
 some of the free courses before  committing - there are also books and cds
 if you don't like the online version.

 On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Paul Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I hope this is on topic. I'm trying to find a short course on AJAX in
> london and having troubles finding one that is of a reasonable price
> (IE- less than £300 for a half day). Could anyone recommend me one or
> possibly a good school to look into?
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Paul
>
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Re: [WSG] Marking up company logo

2008-06-03 Thread Rick Lecoat

On 3 Jun 2008, at 07:04, Matijs wrote:


How about:

The Times

Homepage

There's water on mars



The Times

Financial stuff

Redmond stock going down further

etc...

Where would one fit in a company logo? Wouldn't a background image  
be best? And if so, where?


My understanding of the  tag is that it is the title of the  
page, not the name of the site, and ideally every page should have a  
different title (at least from an SEO point of view) appropriate to  
its content -- so the above examples are not ideal IMHO.


Re. logos as background images, that leaves anyone viewing the page  
without styles turned on out in the cold as far as seeing the company  
logo is concerned. Dan Cederholm uses a method whereby the logo is  
both a background image *and* a regular img tag, depending on whether  
you have styles on or off. That's my preferred technique.


I just put the logo image in a  and keep the H1 for the  
page's own title.


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Re: [WSG] Marking up company logo

2008-06-03 Thread Darren West
My 2 pence ...

Page title - Site title




Page Title
...


Search


Navigation



2008/6/3 Rick Lecoat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On 3 Jun 2008, at 07:04, Matijs wrote:
>
>> How about:
>>
>> The Times
>>
>> Homepage
>>
>> There's water on mars
>>
>> 
>>
>> The Times
>>
>> Financial stuff
>>
>> Redmond stock going down further
>>
>> etc...
>>
>> Where would one fit in a company logo? Wouldn't a background image be
>> best? And if so, where?
>
> My understanding of the  tag is that it is the title of the page, not
> the name of the site, and ideally every page should have a different title
> (at least from an SEO point of view) appropriate to its content -- so the
> above examples are not ideal IMHO.
>
> Re. logos as background images, that leaves anyone viewing the page without
> styles turned on out in the cold as far as seeing the company logo is
> concerned. Dan Cederholm uses a method whereby the logo is both a background
> image *and* a regular img tag, depending on whether you have styles on or
> off. That's my preferred technique.
>
> I just put the logo image in a  and keep the H1 for the
> page's own title.
>
> --
> Rick Lecoat
>
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Re: [WSG] Marking up company logo

2008-06-03 Thread Paul Collins
To throw another question in here, should the page title therefore be
different to the main heading of the page? I thought the content in
the page title should be as specific as possible for SEO, including
the heirarchy?

So, for example

Site title - Section Title - Page title

And

Page title, section title or Logo?

Once you have it in the title tag, does it matter whether you have the
logo in a H1 or not? Should you have something different between the
title and main heading?

Cheers


2008/6/3 Darren West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> My 2 pence ...
>
> Page title - Site title
> 
>
> 
> 
>Page Title
>...
> 
> 
>Search
> 
> 
>Navigation
> 
>
>
> 2008/6/3 Rick Lecoat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> On 3 Jun 2008, at 07:04, Matijs wrote:
>>
>>> How about:
>>>
>>> The Times
>>>
>>> Homepage
>>>
>>> There's water on mars
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>> The Times
>>>
>>> Financial stuff
>>>
>>> Redmond stock going down further
>>>
>>> etc...
>>>
>>> Where would one fit in a company logo? Wouldn't a background image be
>>> best? And if so, where?
>>
>> My understanding of the  tag is that it is the title of the page, not
>> the name of the site, and ideally every page should have a different title
>> (at least from an SEO point of view) appropriate to its content -- so the
>> above examples are not ideal IMHO.
>>
>> Re. logos as background images, that leaves anyone viewing the page without
>> styles turned on out in the cold as far as seeing the company logo is
>> concerned. Dan Cederholm uses a method whereby the logo is both a background
>> image *and* a regular img tag, depending on whether you have styles on or
>> off. That's my preferred technique.
>>
>> I just put the logo image in a  and keep the H1 for the
>> page's own title.
>>
>> --
>> Rick Lecoat
>>
>>
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Re: [WSG] Marking up company logo

2008-06-03 Thread Stewart Griffiths
For the title you should really switch it around so that it is more specific
to the page, and will be much better for SEO purposes.

Page title - Section Title - Site title

For the Logo &  aspect, I would personally use the gilder/levin image
replacement technique, using within this the "Page title - Section Title -
Site title" combination within a  tag.

This way you get a fancy logo, plus the benefits of you keyword rich "Page
title - Section Title - Site title" combination to help boost your on-site
SEO.

Stew


2008/6/3 Paul Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> To throw another question in here, should the page title therefore be
> different to the main heading of the page? I thought the content in
> the page title should be as specific as possible for SEO, including
> the heirarchy?
>
> So, for example
>
> Site title - Section Title - Page title
>
> And
>
> Page title, section title or Logo?
>
> Once you have it in the title tag, does it matter whether you have the
> logo in a H1 or not? Should you have something different between the
> title and main heading?
>
> Cheers
>
>
> 2008/6/3 Darren West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > My 2 pence ...
> >
> > Page title - Site title
> > 
> >
> > 
> > 
> >Page Title
> >...
> > 
> > 
> >Search
> > > 
> > 
> >Navigation
> > > 
> >
> >
> > 2008/6/3 Rick Lecoat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >> On 3 Jun 2008, at 07:04, Matijs wrote:
> >>
> >>> How about:
> >>>
> >>> The Times
> >>>
> >>> Homepage
> >>>
> >>> There's water on mars
> >>>
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>> The Times
> >>>
> >>> Financial stuff
> >>>
> >>> Redmond stock going down further
> >>>
> >>> etc...
> >>>
> >>> Where would one fit in a company logo? Wouldn't a background image be
> >>> best? And if so, where?
> >>
> >> My understanding of the  tag is that it is the title of the page,
> not
> >> the name of the site, and ideally every page should have a different
> title
> >> (at least from an SEO point of view) appropriate to its content -- so
> the
> >> above examples are not ideal IMHO.
> >>
> >> Re. logos as background images, that leaves anyone viewing the page
> without
> >> styles turned on out in the cold as far as seeing the company logo is
> >> concerned. Dan Cederholm uses a method whereby the logo is both a
> background
> >> image *and* a regular img tag, depending on whether you have styles on
> or
> >> off. That's my preferred technique.
> >>
> >> I just put the logo image in a  and keep the H1 for the
> >> page's own title.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Rick Lecoat
> >>
> >>
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Re: [WSG] Marking up company logo

2008-06-03 Thread Rick Lecoat

On 3 Jun 2008, at 12:29, Paul Collins wrote:


Once you have it in the title tag, does it matter whether you have the
logo in a H1 or not? Should you have something different between the
title and main heading?


I would think that this starts to enter the realm of information that  
is machine-read vs that which is human-read. When I open a web page I  
don't tend to look much at the browser's title bar; I look at the page  
content itself. (The title bar comes more into play when I'm switching  
between tabs). Google, on the other hand, pays a great deal of  
attention to the title bar -- or, rather, the title tag that populates  
it. It also looks at the page content as well, of course.


I think that as long as you avoid excessive duplication (ie. start  
keyword stuffing) there is no problem having some duplication of  
content between your title and main heading; humans and machines will  
each view both blocks of information to some degree, but will place  
different emphasis on one or the other.


I would guess that screen readers will fall somewhere between the two  
in terms of how useful they find  vs. the page's main heading.  
But that's pure supposition, so don't take my word for it. Plenty of  
very knowledgeable people on this list can fill in those blanks.


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Re: [WSG] Marking up company logo

2008-06-03 Thread Darren West
I do feel this is all rather subjective and depends on what you're
building, that is until you consider SEO; which I feel flies in the
face of Web Standards


2008/6/3 Stewart Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> For the title you should really switch it around so that it is more specific
> to the page, and will be much better for SEO purposes.
>
> Page title - Section Title - Site title
>
> For the Logo &  aspect, I would personally use the gilder/levin image
> replacement technique, using within this the "Page title - Section Title -
> Site title" combination within a  tag.
>
> This way you get a fancy logo, plus the benefits of you keyword rich "Page
> title - Section Title - Site title" combination to help boost your on-site
> SEO.
>
> Stew
>
>
> 2008/6/3 Paul Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>
>> To throw another question in here, should the page title therefore be
>> different to the main heading of the page? I thought the content in
>> the page title should be as specific as possible for SEO, including
>> the heirarchy?
>>
>> So, for example
>>
>> Site title - Section Title - Page title
>>
>> And
>>
>> Page title, section title or Logo?
>>
>> Once you have it in the title tag, does it matter whether you have the
>> logo in a H1 or not? Should you have something different between the
>> title and main heading?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>>
>> 2008/6/3 Darren West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> > My 2 pence ...
>> >
>> > Page title - Site title
>> > 
>> >
>> > 
>> > 
>> >Page Title
>> >...
>> > 
>> > 
>> >Search
>> >> > 
>> > 
>> >Navigation
>> >> > 
>> >
>> >
>> > 2008/6/3 Rick Lecoat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> >> On 3 Jun 2008, at 07:04, Matijs wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> How about:
>> >>>
>> >>> The Times
>> >>>
>> >>> Homepage
>> >>>
>> >>> There's water on mars
>> >>>
>> >>> 
>> >>>
>> >>> The Times
>> >>>
>> >>> Financial stuff
>> >>>
>> >>> Redmond stock going down further
>> >>>
>> >>> etc...
>> >>>
>> >>> Where would one fit in a company logo? Wouldn't a background image be
>> >>> best? And if so, where?
>> >>
>> >> My understanding of the  tag is that it is the title of the
>> >> page, not
>> >> the name of the site, and ideally every page should have a different
>> >> title
>> >> (at least from an SEO point of view) appropriate to its content -- so
>> >> the
>> >> above examples are not ideal IMHO.
>> >>
>> >> Re. logos as background images, that leaves anyone viewing the page
>> >> without
>> >> styles turned on out in the cold as far as seeing the company logo is
>> >> concerned. Dan Cederholm uses a method whereby the logo is both a
>> >> background
>> >> image *and* a regular img tag, depending on whether you have styles on
>> >> or
>> >> off. That's my preferred technique.
>> >>
>> >> I just put the logo image in a  and keep the H1 for the
>> >> page's own title.
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Rick Lecoat
>> >>
>> >>
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Re: [WSG] Marking up company logo

2008-06-03 Thread Rick Lecoat

On 3 Jun 2008, at 12:55, Darren West wrote:


I do feel this is all rather subjective and depends on what you're
building, that is until you consider SEO; which I feel flies in the
face of Web Standards


I agree that much of this stuff is, inevitably, subjective. Web  
standards gives us a good framework to work to, but within that there  
are always numerous ways to skin the same cat (yes, it's a very  
unlucky cat).


Re. SEO, I think that it can work just fine alongside web standards --  
in moderation; as soon as you get too SEO-crazed you risk starting to  
erode the web standards 'purity' (if that doesn't sound too fascist)  
in order to accommodate some pro-Google trick or another.


The root of Google's webmaster guidelines can be summarised as "just  
create your page for humans to read without difficulty and don't  
obsess about trying to manipulate our search engine", and really  
that's not so far from web standards, is it?


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Re: [WSG] Marking up company logo

2008-06-03 Thread Darren West
To be clear, my statement, which was quite sweeping, was meant to
express that when a site is built for computers as opposed to humans
then that to me flies in the face of Web Standards. So I agree :-)


2008/6/3 Rick Lecoat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On 3 Jun 2008, at 12:55, Darren West wrote:
>
>> I do feel this is all rather subjective and depends on what you're
>> building, that is until you consider SEO; which I feel flies in the
>> face of Web Standards
>
> I agree that much of this stuff is, inevitably, subjective. Web standards
> gives us a good framework to work to, but within that there are always
> numerous ways to skin the same cat (yes, it's a very unlucky cat).
>
> Re. SEO, I think that it can work just fine alongside web standards -- in
> moderation; as soon as you get too SEO-crazed you risk starting to erode the
> web standards 'purity' (if that doesn't sound too fascist) in order to
> accommodate some pro-Google trick or another.
>
> The root of Google's webmaster guidelines can be summarised as "just create
> your page for humans to read without difficulty and don't obsess about
> trying to manipulate our search engine", and really that's not so far from
> web standards, is it?
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[WSG] Job posting

2008-06-03 Thread Joseph Ortenzi

Hope this is not OT!

My parent company, Hoop Associates, are looking for a standards-savvy  
Digital Project Manager and a LAMP Web Developer to complement our  
expanding digital team.


Full details here: http://www.thisishoop.com/careers

Thank You
==
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[WSG] styling address tag or microformat hcard

2008-06-03 Thread tee

In Magento, they use
...
for customer address.

It lacks flexibility for styling as I can't have other html tags place  
inside the address tag. I  wonder if there is a semantical way to do  
it and that it produces no validation error. Also,  if any of you have  
started developing sites in Magento, do you know if I can incorporate  
Microformat hcard easily?


Many thanks!

tee



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RE: [WSG] styling address tag or microformat hcard

2008-06-03 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Hi Tee,
 
> In Magento, they use
> ...
> for customer address.

afaik, the address element is not supposed to contain this kind of
information as it is related to the people who "maintain/are responsible"
for the document itself (or a section of the document).

 
> It lacks flexibility for styling as I can't have other html tags place
> inside the address tag. I  wonder if there is a semantical way to do
> it and that it produces no validation error. Also,  if any of you have
> started developing sites in Magento, do you know if I can incorporate
> Microformat hcard easily?

That's the way to go, but I don't know about Magento


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Re: [WSG] styling address tag or microformat hcard

2008-06-03 Thread Robert O'Rourke

Thierry Koblentz wrote:

Hi Tee,
 
  

In Magento, they use
...
for customer address.



afaik, the address element is not supposed to contain this kind of
information as it is related to the people who "maintain/are responsible"
for the document itself (or a section of the document).

 
  

It lacks flexibility for styling as I can't have other html tags place
inside the address tag. I  wonder if there is a semantical way to do
it and that it produces no validation error. Also,  if any of you have
started developing sites in Magento, do you know if I can incorporate
Microformat hcard easily?



That's the way to go, but I don't know about Magento
  


Hi Tee,

under 
app/design/frontend/default/default/template/customer/address.phtml you 
can use this code inplace of where it says '..' (line 
30 or thereabouts).


   
   
   $_address->toString("{{firstname}}"); ?>
   $_address->toString("{{lastname}}"); ?>

   
   
   $_address->toString("{{street}}"); ?>
   $_address->toString("{{city}}"); ?>
   $_address->toString("{{regionName}}"); ?>
   $_address->toString("{{postcode}}"); ?>

   
   
   T: $_address->toString("{{telephone}}")); ?>

   
   

It's not ideal, there might be some missing fields for example so it's 
usually best to only write out the surrounding HTML when the variable is 
present. There's a bunch of places where addresses appear aswell as this 
but that don't give you an easy way of separating out the parts of the 
address eg. book.phtml - for that file i just replaced  with 
.


Hope that gets you started

-Rob


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Re: [WSG] styling address tag or microformat hcard

2008-06-03 Thread Adam Martin
There are no limitations with Magento when it comes to templates / 
layout etc. So you could easily implement hcard.

Cheers
Adam (www.tweakmag.com)

tee wrote:

In Magento, they use
...
for customer address.

It lacks flexibility for styling as I can't have other html tags place 
inside the address tag. I  wonder if there is a semantical way to do 
it and that it produces no validation error. Also,  if any of you have 
started developing sites in Magento, do you know if I can incorporate 
Microformat hcard easily?


Many thanks!

tee



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Re: [WSG] styling address tag or microformat hcard

2008-06-03 Thread tee



Thierry


afaik, the address element is not supposed to contain this kind of
information as it is related to the people who "maintain/are  
responsible"

for the document itself (or a section of the document).


It's a plain English but I read it many times, still I don't quite  
understand what you meant by 'not supposed to contain this kind of


information as it is related to the people who "maintain/are  
responsible"

for the document itself (or a section of the document).'



under app/design/frontend/default/default/template/customer/ 
address.phtml you can use this code inplace of where it says  
'..' (line 30 or thereabouts).


Thanks Rob, for the example, I will try it out, however I don't think  
this is the right file and suspect it's not used anywhere in the site,  
because it has table markup. In the customer/my dashboard page, the  
address section is pulled from 'customer/account/dashboard/ 
address.phtml' which is pulled from this ' >getPrimaryBillingAddressHtml() ?>' and this '  >getPrimaryShippingAddressHtml() ?>'. In the onepage checkout, there  
is also an address section located in the 'progress.phtml', with this  
code:
 getShipping()->format('html') ?>address>. I look into the Mage folder, and the file I found that  
maybe controlling the address globally is located in 'Mage/Customer/ 
etc/config.xml'.


So Adam, while it has no limitations changing template and layout (I  
know first hand how much freedom Magento gives to web designer as I  
have literally changing every line of html code in every phtml  
file :), but this address thing, I have not yet figured out and can't  
find a way to edit it at all.


Magento is really great and they have done a terrific job, I do  
thinkt, the 'web standard' and 'semantic' part fall short, but as a  
user, I don't feel I can't expect much from them to deliver a 'much  
better' web standard compliant software - I wanted to use 'perfect'  
this word, but reminded myself there isn't a 'perfect' web standard  
solution but a good/best practise :)


tee



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Re: [WSG] Job posting

2008-06-03 Thread josh
Thanks for the posting. Next time include the location, and are they
looking for only British passport holders? For anyone wondering, it's in
London.

> Hope this is not OT!
>
> My parent company, Hoop Associates, are looking for a standards-savvy
> Digital Project Manager and a LAMP Web Developer to complement our
> expanding digital team.
>
> Full details here: http://www.thisishoop.com/careers
>
> Thank You
> ==
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Re: [WSG] styling address tag or microformat hcard

2008-06-03 Thread tee


On Jun 3, 2008, at 4:49 PM, tee wrote:




Thierry


afaik, the address element is not supposed to contain this kind of
information as it is related to the people who "maintain/are  
responsible"

for the document itself (or a section of the document).


It's a plain English but I read it many times, still I don't quite  
understand what you meant by 'not supposed to contain this kind of
I look into the Mage folder, and the file I found that maybe  
controlling the address globally is located in 'Mage/Customer/etc/ 
config.xml'.




Forgot to add, strictly speaking, that address is xml format, not html  
address tag correct?


here is the code:

HTML
true



I found this 'How to add style to XML'in W3C site.
http://www.w3.org/Style/styling-XML

tee



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Re: [WSG] Job posting - ADMIN - THREAD CLOSED

2008-06-03 Thread russ - maxdesign
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RE: [WSG] styling address tag or microformat hcard

2008-06-03 Thread Thierry Koblentz
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of tee
> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 4:49 PM
> To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
> Subject: Re: [WSG] styling address tag or microformat hcard
> 
> >>>
> Thierry
> >>
> >> afaik, the address element is not supposed to contain this kind of
> >> information as it is related to the people who "maintain/are
> >> responsible"
> >> for the document itself (or a section of the document).
> 
> It's a plain English but I read it many times, still I don't quite
> understand what you meant by 'not supposed to contain this kind of
> >
> >> information as it is related to the people who "maintain/are
> >> responsible"
> >> for the document itself (or a section of the document).'

From: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/global.html#h-7.5.6

"The ADDRESS element may be used by authors to supply contact information
for a document or a major part of a document such as a form. This element
often appears at the beginning or end of a document."


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[WSG] Background-position in percentage

2008-06-03 Thread John Horner
I've just spent a bit of time looking at how background-position works
when expressed as a percentage:

  background-position: 90%;

and I'm wondering why it works the way it does.

Here's the best way I can describe the effect of (90%, x-axis)
positioning with percentages: "to position the image such that the point
90% across the image is aligned with the point 90% across the element".

There's something rather counter-intuitive about that (it's even hard to
describe!), and I've tried to explain it in teaching people about CSS
and found that people are rather baffled by it.

Does anyone know why it was created that way, and/or can you tell me if
there's some very useful thing this rule allows you to do? That is, as
opposed to a simpler rule like "image is offset that amount to the left"
which is what I assumed when I first came across it.


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Re: [WSG] Background-position in percentage

2008-06-03 Thread Алексей Тен
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 8:01 AM, John Horner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've just spent a bit of time looking at how background-position works
> when expressed as a percentage:
>
>  background-position: 90%;
>
> and I'm wondering why it works the way it does.
>
> Here's the best way I can describe the effect of (90%, x-axis)
> positioning with percentages: "to position the image such that the point
> 90% across the image is aligned with the point 90% across the element".
Have you read specs?
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/colors.html#propdef-background-position

> There's something rather counter-intuitive about that (it's even hard to
> describe!), and I've tried to explain it in teaching people about CSS
> and found that people are rather baffled by it.
>
> Does anyone know why it was created that way, and/or can you tell me if
> there's some very useful thing this rule allows you to do? That is, as
> opposed to a simpler rule like "image is offset that amount to the left"
> which is what I assumed when I first came across it.
Can you provide other way to align right edge of background image
with right edge of box? To center background image?

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RE: [WSG] Background-position in percentage

2008-06-03 Thread Jens-Uwe Korff
> Does anyone know why [bg image positioning] was created that way,
and/or can you tell me if there's some very useful thing this rule
allows you to do?

As Alex pointed out this is the way to use if you want to right-align or
bottom-align a bg image. Also for horizontal/vertical centering this is
an easy way to go.

I agree with you that the way it works might seem strange at first but
if it wasn't it wouldn't work as outlined above.

Cheers,
 
Jens 

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[WSG] Link Help please

2008-06-03 Thread Hayden's Harness Attachment
I am rebuilding a web site and have the following code in it.




.css" />



What am I doing wrong? The web site will not use the layout.css file. The 
default directory is http://www.choroideremia.org/new/.

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Re: [WSG] Link Help please

2008-06-03 Thread Chris Knowles

Hayden's Harness Attachment wrote:

I am rebuilding a web site and have the following code in it.




.css" />



What am I doing wrong? The web site will not use the layout.css file. The 
default directory is http://www.choroideremia.org/new/.



try href= not href()



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Re: [WSG] Link Help please

2008-06-03 Thread Matt Fellows
It should be href="xxx.css" not href("xxx.css")

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