Re: [WSG] All in the Head: Document Type Definition

2006-01-09 Thread Christian Montoya
to a particular markup syntax. Is this true for HTML DTD's? Are they XML as well? -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... rdpdesign.com ... cssliquid.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] br the correct use.

2006-01-13 Thread Christian Montoya
can use margins in css to add more whitespace. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... rdpdesign.com ... cssliquid.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] Title Attribute

2006-01-19 Thread Christian Montoya
see at http://dustindiaz.com/ -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... rdpdesign.com ... cssliquid.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints

Re: [WSG] Google and HTML5

2006-01-25 Thread Christian Montoya
/footer. http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-footer Thoughts? My thought: they have no idea how hard it is to introduce a new tag. Then again, they would probably advocate dropping support for IE, but we have to be practical. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com

Re: [WSG] Google and HTML5

2006-01-25 Thread Christian Montoya
On 1/25/06, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian Montoya wrote: On 1/25/06, Brian Cummiskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For example, they mention that footer is used a lot, and are thus suggesting a footertag/footer. http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-footer

Re: [WSG] Google and HTML5

2006-01-26 Thread Christian Montoya
to make a tag for every element on the page you might as well just serve an xml document with a stylesheet. I assume everyone knows this can be done, yes? It's not like we are talking about something new. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... rdpdesign.com ... cssliquid.com

Re: [WSG] Google and HTML5

2006-01-26 Thread Christian Montoya
? Miika, small is presentational markup, it makes the text smaller. No semantics as far as I know. It's also not new. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... rdpdesign.com ... cssliquid.com ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] Google and HTML5

2006-01-26 Thread Christian Montoya
On 1/26/06, Designer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian Montoya wrote: If you are going to make a tag for every element on the page you might as well just serve an xml document with a stylesheet. I assume everyone knows this can be done, yes? It's not like we are talking about something new

Re: [WSG] Google and HTML5

2006-01-28 Thread Christian Montoya
the examples at http://www.microformats.org/wiki/ and imagine trying to make an html tag for every single one. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... rdpdesign.com ... cssliquid.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] standards-happy javascript for faq

2006-01-29 Thread Christian Montoya
no trouble getting this to work, but if you do, let me know. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... rdpdesign.com ... cssliquid.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] Web Site Template Review

2006-01-30 Thread Christian Montoya
-increase. here's what I get with firefox developer extension live-css-edit: div.container { max-width:55em; /* makes a nice line length */ } #navlist { width:16em; } #div.side-nav { width:15em; } #div.content { margin-right:15em; } -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... rdpdesign.com

Re: [WSG] standards-happy javascript for faq

2006-01-30 Thread Christian Montoya
. In that case this JS might not be helpful... but as for why there isn't a way to detect the use of a screen reader with JS, I don't know. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... rdpdesign.com ... cssliquid.com ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] Failed Redesign and the Media

2006-01-30 Thread Christian Montoya
, and that encoding is not utilised for search engine reasons. Does the character-encoding in your web-page reduce your search engine positioning? Wow, no. Not at all. Please send Clear Blue Day another e-mail and ask them if they have any dinosaurs in their office. -- -- Christian Montoya

Re: Moral High-horse - was Re: [WSG] Failed Redesign and the Media

2006-01-31 Thread Christian Montoya
On 1/31/06, Lachlan Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian Montoya wrote: Please send Clear Blue Day another e-mail and ask them if they have any dinosaurs in their office. This is not intended as an attack on Christian, nor anyone else. Not at all. I'm dead serious on that However

Re: Moral High-horse - was Re: [WSG] Failed Redesign and the Media

2006-01-31 Thread Christian Montoya
, things can start to get hot - or confusing, especially for those who came to learn. Well if anyone did think my joke was offensive then I can refrain from making it again. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... rdpdesign.com ... cssliquid.com

Re: Moral High-horse - was Re: [WSG] Failed Redesign and the Media

2006-01-31 Thread Christian Montoya
, that's not good. Sure, it's hard to change something that hasn't changed in 6 years, but nothing should be so solid in the first place. And if your habits haven't changed in 10 years, then would you even be making any money? Isn't the web only 12 years old? -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com

Re: Moral High-horse - was Re: [WSG] Failed Redesign and the Medi a

2006-02-01 Thread Christian Montoya
On 2/1/06, Herrod, Lisa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If not, at least it's less competition for you! :) I wish. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... rdpdesign.com ... cssliquid.com ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] Which unit is better for web site font size?

2006-02-01 Thread Christian Montoya
On 2/1/06, Francesco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Christian Montoya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: html { font-size:100.01%; } body { font-size: 1em; } // this is a bug fix for browser compatibility Why do you need this? I don't use font-size hacks in my CSS yet my fonts look exactly

Re: [WSG] Call for a new (scalable) business case for web standards.

2006-02-02 Thread Christian Montoya
that emphasizes lower maintenance cost is key for small businesses. SEO is a plus. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... rdpdesign.com ... cssliquid.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

Re: [WSG] Display:Table

2006-02-04 Thread Christian Montoya
. If it was supported widely I would use it all the time. Also I'm pretty sure that CSS multi columns are for inline content, not block. You can't use it, AFAIK, to make block columns. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... rdpdesign.com ... cssliquid.com

Re: [WSG] DIV Target

2006-02-05 Thread Christian Montoya
trying to do? A more specific idea will help listers point you to an exact solution. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... rdpdesign.com ... cssliquid.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

Re: [WSG] cool FAQ page [follow up]

2006-02-06 Thread Christian Montoya
, thanks Thierry for putting all this together, I know sometimes clients want this functionality and this is something I might use in the future. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... rdpdesign.com ... cssliquid.com ** The discussion list

Re: [WSG] Opera Labs and Opera 9 Preview 2

2006-02-07 Thread Christian Montoya
been waiting for. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... rdpdesign.com ... cssliquid.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list

Re: [WSG] Today's lesson: Respect - be courteous up or leave

2006-02-09 Thread Christian Montoya
-topic here, that's the mail app's preference, probably. Gmail and the default Y! mail have top posting, but at least Y! mail can be changed. Maybe, but if I go through the trouble of bottom-posting in Gmail, others should too. Control-x, scroll, control-v. -- -- Christian Montoya

Re: [WSG] IE7 Compatibility Team

2006-02-10 Thread Christian Montoya
launches. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... rdpdesign.com ... cssliquid.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting

Re: [WSG] Target sued over non-accessible site

2006-02-11 Thread Christian Montoya
accessible. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... rdpdesign.com ... cssliquid.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list

Re: [WSG] Web design education

2006-02-13 Thread Christian Montoya
this one has far more influence than any big-name-design-firm. Far more. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... rdpdesign.com ... cssliquid.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] CSS Holy Gruel

2006-02-13 Thread Christian Montoya
from some browsers. I think that's what Ric was wondering. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... rdpdesign.com ... cssliquid.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] Target sued over non-accessible site

2006-02-13 Thread Christian Montoya
and identifying other company websites that are also making the same mistakes. That's all. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... rdpdesign.com ... cssliquid.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

Re: [WSG] TARGET in 4.01 Strict

2006-02-15 Thread Christian Montoya
the back button. If they want to return to your site, they will. If they don't, don't annoy them by keeping your weblog open when they actually try to leave your site by following a link. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... rdpdesign.com ... cssliquid.com

Re: [WSG] TARGET in 4.01 Strict

2006-02-15 Thread Christian Montoya
of behavior, but it doesn't mean they like it, just like they might be used to tiny text 760px width sites with pointless flash content, but still find it annoying. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... rdpdesign.com ... cssliquid.com

Re: [WSG] TARGET in 4.01 Strict

2006-02-15 Thread Christian Montoya
On 2/15/06, Al Sparber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian Montoya wrote: Maybe, but this is just another example of how marketers try to control the browsing experience. Things have to look a specific way, behave a specific way, etc... but there isn't any proof that this is good

Re: [WSG] TARGET in 4.01 Strict

2006-02-15 Thread Christian Montoya
On 2/15/06, Al Sparber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Christian Montoya [EMAIL PROTECTED] You're pre-supposing. If popup windows are scripted you reuse the same window object over and over. You can never have more than one open. Your statement is only true if the target attribute is used

Re: [WSG] Web design education

2006-02-16 Thread Christian Montoya
saying this because I've seen other students struggle with it. Next fall I'll most likely get to be a Teaching Assistant for the course, so I'll get an even better idea of just how much time and material students need to really learn CSS. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... rdpdesign.com

Re: [WSG] Overflow and inheritance problems with a 2-column layout

2006-02-17 Thread Christian Montoya
. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... rdpdesign.com ... cssliquid.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **

Re: [WSG] site check: FONT sizes

2006-02-18 Thread Christian Montoya
size by a very small amount anyway. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... rdpdesign.com ... cssliquid.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints

Re: [WSG] [CSS Question] Single Vs Multiple.

2006-02-18 Thread Christian Montoya
from page to page. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... rdpdesign.com ... cssliquid.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting

Re: [WSG] Address Element

2006-02-18 Thread Christian Montoya
(this would be you)... and it can only appear once. I think you could look at http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard for the microformat approach, or some other list members can recommend various options... definition lists might work well. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com

Re: [WSG] Address Element

2006-02-19 Thread Christian Montoya
for that. Still not too convinced... though might change it to hcard anyways. That would be a good idea. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... rdpdesign.com ... cssliquid.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] problem with Conditional Comments

2006-02-20 Thread Christian Montoya
On 2/20/06, Soeren Mordhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tried these CCs in multiple ways, but it does not work. For example: ... Any suggestions? As far as I know, if you have standalone installs of IE 5 and 6 on your machine, they will not see the conditional comments. -- -- Christian Montoya

Re: [WSG] Font Sizes - Best practice

2006-02-20 Thread Christian Montoya
designers but you do have to balance pleasing the client and the users. You can try to assure the client that default text size will not hurt their business, but there are no promises that they will listen. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... rdpdesign.com ... cssliquid.com

[WSG] Google pages and the XHTML doctype

2006-02-23 Thread Christian Montoya
is safer, etc, so I'll see how that goes. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... rdpdesign.com ... cssliquid.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some

Re: [WSG] Google pages and the XHTML doctype

2006-02-23 Thread Christian Montoya
asked them before giving the heads up to the list. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... rdpdesign.com ... cssliquid.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] Should logo not link to the homepage?

2006-02-23 Thread Christian Montoya
is for the logo to have a bit of text like home in it on subpages of the site. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... rdpdesign.com ... cssliquid.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

Re: [WSG] Converting the heathen: never again

2006-02-26 Thread Christian Montoya
make my layout flexible? - how can I meet accessibility checkpoints? - how can I cater to more browsers? - how can I make my website more successful? and then educate them, as un-condescendingly as possible, on standards/css/usability/etc. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com

Re: [WSG] o 0

2006-03-03 Thread Christian Montoya
, but in the following sentence: The cat has 0 balls of yarn. You should not use the number, but rather zero or none. And in the following data returned from a database: You have 0 items in your cart. There should have been a check for zero, with the alternate text returned: Your cart is empty. -- -- Christian

Re: [WSG] tableless layout stuff

2006-03-05 Thread Christian Montoya
... is there a better way to do this? Sorry, but you would have to use 'br' or a list. Pre wrapped text does not break, that's how it behaves. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... rdpdesign.com ... cssliquid.com ** The discussion list

[WSG] CAPS in stylesheets (was Re: digest for wsg@webstandardsgroup.org)

2006-03-12 Thread Christian Montoya
:) -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... rdpdesign.com ... cssliquid.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **

Re: [WSG] CAPS in stylesheets (was Re: digest for wsg@webstandardsgroup.org)

2006-03-12 Thread Christian Montoya
Christian Montoya HTML 4 style CSS is relevant to HTML 4. If you are using XHTML you must write your CSS selectors in lowercase. On 3/12/06, sime [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So that would make HTML4 practically redundant for new web sites? define practically redundant. I consider HTML

Re: [WSG] Tag clouds spit /

2006-03-13 Thread Christian Montoya
like a typical tag cloud but those are ugly anyway (just like mullets). -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... rdpdesign.com ... cssliquid.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] .net question

2006-03-16 Thread Christian Montoya
be as simple as asking him to go into code view and write custom forms. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... rdpdesign.com ... cssliquid.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] Use of Enter key to naviagte between form fields

2007-02-27 Thread Christian Montoya
you can press shift + tab (or w/e the Mac equivalent is) to move backwards... how will this be done with enter? shift + enter? Does your client even know that you can tab through form fields? -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com

Re: [WSG] background won't repeat-y

2007-03-04 Thread Christian Montoya
can't figure this one out and i've been at it all day. I'm almost certain that you need the positioning in that shorthand to make it work: background:url(some image) left top repeat-y; or center center, or anything really. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com

Re: [WSG] Site Check: lagunadesigns.com.au

2007-03-07 Thread Christian Montoya
features are different between the site plans. Finally, it seems like some of the links in the portfolio are out of date. Hope it helps. -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] PopUp windows

2007-03-07 Thread Christian Montoya
??? Understood, but have these marketers ever tried any other marketing techniques? Like using engaging copy, encouraging visitors to sign up for e-mail updates, or offering RSS? There are other ways to make a site profitable, some which are probably much more effective. -- -- Christian Montoya

Re: [WSG] web accessibility-some thoughts

2007-03-08 Thread Christian Montoya
comparable to physical public and business spaces rather than visual media. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] Markup for Poetry?

2007-03-29 Thread Christian Montoya
that and post the links. If the visual formatting of the poem is important to you (say, visual poems that have extra whitespace a the beginning or middle of lines) then you will probably need to use the pre tag. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com

Re: [WSG] best standard / format for imbeded mp3 player in browser

2007-04-14 Thread Christian Montoya
designed for hawks and falcons. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm

Re: [WSG] Template Review

2007-04-30 Thread Christian Montoya
everything be available on page load and don't bother with pseudo-links. Hope it helps. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] [potentially OT] HTML History

2007-05-03 Thread Christian Montoya
proposals for how HTML should have been implemented, XML DTD being one of them. AFAIK, SGML won out because it was the easiest and most forgiving. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com *** List Guidelines: http

[WSG] IE 7 body length problem

2007-05-08 Thread Christian Montoya
. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] IE 7 body length problem

2007-05-09 Thread Christian Montoya
seems like a hasLayout issue. I think I removed hasLayout on the body by applying 0 padding and margin and that's why I had to set the height to 100% to get it back. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com

Re: [WSG] Hack for all IE versions including 7

2007-05-19 Thread Christian Montoya
{ overflow-x: hidden; } Genius! /sarcasm -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] Suggestions rquired on my web portfolio

2007-05-23 Thread Christian Montoya
at : www.puneetsakhuja.com, and send me your comments/suggestions. I would make the background of the body black so that you don't have white peeking out where the background image ends. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com

Re: [WSG] Mocking up web interfaces

2007-05-23 Thread Christian Montoya
, but the actual mockups I usually end up doing with HTML CSS, since that's the easiest way I can see if they hold up to page interaction (enlarging text, changing viewport width, etc.). -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com

Re: [WSG] A CMS for POSH sites?

2007-05-25 Thread Christian Montoya
about using semantic HTML (it encourages em and strong at the least) and there are some plugins out there that add microformats support if you are interested in that. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com

Re: [WSG] Converting font size from pt to % or em

2007-05-25 Thread Christian Montoya
Windows' font-scaling to compensate, 1em = 100% = 18px = ?pt. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] Converting font size from pt to % or em

2007-05-25 Thread Christian Montoya
. The point that Felix is making is that setting the body to something small like 62.5% is very destructive, since user stylesheets and user settings usually just override the body rule (and ruin all your specific rules). -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com

Re: [WSG] Converting font size from pt to % or em

2007-05-25 Thread Christian Montoya
On 5/25/07, Paul Novitski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 5/25/2007 03:10 PM, Christian Montoya wrote: I hate to make a quick reply to a long post, but not all designers set body font size to 62.5% when creating websites. It's enough to start at 100% and set nested containers to fractions

Re: [WSG] Recommended screen size

2007-06-04 Thread Christian Montoya
layouts. Specifically can anyone recommend a site dealing with coverting existings layouts to relative sizing. You mean fluid layouts? I have a site for that: cssliquid.com. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com

Re: [WSG] Print style sheets

2007-06-08 Thread Christian Montoya
. Any suggestions for how to get around this? Should I have used a select list? Isn't this problem solved by putting return false; in the event handler? Or am I missing something? -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com

Re: [WSG] Safari now on Windows

2007-06-12 Thread Christian Montoya
On 6/11/07, Geoff Pack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Ellis wrote: Now I don't have to buy a Mac... Then how will you test for Safari 1, 2, IE 5 Mac, etc? By posting to the Web Standards Group mailing list (with the subject line, Mac test please). -- -- Christian Montoya

[WSG] Opera and Decimal Percentage Widths

2007-06-26 Thread Christian Montoya
%. It seems that Opera 9+ just doesn't do fractional sizes. Is this a bug in Opera? -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

[WSG] Site Build It and CSS???

2007-06-29 Thread Christian Montoya
it is to make a CSS template for it. Has anyone on this lists worked with it in the past? Please let me know how it is. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] Who's A Front End Developer?

2007-07-04 Thread Christian Montoya
. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] IE7 on XP security problems

2007-08-09 Thread Christian Montoya
=65); which is not a FF property, it's an IE ActiveX property. My suggestion is to hide this behind a conditional comment for IE 6 and use some other method with IE 7. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com

Re: [WSG] Standards and Blogs

2007-08-13 Thread Christian Montoya
/2006/02/13/serve-your-weblog-as-html-401/ -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join

Re: [WSG] will Eric Meyer�s C SS SCULPTOR put me out of job?

2007-08-27 Thread Christian Montoya
make more money). It won't replace anything. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join

Re: [WSG] Browser Check

2007-09-07 Thread Christian Montoya
be confusing. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] Accessible Open Source CMS

2007-09-12 Thread Christian Montoya
Pattern? http://www.textpattern.com/ I do: use Wordpress http://www.wordpress.org/ -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] prettier forms

2007-09-14 Thread Christian Montoya
/200701/styling_form_controls_with_css_revisited/ hope it helps. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join

Re: [WSG] question on 'logical tab order'

2007-09-22 Thread Christian Montoya
to set up a tabindex because that always messes with the natural behavior that someone would expect. Browsers are already set up to tab through things linearly, so just place them linearly. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net

Re: [WSG] Accessible Adobe Photoshop and flash With Jaws

2007-09-26 Thread Christian Montoya
and Photoshop. If I were you, this would be my argument and I would tell them that you should be able to pursue this diploma with whatever technologies you are able to work with. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Christian Montoya
about the technology behind websites. Well, I'm complaining about the people making peanut-gallery comments on this list who know nothing about business or law. Make the arguments you want based on your opinions, but don't make things up. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net

Re: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-04 Thread Christian Montoya
little evidence of this. I can't speak at all for Michelle's character but let's not make this a mudsling. It's way off-topic. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] Cost of Accessibility

2007-10-05 Thread Christian Montoya
Then they will still have to the right to have a bad, accessible site. The case has nothing to do with that. The case is deciding whether they have the right to discriminate against the blind. Let's all at least get on board with facts, ok? -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net

Re: [WSG] Cost of Accessibility

2007-10-05 Thread Christian Montoya
in your way of analyzing the issue here. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL

Re: [WSG] DOCTYPE prevents script processing in IE!

2007-10-08 Thread Christian Montoya
. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] Jquery and/or Yahoo UI

2007-10-12 Thread Christian Montoya
methods and you will be fine. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] Jquery and/or Yahoo UI

2007-10-13 Thread Christian Montoya
-friendly framework like jQuery, you may as well take advantage of the face that it makes all the proper DOM methods very easy to use. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] Jquery and/or Yahoo UI

2007-10-13 Thread Christian Montoya
On 10/13/07, Christian Montoya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/13/07, Jason Foss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry if this is a bit of a newbie question, but what's the issue with innerHTML? But if you are already using a very DOM-friendly framework like jQuery, you may as well take advantage

Re: [WSG] Jquery and/or Yahoo UI

2007-10-13 Thread Christian Montoya
interaction? You are correct. But Simon was also talking about standards compliance, which includes using DOM standards. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] Web Standards In Colleges and Universities

2007-10-21 Thread Christian Montoya
to him that people can do some really great stuff by hand and it's cheaper that way than relying on commercial software and if they can make it look just as good (or better), then he shouldn't force them to use Dreamweaver. At least that would be something of a compromise. -- -- Christian Montoya

Re: [WSG] Leopard mail and standards

2007-10-22 Thread Christian Montoya
.. it doesn't. You should do a test and send us your results. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join

Re: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash

2007-10-23 Thread Christian Montoya
types who are all involved in advertising/licensing related functions and they all use Firefox by choice. Have you ever asked your users what they actually use? Do you have any stats on browsers (Google analytics will tell you this)? If not, you are just making a poor assumption. -- -- Christian

Re: [WSG] Re: worst site I've seen lately

2007-10-28 Thread Christian Montoya
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Re: [WSG] Re: worst site I've seen lately

2007-10-29 Thread Christian Montoya
enough to look through their catalog. Maybe my tolerance for pain is lower than yours. It's just too hard to go through them all. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] SilverLight

2007-10-29 Thread Christian Montoya
Silverlight and Flash is that Silverlight is rendered XML while Flash is a compiled format. Therefore, Microsoft claims that Silverlight is much easier for screen readers, search spiders, etc. to work with. We'll see if things really do work out that way. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net

Re: [WSG] SilverLight

2007-10-29 Thread Christian Montoya
On 10/30/07, Derek Featherstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/29/07, Christian Montoya wrote: ... Silverlight is rendered XML while Flash is a compiled format. Therefore, Microsoft claims that Silverlight is much easier for screen readers, search spiders, etc. to work with. Christian - do

Re: [WSG] SilverLight

2007-10-29 Thread Christian Montoya
with Flash... not that I'm bashing Flash here. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL

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