RE: [WSG] Minimum width help

2007-10-24 Thread Paul Bennett
n: absolute; left: -px; width: 1px; >From what I've learnt this allows access to the text to screen readers but >regular browsers don't see it. I'm not aware of any SEO issues with this. Our site doesn't

Re: [WSG] Floated list items of differing heights

2007-10-25 Thread Paul Collins
0/2007, Matthew Pennell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 24/10/2007, Paul Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I've managed to avoid doing this for while, but I'm doing a CMS job > > and the content in a floated group of 's is going to be d

Re: [WSG] Floated list items of differing heights

2007-10-25 Thread Paul Collins
Hi Mathew, I have gone the path of clearing left on the first LI of each new line. This doesn't seem to work in all versions of IE for me, have you got it working yourself? Cheers Paul On 25/10/2007, Matthew Pennell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 24/10/2007, Paul Collins

RE: [WSG] Re: worst site I've seen lately

2007-10-29 Thread Paul Bennett
The blinking was really annoying (and it was everywhere!), as was the very small text. What I liked was the live rendering of the fonts and the ability to select a font and actually be able to type with it, see it at different font sizes etc - very handy (I've seen this on another font site too

RE: [WSG] Rounded Courners .... Your Take

2007-10-30 Thread Paul Bennett
> Now instead of opening up inkscape it's just a call to a PHP script like: > background-image: url(corner.png.php?fgc=ccc&bs=1&bgc=000&bc=fff&r=90); So for everytime the css file is called, your script has to create an image? Has this impacted on your sites / servers performance any? Have you c

RE: [WSG] PHI and YUI Grids

2007-10-30 Thread Paul Bennett
You mean the 'Golden Mean'? Not that I can see - grids offers a variety of column widths and nesting. You do a large variety of things with it and column widths don't appear to be golden mean base, but based on Yahoo's enormous experience . > I am slowly learning to create aesthetically pleasin

RE: [WSG] PHI and YUI Grids

2007-10-30 Thread Paul Minty
to resize text. Cheers Paul Paul Minty Director mintleaf studio We design & create stylish websites Post: Box 6 108 Flinders Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Level 2 108 Flinders Street Melbourne T. 03 9662 9344 F. 03 9662 9255 M. 0418 307 475 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.mintleafstudio.com.au

RE: [WSG] multilingual website advice

2007-11-01 Thread Paul Minty
ssages, page and character encoding, different time and date formats and the possibility that you have a user from one language group accessing from a computer that appears to be from another language group (so, user control of language and geo-targeting configuration). Cheers Paul Paul Minty Director

RE: [WSG] PHI and YUI Grids

2007-11-01 Thread Paul Minty
Maarten, We've done a few, often with a couple of mods. www.vssmarthomes.com.au www.nyp.com.au (I think) www.wwwatertrucks.com The smaller the job, the more likely we are to use the YUI Grids as they are. Cheers Paul Paul Minty Director mintleaf studio We design & create stylish

RE: [WSG] PHI and YUI Grids

2007-11-01 Thread Paul Minty
most jobs. It also helps wire-framing as we use a particular proportion to give consistency and attractiveness to our wire-frames. Cheers Paul Paul Minty Director mintleaf studio We design & create stylish websites Post: Box 6 108 Flinders Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Level 2 108 Flinders Str

[WSG] Testing emails for Outlook 2007

2007-11-06 Thread Paul Collins
Hi all, Just wondering if anyone has found a clever way of testing your HTML emails for Outlook 2007? I don't have Vista and can't see myself buying it just yet! I thought there may be some kind of online rendering engine setup by now, but couldn't find anything in a searc

Re: [WSG] Testing emails for Outlook 2007

2007-11-07 Thread Paul Collins
Thanks for your replies everyone. I was hoping Browsercam had gotten onto it or a site like that. I think the best thing to do is grab a version for XP, I didn't actually know I could add it to that. Thanks for your help Paul On 07/11/2007, Joshua Street <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

[WSG] Skip nav links, tab through

2007-11-15 Thread Paul Collins
Hi all, I've added a hidden "skip navigation" link to my site, that I want to show up when you tab through each page. I'm using the method described on the webaim site: http://www.webaim.org/techniques/skipnav/#focus Problem is, I realised that you can't actually tab through the links on a page u

Re: [WSG] Skip nav links, tab through

2007-11-15 Thread Paul Collins
should be all good once I can test on another machine. Thanks everyone. On 15/11/2007, Jamie Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Paul, > > I've actually seen this before, and this approach is pretty much ideal, the > only tweak you have to make is as well as having

Re: [WSG] Testing emails for Outlook 2007

2007-11-15 Thread Paul Collins
Thanks again for your replies on this guys, just got back on my email. It might be worth investing 10 bucks in campaign monitor just to see what they recommend. Cheers On 07/11/2007, Chris Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tim Palac wrote: > > Paul, > > > > You mi

Re: [WSG] Skip nav links, tab through

2007-11-19 Thread Paul Collins
Thanks for your replies Steve and Phillipe, sorry to take so long to get back. My Safari works well now, so that's good news. I can't figure out how to set this up in Firefox, any ideas? Cheers On 16/11/2007, Tee G. Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Nov 15, 2007, at 5:42 PM, Philippe Witte

RE: [WSG] Invisible US Passport renewal page

2007-11-20 Thread Paul Bennett
> http://www.passports.gov.au 1. Flyout menu? Check 2. Really bad site search? Check. 3. Ugly design? Check. 4. Shocking usability? Check. Must be a government site ;) *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guideline

RE: [WSG] CMS and site design

2007-12-03 Thread Paul Bennett
CMS driven sites before, there can be quite a learning curve... :) Paul From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lyn Patterson Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 11:39 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] CMS and site design I have ne

[WSG] Default Cursor into Search box

2007-12-05 Thread Paul Hanson
t to this code: | | Help? Paul Hanson Technical Writer RoboHelp ACE - http://www.adobe.com/support/forums/team_macromedia/robohelp.html Quintrex Data Systems http://www.quintrex.com<http://www.quintrex.com/> email: phanson at quintrex.com From: [EMA

[WSG] Default Cursor into Search box

2007-12-05 Thread Paul Hanson
t to this code: | | Help? Paul Hanson Technical Writer RoboHelp ACE - http://www.adobe.com/support/forums/team_macromedia/robohelp.html Quintrex Data Systems http://www.quintrex.com<http://www.quintrex.com/> email: phanson at quintrex.com From: [EMA

[WSG] BBC in Beta

2007-12-17 Thread Paul McCann
Heads up, the BBC has a new site in Beta. http://www.bbc.co.uk/home/beta Thoughts/praise/comments :) *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.

Re: [WSG] File comparison tool for Dreamweaver CS3

2007-12-17 Thread Paul McCann
little programme which is quite feature rich. Paul Simon Cockayne wrote: Hi there, What file comparison tool would you recommend for Dreamweaver CS3? http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/Dreamweaver/9.0/help.html?content=WSc78c5058ca073340dcda9110b1f693f21-7edc.html <http://livedocs.adobe.com/en

Re: [WSG] BBC in Beta

2007-12-18 Thread Paul McCann
a while now!! Particularly to those clients who have large widescreen monitors! Paul *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL

[WSG] Nielsen Norman Group Free 148 Page Accessibility PDF

2007-12-19 Thread Paul McCann
free holiday gift. 7mb PDF download available from the NNG group website at http://www.nngroup.com/reports/accessibility/ Maybe some feedback on the report when you have finished reading it. P.S I have nothing to do with NNG or this report, I am just sharing the link with you guys. Paul

RE: [WSG] Preventing copying of text from web page.

2007-12-20 Thread Paul Minty
image on the server (sort of a poor man's digital rights management). You may not be able to read it properly though. Applying a transparent image will not be very effective as the data can be exposed by either looking at the HTML source or by turning off images using the browser. cheers Paul

RE: [WSG] w3c link checker

2008-01-08 Thread Paul Bennett
winrar will open .tar and .gz files on windows: http://www.rarlab.com/ :) Paul *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL

RE: [WSG] semantic list with explanations

2008-01-08 Thread Paul Minty
Tim, a definition list is called for. You can set it to be numbered in the CSS. You could also use headings and paragraphs (semantically it is the same as we have a set of name-value pairs). You could also use a two column table (name-value pairs). cheers Paul Paul MInty Director

Re: [WSG] linking to images with //

2008-01-31 Thread Paul Menard
22/breaking-with-protocol/ ) that using this '//' solved the issue in that it assumes whatever protocol being used by the delivered server. Paul Menard Paul Menard [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://codehooligans.com *** List Guide

RE: [WSG] an accessible question: server-side vs client-side validation

2008-02-12 Thread Paul Bennett
data I like in it 2. switch off javascript and mash that submit button Web apps should be built to work first without JS, and then the js behaviour should be layered over the top: http://domscripting.com/blog/display/41 :) Paul

Re: [WSG] hello

2008-02-15 Thread Paul Dwyer
I've been vaguely following this discussion and thought I would step in here. Web 2.0 IS a buzzword that means to do nothing more than to imply the "next step" of the web as a communications medium. You could replace the term with "new and improved". It has been coined to describe the phenomina of

Re: [WSG] books

2008-02-19 Thread Paul McCann
I would also reccomend the Sitepoint books. Work well as a reference when your working too, or just forgot something like i usually do :) Paul willdonovan wrote: I would also recommend the Sitepoint collection of books on javascript, CSS, SEO and many other titles. Particularly the 

RE: [WSG] generated source

2008-02-26 Thread Paul Bennett
. :) Paul *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] CMS review

2008-02-28 Thread Paul Novitski
perly. Broken markup can produce nightmares for styling, accessibility, machine-readability, and search engine optimization. In your search for a CMS I recommend you look for valid markup, versatility (not locked into limited templates), and ease of use. Good luck!

RE: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-05 Thread Paul Bennett
The IE7 beta worked as a standalone until the first Release Candidate came out. I presume IE8 will do the same. Am trying now, but you need to have a fully patched machine (I'm behind a firewall so our patches are usually pushed out a bit later ) to install it - so be warned that the installer

RE: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-05 Thread Paul Bennett
2 restarts later I have found the following: * it overwrites IE7 * it doesn't render anything in the tabs! * it has an 'emulate IE7' button (??) Best to hold off for now. If I get it sorted I'll let you all know. Paul

RE: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-05 Thread Paul Bennett
E7 and IE8 rendering engines, but you do have to restart the browser to do this. It seems that rather than overwriting IE7, it uses the same base chrome but does allow the rendering engine switch. :) Paul *** L

RE: [WSG] long word not wrapping in firefox

2008-03-06 Thread Paul Bennett
Hi there, you can use a css rule to stop long text breaking table widths: table tr td {overflow: hidden} :) Paul *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org

RE: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-06 Thread Paul Bennett
> http://www.geocities.com/hollywood/makeup/4303/t2script.txt 404! It's happening already! *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [E

RE: [WSG] restricting width in the body tag

2008-03-26 Thread Paul Bennett
nimum / maximum. HTH, Paul *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re[2]: [WSG] Why is deprecated?

2008-03-28 Thread Paul Novitski
google is blocked from your region, here are a couple of references: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underline http://www.flyinglizard.co.nz/typography.php Regards, Paul __ Paul Novitski Juniper Webcraft Ltd. http://juniperwe

RE: [WSG] How to make diagonal lines change color?

2008-04-10 Thread Paul Bennett
warning: untested! You could try this* (won't people almost _always_ be mousing over the page body though?) body{background: #000 url(/path/to/image.gif) repeat;} body:hover{background: #000 url(/path/to/somotherimage.gif) repeat;} * won't work in IE 6 though

RE: [WSG] An efficient CSS architecture

2008-04-27 Thread Paul Minty
re you can. You should be able to clean out the content.css and controls.css files periodically. The multiple stylesheets are a concern, but your base framework can be combined and compressed and served from somewhere else as others have suggested. You can do much the same for the javascript too. Ch

[WSG] Reset the styles on a submit button with CSS

2008-05-06 Thread Paul Collins
Hi all, Here's an odd one I can't seem to solve. I had to style all input fields in a form with a black background, white text. Rather than give them a class, I've just given all inputs this styling EG: input {background:#000; color:#FFF;} My issue is that the submit buttons now have this stylin

Re: [WSG] Reset the styles on a submit button with CSS

2008-05-06 Thread Paul Collins
{background:#000; color:#FFF;} > > But this doesn't work in IE6... Thanks Samuel. I am already using them actually, IE6 is the one browser that's causing the problem :) No surprise there of course! Cheers and thanks for your help. 2008/5/6 Nick Cowie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: &g

Re: [WSG] Older Browsers

2008-05-07 Thread Paul Birnstihl
Hi everyone, My first post also... Have a look at http://browsershots.org/ It's not perfect as it generates only static pics but there are a lot of browsers covered... chris | chrisbuttery.com wrote: Hi All, I'm relatively new to this group & this is my first post. So here goes. My questi

Re: [WSG] Background on body not aligning with tiled background on wrapper DIV

2008-05-15 Thread Paul Collins
Thanks for your reply Adam. I can't really put what's I have now due to copyright restrictions, or I would have. I was hoping someone had encountered this before and would know the answer. I'll have to try and set up a dummy page later today when I have more time. Thanks Paul

[WSG] Background on body not aligning with tiled background on wrapper DIV

2008-05-15 Thread Paul Collins
dead centre all the time. If I drag the browser in to resize it, the backgrounds keep matching up then falling out of place. I have solved this before without adding an extra div for the body background, but I just can't remember how I did it. Does anyo

Re: [WSG] Background on body not aligning with tiled background on wrapper DIV

2008-05-15 Thread Paul Collins
d and even number of pixels on the window size when you have a centred background. Anyway, here is the test URL, anyone got an idea of how to solve this without an extra DIV?! http://paulcollinslondon.com/test/ Cheers Paul 2008/5/15 Paul Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Thanks for your repl

[WSG] RE: 2008 NZ Government Web Standards Review

2008-05-15 Thread Paul Bennett
Hi Anthony, I sent a request for a registration on the webstandards wiki 2 days ago - how long does it normally take SSC to grant access? Am I supposed to do something else? Regards, Paul Bennett Web Coder Web Centre Wellington City Council http://www.wellington.govt.nz <h

Re: [WSG] Background on body not aligning with tiled background on wrapper DIV

2008-05-15 Thread Paul Collins
A good idea Matijs, but doesn't seem to work. Thanks for taking a look anyway. 2008/5/15 Matijs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Does "overflow: hidden" on the containing div and making the green bar wider > help? > > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 7:23 PM, Paul Collins <[EMA

RE: [WSG] firefox 3 beta5

2008-05-19 Thread Paul Bennett
Ack! Anyone else had horrible problems installing FF3? My install crashes every time I open it, so I had to reinstall FF2.. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup

[WSG] AJAX short courses london

2008-05-22 Thread Paul Collins
Hi all, I hope this is on topic. I'm trying to find a short course on AJAX in london and having troubles finding one that is of a reasonable price (IE- less than £300 for a half day). Could anyone recommend me one or possibly a good school to look into? Thanks for any help,

Re: [WSG] AJAX short courses london

2008-06-03 Thread Paul Collins
Oh yes, I'm not bothered about Accredations really. More concerned about the quality of the course and most employers I've come across are more concerned with your experience. Cheers again! 2008/6/3 Paul Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all, > > Sorry, I lost this thre

Re: [WSG] AJAX short courses london

2008-06-03 Thread Paul Collins
Hi all, Sorry, I lost this thread. Perhaps you are right about the online training with Video. I just find it easier to have someone to ask face to face - you learn quicker that way. I'll look into this IRC thingo, never actually taken a look. Thanks for your replies. Paul 2008/6/3 Jen

Re: [WSG] Marking up company logo

2008-06-03 Thread Paul Collins
To throw another question in here, should the page title therefore be different to the main heading of the page? I thought the content in the page title should be as specific as possible for SEO, including the heirarchy? So, for example Site title - Section Title - Page title And Page title, se

[WSG] Outlook 2007

2008-06-04 Thread Paul Collins
background there on the outer table, or can I just add it again to the inner table? Obviously the outer table has a cellpadding of 10, so I need the black background to appear on both. Thanks for any help. Cheers Paul *** List Guidel

[WSG] Multiple Language Domains

2008-06-13 Thread Paul McCann
n they use. thanks Paul *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

[WSG] Multiple Language Domains

2008-06-17 Thread Paul McCann
Many thanks for the feedback guys. We wont be using a splash page but I have taken the other points on board and will look into them. The quirks mode issue, should not be there, we think the system is putting that in place for us!! Paul

[WSG] Re: Multiple Language Domains

2008-06-18 Thread Paul McCann
be good to know if you can still see the problem on the website, and if so on which pages as currently there is no quirks mode at this end now, but it appears to show up outside our network. Feel free to email me off list. thanks for all the help Paul

[WSG] Firefox 3 candidate

2008-06-18 Thread Paul Collins
Does anyone know if it will replace your version of Firefox 2, or will it run side by side?! Cheers *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm

RE: [WSG] Firefox 3 candidate

2008-06-19 Thread Paul Bennett
select custom install and install it to another directory (something like /Mozilla/Firefox3) and the two will run side-by-side. You can do this with Opera too. :) Paul *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

RE: [WSG] Marking Up Poems

2008-06-19 Thread Paul Bennett
> Not if it's your own poem you're putting on your own page. Rubbish - I quote myself all the time! :) *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.c

RE: [WSG] Marking Up Poems

2008-06-19 Thread Paul Bennett
Must you Australian's *always* have the last say? ;) *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **

Re: [WSG] Firefox 3 candidate

2008-06-23 Thread Paul Collins
where you can get version 2?! Cheers 2008/6/19 Paul Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > select custom install and install it to another directory (something like > /Mozilla/Firefox3) and the two will run side-by-side. > > You can do this

Re: [WSG] Firefox 3 candidate

2008-06-23 Thread Paul Collins
Thanks Sagnik, that is a good site! 2008/6/23 Sagnik Dey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi Paul, > > You can download Firefox Ver 2.0 from . > > http://www.oldapps.com/firefox.htm > > This is a very good website for downloading older appz. > > -- > Chee

[WSG] Mobile phone support of CSS

2008-06-24 Thread Paul Collins
de whether putting the main logo of a site in as an inline image is better than a background, as it would still show up with CSS not supported. But then, how many mobile browsers still don't support CSS whatsoever?! Any advice or links would be gre

Re: [WSG] Firefox 3 candidate

2008-06-24 Thread Paul Collins
Thanks for your replies everyone. I finally got both versions working! 2008/6/23 Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 2008/06/23 11:42 (GMT+0100) Steve Green apparently typed: > >> You can still get some old versions from the Mozilla FTP site at >> http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/fir

Re: [WSG] Mobile phone support of CSS

2008-06-24 Thread Paul Collins
Thanks for your replies everyone, those are good resources. 2008/6/24 Jens Nedal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Paul Collins wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I'm trying to find a comprehensive list of Mobile phone browsers and >> CSS support. I currently have a Nok

Re: RE: [WSG] Mobile phone support of CSS

2008-06-26 Thread Paul Collins
Sorry, haven't been around for a few days. Thanks for the replies everyone. Much appreciated and I can now talk about mobile development with more confidence! Cheers 2008/6/25 Darren Lovelock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [WSG] Forcing a vertical scrollbar in Firefox 3

2008-07-10 Thread Paul Bennett
e pretty if we start assigning value to people by how their sites look through the validator. Happy Friday :) Paul *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/u

[WSG] Multiple Firefox on Mac

2008-07-24 Thread Paul Collins
create shortcuts to the programs on the Mac so I can add the noremote stuff. Thanks for any help, Paul *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscri

[WSG] @import rule

2008-08-06 Thread Paul Collins
I'm using, so I have no need for the @import. Would appreciate your advice. Cheers Paul *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

RE: [WSG] resetting input boxes

2008-08-06 Thread Paul Bennett
Hi Kevin, It's not clear what you're trying to achieve. Can you give us some more information? Paul *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgrou

[WSG] Correct markup of fieldset

2008-08-07 Thread Paul Collins
ton on it's own outside of the fieldsets. Would like to know what everyone else does?! For example: Search As opposed to: Search Any thoughts?! Cheers Paul ***

RE: [WSG] Correct markup of fieldset

2008-08-08 Thread Paul Collins
same fieldset. Cheers Paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jens Brueckmann Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 11:00 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Correct markup of fieldset 2008/8/7 Paul Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

RE: [WSG] Correct markup of fieldset

2008-08-08 Thread Paul Collins
pends on the content. Cheers again, Paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 11:30 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] Correct markup of fieldset To my mind, one of the most pressing

RE: [WSG] Correct markup of fieldset

2008-08-08 Thread Paul Collins
That was my thinking originally Stuart, which is why I put up the post. The submit button isn't part of a group, so I thought it shouldn't be in a fieldset. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stuart Foulstone Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 4

RE: [WSG] Shopping cart - who does what

2008-08-13 Thread Paul Collins
Hi Joe, Can you recommend a shopping cart system that is easy to set up and use, be it open source or not? Trying to make a decision myself at the moment and would be interested to hear your thoughts. Cheers Paul From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [WSG] Shopping cart - who does what

2008-08-13 Thread Paul Collins
e from ubercart though http://www.ubercart.org/downloads The deluxe package includes drupal and some extra modules. I would steer clear of zencart - not keen on that software at all. Not very easy to customise. Darren Lovelock Munkyonline.co.uk Quoting Paul Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

RE: [WSG] H1 and the img tag

2008-08-25 Thread Paul Bennett
d the pages revert back to the standard h1 text style when images are off. You can see the results here: http://tinyurl.com/5b3bwg The image inside the h1 is simple, accessible and effective. Go with your gut :) Paul *** List Guide

RE: [WSG] H1 and the img tag

2008-08-25 Thread Paul Bennett
Hi Michael, While that is possible, unfortunately the h1 text doesn't display when images are off and css is still in use. This is the issue many image replacement techniques sought to address. Paul *** List Guidelines:

RE: [WSG] Google chrome... Coming very soon...

2008-09-02 Thread Paul Bennett
Unless you're behind a firewall which requires proxy auth. In this case, you'll need to wait until tonight :( http://thingsilearn.wordpress.com/2008/03/05/attention-software-developers-dont-make-assumptions-about-my-internet-connection/ *

RE: [WSG] Google chrome... Coming very soon...

2008-09-02 Thread Paul Bennett
Hi Tee, According to product info, it's been in private beta for a while. This is the first public beta (well, to 100 or so countries anyway) Rest assured a Mac (& *Nix ?) version will follow soon :) Paul *** List G

RE: [WSG] Google chrome... Coming very soon...

2008-09-03 Thread Paul Collins
Anyone else getting an initialisation error when I try to run the browser?! I've tried to install twice. Maybe it's to do with the proxy, but the message says "The application failed to initialize properly, click OK to terminate" when I start it up. From: [EM

RE: [WSG] Browser loading images issue

2008-10-15 Thread Paul Bennett
ew Zealand :) ) Paul *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

[WSG] Email form builder

2008-10-20 Thread Paul Collins
Hi all, Does anyone know of a free online resource for building a form that sends an email? One that's aimed at people with limited knowledge of databases. I'm trying to locate one for a friend. He'd like to add his own customisable fields too. Most of the ones I am searching for want you to pa

RE: [WSG] Accessible and cross browser online slide system

2008-10-21 Thread Paul Bennett
Lisa, On behalf of other list members, any chance of turning return receipts off? :) Paul *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help

RE: [WSG] Who are the "Away on leave" Notices from?

2008-11-05 Thread Paul Bennett
Just auto replies from list members away on leave (who have set their 'out of office' setting to 'on') It is annoying, but in saying that I'm probably guilty of it at times ;) *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/

RE: [WSG] Fw: The Great Firewall of Australia

2008-11-27 Thread Paul Collins
I'm not sure if this will make it to the table, but it is truly worrying. >> If they went to the extremes outlined though, don't you think that generally >> the public (not just the >> web development community) would put up such a stink about it, the >> government would be forced into >> taking

RE: [WSG] is there a way to force legend text shows in TWO lines?

2008-11-27 Thread Paul Collins
Hi all, Just to elaborate on this one, has anyone ever found a way to remove the left indent on the legend element in IE? I don't care if I have to add a SPAN inside the LEGEND element, I just want to make sure the text will be left aligned correctly in all browsers. Please send a link if you

RE: [WSG] Fw: The Great Firewall of Australia

2008-11-27 Thread Paul Collins
Just to add to this, you can monitor Senator Conroy via email updates and message him through the Getup wesbite. http://www.projectdemocracy.com/senator/senator.php?senatorid=15 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jelina Korhecz Sent: Thursd

RE: [WSG] Browser / OS Test on website.

2009-01-14 Thread Paul Collins
Hi Danny, The site looks great, just had a quick flick through. My only suggestion would be to repeat the main navigation at the bottom of each section, so you don't have to go back to the top every time you've read the section. Cheers Paul ___

RE: [WSG] Re: Users who deliberately disable JavaScript

2009-01-26 Thread Paul Hudson
Doesn't ie6's highest security setting turn js off? I haven't looked at ie7 but would assume similar. Regards Paul -Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Simon Pascal Klein Sent: Tuesday, 27 January

[WSG] seeking JavaScript Bible comments

2009-01-28 Thread Paul Novitski
p; progressive enhancement. Do you have any other criticisms of the book, either minor or major, that I should consider in the rewrite? I would be grateful for your detailed remarks. Thanks, Paul *** List Gu

[WSG] Clearing a row with floated list

2009-01-29 Thread Paul Collins
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RE: [WSG] Clearing a row with floated list

2009-01-30 Thread Paul Collins
ideas would be most appreciated. Cheers Paul -Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Gunlaug Sørtun Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 5:54 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Clearing a row with floated list Paul

RE: [WSG] Clearing a row with floated list

2009-02-02 Thread Paul Collins
Thanks very much for that James, I was trying to avoid using the conditional comments - I don't normally use them, but it seems the only way in this case. I've put that in now, so thanks very much for your help. Cheers Paul From: li...@webstandard

RE: [WSG] Implication of empty divs

2009-02-09 Thread Paul Collins
Isn't CSS about seperating presentation from content? You apply it once in your CSS as opposed to multiple times in your HTML. In actual fact, if you're only developing for IE6+, Firefox 2+, Webkit Browsers, Opera, you only need the overflow:auto; usually. -Original Message- From: li.

RE: [WSG] Marking up news

2009-02-19 Thread Paul Novitski
it's always a good idea to dip from the well for refreshment: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/global.html#h-7.5.5 Regards, Paul __ Paul Novitski Juniper Webcraft Ltd. http://juniperwebcraft.com

Re: [WSG] 3 column layout issue

2009-03-18 Thread Paul Novitski
://validator.w3.org/ CSS:http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ Second, give us a hyperlink to a page on a server where we can see the problem occurring. There are a number of reasons why this could be happening and we'd have to see your markup & styling to help troubleshoot. Regar

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