Re: [WSG] Mobile sites

2012-05-15 Thread Andrew Harris
altogether :-) And while I've been rabbiting on writing this email Enid has come back and made a similar point far more economically than I. -- Andrew Harris and...@woowoowoo.com http://www.woowoowoo.com ~~~ * ~~~ On 16 May 2012 13:12, Doc2626 dcamp2...@hotmail.com wrote: Grant, I think

[WSG] accessibility statements... what are they worth?

2011-09-04 Thread Andrew Harris
sort of trigger that can be used to prompt them to action? After all, this isn't just some business selling widgets, it's a public transport ticketing system! -- Andrew Harris and...@woowoowoo.com http://www.woowoowoo.com

[WSG] spam in the site...

2010-12-12 Thread Andrew Harris
A query about the http://webstandardsgroup.org/ site. There's a heap of spammy stuff in it... eg: check the resources section! http://webstandardsgroup.org/manage/resource.cfm The decreasing signal to noise ratio just makes the site useless, is anyone maintaining/managing it? -- Andrew Harris

Re: [WSG] lazyweb://schema.agnostic.URLs

2010-11-10 Thread Andrew Harris
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[WSG] lazyweb://schema.agnostic.URLs

2010-11-09 Thread Andrew Harris
of the information now, or even whether it's correct usage - can anyone shed some light? or even offer an alternative solution! I'm vaguely thinking there might be an elegant apache solution for serving the right CSS. -- Andrew Harris and...@woowoowoo.com http://www.woowoowoo.com

Re: [WSG] lazyweb://schema.agnostic.URLs

2010-11-09 Thread Andrew Harris
oh, thank you! On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Mathew Robertson mathew.blair.robert...@gmail.com wrote: works fine. http://www.no-http.org/ http://www.webreference.com/html/tutorial2/3.html cheers, Mathew Robertson -- Andrew Harris and...@woowoowoo.com http://www.woowoowoo.com

[WSG] to submit or not to submit?

2010-09-08 Thread Andrew Harris
all I had on my machine at the time so I haven't done any more tests, but I thought it was curious. Any ideas on what might be the 'standard' behaviour - if one is specified? failing that, how about just a 'desired' behaviour ;-) -- Andrew Harris and...@woowoowoo.com http://www.woowoowoo.com

[WSG] HTML5 offline storage question

2010-08-08 Thread Andrew Harris
designed for this sort of heavy lifting? are there storage limitations? on an iPad? I've found a few examples of the tool in action and read bits and pieces, but it all seems to be about storing small chunks of data, not humunguous great whumps of it. -- Andrew Harris and...@woowoowoo.com http

[WSG] that old IE6 thing...

2010-06-30 Thread Andrew Harris
(all versions): 23% Blog 2: Audience: Students IE6: 9.8% Firefox (all versions): 40.5% Proving once again, that knowing your audience is key. (and perhaps that librarians are a bit slow to upgrade ;) -- Andrew Harris and...@woowoowoo.com http://www.woowoowoo.com

Re: [WSG] Help with mobile MIME type always fails test

2010-04-16 Thread Andrew Harris
of my mobile template, if you are running a CMS you may have a similar setting. I'm going to leave that until Monday when I've got time to back out of it if it causes problems :-) -- Andrew Harris and...@woowoowoo.com http://www.woowoowoo.com

[WSG] developing a web strategy...

2009-12-01 Thread Andrew Harris
standards, so there's the tie-in! -- Andrew Harris and...@woowoowoo.com http://www.woowoowoo.com ~~~ * ~~~ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join

Re: [WSG] developing a web strategy...

2009-12-01 Thread Andrew Harris
themselves or submitting proposals etc? What are you wanting out of this process? Cheers, Nathanael Boehm -- Andrew Harris and...@woowoowoo.com http://www.woowoowoo.com ~~~ * ~~~ *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] [OT] Google search/index/webmaster help

2009-11-01 Thread Andrew Harris
to convince our fine institution of that ;-) -- Andrew Harris and...@woowoowoo.com http://www.woowoowoo.com ~~~ * ~~~ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] [OT] Google search/index/webmaster help

2009-11-01 Thread Andrew Harris
needed. Now, the sitemap.xml as well as the kml and gpx feeds are all served correctly as text/xml - did I say how I love this community? - and I've a grudging respect for MySource Matrix too! -- Andrew Harris and...@woowoowoo.com http://www.woowoowoo.com

Re: [WSG] [OT] Google search/index/webmaster help

2009-10-30 Thread Andrew Harris
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[WSG] [OT] Google search/index/webmaster help

2009-10-29 Thread Andrew Harris
://go.unimelb.edu.au/6t6 (1 result = totally pathetic!) Hopefully, it's nothing completely bleeding obvious that will humiliate me in front of my peers ;-) -- Andrew Harris and...@woowoowoo.com http://www.woowoowoo.com

Re: [WSG] [OT] Google search/index/webmaster help

2009-10-29 Thread Andrew Harris
://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd; url locwww.unimelb.edu.au/campuses/maps.html/loc /url url locwww.unimelb.edu.au/campuses/maps2.html/loc /url /urlset then submit you new sitemap in google webmaster tools Goodluck Craig Andrew Harris wrote: Yes, I know it's off topic, but I

Re: [WSG] [OT] Google search/index/webmaster help

2009-10-29 Thread Andrew Harris
at the metadata tags, but it makes me wonder. Funny how asking your peers to check your work suddenly makes you aware of basic things you'd missed... yes, my pages weren't valid - but they are now!!! ;-p -- Andrew Harris and...@woowoowoo.com http://www.woowoowoo.com

[WSG] legal list numbering

2009-08-25 Thread Andrew Harris
this is addressed in html 5. * BTW: I've read lots of legal documents and I reckon the text can mostly be replaced with blah blah blah without affecting their meaning. -- Andrew Harris and...@woowoowoo.com http://www.woowoowoo.com

Re: [WSG] Chrome now higher traffic than IE

2009-03-02 Thread Andrew Harris
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Re: [WSG] Question on servers and Email campaign

2008-11-11 Thread Andrew Harris
did right! -- Andrew Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.woowoowoo.com ~~~ * ~~~ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL

Re: [WSG] Marking Up Poems

2008-06-19 Thread Andrew Harris
A poem is, essentially, a block quotation, is it not? I'd probably be throwing in a cite attribute too :-) http://reference.sitepoint.com/html/blockquote/cite -- Andrew Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.woowoowoo.com

[WSG] making big selections

2008-05-01 Thread Andrew Harris
thoughts? either on the problem, or suggested solutions / UI libraries / examples. -- Andrew Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.woowoowoo.com ~~~ * ~~~ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] Where did I come from?

2008-01-18 Thread Andrew Harris
the behaviour or use unnecessary 'post' values that cause 'resubmit' problems. That being said, I think a back button is a bad idea as it only ingrains this behaviour... users end up believing if there is no button, they can't get back. -- Andrew Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.woowoowoo.com

Re: [WSG] Browser test: Construct

2007-12-08 Thread Andrew Harris
yum! that is excellent - FF2 on my mac loved it, but Safari 3 didn't respond to keyboard commands :-( I just created a layout tool: http://lab.christianmontoya.com/construct/ -- Andrew Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.woowoowoo.com

[WSG] Re: multilingual website advice

2007-11-01 Thread Andrew Harris
Wow, what can I say? Just three hours ago, I asked a question and have already received three careful, helpful replies, with exactly the sort of information I was seeking! Thank you so much, this list is brilliant! On 11/2/07, Andrew Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been asked to work

[WSG] safari display issue : help please!

2007-08-23 Thread Andrew Harris
display the form as it should. Thus far, I have had no luck - any takers? Worth noting that safari 3 displays the page correctly, but that's not much help in the here and now. cheers. -- Andrew Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.woowoowoo.com

[WSG] commenting javascript in script tags

2007-04-25 Thread Andrew Harris
authors? -- Andrew Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.woowoowoo.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] commenting javascript in script tags

2007-04-25 Thread Andrew Harris
a variable relevant to a particular page. So, abhorrent as it might be, the script snippet has to live in the head. -- Andrew Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.woowoowoo.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] WANAU - anyone heard of them?

2007-04-11 Thread Andrew Harris
systems - to upgrade or change vendor would cost many many millions of dollars. Not valid and therefore, strictly speaking, not accessible. Still, I couldn't be 100% certain, but I'd take a guess that no-one apart from the validator cared or even noticed. -- Andrew Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

[WSG] colour matching transparent png files

2007-04-10 Thread Andrew Harris
in Firefox and IE7 goes crazy or pretty good in both and Opera and Safari fall off. It's cross browser incompatibility gone mad! Is it just my browsers? (I doubt it!) Has anyone got any experience or resources that they can ease my troubles with? -- Andrew Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [WSG] colour matching transparent png files

2007-04-10 Thread Andrew Harris
. Saved me heaps of time and frustration though! -- Andrew Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.woowoowoo.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join

Re: [WSG] colour matching transparent png files

2007-04-10 Thread Andrew Harris
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