Re: [WSG] xhtml doctypes and charsets

2005-11-26 Thread Lachlan Hunt
(it is also a trivial exercise to configure your server properly to do that), but that meta element is better than nothing. For XHTML, application/xhtml+xml is the preferred MIME type and it's best to include encoding information within the XML declaration. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] page break up

2005-11-27 Thread Lachlan Hunt
HTML comment, but that's really irrelevant in this case). You need to use CSS comments in CSS and HTML comments in HTML. CSS comments are: /* comment */ Fixing these issues may solve some of your problems. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] Extra menu for when images are turned off

2005-11-27 Thread Lachlan Hunt
support the 'content' property on any element, there's not much you can do about it. try something like this: a { background: ...; text-indent: -2000px; text-decoration: none; } Look up image replacement techniques for more alternatives. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] page break up

2005-11-27 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Terrence Wood wrote: Lachlan Hunt said: !--tab is an invalid HTML comment how so? In SGML, the comment syntax is as follows: ! (Markup declaration open (MDO)) -- first comment --(Zero or more comments.) -- second comment -- (Markup

Re: [WSG] CSS Validators

2005-11-27 Thread Lachlan Hunt
for download. Firefox 1.5 and higher will report CSS errors in the JavaScript console. It won't do batch files, unfortunately, but I find it more convenient than a validator anyway, since it tells me as I'm writing and previewing them. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] page break up

2005-11-27 Thread Lachlan Hunt
the focus into consideration. Lord Vader's Handle Formerly Anakin http://mezzoblue.com/css/cribsheet/#lovehate -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] page break up

2005-11-27 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Terrence Wood wrote: Lachlan Hunt said: In SGML, the comment syntax is as follows: I believe your original comment was that it was invalid HTML. While similar, the SGML rule differs from HTML in it's treatment of whitespace, There is no formal difference between HTML4 and SGML comments

Re: [WSG] Extra menu for when images are turned off

2005-11-27 Thread Lachlan Hunt
may run into some trouble in IE with that because of the way it treats 'height' somewhat like 'min-height', but you should be able to get it to work. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] page break up

2005-11-28 Thread Lachlan Hunt
comment parsing modes in Mozilla (pick a DOCTYPE that triggers standards mode and compare with one that triggers quirks mode) http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/quirks/doctypes.html View the same tests in IE, and it will always show that comment parsing is in quirks mode -- Lachlan Hunt

Re: [WSG] firefox 1.5 is official

2005-11-29 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Geoff Pack wrote: Can someone explain what the new Canvas element does that SVG doesn't? And why is it a new element instead of just using the Object tag? It's an implementation of this: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#scs-dynamic -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] firefox 1.5 is official

2005-11-29 Thread Lachlan Hunt
it was amusing. Bug filed. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318210 -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting

Re: [WSG] FF1.5 and Web Dev. T/B

2005-11-30 Thread Lachlan Hunt
://chrispederick.com/work/webdeveloper/beta/ -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** 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] editor

2005-12-01 Thread Lachlan Hunt
to get a copy of Opera 8.5 and 9.0 preview 1. You may wish to test on earlier versions of Opera as well, but I wouldn't bother testing on anything lower than Opera 7. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] editor

2005-12-01 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Matthew Cruickshank wrote: Lachlan Hunt wrote: Since you're new, you might want to stick with HTML4 until a) browser support for XHTML increases (IE does not support XHTML), Heh... please elabourate on how IE doesn't support XHTML. Try this in IE: http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/wrongWithIE

Re: [WSG] XHTML Issues (was: Re: editor)

2005-12-01 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Matthew Cruickshank wrote: Lachlan Hunt wrote: http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/wrongWithIE/?chapter=XHTML ...if you use the ?xml? declaration..., then it will trigger quirks mode in IE6 Right... rather than jumping to conclusions I was just wanting to make sure you were telling a beginner

Re: [WSG] XHTML Issues

2005-12-02 Thread Lachlan Hunt
as text/html by default, many users don't know or care. While you may be competent enough to be aware of such issues and meticulously test your document as XHTML, beginners who are unaware of all of these won't have a chance. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] Re: the basics of Firefox (was RE: [WSG] BBC E-mail: Overhaul for Firefox web browser)

2005-12-02 Thread Lachlan Hunt
bookmarks, passwords, etc, and how to create a new profile. Reinstallation usually won't fix problems associated with corrupted profiles. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

Re: [WSG] XHTML Issues

2005-12-02 Thread Lachlan Hunt
-proxy/content-type-proxy -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** 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] XHTML Issues

2005-12-02 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Christian Montoya wrote: 2005/12/2, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Try Hixie's content-type proxy. http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/cgi/content-type-proxy/content-type-proxy Is this a trick? hr at the bottom of the page prevents it from handling xml. Any sort of xml. Now how am I going

Re: [WSG] UK Government Web standards - IE and serving issues...

2005-12-02 Thread Lachlan Hunt
that they *must not* be served as text/html. [1] http://lachy.id.au/log/2005/04/xhtml-future -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints

Re: [WSG] UK Government Web standards - IE and serving issues...

2005-12-02 Thread Lachlan Hunt
computer skills and are not tech savvy. I'll be sure to make sure all my future examples use non-technologically inclined, gender indeterminent homo sapien instead. Sure it's a mouthful, but we mustn't be sexist. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] Newcomers and Web Standards (was editor)

2005-12-02 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Vlad Alexander (XStandard) wrote: Lachlan Hunt wrote: Lori Cole wrote: I am new to (trying to learn how) constructing standards conforming web pages using XHTML and would like to know what HTML editor you folks that are light years ahead of me would recommend? Since you're new, you might

Re: [WSG] XML Declaration (was: Re: editor)

2005-12-03 Thread Lachlan Hunt
a big part in the future, the future is not here yet and we have a long way to go before then. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] Newcomers and Web Standards

2005-12-03 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Matthew Cruickshank wrote: Lachlan Hunt wrote: Yes. Why should we attempt to hide the truth from them, especially when they're just starting out and they need to lose/avoid any bad habits and mistakes as quickly as possible. Yours is a fringe and pedantic opinion, and you're being

Re: [WSG] editor

2005-12-03 Thread Lachlan Hunt
anything before the DOCTYPE declaration will trigger quirks mode in IE, which is basically a mode that uses intentionally buggy, backwards compatible parsing and rendering behaviour reversed engineered from obsolete 4.x era (and earlier) browsers. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] Newcomers and Web Standards

2005-12-03 Thread Lachlan Hunt
much more harm than good. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** 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] editor

2005-12-03 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Christian Montoya wrote: On 12/3/05, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Be aware that an XML 1.0 parser that was not built for XML 1.1 as well, will fail with a well-formedness error if version=1.1 is encountered in the declaration. For XML 1.0, the XML declaration is optional. Wait, so

Re: [WSG] Newcomers and Web Standards

2005-12-03 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Matthew Cruickshank wrote: Lachlan Hunt wrote: I might add that my fringe and pedantic opinion is based on fact, and that not one valid technical argument has yet been raised in this thread against any of the technical reasons I've posted. Ah, but the argument is not strictly one

Re: [WSG] XML Declaration

2005-12-03 Thread Lachlan Hunt
well-formedness errors, page info dialog will typically show application/xhtml+xml. IE will either offer a save as dialog or cause it to open in your default browser (it opens it with Firefox for me, because that's my default browser, your system may be different) -- Lachlan Hunt http

Re: [WSG] Newcomers and Web Standards

2005-12-03 Thread Lachlan Hunt
develop and test your pages in an XML environment, even if you end up serving your pages to the world as text/html. Learning and developing XHTML in a text/html environment is a recipe for disaster. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] XML Declaration

2005-12-04 Thread Lachlan Hunt
, if they ever attempt to switch to true XML, and why I very strongly advocate that beginners start with HTML, not XHTML. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] standards or confusion?

2005-12-04 Thread Lachlan Hunt
/xhtml+xml means, it doesn't recognise it as an XML document and asks the user what to do with it (either save it or open with another application). -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

Re: [WSG] Newcomers and Web Standards

2005-12-04 Thread Lachlan Hunt
, do so on the back end too. Plus, you still run into trouble when the user includes scripts and styles written for text/html and untested in XML. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] Newcomers and Web Standards

2005-12-04 Thread Lachlan Hunt
/2004/02/04/incompatible-rss plus RSS 1.1 which was developed a little more recently. http://annevankesteren.nl/2005/01/rss-11 That leaves Atom 1.0 as the only feed format people should bother using, now that Atom 0.3 is officially deprecated. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] standards or confusion?

2005-12-05 Thread Lachlan Hunt
, see: http://www.onlinetools.org/articles/unobtrusivejavascript/ -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting

Re: [WSG] how to emulate br / in xml

2005-12-06 Thread Lachlan Hunt
and ::after pseudo-elements. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/generate.html#content -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints

Re: [WSG] standards or confusion?

2005-12-06 Thread Lachlan Hunt
=text/javascript var d=new Date(); yr=d.getFullYear(); if (yr!=2003) document.write(copy; +yr); /scriptnbsp;Cedar Tree Books /div p id=copy© 2005 Cedar Tree Books/p No script (or entity reference) required. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] standards or confusion?

2005-12-07 Thread Lachlan Hunt
(); txtCopy.replaceData(1, 0, + year); -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** 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] page check please - mime type!

2005-12-07 Thread Lachlan Hunt
/05/script-comments -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** 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] page check please - mime type!

2005-12-07 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Lachlan Hunt wrote: http://lachy.id.au/log/2005/12/xhtml-beginners I am prohibited from getting comments through to that article. That's weird, if you contact me off list and let me know what error you received I might be able to do something about it. If you send me

Re: [WSG] Valid alternative to textarea WRAP

2005-12-07 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Sarah Peeke (XERT) wrote: Just wondering if there is an altenative to textarea wrap=soft (for e.g.) that validates. Just wondering why you need it. In which non-obsolete browser does the value soft have any effect upon rendering or submission? -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] Valid alternative to textarea WRAP

2005-12-07 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Sarah Peeke (XERT) wrote: Lachlan Hunt wrote: Sarah Peeke (XERT) wrote: Just wondering if there is an altenative to textarea wrap=soft (for e.g.) that validates. Just wondering why you need it. In which non-obsolete browser does the value soft have any effect upon rendering or submission

Re: [WSG] real xhtml - last question!

2005-12-08 Thread Lachlan Hunt
paths didn't work because the page was routed through a different server. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints

Re: [WSG] italic and validator

2005-12-11 Thread Lachlan Hunt
but there are some significant differences. and even better, could someone point me to a w3c page that talks about what is deprecated in xhtml? This is the table of elements for HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0. http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/index/elements.html -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] CSS and the University Syllabus

2005-12-13 Thread Lachlan Hunt
in fear of the table police, anyone who tells you tables should never be used, unconditionally, doesn't know what they're talking about. Tables are only frowned upon when they are used to mark up data that is not even remotely tabular, simply to achieve visual layout. -- Lachlan Hunt http

Re: [WSG] JK Rowlings and Accessibility

2005-12-14 Thread Lachlan Hunt
-- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** 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] Justify this

2005-12-14 Thread Lachlan Hunt
use an appropriate selector and width for your needs. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list

Re: [WSG] Justify this

2005-12-14 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Paul Noone wrote: Lachlan Hunt wrote: Paul Noone wrote: I want to centre align text and justify it at the same time. I've applied the following mark-up which, surprisingly, does the trick. text-align:center justify; p { width: 50%; margin: 0 auto; text-align: justify; } Thanks

Re: [WSG] Browser Resolutions

2005-12-15 Thread Lachlan Hunt
for the web site to play with, which is almost half the width of my screen resolution. So please understand that any screen resolution statistics you find will be nothing short of completely useless. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] XHTML1.1 differences

2005-12-17 Thread Lachlan Hunt
hard enough myself. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/changes.html#a_changes -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints

Re: [WSG] Help with CSS ul

2005-12-17 Thread Lachlan Hunt
and deleting the quote (Both of which you initially failed to do.) isn't good enough either, since the message may still contain headers that indicate which thread it's in. Always start a new thread by creating a new message. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] Help with CSS ul

2005-12-17 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Jorge Laranjo wrote: On 18/12/05 1:25, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No-one can possibly offer you any useful advice on how to solve this problem because you haven't provided a link, we can't see the problem for ourselves, we don't know what styles you have applied and thus have

Re: [WSG] weird IE6 doctype switching question

2005-12-18 Thread Lachlan Hunt
to forget it even exists as an alternative and never, under any circumstances, attempt to develop a page using it. Use of quirks mode is never a good solution to any problem. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-css3-box-20021024/#the-box-width -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] Setting Up Font Sizes

2005-12-20 Thread Lachlan Hunt
/day_26_using_relative_font_sizes.html -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** 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] xhtml DTD

2005-12-22 Thread Lachlan Hunt
://www.w3.org/TR/1999/xhtml-modularization-19990406/DTD/doc/xhtml1-t.elt.html#li Yes, it would be. There is no h element in XHTML 1.x. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

Re: [WSG] Best Web Standards thing I learnt in 2005.

2005-12-22 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Bob Schwartz wrote: Christopher, + getting into microformats I guess I missed something along the way. Where can I find out more about this? http://microformats.org/ -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] HTML Numeric and Named Entities

2006-01-10 Thread Lachlan Hunt
, they have always referred to the Unicode code points since HTML 2.0. See my article: http://lachy.id.au/log/2005/10/char-refs (take note of the comments too, which contain a few corrections) -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] CSS or JavaScript flyout menu

2006-01-10 Thread Lachlan Hunt
terms. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** 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] HTML Numeric and Named Entities

2006-01-11 Thread Lachlan Hunt
liorean wrote: On 11/01/06, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as character references in HTML are concerned, they have always referred to the Unicode code points since HTML 2.0. Ah. I just saw BASESET ISO 646:1983//CHARSET International Reference

Re: [WSG] pdf graphics

2006-01-13 Thread Lachlan Hunt
for the original image files, they should have them in a format like suitable for Photoshop, Fireworks, CorelDraw, GIMP, or whatever app they used to create them. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http

Re: Re; Re: [WSG] br the correct use.

2006-01-13 Thread Lachlan Hunt
is as not-right as using tables. Using a class name to describe presentation is no better than using presentational elements and using absolute positioning for each form field and label would be overkill. However, I'm not sure what this has to do with the discussion of br elements. -- Lachlan Hunt

Re: Tabluar forms WAS: Re: [WSG] br the correct use.

2006-01-14 Thread Lachlan Hunt
be rendered something like this: - | Name | Lachlan Hunt | | Gender | Male | | DOB| 1983-03-07 | - Now, say, instead of knowing the values for each field when the page is written, we want to ask the user to provide the values

Re: [WSG] content type etc

2006-01-15 Thread Lachlan Hunt
the syntax of the equivalent value in HTTP headers. It is, however, better to use real HTTP headers instead of the inferior meta element substitute. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] content type etc

2006-01-15 Thread Lachlan Hunt
in the event that or no content-type information is sent by the server, or if it is believed by the browser that the server is wrong. This is why, for example, HTML documents served as text/plain will be incorrectly rendered as HTML by IE. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] CSS Icon

2006-01-15 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Alvaro Mouriño wrote: Hi List, I was just wondering if it is possible to set an icon for my site with CSS (the one next to the title) Either way, how do I do it? Not with CSS, this goes in your HTML. link rel=shortcut icon href=/favicon.ico http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon -- Lachlan

Re: [WSG] Article: MIME and Content Negotiation

2006-01-16 Thread Lachlan Hunt
.org/International/O-HTTP-charset -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** 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] Article: MIME and Content Negotiation

2006-01-16 Thread Lachlan Hunt
rendering in implementations, but it still needs to be considered for practical reasons. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some

Re: [WSG] Article: MIME and Content Negotiation

2006-01-16 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Paul Novitski wrote: At 04:02 AM 1/16/2006, Lachlan Hunt wrote: (The charset parameter is only really needed for text/* media types, for XML served with an application/* media type, the XML declaration is recommended for use instead which may be omitted for UTF-8 and UTF-16) http

Re: [WSG] Article: MIME and Content Negotiation

2006-01-16 Thread Lachlan Hunt
: Can you please make up a small sample document that clearly demonstrates this issue occurring and post a URI so that we may see it. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

Re: [WSG] content type etc

2006-01-17 Thread Lachlan Hunt
on the local file system, but useless for anything beyond that). [1] http://www.thatstandardsguy.co.uk/2006/01/16/content-negotiation/ -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

Re: [WSG] .htm include file into another .htm

2006-01-18 Thread Lachlan Hunt
-- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** 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] content type etc

2006-01-18 Thread Lachlan Hunt
is with regard to encoding detection in XML. I'm not aware of any case where IE will override the character encoding in the HTTP headers, only the MIME type. Can you provide a demonstration or provide a link to some documentation of the bug? -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] Correct MIME types for non-standard file formats

2006-01-23 Thread Lachlan Hunt
documented by the software vendor, then you should use application/octet-stream for generic binary files. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] Google and HTML5

2006-01-25 Thread Lachlan Hunt
major browsers relatively soon? -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** 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] Google and HTML5

2006-01-26 Thread Lachlan Hunt
be good for screen readers. Likewise with the article element, which will usually contain the most interesting content on the page. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

Re: [WSG] mailto: and email-subjects

2006-01-27 Thread Lachlan Hunt
. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2368 -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** 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] The dilemma: tabular data with sublevels

2006-01-28 Thread Lachlan Hunt
and values, then add some submit buttons for add, edit and delete. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting

Re: [WSG] The dilemma: tabular data with sublevels

2006-01-28 Thread Lachlan Hunt
will not have accessibility requirements? Is there some restriction on the web that I don't know about in which users of Lynx, JAWS or other assistive technology can't publish on the web, and therefore have no use for a CMS? -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] Google and HTML5

2006-01-28 Thread Lachlan Hunt
, rather than those that think semantically. Do you *really* think that a re-specification will catch on? No, it won't for presentational elements. However, the refined definitions for the more semantic elements will probably stand more chance. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] Google and HTML5

2006-01-28 Thread Lachlan Hunt
to put semantics in our documents, we'll use the elements with formally defined semantics that UAs can actually do something useful with. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

Re: [WSG] Sitecheck: 7 Sunrise Family website [sunrisefamily.com.au]

2006-01-29 Thread Lachlan Hunt
status code to send because if they decide to change their mind in the future about their URIs (like removing the redundant /current/content/) then it could cause all sorts of problems with caches that respect the HTTP protocol. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] Sitecheck: 7 Sunrise Family website [sunrisefamily.com.au]

2006-01-30 Thread Lachlan Hunt
unaware of. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** 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] Failed Redesign and the Media

2006-01-30 Thread Lachlan Hunt
in a way most suited to table based layouts and even included a spacer gif. So, I decided not to bother with them. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] 2 Q: New web site, which DTD I should use? and Compresion

2006-01-31 Thread Lachlan Hunt
server to use gzip or deflate compression. There's plenty of info in the Apache docs that'll tell you how to set that up (assuming you're using Apache). -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] 2 Q: New web site, which DTD I should use? and Compresion

2006-01-31 Thread Lachlan Hunt
of the issues are solved (or at least more easily solved) by testing the pages under XML conditions, but most authors fail to do so, or even understand how. There's a list of such issues in this article. http://lachy.id.au/log/2005/12/xhtml-beginners -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

[WSG] Re: Moral High-horse

2006-02-01 Thread Lachlan Hunt
in the past). The problem is that many people see the issue as what will happen if I don't follow standards?; whereas the questions they should be asking are what are the benefits of following standards?, how much easier/faster is it to develop with standards?, etc. -- Lachlan Hunt http

Re: [WSG] Firefox being naughty

2006-02-01 Thread Lachlan Hunt
. You shouldn't rely on the browser defaults, some users may change them and their choices may clash with yours. background: #X url(../images/greenBG.gif); color: black; (where #X is roughly the same colour green as the greenBG.gif.) -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] Background-Image download order

2006-02-01 Thread Lachlan Hunt
for the navigation appears last in the markup, then due to incremental rendering, it is likely that the images required to render it will be downloaded near the end. If it's at the top of the markup, then it seems logical that it would be downloaded near the beginning. -- Lachlan Hunt http

Re: [WSG] Background-Image download order

2006-02-01 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Todd Baker wrote: On 02/02/06, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're assuming the background image will arrive. What happens if someone has images turned off? You should specify a background colour as well. Yes indeed we are adding a background colour that its close to the graphic

Re: [WSG] Display:Table

2006-02-04 Thread Lachlan Hunt
technique in the future won't be the multi-column layouts, but the new techniques being worked in the new draft CSS3 Advanced Layout module [2]. [1] http://dbaron.org/log/2005-12#e20051228a [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-layout/ -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] parse error

2006-02-05 Thread Lachlan Hunt
, the software doesn't always know what's best. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** 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] DIV Target

2006-02-05 Thread Lachlan Hunt
any element. Just add an id attribute. div id=foo.../div Then reference it with the fragment identifer like this. a href=#foofoo/a -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

Re: [WSG] Most semantic XHTML markup possible - your thoughts

2006-02-06 Thread Lachlan Hunt
, .customer-details tr { display: block } .customer-details th, .customer details td { display: inline; } .customer-details th { text-align: left, font-weight: bold; } -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] Multiple language usability query

2006-02-06 Thread Lachlan Hunt
found that discusses this issue. http://girtby.net/archives/2005/10/07/internet-explorer-makes-me/ -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] [Please don't flame :)] HTML, XML what's the difference.

2006-02-08 Thread Lachlan Hunt
, it means nothing. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** 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] [Please don't flame :)] HTML, XML what's the difference.

2006-02-08 Thread Lachlan Hunt
with your markup that it couldn't also do with mine? In fact, both are completely meaningless because both are undefined. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] [Please don't flame :)] HTML, XML what's the difference.

2006-02-08 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Lachlan Hunt wrote: Stephen Stagg wrote: flashmovie{ display:flash;} and then your document reads: flashmovie src=file://a.c.v/me.swf / This shows that you have very little understanding of how the display property works; and probably little understanding of CSS in general. That's already

Re: [WSG] [Please don't flame :)] HTML, XML what's the difference.

2006-02-08 Thread Lachlan Hunt
right, except that in the end, we *are* catering for humans. We just need to do so in a way that allows machines to effectively pass on our messages to the user; and that is what requires well-defined, computer-readable semantics. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

Re: [WSG] Target sued over non-accessible site

2006-02-09 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Angus at InfoForce Services wrote: Most people have JAVAScript turned off, According to what statistics? I think you'll find most people actually have it turned on. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] IE7 Compatibility Team

2006-02-09 Thread Lachlan Hunt
paranoia, I'm sure no-one would mind if you quoted it fully. It sounds like they're probably sending the same template e-mail to hundreds of sites (just customising it to mention specific hacks). -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au

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