Re: [WSG] Is it still necessary to encode ampersands?

2010-07-01 Thread Edward Lynn
These approaches feel a bit hacky to me. It might be an idea to review why you are using inline JS as it really shouldn't be necessary in most cases. There are plenty of ways of triggered JS early on elements if that is the reason of putting it inline. What are the times you find the js needs to

[WSG] content style type

2010-07-01 Thread designer
Sorry if this is obvious, but could someone explain to me the value of using: meta http-equiv=Content-Style-Type content=text/css/ In the head section of a page. I can't grasp: a) what exactly it does, b) what is 'missing' if it isn't there? etc. Please. Thanks, Bob

Re: [WSG] content style type

2010-07-01 Thread aleagi
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Re: [WSG] content style type

2010-07-01 Thread Edward Lynn
I've personally never had to use that Bob. There's an explanation here... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2025786/why-use-meta-tag-content-style-type-for-external-css But personally I dont feel it's at all necessary Ed On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 12:58 PM, designer

Re: [WSG] Is it still necessary to encode ampersands?

2010-07-01 Thread tee
On Jul 1, 2010, at 1:40 AM, Edward Lynn wrote: These approaches feel a bit hacky to me. It might be an idea to review why you are using inline JS as it really shouldn't be necessary in most cases. There are plenty of ways of triggered JS early on elements if that is the reason of putting

RE: [WSG] CSS Expandable Menu

2010-07-01 Thread Thierry Koblentz
As a follow-up to my original email, the following methods have been very well designed from the accessibility point of view: http://juicystudio.com/article/ecmascriptmenu.php http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200705/accessible_expanding_and_c o llapsing_menu/ A further example

Re: [WSG] that old IE6 thing...

2010-07-01 Thread tee
On Jun 29, 2010, at 11:52 PM, Andrew Harris wrote: Two blogs, same base domain, same template, same environment, same university. Blog 1: Audience: Librarians IE6: 42.2% Firefox (all versions): 23% Proving once again, that knowing your audience is key. (and perhaps that librarians

Re: [WSG] content style type

2010-07-01 Thread designer
Thanks Gentlemen - I thought so! Bob *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] that old IE6 thing...

2010-07-01 Thread Dan Webb
Andrew wrote: (and perhaps that librarians are a bit slow to upgrade ;) And then tee wrote: I think it's more to do with the fact that librarians are always getting hand-me-down hardware :) That is indeed often the case. And it's not only that. If given a choice of buying 3 or 4 new