Re: [WSG] Mobile sites

2012-05-16 Thread Phil Archer
I think it's worth noting that there is a lot of commonality between accessibility and mobile optimisation. When the W3C Mobile Web Best Practices Group began its work (way back in June 2005 - I'm feeling old) our starting point was WCAG. They're not the same, of course, but the ways of

[WSG] Re: WSG Digest

2012-05-16 Thread Dominic Hey
Hi Grant, You could have a dedicated mobile site (using a sub-domain and server-side client detection, for instance) with zero regard paid to accessibility *or*standards. Responsive design (using media queries, for instance) follow the DRY principle - Don't Repeat Yourself. Rather than think

[WSG] positioning help, please

2012-05-16 Thread ron zisman
http://ricochet.org/new_floradise/arrangements.html http://ricochet.org/new_floradise/plants.html hey all, i'm having trouble positioning a background image. on the arrangements page, the two arrows have a blue border. the first problem i'm having is that bbedit, safari, firefox and opera (on

Re: [WSG] positioning help, please

2012-05-16 Thread Mladen Barac
simple you must put something like this: border:none for example if image is link, then: * * *a img {border: none; }* or: *a:link {border:none}* * * *I hope this could be helpful. Try!* * * On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 7:00 PM, ron zisman ronzis...@mac.com wrote:

Re: [WSG] positioning help, please

2012-05-16 Thread ron zisman
On May 16, 2012, at 1:32 PM, Mladen Barac wrote: simple you must put something like this: border:none for example if image is link, then: a img {border: none; } or: a:link {border:none} I hope this could be helpful. Try! thank you mladen. i put the border on to better see

RE: [WSG] positioning help, please

2012-05-16 Thread Kepler Gelotte
the first problem i'm having is that bbedit, safari, firefox and opera (on a mac) all position it in a different location (#pre-nex). Hi, Try 'position: relative' for #main (the containing div of #pre_nex). Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156 Normandy Dr., Piscataway,

[WSG] Related content labelling and styling?

2012-05-16 Thread Rick Hill
We have a feature in our CMS that allows users to add a spotlight box of related content to the right of the main content. This is not a right column (which we also allow) but a floated block of content. Visually this works well and the user base wants the feature. Unfortunately, there are

Re: [WSG] positioning help, please

2012-05-16 Thread ron zisman
On May 16, 2012, at 2:11 PM, Kepler Gelotte wrote: the first problem i'm having is that bbedit, safari, firefox and opera (on a mac) all position it in a different location (#pre-nex). Hi, Try 'position: relative' for #main (the containing div of #pre_nex). Best regards, mercy,

Re: [WSG] Related content labelling and styling?

2012-05-16 Thread Russ Weakley
On 17/05/2012, at 4:23 AM, Rick Hill wrote: The ideal would be to position the related content at the bottom of the associate main content and then position it at the top right of the main content. So visually it would look the same but the HTML reading order and header nesting would be

[WSG] Re: WSG Digest

2012-05-16 Thread Vicki Taylor
Hi, Grant, I'd recommend you have a look at this: http://cssgrid.net/ Do it once, do it well, make it flexible. :-) V. On 16 May 2012 22:48, wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote: * WEB STANDARDS GROUP MAIL LIST DIGEST