Re: [WSG] Safari: Inline-Block / Center Element Issue

2012-01-06 Thread Hassan Schroeder
the circumstances that could dictate that you MUST use it. :-) And, BTW, it's not just Safari -- Google Chrome behaves the same, so it's a Webkit behavior, apparently. FWIW, -- Hassan Schroeder - has...@webtuitive.com webtuitive design === (+1) 408-621-3445 === http

Re: [WSG] Safari: Inline-Block / Center Element Issue

2012-01-05 Thread Hassan Schroeder
thecenter element whenever humanly possible) ... humanly possible??? You find it difficult to avoid using a tag that was deprecated over a dozen years ago in HTML4 and doesn't exist at all in HTML5? Wow. -- Hassan Schroeder - has...@webtuitive.com webtuitive design

Re: [WSG] Expected behaviour of links to external websites

2011-12-29 Thread Hassan Schroeder
? -- Hassan Schroeder - has...@webtuitive.com webtuitive design === (+1) 408-621-3445 === http://webtuitive.com http://about.me/hassanschroeder twitter: @hassan dream. code

Re: [WSG] Expected behaviour of links to external websites

2011-12-29 Thread Hassan Schroeder
the content of that window; two open new windows. Which two functions? Feel free to predict, I'll wait :-) I also see no obvious way to control the above behavior. -- Hassan Schroeder - has...@webtuitive.com webtuitive design === (+1) 408-621-3445 === http

Re: [WSG] Expected behaviour of links to external websites

2011-12-29 Thread Hassan Schroeder
://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4MwTvtyrUQ -- Hassan Schroeder - has...@webtuitive.com webtuitive design === (+1) 408-621-3445 === http://webtuitive.com http://about.me/hassanschroeder twitter: @hassan dream. code

Re: [WSG] Expected behaviour of links to external websites

2011-12-27 Thread Hassan Schroeder
less :-) and if/when you think links should open new windows - I really wonder if they are related somehow. As above: sometimes yes, sometimes no, depending on context. And bearing in mind I'm really (ideally?) referring to new tabs in a tabbed browser. -- Hassan Schroeder

Re: [WSG] Expected behaviour of links to external websites

2011-12-23 Thread Hassan Schroeder
if anyone has done any actual studies. -- Hassan Schroeder - has...@webtuitive.com webtuitive design === (+1) 408-621-3445 === http://webtuitive.com http://about.me/hassanschroeder twitter: @hassan dream. code

Re: [WSG] Expected behaviour of links to external websites

2011-12-23 Thread Hassan Schroeder
of continual head-shaking going on out there... -- Hassan Schroeder - has...@webtuitive.com webtuitive design === (+1) 408-621-3445 === http://webtuitive.com http://about.me/hassanschroeder twitter: @hassan dream. code

Re: [WSG] Expected behaviour of links to external websites

2011-12-21 Thread Hassan Schroeder
.) Regardless -- for the vocal objectors, do the same objections apply to opening a new tab? -- Hassan Schroeder - has...@webtuitive.com webtuitive design === (+1) 408-621-3445 === http://webtuitive.com http://about.me/hassanschroeder twitter: @hassan

Re: [WSG] Divs for tabular data

2011-12-05 Thread Hassan Schroeder
by looping through a data source? That's just sad. Perhaps you can gently hint that it's now the 21st Century. And these people call themselves developers? What do you think? Are tables too hard for the real world ... Stop! My sides!! :-) FWIW, -- Hassan Schroeder

Re: [WSG] nav element

2011-11-22 Thread Hassan Schroeder
it's worth adding a tag for that. YMMV. -- Hassan Schroeder - has...@webtuitive.com webtuitive design === (+1) 408-621-3445 === http://webtuitive.com http://about.me/hassanschroeder twitter: @hassan dream. code

Re: [WSG] Wrapping text before float drop

2011-11-03 Thread Hassan Schroeder
and the available width, and wrap their content if the available width is reduced. Do you *need* the floats? If not, look at CSS3 flex-box. -- Hassan Schroeder - has...@webtuitive.com webtuitive design === (+1) 408-621-3445 === http://webtuitive.com http://about.me

Re: [WSG] Best Practice - Content Within Tables

2011-10-12 Thread Hassan Schroeder
. IMO. YMMV :-) -- Hassan Schroeder - has...@webtuitive.com webtuitive design === (+1) 408-621-3445 === http://webtuitive.com http://about.me/hassanschroeder twitter: @hassan dream. code

Re: [WSG] media queries can't understand body tag

2011-09-28 Thread Hassan Schroeder
or not? Is there something confusing or ambiguous about that? -- Hassan Schroeder - has...@webtuitive.com webtuitive design === (+1) 408-621-3445 === http://webtuitive.com http://about.me/hassanschroeder twitter: @hassan dream. code

Re: [WSG] media queries can't understand body tag

2011-09-27 Thread Hassan Schroeder
the logs (or developer console) and see other images fetched as you resize the browser. What browsers/platforms have you tested where this doesn't work? -- Hassan Schroeder - has...@webtuitive.com webtuitive design === (+1) 408-621-3445 === http://webtuitive.com http

Re: [WSG] media queries can't understand body tag

2011-09-27 Thread Hassan Schroeder
the background images, only the media-query-specified one. -- Hassan Schroeder - has...@webtuitive.com webtuitive design === (+1) 408-621-3445 === http://webtuitive.com http://about.me/hassanschroeder twitter: @hassan dream. code

Re: [WSG] media queries can't understand body tag

2011-09-27 Thread Hassan Schroeder
on one of your servers and tail the appropriate log file; you can see when images are fetched. The original question was about media queries, not elements set to `display: none`, but the same method should work. -- Hassan Schroeder - has...@webtuitive.com webtuitive

Re: [WSG] media queries can't understand body tag

2011-09-19 Thread Hassan Schroeder
assumption :-) -- Hassan Schroeder - has...@webtuitive.com webtuitive design === (+1) 408-621-3445 === http://webtuitive.com http://about.me/hassanschroeder twitter: @hassan dream. code

Re: [WSG] How do you cater to users with disabilities?

2011-08-23 Thread Hassan Schroeder
to accessibility? -- Hassan Schroeder - has...@webtuitive.com webtuitive design === (+1) 408-621-3445 === http://webtuitive.com http://about.me/hassanschroeder twitter: @hassan dream. code

Re: [WSG] Modal forms - what to call them?

2011-07-20 Thread Hassan Schroeder
unhesitatingly? Or think eh? what? :-) Just askin' ... -- Hassan Schroeder - has...@webtuitive.com webtuitive design === (+1) 408-621-3445 === http://webtuitive.com http://about.me/hassanschroeder twitter: @hassan dream. code

Re: [WSG] Can I have a Safari check?

2011-05-09 Thread Hassan Schroeder
I can see there *is* a cookie set from the domain/IP in question. HTH, -- Hassan Schroeder - has...@webtuitive.com webtuitive design === (+1) 408-621-3445 === http://webtuitive.com http://about.me/hassanschroeder twitter: @hassan dream

Re: [WSG] HTML/CSS reference

2011-04-05 Thread Hassan Schroeder
; #REQUIRED -- URI of image to embed -- alt %Text; #REQUIRED -- short description -- Learning to read the specs should be encouraged, I'd say. -- Hassan Schroeder - has...@webtuitive.com webtuitive design === (+1) 408-621-3445 === http

Re: [WSG] what could be the cause that Safari can't load a page?

2011-03-31 Thread Hassan Schroeder
version of Safari, OS X(10.6.6) on a 3yr-old MBP with 4GB memory. http://bit.ly/eKE1He A little slow, it's a huge page, but no freeze. Oh, and I got one popup telling me my Flip4Mac version is out of date, so it may be something to do with an embedded video element? HTH, -- Hassan Schroeder

Re: [WSG] Document Formats

2010-11-30 Thread Hassan Schroeder
of these proprietary formats to HTML or (a very distant second-best option) PDF. Security aside, from a pure usability perspective, requiring a user to go get an external reader to access your information is pretty unfriendly. FWIW, -- Hassan Schroeder - has

Re: [WSG] best formatting for alt text

2010-11-12 Thread Hassan Schroeder
not a visual formatting device. Why are you concerned about alt text formatting? -- Hassan Schroeder - has...@webtuitive.com webtuitive design === (+1) 408-621-3445 === http://webtuitive.com twitter: @hassan dream. code

Re: [WSG] A simple IE and JS detection method?

2010-10-28 Thread Hassan Schroeder
. Hint :-) -- Hassan Schroeder - has...@webtuitive.com webtuitive design === (+1) 408-621-3445 === http://webtuitive.com twitter: @hassan dream. code. *** List Guidelines

[WSG] Re: Where are we with Frames?

2010-10-25 Thread Hassan Schroeder
recommendation -- HTML 4.01 Frameset -- is less appropriate than an alternate solution that *requires* the user to have JavaScript enabled? Do you have a real-world example of such a jQuery-based solution that degrades gracefully, i.e., works with JS turned off? -- Hassan Schroeder

Re: [WSG] CSS, :hover and touch screen devices (Was: CSS rollovers for images?)

2010-10-20 Thread Hassan Schroeder
behaviors is totally appropriate in some circumstances, to deliver exactly those benefits. :-) YMMV, -- Hassan Schroeder - has...@webtuitive.com webtuitive design === (+1) 408-621-3445 === http://webtuitive.com twitter: @hassan dream. code

Re: [WSG] CSS, :hover and touch screen devices (Was: CSS rollovers for images?)

2010-10-20 Thread Hassan Schroeder
with assumptions that differ depending on whether you're building e.g. an intranet inventory-management system vs a public lolcats-haiku-sharing site :-) -- Hassan Schroeder - has...@webtuitive.com webtuitive design === (+1) 408-621-3445 === http://webtuitive.com twitter: @hassan

Re: [WSG] Image Maps

2010-10-14 Thread Hassan Schroeder
problem. How about the exact problem being the one that image maps were *designed* to solve? Allowing arbitrary shapes within an image to be linked to different content? As in the US state example? -- Hassan Schroeder - has...@webtuitive.com webtuitive design === (+1

Re: [WSG] Yes/No structure?

2010-06-07 Thread Hassan Schroeder
Lucien Stals wrote: And I seem to recall that the old radios on which the metaphor is based could be pushed half in. That would cause all buttons to pop out thus having *no* selection. Poor implementations don't define a design pattern. :-) -- Hassan Schroeder

Re: [WSG] Accessibility and HTML Emails

2009-10-28 Thread Hassan Schroeder
Felix Miata wrote: Email is supposed to be text communication. And yet, remarkably, there's multipart/alternative as a MIME type. Go figure. -- Hassan Schroeder - has...@webtuitive.com webtuitive design === (+1) 408-621-3445 === http://webtuitive.com twitter

Re: [WSG] unbalanced q tags for extended quotations?

2009-10-01 Thread Hassan Schroeder
/struct/text.html#edef-Q -- Hassan Schroeder - has...@webtuitive.com webtuitive design === (+1) 408-621-3445 === http://webtuitive.com twitter: @hassan dream. code. *** List

Re: [WSG] [Spam] :changing font sizes from within a page.

2009-07-20 Thread Hassan Schroeder
a good job of explaining this to non-technical end users? If you use the 3 A's it ... breaks if cookies/JavaScript are turned off Not necessarily; depends on your server technology. -- Hassan Schroeder - has...@webtuitive.com webtuitive design === (+1) 408-621-3445

Re: [WSG] no scrollbars in ff

2009-06-09 Thread Hassan Schroeder
approach :-) FWIW, -- Hassan Schroeder - has...@webtuitive.com webtuitive design === (+1) 408-621-3445 === http://webtuitive.com twitter: @hassan dream. code. *** List

Re: [WSG] google chrome on windows 98?

2009-04-21 Thread Hassan Schroeder
:-) FWIW, -- Hassan Schroeder - has...@webtuitive.com webtuitive design === (+1) 408-621-3445 === http://webtuitive.com twitter: @hassan dream. code. *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] The notion of accessibility [was: Javascript Accessibility]

2009-03-02 Thread Hassan Schroeder
Matt Morgan-May wrote: Look at the Atlas project that was unveiled this week, as an example. ref? -- Hassan Schroeder - has...@webtuitive.com Webtuitive Design === (+1) 408-621-3445 === http://webtuitive.com dream. code

Re: [WSG] IE and the button element

2009-02-23 Thread Hassan Schroeder
days it meant including something like: a href=/foo onclick=return falsefoo/a :: but we have more advanced ways now :-) Search on the term event bubbling, for instance... -- Hassan Schroeder - has...@webtuitive.com Webtuitive Design === (+1) 408-621-3445 === http

Re: # Re: [WSG] Beta Testers Needed for BCAT

2009-01-14 Thread Hassan Schroeder
start focusing on making the interface/content flash around How about focusing on using multimedia to add value, to create a more effective learning experience, as I hopefully demonstrated above? FWIW, -- Hassan Schroeder - has...@webtuitive.com Webtuitive Design

Re: # Re: [WSG] Beta Testers Needed for BCAT

2009-01-13 Thread Hassan Schroeder
, with the advantage of easy integration with video and other rich content. -- Hassan Schroeder - has...@webtuitive.com Webtuitive Design === (+1) 408-621-3445 === http://webtuitive.com dream. code

Re: # Re: [WSG] Beta Testers Needed for BCAT

2009-01-13 Thread Hassan Schroeder
it. To change it in every Flash file... .. you do exactly the same thing, because it's not in every Flash file at all. Yes, you obviously didn't get very far with Flex -- so, why are you arguing the (de)merits of a technology you don't understand? -- Hassan Schroeder

Re: [WSG] Title attribute

2009-01-11 Thread Hassan Schroeder
Christian Snodgrass wrote: Just another note: EVERY element has a title attribute Uh, not exactly, at least according to http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/index/attributes.html FWIW, -- Hassan Schroeder - has...@webtuitive.com Webtuitive Design === (+1) 408-621-3445

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

2008-11-26 Thread Hassan Schroeder
this a crock of shit, and possibly spam. Very expressive. Though you might want to adjust your meds a bit :-) And you might want to google, say, Australia firewall censorship... FWIW, -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webtuitive Design === (+1) 408-621-3445

Re: [WSG] First Attempt

2008-11-24 Thread Hassan Schroeder
aside the crutch of WYSIWYG design, the better developer you'll be. Certainly, in a /web standards/ context, you'll be looking more at the semantics of your content and markup, rather than drawing pretty pictures :-) FWIW, -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [WSG] URL length best practices [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2008-11-04 Thread Hassan Schroeder
'.xyz' technology, and `Cool URIs don't change` http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI, or so I've heard. :-) -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webtuitive Design === (+1) 408-621-3445 === http://webtuitive.com dream. code

Re: [WSG] JavaScript clarification please

2008-10-28 Thread Hassan Schroeder
with it under either name but certainly remember reading plenty about LiveScript before the name change. And there were certainly some interesting internal discussions at JavaSoft about the whole issue. :-) -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webtuitive Design

Re: [WSG] JavaScript clarification please

2008-10-27 Thread Hassan Schroeder
reference will explain why that's incorrect. FWIW, -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webtuitive Design === (+1) 408-621-3445 === http://webtuitive.com dream. code

Re: [WSG] JavaScript clarification please

2008-10-27 Thread Hassan Schroeder
liorean wrote: (Netscape had originally intended to use the name LiveScript.) Actually, it was initially released as LiveScript and renamed later. So much backstory on that, but at this point I have no idea what's covered by my then employment contract. Regardless, good times. :-) -- Hassan

Re: [WSG] Font-size inheritance issue?

2008-10-25 Thread Hassan Schroeder
would have immediately identified the cause of what looked like a CSS display issue. FWIW, -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webtuitive Design === (+1) 408-621-3445 === http://webtuitive.com dream. code

Re: [WSG] JavaScript clarification please

2008-10-23 Thread Hassan Schroeder
.pdf Overview ... ECMAScript is an object-oriented programming language for performing computations and manipulating computational objects within a host environment. HTH, -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webtuitive Design === (+1) 408-621-3445

Re: [WSG] CSS editors

2008-10-20 Thread Hassan Schroeder
://jedit.org/ -- also free/open source, suitable for just about any developer environment, plus cross-platform (requires a JVM). -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webtuitive Design === (+1) 408-621-3445 === http://webtuitive.com dream

Re: [WSG] google and validation

2008-10-18 Thread Hassan Schroeder
designer wrote: which refers to the '=' before the utf8. Or is it all that cause the problem? That single URL finds 24 errors altogether. Did you change them all? Because that's all I had to do to make your sample validate... -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL

Re: [WSG] Is it a good practice to have 'Back to Top' link?

2008-09-29 Thread Hassan Schroeder
that mean? -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webtuitive Design === (+1) 408-621-3445 === http://webtuitive.com dream. code. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] Re: ARIA

2008-08-11 Thread Hassan Schroeder
*: When will the W3C validator support ARIA? Or, if you believe it already does, what is the appropriate DOCTYPE to use? -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webtuitive Design === (+1) 408-621-3445 === http://webtuitive.com dream. code

Re: [WSG] Re: ARIA

2008-08-11 Thread Hassan Schroeder
validate not for religious purity but to make sure I have a valid DOM (no overlapped/missing tags, typos in element names or attributes, etc.). Analyzing each validation to see if errors are OK errors or real errors is not acceptable. We want green bar here, always :-) -- Hassan Schroeder

Re: [WSG] Re: ARIA

2008-08-11 Thread Hassan Schroeder
the whole thing, until the validator can handle it :-) Let's hope that's reasonably soon... -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webtuitive Design === (+1) 408-621-3445 === http://webtuitive.com dream. code

Re: [WSG] Re: ARIA

2008-08-10 Thread Hassan Schroeder
David Storey wrote: HTML4 and XHTML1 are the here and now. WAI_ARIA was retrofitted from XHTML2 (I believe) to HTML so that it could be used right away. All major browser vendors support it now, once IE8 comes out. Anyone know when the W3C validator will support it? :-) -- Hassan

Re: [WSG] Re: ARIA

2008-08-10 Thread Hassan Schroeder
://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd; :: which the validator rejects -- hence the question :-) -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webtuitive Design === (+1) 408-621-3445 === http://webtuitive.com dream. code

Re: [WSG] Correct markup of fieldset

2008-08-08 Thread Hassan Schroeder
. Alternatively, ask yourself if your submit button is thematically related to the contents of any other fieldset. FWIW, -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webtuitive Design === (+1) 408-621-3445 === http://webtuitive.com dream. code

Re: [WSG] Inline style works but css does not

2008-08-01 Thread Hassan Schroeder
Michael Horowitz wrote: Interesting this works select style= font-size: 8px name=cruiseline but this does not select class=small name=month .small { font-size:8x; } Interesting how? Typos usually /don't/ work, in my experience :-) -- Hassan Schroeder

Re: [WSG] Inline style works but css does not

2008-08-01 Thread Hassan Schroeder
editor) will frequently identify the issue(s). Validate early, validate often :-) -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webtuitive Design === (+1) 408-621-3445 === http://webtuitive.com dream. code

Re: [WSG] Inline style works but css does not

2008-08-01 Thread Hassan Schroeder
David Fuller - magickweb wrote: Speaking of intelligent editors... What do you all prefer?? This is probably veering OT, but I use jEdit -- feature-rich, easily extensible, runs on anything with a JVM. And free/open source :-) -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL

Re: [WSG] Multiple Language Domains

2008-06-13 Thread Hassan Schroeder
a few worries though, currently both domains point to the english language version of the site, this will be changed so cymruni goes to the Welsh language side. So then you drop the alias and make the Welsh site a separate virtual host -- no redirects needed. FWIW, -- Hassan Schroeder

Re: [WSG] Stumped need suggestions - how to highlight two links at once

2008-06-04 Thread Hassan Schroeder
Likely, James A. wrote: Want to highlight two links at once if you rollover on of them. You'll need to use JavaScript to do this. -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webtuitive Design === (+1) 408-621-3445 === http://webtuitive.com

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

2008-05-22 Thread Hassan Schroeder
case, testing FF2, Safari 3, and IE7 provides the same result. Feel free to expand that to your satisfaction :-) In any case, is this just a case of the browser inserting what it thinks should be there, as with tbody ? No. Again, easy enough to test. -- Hassan Schroeder

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

2008-05-21 Thread Hassan Schroeder
to test, and hence, to prove utterly wrong :-) Not that I support the idea of using a fieldset outside a form, but bogus is bogus... -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webtuitive Design === (+1) 408-621-3445 === http://webtuitive.com dream

Re: [WSG] :: CSS Code Formatting ::

2008-05-06 Thread Hassan Schroeder
the ease of maintenance, especially if more than one person's working on the site. :-) Or have the best of both: formatted for readability in your version control repository, with a script to run at deploy time to check the markup+css out and minimize it. FWIW, -- Hassan Schroeder

Re: [WSG] transitional vs. strict

2008-04-29 Thread Hassan Schroeder
, exactly, as old as their corresponding strict doctypes? :-) -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webtuitive Design === (+1) 408-621-3445 === http://webtuitive.com dream. code

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

2008-03-28 Thread Hassan Schroeder
, it's hard to conceptualize, but they exist. -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webtuitive Design === (+1) 408-621-3445 === http://webtuitive.com dream. code. *** List

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

2008-03-27 Thread Hassan Schroeder
, -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webtuitive Design === (+1) 408-621-3445 === http://webtuitive.com dream. code. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

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

2008-03-27 Thread Hassan Schroeder
application window space, or, just possibly, *opens a new window*. Wow. Maybe this *is* an acceptable behavior *for some circumstances*. Horses for courses... -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webtuitive Design === (+1) 408-621-3445 === http://webtuitive.com

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

2008-03-27 Thread Hassan Schroeder
Thomas Thomassen wrote: Frames and popup windows is fine features to use in web based applications. I'll agree to that. Which is exactly my point -- why remove (or even deprecate) a useful capability because it's been abused by some? -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL

Re: [WSG] IE 8 and grey

2008-03-17 Thread Hassan Schroeder
, if a browser maker decides not to support standards?? Who would do such a thing? I can't even imagine it :-) http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#idx-color http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#value-def-color -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webtuitive Design

Re: [WSG] Where did I come from?

2008-01-21 Thread Hassan Schroeder
it's optional, servers (and well-written web applications) shouldn't care. :-) http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec5.html#sec5.3 -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webtuitive Design === (+1) 408-621-3445 === http://webtuitive.com

Re: [WSG] w3c link checker

2008-01-08 Thread Hassan Schroeder
dwain wrote: http://search.cpan.org/dist/W3C-LinkChecker/ i looked at the downlad file and it's a tar.gz. i run windoze. how would i install it on a windoze box? Uh, extract the contents of that file and read the directions? :-) -- Hassan Schroeder

Re: [WSG] Preserve whitespace

2007-12-12 Thread Hassan Schroeder
equal in value, regardless of how they're displayed; they're strings with lengths of 3 and 5 characters, respectively. The space characters are certainly there, so the issue you're trying to address isn't at all clear... -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webtuitive

Re: [WSG] intranet benchmarking quiz

2007-10-18 Thread Hassan Schroeder
, still running but no longer updated -- another decaying monument to relevance entropy. Then someone sees that original need is no longer being met, decides s/he can do a better job of it, and the cycle begins again :-) -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webtuitive

Re: [WSG] intranet benchmarking quiz

2007-10-17 Thread Hassan Schroeder
into desktop address books, calendars, etc. And of course there's I'm too busy to learn anything new to deal with -- understandably difficult to combat when the problem that these new tools are solving isn't apparent to the user. :-) FWIW! -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL

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

2007-09-09 Thread Hassan Schroeder
the audience has an opportunity to connect emotionally with the described work without putting your own bias into it... Ready, set, go! :-) -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webtuitive Design === (+1) 408-938-0567 === http://webtuitive.com

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

2007-09-09 Thread Hassan Schroeder
. And that adds nothing to the conversation. -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webtuitive Design === (+1) 408-938-0567 === http://webtuitive.com dream. code. *** List

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

2007-09-09 Thread Hassan Schroeder
to see an example of alt text that enables a non-sighted person to connect, in *other than* the most factual way, with a pictured piece of visual art. You can get a certain amount of information from a photocopy of a grilled cheese sandwich, but it makes rather a dry meal :-) -- Hassan Schroeder

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

2007-09-09 Thread Hassan Schroeder
, the answer is neither :-) -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webtuitive Design === (+1) 408-938-0567 === http://webtuitive.com dream. code. *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] Font sizing: top down or bottom up

2007-09-05 Thread Hassan Schroeder
far too large for comfortable reading. And before anyone pulls out the dang whippersnappers card, I'm 60 years old and I've worn eyeglasses for most of 'em. :-) Citations of actual research would contribute more to the discussion than unsubstantiated opinion -- IMHO! -- Hassan Schroeder

Re: [WSG] Font sizing: top down or bottom up

2007-09-05 Thread Hassan Schroeder
) published seven years ago, and hence likely done on low-res CRTs, for which, again, we have no data. In the absence of /current/ evidence, I'd say the jury's still out :-) -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webtuitive Design === (+1) 408-938-0567 === http

Re: [WSG] Font sizing: top down or bottom up

2007-09-05 Thread Hassan Schroeder
need a whole laundry list of data points to analyze how big a particular font size is, and the next minute you say we can assume that a particular study (the conclusion of which favors your argument) is perfectly valid without all that. Right. -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL

Re: [WSG] Usability Accessibility Over Design?

2007-08-14 Thread Hassan Schroeder
in terms of accessibility. -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webtuitive Design === (+1) 408-938-0567 === http://webtuitive.com dream. code. *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] setting fontsize in body

2007-08-07 Thread Hassan Schroeder
about how wonderful it was having an on-page font resizer. Not one realized that was also duplicated functionality. Not one. Claiming that the average user has configured any browser to her/his personal taste is simply wishful thinking. -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL

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

2007-08-01 Thread Hassan Schroeder
a newer standardized approach to acheive the same effect. I think you'd have a better chance of getting specific help if you posted a complete example (or two) of your current approach. :-) -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webtuitive Design === (+1) 408-938-0567

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

2007-08-01 Thread Hassan Schroeder
, a cutout piece of a photo-realistic image, what -- and it *does* make a difference how *I*, at least, would approach this problem using CSS. Hence my suggestion that you provide a *real* example. Or two :-) -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webtuitive Design

Re: [WSG] Serving Different Content to Returning Visitors

2007-07-26 Thread Hassan Schroeder
to authenticate to your application, after which -- if you don't want to use a session cookie -- you'll have to do url rewriting. -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webtuitive Design === (+1) 408-938-0567 === http://webtuitive.com dream

Re: RES: [WSG] Serving Different Content to Returning Visitors

2007-07-26 Thread Hassan Schroeder
? -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webtuitive Design === (+1) 408-938-0567 === http://webtuitive.com dream. code. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] Using target=_blank

2007-07-24 Thread Hassan Schroeder
arguments about this, beyond believing, why can't you use them to convince your clients? Just askin' :-) -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webtuitive Design === (+1) 408-938-0567 === http://webtuitive.com dream. code

Re: [WSG] Re: please avoid forcing people to open pdf in browser!

2007-07-20 Thread Hassan Schroeder
you figure? Personally, I'm more likely to print out (at least parts of) PDFs because they're so hellish to use on-screen... -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webtuitive Design === (+1) 408-938-0567 === http://webtuitive.com dream

Re: [WSG] To target or not

2007-07-19 Thread Hassan Schroeder
context. -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webtuitive Design === (+1) 408-938-0567 === http://webtuitive.com dream. code. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] Visual Design Of Websites

2007-07-11 Thread Hassan Schroeder
artist's involvement. Without that, you're just painting pictures in markup... IMO :-) -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webtuitive Design === (+1) 408-938-0567 === http://webtuitive.com dream. code

Re: [WSG] Visual Design Of Websites

2007-07-11 Thread Hassan Schroeder
but Photoshop/Illustrator, possibly Flash, proficiency. Nothing about BA/IA/UX/ID. Zip. Zed. For the vast majority of such positions, it's all about purty. :-) Seriously. I do know exceptions -- Darrell Sano, who I worked with at Sun, comes to mind -- but they're few and far between. Far too far. -- Hassan

Re: [WSG] Use of PDFs - Accessibility issues

2007-06-07 Thread Hassan Schroeder
with... -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webtuitive Design === (+1) 408-938-0567 === http://webtuitive.com opinion: webtuitive.blogspot.com dream. code

Re: [WSG] OT on list

2007-05-29 Thread Hassan Schroeder
Jamie Collins wrote: Assistive Technology is by no means off topic when Web Standards are involved. !? and Web Standards and Photoshop intersect exactly where? :-) -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webtuitive Design === (+1) 408-938-0567 === http

Re: [WSG] OT on list

2007-05-29 Thread Hassan Schroeder
: now for second semester, will be using photo shop, to manipulate 2 and 3 d objects. now, is there any way to do this accessibly with jaws? -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webtuitive Design === (+1) 408-938-0567 === http://webtuitive.com

Re: [WSG] RE: Error help

2007-05-23 Thread Hassan Schroeder
this extension? Or are they all using IE? Or _ ? I'd isolate common threads first. FWIW, -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webtuitive Design === (+1) 408-938-0567 === http://webtuitive.com opinion: webtuitive.blogspot.com

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