Re: [WSG] Using target=_blank
Firstly I have no argument for you to give your customer. Having a new window is not like having windows pop up automatically. If there is a requirement for the content to be displayed in a new window then why use a different doc type for that one page? Now when I mention requirement' I mean for a legitimate reason other than advertisements and the like. Say for example the new window when banking or a tutorial movie that does not need to take up the entire browser real estate.. I don't believe they should be used to own or contain the visitor. Your content should be enough to keep them there as long as they feel they need to be there. If your stats are showing that they are leaving soon after arriving then either your content is not what they were expecting or needed or it is not up to the standard your peers are offering. And as for the Jakob Nielson argument I, for one, have never subscribed to that point of view. AF Ryan Lin wrote: Hi all, With the XHTML Strict DTD, forcing a new window to open for a link via target=_blank is not a valid semantic method anymore. I myself believe that whether to open in a new or current window should be user decision, not wed designer/developer. If I am using Strict DTD, the only way to achieve opening the new window is through JavaScripts. So what argument should I give to my clients not to use target=_blank ? If I say that won't validate your page, they won't care. So any non-technical argument that I can give to them? Ryan *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Strange CSS problem
Michael Horowitz wrote: At http://theatomicconservative.typepad.com/ when I click on any of my links the text at Subscribe to this blog's feed turns red (which is the color is should change to when clicked. Hi Michael, It's not doing it here - FF 2.0.0.11 or IE 6.0. Andrew *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Preventing copying of text from web page.
Nick Roper wrote: Hi, We have been asked by a client whether it is possible to any extent to prevent/deter users from copying content from a particular web page. Apart from putting copyright information on it and relying on visitors integrity to not plagiarize it there is not a great deal they can do. That is unless they have deep pockets and a team of lawyers to track their information and hunt any offenders down. Even if the information is displayed as an image they can always have someone type it up. If they are so concerned about their information then perhaps they shouldn't publish it to the web? Andrew *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
[WSG] Conflict between Mime Type and Document Type
G'day, I see this warning often when using the W3C validator and figured I must be doing something wrong, but as it is a warning I never bothered looking into it. Now I've seen it on the results from this site so it has roused my curiosity. Can some explain to me why this is occurring and how it is overcome. Thanks. Andrew *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Conflict between Mime Type and Document Type
Joe Ortenzi wrote: which site is the this site that is showing you the message: Conflict between Mime Type and Document Type My apologies. In my haste before the Hail storm hit I sent this off without the URL. http://www.bigbaer.com/css_tutorials/css.image.text.wrap.htm Andrew *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] form problem
Michael Horowitz provided the following information on 25/02/2008 9:22 AM: I fixed that and the problem is still occurring. Also put the = in after the for It doesn't appear that you have uploaded it then. I tested your code with and without the change. Post change it works as it should. Andrew *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Validating Flash
Tim MacKay provided the following information on 27/03/2008 4:37 PM: Hi List, My question is about embedding Flash on html pages (just certain elements -- not talking about full flash sites). I always get errors from HTML Tidy and the validator about the object and embed tags, which wrecks my validated markup. What is the standards-compliant way to embed Flash elements so that my site validates and stops throwing errors? Thanks, Tim Hi Tim, I always use the following code and my pages always validate. Is it standards compliant? Someone can answer that for me perhaps... Andrew script type=text/javascript AC_FL_RunContent( 'codebase','http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0','width','180','height','185','title','Wonderful','src','swf/my_wonderful','quality','high','pluginspage','http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer','movie','swf/index_testimonial' ); //end AC code /script noscript object type=application/x-shockwave-flash data=swf/my_wonderful.swf width=100 height=100 param name=movie value=swf/my_wonderful.swf / param name=quality value=high / /object /noscript *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] How to make diagonal lines change color?
Sounds more like a web design issue rather than a web standards issue. Maybe it should be taken to a web design list. Try - http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/adobe-dreamweaver/?v=1t=directorych=webpub=groupssec=dirslk=1 Andrew. Laert Jansen provided the following information on 11/04/2008 8:54 AM: Hello everyone. Well there´s something I want to do but I have no idea if it´s possible to be done and how would I do this. My website (www.laertjansen.com http://www.laertjansen.com) has some two color diagonal lines as a bg. What I want to do is: On the mouse over color X it becomes color Y On the mouse over color Y it becomes color X Is it possible to be done? Thanks a lot for any help -- Laert Jansen www.laertjansen.com http://www.laertjansen.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Spam mail got through?
Probably best to send this to Member help rather than to the list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andrew kate provided the following information on 28/04/2008 5:36 AM: Hi I just got an e-mail from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear friend We mainly sell electrical product . such as digital cameras, mobile,LCD TV,xbox, Laptops,DV,Mp4, GPS, and so on.All items come with 12month international warranty . If you want to buy something , please contact us freely , It looked suspeciously like spam to me. Has it come from WSG? Kate *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] JS Image Slider
James Jeffery provided the following information on 30/04/2008 12:27 AM: that will mean that users without CSS will get a bunch of images in a list You have users that block CSS?? I have never come across that. Can you give an instance as to where and why you would cater for these visitors? Thanks. Andrew *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Alt versus Title Attribute
Tom Livingston provided the following information on 28/05/2008 3:26 AM: Can anyone give me a clear example/explanation of the difference between the alt attribute and the title attribute? How about a real 'attributes for dummies' reference?? The difference seems very slight to me... Hi Tom, I may be wrong here but I've always worked on the premise that alt is alternative text for when the image isn't available (For whatever reason) and the title is the title of the image. An example would be alt=Customer Care Logo title=We Care about you However as I am always learning I may learn something here today. Andrew *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Alt versus Title Attribute
kate provided the following information on 28/05/2008 5:21 AM: The alt tag which is'nt really the right discription is really called the attribute tag. Kate Patrick H. Lauke also provided the following information on 28/05/2008 5:33 AM: or...the alt attribute, if you want to correct people... That's all well and good and I for one thank you for clarifying that but how does that answer Tom's query? Andrew. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] HTML special characters coding
kevin_erickson provided the following information on 18/06/2008 6:55 AM: Hello, I am looking for advice on if the best way to code for special characters is to use the actual character or the attribute value or the alt code? i.e. for the ampersand should one use or amp;? Does it matter? I know that Dreamweaver automates some of this but what is the best practice? I prefer to use the character entity reference. A great reference can be found here: http://www.digitalmediaminute.com/reference/entity/index.php Using over amp; will get picked on when checking your Mark up validation. http://validator.w3.org/ (Although I'm not sure if this is the case with every doctype (I should check this one day)) Andrew *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Odd space forming under navigational bar
bill kroon provided the following information on 1/07/2008 2:27 PM: Hey all im trying to make what i though was a rather simple site. All is going well until now, i have this annoying gap under the nav bar and i cant seem to see what causing it. Im hopeing its something and a fresh pair of eyes will pick it up quickly. anyway heres the link http://serenal.net.au/ Hi Bill, Seems to be quite a few issues there. (See IE v FF) Looks more like web design/ Basic html issues rather than a web standards issue. Maybe your question would be best answered at a web design list. Try - http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/adobe-dreamweaver/?v=1t=directorych=webpub=groupssec=dirslk=1 Andrew. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
[WSG] Adobe's PDF format now an ISO standard
http://www.iso.org/iso/pressrelease.htm?refid=Ref1141 The* Portable Document Format (PDF)*, undeniably one of the most commonly used formats for electronic documents, is now accessible as an ISO International Standard - ISO 32000-1. - Andrew *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
