[WSG] Character encoding mismatch

2005-11-10 Thread Paul Collins
I am getting the followingwarningwhen I validate my pages: -- Character Encoding mismatch! The character encoding specified in the HTTP header (iso-8859-1) is different from the value in the meta element (utf-8). I will use the value from the HTTP header

Re: [WSG] Character encoding mismatch

2005-11-10 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
2005/11/10, Paul Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am getting the following warning when I validate my pages: -- Character Encoding mismatch! The character encoding specified in the HTTP header (iso-8859-1) is different from the value in the meta element (utf-8). I will use the

Re: [WSG] Character encoding mismatch

2005-11-10 Thread Lloyd
Instead of: meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=utf-8;/ Try: meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 / This will match what your web server is sending, otherwise change your web server config if you can :-) Lloyd On 11/10/05, Paul Collins [EMAIL

Re: [WSG] Character encoding mismatch

2005-11-10 Thread Susanne Jäger
Paul Collins wrote, On 10.11.2005 12:44: I thought this was the correct way to add special characters for XHTML, but what I am reading now seems to contradict this. This is the part of standards where I get a bit confused. Does anyone have any advice or know of some good articles where they

Re: [WSG] Character encoding mismatch

2005-11-10 Thread Paul Collins
That seems to work, thanks heaps Rimantas - Original Message - From: Rimantas Liubertas To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 12:01 PM Subject: Re: [WSG] Character encoding mismatch 2005/11/10, Paul Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I

Re: [WSG] Character encoding mismatch

2005-11-10 Thread Paul Collins
Thanks Susanne, that's a really good reference. Cheers,Paul - Original Message - From: Susanne Jäger To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 12:21 PM Subject: Re: [WSG] Character encoding mismatch Paul Collins wrote, On 10.11.2005

[WSG] Divs over Flash in Safari

2005-11-10 Thread Tom Livingston
Hi listers, Just thought I'd check with you guys on this. I've googled it for a few hours... Has anyone successfully implemented a drop down menu (or similar) that drops down *over* a Flash element and had it work in Safari (2.0.2)? Everything I have found indicates that it doesn't

RE: [WSG] Divs over Flash in Safari

2005-11-10 Thread kvnmcwebn
hello, im not sure if this will help and im not sure if it would validate but read this http://www.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?p=3284355#post3284355 -best -kvnmcwebn ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

[WSG] Sydney WSG meeting

2005-11-10 Thread russ - maxdesign
Tonight's WSG meeting in Sydney was a huge success with 55 people attending. A huge thanks to Maxine Sherrin and Janet Parker for their presentations - very informative! The podcasts and presentation slides will be available soon. Some Flickr photos:

[WSG] CSS filesize and selector names

2005-11-10 Thread jorgen
Hey folks! I'm working on a project where nearly every web page differs from each other in layout. Due to the nature of the project, it is a blend of admin and report system, with a lot of configurations and various styled reports. This has made my CSS file nearly 10kb large and consists of

Re: [WSG] CSS filesize and selector names

2005-11-10 Thread felix . zapata
hi, about your first question sometimes I do some css files; one with de principal layout and the other with the specific of each page. About the second question, i think that there is no problem about use underscore in the name, but sometimes css validator tell me warnings about that.

Re: [WSG] CSS filesize and selector names

2005-11-10 Thread Anders Nawroth
Hejsan! [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: This has made my CSS file nearly 10kb large and consists of nearly 600 rows of CSS code. Is this a problem in general? No. Are there any issues regarding large CSS files? Any recomendations for CSS file sizes both in KB and rows. When hitting 40 KB I

Re: [WSG] CSS filesize and selector names

2005-11-10 Thread Vishwam Annam
You could use, these CSS optimizers to reduce the file size a little bit, http://cdburnerxp.se/cssparse/css_optimiser.php http://flumpcakes.co.uk/css/optimiser/ Vishwam Anders Nawroth wrote: Hejsan! [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: This has made my CSS file nearly 10kb large and consists of

Re: [WSG] Font resizing

2005-11-10 Thread Jared Smith
Building this functionality into the page is something I've struggled with for some time. There's no way to add text resizing functionality without DECREASING accessibility and usability for a large group of other users. It does no use to screenreader users. And we expect users to understand

Re: [WSG] Naked metadata - RDF in HTML

2005-11-10 Thread Terrence Wood
Andy Kirkwood|Motive said: An interesting application of the technology, although I'm not sure that is addresses how to make it *easier* for administrators to maintain metadata records. and (Assuming the ideal solution would be a wysiwyg editing environment for non-technical content authors.)

RE: [WSG] hiding legend tag

2005-11-10 Thread Adam Burmister \(DSL AK\)
I think you'll find that you can successfully hide the legend off canvas with .hide { position: absolute; left: -999px; width: 9px; } Regards, - A -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alexander Jerabek Sent: Friday, 11

RE: [WSG] hiding legend tag

2005-11-10 Thread Adam Burmister \(DSL AK\)
Opps, cancel that last reply... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alexander Jerabek Sent: Friday, 11 November 2005 11:48 a.m. To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] hiding legend tag Hi everybody, I'm working on an accessible form

Re: [WSG] hiding legend tag

2005-11-10 Thread *.gtf
Dnia piątek, 11 listopada 2005 00:43, Adam Burmister (DSL AK) napisał: I think you'll find that you can successfully hide the legend off canvas with .hide { position: absolute; left: -999px; width: 9px; } Regards, - A imo : .hide { display:none; } is much

Re: [WSG] Naked metadata - RDF in HTML

2005-11-10 Thread Andy Kirkwood|Motive
Title: Re: [WSG] Naked metadata - RDF in HTML Hi Terrence, It feels like we're talking at cross-purposes? I'm approaching the subject with the idea that metadata is important in order for people to find (related) information at some later time. Interesting and valid point, unfortunately not

Re: [WSG] Divs over Flash in Safari

2005-11-10 Thread Zulema
I've had success with adding this to the html code: PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent and this to the embed tag: wmode=transparent It has limitations tho: http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/transparency.htm hope that helps or at least sheds some light? ciao, Zulema -- Z u l e m a O r t

RE: [WSG] Divs over Flash in Safari

2005-11-10 Thread Adam Burmister \(DSL AK\)
Air New Zealand uses a system where the navigation renders an iframe behind a drop down menu, this blocks the flash as the frame takes precedence in the rendering pipeline. Can't quite remember where we got it from, but check it out @ http://www.airnz.co.nz

RE: [WSG] Divs over Flash in Safari

2005-11-10 Thread Terry Bunter
I have successfully been able to get dropdowns to work in Safari by using the Multi-level Suckerfish Dropdowns from http://www.htmldog.com/articles/suckerfish/dropdowns/ For some reason if you create the dropdown and then add an extra blank level to each item it tricks safari into displaying

Re: [WSG] hiding legend tag

2005-11-10 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On 11 Nov 2005, at 7:47 am, Alexander Jerabek wrote: So I came up with this: legend{margin:-1em; font-size:0px;} In Mozilla the 0px makes the text invisible, but only miniscule in IE so I used margin:-1em; is to push it under the drop down menu in the form. My question is: does anybody