RE: [WSG] Firefox and vulnerabilities?

[Focas, Grant]

Another way tp ortect yourself without disabling JavaScript is to disable the 
"Allow web sites to install software" radio button in Tools/Options/Web Features

Grant

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http://www.enterpriseitplanet.com/security/news/article.php/3503751

Sorry if OT!

The Mozilla Foundation is aware of two potentially critical Firefox
security vulnerabilities as reported publicly Saturday, May 7th. There
are currently no known active exploits of these vulnerabilities
although a "proof of concept" has been reported. Changes to the
Mozilla Update web service have been made to mitigate the risk of an
exploit. Mozilla is aggressively working to provide a more
comprehensive solution to these potential vulnerabilities and will
provide that solution in a forthcoming security update. Users can
further protect themselves today by temporarily disabling JavaScript."

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[WSG] Firefox and vulnerabilities?

[Amit Karmakar]

http://www.enterpriseitplanet.com/security/news/article.php/3503751

Sorry if OT!

The Mozilla Foundation is aware of two potentially critical Firefox
security vulnerabilities as reported publicly Saturday, May 7th. There
are currently no known active exploits of these vulnerabilities
although a "proof of concept" has been reported. Changes to the
Mozilla Update web service have been made to mitigate the risk of an
exploit. Mozilla is aggressively working to provide a more
comprehensive solution to these potential vulnerabilities and will
provide that solution in a forthcoming security update. Users can
further protect themselves today by temporarily disabling JavaScript."

Regards,
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RE: [WSG] Privacy Statements - THREAD CLOSED

[Peter Firminger]

Goodbye!

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> Umm, exactly what planet are you on?
>
> Can you supply a valid reason why this is not something that
> should be
> either in
> or out of the standards (best practices) for site design?
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> >> Hi all
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> >> what are the pro's and cons of offering a privacy
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> >> think a site looks more "legit" with a privacy statement,
> do you agree?
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Re: [WSG] Privacy Statements - THREAD CLOSED

[leighm]

Umm, exactly what planet are you on?
Can you supply a valid reason why this is not something that should be 
either in
or out of the standards (best practices) for site design?

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THREAD CLOSED
Please reply to Leigh off-list. This is definitely off-topic - has nothing
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Thanks
Russ

Hi all
what are the pro's and cons of offering a privacy statement? a lot of people
think a site looks more "legit" with a privacy statement, do you agree?
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[WSG] Privacy Statements Standards

[Richard Czeiger]

Maybe we can steer it towards web standards?
Anyone interested in Privacy as a standard should check out the W3C's 
Platform for Privacy Preferences
http://www.w3.org/P3P/

This is a W3C Recommendation and has been around for a bit now...
Richard  :o) 

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Re: [WSG] Privacy Statements - THREAD CLOSED

[russ - maxdesign]

THREAD CLOSED

Please reply to Leigh off-list. This is definitely off-topic - has nothing
to do with web standards.

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Thanks
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> Hi all
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> what are the pro's and cons of offering a privacy statement? a lot of people
> think a site looks more "legit" with a privacy statement, do you agree?
> 
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Re: [WSG] Privacy Statements

[David Laakso]

On Mon, 09 May 2005 19:25:12 -0400, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all
what are the pro's and cons of offering a privacy statement? a lot of  
people
think a site looks more "legit" with a privacy statement, do you agree?
Yet another useless meaningless seal or button..?
leigh
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RE: [WSG] Privacy Statements

[Drake, Ted C.]

If you are collecting email and other contact information, you should have a
privacy statement detailing what you will do with that information. If you
only plan to use it internally, i.e. mailing list, specify that. 

It's not a nice thing to have; it should be a required thing.  We all have
gotten burned by spammers and it is nice to know that you are giving your
contact info to someone reputable. Ideally, we'd be able to hold people
responsible for violating the privacy policy when they do sell it to a
spammer.

If you don't collect information, you don't need a privacy policy.

There's also a theory that Google gives extra points to sites with a privacy
policy link on the home page. 

Now that I've said that, I'm wondering... did I just put a privacy policy on
that last site... ?  Time to go back and make sure.

Ted
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Hi all

what are the pro's and cons of offering a privacy statement? a lot of people
think a site looks more "legit" with a privacy statement, do you agree?

leigh


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[WSG] Privacy Statements

[leighm]

Hi all

what are the pro's and cons of offering a privacy statement? a lot of people
think a site looks more "legit" with a privacy statement, do you agree?

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Re: [WSG] Background Image

[Chris Kennon]

Hi,
Thanks so much, I also dissected the sections into a head image, body  
and footer.

C
On May 9, 2005, at 2:07 PM, Nick Gleitzman wrote:
On 10 May 2005, at 3:26 AM, Chris Kennon wrote:

http://www.ckimedia.com/ep_site/index.htm
At the url listed is a solution for a large textured background,  
against a gradient. Can someone offer a critique of this method,  
and if possible another solution?

Using one large image as bgrd to div#container is generating a page  
that's as wide as the image - with a horizontal scrollbar - and the  
parchment, which presumably will be bg to the site content, is  
offset 250px from the left edge of the viewport.

Try separating the parchment and green background, using the green  
background as background image of  (hence no horiz  
scrollbar), and the parchment image as background to div#container,  
centred within . That way, the parchment will 'float' over  
the green background, and fit without horizontal scroll in a  
browser 800px wide.

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Re: [WSG] Background Image

[Nick Gleitzman]

On 10 May 2005, at 3:26 AM, Chris Kennon wrote:
http://www.ckimedia.com/ep_site/index.htm
At the url listed is a solution for a large textured background, 
against a gradient. Can someone offer a critique of this method, and 
if possible another solution?
Using one large image as bgrd to div#container is generating a page 
that's as wide as the image - with a horizontal scrollbar - and the 
parchment, which presumably will be bg to the site content, is offset 
250px from the left edge of the viewport.

Try separating the parchment and green background, using the green 
background as background image of  (hence no horiz scrollbar), 
and the parchment image as background to div#container, centred within 
. That way, the parchment will 'float' over the green background, 
and fit without horizontal scroll in a browser 800px wide.

N
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Re: [WSG] Site check please - eCommerce

[Jan Brasna]

BTW, what OS is Jaguar? (you can answer this off-list)
Mac OS X 10.2
I've checked with Safari v. 1.2.4 in OSX v.10.3.7 and it is working fine...
1.2.4 on 10.3.8 also fine
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Re: [WSG] Site check please - eCommerce

[Thierry Koblentz]

tee wrote:
> Hi Thierry,
> I think your page has issued with Safari (Jaguar), it shuts down the
> browser after 2 or 3 second of loading. I tested 4 times, same result.

Hi Tee,
I was going to reply off-list, but on the other hand I'd like to see someone
else using Jaguar to check the page.
Just to make sure the problem is related to the site itself.

BTW, what OS is Jaguar? (you can answer this off-list)
I've checked with Safari v. 1.2.4 in OSX v.10.3.7 and it is working fine...

Thanks for checking,
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Re: [WSG] Site check please - eCommerce

[tee]

Hi Thierry, 

I think your page has issued with Safari (Jaguar), it shuts down the browser
after 2 or 3 second of loading. I tested 4 times, same result.

tee


> 
> Jan Brasna wrote:
>> Label is in Priority 2, title is enough for Priority 1.
>> BTW placing a label there and hiding it via CSS does the job too...
> 
> Duh! LOL
> 
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[WSG] Background Image

[Chris Kennon]

http://www.ckimedia.com/ep_site/index.htm
At the url listed is a solution for a large textured background,  
against a gradient. Can someone offer a critique of this method, and  
if possible another solution?


C
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Re: [WSG] site check/comments please

[designer]

Thanks Mary,

Actually, it isn't an , that  just applies to the title line. The list
is simply that - a list of 's. I didn't see the point of making it
any more complex than it needed to be, and it all seemed to work OK.

But hey - I'm learning here, and asking for advice, so if there IS a good
reason why it should be a  please do tell.

Thanks,

Bob McClelland,
Cornwall (U.K.)
www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk



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> Bob,
>
> Nice site. All works well in IE Mac, FF, Camino and Safari.
>
> Should the list of Contributors be a  instead of ?
>
> Mary
>
> On 9 May 2005, at 12:05, designer wrote:
>
> > Good day,
> >
> > I am upgrading a site to standards etc and would be grateful for any
> > feedback/suggestions etc, and confirmation from MAC folk that it works
> > OK.
> > It isn't quite finished (two of the contributor links don't work yet -
> > I'm
> > working my way through them) but most of it is in place.
> >
> > The site is temporarily at www.treyarnon.com/wg/
> >
> > Thanks for your time
> >
> > Bob McClelland,
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Re: [WSG] Site check please - eCommerce

[Thierry Koblentz]

diona kidd wrote:
> I'm using FF 1.0.1 on Fedora 3 and the links are working for me. Which
> version/platform FF are you using?

I'm using v. 0.8 and 1.0.2 on WinXP
When you say "working", do you mean you can click on them and jump to the
anchors or that you can tab through all the links in the main section of the
page without skipping them? Because the former works, it is the latter that
doesn't.

Thanks for your feedback,
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Re: [WSG] Site check please - eCommerce

[Thierry Koblentz]

Jan Brasna wrote:
> Label is in Priority 2, title is enough for Priority 1.
> BTW placing a label there and hiding it via CSS does the job too...

Duh! LOL

Thanks,
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Re: [WSG] Can fonts be fixed in firefox?

[Ben Bishop]

This thread has dribbled far enough.

Any further replies in this thread should be:
 - related to Andreas' questions, and
 - related to Web Standards, and
 - perhaps of interest to the other 1800 list members

Have a nice day.

- Ben
WSG Core

On 5/9/05, Andreas Boehmer wrote:
> Is there any way to overcome Firefox' accessibility and fix the font-size?
> Or do I have to go and use images instead? In which case I would have to use
> Javascript for the Rollover, which really goes too far!
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Re: [WSG] Site check please - eCommerce

[diona kidd]

I'm using FF 1.0.1 on Fedora 3 and the links are working for me. Which version/platform FF are you using?


On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 07:39 -0700, Thierry Koblentz wrote:


Hi all,
I have a WAI-AAA icon at the bottom of the pages and I'd like to know if I
can leave it there or if I have a few more things to work on
:-)

I'm using "label" with all my "input" elements, but the one for the search
form at the top at the page. Does using the title attribute make it
"accessible enough" or do I "must" use label?

Also, I've put "skip table" links inside  (for people who
are not using pointing devices), but they are ignored by FF.
How come? Try to tab through the links on the page, you'll see that they are
skipped.

For the ones who'll check the markup: the few structural hacks are for NN4.

http://www.tjkdesign.com/clients/uni/OrderForm.asp?cart=-

Thanks,
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RE: [WSG] Can fonts be fixed in firefox?

[Patrick Lauke]

> Parker Torrence

> It was my understanding that the subject of this thread was fonts in
> front of background images. Therefore by logic any talk about images
> within the context of this thread whould be implied to be about said
> background images.

Not necessarily. As Andreas was referring to buttons (implying clickable
foreground element), his "I'll have to go with images" (couple with the
"I'll have to use javascript for rollovers) would suggest that,
instead of having background image and foreground text, he'd use a
foreground image element (unless he was suggesting the rather disingenious
idea of having something like an empty link, forcibly styled to a certain
width/height, with the background image via CSS).

> I thought you ment your post to be on topic

Anyway...

Patrick

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Re: [WSG] Site check please - eCommerce

[Jan Brasna]

I'm using "label" with all my "input" elements, but the one for the search
form at the top at the page. Does using the title attribute make it
"accessible enough" or do I "must" use label?
Label is in Priority 2, title is enough for Priority 1.
BTW placing a label there and hiding it via CSS does the job too...
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[WSG] Site check please - eCommerce

[Thierry Koblentz]

Hi all,
I have a WAI-AAA icon at the bottom of the pages and I'd like to know if I
can leave it there or if I have a few more things to work on
:-)

I'm using "label" with all my "input" elements, but the one for the search
form at the top at the page. Does using the title attribute make it
"accessible enough" or do I "must" use label?

Also, I've put "skip table" links inside  (for people who
are not using pointing devices), but they are ignored by FF.
How come? Try to tab through the links on the page, you'll see that they are
skipped.

For the ones who'll check the markup: the few structural hacks are for NN4.

http://www.tjkdesign.com/clients/uni/OrderForm.asp?cart=-

Thanks,
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Re: [WSG] Can fonts be fixed in firefox?

[Parker Torrence]

Patrick

It was my understanding that the subject of this thread was fonts in
front of background images. Therefore by logic any talk about images
within the context of this thread whould be implied to be about said
background images.

If you were not talking about *background* images, then I miss
understood your post, and it was just *off topic* for this thread. I
thought you ment your post to be on topic, and you knew something I
did not. My mistake.

Have A Nice Day,
Parker

> Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] wrote   
>Yes, I know I should use relative font sizes, but for this particular case I
>require a fixed font size. I want the title of a button to appear in front
>of a background image that cannot be resized.

On 5/9/05, Patrick Lauke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Parker Torrence
> 
> > I'm not the one who said to put alt
> > information on a background image, redux was the one who made the
> > statement. (I'm in agreement with you,)
> 
> Go back, re-read my message, and tell me exactly where I mention
> *background* images...
> 
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Re: [WSG] Can fonts be fixed in firefox?

[Thierry Koblentz]

Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] wrote:
> font-size? Or do I have to go and use images instead? In which case I
> would have to use Javascript for the Rollover, which really goes too
> far!

To go with CSS rather than Javascript, you can use a transparent image and
swap its background.

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RE: [WSG] Can fonts be fixed in firefox?

[Patrick Lauke]

> Parker Torrence

> I'm not the one who said to put alt
> information on a background image, redux was the one who made the
> statement. (I'm in agreement with you,)

Go back, re-read my message, and tell me exactly where I mention
*background* images...

Patrick

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Re: [WSG] Can fonts be fixed in firefox?

[Parker Torrence]

Neerav

Thank you for your reply. I'm not the one who said to put alt
information on a background image, redux was the one who made the
statement. (I'm in agreement with you,)

Parker

On 5/9/05, Neerav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Parker
> 
> If you mean a *css* background image than it has no semantic meaning and
> therefore needs no alt information (nor could you add any alt
> information to a css created background image if you wanted to anyway)
> 
> --
> Neerav Bhatt

> > On 5/9/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >>But *please*, for the love of accesibility, make sure the images have
> >>meaningful
> >>alt attribute set...
> >>
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Re: [WSG] site check/comments please

[Mary Wright]

Bob,
Nice site. All works well in IE Mac, FF, Camino and Safari.
Should the list of Contributors be a  instead of ?
Mary
On 9 May 2005, at 12:05, designer wrote:
Good day,
I am upgrading a site to standards etc and would be grateful for any
feedback/suggestions etc, and confirmation from MAC folk that it works 
OK.
It isn't quite finished (two of the contributor links don't work yet - 
I'm
working my way through them) but most of it is in place.

The site is temporarily at www.treyarnon.com/wg/
Thanks for your time
Bob McClelland,
Cornwall (U.K.)
www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk
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Re: [WSG] Can fonts be fixed in firefox?

[Neerav]

Parker
If you mean a *css* background image than it has no semantic meaning and 
therefore needs no alt information (nor could you add any alt 
information to a css created background image if you wanted to anyway)

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Parker Torrence wrote:
On 5/9/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
But *please*, for the love of accesibility, make sure the images have
meaningful
alt attribute set...
P

How does one set an alt attribute for a background image?
Parker
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Re: [WSG] Can fonts be fixed in firefox?

[Ben Bishop]

On 5/9/05, Parker Torrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > But *please*, for the love of accesibility, make sure the images have
> > meaningful alt attribute set...
> 
> How does one set an alt attribute for a background image?

One doesn't. However, one might set the alt attribute of the .

"Buttons created with the BUTTON element function just like buttons
created with the INPUT element, but they offer richer rendering
possibilities: the BUTTON element may have content. For example, a
BUTTON element that contains an image functions like and may resemble
an INPUT element whose type is set to "image", but the BUTTON element
type allows content.
...
Recall that authors must provide alternate text for an IMG element."
  http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/interact/forms.html#h-17.5

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Re: [WSG] Can fonts be fixed in firefox?

[Lea de Groot]

On Mon, 9 May 2005 06:36:28 -0500, Parker Torrence wrote:
> How does one set an alt attribute for a background image?

You can't.
The point of using a background image is that the image is purely 
decorative, not content.
In this case, I think the IMG tag needs to be used.

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Re: [WSG] Can fonts be fixed in firefox?

[Parker Torrence]

On 5/9/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But *please*, for the love of accesibility, make sure the images have
> meaningful
> alt attribute set...
> 
> P

How does one set an alt attribute for a background image?

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Re: [WSG] hiding content with a click

[Andrew Krespanis]

Ooops! I really shouldn't leave things half-baked like that.
If the link in question doesn't do anything without javascript, it is
a wise idea to have it written to the page using js as well.
We don't want any orphan UI elements, do we ;) 

And I even tested this one :]

//let the code begin

http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";>
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en" lang="en">

  Hide Content Test
  

function hideStuff() {
   var tr = document.getElementsByTagName('tr');
   for(var i=0; i

Re: [WSG] hiding content with a click

[Parker Torrence]

You could employ the same concept that makes this
http://webdesign.parkertorrence.com/designtest/peekaboo.php page work.

Parker
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http://webdesign.parkertorrence.com

On 5/9/05, john <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been searching for some simple instructions on how to create a link
> that says "hide content" and it will remove a section of text from the
> page.  The layout uses some tables (XHTML Transitional), so it would
> have to hide three 's and shift the content below it up.
> 
> Can somebody please instruct me on a standards-based way of doing this?
> 
> Thanks.
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[WSG] site check/comments please

[designer]

Good day,

I am upgrading a site to standards etc and would be grateful for any
feedback/suggestions etc, and confirmation from MAC folk that it works OK.
It isn't quite finished (two of the contributor links don't work yet - I'm
working my way through them) but most of it is in place.

The site is temporarily at www.treyarnon.com/wg/

Thanks for your time

Bob McClelland,
Cornwall (U.K.)
www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk

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Closed Re: [WSG] OFF-List -Form Validation error

[James Ellis]

Hi

... no more discussion on this topic (!)


offlist posts are fine (when they are offlist) and are a good way to
keep in contact with your fellow WSG'ers.

We always close threads with a (good) reason.

Thanks
James
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Re: [WSG] hiding content with a click

[Joshua Street]

Use onclick to set the ID of the relevant rows to display:none; or something along these lines.  There's no way that I'm aware of to remove this content without _javascript_, short of doing server-side processing.

On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 11:42 +0100, john wrote:


I've been searching for some simple instructions on how to create a link 
that says "hide content" and it will remove a section of text from the 
page.  The layout uses some tables (XHTML Transitional), so it would 
have to hide three 's and shift the content below it up.

Can somebody please instruct me on a standards-based way of doing this?

Thanks.





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Re: [WSG] hiding content with a click

[Andrew Krespanis]

On 5/9/05, john <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>create a link that says "hide content" and it will remove a section
of text from the
> page.  The layout uses some tables (XHTML Transitional), so it would
> have to hide three 's and shift the content below it up.
> 
> Can somebody please instruct me on a standards-based way of doing this?

Quick version, will hide all tr's with a class of 'hide'. Class
attribute may be a space seperated list also, as this script allows
for that.


hide content


function hideStuff() {
tr = document.getElementsByTagName('tr');
for(i=0; i

[WSG] hiding content with a click

[john]

I've been searching for some simple instructions on how to create a link 
that says "hide content" and it will remove a section of text from the 
page.  The layout uses some tables (XHTML Transitional), so it would 
have to hide three 's and shift the content below it up.

Can somebody please instruct me on a standards-based way of doing this?
Thanks.
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RE: [WSG] Can fonts be fixed in firefox?

[redux]

Quoting "Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I guess that's fair enough. Might have to revert to images for this one.
But *please*, for the love of accesibility, make sure the images have 
meaningful
alt attribute set...

P
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Re: [WSG] FF Anomaly

[redux]

Quoting David Laakso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
If that's what you mean, adding this
at the bottom of your style sheet may help:
html {
min-height: 100%;
margin-bottom: 1px;
}
Hurrah for pixel pushing :)
http://www.splintered.co.uk/experiments/49/
Patrick
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Re: [WSG] OFF-List -Form Validation error

[Nick Gleitzman]

On 9 May 2005, at 6:07 PM, tee wrote:
[p/s. The reason I write you offlist is because I don't want WSG 
moderator
post another  'no more discussion on this topic' reminder :) ]
Duh.
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Re: [WSG] OFF-List -Form Validation error

[tee]

Hi Kay, thank you for the URL links. Sorry for the late thank you note - I
was under pressure meeting a deadline.
[p/s. The reason I write you offlist is because I don't want WSG moderator
post another  'no more discussion on this topic' reminder :) ]
Are they your work?  Both are very nice.

May I ask what shopping cart script or software you use for these two sites?

Regards,

tee

> From: Kay Smoljak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
> Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 10:53:16 +0800
> To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
> Subject: Re: [WSG] Form Validation error
> 
> On 5/5/05, tee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Also, have anybody done the e-commerce site that is fully xhtml validated?
> 
> This one is valid:
> http://www.australianopalsrus.com.au
> 
> This one still has a few minor issues that are being fixed:
> http://www.elizabethsbookshop.com.au
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