Re: [WSG] Embedding XML in HTML

2007-03-02 Thread David Dorward
says HTML, it means exactly that, and not XHTML. It would still be wrong if it was XHTML since it isn't in a different namespace. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] tabindex and accesskey

2007-03-03 Thread David Dorward
, BUTTON, INPUT, LABEL, LEGEND, and TEXTAREA elements are required to use the 'accesskey' attribute. This tool really isn't very good. WCAG says important (and they quoted it), not all. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] PopUp windows

2007-03-07 Thread David Dorward
document in it. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL

Re: [WSG] PopUp windows

2007-03-07 Thread David Dorward
a new window/tab. And they, I suspect, would be the people least able to handle a new window spawned by the webpage. The back button is one of the first things people learn about browsers. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] doing things right

2007-03-12 Thread David Dorward
Barney Carroll wrote: Wo! Well said, Hassan. You're right, a string to replace null values is significant. I take back my earlier point - a character could be introduced with JS, I suppose. How is that any different? The resulting document is the same. -- David Dorward

Re: [WSG] doing things right

2007-03-12 Thread David Dorward
Barney Carroll wrote: David Dorward wrote: Barney Carroll wrote: Wo! Well said, Hassan. You're right, a string to replace null values is significant. I take back my earlier point - a character could be introduced with JS, I suppose. How is that any different? The resulting document

Re: [WSG] doing things right

2007-03-12 Thread David Dorward
supports JavaScript and everyone will get a clean DOM. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] doing things right

2007-03-12 Thread David Dorward
Barney Carroll wrote: David Dorward wrote: Intranet? Where did this start being limited to an intranet? ... But HTML is not a presentation language, it describes structure / semantics. Internet, David. Sorry, somehow I misread that. Honestly, HTML may be very nice indeed, but I'd

Re: [WSG] pop-up - onblur question

2007-03-28 Thread David Dorward
the mouse pointer and the popup to gain the focus as the mouse travelled to the popup to gain the focus as it passed over them, it wasn't possible to get from the link to the window before it closed! -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] pop-up - onblur question

2007-03-28 Thread David Dorward
/mysterymeatnavigation.html -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] pop-up - onblur question

2007-03-28 Thread David Dorward
fallback should the JavaScript not run for any reason. not sure what you're talking about here, i guess the link at the bottom, but it does work without javascript. No, the bio link itself, and it doesn't work without JavaScript. It just links to the top of the page. -- David Dorward

Re: [WSG] pop-up - onblur question

2007-03-29 Thread David Dorward
, and return false from it to prevent the link being followed. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] input name and id

2007-04-16 Thread David Dorward
(since support for that method is stronger then nesting the input inside the label element). [1] This is often convenient, and in the case of radio buttons - essential. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] handling accessible form

2007-04-22 Thread David Dorward
Patrick H. Lauke wrote: Despite Internet Explorer's inexplicable belief to the contrary, id and name are not the same thing. Care to elaborate on what the issues in IE are? It thinks id and name are the same thing. http://dorward.me.uk/tmp/id-vs-name.html -- David Dorward

Re: [WSG] Valid and well-formed

2007-04-27 Thread David Dorward
with a Doctype that it recognises as being XHTML. http://validator-test.w3.org/whatsnew.html#t2007-04-19 -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] Valid and well-formed

2007-04-28 Thread David Dorward
Stuart Foulstone wrote: Validation concerns the correctness of the syntax of the code, i.e. if the tags, etc. are properly coded. Well-formedness concerns the structure of the document, i.e. where in the document headings , paragraphs, etc go. You've got those backwards. -- David Dorward

Re: [WSG] Valid and well-formed

2007-04-28 Thread David Dorward
Lachlan Hunt wrote: That article is actually only talking about the cases where the W3C validator has known XML limitations. Which are removed in the current beta. http://validator-test.w3.org/ -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

RE: [WSG] Acronym tag usage

2007-05-10 Thread David Dorward
rather then an acronym? If not, how do you pronounce it? Mesa? The HTML spec is, sadly, unclear on this point. WCAG suggests: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/#text-abbr -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk

RE: [WSG] Acronym tag usage

2007-05-10 Thread David Dorward
say in plain text, and the example given uses the title attribute: PWelcome to the ACRONYM title=World Wide WebWWW/ACRONYM! (and its another initilism mislabelled as an acronym) -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk

RE: [WSG] Semantics and small

2007-05-16 Thread David Dorward
://www.w3.org/TR/html4/present/graphics.html#h-15.2.1 -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join

Re: [WSG] A CMS for POSH sites?

2007-05-25 Thread David Dorward
/notes.html#h-B.3.7 -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL

Re: [WSG] dl v table for form layout

2007-05-25 Thread David Dorward
On 25 May 2007, at 15:40, Stuart Foulstone wrote: The for attribute should NOT be used when the label tag encloses the label text. Why not? The specification doesn't appear to forbid it. Does it cause problems in any user agents? -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http

Re: self-closing tags in HTML, was: [WSG] A CMS for POSH sites?

2007-05-29 Thread David Dorward
On 29 May 2007, at 12:50, Alastair Campbell wrote: On 5/25/07, David Dorward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not causing validation issues does not make them fine; even if the vast majority of user agents don't respect it, img / in an HTML document means An image element followed by a greater than

Re: self-closing tags in HTML, was: [WSG] A CMS for POSH sites?

2007-05-29 Thread David Dorward
On 29 May 2007, at 14:55, Andrew Maben wrote: On May 29, 2007, at 9:26 AM, David Dorward wrote: Because, in an HTML document, an XHTML style img tag unambiguously means An image element followed by a greater than sign. Sorry to be dense, I'm trying to grasp this concept. Does (at least

Re: [WSG] Re: Use of Fieldsets other than in form?

2007-06-06 Thread David Dorward
controls, their labels, and their relationships to each other. The DTD almost always errs towards the liberal, it is expected that documents be written according to the prose of the specification and not just the machine readable components of it. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] Back to the Future

2007-06-12 Thread David Dorward
. So, any tips to do this without reverting all the way back to 1996 tables and spacer gifs? Or am I doomed to non-standards hell? Does 'work' really mean 'look the same'? -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] Skip to Content?

2007-06-28 Thread David Dorward
feel you must hide content from users who can see, then please bring it back into view when they point at it. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] Shadow validation

2007-07-10 Thread David Dorward
it, then copy/paste the URL (don't forget to convert ampersands to entities). Or see http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/validation.html#icon -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] an inline element (inside a block element) sibling of another block element

2007-07-26 Thread David Dorward
On 26 Jul 2007, at 11:14, Micky Hulse wrote: Rimantas Liubertas wrote: Why not to check it? From HTML 4.01 Strict DTD: ...snip... Woohoo, A is here. Case closed. Well, that went over my head... Mind explaining? http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/intro/sgmltut.html#h-3.3 -- David Dorward http

Re: [WSG] Target 1st item in list

2007-07-27 Thread David Dorward
On 27 Jul 2007, at 00:08, Nick Roper wrote: I need to target the 1st item in a list. http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/selector.html#first-child But: http://www.webdevout.net/browser-support-css#css2pseudoclasses -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] Auto scaling within a table's background image

2007-08-01 Thread David Dorward
where it was absolutely necessary to use tables for layout. It might be the only way to achieve a given presentation, but is that presentation really absolutely necessary? -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] Auto scaling within a table's background image

2007-08-02 Thread David Dorward
; 50 what? -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL

Re: [WSG] setting fontsize in body

2007-08-07 Thread David Dorward
default, only smaller and harder to read. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join

Re: [WSG] Internet Explorer and XHTML support (was: (X)HTML Best Practice Sheet goes live - correct link)

2007-08-10 Thread David Dorward
should be able to use all their features by now? And aren't there several third party plugins that add support for SVG to IE anyway? -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] (X)HTML Best Practice Sheet goes live - correct link

2007-08-10 Thread David Dorward
repeated messages), it is limiting quotes to only relevant material. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] (X)HTML Best Practice Sheet goes live - correct link

2007-08-10 Thread David Dorward
would. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] Investigating the proposed alt attribute recommendations in HTML 5

2007-08-30 Thread David Dorward
if a picture is of my car or my birthday party before telling my browser to load the thumbnail. Lots of people seem to be hung up on the idea that alt text is for blind people, but there are quite a few other use cases for the attribute. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http

Re: [WSG] Investigating the proposed alt attribute recommendations in HTML 5

2007-09-10 Thread David Dorward
engine indexing bots, and probably a host of other use cases. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] Speaking of alt tags . . .

2007-09-11 Thread David Dorward
error) to mean The author has not considered alternative text at all, so the user agent should present as much information as is known (such as the file name) to the user in the hope they can infer some meaning from it. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] Accessible - Standard Compliant - Club Membership System

2007-09-14 Thread David Dorward
is something of a pain. I wouldn't look so far to a possible (and increasingly unlikely) future at the expense of the present. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] Accessible - Standard Compliant - Club Membership System

2007-09-14 Thread David Dorward
?). They are still planning this, but the point is that HTML is not dead, (real) XHTML is still badly supported among user agents, and support for other namespaces mixed with XHTML (which is the only major benefit for it on the client side) is even worse. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http

Re: [WSG] Encoded mailto links

2007-10-17 Thread David Dorward
are either highly ineffective, or block out users you want as well as spam bots. I take the view that email addresses are going to end up on spam lists eventually no matter what I do, and just run spam filtering software. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] Input tag - closing tag optional?

2007-11-23 Thread David Dorward
EMPTY, this is strengthened to the rule that the end tag must be omitted.' -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] Numbers in HTML 5 Was: Appropriate use of the ABBR tag and Roman Numerals

2007-12-02 Thread David Dorward
that not available from the lang attribute? -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm

Re: [WSG] Downloading a WAV

2007-12-11 Thread David Dorward
and comments welcome? What is inaccessible about that? -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] Opera files antitrust against MS: standards one part

2007-12-14 Thread David Dorward
. The market does not have perfect information though, very large numbers of consumers are either unaware of alternatives to Internet Explorer exist, or that there are benefits to switching. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] w3c link checker

2008-01-07 Thread David Dorward
a contact link for the link checker. They have limited resources to devote to providing free QA services. You can download the link checker and install it on your own systems, if you do so you can change the cap. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] w3c link checker

2008-01-08 Thread David Dorward
://www.perl.com/download.csp when you hit step one, the link isn't all that useful). -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe

Re: [WSG] Where did I come from?

2008-01-18 Thread David Dorward
object to go back or forward...I just want to know what the previous page was...so I can create a button to go back to it... The user already has several of those. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] Where did I come from?

2008-01-18 Thread David Dorward
them a disservice. Additionally, an in page control marked back causes confusion since users don't know if it will act in the same way as their back button or go forward to the previous URL (which it is will alter the effect on the normal back button). -- David Dorward http

Re: [WSG] Usability for downloading documents

2008-01-28 Thread David Dorward
On 28 Jan 2008, at 18:04, Rochester oliveira wrote: Doesn't have a way to force the don't download? It is difficult to make a PDF open in a plugin if the user doesn't have that plugin installed. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] Conflict between Mime Type and Document Type

2008-01-28 Thread David Dorward
stick to HTML 4.01. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL

Re: [WSG] This IE8 controversy

2008-01-29 Thread David Dorward
about Bluetooth to write this section? It is going to be a long time before claiming conformance to HTML5 is going to be a sane thing to do in production. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List

Re: [WSG] long description and its implementation

2008-02-02 Thread David Dorward
On 2 Feb 2008, at 06:26, dwain wrote: i was saddened by the D link being deprecated. I'm not; as techniques go, it is ugly and confusing. Unless a user is aware of the convention, they are left wondering what a link labelled d means. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http

Re: [WSG] long description and its implementation

2008-02-04 Thread David Dorward
data=my.swf pDetailed alternative content/p pIncluding multiple paragraphs and img src=foo.jpeg alt=images longdesc=foo.jpeg.html/p /object Since object is designed to allow rich alternative content, it shouldn't see a longdesc attribute. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http

Re: [WSG] Hero Style Presentation

2008-02-05 Thread David Dorward
://www.hotdesign.com/seybold/ -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm

Re: [WSG] display differences firefox ie 7.0

2008-02-07 Thread David Dorward
; margin: auto; } If you use that technique, then don't forget to set text-align back to left on #container. ... but it is pretty pointless today - IE has supported margin: auto for many years now. Just make sure you aren't in quirks mode. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http

Re: [WSG] hello

2008-02-15 Thread David Dorward
On 15 Feb 2008, at 08:11, Gitanjali wrote: So web2.0 is the mixture of scripts, tools.. etc.. It is a vague and poorly defined buzzword that is of no use in a technical discussion. In a non-technical discussion, it means pretty much whatever you want it to mean. -- David Dorward

Re: [WSG] form problem

2008-02-25 Thread David Dorward
, a div is probably a better bet. label for=commentsComments:/label textarea name=comments rows=6 cols=35/textarea --Cols now 35 The for attribute of a label refers to the id attribute of a form control, your id attribute is missing. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http

Re: [WSG] Re: WSG Digest

2008-03-03 Thread David Dorward
a time delay before the menu vanishes if they are using a mouse. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] Safari 3.1 and webkit-border-radius

2008-03-21 Thread David Dorward
and JS, not markup. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL

Re: [WSG] Why is u deprecated?

2008-03-27 Thread David Dorward
? CDATA markers in XHTML documents (served with the right content type). I know you can use entitiy codes but this one saved the trouble and is now depreciated. Set up a macro in your text editor to do it. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] :: dropdown menus ::

2008-03-27 Thread David Dorward
accessibility problems (such as those involved with tracking the mouse down a narrow column while suffering from arthritis) with CSS alone. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] a target=” blank” not part of xhtml

2008-03-27 Thread David Dorward
to a single window is usually a better idea. http:// diveintoaccessibility.org/day_16_not_opening_new_windows.html -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] a target=” blank” not part of xhtml

2008-03-27 Thread David Dorward
. those with a frameset instead of a body. They aren't suitable for most pages on the web. They include the target attribute because the alternative content section lets you use anything in Transitional. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] a target=” blank” not part of xhtml

2008-03-27 Thread David Dorward
target names must begin with an alphabetic character -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] a target=” blank” not part of xhtml

2008-03-28 Thread David Dorward
, but makes it less obvious when a new window is opened. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] accessible fluid button

2008-04-04 Thread David Dorward
there. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] SMTP

2008-04-05 Thread David Dorward
to enter the hostname of an SMTP server that the web server has access to. http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/ is a useful resource. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] Centering Elements

2008-04-10 Thread David Dorward
do since they have an insignificant market share. http://dorward.me.uk/www/centre/#ie -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] Shorthand rule for border?

2008-04-17 Thread David Dorward
On 17 Apr 2008, at 14:09, Cole Kuryakin wrote: This is something that I’ve been wondering about for a long time – a shorthand rule for borders. http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/box.html#border-shorthand-properties -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] animated scroll

2008-04-24 Thread David Dorward
easily bookmark your site into their browser favorites ... I would avoid this. It might be cheap, but any reward for producing something of that quality would be too much. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] animated scroll

2008-04-24 Thread David Dorward
On 24 Apr 2008, at 13:36, Ted Drake wrote: Ah, where's your sense of adventure? Buried under a desire not to see people rewarded for lowering the quality of the WWW :) -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] Image links

2008-05-02 Thread David Dorward
anything. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL

Re: R: [WSG] Alternative to align = center?

2008-05-03 Thread David Dorward
on the parent element works. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help

Re: R: [WSG] Alternative to align = center?

2008-05-04 Thread David Dorward
. the reason for the presentation, not what the presentation is. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] Firefox skips dropdown and multi-select list with tabbing (?)

2008-05-07 Thread David Dorward
On 7 May 2008, at 14:54, Scott Limmer wrote: Using the tabindex attribute on form elements should allow you to specify the tab order. This shouldn't help, and is likely to add confusion if there is anything on the page other than form controls. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] Firefox skips dropdown and multi-select list with tabbing (?)

2008-05-07 Thread David Dorward
access to All controls. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help

Re: [WSG] XHTML 1.1 CSS3 - Is it worth using right now?

2008-05-13 Thread David Dorward
because more people are going to benefit from better CSS support than from XHTML support). -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] Accessibility for HTML Email

2008-05-15 Thread David Dorward
=mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]/a./ p or possibly pa href=mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Email Jon at [EMAIL PROTECTED]/a./ p -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] Accessibility for HTML Email

2008-05-15 Thread David Dorward
). -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] Accessibility for HTML Email

2008-05-15 Thread David Dorward
! -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] firefox 3 beta5

2008-05-19 Thread David Dorward
be concerned. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL

Re: [WSG] Tag for quotes

2008-05-20 Thread David Dorward
On 20 May 2008, at 16:13, Rob Enslin wrote: Please could someone help me decide which is the most appropriate tag to use with quotes? These are actual comments made by folk during a show. You are quoting paragraphs, use blockquote. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http

Re: [WSG] NoScript Help Please!

2008-05-21 Thread David Dorward
you want your JS to do } var elements = YAHOO.util.Dom.getElementsByClassName('delete_file', 'form'); YAHOO.util.Event.addListener(elements, submit, deleteFiles); /script YUI documentation is available from http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/ -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http

Re: [WSG] Fwd: using fieldsets and legends (outside a form) for adding structural markup

2008-05-22 Thread David Dorward
but the first two words of that. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm

Re: [WSG] Fwd: using fieldsets and legends (outside a form) for adding structural markup

2008-05-22 Thread David Dorward
). The DTD allows fieldset pretty much anywhere a block level element is allowed (since forms can contain pretty much any block element, and thus a fieldset needs to be allowed inside them in order to go inside forms properly). -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] Alt versus Title Attribute

2008-05-28 Thread David Dorward
-only browser) will probably help you a lot more for deciding how and where to use alt text ... This is a good approach. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] Marking up company logo

2008-05-30 Thread David Dorward
On 30 May 2008, at 15:50, Thierry Koblentz wrote: I'd say when it comes to news the source is very important, so imho the publisher is key. Important? Yes. More important then the title? No. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] Mixing CSS3 and CSS2

2008-05-30 Thread David Dorward
will understand the code, those that don't won't. No, since support for rounded corners and support for CSS 3 selectors do not come hand in hand. Just use the property as normal, browsers that don't support it will ignore it. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] inline images in p

2008-06-04 Thread David Dorward
On 4 Jun 2008, at 15:23, Andrew famiano wrote: What's the best way to display inline images in a p? non, img src=facebook.png alt=facebook congue, arcu. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] inline images in p

2008-06-04 Thread David Dorward
On 4 Jun 2008, at 17:38, Andrew famiano wrote: the problem is the alignment. how do you align the image centered with the text? img { vertical-align: whatever; } http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visudet.html#propdef-vertical-align -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http

Re: [WSG] a good practise for adding email link (mailto)?

2008-06-16 Thread David Dorward
make it through the JS-free forms I have backed with Akismet testing, and no false positives either (as far as I can tell). -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] a good practise for adding email link (mailto)?

2008-06-16 Thread David Dorward
mail as well. You don't need to get it all. You need to get enough that the remainder is manageable. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] Browsers and Zooming

2008-07-03 Thread David Dorward
On 3 Jul 2008, at 13:41, James Jeffery wrote: Are all browsers now using zooming to resize pages? The latest version of each of the big four do by default. Happily, it can be turned off in at least some of them. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] Validation

2008-07-03 Thread David Dorward
On 3 Jul 2008, at 17:01, Fuji kusaka wrote: I have a flash animation in my webpage and this causes a big problem when i have to validate the page. Can someone help me out? http://validator.w3.org/docs/help.html#faq-flash -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] ADA Compliant Flash

2008-07-07 Thread David Dorward
know, the accessibility features of Flash are not bad (although somewhat Windows-centric), it's just that most authors don't use them. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] [at]font-face confusion

2008-07-14 Thread David Dorward
bits of text (headings and the like) then you might consider sFIR (search engines will tell you more). -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] AJAX and Clickable Elements

2008-07-18 Thread David Dorward
to create a form just to create a button that won't be sending any data, which seems overkill. Why? Buttons don't have to appear in forms. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] S separators and TACG

2008-07-23 Thread David Dorward
SEPCHAR (9) HT -- http://xml.coverpages.org/sgmlsyn/sgmlsyn.htm#C6.2.1 TAGC -- http://www.w3.org/TR/sgml.l -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List

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