RE: [WSG] Installing More than one version of IE6

2009-07-03 Thread Alex James
Darrin, I too used Internet Explorer Collection as suggested by Adam[1]. I did have to download some windows updates though to get IE8 running. I found the TredoSoft installer messed up form inputs and blocked selects! Thanks, Alex [1] http://finalbuilds.edskes.net/iecollection.htm

Re: [WSG] Installing More than one version of IE6

2009-07-03 Thread Darrin Potaka
Hi All - many thanks to everyone who proffered advice on this one - much appreciated, I'm about to explore some of these options...Darrin On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Alex James jam...@harlosh.com wrote: Darrin, I too used Internet Explorer Collection as suggested by Adam[1]. I did have

Re: [WSG] Accessible websites

2009-07-03 Thread Stuart Foulstone
sine qua non = indispensible On Thu, July 2, 2009 9:27 pm, Rick Faircloth wrote: It is the sine qua non of accessibility And that's exactly the point I'm trying to make...just addressing the font-size issue is the most basic form of accomodation possible. We can do better. On Thu, Jul 2,

Re: [WSG] Accessible websites

2009-07-03 Thread Rick Faircloth
sine qua non also means most basic - yes, it is the most critical aspect of accessibility to information, if the information is contained in textual form, but it is only the most primal level of accessibility to be offered. New techniques, well not actually new, but finally unleashed legally, are

Re: [WSG] Installing More than one version of IE6

2009-07-03 Thread Matijs
For what it's worth. Microsoft have—for several years now—offered free Windows XP images with IE6/7/8RC and now IE8 as well in Microsoft Virtual PC format. Microsoft Virtual PC (the application) is also available for free, making this the most acurate and low-cost option available. The only

RE: [WSG] Accessible websites

2009-07-03 Thread michael.brockington
I don't really see how the ability to download fonts (that is what you are talking about, isn't it?), will affect web accessibility significantly. It will have a big impact on design, but the technological change surely only affects the back-end of the web browser, not the actual display. PS I

Re: [WSG] Accessible websites

2009-07-03 Thread Rick Faircloth
Yes, 'moot'...thanks for the correction... I'm not sure how the technological change will actually affect the interaction between end user and designer as far as who has final control of the presentation. Font embedding is not something that I've spent much time on. I can't find the reference

Re: [WSG] Accessible websites

2009-07-03 Thread Richard Stephenson
I think this may be the service to which you refer... http://www.typekit.com http://blog.typekit.com -- DonkeyMagic: Website design development http://www.donkeymagic.co.uk *** List Guidelines:

Re: [WSG] working with line-height

2009-07-03 Thread Simon Pascal Klein
Line-height (leading) is measured from baseline[1] to baseline rather than from the ‘end’ of a glyph the the ‘tip’ of another. It is essentially impossible to align ‘perfectly’ the top of say an uppercase character to a horizontal line above it in CSS because of this, and because many

Re: [WSG] Accessible websites

2009-07-03 Thread Rick Faircloth
Yes, thanks for the reference, Richard. I believe that's exactly what I was reading about. On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Richard Stephenson donkeyma...@gmail.comwrote: I think this may be the service to which you refer... http://www.typekit.com http://blog.typekit.com -- DonkeyMagic:

[WSG] Deborah Hicks/BG/Health is out of the office. [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-07-03 Thread Deborah . Hicks
I will be out of the office starting 03/07/2009 and will not return until 21/07/2009. I will respond to your message when I return. Please contact Rhonda Sekoranja or email Online Communications if you have urgent web publishing requirements.

Re: [WSG] Installing More than one version of IE6

2009-07-03 Thread matt andrews
2009/7/3 Matijs mat...@gmail.com: For what it's worth. Microsoft have—for several years now—offered free Windows XP images with IE6/7/8RC and now IE8 as well in Microsoft Virtual PC format. Microsoft Virtual PC (the application) is also available for free, making this the most acurate and