Re: [WSG] IE ignores MIME type

nformation perhaps somebody can come up with a workaround. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***

[Spam] :Re: [WSG] Is page-break-before broken in Webkit?

ceding > paragraph, but Safari 4 seems intent on ignoring my wishes. > (I double-checked in other browsers - either place works fine.) > Thanks for the idea... > It looks like there are long-standing issues with WebKit's page-break-* handling: <https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?i

Re: [WSG] An Acceptable Dropdown

ia's blog [2], as that includes a transcript. [1] <http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/#menu> [2] <http://ericmiraglia.com/blog/?p=132> Regards, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ *** List Guidelines

Re: [WSG] The of the document

n Core metadata, is that a forgotten fad?! > Google pays attention to meta description: see their SEO Starter Guide, a PDF linked from <http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/11/googles-seo-starter-guide.html>. -- Nick F

Re: Re: [WSG] Form question

FORM element; input elements are inline: <http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.3> As to _why_ this is the case, I'm really not sure :-) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ **

Re: [WSG] Form question

a FORM element declaration when they are used to build user interfaces." <http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.2.1> Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://w

Re: [WSG] font size - was [ Accessible websites]

g to have to turn your back on hundreds of years of typographical history. Using only monospaced fonts will give roughly the effect you desire ;-) Regards, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] Safari 4 and 3.2 Running Simultaneously

uidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > *** -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ *

Re: [WSG] IE and the element

On Tue, February 24, 2009 10:57 am, David Dorward wrote: > Nick Fitzsimons wrote: >> Actually, the specific purpose of the button is to allow one to have >> buttons that *don't* look like ordinary buttons: >> >> "Buttons created with the BUTTON element funct

RE: [WSG] IE and the element

rms of providing functionality and then disabling it is to put the cart before the horse: instead, only provide the functionality when it is functional. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ *** L

Re: [WSG] selectutorial

ing are to be zeroed: it improves rendering speed if the "*" selector is not applied to absolutely everything in the document. (It can still be of value without impairing rendering efficiency unduly when applied at a more specific level

Re: [WSG] PNG file sizes

it will include a large amount of information in the file to assist it when the file is opened for editing at a later time. Use the "Save for Web and Devices" dialog instead and it will create much smaller files. HTH, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ **

Re: [WSG] * { display: inline; }

On Mon, February 18, 2008 12:06 am, Tim White wrote: > On Feb 17, 2008 6:00 PM, Katrina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> So in the header of my document, I included >> >> >> * { >> display: inline; >> } >> > > > OK, I just tried it and got the exact same effects. So, I tried > combinations a

Re: [WSG] hello

Could somebody enlighten me as to what any of these irrelevant ramblings about a marketing buzzphrase have to do with Web Standards? NickFitz in "about time to unsubscribe from this list if it's going to degenerate into pretentious drivel" mode... -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www

Re: [WSG] Background images versus image

than just replacing the checkboxes with images, so that users of such assistive technologies would be able to use the page. HTH, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.o

Re: [WSG] Rockwell?

, but not on my MacBook or MacBook Pro. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] Idiot's guide to JavaScript

inning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax". Also, Chris H has an online course at <http://onlinetools.org/ articles/unobtrusivejavascript/> which will help you unlearn the bad things learnt from the tiza.com tutorial ;-). Regards, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons Member, WaSP DOM S

Re: [WSG] Testing emails for Outlook 2007

t and copy Microsoft Word documents, even if you don't have Microsoft Word installed": <http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/CD102258581033.aspx> Maybe somebody with access to Outlook 2007 can compare the two to see if they are comparable. HTH

Re: [WSG] SilverLight

t for you.” As if Microsoft is the sole determiner of what constitutes accurate data and what doesn’t. <http://blog.didierstevens.com/2007/10/23/ a000n-o000l00d00-0i000e000-00t0ric000k/#comment-16560> Regards, Nick. --

Re: [WSG] browsers render differently with "Optroup"

w3.org/TR/html4/index/attributes.html> is a quick way to check whether an attribute is required or not. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelin

Re: [WSG] Encoded mailto links

as examples in documentation, and the like. In addition, a few second level domain names reserved for use as examples are documented." <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2606.txt> Regards, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ *

Re: [WSG] Encoded mailto links

On 18 Oct 2007, at 15:49, Anders Nawroth wrote: IMHO captchas are used too much, as they suck considerably! And they are also frowned upon by the W3C because of their inaccessibility, and the fact that they provide a false sense of security: ***

Re: [WSG] javascript/DOM scripting in cross-browser-land [UPDATE]

file and line number will put you at the place that the error occurred. You can set a breakpoint there and that allows you to see what value variables have, etc. HTH, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ ***

Re: [WSG] introducing a prompt to download or open a pdf

On 17 Oct 2007, at 13:47, Chris Knowles wrote: Nick Fitzsimons wrote: Word boundaries aren't right either; for exmple, they will match a hyphen, so matching on some-thing will match some-thing-else. As per the HTML spec, class names are space-separated, so you need to match on space

Re: [WSG] introducing a prompt to download or open a pdf

n explaining the above: <http://www.robertnyman.com/2005/11/07/the- ultimate-getelementsbyclassname/#comment-1583> HTH, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/

Re: [WSG] introducing a prompt to download or open a pdf

On 16 Oct 2007, at 10:43, dwain wrote: On 10/16/07, Nick Fitzsimons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 16 Oct 2007, at 08:40, dwain wrote: i did not put the pdf icon (don't know where to get one) <http://www.adobe.com/> thanks, i found one. where do i put this icon before or

Re: [WSG] introducing a prompt to download or open a pdf

On 16 Oct 2007, at 08:40, dwain wrote: i did not put the pdf icon (don't know where to get one) *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup

Re: [WSG] London Meetup for people interested in an informal discussion around web standards

un but don't expect to learn too much :> And if you _do_ learn anything, don't expect to remember it the next day :-) Regards, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstan

Re: [WSG] London Meetup for people interested in an informal discussion around web standards

On 11 Oct 2007, at 10:58, Joseph Ortenzi wrote: Thanks Karl, but the pubstandards group appears to have "withered away and died", unfortunately. at least the UK one. Erm... <http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/290703/> Next pubstandards UK meetup is next Thursday :-) HTH

Re: [WSG] document.getElementById slow?

ing the results, real soon now; in the meantime I'm late for the pub :-) However you can go into work on Monday, point at your colleague and laugh maniacally while shouting "U haz fail" very loudly (or whatever the etiquette in your workplace permits) because (s)he's w

Re: [WSG] Element suggestion requested

the semantics of a list of statements, which is basically what this is. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://websta

Re: [WSG] Element suggestion requested

On 20 Sep 2007, at 11:56, Rick Lecoat wrote: On 19/9/07 (15:17) Kenny said: Yup. It's a list of values. Thanks for that Kenny. Even before posting the question I had started to code the 'Values' as a list, but then ran into difficulty styling it -- the vertically expandable box requires

RE: [WSG] Speaking of alt tags . . .

t should also be borne in mind that screen readers aren't the only assistive technologies out there, just as total blindness is not the only disability. Accessibility isn't just about screen reader behaviour.) Regards, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ ***

Re: [WSG] setting fontsize in body

sult: default font size 20px <- AHAH! minimum font size 9px. I'm now going to make my dinner and won't be thinking about font sizes for the rest of the weekend :-) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ ***

Re: [WSG] setting fontsize in body

, which ties in with what I remember seeing previously. On a brand-new, never-run Windows XP SP 2 install (gotta love Parallels): download and run Opera, minimum font size is 9px. So it looks like somebody at Opera goofed, either in writing that document, or in not keeping it updated.

Re: [WSG] setting fontsize in body

On 3 Aug 2007, at 20:14:59, Patrick H. Lauke wrote: Nick Fitzsimons wrote: (Still falls foul of a minimum font-size set in the browser preferences, though.) I wouldn't say it "falls foul". If a user has set a minimum size, then a page should heed that. It still *respect

Re: [WSG] setting fontsize in body

5%; /* bump it up to 20px, assuming browser starts at 16px */ } div#wrapper { font-size: 50%; /* and back down to 10px */ } and took it from there :-) (Still falls foul of a minimum font-size set in the browser preferences, though.) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http:

Re: [WSG] setting fontsize in body

x, and treats attempts to go below that and then scale back up slightly differently than IE or Firefox in the same situation. I can't quite remember all the ins and outs of that one, but could try to dig out the work I did on it the other year if anybody's interested. Regards, Nick. -- Nick F

Re: [WSG] IE7 and iframes

for help, you should tell people what the problem is, not what it isn't ;-) We're not psychic, and just saying "broken in IE7" tells us precisely nothing about the nature of the problems you are encountering. Regards, Nick.

Re: [WSG] Using target="_blank"

der how annoying it is to be followed about by a pushy salesperson, and ask yourself if you are right to believe that acting in such a manner towards your visitors is an acceptable thing to do. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ *

[WSG] Safari Web Inspector

de-by-side with your current installation, making testing for the future while browsing in the present much easier. (That doesn't apply to Windows, obviously, although I assume the nightly will co-exist with the beta - can't be bothered to open up Windows and test, though.) Enjoy!

Re: [WSG] Triggering POSTs with links?

efaults to the value "button" instead. Specifying the attribute should get it working in IE. OT: really enjoyed your presentation at @media in London the other week :-) HTH, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ *

Re: [WSG] Safari 2.0?!

ious version of Safari. It's on the Safari3Beta.dmg you originally installed from. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.c

Re: [WSG] Back to the Future

vascript&q=16+bit&qt_g=Search+this+group> Good luck, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/j

Re: [WSG] layout/font site test - please

On 5 Jun 2007, at 19:15:39, Designer wrote: Nick Fitzsimons wrote: This is a common misconception. IE7 _cannot_ resize text whose size is specified in pixels, in precisely the same way that IE6 can't. The use of the page zoom tool will enlarge or shrink it along with the other conte

Re: [WSG] Re: Use of Fieldsets other than in form?

On 5 Jun 2007, at 14:57:44, Barney Carroll wrote: Nick Fitzsimons wrote: But there's then little point in communicating this fact to a list about Web Stanbdards, as you are clearly advocating something which is in breach of said standards. Steady on, Nick. If he wasn't here yo

Re: [WSG] layout/font site test - please

along with the other content of the page, but using the menu options to adjust text size won't work. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgrou

Re: [WSG] Re: Use of Fieldsets other than in form?

tence you originally quoted. I think it's semantically valid as well. It's semantically meaningless as a fieldset is meant to contain a thematically related set of fields, not a thematically related set of arbitrary textual information. Regards, Nick. -- Nick F

Re: [WSG] dl v table for form layout

page size back up to nested table levels ;-) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsub

Re: [WSG] dl v table for form layout

For the visually-obsessed, CSS could then be used to style the div and associated heading to match the neighbouring fieldsets. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://web

Re: self-closing tags in HTML, was: [WSG] A CMS for POSH sites?

ge a fortune for you to see it :-( The topic under discussion is, as I mentioned in my earlier post, mentioned in HTML 4.01 at <http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/notes.html#h-B.3.7> as being something with poor support in HTML user agents. Regards, Nick. -- Nick F

Re: [WSG] OT on list

Jaws with Microsoft Excel (which is, judging by the manufacturer's FAQs, one of its commonest uses) is related to Web Standards? Regards, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ *** List G

Re: self-closing tags in HTML, was: [WSG] A CMS for POSH sites?

truct under discusssion in this thread is included in the appendix at <http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/notes.html#h-B.3.7> Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstanda

Re: [WSG] OT on list

esn't really have anything to do with Web Standards, surely? Remember, screen readers aren't web browsers... Regards, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandard

Re: [WSG] need help with tabular interface

On 29 May 2007, at 02:10:02, Sander Aarts wrote: I'm glad the designers I work with know that rounded corners can be a real pain in the ass, so they always ask before implementing them in the design. I want your designers! ;-) -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.

Re: [WSG] address semantics

www.w3.org/TR/html4/index/elements.html> So should be used for providing contact information such as an email address or a link relating to the creator or owner of a document or part thereof, but not just for any old postal address that happens to appear on a web site. Regards, Nic

Re: [WSG] The use of asterisks in forms to indicate required fields

ink they're paying for in the first place :-) I wonder how they treat their dentists... Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guideli

Re: [WSG] semantic HTML for intro text

window dressing, then a ... would probably be justifiable; I don't think that going all the way to is necessary. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstand

Re: [WSG] The use of asterisks in forms to indicate required fields

expand the abbreviation on every occurrence. (As the number of qualifying modifiers in that sentence probably reveals, I'm not sure.) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ *** List G

Re: [WSG] The use of asterisks in forms to indicate required fields

x27;t bite, as far as I've seen :-) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Jaws 8 MP3s - was Re: [WSG] dl v table for form layout

I've got no plans to remove them, and will hopefully find time over the weekend to set up a page on my site linking to them. You're welcome to download them and host copies on your own site, as is anybody else who wants to. Anything to save my bandwidth :-) Cheers, Nick. ---

Re: [WSG] semantic HTML for intro text

ever be one introductory paragraph per page, then you could use instead. HTH, Nick, -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

Re: [WSG] screen readers & repeated legends (was "dl v table for form layout")

On 25 May 2007, at 01:08:49, Rebecca Cox wrote: On 5/23/07, Nick Fitzsimons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As an aside, note that screen readers will read the legend of a fieldset before the label of every element in the fieldset, so legends should be kept short and sweet This is inter

Re: [WSG] Mocking up web interfaces

7. GOTO 1. Step 2 had to be toned down considerably when I was working in a studio with the designers, including the owner of the company, but generally this process has worked well for me for several years :-) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons

Re: [WSG] Photo gallery markup & semantics

ting goods for sale. I've written about it more in my reply to Patrick Lauke, and I'm beginning to think that the accessibility aspect could be quite important here. Then again, I'm up very late :-) Cheers, Nick. -- N

Re: [WSG] Photo gallery markup & semantics

On 23 May 2007, at 02:15:30, Patrick H. Lauke wrote: Nick Fitzsimons wrote: Although it might be important from an accessibility perspective that an unsighted user be able to say "the third one on that page" without having to count the preceding list items - hmm, now that's

Re: [WSG] Photo gallery markup & semantics

othes come before green ones. Although it might be important from an accessibility perspective that an unsighted user be able to say "the third one on that page" without having to count the preceding list items - hmm, now that's something to think about.. Cheers, Nick.

Re: [WSG] dl v table for form layout

t my donkey and its strange fate? Other" which is a lot of times to be asked the same question; so make your legend text as succinct as possible, yet still meaningful when it is used as a prefix in this manner. If a section of the form, properly enclosed in a fieldset, needs a chunk of

Re: [WSG] Photo gallery markup & semantics

ft" on the containing the second row. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] Site Check - Streaming Media

regarded with fear and loathing by governmental bodies fearful of lawsuits (although they don't appear to have the same worries over recommending dangerous rubbish like Microsoft's browser for Windows...) Hope this helps, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ ***

Re: [WSG] Hack for all IE versions including 7

sers who don't use a pointing device. Also, the statement that the outline "appears when you click" is wrong: it appears when the link is focused. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/

Re: [WSG] Safari for Linux

ements that are currently only available in the nightly builds, then it will be a great step forward for both Konqueror and Safari. I really wish we didn't have to wait for Leopard before getting a stable version of Safari containing all the good stuff that's been fixed and added :-(

Re: [WSG] ive given up on css

the classic web school in a standards-compliant way: <http://csszengarden.com/?cssfile=http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/zen/ sample.css> Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://

Re: [WSG] Acronym tag usage

[1] <http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=acronym> Cordially, David Well, that's what happens when people don't follow the standard :-) -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ ***

Re: [WSG] Acronym tag usage

y allow screen reader users a seamless listening experience. Once again, it looks like there are no hard and fast rules about how to handle these matters. Ah well, having to think about it is what makes it fun :-) Regards, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ **

Re: [WSG] Acronym tag usage

s the existence of the two separate tags. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/un

Re: [WSG] Acronym tag usage

iselle". None of those should be spelled out, yet they are all abbreviations. Oh, and "initialism" is in the Oxford English Dictionary, which is generally regarded as the canonical source: <http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/initialism> Regards, Nick. -- Nick

Re: [WSG] Help needed

ng to use hacks to hide them from other browsers (including IE 7). Regards, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: htt

Re: [WSG] Acronym tag usage

On 10 May 2007, at 16:55:01, Thierry Koblentz wrote: From: "Nick Fitzsimons" On the other hand, screen-readers are generally configured by default to always read out the expansion of text marked up as an abbreviation (that is, the contents of the title attribute), so using

Re: [WSG] Acronym tag usage

t written up over the weekend and post a link back here, to give those interested a fuller understanding of what appears to be going on in the bowels of the browser. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/

Re: [WSG] Acronym tag usage

On 10 May 2007, at 16:10:55, Nick Fitzsimons wrote: On the other hand, screen-readers are generally configured by default to always read out the expansion of text marked up as an abbreviation (that is, the contents of the title attribute), so using (or the non-standard ) repeatedly will

Re: [WSG] Acronym tag usage

sibility of the page. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm H

Re: [WSG] W3C validator bug?

or. DOH! Yup, I was indeed looking in the wrong place and a hunt through the WP code shows that the post metadata displays the post title without passing it through the apply-filters() function. Thanks, Kepler; everybody else, sorry for the wild goose chase. Regards, Nick. -

[WSG] W3C validator bug?

will. Does anybody agree that this is a bug in the validator (in which case I'll file a bug report), or am I missing something? Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://we

Re: [WSG] Windows Vista Style Buttons

On 29 Apr 2007, at 16:14:41, Sagnik Dey wrote: But a background image can't adjust to a varied length of Text :) But with a little bit of magic... <http://www.alistapart.com/articles/slidingdoors/> <http://www.alistapart.com/articles/slidingdoors2/> :-) HTH, Nick. -- Nic

Re: [WSG] Valid and well-formed

structure of the document, i.e. where in the document headings , paragraphs, etc go. You've got those backwards. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guideli

Re: [WSG] Valid and well-formed

document can be valid but not well-formed" is based on a misunderstanding of the type of parser used by the validator, and the limitations of that parser. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ *** Li

Re: [WSG] Disappearing positioned footer in IE7 - works in IE6

On 24 Apr 2007, at 13:07:42, al morris wrote: IE 7 now supports the *html hack, so the 'position: relative' style is being applied. IE7 doesn't support * html: <http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/09/02/460115.aspx> Regards, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http

Re: [WSG] handling accessible form

On 22 Apr 2007, at 16:28:16, Patrick H. Lauke wrote: Nick Fitzsimons wrote: Despite Internet Explorer's inexplicable belief to the contrary, "id" and "name" are not the same thing. Care to elaborate on what the issues in IE are? Using getElementById(someVa

Re: [WSG] handling accessible form

Despite Internet Explorer's inexplicable belief to the contrary, "id" and "name" are not the same thing. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webs

Re: [WSG] input name and id

On 19 Apr 2007, at 12:03:22, liorean wrote: On 16/04/07, Nick Fitzsimons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Name and ID serve two different purposes. ID is used to identify the element's node in the document [1]. Name is used to identify the element's value in the form submission po

Re: [WSG] input name and id

D, not #REQUIRED, so the book is incorrect. [3] [1] <http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/global.html#adef-id> [2] <http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#control-name> [3] <http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#edef-INPUT> Regards,

Re: [WSG] Accessible Forms - empty labels (??)

On 14 Apr 2007, at 07:25:29, Stuart Foulstone wrote: Hi, Doesn't look like valid code to me. Stuart http://www.w3.org/ TR/html4/strict.dtd"> blah Search NOW it's valid ;-) On Thu, April 12, 2007 2:07 pm, Nick Fitzsimons wrote: On 12 Apr 2007, at

Re: [WSG] Accessible Forms - empty labels (??)

would therefore keep everybody happy? (Or does it matter if focus is switched to the text field as the form is submitted - sounds like the kind of odd case that A Certain Browser might get unreasonably petulant about...) Regards, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http:

Re: [WSG] Recommendations for books to take one to the next level

receded by another fifteen years of software development including a stint at a human factors and usability research institute, I thought the book was well worth reading when I finally got around to it late last year. Still, one man's meat and so on :-) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick

Re: [WSG] Recommendations for books to take one to the next level

ting from, but there's: Andy Budd's "CSS Mastery" <http://www.cssmastery.com/> Andy Clarke's "Transcending CSS" - worth getting even if only to look at :-) <http://www.transcendingcss.com/> Dan Cederholm's "Bulletproof Web Design"

Re: [WSG] centring and viewport size

p/author/dhtml/overview/ ccomment_ovw.asp> -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] Using headers symantically

d agree that there are very few cases where it might make sense to skip a level. As has already been pointed out in this thread, presentation is no justification, as that is under the control of CSS. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ **

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time

ccessibility terms) from the title attributes, so they might as well go. Generally though I think it looks extremely good :-) Cheers, Nick. (Apologies if I've misrepresented what was said at the WSG meetup, but I believe I've remembered it correctly :-) -- N

Re: [WSG] style sheets - best practices

g the user to choose which one they want. [1] <http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#adef-rel> [1] <http://www.alistapart.com/articles/alternate/> [3] <http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/present/styles.html#h-14.3.1> Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.c

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