Re: [WSG] Valid Flash...

2004-04-13 Thread Nick Lo
What I don't understand is why someone would bother... to me flash is not a W3C standard, thus it will not validate... but maybe that is just me. This is separate to the markup used to load a Flash movie... sure Flash is propietary, so is the embed tag, Quicktime, Real, and lots of other media

[WSG] Article - The Way Forward with Web Standards

2004-04-06 Thread Nick Lo
Not sure if it's been pointed to: By MACCAWS: "MACCAWS' mission is to provide Web authors with the resources necessary to promote Web standards as a commercially desirable choice for clients." http://www.maccaws.org/kit/way-forward/ Nick *

[WSG] Accessible Web Typography - reading link

2004-03-23 Thread Nick Lo
Just came across this... http://www.scotconnect.com/webtypography/index.php Nick * 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] Thanks messages

2004-03-21 Thread Nick Lo
Or...how about drawing a clear conclusion to the problem. It's a bit frustrating going through list/forum archives when a thread covering a problem that seems to be like your own suddenly dries up. If the thanks specifies the solution to the problem then I think it's very valuable. Perhaps we n

Re: [WSG] drop down menus

2004-03-21 Thread Nick Lo
Hi Peter, The problem with this method is that it confuses the user. I looked at this site last night with your previous problem and was very surprised by the action when I clicked on About AMCS. Clicking on a navbar item should do what all other navbars do, take you to the page. Visually, yo

Re: [WSG] drop down menus

2004-03-21 Thread Nick Lo
Hi Peter, I feel the same way however I'm working on tidying a variation of drop-down navigation at http://www.amcs.org.au right now and this one does have some benefits. For one since it's just an HTML list it actually places what's almost a site map on every page which should be good for sea

Re: [WSG] [CSS] IE6 header issue.

2004-03-21 Thread Nick Lo
Hi Jeff, Looks like it may have worked...thanks very much...and to all the others that could've helped if I'd included the URL! Nick Hi Nick Try: H1 {position: relative;} This might help; I came up against the same problem in IE6 and found that this fixed the problem. Jeff **

Re: [WSG] [CSS] IE6 header issue.

2004-03-20 Thread Nick Lo
Dear me, little obvious that I've been slogging through this to the point of eye twitching...the URL is: http://www.amcs.org.au ...and thanks again Russ, Nick No objections to any of my templates being used partially or fully. They were put online to be used and/or abused as needed :) Russ

[WSG] [CSS] IE6 header issue.

2004-03-20 Thread Nick Lo
Hello all, Ok this is my first fully CSS based site (still work in progress by the way) and I first of all want to give credit to Russ's great tutorial at: http://css.maxdesign.com.au/selectutorial/ I'm a little concerned at how closely I ended up to his original however the client had actuall

Re: [WSG] Next Sydney meeting - a fantastic guest presenter

2004-03-18 Thread Nick Lo
On that note have you considered just releasing it straight on to video or dvd and selling it? It'd be a laborious job to have to edit and web format all that footage and equally laborious to have to watch it via the web. I think this kind of thing (especially a run through of how blind users u

Re: [WSG] Purpose of this mailing list

2004-03-09 Thread Nick Lo
Hi Mike, I understand what you're getting at however I think you need to invert the way you're looking at it and see the increasing volume of quality posts as well. Personally, I think this is a great list and yes there are times when I think this or that post could have held off posting. Howe

[WSG] Using frames (in a web application admin area)

2004-02-29 Thread Nick Lo
I'm just playing around with my web application admin area and considering using frames so basically to start I'm just looking for thoughts/resources on the way forward (if there even is one) using frames. My reasons for considering frames is that I have a php generated http://www.gazingus.org

Re: [WSG] Coding Standard...

2004-02-29 Thread Nick Lo
Don't forget that it also has a lot to do with what you're using to edit the files. I use jEdit with it's "folding" functionality set to indent which means... div.row span.left { float: left; text-align: left; font-weight: bold; color: #fff; width: 49%; }

Re: [WSG] silly question about meta tags

2004-02-25 Thread Nick Lo
Hi Peter, Put them on every page of your site and ideally they should be specific to that page...as in "This page is about..." type stuff. Nick Dumb question but ... Do you repeat your META tags on every page of your site, or only the index page? Thanks Peter

Re: [WSG] A new standards based smh.com.au/technology

2004-02-25 Thread Nick Lo
Hi Pete, Funny, I was going to mention this to the list but I hesitated. However, after your reply below I'm glad Tim didn't hesitate. I don't know about anyone else, but your reasons why, coming from such a high profile site, are a great advertisement/example to Australian clients of reasons

Re: [WSG] DTDS and which to use?

2004-02-24 Thread Nick Lo
Hi Jaime, Slightly off the discussion but I can't help thinking that if I was you in that chain of command... Client <--- Design Firm <--- Subcontracted Freelancer <-- Sub-subcontracted You ...I'd be very wary of work that has supposedly "strict" guidelines to follow yet the flow of project i

Re: [WSG] reply to Safari question

2004-02-04 Thread Nick Lo
Here's how to enable it: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20030110063041629 However, before you get too excited "it can pretend to be a bunch of different browsers" merely refers to it's ability to set the User Agent HTTP header to say it's another browser. Useful e.g. when online

Re: [WSG] Programmer's Challenge [Virus checkedAU]

2004-02-03 Thread Nick Lo
Since it appears that Browsercam is in the lead so far. How about shifting the challenge to coming up some Browsercam competition (Australian perhaps?) that does show below the fold, etc... How about it; BrowserCamOz or something equally original!? Just a late afternoon thought. Nick The best

Re: [WSG] CD Navigation

2004-01-21 Thread Nick Lo
Hi Gavin, The most immediate thing is the fact that the expandable lists don't expand or collapse at least on Safari in my brief test. Following on from what Hugh Todd said about the Javascript being IE targeted you might find this useful: http://www.gazingus.org/html/Using_Lists_for_DHTML_Men

Re: [WSG] setting up a PX with old browsers

2004-01-21 Thread Nick Lo
Hi Peter, You might like to read this for one: "Multiple IE's in Windows" http://www.insert-title.com/web_design/?page=articles/dev/multi_IE ...and while the topic is raised. I'd be interested how others are doing their cross browser testing, browser cam, Mac with Virtual PC, multiple boxes, et

Re: [WSG] Rave or Valid point

2004-01-18 Thread Nick Lo
If I understand you correctly you are saying we should not touch the design of a button because it could confuse the user, that would mean every website would have GREY buttons. I personally think you can style the buttons as much as you like, as long as they are CONSISTENT throughout your site

Re: [WSG] good coding app

2004-01-08 Thread Nick Lo
I can absolutely vouch for jEdit which I'm using to write PHP, HTML, CSS, SQL, etc ..., on Mac OS X 10.2.8 on a B/W G3, so a system already on the slow side. It's performance is somewhat slow (again on my already slow system) for some things e.g. for scrolling through a large document, but

Re: [WSG] XHTML Repost

2004-01-04 Thread Nick Lo
Hi Peter, Moose meant re-sent (reposted)... Unfortunate that the word can be read two ways. Aha... re-sent / resent of course ...sorry Moose, although I'm sure you understand my bemusement at the latter meaning. As I re-posted it, I'll say why I did. There have been a lot of new members lately

Re: [WSG] XHTML Repost

2004-01-04 Thread Nick Lo
Hello "The Moose", Anyone else confused? As to the purpose of this being resent - yes. Not sure what you mean by that, where does the suggestion of resent come in? I read through the WSG thread that came from and followed up a lot of the links and if like me you're making the transition to st

Re: [WSG] XHTML Repost

2004-01-04 Thread Nick Lo
Anyone else confused? I read through the WSG thread that came from and followed up a lot of the links and if like me you're making the transition to stronger use of CSS based development the xhtml v's html issue seems to be summarised like this: The issue seems to be whether you are using this

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