Re: [WSG] Accessibility - Scanning PDFs

2008-10-28 Thread Dave Hall
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 14:39 +1000, Thiru Yoganathan wrote: > Hi Guys, > > > > I am dealing with a very large website, with around 20 000 PDF files. > > > > I want to test if these PDFs are Compliant with W3C standards. I know > that some of these files will be I just want to find the ones

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, Whoops missed that bit of news - thanks for the update *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelin

[WSG] Re: Some links for light reading (11/11/08)

2008-11-11 Thread Dave Hall
On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 22:33 +1100, russ - maxdesign wrote: > The Ethics of Quick Backlinking Strategy > > > Is your (website¹s) underwear showing? >

Re: [WSG] Question on servers and Email campaign

2008-11-11 Thread Dave Hall
On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 11:53 +1100, Luke Hoggett wrote: > Hmm, > > strange that they could not write software that either: > a) could be installed with out requiring root access, say a restricted > user account specifically for this software > or > b) they can't provide you with instructions how t

RE: [WSG] Web governance

2008-11-23 Thread Dave Hall
On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 16:58 +1100, Tony Paterson wrote: > Ladies and Gents > > I am seeking JV partners for some of our company’s websites > > If you have any interest please call or email me And how is that even vaguely related to web standards, let alone the question posed? None of your site

Re: [WSG] Which is read first? Scripts or Styles?

2008-11-24 Thread Dave Hall
On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 10:24 -0500, Brett Patterson wrote: > I have no idea why, but for some reason I cannot remember which is > read first! Are scripts or styles read first? As others have mentioned, they are read in the order they occur in the document. > And which is the recommended order to

Re: [WSG] Fw: The Great Firewall of Australia

2008-11-27 Thread Dave Hall
On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 21:19 +1100, nedlud wrote: > Okay, so I *should* be concerned about this, in spite of what my > common sense tells me. > > So what can we, as web professionals (in Australia), do about it? > > I've signed the getup petition. What's the next step? You could _write_ a letter

Re: [WSG] the Name attribute

2008-11-27 Thread Dave Hall
On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 10:18 +, David Dorward wrote: > Brett Patterson wrote: > > Where could I find a good information site about the > > document.images.imageId script line, please? > > http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-DOM-Level-1-19981001/level-one-html.html#ID-26809268 > > > And if you are tr

Re: [WSG] the Name attribute

2008-11-28 Thread Dave Hall
ard Cheers Dave PS this wasn't supposed to be taken as advocating the use of blinking text :) > > On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 6:04 AM, Dave Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 10:18 +, David Dorward wrote: > > Brett Patterson wrote

Re: [WSG] the Name attribute

2008-11-28 Thread Dave Hall
On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 13:07 +, Stuart Foulstone wrote: > Blinking text is against standards in itself, so how can you do it in a > standards compliant way? Using the sample I posted - see below. That validates. Cheers Dave > > On Fri, November 28, 2008 10:45 am, Dav

Re: [WSG] Downloading Fonts

2008-12-08 Thread Dave Hall
On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 12:33 -0800, David Hucklesby wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Marvin Hunkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Hi. > >> rebuilding my site. > >> and i have the following fonts in my style sheet. > >> > >> georgia, century school book, courrier, new courrier, comic m

RE: [WSG] Re: Users who deliberately disable JavaScript

2009-01-30 Thread Dave Hall
On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 23:48 -0500, Rick Faircloth wrote: > According to statistics supplied by w3schools.com, as of Jan 08 > approximately 95% of users had JS enabled. > > Check out http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp > and look towards the middle of the page for the stats. Just