Re: [WSG] Is RTF accessible?

2008-05-27 Thread Matthew Holloway
.pdf (an article of mine) http://blogs.sun.com/korn/entry/talking_with_microsoft_s_gray http://blogs.sun.com/korn/entry/cotinuing_the_conversation_with_gray -- .Matthew Holloway http://holloway.co.nz/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandard

Re: [WSG] Is RTF accessible?

2008-05-27 Thread Matthew Holloway
required it was clear that this directive could not have been met. This is the clearest possible indication that DIS 29500 as submitted by Ecma and as modified by the BRM is not ready for fast track processing. It was not incumbent on the participants of the BRM to modify this clearly

Re: [WSG] Clarification: Is RTF accessible?

2008-05-27 Thread Matthew Holloway
Jessica Enders wrote: Also, if it helps, I'm thinking about RTF for /forms/, not general text documents. Oh, ok -- it certainly cannot represent accessible forms. Even the latest RTF 1.9.1 (March 2008) does not appear to support form field labels, for example. -- .Matthew Holloway

Re: [WSG] Clarification: Is RTF accessible?

2008-05-28 Thread Matthew Holloway
for accessibility use Microsoft Office 2010, don't use RTF). -- .Matthew Holloway http://holloway.co.nz/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] HTML special characters coding

2008-06-17 Thread Matthew Holloway
omates some of this but what is the best practice? > You're always supposed to encode & as & (even in hrefs) and that's what standards compliance requires. (I use XHTML and I also want to be parseable as XML so aside from XMLs inbuilt entities of < > & "

Re: [WSG] HTML special characters coding

2008-06-17 Thread Matthew Holloway
x27;t remember the name of the software but a few years ago an adblocker proxy that I installed on my parents machine would break UTF-8 horribly... of course that's the proxy's fault but entites would work around their bug. (I don't really have strong op

Re: [WSG] HTML special characters coding

2008-06-17 Thread Matthew Holloway
ave a slight preference for entities because they don't tend to get mangled by stupid non-unicode-aware tools but that's about it. Cheers :) -- .Matthew Holloway http://holloway.co.nz/ *** List Guidelines: h

Re: [WSG] IE6/7 not rendering an H1 correctly

2008-06-17 Thread Matthew Holloway
Lynette Smith wrote: > I've been staring at if for ages and I don't understand this at all > and was wondering if this was the reason IE won't render it as intended. Just above the there's a broken "http://holloway.co.nz/ *** List

Re: [WSG] Scaling a background image

2008-06-29 Thread Matthew Holloway
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Chris Pearce < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone been able to successfully scale a CSS background image to the > current window size? I've done some research via Google and it appears this > can't be done purely with CSS (at least not yet), maybe some JavaSc

Re: [WSG] Scaling a background image

2008-06-30 Thread Matthew Holloway
(or at least identical to bitmaps, aside from file size). Unrelated, but here's an example of using SVG vectors for a background image... http://holloway.co.nz/wellypug/svg/svg-test2.html .Matthew Holloway http://docvert.org/ http

Re: [WSG] Please unsubscribe me

2008-06-30 Thread Matthew Holloway
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Polly Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Many thanks > Polly Templeton > National Museum of Australia > I don't know about you all but I'm maintaining a spreadsheet called "People not to hire based on their ability to use t

Re: [WSG] XSLT: looping through ancestors looking for a specific node

2008-07-27 Thread Matthew Holloway
memory, untested code) it's the same section it's not the same section .Matthew Holloway http://holloway.co.nz/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [ADMIN] THREAD CLOSED [WSG] XSLT: looping through ancestors looking for a specific node

2008-07-27 Thread Matthew Holloway
maScript etc.)" -- http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Grant was talking about XSLT, thanks :) .Matthew Holloway http://holloway.co.nz/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

Re: [WSG] Why css settings a background image in the body tag wouldn't work

2008-07-29 Thread Matthew Holloway
elative paths are different from the HTML to CSS, etc. .Matthew Holloway http://holloway.co.nz/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] Why css settings a background image in the body tag wouldn't work plus 2nd issue of space between divs

2008-07-29 Thread Matthew Holloway
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Michael Horowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sure happy to give you my current css. Missing semi-colon at the end of the line? .Matthew Holloway http://holloway.co.nz/ *** List Guideli

Re: [WSG] form from hell - difficult redesign

2008-07-30 Thread Matthew Holloway
e data? You could try hierarchical table rows (also known as multi-column treeviews)... I recently wrote a blog post that detailed lots of ways of representing tablular data: http://holloway.co.nz/blog/?p=17 .Matthew Holloway http://holloway.co.nz/ **