are probably no aware, is a subset of XHTML, devised particularly for lightweight devices.
I believe XHTML Basic + CSS Mobile Profile (a small subset of CSS) were supposed to be astandards basd way of replacing WAPML (or whatever WAPs htmlish markup language was)
HTH,
john
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$49.99 instead of $59.99, but only here
https://order.kagi.com/cgi-bin/store.cgi?storeID=WC3
and only for a limited time (until Maxine finds out :-)
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(a
thing of beauty don't get me wrong)
Congrats on StyleMaster BTW!
many thanks,
John
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is still available if the decoration
is not. But if the image is not available there is no content.
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Peter,
Now THIS is why I love CS - I've just increased the contrast a little.
Easss
now you are getting it :-)
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Hi all,
anyone got a link to or can send me the text of that recent anti
standards article mentioned here at APC?
Thanks,
John
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Mike et al.
Sorry but there isnt a place for font tags. font has been
deprecated and
sooner or later it'll cease working.
Go to Andy's article, and try replacing the words table and table
layout with font tag.
Works a treat,
Sigh,
John
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its not simply something we can cherry pick.
At times it is hard. Trivial things are often easy. Non trivial things are often difficult. But usually vastly more rewarding.
Keep fighting the good fight,
john
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prior to 4.0) or 4.0.
Not quite. What it will accept is documents marked up in accordance
with the HTML 4.0 Transitional doctype rules. These do not entirely
conform to HTML 3.2
Hope this is in some ways useful
John
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Hi all,
anyone interested in an informal meetup of wsg and similar people in
Bondi/Eastern Suburbs of Sydney this coming tuesday - short notice I
know, but ... please email me offlist and I'll let you know the
details,
thanks
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Hi all,
just posted a response to this whole table thingy going on right now on
my blog.
http://westciv.typepad.com/dog_or_higher/2004/05/the_right_tool_.html
It's a parable.
Thanks,
john
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in the future.
HTH
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with the subtext of the article.
There are enough people out there waiting to beat up on standards
advocates and the community. Let's not do it to ourselves.
John
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Hope people find it interesting, and feel free to spread the word :-)
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installed iTunes, then go for it
with that large installed user base.
I am sure they have thought about it, just not sure what they do think
about it.
I am pretty sure what MS might think about it :-)
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/dog_or_higher/index.rdf
Maxine at westciv does Redemption Through Standards
http://westciv.typepad.com/standards/index.rdf
and you'll find a swag of great web development blogs in her blog roll
john
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, and so on.
Or you can purchase an enhanced version, and it comes free with Style
Master.
Plus come to the Web Essentials Free Education and Government Briefing
http://we04.com/education.cfm
Where you might win it as a door prize.
'nuff plugging :-)
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level elements, then its inline children
would not inherit such properties.
This bit is just unchecked conjecture.
HTH,
john
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John,
Seeing this email reminded me of something.
Yes, some CSS properties are inherited and some aren't.
Inheritance depends on *specificity*, which can be reduced to a
mathematical formula, as in this quote from the definitive O'Reilly
book by Eric Meyer, where it says:
H1 {color: red;}
free.
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HTH
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by *Australia adopting
US laws in toto*.
Anyway, this is way off topic in some respects, but right on topic in
others.
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Weds night,
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Thanks Gary,
I think the train is winning, and I am staying right near one of the
city stops
See you weds,
John
Taxi - or the train (they call it Airtrain - just because it comes
from the Airport).
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Thanks Lea,
Miss the meeting and you miss meeting John Allsopp - you don't want to
miss that opportunity, surely! ;)
but if there is a low turn out, I'll take it personally people :-)
See you tonight,
John
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Aaron,
I live in the inner south east (caulfield area) of melbourne, so i'm
hoping it
will be reasonably close.
these guys crossed the globe. I reckon crossing town is no super
hardship :-)
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sites.
Simple things like using text-sizing, things like plug ins, if it is
part of your development and test regime, I'd love to hear about it.
Please email me directly, [EMAIL PROTECTED], and I'll let the list know
about the results.
Thanks in advance,
John
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Hi all,
just a quick note on our templates competition.
We've announced our winners, please take a look
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We had almost 50 entries, many of considerable quality. Good to see how
far CSS based design has come in the last few years.
John
John
of the issues (including Russ)
and we came out with the results we did.
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congratulations?
I guess it is, but can I just point out that it hasn't quite happened
yet, as the interview went out earlier than anticipated.
Which is off topic, 'cept for the fact it is in a WSG interview with me
;-)
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Cam,
Trust soft Australian journalists not to ask the tough
questions, such as how much drug consumption was going
on backstage at WE04 prior to the WWWF smackdown.
We had fantales, minties and water for all the speakers :-)
I think the overseas speakers we bemused by the first two
J
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Ben,
John has just posted an interesting piece about this...
http://westciv.typepad.com/standards/2004/11/another_way_of_.html
Actually it was Maxine :-) And it is a good little discussion of the
practical issues
John
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in people's thoughts,
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a long time since I have done some intensive forms work, but IIRC,
browsers generally managed this for you if you set up your radio button
sets properly.
I know, its strictly off topic, but its about conventions, which are a
kind of standard
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in this instance)
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Holzschlag and Eric Meyer on
Women on the Web, while I (John Allsopp) am organizing a panel with
Dave Shea, Doug Bowman, Jon Hicks and Eris Free on Web design and
development in 2010.
As to Neerav's comment about price, WE and SxSW are two quite radically
different events.
SxSW content is largely
referring
to here.
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oup (developers), who, um, are precisely the single greatest adopters of Firefox.
I'd go so far as to say it a tactical strike to attempt to stem the flow of developers to using Firefox as their main browser.
But that would be cynical, and MS are of course never cynical.
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offlist and
I'll put you in touch with them.
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class=whatever
.whatever {shape: circle}
?
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column layout f'rinstance.
Maybe Bert will have an answer :-)
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I believe that, and all my reading leads me to believe that a
elements may only contain other inline elements (not including a
elements.
Can anyone point me to the definitive part of the HTML spec that says
this?
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Lea,
that would be this bit yes?
!ELEMENT A - - (%inline;)* -(A) -- anchor --
j
On 26/05/2005, at 4:47 PM, Lea de Groot wrote:
On Thu, 26 May 2005 16:30:30 +1000, John Allsopp wrote:
Can anyone point me to the definitive part of the HTML spec that
says this?
http://www.w3.org
this with regard
to anchors.
I'd say so too.
I've known this for years, but in preparing something quite
technical, I needed to satisfy myself it was 100% the case.
thanks
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Thanks Lea,
all sorted now,
john
On 26/05/2005, at 5:20 PM, Lea de Groot wrote:
Yep, as Ingo says, the '%inline;' means 'only inline elements in here'
and the '-(A)' means 'except that exciting one, the anchor'.
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live near Bondi, I'll be at the
beach road hotel to watch the Super 12 final (I only say this cause
Peter lives in Bondi too, though he probably quite sensibly hates
rugby :-)
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than using
CSS counters and content which won't work completely anyway)
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sections and so on
Whether 6 deep is enough I am not entirely sure though, they can get
very complex!
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It definitely pays to stop and think about accessibility when we come
to consider even what may appear quit straightforward aspects of what
we do.
Very good question Richard,
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- The image replacement techniques, misuse
of flash (rarely is it used well, and even when it is used well, it
tends to be used for everything (text and still graphics as well as
interactive stuff) rather than jsut for what it does well).
Just my not so humble appearance.
John Allsopp
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even notice them, afterall, how are we supposed
to know they are flyout or dropdown menus?
HTH
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Web
for navigation!
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, but be very careful.
As a web development student, what resources are available for me
to read to
help me better understand this issue?
I'v not read anything in great detail, but others certainly may have
HTH a little
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with computers, so
precision is important.
an example of when it makes a significant difference is illustrated
by the following
Which of these is correct
the caption element comes directly after the table tag
the caption element comes directly after the table element
john
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goodie. It has
spawned many imitators.
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).
In short, using tables is a very good way of raising the risk of
invalid documents.
BTW, I'm presenting these findings at WE05, and hope to have a
detailed article online soon,
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, painfully
and fitfully if at all.
So not only is it *who* is using the technique, it is the technique
itself which is problematic.
john
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that such things, regardless of their present usefulness,
we usually come to regret.
Y2K anyone?
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Dead Table Sketch
The cast:
MR. PRALINE
John Cleese
SHOP OWNER
Michael Palin
The sketch:
A customer enters a web development shop.
Mr. Praline: 'Ello, I wish to register a complaint.
(The owner does not respond.)
Mr. Praline: 'Ello, Miss?
have been almost invariably associated
with the table markup.
The correlation is strong.
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the justification you want in the fine print
of the standards. But their intent is very very clear. Finding
justification for the use of Tables for layout in the standards is
essentially an act of desperation.
This really is flat earth stuff. It is time to let it go
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a designers penchant for that technique.
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be used to prove almost
anything, depending on how you interpret them :-)
Or rhetoric, which can be used to convince oneself of just about
anything.
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in favor of using CSS for layout, that I won't bore anyone with now.
I guess I'll finish on a practical note. IM reasonably well informed
O, if you want to be a successful web developer in the long run,
you'll not be using tables for layout for your whole career.
So if not now, when?
john
John
.people.html
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is literally absurd.
john
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would be This new 'Standards
Compliant' browser is broken! Luckilly IE still works.
If you have XHTML, and serve it as application/xml. then in modern
browsers you'll get your wish :-)
Of course, you'll have problems with IE as well, regardless of
whether it is valid or not. :-/
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compliance - using open source tools, for free.
All I can say is, based on a lot of recent auditing, quality of this
nature is exceedingly rare in major Australian sites.
You'll hear more about that at WE045
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significant issues.
Might be worth reporting this to the validator people
HTH
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and superstition.
I'd be interested in their response :-)
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Is it possible to keep all content to a single page using CSS for
printing?
body {font-size: 1px}
in a print style sheet ought to do it most of the time :-)
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as an article
http://westciv.typepad.com/dog_or_higher/
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microformats.org,
but with a focus more on site architecture than just data.
Very interested in people's thoughts,
thanks for your time,
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is to explore existing patterns in web development.
I've started with site level patterns.
I'm really interested in the thoughts of all developers about the
patterns which we use, so if you have a moment please come along, and
contribute your thoughts and experience
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on).
I do detail this in the original article,
http://westciv.typepad.com/dog_or_higher/2005/11/webpatterns_and.html
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, itss just not
flexible enough,
thanks for the thoughts,
john
etc...
What do you think?
R
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Hi all,
Some
that they certainly don't make solving complex
problems trivial, rather they help make the process more efficient,
and hopefully give rise to better solutions in future
Thanks again,
john
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-occurring debates on
mailing lists (like those I mentioned in my first post).
or at least move them to a wiki :-)
Thanks for the great ideas
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Kevin,
dosnt ted drakes standardista rollyo search thingy sorta do this?
I'd suggest rollyo is a great example of a framework, which of course
uses existing search, page and page content patterns.
john
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this problem domain, the pattern paradigm is
appropriate, and could potentially be very important as web
development matures into a fully fledged discipline.
Thanks for the excellent thought provoking post. Straight to the top
of the class :-)
john
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the next stage ;o)
it's begun already! Get along to
http://webpatterns.org/wordpress/?p=4
and start adding some patterns :-)!
everyone is welcome, and its easy
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