[WSG] Back to basics!
Hi all, Could anyone tell me where there is information regarding character code 'usage' that is simple. I always use UTF-8 and, e.g., if I want to put a left quote in my text I can use quot; or #8220; Which is recommended? Any help, links etc most welcome. (I have googled, but . . .) Thanks, Bob *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
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Re: [WSG] Back to basics!
quot; and #8220; are not the same. quot; is #34; On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 13:08, designerdesig...@gwelanmor-internet.co.uk wrote: Hi all, Could anyone tell me where there is information regarding character code 'usage' that is simple. I always use UTF-8 and, e.g., if I want to put a left quote in my text I can use quot; or #8220; Which is recommended? Any help, links etc most welcome. (I have googled, but . . .) Thanks, Bob *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *** -- Алексей *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
RE: [WSG] Back to basics!
http://websemantics.co.uk/resources/common_symbols/ Mike -Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of designer Sent: 10 July 2009 10:08 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Back to basics! Hi all, Could anyone tell me where there is information regarding character code 'usage' that is simple. I always use UTF-8 and, e.g., if I want to put a left quote in my text I can use quot; or #8220; Which is recommended? Any help, links etc most welcome. (I have googled, but . . .) Thanks, Bob *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *** This is a confidential email. Tesco may monitor and record all emails. The views expressed in this email are those of the sender and not Tesco. Tesco Stores Limited Company Number: 519500 Registered in England Registered Office: Tesco House, Delamare Road, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire EN8 9SL VAT Registration Number: GB 220 4302 31 *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
RE: [WSG] Back to basics!
One of the main points of using Unicode is that you don't need to use entities, other than for a handful of chars used by HTML. I always keep a good reference handy, so that I can copy and paste straight into my files, the one I use is: http://www.calcresult.com/reference/text/unicode-reference.html But there are plenty of others, though not many are as comprehensive as that one. Regards, Mike -Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of designer Sent: 10 July 2009 10:08 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Back to basics! Hi all, Could anyone tell me where there is information regarding character code 'usage' that is simple. I always use UTF-8 and, e.g., if I want to put a left quote in my text I can use quot; or #8220; Which is recommended? Any help, links etc most welcome. (I have googled, but . . .) Thanks, Bob *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
Re: [WSG] Back to basics!
designer wrote: Hi all, Could anyone tell me where there is information regarding character code 'usage' that is simple. I always use UTF-8 and, e.g., if I want to put a left quote in my text I can use quot; or #8220; Which is recommended? Neither. quot; will give you a straight quote (which you don't want). #8220; is hard to read when you are editing your source (and takes up 7 bytes). Just use “, it *is* in UTF-8 after all. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
[WSG] IE7 scrollbar problem
I have spent a lot of time Googling this problem with no luck. I suspect it may be one of those things that are so obvious I just can't see. So I'm turning to the list for help. The page in question is: http://spark.andrewmaben.com/index.php? page=information and the CSS is at http://spark.andrewmaben.com/ resources/sparks2.css (Specifically line 655 ff). In IE7 (and I imagine other versions) when clicking on the Schools tab in the center panel, the school info appears with no scrollbar, a second click magically reveals both horizontal and vertical scrollbars, and clicking on another tab and then re-clicking Schools reveals a vertical scrollbar (the desired result). Works fine in Safari/Mac, Firefox/Mac/PC. HTML is valid 4.01 strict. There are CSS errors due to the use of some proprietary properties, but I don't think they are a factor. The Schools panel has a table contained within a fixed height div with overflow:auto. The Other panel, with a paragraph with overflow:auto is fine in IE7. I'd really appreciate any suggestions. (And yes, I know - mea culpa, I fell back on a layout table to hold the Weather). Thanks, Andrew Maben www.andrewmaben.net and...@andrewmaben.com In a well designed user interface, the user should not need instructions. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
RE: [WSG] Back to basics!
Could anyone tell me where there is information regarding character code 'usage' that is simple. I always use UTF-8 and, e.g., if I want to put a left quote in my text I can use quot; or #8220; Which is recommended? ... One of the main points of using Unicode is that you don't need to use entities, other than for a handful of chars used by HTML. Yes! Using UTF-8 in your web pages means NOT having to use HTML entities for text such as #241; or ecirc;. The only HTML entities you need to use in your character data are amp; for '' ampersand, lt; for '' less-than, and gt; for '' greater-than so that those characters don't confuse the HTML parser. To get you started, two basic rules are: 1) Save your HTML/PHP files with UTF-8 character encoding. In many text editors there's a character encoding option in the Save As dialog. 2) Declare UTF-8 as the character encoding in the HTML header, e.g.: meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=utf-8 / (XHTML has different character set declarations than HTML.) For more details see Richard Ishida's W3C Internationalization pages at http://www.w3.org/International/ Regards, Paul __ Paul Novitski Juniper Webcraft Ltd. http://juniperwebcraft.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***