[WSG] Out of office Re: WSG Digest

2010-08-27 Thread Sigurd Magnusson
Thanks for emailing me. I'm largely out the office Friday, Monday, and Tuesday (27-31 August). Please phone me on +64 21 42 12 08 if urgent, otherwise your patience is appreciated while my access to email is limited. Cheers, Sigurd -- Sigurd Magnusson Business Relationship Manager SilverStripe

[WSG] longdesc use case examples in the wild

2010-08-27 Thread Laura Carlson
Hello Everyone, The W3C HTML 5 Working Group Chairs have decided to drop the longdesc attribute from the HTML specification after a poll on the issue [1] [2]. The Chairs' Decision states that: QUOTE This issue can be reopened if new information comes up. Examples of possible relevant new

[WSG] html5 issue

2010-08-27 Thread Tom Livingston
In an attempt to begin using HTML5, I am getting this error: Line 12, Column 21: A charset attribute on a meta element found after the first 512 bytes. meta charset=UTF-8/ Can anyone tell me why? -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx:

Re: [WSG] html5 issue

2010-08-27 Thread Gregorio Espadas
/ is not necessary  to close the meta tag. meta charset=utf-8 Maybe this solve the problem. Gregorio Espadas gespadas.com @gespadas On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Tom Livingston tom...@gmail.com wrote: In an attempt to begin using HTML5, I am getting this error: Line 12, Column 21:

Re: [WSG] html5 issue

2010-08-27 Thread David Dorward
On 27 Aug 2010, at 19:30, Tom Livingston wrote: Line 12, Column 21: A charset attribute on a meta element found after the first 512 bytes. Can anyone tell me why? You have too much content before the meta tag. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] html5 issue

2010-08-27 Thread Tom Livingston
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Gregorio Espadas gespa...@gmail.com wrote: / is not necessary  to close the meta tag. meta charset=utf-8 Maybe this solve the problem. Gregorio Espadas gespadas.com @gespadas No luck there, but thanks. Here's the head to my page: !DOCTYPE html html

Re: [WSG] html5 issue

2010-08-27 Thread Tom Livingston
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 3:11 PM, David Dorward da...@dorward.me.uk wrote: On 27 Aug 2010, at 19:30, Tom Livingston wrote: Line 12, Column 21: A charset attribute on a meta element found after the first 512 bytes. Can anyone tell me why? You have too much content before the meta tag.

Re: [WSG] html5 issue

2010-08-27 Thread Jason Arnold
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Tom Livingston tom...@gmail.com wrote: No luck there, but thanks. Here's the head to my page: !DOCTYPE html html xmlns=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml; change the above line to just html that will take care of this error. cut !--- STYLES --- this line will

RE: [WSG] html5 issue

2010-08-27 Thread Thierry Koblentz
/ is not necessary to close the meta tag. meta charset=utf-8 Maybe this solve the problem. Imho, the / should make no difference, I believe the problem is that this meta is too far down in the markup. The OP should try to put that meta right after head -- Regards, Thierry

Re: [WSG] html5 issue

2010-08-27 Thread Tom Livingston
!DOCTYPE html html xmlns=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml; change the above line to just html that will take care of this error. cut !--- STYLES --- this line will also throw an error due to too many dashes Thanks Jason! That's fabulous! Changing the HTML element was the trick! I can't,

Re: [WSG] Semantics, lists and links

2010-08-27 Thread glen wallis
Hi Ellen A list is semantically correct. It also has advantages for screen reader users as they can navigate lists with a simple key combination. Glen On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 2:33 AM, wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote: * WEB