27;s not a required field, but that
doesn't mean that applications shouldn't make decisions based on it.
A good example of web software that makes decisions based on referrers
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Michael Horowitz wrote:
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fiction that only clashing high-level philosophies are involved here"
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ing Python/Ruby .Net variants) in the browser.
Adobe have Flash/Flex as the user interface.
Firefox has XUL/SVG/HTML5 as the user interface.
(sorry this is a such a rushed post -- I'm late for a bus)
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the desire is there. And certain
broadcasters in the United Kingdom are required to audio-describe a
portion of their programming; “adult” programming is not, in fact,
exempt, so all this may actually come to pass!
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Better yet, since not everyone can see, lets require all publications
to include a braille copy, all musical artists to provide a written
transcript of ever performance. That would of course be madness...
I'd like a car analogy next please.
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lows, but it of course your internal
publishing needs will vary.
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Rob Kirton wrote:
I was informed that they had a "far better idea" in the pipeline. I'm
not holding my breath...
Perhaps they were hinting at the full page zoom.
See http://urltea.com/15zr?full-page-zoom
(from http://planet.mozilla.org/ )
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r with AOL users having their IP change while
browsing and you couldn't detect this).
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My question is this: If I insert the
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good ALT text like Joes suggestion.
btw. It doesn't look like any of the CSS cursors would be an appropriate
prompt.
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could enroll in a night class?
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agreement was clear I would
contact a lawyer. If not, I'd chalk it up to experience and write better
contracts next time.
More to the point however, this isn't really web standards related. You
might get better advice elsewhere ;)
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Srecko Micic wrote:
But what if Java is disabled in browser ?
Then it won't work anyway, because all methods I've seen use
progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader() which is itself a
call via Javascript.
(fairly sure that's the case)
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Artemis wrote:
If anyone knows anything about this htc file, if it would be good to
use, how exactly it works, and where I might find a bit more
information about it I would be ever so appreciative :)
http://webfx.eae.net/dhtml/pngbehavior/pngbehavior.html
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ot another opportunity for you to derail this thread with more
technical references. No one disagrees with that -- this thread is about
how it's best to teach people web standards. And you fail it.
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I'm glad that people have been speaking up so that hopefully Lori will
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#x27;t "even have limited support for XHTML"?
Well, we clearly have _very_ different ideas about the English language,
and I doubt we'll convince each other otherwise about what sufficient
support to render learning XHTML useful would be.
Later,
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think you're
misleading Lori. I mean no one goes around saying Firefox doesn't
support HTML and CSS because it doesn't pass the Acid test or implement
soft-hyphens[1]
As a community we shouldn't stop demanding more compatibility, but your
statement doesn't seem measured t
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.
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es, so don't cram everything in one XSLT file.
- Because XSLT is XML, some people generate XSLT from XSLT. These people
are badasses.
- Use to sanity check your incoming XML
- Read all of http://dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/sect21.html
Good luck.
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there's a single image.
Eg, http://www.e.govt.nz/
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sacrosanct, and your students will laugh their
asses off at the book's cover. The good students, anyway.
ps. The entire book isn't available online, just the meat of it.
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Jachin Sheehy wrote:
That said, I note Stuart qualified his question by saying he had
worked with an experienced Java programmer. Similarly, a good .NET
programmer who is aware of the issues and concerned about web
standards will also be able to help you achieve compliance.
I have worked with AS
- Avoid or minimise the use of poorly written controls and instead write
strings of html to the page, perhaps by using literal controls as stubs.
- Using another framework that doesn't use the standard ASP.Net
templating model.
So yeah, it's pretty bad.
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ages in CSS
have problems in accessibility software:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fir/
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strategy might be lobby browser makers to support XPath or something. So
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Pawson guy, he maintains this FAQ,
http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/sect21.html
And the thing people learn after a bit of XSLT is that it's much more
managable with a good XML pipeline,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_pipeline
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convert this to XHTML, and then keep a
simple sitemap that just aggregates these wrappers together.
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were some OpenOffice macros, my XML parser and pipeline, some XSLT and a
REST-style web service interface on top of it. Internally it uses
DocBook which is far more structured than HTML. So anyway, there's the
guts of it.
Thanks for the kind words guys!
(last post on this to web standar
runs the XML through an XSLT pipeline. So, basically, this
web service converts MS Word to arbitrary HTML or XML, and returns the
results in a .zip file.
The software, called Docvert, has reached 1.0 and is at
http://holloway.co.nz/docvert
Let me know what you think.
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tarted working for gave it to me to read...
Got a lot of info about making sites accessible...Used copies were on
amazon for about $12.
Seconding this. It's an excellent book, and his emphasis is on how -
within standards - you achieve accessibility.
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appropriate to
contain formatting and content in the same file.
I'm not too familiar with it, but if you're getting into encoding text
you might consider the TEI spec <http://www.tei-c.org/>.
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falling back on the extension of the URL given.
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problem (well that and
the mime headers which have mysteriously reappeared). To get Firefox
compatibility there's no need for the older embed tag, provided your
object tags are good (previously posted example code works, as do many
others).
1. fix your http headers
2. then
one seems a little small. 10677 bytes is
only about a second of audio.
also as a side note, when I deleted the it would
not work in FF only in IE, so I had to place back the to make it work.
This works for me in Firefox and IE / Quicktime and Media Player,
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ed on
the mime-type.
Did you really check that as I suggested? What's the difference in the
headers between the servers?
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play mp3s in that. This does mean supporting a few more
parameters though as the ways of starting play aren't standardised but
it's more likely to Just Work.
ps. it's an old hack, but lying in the mime-type and using audio/wav
gets past a lot of plugin
to call the next one and just assume the first one
has finished, but that doesn't seem easy to manage. If the mp3 changes
they'd have to fix up all the pages.
Unfortunately all the search engines have failed me because javascript
OBJECT-oriented programming is more popular than Javascr
f all the time to get all child nodes).
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gh to plugin_test) it's easier to do it in two
stages... make the result of the 1st XSLT another XSLT that names all
the plugins, and then apply that. That way the 2nd stage XSLT is static
(so far as the processor is concerned) but it adjusts.
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x of,
#menu {dock: left #content; share-max-height: #content; width:30% }
#content {left:30%; share-max-height: #menu; width:70%;}
#footer {dock: bottom #content; width:100%;}
I guess this wishlist is deviating a bit from web standards so I'll stop
now ;
This technique can be broken by spammers too <
http://sam.zoy.org/projects/pwntcha/ >. I guess another approach would
be using sentences, as in "write the 4th word in the following sentence
into the box labelled Passcode", but unfortunately it's only
, it'll just
ignore it and do whatever else it can to parse the data, including
falling back on the extension of the URL given.
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Nick Lo wrote:
Just out of interest what "standards" (in the sense of a generalised
approach) are you all applying to site structuring?
Site structure... as in URL design? Or internal file structures? Or
common interface elements?
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lso,
http://joeclark.org/book/sashay/serialization/Chapter06.html#h2-5485
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two examples are RateaRod.com and
RateaRear.com â then the alt text for submitted photos may end up
being inane and/or annoying, like alt="Rate this member!" Porn cannot
always be taken seriously. Accessible porn may end up being even
sli
hey're public domain),
http://holloway.co.nz/sa/icons.html << drop down list containing icons;
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resizing, with a minimum width collapse like a conventional windows app.
If anyone improves them please send patc
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That's what we do at DEWR for our minister's press releases. It seems to work
well enough, I'm not sure if it's semantically correct, but hey it works.
Any idea of the browser support?
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ether and
my xml parser didn't like it because of some characters in this range.
It seems that even when you tell notepad.exe to save as utf-8 it
sometimes doesn't.
So is there a bit of software to validate UTF-8 encoded files?
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;re writing html, set the default namespace to
XHTML (or html 4.01, whatever). That way if you integrate with another
feed of xml you can distinguish your html from the other stuff.
Here's a good XSLT FAQ, maintained by my guru, Dave Pawson,
http://dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/sect21.html
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better than the old tv2 site though. They're getting better
:)
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better than the old tv2 site though. They're getting better
:)
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is so older browsers, and search engines, can follow popup links,
but newer browsers that use the onclick ignore the href because of
onclick's 'return false'.
See http://www.alistapart.com/articles/popuplinks/
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