Re: [WSG] Ordered List Best Practice

If you're using a h3 inside a list, I kind of expect a h2 and a h1 to precede that... Is it really necessary to use a h3 or could you just style an ol or ul in the appropriate way? On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Erickson, Kevin (DOE) < kevin.erick...@doe.virginia.gov> wrote: > Hi, > I have an o

Re: [WSG] strange web page problems

Marvin, >From what I hear, a version of JAWS is tied to a specific version of IE. So a version that works fine with IE7 may simply not work (correctly) with IE8. I suggest you direct your question to the support department of the software you're having problems with. Regards, Matijs On

Re: [WSG] web hosting

ore help. Good luck on finding an accessible webhost that suits your needs. I'm afraid I can't help you there. Best, Matijs PS. I tried to put this in the nicest way possible. Please don't be offended, it's the last thing I want to do. On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Marvin Hun

Re: [WSG] Multiple IE's for browser testing

n the current (IE8), previous (IE7) and ancient and evil (IE6) browsers. Best, Matijs On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:19 AM, James Ellis wrote: > Hi > > Use virtualbox (.org) and run up a virtual machine that only has IE7 on it. > You can do this by installing XP into the virtual machin

Re: [WSG] [Spam] :changing font sizes from within a page.

Current best practice is (and imho has always been) using relative font-sizes to make text resizing work the browser way in all browsers including IE6/7. In addition to that you could add a widget to resize text. In an ideal situation this widget would also work without javascript (not too hard) or

Re: [WSG] Installing More than one version of IE6

For what it's worth. Microsoft have—for several years now—offered free Windows XP images with IE6/7/8RC and now IE8 as well in Microsoft Virtual PC format. Microsoft Virtual PC (the application) is also available for free, making this the most acurate and low-cost option available. The only drawbac

Re: [WSG] working with line-height

> > I frequently have to work with pixel-perfect design http://aspnetresources.com/blog/dear_art_director.aspx > , and I'm always having trouble with line-height in particular. Please take > a look at this example: http://www.hellobenlau.net/wsg/index.html

Re: [WSG] web page and style sheet problems still

Hey Marvin, >From what I've always learned, it's best to make the table a bit more explicit including tbody, tfoot and thead tags. You can also define colgroups. What do you mean when you say that Internet Explorer 8 + Jaws doesn't see your table? Regards, Matijs On Sun, Ju

Re: [WSG] fonts problems

Could you provide us with a little more information? Perhaps a snippet from the HTML file where you include the style sheet and a snippet from the style sheet where you're setting the font? We can probably help you out from there. I'm not totally sure what you mean by "insert f" On Sat, Jun 20, 2

Re: [WSG] Help - Mega dropdown menu and SharePoint 2007

n how comfortable your developers are with working with Sharepoint. In my experience there are a lot of back-end developers doing front-end work that they're not qualified to do which makes them resort to table based layouts &c. Good luck! Matijs On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:31 AM, WEE, Miranda wro

Re: [WSG] old horizontal list formatting issue in ie

Hello Kevin, Not sure what you mean by stretch to the width of the ul in ie Do you mean to distribute them evenly within the width of the ul? Please clarify a little :) Matijs On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 3:52 AM, kevin mcmonagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > Hi, > > Its late an

Re: [WSG] firefox treatment of wrapper overflow height

These days it's also known how to do a clear without an additional clearing div... try giving the troublesome div overflow:hidden en you should also be sorted. On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 8:04 PM, kevin mcmonagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you david, > a tip from that article has me sorted. >

Re: [WSG] Help

Wrong group I'm afraid Bidemi, but one wonders, why Flash in the first place? On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 2:20 AM, Bidemi Adejumo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello All, > Is there anyone who can design guestbook with flash? I guess you know what > the question means.. > .. I want someone

Re: [WSG] Validation

Google is your friend: SWFObject2 On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Fuji kusaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I have a flash animation in my webpage and this causes a big problem when i > have to validate the page. > > Can someone help me out? > -- > Fuji kusaka > **

Re: [WSG] Please unsubscribe me

rofl :') On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 7:22 AM, Susie Gardner-Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ha ha – and yes!! > > > > On 1/7/08 2:59 PM, "Matthew Holloway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Polly Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Many thanks > Polly Templeto

Re: [WSG] Scaling a background image

ue, Jul 1, 2008 at 7:04 AM, Matijs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> SVG is not really suitable for photos though. >> > > > Which is mostly true but SVG can contain bitmaps and as the goal is to > scale the bitmap to 100% anyway then using SVG as a container format would

Re: [WSG] Scaling a background image

quot;; width="100%" /> > > Hope it helps. > > Kind regards > Per Allan Johansson > Enonic > > > dwain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev følgende den 30.06.08 22.04: > > > this is true. > > > > On 6/30/08, Matijs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Re: [WSG] Scaling a background image

SVG is not really suitable for photos though. On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 7:24 PM, dwain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it seems that it used to, but the browser rendering has changed. i > read, not too closely, in the svg specs how to edit the files to make > it fit "infinite" screen resolutions. > >

[WSG] semantic issue

not entirely sure. The options aren't very similar in that they're part control (the voting) and part meta information and part helping the user copy stuff. I am curious what people's thoughts are on how to mark this up semantically. Gr. Matijs **

Re: [WSG] flash navigation - Devils advocate

There isn't really a way for a search engine to see how many times a link has been clicked. It is however possible for a search engine to see / count how many links are pointing to a page (either internally or externally), thereby measuring its 'popularity'. On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:44 PM, kevin

Re: [WSG] Keywords for text-less site?

If the number of times the font is used per page isn't excessive, you could also resort to sIFR3 for font replacement. Check: http://novemberborn.net/sifr3 for more information. If you need help with this, you can contact me off-list. :) Gr. Matijs On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 5:29 AM, Ly

Re: [WSG] flash navigation - Devils advocate

Regardless of whether you stick alternative navigation in the div that's going to be replaced, I've personally found using Flash for navigation about the worst use of Flash possible. Are you sure that you cannot achieve what you want by using HTML with some enhancements thrown in by javascript? On

Re: [WSG] IE6/7 behaviour

at this: http://www.bluerobot.com/web/css/center2.html Gr. Matijs On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Rob Enslin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, if this is off topic I apologise in advance. > > I have a slight issue with IE (surprise surprise) on a page I'm *working* >

Re: [WSG] Firefox 3 and script tag 'problems'

works doesn't On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:38 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have an example of this behaviour? Not quite sure I follow > the issue... > > Regards, > Mike > > > > >-Original Message- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken M

Re: [WSG] Marking Up Poems

I have to agree with Elizabeth here. Semantically I'd say that this is one of the few occasions where a would be appropriate. The verses would be paragraphs of course. On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Elizabeth Spiegel < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have to say I'm at a loss to see how a poem

Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: [WSG] html vs. html

I used to have a browser extension that depended on java that could take really nice screen shots. Either a whole webpage or just the viewport. I'm sure you could find it on the mozilla extensions website. Matijs On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 2:48 AM, kevin mcmonagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Re: [WSG] Forcing a vertical scrollbar in Firefox 3

Drawback is of course that only Mozilla based browsers understand this. On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Gregorio Espadas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use: > > *html{ overflow:-moz-scrollbars-vertical; }* > > ... and it works fine for me :-) > > Gregorio Espadas > http://espadas.com.mx > > > >

Re: [WSG] W3C HTML Validation of an Intranet site

Best tip for me for ages, thanks man! On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 7:53 AM, Gonzalo González Mora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 2:41 AM, Hayden's Harness Attachment < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have an Intranet site I wish to put through the HTML validator. How do I >> v

Re: [WSG] Marking up company logo

How about: The Times Homepage There's water on mars The Times Financial stuff Redmond stock going down further etc... Where would one fit in a company logo? Wouldn't a background image be best? And if so, where? Matijs On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 2:38 AM, Adam Martin <[EM

Re: [WSG] Table Cells and display: block

Do you have a little more context maybe? What is it you're trying to do? Sounds a bit odd to display a table cell as a block tbh. On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Anthony Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've tried Google and the archives but no luck > > I have an issue with IE not applying disp

Re: [WSG] PHP Standards

I haven't had time to look into other frameworks but make sure to check out Zend as well. It's at version 1.5.2. at this time and it has a nice built-in templating system. On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:05 AM, James Jeffery < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are a number of ways to get tasks done on

Re: [WSG] Centering all items in a li

I think semantically I would have gone for divs in the first place as it's not really a list perse... On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Darren Lovelock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's a example of what I'm doing http://www.munkyonline.co.uk/test.html > > I want the li's to behave the same as

Re: [WSG] Centering all items in a li

Sounds like you can only change the CSS and not the (x)HTML, is that correct? You're also floating the 's... that puts them behind eachother right? Would displaying them inline help? On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Viable Design <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Darren, > > Try assigning a line-heig

Re: [WSG] IE6 background image positioning problem

re you'll get it to work the way you want it to. Gr. Matijs On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 1:22 AM, Susie Gardner-Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks very much Gunlaug - that did work! > > And Matljs - re the banner table, I work at a university where you are > supposed

Re: [WSG] Background on body not aligning with tiled background on wrapper DIV

Does "overflow: hidden" on the containing div and making the green bar wider help? On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 7:23 PM, Paul Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've managed to put a page together. If you look at the green area in > Firefox and IE you will notice a small gap at the right

Re: [WSG] Conact Form!

James, Also, might want to consider getting rid of those ugly 's... You could try: Name Display the label and the span as a block and float the span and the input to the left, put a width on the span and you should be sorted. Greetings, Matijs On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 6:44 PM, james &l

Re: [WSG] IE6 background image positioning problem

iv#wrapper { width: 780px;} div#header {width: 780px;} div#navigation {width: 192px; float: left;} div#content {width: 588px; float: left;} div#footer {width: 780px; clear both;} When that's done, you can just stick the background image to your #content div. Hope this helps. Matijs On Thu,

Re: [WSG] alt text and titles for linked images

I would do it this way: Body1 Body2 Body3 Body4 Body5 ul.bodyList { list-style: none; } ul.bodyList li { float: left; } ul.bodyList a { display: block; text-indent: -px; /* only if you don't want Body1 etc.. to show of course */ text-decoration: non

Re: [WSG] Full flash websites

Only resort to flash if what you want is impossible with plain old html and some javascript thrown in. And if you use flash, make sure there's an alternative. I think this page: http://www.schiphol.nl/toekomst/ ...is a good example of just that. Just turn off javascript and see what happens. **

Re: [WSG] :: Footer not resting at bottom of page ::

The (imho) best way to do this is by using the Man in Blue's FooterStickAlt: http://www.themaninblue.com/writing/perspective/2005/08/29/ On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 8:08 AM, Tim MacKay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Amrinder, > > > > I would recommend this solution; it was given to me from a membe

Re: [WSG] strechable round rect and center align

Global Links left_side_image.png is just the corners and the left border. right_side_image.png is the right border, the corners on the right and way wider top and bottom borders so it can stretch. Haven't tested it so you might need to play a bit with padding here

Re: [WSG] PNG file sizes

Could you give us an example of how huge exactly the png is and what the width, height and DPI values for the PNG are? Thanks, Matijs On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 1:49 AM, Rachel May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Susie, > > Yes it does, but this is what I've already used and I

Re: [WSG] seo / standards question

I'd go for nested lists heading 1 item 1 ... heading 2 etc... And use h's where they are actual headings like Dave Woods suggested. Gr. Matijs On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Joseph Ortenzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [WSG] netscape 4 and css

Hello Dwain, Are you at liberty to elaborate on the reasons for wanting to support NN4? Thanks! Matijs On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:56 AM, dwain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 3/23/08, russ - maxdesign <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey Dwain, > > >

Re: [WSG] Proxy HTTPS to HTTP

27;s the nicest way of doing this. On a sidenote. I've only been following WSG for a few days now and I'm not entirely sure if this is on-topic. Feel free to contact me if you'd like to discuss this off the list. Matijs On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 3:01 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: