[WSG] Claiming compliance when a site doesn't' actually comply

2006-01-04 Thread Nic
they are doing, how can a potential client be sure that the next guy (you, me) claiming they know what they are doing actually does? Perhaps this is a pointless rant, but it's seriously getting under my skin this week. Thanks for any feedback on this :) Nic

RE: [WSG] Claiming compliance when a site doesn't' actually comply

2006-01-05 Thread Nic
, but I'm so busy working on my clients' sites that my own suffers from inattention.) grin My own site's so suffering from innatention that it's not even up yet! Thank the gods for word of mouth ;) Cheers, and thanks again for the great exchanges so far. Nic

RE: [WSG] absolute positioned a not where it should be

2006-01-06 Thread Nic
the link leads you. PS. it validates.. :) Probably does, but not with all standards ;) Cheers, good luck Nic ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints

RE: [WSG] Free CSS Editor Recomendations?

2006-01-08 Thread Nic
I was wondering if the professionals in here can recommend any free CSS Editors TopStyle Lite http://www.bradsoft.com/download/index.asp Nic ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

RE: [WSG] pdf graphics

2006-01-13 Thread Nic
like that a few months back. I wish you luck! Nic ** 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] Glossary

2006-01-19 Thread Nic
that should answer your question ;) Nic ** 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] small screen rendering

2006-01-19 Thread Nic
). For example, even if you declare a stylesheet for media=handheld, Explorer for the handheld will still use some of the screen stylesheet. This makes it near impossible designing a proper style for handhelds. Good luck Nic ** The discussion list

RE: [WSG] small screen rendering

2006-01-19 Thread Nic
Thankfully, Explorer isn't the only HH browser ;-) Ya, but... If you want your visitors to see the site properly, considering the majority of HH ship with IE, you can't expect them know how to change browsers. They rarely do on their PC to start with, on the HH is even worse ;) Cheers Nic

RE: [WSG] Screen-Print-Wireless

2006-01-24 Thread Nic
safe range. While we can get away from using web safe colours anymore for the PC (in most cases), the screen quality of handhelds still leave to be desired, and you're better off keeping within that web safe range. In other words, simplify, simplify, simplify :) Cheers Nic

RE: [WSG] Screen-Print-Wireless

2006-01-25 Thread Nic
to use *some* images in your handheld styles (and no, I'm not contradicting myself ;) ) Cheers Nic ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting

RE: [WSG] Google and HTML5

2006-01-28 Thread Nic
have i and b been deprecated? Why are some editors still using it? Do you *really* think that a re-specification will catch on? Don't' get me wrong, I'm glad to see action on those fronts, but I'm not sure that using existing elements and re-defining them is the brightest approach. YMMV :) Nic

RE: [WSG] Google and HTML5

2006-01-28 Thread Nic
who are out of the office go NOMAIL from the list, It's getting VERY tiresome to get all those I'm out of the office mails... /rant Cheers Nic ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

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

2006-02-09 Thread Nic
long mail hasn't bored you to tears Nic ** 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] Target sued over non-accessible site

2006-02-11 Thread Nic
using black in an international context, not all blacks are African-American, and not with the intent to offend). I'll stop before I go on and on and ramble, this *is* a bit of a pet topic of mine. Feel free to contact me in private to continue it if it's not appropriate to this WSG list :) Nic

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

2006-02-11 Thread Nic
it. And while for some people it's difficult to see the relationship between that type of discrimination and non-accessible websites, the fact remains, if you don't provide access, you're discriminating. And that is, in more and more countries, against the law Is that a bit clearer? :) Nic

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

2006-02-12 Thread Nic
://teriadams.blogspot.com/2006/01/railroaded.html But this is getting somewhat away from the topic of origin. Again, perhaps those of us interested in this debate should take it off list? Nic ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

RE: [WSG] JKRowling.com and the militia

2006-02-14 Thread Nic
2 cents :) Nic ** 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] Flash as background (Was: CSS and Flash)

2006-02-24 Thread nic stage
On 2/24/06, kvnmcwebn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: your prob right but what about that flash as a css background someone wasposting about here a while back??this sounds interesting if it is possible. i was just working on something where this would have been useful, but i wasn't on the list when it

Re: [WSG] Quick Site Check Please

2006-02-28 Thread nic stage
On 2/28/06, Joseph R. B. Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Same thing is happening on the PC.I have my nav text set to 1.0em.I have the height of each li set to 1.75em.I wrongly assumed that the li would expand along with the text sincethey both used ems for sizing... i'm a bit of a newb here, but