Re: [WSG] Changing Standard part2 !!!

2004-12-12 Thread Lyn Patterson
Bert Doorn wrote: If I want to see movies, I watch TV or hire a Video or DVD. If I want to hear music, I switch on the radio or listen to a CD (or tape, or old-fashioned record). I use the web to seek information and like many people I can only get dial-up (or a very expensive satellite

[WSG] LOCAL XHTML TESTING - HOW TO DO IT?

2004-12-12 Thread Charles Slack
LOCAL XHTML TESTING - HOW TO DO IT? Hi,I'm an experienced real time software engineer getting involved in Web design. I have done a lot of reading, both books and web pages and, after a lot of heart searching, have arrived at the following strategy for developing web pages: 1. Develop and

Re: [WSG] Changing Standard

2004-12-12 Thread Kornel Lesinski
Why using a:link ? a /a means that the word inside is a link a { color:blue; text-decoration:underline; } is the same as setting a:link { color:blue; text-decoration:underline; } Link is a redundant tag No, it isn't. Think about these: a onclick=foo/a a href=bar/a a {} matches both, and :link

Re: [WSG] LOCAL XHTML TESTING - HOW TO DO IT?

2004-12-12 Thread Kornel Lesinski
For serious testing install web server locally. There is for example easyphp.org (and many others) that install and configure Apache, PHP, MySQL with almost one click. Then you can configure Apache to send .xhtml files as application/xhtml+xml or use PHP for that. httpd.conf: AddType

Re: [WSG] LOCAL XHTML TESTING - HOW TO DO IT?

2004-12-12 Thread Joey
Download Web Developer Toolbar for firefox for local validating. http://www.chrispederick.com/work/firefox/webdeveloper/ Then you can see a tool under Tools called Validate Local HTML that should help you out a bit. Hope this helps Joey Charles Slack wrote: LOCAL XHTML TESTING - HOW TO DO IT?

Re: [WSG] Validating unicode files

2004-12-12 Thread Kevin Futter
On 13/12/04 8:23 AM, Matthew Cruickshank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi chaps, When it comes to text encoding the character range from 127-255 is, as I understand it, disputed territory. In that all kinds of regional hacks were used over the years and with Unicode they're no longer neccessary

[WSG] unsubscribe info

2004-12-12 Thread Glenn [futureAustralia.net]
there is no unsubscribe information at the footer of the WSG emails or on the email list information page. where is it? ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some

Re: [WSG] LOCAL XHTML TESTING - HOW TO DO IT?

2004-12-12 Thread Roger Johansson
On 12 dec 2004, at 14.15, Charles Slack wrote: LOCAL XHTML TESTING - HOW TO DO IT? An easy way to check how Mozilla based browsers handle it is to change the file extension of your XHTML documents from .html to .xhtml. This will make Mozilla/Firefox treat it as application/xhtml+xml (check View

[WSG] OFFTOPIC: New URL to The Tao of Webdesign

2004-12-12 Thread Jorge Laranjo
Hi there folks. Since the http://lesi.host.sk/fueg0/ is not responding, i'm moving The Tao of Webdesign to http://thetaoofwebdesign.tk/ or http://thetaoofwebdesign.weblog.com.pt/ Hope that thoose of you that read the blog can continue to do so. -- Atentamente, Jorge Laranjo site

[WSG] Validating unicode files

2004-12-12 Thread Matthew Cruickshank
Hi chaps, When it comes to text encoding the character range from 127-255 is, as I understand it, disputed territory. In that all kinds of regional hacks were used over the years and with Unicode they're no longer neccessary so I should avoid this range. I was just copying some text together

Re: [WSG] Changing Standard

2004-12-12 Thread Peter Costello
I might be wrong but I thought it was so you could apply all common styles to the a and then simplify :link, :hover etc. to red etc. ie: a{ font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: .9em; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; color: black; } a:link{ color: blue; }