Re: [WSG] Accessibility - Scanning PDFs

2008-10-29 Thread Dave Hall
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 16:32 +1100, Rae Buerckner wrote: PDF is an ISO standard and has been for some months, snip / Whoops missed that bit of news - thanks for the update *** List Guidelines:

Re: [WSG] Accessibility - Scanning PDFs

2008-10-29 Thread Michael MD
I don't think a pdf (or any other format) containing only images would have much chance of being accessible as such. ...does anyone have any recommendations for good OCR tools? How is scanning to PDF normally done in places that use PDF a lot for scanned documents (eg government sites) Is

Re: [WSG] JavaScript clarification please - versions

2008-10-29 Thread Keryx Web
Brett Patterson skrev: I am sorry, but I must ask. Are you saying that the term JavaScript is owned by Sun? Or just the Java part? And, yes, JavaScript is implemented in Internet Explorer. I see that your question has already been answered. I will give some additional points. Mocha was

Re: [WSG] JavaScript clarification please - object methods are properties

2008-10-29 Thread Keryx Web
Keryx Web skrev: JavaScript has no pure hash-tables, aka associative arrays. Object properties can be used to emulate associative arrays, though. A PHP programmer will feel very limited, though. A JavaScript object *is* not an array ... It can have methods as well as properties. geekspeak

Re: [WSG] Javascript classical inheritence [was: JavaScript clarification please]

2008-10-29 Thread Keryx Web
Mathew Robertson skrev: All this talk over JavaScript not supporting classes, is incorrect. I put together a little demo of classical class-based inheritence. The only real limitation is that you can't do protected members and friends and the syntax might be considered to be a little clunky.

Re: [WSG] CSS invisible to IE

2008-10-29 Thread Brett Patterson
There are conditional CSS HTML codes that can apply to FF. If you want to use them, you can try: !--[if N]!--link rel=stylesheet type=text/css href=the location.css /!--![endif]-- If the above does not work, try adding an additional N in !--[if N]!--, as in !--[if NN]!--. On Wed, Oct 29, 2008

Re: [WSG] JavaScript clarification please - versions

2008-10-29 Thread Brett Patterson
I like that explanation. I get it now. Thanks. One more quick question though, what is a let-block, in general? Thanks. That really does make it a lot easier to understand. Brett On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 6:04 AM, Keryx Web [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brett Patterson skrev: I am sorry, but I must

Re: [WSG] CSS invisible to IE

2008-10-29 Thread morten fjellman
Here is an article about hacks for Fx, Opera and IE: http://www.nealgrosskopf.com/tech/thread.asp?pid=20 On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Brett Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are conditional CSS HTML codes that can apply to FF. If you want to use them, you can try: !--[if

Re: [WSG] JavaScript clarification please - let blocks

2008-10-29 Thread Keryx Web
Brett Patterson skrev: I like that explanation. I get it now. Thanks. One more quick question though, what is a let-block, in general? Thanks. That really does make it a lot easier to understand. Brett Normally JavaScript does not have block scope. var foo = 1; { foo = 2; } alert(foo);

Re: [WSG] JavaScript clarification please - let blocks

2008-10-29 Thread Brett Patterson
OK. Thanks On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Keryx Web [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brett Patterson skrev: I like that explanation. I get it now. Thanks. One more quick question though, what is a let-block, in general? Thanks. That really does make it a lot easier to understand. Brett

Re: [WSG] Accessibility - Scanning PDFs

2008-10-29 Thread Andrew R
I don't think a pdf (or any other format) containing only images would have much chance of being accessible as such. ...does anyone have any recommendations for good OCR tools? How is scanning to PDF normally done in places that use PDF a lot for scanned documents (eg government sites)

[WSG] mxing value units

2008-10-29 Thread Ben Lau
Hi, I'm just wonder if there are any repercussions in mixing value units for short-handed properties? i.e. padding: 1em 0px 1em 20px; or background:url('bg.gif') 100% 25px no-repeat; or background:url('bg.gif') right 25px no-repeat; or background:url('bg.gif') 50% bottom no-repeat; ... etc. I

RE: [WSG] Accessibility - Scanning PDFs [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2008-10-29 Thread Kuchlmayr, Brigitte
Hi Michael Apart from Andrew's very good suggestions, here's some info on OCRing. * Does anyone have any recommendations for good OCR tools? The full version of Acrobat does a reasonable to very good job of OCRing images, it really depends on how clean the image is. Adobe claims that Acrobat

[WSG] Accessible date picker widget

2008-10-29 Thread Jens-Uwe Korff
Hi all, I'm looking for an accessible widget that lets you select a date. It should be lightweight (or compressible), not depend on frameworks and allow for keyboard use / screenreaders. The ones I've found so far couldn't take all hurdles. Thank you! Cheers, Jens The information

[WSG] PHP DEVELOPER SYDNEY NEEDED!

2008-10-29 Thread Levell Rampono
Hi All, I'm looking for a PHP developer to do some work on a number of site (Sydney). If you are looking for work please let me know [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, -Lev *** List Guidelines:

Re: [WSG] PHP DEVELOPER SYDNEY NEEDED! - ADMIN

2008-10-29 Thread russ - maxdesign
ADMIN Please reply to Levell off-list as this is off-topic Thanks Russ on 30/10/08 2:39 PM, Levell Rampono at wrote: Hi All, I¹m looking for a PHP developer to do some work on a number of site (Sydney). If you are looking for work please let me know [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL