Re: [WSG] Fighting with IE

2008-12-02 Thread James Ducker
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Re: [WSG] Fighting with IE

2008-12-02 Thread James Ducker
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Re: [WSG] Downloading Fonts

2008-12-07 Thread James Ducker
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Re: [WSG] re: Firefox v3 and opacity on opacity

2008-12-20 Thread James Ducker
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Re: # Re: [WSG] Beta Testers Needed for BCAT

2009-01-10 Thread James Ducker
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Re: # Re: [WSG] Beta Testers Needed for BCAT

2009-01-14 Thread James Ducker
Hi WSG, This entire argument is getting a bit much. Nothing on the web is in and of itself particularly accessible. Accessibility in HTML is a joke unless you have been taught the right practices. Flash was, is, and will continue to be, primarily, a tool for delivery of rich, interactive media. To

Re: [WSG] Re: Browser / OS Test on website.

2009-01-14 Thread James Ducker
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Re: [WSG] JavaScript and Accessibility

2009-01-19 Thread james . ducker
any decent validation is going to be done server-side validation anyway, so you're going to have to (or at least you should) implement the server-side responses in any case. - James -- James Ducker Web Developer http://www.studioj.net.au *

Re: [WSG] JavaScript and Accessibility

2009-01-19 Thread james . ducker
e >> JavaScript won't see the glitzy JavaScript injected errors anyway. > > Agreed, and any decent validation is going to be done server-side > validation anyway, so you're going to have to (or at least you should) > implement the server-side responses in any case.

Re: [WSG] JavaScript and Accessibility

2009-01-19 Thread james . ducker
pt injected errors anyway. >>>> >>> >>> Agreed, and any decent validation is going to be done server-side >>> validation anyway, so you're going to have to (or at least you should) >>> implement the server-side responses in any case. >>>

Re: [WSG] Clearing a row with floated list

2009-01-31 Thread James Ducker
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Re: [WSG] Starting with HTML and CSS

2009-02-03 Thread James Ducker
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Re: [WSG] Implication of empty divs

2009-02-09 Thread James Ducker
On a side note, there is a Firefox addon that reproduces JAWS-like output (in text), called Fangs. Link: http://www.standards-schmandards.com/projects/fangs/ - James *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.

Re: [WSG] Safari 4 and 3.2 Running Simultaneously

2009-02-27 Thread James Ducker
I got fed up trying to deal with multiple browser issues. First you have the issues with IE6 in MultipleIE, now this. Anyway, I just use VMs. Very pain-free. - James *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.c

Re: [WSG] Chrome now higher traffic than IE

2009-03-02 Thread James Ducker
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Re: [WSG] macpro and softwares..

2009-03-05 Thread James Ducker
> Is there any IE installers available for mac? No. The easiest solution is to install Windows XP onto a virtual machine (VMWare Fusion, Sun xVM VirtualBox, or Parallels). I've used VMWare Fusion, and it's quite nice, but Sun xVM VirtualBox is also very nice, and has the added bonus of being free.

Re: [WSG] Tiny Buggy IE thing

2009-03-24 Thread James Ducker
Kristine, Try removing overflow: hidden; *(styles.css, circa line 523)* (or change it to overflow: auto, but I really don't see the need for an overflow - you already have overflow:hidden applied to uber-container. I think a -5000 pixel margin on your wai text is enough to push it beyond uber-con

Re: [WSG] IE8: Extensions to CSS

2009-03-26 Thread James Ducker
> Why do Microsoft always feel the need to include their own properties. Back in the day Microsoft utterly dominated the browser market, and as a byproduct of this were the main force of innovation in browsers and the web experience in general. IE was often released with non-standard features that

Re: [WSG] IE7 CSS fix

2009-04-02 Thread James Ducker
Can you not use a conditional? It's far more reliable than CSS hacks, which may cause problems in future browsers. - James *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup

Re: [WSG] valid meta tags

2009-05-26 Thread James Ducker
> > Rule: 13.2.2 - Documents are required to use META elements, that are > defined as required, in Head section. > Failure - Document does not contain a META element with the required name: > language or language does not have a 'content' value. > I always use lowercase for primary languages and u

Re: [WSG] valid meta tags

2009-05-26 Thread James Ducker
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Re: [WSG] SEO vs. Accessibility

2009-05-26 Thread James Ducker
> I tend to use a class name like class="accessabilityonly" for these > fields, in the hopes of giving a reviewer at least a clue as to what I I'm the same, I use class="wai" - James *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.or

[WSG] What to do with buttons when a user copies text from a page.

2009-06-12 Thread James Ducker
Hi list, Something I've been pondering - how best to handle buttons and other purely functional content residing within a block of selected text? Often a user will select a bunch of text and get something like: > Some Headingminimiseclose > Some text etc etc. I was thinking about adding JS mouse

Re: [WSG] What to do with buttons when a user copies text from a page.

2009-06-12 Thread James Ducker
> For all you know, their purpose in copying text from the page is to illustrate > in a document that aspect of the page layout that includes the controls. That's very true. > A more elegant & bulletproof solution might be to rethink the page layout and > visually place the controls above or to t

Re: [WSG] returning to scroll position in a table inside a fixed hight div

2009-06-14 Thread James Ducker
> exposing all the key > functionality via basic semi-RESTful html Listen to this guy! - James -- James Ducker Web Developer http://www.studioj.net.au *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelin

Re: [WSG] OT: Dominos Pizza - Looking for someone who's worked there

2009-06-16 Thread James Ducker
For any web service developers out there, here's a link to Dominos Australia's SOAP API: https://internetorder.dominos.com.au/InternetOrderingUIService/UIService.asmx I'm currently writing a command line port of the online ordering system (hobby project). It's almost done :) - James **

Re: [WSG] Website Development Training Programs In Wellington

2009-08-22 Thread James Ducker
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Re: [WSG] web hosting

2009-09-04 Thread James Ducker
A free host that supports multi-tiered .NET applications... Best of luck! *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstand

Re: [WSG] internet explorer 8 problems using a screen reader

2009-09-11 Thread James Ducker
tect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0 -- James Ducker Web Developer http://studioj.net.au *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscr

Re: [WSG] styling a select box

2009-10-08 Thread James Ducker
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Re: [WSG] Local W3C CSS Validator for Windows

2009-10-08 Thread James Ducker
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[Spam] :Re: [WSG] IE6 display issue

2009-10-09 Thread James Ducker
Hi, Generated source: http://www.westernwebdesign.com.au/keynorthcontractors/images/logo.png',sizingMethod='crop'); BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; POSITION: static; *HEIGHT: 816px*"> It looks like a JS bug. There's two easy things you could try. 1. Just put overflow: hidden; on the #pics div. 2. Add

[Spam] :Re: [WSG] Converting CSS / Design into Pre-Set HTML widget code

2009-10-12 Thread James Ducker
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Re: [WSG] Is page-break-before broken in Webkit?

2009-10-12 Thread James Ducker
Hi there, As a test, try using that style on an element that isn't floated or inside a floated element. - James *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/un

Re: [WSG] IE6 Finally Nearing Extinction [STATS]

2010-06-13 Thread James Ducker
are likely to be skewed toward people who browse the Internet from work, hence the low Firefox usage. -- James Ducker Web Developer http://www.studioj.net.au *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] Where are we with Frames?

2010-10-25 Thread James Ducker
> How do people here feel about frames? Sometimes (not often) you might need an iframe, hidden or otherwise, to get around certain technical limitations, but there's no good reason to use framesets for layout, in my opinion. - James **

Re: [WSG] disallow IE6 to load the main style sheet

2010-12-18 Thread James Ducker
and the average IE6 user will have an average XP box that will chug like hell on large or JS-or-DOM-complicated pages. - James -- James Ducker Web Developer http://www.studioj.net.au *** List Guidelines: http://we

Re: [WSG] Re: WSG Digest (On leave - 12 months)

2011-03-10 Thread James Ducker
ndardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > *** > > -- James Ducker Web Developer http://www.studioj.net.au

[WSG] HTML5 and you

2012-07-01 Thread James Ducker
Hi all, I just got a little burned by Chrome's new date popup for HTML date-type inputs! *Why?* - Because when I wrote the original code, I hadn't read up on the new properties being added to HTML5 input types - Because I was using a js-based datepicker plugin to implement the same f

Re: [WSG] HTML5 and you

2012-07-01 Thread James Ducker
ke wrote: > On 02/07/2012 01:55, James Ducker wrote: > > element.valueAsDate >> >> This property is designed to solve your locale woes, and it is also an >> easy way to feature-detect a browser's native support for the date input >> type. I haven't gon

Re: [WSG] how to force a cache bypass?

2012-08-02 Thread James Ducker
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Re: [WSG] how to force a cache bypass?

2012-08-02 Thread James Ducker
ks 100% of the time. > > Eg. style-.css > > Manu > > On 03/08/2012, at 1:25 PM, James Ducker wrote: > > Append some junk querystring to the end of the URL, like > example.com/index.html?20120803132400. Every time it changes, stuff will > be refreshed. Wouldn't really r

[WSG] [Off-topic] AngularJS

2012-08-23 Thread James Ducker
Has anyone done much with AngularJS[1]? I'm currently evaluating it as a potential successor to a huge bespoke framework I wrote. The syntax feels a little convoluted at times, but my god does it absolutely blaze through DOM updates! [1]: http://www.angularjs.org/ -- *James Ducker* jame