RE: [WSG] New logo scheme was talking points for standards

2005-12-06 Thread Paul Noone
So, given that the W3C buttons enforce compliancy by returning errors if the page isn't valid, what's wrong with them again? I actually sport mine with some pride and have had several visitors comment on the fact. Sure, some of their comments have been along the lines of what are they for? and

RE: [WSG] New logo scheme was talking points for standards

2005-12-07 Thread Paul Bennett
Trolling? :) Tip:(unrelated to this dead thread) I found this good reference: a list of commonly confused HTML special characters http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~ggbaker/reference/characters/#single Paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan

RE: [WSG] Lengthy form buttons

2005-12-07 Thread Paul Noone
I find it hard to believe but it looks like it's using an image file to draw the button?!?! I'v enever noticed this before. Perhaps I've never had buttons that long. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Burgan Sent: Thursday, 8 December

RE: [WSG] matter of Semantics

2005-12-08 Thread Paul Noone
That just sounds like ignorance to me but perhaps they'd be more comfortable with Table of Contents, given that most site maps are nothing more than this anyway? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gerardo Chairez [Addictive Media] Sent:

RE: [WSG] Dynamic Styles - Inline? What?

2005-12-08 Thread Paul Noone
Not so. It depends on Apache and how it's configured. You can check how PHP is set up by creating a new PHP page and just inlcude the following: ?php phpinfo() ? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Stagg Sent: Friday, 9 December 2005

RE: [WSG] italic and validator

2005-12-11 Thread Paul Noone
Thanks for that, Russ. I hadn't come across that neat chart before. Handy reference. But now I find myself confused by a couple of the elements listed as optional (O); namely the HEAD and BODY tags. Optional? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

RE: [WSG] italic and validator

2005-12-11 Thread Paul Noone
, Paul Noone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for that, Russ. I hadn't come across that neat chart before. Handy reference. But now I find myself confused by a couple of the elements listed as optional (O); namely the HEAD and BODY tags. Optional? Yep. Few people know this. try it out

RE: [WSG] Abbreviations and Acronyms

2005-12-13 Thread Paul Noone
of brevity where the meaning is still implicit. Though I would dispute implicitness with many examples, particularly US states. ;) Either way, although an acronym is a class of abbreviation, an abbreviation is never a class of acronym. HTH -- Paul A Noone Webmaster, ASHM [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original

RE: [WSG] Abbreviations and Acronyms

2005-12-13 Thread Paul Noone
At the end of the day what are we trying to achieve by using these tags? Does semantically correct code take precedence over usability? IMO, provided you are somehow offering a visible definition of the acronym or abbreviation - be it by use of a specific tag, or the ill-fated title attribute -

RE: [WSG] Abbreviations and Acronyms

2005-12-13 Thread Paul Noone
Makes good sense to me. Otherwise why stop at acronym? Next thing you'd have tags for slang, idiom, abstract, outline, summary...the list goes on. What we're trying to do is display a descriptive meaning. All this should be achived by way ofa singleattribute to a tag. I still don't see why

RE: [WSG] CSS and the University Syllabus

2005-12-13 Thread Paul Noone
Looks good, Paula. Again, I think a table is fine for this type of data. I don't understand your problem with the caption. It serves the same purpose as your Week by Week h3 but IMO does it better. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paula

RE: [WSG] JK Rowlings and Accessibility

2005-12-14 Thread Paul Noone
The fact that the text-only version fails basic checkpoints is very disappointing however. I don't know about the rest of you but I certaily let them know my feelings via email. Strength in numbers and all that. There's been a lot of MM propaganda around of late with regards to high-profile

[WSG] Justify this

2005-12-14 Thread Paul Noone
through browser quirks? text-align: center justify; -- Paul A Noone Webmaster, ASHM [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting

RE: [WSG] Justify this

2005-12-14 Thread Paul Noone
] Justify this what are you applying it to? a heading or a paragraph of text? -Original Message- From: Paul Noone To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: 15/12/05 14:18 Subject: [WSG] Justify this Hopefully a quick question, I hoope, as the W3C specs are no help on this one. I want to centre

RE: [WSG] Justify this

2005-12-14 Thread Paul Noone
Hi Lachlan, Thanks for that but I was actually wanting to center align justified text for a particular purpose. Evidently my experiment is invalid. Thanks anyway. -- Paul A Noone Webmaster, ASHM [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [WSG] Justify this

2005-12-14 Thread Paul Noone
, Lisa Sent: Thursday, 15 December 2005 2:59 PM To: 'wsg@webstandardsgroup.org ' Subject: RE: [WSG] Justify this Justified text really isn't a good idea in terms of usability/readability. Maybe there was a conscious effort not to support it :) -Original Message- From: Paul Noone

RE: [WSG] Justify this

2005-12-14 Thread Paul Noone
] Justify this no, I'm a comedian every day, it's just that I don't post every day :P but seriously, are you adding paragraphs of justified text to the page...? (irrespective of which element you're using to mark up). -Original Message- From: Paul Noone To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent

RE: [WSG] Justify this

2005-12-14 Thread Paul Noone
Hi Kevin, That's just another limitation of the parameter. Justified text actually comes in several flavours - left, right and both. I believe there are also settings to use it vertically to fill a box but I'm not even going to begin to paddle down that white river. ;) -- Paul A Noone

RE: [WSG] Justify this

2005-12-14 Thread Paul Noone
suggestions and comments but I'm well and truly done with this line of inquiry for now. -- Paul A Noone Webmaster, ASHM [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lachlan Hunt Sent: Thursday, 15 December 2005 4:17 PM To: wsg

RE: Re: [WSG] Browser Resolutions

2005-12-15 Thread paul worrall
Design for 800 600 and work with the restrictions I say. Don't forget a lot of laptop and a handheld devices will need to look at your site also. Thanks,Paul Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:42:27 +1100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Browser Resolutions

RE: [WSG] Browser Resolutions

2005-12-15 Thread Paul Noone
the minimum requirements for websites. -- Paul A Noone Webmaster, ASHM [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Stagg Sent: Friday, 16 December 2005 12:11 AM To: WSG Subject: [WSG] Browser Resolutions Slightly off-list

RE: [WSG] Justify this

2005-12-15 Thread Paul Noone
it for everyone. This has now gone way OT. Direct replies only please. The list is surely bored to death with this by now. -- Paul A Noone Webmaster, ASHM [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Futter Sent: Friday, 16 December

RE: [WSG] Server-side includes?

2005-12-18 Thread Paul Bennett
Hi, this discussion has been had before - follow this thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/wsg@webstandardsgroup.org/msg22706.html :) Paul From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Lamberson Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 11:26 AM

RE: [WSG] Frames ?

2005-12-18 Thread Paul Noone
As one last comment I'd add that pop-ups and new window targets are very different beasts. An accessible popup is almost but not quite impossible, although always less desirable than a simple target="_blank". --Paul A NooneWebmaster, ASHM[EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL

RE: [WSG] webpatterns and patternquiz

2005-12-18 Thread Paul Noone
Love the idea. I don't think it should be a replacement for many things which are best learnt through hard expereince, but rather a 7 steps to success guide for building a standards-based website. Sure, you could include best practice code samples, particularly for off-page techniques etc. But I

RE: [WSG] narrowing the gap between h3 and ul-help

2005-12-19 Thread Paul Noone
I think your negative margins are getting the better of you. Because both elements directly follow each other there shouldn't be any need to do anything othet than set H# bottom and UL/LI top margins and padding to 0. The change below worked for me. .mainleft ul { margin-top: 0px;

RE: [WSG] to many links, was narrowing the gap

2005-12-19 Thread Paul Noone
. Take a look at http://d81314.i50.quadrahosting.com.au for an example of the dynamic menus I'm referring to. In this case I've actually got a third level nested as well but you don't need to see any of them until you click through. -- Paul A Noone Webmaster, ASHM [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original

RE: [WSG] webpatterns and patternquiz

2005-12-19 Thread Paul Noone
I see a pattern forming. ;) We do love our definitions on this list. FWIW I think a framework is what we're after, which may just include links to real world solutions that are standards based. An awesome under-taking. I'd love to see it happen. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [WSG] Whither IE for the Mac

2005-12-19 Thread Paul Noone
You'll probably want to archive a copy or two now for testing purposes Why on earth would I want to do that? :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis Lapcewich Sent: Tuesday, 20 December 2005 10:51 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org

[WSG] Dropped DIV dilemma

2005-12-19 Thread Paul Noone
appreciate it. -- Paul A Noone Webmaster, ASHM [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** 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] Dropped DIV dilemma

2005-12-19 Thread Paul Noone
: Tuesday, 20 December 2005 3:49 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Dropped DIV dilemma Paul Noone wrote: Problem: http://d81314.i50.quadrahosting.com.au/index.php?module=Newsid=cntnt0 1cntn t01action=detailcntnt01articleid=8cntnt01returnid=11 The Site Updates div gets

RE: [WSG] Dropped DIV dilemma

2005-12-19 Thread Paul Noone
Got it. It was the clearfix class applied to the content div directly above which contained no floated items. I'm sure something else has broken now but that's for another day. Thanks again. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Noone

RE: [WSG] Dropped DIV dilemma

2005-12-20 Thread Paul Noone
about CSS can be attributed to positive feedback from this list. -- Paul A Noone Webmaster, ASHM [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Samuel Richardson Sent: Tuesday, 20 December 2005 4:24 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org

RE: [WSG] Setting Up Font Sizes

2005-12-20 Thread Paul Noone
of font-size: 76% in the body. But no amount of nested lists in nested tables could reduce the usual array of inherited sizing that I recall from not so long ago. So now I can cut yet more dead wood from my CSS. Samuel will be so proud. :) -- Paul A Noone Webmaster, ASHM [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [WSG] Setting Up Font Sizes

2005-12-20 Thread Paul Noone
size to 100% and then setting individual elements to ems is how I do all my pages. As far as I know it is the recommended method so users have control of their own viewport. Regards, Ric Paul Noone wrote: So setting the font size for the html element to 100.01% and then adjusting

RE: [WSG] Setting Up Font Sizes

2005-12-21 Thread Paul Noone
Enough said. So nothing changes. Good. It would be nice if this could be properly documented in Mr Allsopp's new project. Bad examples are littered throughout the Web and do nothing to help novices or the greater good. -Original Message- From: Felix Miata Sent: Wednesday, 21 December

RE: [WSG] Re: Setting Up Font Sizes

2005-12-21 Thread Paul Noone
Exactly so. I have, however, noticed that I also need to apply a 100% font-size to - td, ul, ol, li, p, form - to stop inheritance problems though. This seems to be erratic and something I still haven't completely worked out. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

RE: [WSG] Setting Up Font Sizes

2005-12-21 Thread Paul Noone
We have to start somewhere and building for the majority would seem to make sense, otherwise why would we even bother how our sites looked in IE? :) That being said, we are also all about making the Web accessible for 'everyone'. In the case of people who change their browser settings, they have

RE: [WSG] Best Web Standards thing I learnt in 2005.

2005-12-21 Thread Paul Noone
My greatest discovery was seeing how images could be sized using % at WebEssentials. :) My greatest let-down was learning that it wasn't supported in IE. :( -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Terrence Wood Sent: Thursday, 22 December 2005

RE: [WSG] Setting Up Font Sizes

2005-12-21 Thread Paul Noone
Nice work Georg. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gunlaug Sørtun Sent: Wednesday, 21 December 2005 3:31 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Setting Up Font Sizes Samuel Richardson wrote: What's the best, cross-browser

RE: [WSG] Best Web Standards thing I learnt in 2005.

2005-12-21 Thread Paul Noone
There's no prize Graham but I'm gonna say, Aww...shucks anyway. :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kenny Graham Sent: Thursday, 22 December 2005 9:21 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Best Web Standards thing I learnt in

Re: [WSG] Images as DIV Background with and without link (w3c friendly)

2006-01-04 Thread Paul Collins
age Replacement" href=""span/spanRevised Image Replacement/a Anyonefoundanother method? For a good list of ideas Fausto, you could try this page if you haven't already seen it: http://www.mezzoblue.com/tests/revised-image-replacement/ Cheers,Paul - Original Me

Re: [WSG] Images as DIV Background with and without link (w3c friendly)

2006-01-04 Thread Paul Collins
: Martin Heiden To: Paul Collins Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 4:07 PM Subject: Re: [WSG] Images as DIV Background with and without link (w3c friendly) Paul,on Wednesday, January 4, 2006 at 15:48 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote: I thought the Gilder/Levin/Shea Enhancement

RE: [WSG] New to Standards.

2006-01-04 Thread Paul Bennett
Hi AlvAro, The WSG Resources section is a good place to start: http://webstandardsgroup.org/resources/ :) Paul ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints

Re: [WSG] Images as DIV Background with and without link (w3c friendly)

2006-01-05 Thread Paul Collins
rollover graphics! Paul - Original Message - From: Martin Heiden To: Paul Collins Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 4:07 PM Subject: Re: [WSG] Images as DIV Background with and without link (w3c friendly) Paul,on Wednesday, January 4, 2006 at 15:48 wsg

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

2006-01-05 Thread Paul Novitski
that my own suffers from inattention.) If there's anything about an erroneous site that you LIKE, I'd point that out as well so your comments will more likely be seen as friendly. Regards, Paul ** The discussion list for http

RE: [WSG] Form editor that doesn't use tables for layout

2006-01-08 Thread Paul Bennett
they are sub-pages of the correct tab and people like me are likely to hit them by accident thinking they're going to a page *on your site* Paul From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric SmithSent: Monday, January 09, 2006 4:36 PMTo: wsg@webstandardsgroup.orgSubject

Re: [WSG] Site Check - ShetlandCoffee.com

2006-01-11 Thread Paul Novitski
are presented, I think it's much less important to provide the email address in a form that's machine-readable. Regards, Paul ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some

Re: Re; Re: [WSG] br the correct use.

2006-01-13 Thread Paul Novitski
=articlethe/span span class=adjectivedamn/span span class=nounlines/span span class=punctuation!/span /p Paul ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] Active Links

2006-01-14 Thread Paul Novitski
server-side scripting to generate the block of menu styling rules (in which case it doesn't matter if they're names or numbers) or to auto-number the menu item ids on the fly. Regards, Paul ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] Article: MIME and Content Negotiation

2006-01-16 Thread Paul Novitski
for UTF-8 and UTF-16). Thanks very much for the article, Lachlan. Paul ** 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] DHTML/CSS dropdown menu

2006-01-24 Thread Paul Dwyer
I have been trying to get Thierry's TJKDropdown http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/dropdown/demo.asp menu to work, but the js has me over a barrel. IE Win (surprise) is exploded to reveal the whole menu and I think it has to do with how the js is (or isn't) linked to my page.I realise that I don't

Re: [WSG] Google and HTML5

2006-01-26 Thread Paul Novitski
convey presentation -- they individuate the various parts of the page and convey the semantic meaning of each, but communicate nothing about how they'll be presented. How does nav semantically define the presentation structure while table, ol, and h1 do not? Curiously, Paul

Re: [WSG] The dilemma: tabular data with sublevels

2006-01-26 Thread Paul Novitski
taggy, but doesn't take a whole lot more markup than a table would. Nesting the ULs will also maintain the semantic structure of the complex list. Paul ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org

RE: [WSG] The dilemma: tabular data with sublevels

2006-01-26 Thread Paul Bennett
You're saying that Add is a definition of Item 1 dtItem 1/dt dda href=?add=123Add/a/dd dda href=?edit=123Edit/a/dd ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

RE: [WSG] The dilemma: tabular data with sublevels

2006-01-26 Thread Paul Novitski
At 05:39 PM 1/26/2006, Paul Bennett wrote: You're saying that Add is a definition of Item 1 dtItem 1/dt dda href=?add=123Add/a/dd dda href=?edit=123Edit/a/dd At 05:44 PM 1/26/2006, Joshua Street wrote: Hmm I'd strongly contest a definition list. Maybe nested UL's

RE: [WSG] The dilemma: tabular data with sublevels

2006-01-27 Thread Paul Novitski
. Paul ** 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] BLOCKQUOTE Problem

2006-01-28 Thread Paul Novitski
://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/cascade.html#specificity Regards, Paul ** 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] standards-happy javascript for faq

2006-01-30 Thread Paul Novitski
JavaScript is disabled. Regards, Paul _ [1] A few references on this topic easily revealed by googling display+none+screen+reader: ScreenreaderVisibility CSS-D wiki http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=ScreenreaderVisibility What do Screen Readers really say? by Bob

[WSG] Check boxes ticked (UK Law)

2006-01-30 Thread Paul Collins
ible links to back this up?Thanks heaps, Paul Collins

Re: [WSG] standards-happy javascript for faq

2006-01-30 Thread Paul Novitski
From: Paul Novitski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hmm. The text-toggling examples folks have posted on this topic use {display: none} to hide text. I'm under the impression that some screen readers will not speak text that's been hidden with {display: none}. At 05:04 AM 1/30/2006, Al Sparber wrote

[WSG] list's with header text

2006-01-31 Thread Paul Collins
. Monday 2. Tuesday 3. Wednesday and so on, with there being some method of indicating that the heading is related to the list items. Would anyone know if this is possible or a W3C plan in the works? Cheers Paul

Re: [WSG] list's with header text

2006-01-31 Thread Paul Collins
Hi thanks allfor your replies. Stephen, are definition lists supported by JAWS or any other screen reader? Last time I tried to test them with JAWS it didn't seem to pick up that it was anything different to normal text. Maybe you can tell me otherwise. Thanks Paul - Original

Re: [WSG] list's with header text

2006-01-31 Thread Paul Collins
workwell though, just a whim really. Cheers mate Paul - Original Message - From: Ric Raftis To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 11:43 AM Subject: Re: [WSG] list's with header text G'day Paul,I haven't done coding on this, however I think

[WSG] Accessible drop down menu

2006-02-01 Thread Paul Collins
ise it may be better practice to have a go button, but would like to know if it's possible to do without. Cheers, Paul

Re: [WSG] Accessible drop down menu

2006-02-01 Thread Paul Collins
, thanks very much. Paul - Original Message - From: Richard Stephenson To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 1:05 PM Subject: Re: [WSG] Accessible drop down menu One option would be to use _javascript_ to submit using "onc

Re: Re: [WSG] IE7 Now what?

2006-02-01 Thread Paul Dwyer
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 dumping ground for IE7 bugs -- —pd—

Re: [WSG] round corner links

2006-02-08 Thread Paul Novitski
use images they don't support transparency, although you can create interestingly complex edges by varying the border colors. If you google css rounded corners I'm sure you'll find others. Good luck, Paul ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] cool FAQ page [follow up]

2006-02-09 Thread Paul Novitski
to frustrations of expectation, or is the problem with the local link itself? Paul ** 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 Paul Ross
programming or development (I do) knows that complying with these would be difficult, and in some situations, impssible. Especially if navigation menu's are written in _javascript_ or Flash... Regards :: PAUL SkyRocket Design Co

[WSG] accessible drill-down into a nested list

2006-02-11 Thread Paul Novitski
link early on the page could get you there quickly. Please let me know if this scenario would work for you, and if not what other menu functionality would best suit the screen-reader environment. If this description isn't clear, let me know and I'll prepare a live demo. Thanks, Paul

Re: [WSG] accessible drill-down into a nested list

2006-02-12 Thread Paul Novitski
position in the nested menu structure. I recommend reading Hudson, Weakley and Miller's work on source order and structural labels: http://www.usability.com.au/resources/source-order.cfm Thanks, Terrence. Paul ** The discussion list

Re: [WSG] semantic help needed

2006-02-12 Thread Paul Novitski
giving variant definitions of the object. Considering the W3C's examples and the semantic sense of your contact info structure, I'd argue for a two-level nested list. Paul _ [footnote 1] HTML 4.01 Specification 10.3 Definition lists: the DL, DT, and DD elements http://www.w3.org

RE: [WSG] semantic help needed

2006-02-12 Thread Paul Novitski
At 03:30 AM 2/12/2006, kvnmcwebn wrote: in this structure from the w3c i dont think theres any hierarhcy for the first dt? DL DTCenter DTCentre DD A point equidistant from all points on the surface of a sphere. DD In some field sports, the player who

Re: [WSG] CSS Holy Gruel

2006-02-13 Thread Paul Dwyer
Little typo just before the head there Al: an extra [ lang=en ** 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] CSS Holy Gruel

2006-02-13 Thread Paul Dwyer
Wierd... killed half my own post with a bracket :) The rest should read validates once it is removed. —pd—

Re: [WSG] accessible drill-down into a nested list

2006-02-15 Thread Paul Novitski
Paul Novitski wrote: Tell me if this would be a better scenario: When you select a menu item, the page reloads with a set of breadcrumbs that spells out the history of selected menu items, such as: Thanks very much, Ian, your response to my posting was exactly the kind of feedback I

Re: [WSG] site check

2006-02-17 Thread Paul Sturgess
point you in the direction of http://www.alistapart.com/articles/sprites An old article but the technique is excellent. Paul. -- _ http://www.paulsturgess.co.uk ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

RE: [WSG] Address Element

2006-02-19 Thread Paul Hempsall
I found an interesting blog entry on Yesterdayishere (Bojan Janjanin). It discusses the use of this element. http://yesterdayishere.com/wordpress/arhiva/2005/11/29/the-address-element/ Might prove helpful. Best Regards, Paul Hempsall Web Developer Lake Macquarie City Council Phone: (02

[WSG] Strange empty XHTML element issues in IE FF

2006-02-21 Thread Paul Hempsall
s occurred in the first place. Here's the URLs for both pages: http://www.lakemac.com.au/lakemac_final/pageTransformed_broken.html(breaks in IE FF) http://www.lakemac.com.au/lakemac_final/pageTransformed.html(fixed) Best Regards, Paul Hempsall Web Developer Lake Macquarie City Council Ph

RE: [WSG] Strange empty XHTML element issues in IE FF

2006-02-21 Thread Paul Hempsall
Thanks for everyone's responses - a wealth of information, as usual. Nick: I'm using plain text now for my emails, I apologise for the inconvenience. PaulH This information is intended for the addressee only. The use, copying or distribution of this message or any information it contains, by

RE: [WSG] Strange empty XHTML element issues in IE FF

2006-02-21 Thread Paul Hempsall
Just a followup - in case anyone else was following this thread. I found a really informative page that expands on the answers provided on this list: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/03/19/dive-into-xml.html I've also discovered (after trying to figure out why the W3C Validator kept saying my MIME

RE: [WSG] Confusing the users... In Page Links

2006-02-21 Thread Paul Bennett
Actually Mike, according to a recent Jakob Neilsen study, Jakob Neilsen is right 100% of the time. ;) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Brown Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 3:28 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG]

[WSG] Strange empty XHTML element issues in IE FF

2006-02-22 Thread Paul Hempsall
s occurred in the first place. Here's the URLs for both pages: http://www.lakemac.com.au/lakemac_final/pageTransformed_broken.html(breaks in IE FF) http://www.lakemac.com.au/lakemac_final/pageTransformed.html(fixed) Best Regards, Paul Hempsall Web Developer Lake Macquarie City Council Ph

RE: [WSG] Plain text v HTML on this list

2006-02-22 Thread Paul Bennett
You mean none of you can see my animated gifs? ;) To set default messages to plain text in Outlook: Tools Options Mail Format - Compose message in: Plain text (drop down box) To set html messages as plain text when replying: Format Plain Text (or Alt+o t for all us keyboard junkies) Paul

Re: [WSG] Introduction and first submission

2006-02-23 Thread Paul Menard
Another Texan! Welcome Sharron. I'm here in Austin. - Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.orgSent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 2:06:29 PMSubject: [WSG] Introduction and first submission Pardon a silly question, but is it standard procedure to introduce

RE: [WSG] Introduction and first submission

2006-02-23 Thread Paul Bennett
trust the Texans to be loud! ;) Tip - a great resource site: http://www.alvit.de/handbook/ [web developer's handbook] Paul From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Herrod, Lisa Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 10:38 AM To: 'wsg

Re: [WSG] Introduction and first submission

2006-02-23 Thread Paul Menard
Actually to reply to to Jan first. There is (or was) a WSG group here in Austin. At least as of SXSW 2005. They had a big party over at Frog Design. Great group of folks. I'm on a mailing or invite for the monthly meeting. Have been traveling and you know according to Murphy's law I will always

Re: [WSG] Introduction and first submission

2006-02-23 Thread Paul Menard
As promised. For those in and around Austin the Austin WSG group used to be on Meetup.com. Then the jerks wanted to start charging. So James Craig, the moderator, moved the list to Yahoo http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AustinWSM/ Seems they still have monthly meetup. Maybe some folks from this

Re: [WSG] Converting the heathen: never again

2006-02-26 Thread Paul Dwyer
I have been courting disaster with a potential client on these points exactly. I am risking losing a potentially valuable contract with my standardista (and I am pretty moderate) standpoint. Heck, I'd just like to get their sites to validate, but they are old-skool asp guys who learned all there

Re: [WSG] Linking to top of page

2006-02-27 Thread Paul Novitski
At 05:35 AM 2/27/2006, Curby wrote: What is the recommended way for linking back to the top of the page? I can't link to the id of my H1 because of my CSS. Whoa. Stop right there. How can CSS stop you from linking to an h1 that's got an id? Paul

Re: [WSG] Linking to top of page

2006-02-28 Thread Paul Novitski
, opera on PC (winXP). Wouldn't activating the link in a screen-reader simply move the cursor (reading point) from the link to the beginning of the page? Curiously, Paul ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

RE: [WSG] Site Check/Launch: Edentiti.com

2006-03-02 Thread Paul Bennett
On 3/2/06, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... due to Dead Edwards' IE7 script not working Man, when did Dean Edwards die? I know his last post was in December, but I didn't know he was *dead* Maybe MS will make IE7 standards compliant in his honour... ;) Paul

Re: [WSG] o 0

2006-03-03 Thread Paul Novitski
: Arial, Avant Garde, ...Times Roman, and most other proportional fonts on my system. What fonts have you checked? Paul ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints

Re: [WSG] Question of CSS specificity

2006-03-06 Thread Paul Novitski
on specific points. Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 revision 1 CSS 2.1 Specification http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/ Regards, Paul ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] Styling Fieldset and Legend Elements

2006-03-07 Thread Paul Novitski
all I need to do is follow my own advice...) Regards, Paul ** 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] Styling Fieldset and Legend Elements

2006-03-07 Thread Paul Novitski
by a desire to throw a bucket of water on someone's haughtiness than it was to start another holy war. Regards, Paul ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some

Re: [WSG] IE Reverse Indent ?

2006-03-08 Thread Paul Novitski
of all probable worlds. Paul ** 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] page break when printing

2006-03-09 Thread Paul Bennett
common mistake, often referred to as div-mania (or something along It's famous! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divitis ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some

[WSG] linked list alternative to nested menus

2006-03-10 Thread Paul Novitski
comments? Paul ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **

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