Re: [WSG] Developing for Mac Browsers

2008-01-15 Thread Joseph Ortenzi
There is no need to style the forms strongly but you can try to explicitly coax the style to be more uniform by applying CSS intelligently. BTW: Buttons should be buttons and not an obscure graphic acting as a link or calling JavaScript. If you keep your head on your shoulders there should

[WSG] When can I start using E4X

2008-01-15 Thread Keryx Web
He all! I have been searching the net for rumors and facts about E4X implementations. This is what I've found: Mozilla (Spidermonkey and Rhino) support E4X today - and has been doing it for a while! Adobe does too. So does (already/soon?) MbedThis. At least they are 100% committed.

[WSG] Test Plans

2008-01-15 Thread James Jeffery
Hi All. Im not familiar with test plans for Websites, i have my own way of running tests that usually run of what the client wants i.e: Is the header 320px heigh? and does it expand when the font size is incremented?. I have to do an in depth test plan for an assignment, which i would also use

Re: [WSG] When can I start using E4X

2008-01-15 Thread Christian Snodgrass
In short, if it isn't available in IE7, then not for at least a year at the very least, but more likely about 3+ years. I wouldn't try to right any critical applications with it any time soon. Keryx Web wrote: He all! I have been searching the net for rumors and facts about E4X

Re: [WSG] When can I start using E4X

2008-01-15 Thread Keryx Web
Keryx Web skrev: He all! Should have been Hi all! Answering (partially) my own question. Webkit: The E4X standard adds some XML-related features to the JavaScript language. We should consider adding these to the JavaScriptCore engine. I found the tracking bug as well:

RE: [WSG] Test Plans

2008-01-15 Thread Steve Green
When you talk about 'standard' or 'government' test plans, what you mean is documentation as per IEE 829. Unfortunately this is an appallingly bad standard that guarantees inefficient and ineffective testing. However, this is what most test consultants peddle because it's easy to teach and some

Re: [WSG] Test Plans

2008-01-15 Thread Michael Horowitz
I'd love to see the stuff online. I think this is a very important part of web standards. QA should not be an afterthought but an integral part of the process. Michael Horowitz Your Computer Consultant http://yourcomputerconsultant.com 561-394-9079 Steve Green wrote: When you talk about

Re: [WSG] Developing for Mac Browsers

2008-01-15 Thread Felix Miata
On 2008/01/15 12:05 (GMT+1000) Tate Johnson apparently typed: From my experience, Konqueror and Safari render pages identically. In addition, now that Safari is available on Windows ... there is virtually no difference between browsers that are available on Windows, OS X and Linux.

RE: [WSG] Test Plans

2008-01-15 Thread Steve Green
I've just sent James a heap of sample test plans and stuff, but unfortunately very little of it is online because it's mostly stuff I've collected over the years in case it was ever useful (it wasn't). If you want to learn about how to do bad testing, just Google IEE 829 or ISEB. If you want to

[WSG] Ordinal numbers with roman numerals

2008-01-15 Thread Keryx Web
Hi again! I do have a lot of questions - at least a few at the moment. How do you handle ordinal numbers in order to satisfy both the normal reader as well as screen readers. a. Today, when a screen reader *might* read both an elements textcontent and it's title-attribute, it's title

Re: [WSG] Acronym element

2008-01-15 Thread Keryx Web
Ross Bruniges skrev: the abbr and acronym elements have extra value in the fact that a screen reader will say out each letter opposed to trying to pronounce the word. Here is how I understand the difference between an acronym and other abbreviations: Acronyms should *not* be spelled as, but

Re: [WSG] Test Plans

2008-01-15 Thread James Jeffery
Guys, all i can say is WOW! and thanks alot. I didn't expect many replies and surprisingly everyone kept on topic (which is good). I thank everyone for their replies and thanks a million steve, really appreciate that mate. Ill spend all night tonight on research and as well as meeting the

[WSG] Out of Office AutoReply: WSG Digest

2008-01-15 Thread Lani.Cavanagh
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[WSG] Out of Office AutoReply: WSG Digest

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