Re: [WSG] Firefox 1.0.x rogue PNG background line

2006-01-04 Thread Joshua Street
re. On 1/4/06, Patrick H. Lauke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joshua Street wrote: > > This is a seriously odd problem, resulting from Photoshop's PNG > > output/Firefox 1,0.x's PNG decoder (I think). > > > > Test case at > > http://joahua

Re: [WSG] ordered lists inside data tables

2006-01-04 Thread Joshua Street
http://www.usability.com.au/resources/tables.cfm is a great resource. I find particularly interesting http://www.usability.com.au/resources/tables.cfm#very , as it demonstrates that "accessible" tables needn't be meagre and can, in fact, contain quite a lot of structured information. It sounds as t

[WSG] Firefox 1.0.x rogue PNG background line

2006-01-03 Thread Joshua Street
This is a seriously odd problem, resulting from Photoshop's PNG output/Firefox 1,0.x's PNG decoder (I think). Test case at http://joahua.com/blog/2006/01/04/photoshopfirefox-10x-and-the-case-of-the-mystery-line Anyone seen this before? Note that the size of both images is 210px: in the Photosho

Re: [WSG] Multiple Firefox versions

2006-01-02 Thread Joshua Street
Ah, yes, that's what I was trying to do. If I just install both I end up getting plugins overlapping between installs, and can't run both at once (I think because of the way it calls new windows?) Thanks! Josh On 1/3/06, Patrick H. Lauke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Roberto Gorjão wrote: > > To

[WSG] Multiple Firefox versions

2006-01-02 Thread Joshua Street
1.5 at the minute (though generally they're faster to adopt newer versions). Apologies for a slightly application/not-web-standards related question... all in the name of testing ;-) Regards, Josh -- Joshua Street http://joahua.com/ +61

Re: [WSG] Dean Edwards IE7... just PNG support?

2005-12-27 Thread Joshua Street
Just tried with Sleight (which, incidentally, I'd read about before but forgotten existed!) and got the same security warning from IE6/XPSP2. =( Any suggestions welcome at this point! (Except for using GIFs/indexed transparency :P) On 12/28/05, Joshua Street <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Re: [WSG] Dean Edwards IE7... just PNG support?

2005-12-27 Thread Joshua Street
h On 12/28/05, Absalom Media <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joshua Street wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Just wondering if anyone's had any luck with using JUST the PNG > > component of Dean Edwards' IE7 JavaScript? The full thing seems like > > o

[WSG] Dean Edwards IE7... just PNG support?

2005-12-27 Thread Joshua Street
Hi all, Just wondering if anyone's had any luck with using JUST the PNG component of Dean Edwards' IE7 JavaScript? The full thing seems like overkill, because that's the only feature I really need. Alternatively, how does one go about getting alpha support for CSS background images? Not having a g

Re: [WSG] Mac FF hidden div still shows scrollbars

2005-12-22 Thread Joshua Street
; -- > > Ben Curtis : webwright > bivia : a personal web studio > http://www.bivia.com > v: (818) 507-6613 > > > > > ** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guideline

Re: [WSG] Nikon's new standards website

2005-12-15 Thread Joshua Street
elines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ********** > > -- Joshua Street http://www.joahua.com/ +61 (0) 425 808 469 ** The discussion list for ht

Re: [WSG] Justify this

2005-12-14 Thread Joshua Street
iscussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ********** > ***

Re: [WSG] Pipe separated lists (was: CSS foul-up in IE)

2005-12-11 Thread Joshua Street
gt; Geoff. > > > > > > > ****** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ** > > -- Joshua Street http://www.joahua.com/ +61 (0) 425 808 469 ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help **

Re: [WSG] CSS foul-up in IE. Trying to implement Myers "pure css pop-up" code

2005-12-11 Thread Joshua Street
css/skifestival.css > > Regards > Morten Fjellman > -- Joshua Street http://www.joahua.com/ +61 (0) 425 808 469 ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help **

Re: [WSG] Need help with form

2005-12-10 Thread Joshua Street
Ah, my bad. I'd seen it misused/causing validation errors in the past, so assumed that it was just not to be used at all. Josh On 12/11/05, Terrence Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8 Dec 2005, at 8:17 PM, Joshua Street wrote: > > > > > > You're usi

Re: [WSG] Dynamic Styles - Inline? What?

2005-12-08 Thread Joshua Street
> >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> No virus found in this incoming message. > >> Checked by AVG Free Edition. > >> Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.13.12/194 - Release Date: > >> 12/7/2005 > >> > >> > >> > > >

Re: [WSG] Dynamic Styles - Inline? What?

2005-12-08 Thread Joshua Street
gt; wrote: > Thx :) Semantically, I thought it better to have like: > http://www.xyzcorp.com"; ... class="sponsor xyzcorp">XYZCorp > and then stylistically 'overload' this with a nice GIF. Perhaps not? I > don't know. > > > Joshua Street w

Re: [WSG] Dynamic Styles - Inline? What?

2005-12-08 Thread Joshua Street
* > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ** > > -- Joshua Street

Re: [WSG] *Why* doesn't Google validate? was New logo scheme was talking points for standards

2005-12-08 Thread Joshua Street
Lea > -- > Lea de Groot > Elysian Systems > Brisbane Australia > ** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > *

Re: [WSG] *Why* doesn't Google validate? was New logo scheme was talking points for standards

2005-12-08 Thread Joshua Street
ebsites > > ** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > *

Re: [WSG] Need help with form

2005-12-07 Thread Joshua Street
ks > Kim > ** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > *

Re: [WSG] *Why* doesn't Google validate? was New logo scheme was talking points for standards

2005-12-07 Thread Joshua Street
Single sane reason: Well now, I suppose they're not trying to get themselves indexed by a search engine, are they? ;-) josh -- Joshua Street http://www.joahua.com/ +61 (0) 425 808 469 On 12/8/05, Lea de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 08/12/2005, at 12:54 PM, Paul

Re: [WSG] standards or confusion?

2005-12-07 Thread Joshua Street
m presentation in the "why CSS is good" argument. > > Bob > > > > > > This one all alone on the page, with no linked JS in the : > > > > > > var d=new Date(); > > yr=d.getFullYear(); > > if (yr!=2003) > > document.write("&copy; "

Re: [WSG] talking points for standards

2005-12-05 Thread Joshua Street
Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force > http://webstandards.org/ > __ > ** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup

Re: [WSG] position fixed on the thead

2005-11-07 Thread Joshua Street
Haven't got time to try (last HSC exam tomorrow! woo! -- final school exams here in NSW Australia), but maybe using the display: property to ditch normal table-like behaviours for the thead? http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_class_display.asp Then try position:fixed. No idea if this works or not, bu

Re: [WSG] List Headers?

2005-11-06 Thread Joshua Street
It seems to me that is a plain way > to do that job m8. > > > header > item1 > ... > > > dl is handy because you can use more "headers" (dt tags) in the same list etc. -- Joshua Street http://www.joahua.com/ +61 (0) 425 808 469 ***

Re: [WSG] css title styles

2005-11-04 Thread Joshua Street
n > ** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > **

[WSG] RapidWeaver?

2005-11-03 Thread Joshua Street
OS X) restricts application somewhat. :-( I'm interested to hear if anyone's encountered/had any dealings with it, though. Kind regards, Joshua Street http://www.joahua.com/ +61 (0) 425 808 469 ** The discussion list for http://webstand

Re: [WSG] injecting an extra hook with javascript

2005-11-02 Thread Joshua Street
27;utility'); according to Peter's original markup. Just thought I'd point that out. regards, Josh -- Joshua Street http://www.joahua.com/ +61 (0) 425 808 469 ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://web

Re: [WSG] standards, accessability and validation?

2005-11-01 Thread Joshua Street
On 11/1/05, kvnmcwebn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello all, > Ive started designing sites for this company that specilizes in .net > databases driven/xml feed type sites. I just give them a graphics file and > they slice it up. Anyway they asked me yesterday if i could do this > particular job w

Re: [WSG] Opera list positioning oddity

2005-10-31 Thread Joshua Street
hough... just for future reference...? Josh On 11/1/05, Joshua Street <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Just done on a site that is near-pixel perfect in (I think) everything > but Opera, which does something weird with the nav (rendering the site > unusable). > > I hav

[WSG] Opera list positioning oddity

2005-10-31 Thread Joshua Street
ble (I've got a 1280x1024 display here, a colleague on 1024x768 couldn't see it at all)... and stop the links from being clickable (whilst the image-replacement was still visible). http://spl.base10solutions.net/events.html That's the URL, any ideas? Thanks :) A bamboozle

Re: [WSG] Unstyling named anchors

2005-10-30 Thread Joshua Street
talking about, and it takes hours for me to make any script do what I need it to do!) Hope this isn't too far off the mark... Josh -- Joshua Street http://www.joahua.com/ +61 (0) 425 808 469 ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgro

Re: [WSG] Text choices on our own sites

2005-10-30 Thread Joshua Street
TECTED] address you can send a blank message to unsubscribe to. Maybe that would suffice for the footer, if such a thing is possible with whatever software the listserv is using? -- Joshua Street http://www.joahua.com/ +61 (0) 425 808 469 ** The

Re: [WSG] Which browser is most stanard compliant?

2005-10-29 Thread Joshua Street
Speaking pragmatically, does it matter? I think Firefox is pretty good, and I personally use it (with web developer extension) to build stylesheets (I find it really helpful to watch the elements fall into place as I adjust styles in realtime). That is, for me, the fastest way to get a style that

Re: [WSG] Firefox filter?

2005-10-29 Thread Joshua Street
On 10/30/05, Mark Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Seriously, why is this flamebait. I suggested this in another thread a > couple of days ago. Is there a problem I'm not aware of with server-side > sniffing? Mm, well... it's not really a problem if it's properly maintained. But, seeing as many

Re: [WSG] Firefox filter?

2005-10-29 Thread Joshua Street
On 10/30/05, Kenny Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So back to the original question, is there any way to serve a rule > only to firefox (or only to non-firefox) without invalidating the css? Heh, server-side browser sniffing? ;-) Josh ** T

Re: [WSG] Noob question... CSS padding on tables

2005-10-29 Thread Joshua Street
there's an easy workaround for this, but I don't know what it is. > Anyone care to provide some pointers? > > Thanks, > > Mark > -- Joshua Street http://www.joahua.com/ +61 (0) 425 808 469 ** The discussion lis

Re: [WSG] form hidden field ?

2005-10-28 Thread Joshua Street
a hurry to make a point! -- Joshua Street http://www.joahua.com/ +61 (0) 425 808 469 ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help **

Re: [WSG] form hidden field ?

2005-10-28 Thread Joshua Street
rm elements) and add a rule to your stylesheet to stop this from appearing. HTH, Josh On 10/29/05, csslist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://65.36.226.10/contact/contact.cfm > > ________ > From: Joshua Street <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday,

Re: [WSG] form hidden field ?

2005-10-28 Thread Joshua Street
Example link? On 10/29/05, csslist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a hidden field in a css styled form and when you view the page it's > shown as a line in firefox, any ideas? > tia > > dave > > -- Joshua Street http://www

Re: [WSG] Adding a header to a tbody

2005-10-28 Thread Joshua Street
e > subtable elements. > > Does anyone have a suggestion? > > Does this make sense? > > > > Ted > > > -- Joshua Street http://www.joahua.com/ +61 (0) 425 808 469 ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help **

Re: [WSG] Weird displacement

2005-10-28 Thread Joshua Street
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Re: [WSG] Weird displacement

2005-10-28 Thread Joshua Street
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Re: [WSG] extra eyes on an input:focus ?

2005-10-27 Thread Joshua Street
Heh, actually, "ie7" with "I'm feeling lucky" is enough. On 10/28/05, Paul Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The ie7 hack being what? > > Good grief, come on people! Let your fingers do the walking before asking > questions one google search could answer you > http://www.google.co.nz/sea

Re: [WSG] extra eyes on an input:focus ?

2005-10-27 Thread Joshua Street
On 10/28/05, Focas, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The ie7 hack being what? > > grant http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/ I presume... ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cf

Re: [WSG] extra eyes on an input:focus ?

2005-10-27 Thread Joshua Street
On 10/28/05, csslist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i put the ie7 hack in and it works fine now. > > gotta love ie How big is that thing? Can you split it up so you can just use the bits you need (i.e. :pseudo-selector), or do you need to use the full thing? I'd heard it's largish (but haven't ever

Re: [WSG] extra eyes on an input:focus ?

2005-10-27 Thread Joshua Street
background: #ff; > color: #27455f; > border: 1px solid #ff; > } -- Joshua Street http://www.joahua.com/ +61 (0) 425 808 469 ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/g

Re: [WSG] specifying width of

2005-10-24 Thread Joshua Street
Yeah. I think it's kind of Gmail's fault. You'll note the mailing list signature isn't showing up on my messages, either. I'm sending this message in HTML format in the hope it stays more intact than plain text when the WSG list processes it... there's something seriously wrong with Gmail vs. WSG

Re: [WSG] specifying width of

2005-10-24 Thread Joshua Street
On 10/25/05, Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Normally I would do that, but in this particular case I was hoping not to > use server-side formatting of the content. But it seems I will have to > revert to that. > > I have never had any use for the tag. Now I thought I

Re: [WSG] specifying width of

2005-10-24 Thread Joshua Street
ctly I need to put it in tags, but of course I want it to still > fit into the rest of the content. > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joshua Street > Sent: Monday, 24 October 2005 6:32 PM > To: wsg@webstandards

Re: [WSG] specifying width of

2005-10-24 Thread Joshua Street
> Any ideas? > > ** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ** > > -- Joshua Street http://www.joahua.com/ +61 (0) 425 808 469

Re: [WSG] specifying width of

2005-10-24 Thread Joshua Street
ain in the boundaries of my parent element. > > Any ideas? -- Joshua Street http://www.joahua.com/ +61 (0) 425 808 469

Re: [WSG] Styling legends and fieldsets

2005-10-18 Thread Joshua Street
nd be able to place it where we want, but we can't use legend > and place/style how we want. Choose one". Yes. -- Joshua Street http://www.joahua.com/ +61 (0) 425 808 469 N���.�Ȩ�X���+��i��n�Z�֫v�+��h��y�m�쵩�j�l��.f���.�ץ�w�q(��b��(��,�)උazX����)��

Re: [WSG] css for ie4/ie5

2005-10-13 Thread Joshua Street
ey're only a security issue whenyou have launched the program right? so if i'm launching them (old standalone IE5 & 5.5) once a month to *only* test pages that I'vecreated - I'm not leaving my system open to some rogue securitybreaching  action right?-- Joshua Street http://www.joahua.com/+61 (0) 425 808 469

[WSG] Counters support?

2005-10-13 Thread Joshua Street
, but I've built pages just to generate content before that was "printed" to PS then to PDF... and this would be really useful for me there (e.g. for generating numbered, printed content in a run-once context). Regards, Joshua Street http://www.joahua.com/ +61 (0) 425 808 469

Re: [WSG] faux columns for fixed AND percentage width

2005-10-13 Thread Joshua Street
n em value to make it work well with fluid layouts. HTH, Josh -- Joshua Street <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Cross platform weirdness in FF WAS Re: [WSG] Chinese food and web standards

2005-10-13 Thread Joshua Street
(both are installed)? For the record, IE/Win renders "correctly" (in the desired fashion, that is), as does Opera/Lin and Konqueror/Lin. Is this a bug? Any ideas? Slightly perlexed, Josh -- Joshua Street http://www.joahua.com/ +61 (0) 425 808 469

Re: [WSG] Browser Stats

2005-10-13 Thread Joshua Street
On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 02:58 -0400, Christian Montoya wrote: > I think of it more as, on Mac there is a decent browser (safari). So > there isn't much need for FF there. Whereas PC users really need FF. It's also worth remembering Opera have recently released their browser for free (as in beer), s

Re: [WSG] Dublin Core metadata

2005-10-08 Thread Joshua Street
Not strictly DC, but along a similar vein... don't suppose anyone knows if any/many search engines take ICBM meta data or geo.position meta data into account when determining local content? I ask because, whilst Google is generally pretty good with localised versions (my personal site[1] is a .com

RE: [WSG] avoid Verdana -> I cant get the whole point.

2005-10-03 Thread Joshua Street
n of relevance) image _does_ matter for a number of websites out there... and CSS("standards")-based design can help achieve this, because you've got more than one shot at specifying fonts to target different platforms... amongst other things, like handheld stylesheets, etc. Josh -- Joshua Street base10solutions http://www.base10solutions.com.au/ <>

Re: [WSG] Homepage Review: webnetdesignstudios.com

2005-10-02 Thread Joshua Street
On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 22:58 -0400, Christian Montoya wrote: > Isn't < b > still valid? If you want to have a weightless way of > bolding the text, but don't want to mess with a span, use < b > . Yes. It's in the presentation module for XHTML 1.1 ( http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/abstra

Use of cite WAS: Re: [WSG] Homepage Review: webnetdesignstudios.com

2005-10-02 Thread Joshua Street
and can only be used for href data. So... is there any way to define this relationship? Or is it just order-of-content and hoping it makes sense? What if you were to put the cite after the quote for whatever reason (style guide convention, etc)? Kind Regards, Joshua Street base10sol

Re: [WSG] Homepage Review: webnetdesignstudios.com

2005-10-02 Thread Joshua Street
On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 12:00 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Since the testimonial is basically a quote, why not use the element? > Then use the presidents name within the element. This way it is > semantic, and you still get to style the presidents name any way that you > feel fit! > > Chee

Re: [WSG] Homepage Review: webnetdesignstudios.com

2005-10-02 Thread Joshua Street
I wasn't aware this was an issue: http://www.richinstyle.com/bugs/ie5b.html#display would suggest that it's not. http://wellstyled.com/singlelang.php?lang=en&page=css-inline-blocks.html has some more that looks related... it looks achievable, but I haven't got IE5 here to test.

Re: [WSG] Homepage Review: webnetdesignstudios.com

2005-10-02 Thread Joshua Street
g (up) breaks immediately > > because you've set the > > heights of #integration, #consumer, #special, #starter, #site and #quote in > > pixels. Unsetting > > all of these doesn't particularly break anything, though when resizing the > > length of the column

Re: [WSG] Homepage Review: webnetdesignstudios.com

2005-10-01 Thread Joshua Street
pper extends as far as it has to, continuing the white background all the way down (I think... I've never been completely on top of that whole clearing thing, so I'm not 100% sure that'll work... the theory runs something like that, though. Play around.) HTH, Josh Kind Regards, J

Re: [WSG] computer arts mag article/review

2005-09-25 Thread Joshua Street
tarting with establishing boundaries in the form of what is "most easily coded up" is more constraining than building your layout, then going back and altering [the design] if things just aren't possible in the medium. Regards, Joshua Street base10solutions On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 21:52

Re: [WSG] The Big Lie about CSS

2005-09-19 Thread Joshua Street
namely, the _presentation_ of content in a certain way, without the markup-muck that tags bring on. Kind Regards, Joshua Street base10solutions Website: http://www.base10solutions.com.au/ Phone: (02) 9898-0060 Fax: (02) 8572-6021 Mo

Re: [WSG] Educate the educators (was) Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-07 Thread Joshua Street
On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 16:46 +1000, John Allsopp wrote: > You'll hear more about that at WE045 I hope we don't have to wait until 2045 for quality coding to catch on! ;-) Kind Regards, Joshua Street base10solutions Website: http://www.base10solutions.com.au/ Phone: (02) 9898-0

Re: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon

2005-09-07 Thread Joshua Street
.html As developers who understand the importance of standards, we are well and truly out of excuses. There are exceptions to every rule, but these are becoming increasingly sparse: perhaps the only valid (haha) excuse remaining is that of a target audience consisting largely of pre-version 5 user

Re: [WSG] Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility with Firefox

2005-09-03 Thread Joshua Street
On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 23:40 -0400, Donna Jones wrote: > does anyone have an url for this? tried finding it on moz and couldn't > and really would like to try it out. http://accessibar.mozdev.org/ HTH Kind Regards, Joshua Street base10solutions Website: http://www.base10solut

RE: [WSG] Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility with Firefox

2005-08-24 Thread Joshua Street
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 12:01 +0100, Patrick Lauke wrote: > > Joshua Street > > > Actually, it's probably using Windows' built in text-to-speech for > > rendering audio, so possibly not. > > Actually, it's using a java text-to-speech engine, so it's

Re: [WSG] Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility with Firefox

2005-08-24 Thread Joshua Street
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 01:42 -0500, dwain alford wrote: > Rick Faaberg wrote: > it's a browser extension, so it should function on > mac osx. Actually, it's probably using Windows' built in text-to-speech for rendering audio, so possibly not. Kind Regards, Joshua Street

Re: [WSG] web accessibility toolbar

2005-08-21 Thread Joshua Street
Opera uses, but rather just a text-resizing feature (ala Firefox, et al.), then it's really worth asking why on earth you were using pixels in the first place, as you know that you're ultimately relinquishing control, and all you're really doing is irritating your us

Re: [WSG] web accessibility toolbar

2005-08-20 Thread Joshua Street
opriate design practises to match this, rather than trying to force your users/visitors into one particular framework which then breaks as they attempt to escape it. Kind Regards, Joshua Street base10solutions Website: http://www.base10solutio

Re: [WSG] Request for comments on a website (printing)

2005-08-18 Thread Joshua Street
r a print-world mindset? Surely if it's a branding thing it should be possible to reach a compromise -- print style sheet shouldn't translate as "devoid of all style", one would hope. Kind Regards, Joshua Street base10solutions Website: http://www.base10solutions.com.au/ Phone:

RE: [WSG] Newbie Questions: East-Asian Character Sets and Marking-up Poetry

2005-08-09 Thread Joshua Street
; > blockquote)[...] I think I missed the start of this thread, but we discussed this on here sometime last year... I posted relevant bits on my blog at the time. http://www.joahua.com/blog/2004/10/24/the-indentation-problem "Just the... As he... Supporting... By a.... S

Re: [WSG] Editor Controls

2005-08-06 Thread Joshua Street
. If I cant find one, > I’ll probably start writing one then make it open source down the > track, however I don’t really have that much time to wait for it. This may be doing the same thing, I'm uncertain. Kind Regards, Joshua Street base10solutions Website: http://www.base10solutions.com

Re: [WSG] Site Review Please - www.SalmonRecipes.Net

2005-08-02 Thread Joshua Street
there's also other ways to do it, but I imagine that must be something screen reader users would get sick of quickly: "site map slash slash about us slash slash..." (presuming that's how it works?) Aside from those fairly minor things, the markup is great quality and the design is

RE: [WSG] implicit / explicit labels which is better?

2005-08-02 Thread Joshua Street
anybody care to do a > super-quick check? Can't check Safari (no Mac here), but Konqueror 3.4.0 copes fine. Kind Regards, Joshua Street base10solutions Website: http://www.base10solutions.com.au/ Phone: (02) 9898-0060 Fax: (02) 8572-6021 Mobile: 0425 808 469 Multimedia

Re: [WSG] background images fluid

2005-08-02 Thread Joshua Street
searching for hours on google > didn't help for css background sizing in %. > > Anyone can help? > Thanks in advance. > > Bruce Prochnau > BKDesign Solutions Kind Regards, Joshua Street base10solutions Website: http://www.base10solutions.com.au/ Phone: (02) 9898-0060 Fax:

Re: [WSG] Improvement on Flash Satay

2005-07-20 Thread Joshua Street
reasons it's a bad practise... Kind Regards, Joshua Street base10solutions Website: http://www.base10solutions.com.au/ Phone: (02) 9898-0060 Fax: (02) 8572-6021 Mobile: 0425 808 469 Multimedia Development Agency ___

Re: [WSG] using scalable vector graphics

2005-07-17 Thread Joshua Street
On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 13:39 +1000, Joshua Street wrote: > http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"; version="1.0"> >width="202px" height="61px"/> > tag properly... oops. Josh ** The discussion

Re: [WSG] using scalable vector graphics

2005-07-17 Thread Joshua Street
it, except how to use them so they will validate. http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"; version="1.0"> or tags in sight... Kind Regards, Joshua Street base10solutions Website: http://www.base10solutions.com.au/ Phone: (02) 9898-0060 Fax: (02) 8572-6021 Mobile: 0425 808 4

Re: [WSG] footer technique

2005-07-16 Thread Joshua Street
cceptably. Could someone with a Mac please check the test page? > > Thanks! > Kind Regards, Joshua Street base10solutions Website: http://www.base10solutions.com.au/ Phone: (02) 9898-0060 Fax: (02) 8572-6021 Mobile: 0425 808 469 Multimedia Development Agency

Re: [WSG] help or web standards group?

2005-07-11 Thread Joshua Street
r going to be descriptive in the way some members desire - and this isn't anyone's fault, but it is something we can work to correct as the thread of discussion progresses. Kind Regards, Joshua Street base10solutions Website: http://www.base10solut

RE: [WSG] Clash of nested lists

2005-06-18 Thread Joshua Street
is no significant relationship between the actual data (e.g. folder names) and the interface (e.g. edit/delete links) better represented through use of lists than simply with anchors. Kind Regards, Joshua Street base10solutions Website: http://www.base10solutions.com.au/ Phone: (02) 9898-0060 Fa

Re: [WSG] Clash of nested lists

2005-06-18 Thread Joshua Street
n unordered list to > separate the links. But this won't work in this particular example, I think. > My nested lists would clash with each other. > > I can't come up with any nice solution for this that adheres to web > standards and makes things accessible. > > Any sug

Re: [WSG] Online screen viewer

2005-06-18 Thread Joshua Street
clicked the link > > again...so the site is definitely still there. > > > Yes, the URL (apple's site) above is working, but not the download link > (ftp://ftp.osxgnu.org/pub/Networking/Lynx-2.8.6-10.2-10.4.dmg.sit) the url > provided. > > A domain search shows

RE: [WSG] CSS List Separator

2005-06-15 Thread Joshua Street
ppealing form when technology supports this becomes a (relatively) trivial task. Just a thought... Kind Regards, Joshua Street base10solutions Website: http://www.base10solutions.com.au/ Phone: (02) 9898-0060 Fax: (02) 8572-6021 Mobile: 0425 808 469 Mu

Re: [WSG] Form layout issues

2005-06-13 Thread Joshua Street
"Configuration error" Parser Error Message: The format of the file 'FuelAdvance.Components.Web' is invalid. Line 35. Yeah, the form layout has some issues :P On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 17:15 +1000, Tatham Oddie wrote: > Guys n’ gals, > > > > I’m having some quirky layout issues with > http://sur

Re: [WSG] Character encoding

2005-06-03 Thread Joshua Street
>>It's just always felt dirty seeing certain characters > >>not written in their appropriate entity codes. > Hmmm...that's a very English centric view of the Web ;-) Yeah, I thought that too, but couldn't think of another way to say it! *blushes whilst wishing he we

[WSG] Character encoding

2005-06-03 Thread Joshua Street
certain characters not written in their appropriate entity codes. Could someone shed any light on this? Are entity codes redundant, or should we be using them where possible? Kind Regards, Joshua Street base10solutions Website: http://www.base10solutions.com.au/ Phone: (02) 9898-0060 Fax: (02)

RE: [WSG] Submit a form with text links

2005-06-01 Thread Joshua Street
riticise the idea on that point). Kind Regards, Joshua Street base10solutions Website: http://www.base10solutions.com.au/ Phone: (02) 9898-0060 Fax: (02) 8572-6021 Mobile: 0425 808 469 Multimedia Development Agency ___

Re: [WSG] Signature markup

2005-05-30 Thread Joshua Street
;s not a list, and shouldn't be marked up as one. > It's a single paragraph with a line break. Looks pretty > straight-forward if you ask me. > > ~john > _ > Dr. Zeus Web Design > http://www.DrZeus.net > "content without clutter&qu

Re: [WSG] Signature markup

2005-05-30 Thread Joshua Street
s, but they are on separate lines, and are therefore separated by a line break (yeah, I know, is theoretically semantically null... shrug!) Looks okay to me... Kind Regards, Joshua Street base10solutions Website: http://www.base10solutions.com.au/ Phone: (02) 9898-0060 Fax: (02) 8572-6021

Re: [WSG] CSS Dropdown menu

2005-05-24 Thread Joshua Street
rect' way are beyond the letter of web standards, but adhere to their spirit - namely, ensuring a more meaningful and accessible web. Kind Regards, Joshua Street base10solutions Website: http://www.base10solutions.com.au/ Phone: (02) 9898-0060 Fax: (02) 8572-

Re: [WSG] apostrophes, and the like.

2005-05-17 Thread Joshua Street
http://photomatt.net/tools/texturize makes it really easy. He's also responsible for the WordPress blogging software (I know, off topic...) which has that function embedded. Quotation marks and apostrophes, if copied out of Word, can give you all kinds of messy encoding errors... best to either u

Re: [WSG] Site check

2005-05-17 Thread Joshua Street
p.s. whose idea was this: http://www.lastminute.com/site/main/boss_page_spreadsheet.html I laughed... :D On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 12:28 +0100, Tom Hamshere wrote: > Any feedback appreciated. Kind Regards, Joshua Street Website: http://www.base10solutions.com.au/ Phone: (02) 9898-0060

Re: [WSG] Site check

2005-05-17 Thread Joshua Street
d Malaga from Â74" - div.page_content > div.single_column > h2 > a according to Firefox's Web Developer toolbar "View style information" utility. Generally, great site! Kind Regards, Joshu

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