Re: [WSG] Well since everybody...

2004-11-04 Thread Jeroen Visser [ vizi ]
Kim Kruse wrote: [sitecheck on http://www.mouseriders.dk/] Hi Kim, It's a clear and easy to navigate site. Some small remarks: * In my Mozilla, the subheadings are smaller than the copy text. I assume that is not your intent, but if it is I'd advice against it as (descending) font-size is a key

Re: [WSG] Creating Nice Pop-Ups

2004-11-10 Thread Jeroen Visser [ vizi ]
Mark Harwood wrote: Hey list, Right im using the good old methord of nice pop-ups as shown by by idol youngpup (http://youngpup.net/2003/popups) now as soon as you use onClick in your HTML WebXACT and Bobby throw up a fit saying that it does not pass AA thanks to 9.3 Make sure event handlers do

Re: [WSG] discussion at juicy studio: It's all in the MIME

2004-11-10 Thread Jeroen Visser [ vizi ]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been following this discussion (belatedly) It's all in the MIME http://www.juicystudio.com/all-in-the-mime.asp first paragraph: There have been a lot of articles recently about web standards; in particular, using XHTML and serving it as text/html. Personally, I'm

Re: [WSG] Re: It's all in the MIME

2004-11-11 Thread Jeroen Visser [ vizi ]
Alan Milnes wrote: So does anyone have a link to an article which can tell me how to properly serve up application/xhtml+xml using PHP? Jeroen Visser shared http://www.workingwith.me.uk/articles/scripting/mimetypes/ as a link before... that tells you how. The datestamp on the message was Thu, 11

Re: [WSG] Re: It's all in the MIME

2004-11-11 Thread Jeroen Visser [ vizi ]
Alan Milnes wrote: Why is the content-type not sent? What errors or warnings does PHP display? What content-type _is_ sent? What problems does Firefox have? Some possible reasons for this script not to work: - headers are already sent out by PHP; - one ore more conditions are too narrow or wide

Re: [WSG] Vertical Alignment of Relatively Sized Text

2004-11-11 Thread Jeroen Visser [ vizi ]
Paul Farrell wrote: I have a series of floats in a header. In particular I have a string of text on the right marking the spot for a date script output. I would like to know if anyone knows a way I can maintain an alignment where the bottom of the date string is aligned to the bottom of the text

Re: [WSG] 10,000 posts, we have a winner...

2004-11-12 Thread Jeroen Visser [ vizi ]
russ - maxdesign wrote: OK, we have decided to give the person who did the 10,000th post a prize (thanks to Core member David McDonald for the idea). Re: Web Standards Eye Candy: http://www.scottschiller.com/ By Nick Lo - Fri 12 Nov 2004 at 10:33 PM So, what does Nick win? One free copy of Apache

Re: [WSG] Question to the others ...

2004-11-14 Thread Jeroen Visser [ vizi ]
Marilyn Langfeld wrote: Hi folks, My first post, since I've worked in print longer than web. In print, an em (and en) are mostly used to describe dashes (of the width of M and N) in a font. So they are appropriate to the task when used for that. They have been slightly redefined for the web

Re: [WSG] pt, em and ex

2004-11-14 Thread Jeroen Visser [ vizi ]
Mary Krieger wrote: Barring browser weirdness for a brief utopian moment, is this the way it is supposed to work.? In order for any text to appear, someone somewhere has to have chosen a font face and size. So choosing to use relative rather than absolute units for font size moves where the

Re: [WSG] Site Critique

2004-11-14 Thread Jeroen Visser [ vizi ]
Laurie Keith wrote: Hi, If any of you busy people have a spare 15 minutes, can you give me an honest evaluation on our new corporate web site. http://www.createwith.com Hi Laurie, Others have cracked down on the Flash thing, so I'll focus on some other issues. Basically, it's a clean, neat site,

Re: [WSG] The Lindsay Method, version 2

2004-11-15 Thread Jeroen Visser [ vizi ]
Lindsay Evans wrote: In order to stop Russ from hassling me about it every time I see him, I've thrown together a small demo/explanation of the latest greatest image replacement method (well, 'fancy heading method', really): http://lindsayevans.com/experiments/lindsaymethod_2/ Just to be somewhat

Re: [WSG] pt, em and ex

2004-11-15 Thread Jeroen Visser [ vizi ]
Felix Miata wrote: Jeroen Visser [ vizi ] wrote: 'px' is the worst unit to define font size in, as Internet Explorer still cannot increase or decrease the size of fonts set in pixels. pt is worse. IE can't resize it either, and it depends on both DPI and resolution, not just resolution, making

Re: [WSG] The Lindsay Method, version 2

2004-11-15 Thread Jeroen Visser [ vizi ]
Lindsay Evans wrote: No Flash, works with scripting turned off, text is selectable (yes, I know you can select the individual sIFR bits, but that just ain't the same :)), colours, size, etc. are easily manipulated via. CSS, As I have understood, you can select large text blocks with sIFR also;

Re: [WSG] Font size

2004-11-17 Thread Jeroen Visser [ vizi ]
Javier wrote: I'm trying to develope a site with proportional font size. I've seen people that apply a font small in body and then use em's in all other settings. I've seen people that apply a 65% font-size in body, others a 100%, etc.. and then use em's in other settings but others use

Re: [WSG] Site-Check:

2004-11-17 Thread Jeroen Visser [ vizi ]
Felix Miata wrote: Kristof Rutten wrote: http://www.sportopolis.be 12px body is bad, bad, bad. You make it sound like Kristof is your little puppy who has just taken a leak on your precious new carpet. ;-/ A little explanation or a link to background info would've been nice. For Kristof:

Re: [WSG] (another) Site Check :)

2004-11-17 Thread Jeroen Visser [ vizi ]
Dave Elkan wrote: Fellow WebStandardites, I've just finished my first site since moving over here to the UK from Australia. Unfortunately for that reason I don't have all of my equipment with me and to make matters worse we don't have a mac testing station here at work. Is there any chance

Usability dogma's [was Re: [WSG] Font size]

2004-11-18 Thread Jeroen Visser [ vizi ]
Felix Miata wrote: David Laakso wrote: Jeroen Visser [ vizi ] wrote: I myself set a base size on the body element (most of the time 76% like Owen Briggs) and then use em's to set up the rest of the typography. Hmm, 76% on the body element, thats 24% smaller than my default? Kinda tough on us

Re: [WSG] forcing IE6 into quirks mode

2004-11-18 Thread Jeroen Visser [ vizi ]
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Terrence Wood wrote: Does anyone on this list deliberately force IE6 into quirks mode? Yes, always... :) No, only if it's necessary and unavoidable, e.g. in Eric B. Bednarz's fixed-positioning solution: http://devnull.tagsoup.com/fixed/. I have seen this done on a couple

Re: [WSG] forcing IE6 into quirks mode

2004-11-19 Thread Jeroen Visser [ vizi ]
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Jeroen Visser [ vizi ] wrote: Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: I know of no limitations in IE6 when doing this, and it saves some coding too. The improved box-model isn't reason enough to debug several versions of IE/win. IE/win can be made to almost behave like a good browser should

Re: [WSG] forcing IE6 into quirks mode

2004-11-20 Thread Jeroen Visser [ vizi ]
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Wayne Godfrey wrote: Enjoy your upcoming Mac, I know you will. So I've been told by many. Hope to have an iMac up and running before x-mas (have already paid for it). Now I only have a dual-processor high speed multi-tasking workstation with multiple screens, and

Re: [WSG] 88x31 WSG Buttons?

2004-11-24 Thread Jeroen Visser [ vizi ]
Peter Tilbrook wrote: [request for a 88x31px WSG button] Get. A. Life. I always find it funny that people who post such replies do not seem to grasp the inherent reciprocal nature of them. Make my day! :-) For Mike: if no button in that particular size exists, you could do a proposal based on

Re: [WSG] Learning to design Accessibility

2004-11-26 Thread Jeroen Visser [ vizi ]
David McDonald wrote: Try the W3C as a good starting point: http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/ http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/ http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/full-checklist.html http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-TECHS/ And possibly --as 2.0 is in its final stages--: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/ This second

Re: [WSG] pop quiz: calculating specificity of group selectors

2004-12-15 Thread Jeroen Visser [ vizi ]
John Allsopp wrote: OK, thanks for all the answers, I buy them :-) That would be four cents then, please. Anything else? ;-) Jeroen Visser -- vizi fotografie grafisch ontwerp - http://www.vizi.nl/ ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] Non-validation and web standards

2004-12-28 Thread Jeroen Visser [ vizi ]
Lyn Patterson wrote: Bert and Jeroen Your advice much appreciated. You're welcome. Am blushing as I report that when I removed ALL the hacks, the site stayed the same and it now validates perfectly. I think those hacks came from a very early attempt at css and I just kept putting them into

Re: [WSG] empty named anchors

2005-01-20 Thread Jeroen Visser [ vizi ]
David R wrote: Andy Kirkwood | MOTIVE wrote: I have come across a couple of instances of this where headings have been enclosed in an anchor, i.e. a name=anchor id=anchorh1Heading text/h1/a This causes the text colour of the heading to change when moused-over (although not a link). From an

Advantage of word-wrapping? (was: Re: [WSG] double space after period)

2005-01-23 Thread Jeroen Visser [ vizi ]
David R wrote: I do have a relevant question relating to this problem: Is there any advantage in word-wrapping markup'd paragraphs? The most important situation in which word-wrapping is useful is with justified text. Good word-wrapping prevents awkward word spacing in such text, rendering it

Re: [WSG] DTD is a formality?

2005-02-15 Thread Jeroen Visser [ vizi ]
Kornel Lesinski wrote: The issue at hand is that [productname] is completely compliant, but is more modern than HTML 4.01. If you remove the doctype tag, all your rendering issues should be resolved. This is sooo untrue. If they require invalid HTML, their product is NOT compiliant. Funny you

Re: [WSG] DTD is a formality?

2005-02-15 Thread Jeroen Visser [ vizi ]
Sam Brown wrote: The issue at hand is that [productname] is completely compliant, but is more modern than HTML 4.01. If you remove the doctype tag, all your rendering issues should be resolved. Using one of our older and backwards compatible menu packages

Re: [WSG] Need some MAC screen grabs

2005-02-17 Thread Jeroen Visser [ vizi ]
Jacobus van Niekerk wrote: Hi all, I need the MAC girls guys ;) to help me out. Can you please send me a screen grab of the following url http://www.parachute.com/te/smallbusiness/ Heard of http://www.browsercam.com/ perhaps? Jeroen PS: your character encoding is going bazerk (windows-1250?),

Re: [WSG] Longhorn Avalon - seismic shift for web standards?

2005-07-15 Thread Jeroen Visser | vizi
On Jul 15, 2005, at 2:54 AM, Paul Ross wrote: [From a PC mag article] In a nutshell, Avalon means developers are now free to code without considering the resolution of users' monitors. This ensures that apps developed in this environment will work on just about any display, from mobile phones

Re: [WSG] IE7 b1 :/

2005-08-01 Thread Jeroen Visser | vizi
On Jul 31, 2005, at 3:19 PM, Justin Carter wrote: IE7 will be far from a disappointment. Sure Beta 1 doesn't seem to give us anything much new and the UI is a bit topsy-turvey but I think it's mostly due to the fact that it has come straight out of Longhorn (Vista). From the IMPRESSIVE list