RE: [WSG] Need recomendations for CMS system [CLOSED]

2005-08-16 Thread Peter Firminger
There is a CMS list for this discussion. Please log into the WSG site and add it to your lists in your login details. Peter ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

RE: [WSG] Hot Topic: HTML design [was Reason for leaving]

2005-08-16 Thread Peter Williams
elements./b (XML processors normalize attributes in ways that can change the raw text of the attribute value.)b//li -- Peter Williams ** The discussion list for http

RE: [WSG] html design - best practices

2005-08-16 Thread Peter Williams
you are having trouble describing what you want to do and possibly why. Is it possible that you could give us an example and some context so that we can understand a bit more? -- Peter Williams ** The discussion list for http

RE: [WSG] Help with navigation

2005-08-16 Thread Peter Williams
problems are you seeing? -- Peter Williams ** 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] Help with navigation

2005-08-16 Thread Peter Williams
=currenttopicIntroduction/a/li Your real page has: lia href=introduction.htmlIntroduction/a/li -- Peter Williams ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting

RE: [WSG] html design - best practices

2005-08-16 Thread Peter Williams
could give the list a class and style it to suit your requirements, it need not appear as a bulleted or numbered vertical list. -- Peter Williams ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

[WSG] Announcing: Happy Clog!

2005-08-12 Thread Peter Firminger
For our members in the Netherlands (though I'm sure most of you are aware already)... http://kurafire.net/log/archive/2005/08/07/happy-clog Regards, Peter Firminger *** http://webboy.net/ info@webboy.net +612 49983388 +614 12932269

RE: [WSG] Spacing Issue

2005-08-11 Thread Peter Firminger
Hi Paul, Keep in mind that not many people here will want to help you sort out a design that uses tables for layout. Are we not being a bit classist? I don't think so. This is from the guidelines: --- We encourage people to ask for help on the list. One of the primary goals of this group

[WSG] Sydney WSG Meeting - Now Tuesday 30 August

2005-08-10 Thread Peter Firminger
a chance to win a free ticket to WE05! RSVP is essential - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, Peter Firminger ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting

RE: [WSG] IE question - user style sheets

2005-08-04 Thread Peter Firminger
You have a usability/accessibility issue with the onChange event on the style switcher. Take it out and add a button to submit it. Try NOT using your mouse and tab through to that form instead, then try and arrow down and you'll see the issue. Even something like

RE: [WSG] Does anyone still design for 640x480?

2005-08-03 Thread Peter Goddard
as 640 x 480 ... I'd have to say no! I haven't come across a requirement to do this myself on either small or larger projects. Peter -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Philippe Wittenbergh Sent: 03 August 2005 14:34 To: wsg

RE: [WSG] Site Check: VVE

2005-08-02 Thread Peter Williams
with the former media type and thus XHTML 1.1 is not a sensible choice for documents served to the web using public. -- Peter Williams ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

RE: [WSG] background images fluid

2005-08-01 Thread Peter Goddard
Hi Bruce I've come up against this myself when going for a liquid 3 column layout with a header graphic that I want to span all three columns at the top. You could 'sniff' the browser width/screen res, but I don't like doing that myself. The solutuion I came up with is pretty much the solution

Re: [WSG] implicit / explicit labels which is better?

2005-08-01 Thread Peter Asquith
labelled as part of the label's definition aren't the semantics of an implicit label just a little bit dubious (even if it does meet the DTD)? Peter -- Peter Asquith http://www.wasabicube.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] Vertical Alignment + sliding doors

2005-07-28 Thread Peter Asquith
to render OK. Cheers Peter Darren Wood wrote: Hello World! I've been struggling with a vertical alignment issue...have a look at the links below: http://shopperanswers.dev.netconcepts.com/understanding-your-shoppers.php [line 86] http://shopperanswers.dev.netconcepts.com/includes/default.css

[WSG] Apache DTD problem

2005-07-25 Thread Peter McCarthy
Thanks Patrick, Your diagnosis was spot on, I do have php installed and I do have "short tags" enabled, that's what wascausing the problem. Thanks for your help. Cheers Peter McCarthy

[WSG] Apache DTD problem

2005-07-24 Thread Peter McCarthy
a blank page with no error message. Is there a configuration setting I have missed somewhere ??? The DTD Im using is ?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"? !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd&qu

RE: [WSG] What not to do for colour blind users

2005-07-24 Thread Peter Firminger
and iconography. Any issue should have a cross rather than a tick to indicate a problem. They did add the alt text following my complaints though so at least I had some indication that the glass was half full. Peter ** The discussion list for http

RE: [WSG] Visual Studio/.net general question

2005-07-23 Thread Peter Firminger
Are we done now? Let me just say (as I wrote the offending line on the Max Design/Webboy sites) that I referred to ASP and not ASP.NET as not being a rapid development language (and I am right, it isn't... I used todo ASP sites). I really don't care what languages other people use, they

RE: [WSG] Form Builder

2005-07-20 Thread Peter Goddard
myself. As I use .net this is a snip (especially in the beta of asp.net 2.0 as the markup generated here is xhtml compliant). It will be interesting to see what others in the group come back with. HTH Peter Goddard From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Erwin HeiserSent

Re: [WSG] Re: digest for wsg@webstandardsgroup.org

2005-07-20 Thread Peter Ottery
Hope that made sense, nup. youre definately going to have to show us an example. if you havent got a liveexample to show, make a really simple example by stripping out everything else and just include some html css within your post. help us to help you! :) On 7/21/05, Josh Rose [EMAIL

[WSG] text alignment on form submit buttons

2005-07-18 Thread Peter Ottery
hi, I'd like to left align the text in a form submit button. The following seems to work in IE (5.5+), but not in Firefox: form action=whatever input type=submit value=Submit style=width:20em;text-align:left / /form (simplified and made inline for the sake of an

Re: [WSG] Body tag background color changes

2005-07-18 Thread Peter Asquith
Absolutely; give your body tags an id representing the page: e.g. body id=page1 body id=page2 etc Then add CSS entries for each page that requires a particular style to your stylesheet: #page1 { background-color: #fff; } #page2 { background-color: #ffc; } etc. Cheers Peter Sarah

RE: SPAM: RE: [WSG] Longhorn Avalon - seismic shift for web standards?

2005-07-14 Thread Peter Firminger
well use an inline HTML editor (an Ektron one for example) that invokes a dll on the client. In my experience this is a lot more stable than Java applets and other stuff that will allow stand-alone (non operating system-integrated) browsers to use them. Peter hmmmI smell Troll... You don't

Re: [WSG] web stanards detection - is it possible?

2005-07-13 Thread Peter Ottery
re: php sniffer script Splash Page that degrades (though ... can't degrade too much) Sam, i gotta agree with what Michael said earlier: Did we just hit some kind of crazy-ass time warping worm-hole thatlanded us in 1995?I beg of you, wherever you are, go out and pick up a copy of this book:

Re: [WSG] web standards detection - is it possible?

2005-07-13 Thread Peter Ottery
it may be best if Peter (a list member) confirms or denies this. Peter? well, hello there :) re received heaps of feedback heaps is a stretch. if i said it, i was exaggerating apologise. but dont sigh curse yet! theres a better story behind it :) While its true when we redesigned http

RE: [WSG] help or web standards group?

2005-07-11 Thread Peter Firminger
I totally concur with Lea (which happens with amazing regularity). We have discussed this matter in the past (along with creating online fora to move some of the newbie stuff off the list) but the general consensus was that this was and still is the best way to do it to cover all levels. If

Re: [WSG] are underscores a problem

2005-07-07 Thread Peter J. Farrell
): errorHandler.invalidPropertyName vs error_handler.invalid_property_name Best, .Peter -- Peter J. Farrell :: Maestro Publishing blog:: http://blog.maestropublishing.com email :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Create boilerplate beans! Check out the Mach-II Bean Creator - free download. http://blog.maestropublishing.com

Re: [WSG] Broken link

2005-07-06 Thread Peter J. Farrell
it (they take care of the Macromedia XML News Aggregator - MXNA and the Macromedia blogs). Hope this information helps...and if you contact Christian or Mike and get a new link - don't forget to let the proper authorities of the new link ;-). Best, .Peter -- Peter J. Farrell :: Maestro Publishing

Re: [WSG] textarea: why rows and cols?

2005-07-03 Thread Peter Asquith
and default rendering of unstyled elements will vary. -- Peter Asquith http://www.wasabicube.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting

Re: [WSG] textarea: why rows and cols?

2005-07-03 Thread Peter Asquith
of the elements - how do you know, by default, how many characters should be visible to the user in a text field, for instance? So there is a distinction, which I think is sufficient, but there's a distinctly slippery slope near at hand! Peter -- Peter Asquith http://www.wasabicube.com

RE: [WSG] Image Thumnail Advice [THREAD CLOSED]

2005-07-02 Thread Peter Firminger
Ok, enough on that thanks. This is a 'PhotoShop how to'rather thana Web Standards discussion. Peter

RE: [WSG] A web culture

2005-06-30 Thread Peter Goddard
('E: a novel', the E before Christmas). Its a good discussion point, but not for this list perhaps. All the best Peter Goddard From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Piero FissoreSent: 30 June 2005 10:31To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.orgSubject: [WSG] A web culture

RE: [WSG] Survey of Accessible Websites in New Zealand and Australia

2005-06-27 Thread Peter Firminger
Please please send these to the address mentioned ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) and not to the list. Bruce stated that he will post the report to the list when completed so we don't need to see your responses. Peter ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] Will HTML be nicer to PHP than XHTML? [ADMIN]

2005-06-27 Thread Peter Firminger
on this topic to only crucial information that hasn't been said before. If you move the thread to the CMS list you can go for it as hard as you like without bothering designers and others that have no interest. Peter ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] Page structure - navigation

2005-06-23 Thread Peter Ottery
Hi Ian, I dont think its a massive issue to do that (put the navigation at the end of the source and position it at the top of the page visually). Theres probably some people that would say this is potentially better for screenreaders, in that they aren't confronted with a massive navigation

[WSG] Accordion style script behaviour

2005-06-23 Thread Peter Ottery
i really like this accordion show/hide script... http://openrico.org/demos.page?demo=ricoAccordion.html .. and am thinking it might be useful for a really long list of FAQ's on a page. this particular example relies on the quite sizeable 'rico' _javascript_/s (which contain a whole bunch of other

Re: [WSG] Background image in li not showing in IE

2005-06-19 Thread Peter Ottery
Cole wrote: I've got a small background icon that I've hooked to a few li's. Displays as planned in FF, but doesn't display at all in IE6. Any ideas how I can fix this in IE?not sure if youve solved this by now but often i find if you specify a background colour (instead of transparent), IE will

Re: [WSG] IE incompatability

2005-06-17 Thread Peter
for horizantal. Please feel free to use what you want. Peter -- Peter Simons, Web Designer EpsiNick Productions [EMAIL PROTECTED] EpsiNick Productions hold all correspondence and contact details in confidence. Get Firefox!

RE: SPAM: RE: [WSG] Site check with a problem and something new

2005-06-14 Thread Peter Firminger
? The question was a perfectly legitimate one. Peter ** 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] WSG Meetings for the rest of us

2005-06-10 Thread Peter Firminger
that without significant corporate sponsorship to hire someone or someone else doing it voluntarily, this isn't likely (at least for Sydney). Other cities may prove me wrong, I know our very competitive friends in Brisbane were looking into it. Peter

Re: [WSG] WSG Meetings for the rest of us

2005-06-09 Thread Peter Costello
** ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help ** -- -- Peter

Re: [WSG] Accessible form test

2005-06-09 Thread Peter Ottery
Hi Erwin, there'd be other people on the list that could comment on the use of access keys etc i'm sure. At a stretch I'd kinda consider some aspects of the visual presentation part of the broad spectrum that is accessibility though - or at least usability. i like thisarticle that looks at the

[WSG] RE: Possible Virus

2005-06-07 Thread Peter Firminger
any attachment is probably a virus. Peter ** 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] A test

2005-06-07 Thread Peter Firminger
people use. Fingers crossed! Regards, Peter Firminger *** http://webboy.net/ info@webboy.net +612 49983388 +614 12932269

RE: [WSG] problem with utf-8 page encoding

2005-06-05 Thread Peter Firminger
be ridiculed if you use them for page layout but don't feel even the slightest bit bad about using them for their intended purpose. Peter This is my header...!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transiti

Re: [WSG] Issue with CSS, Flash and FireFox

2005-06-02 Thread Peter Asquith
Also some issues with the navigation sliding of the plate in Safari It's true of, presumably, all browsers because your menus are absolutely positioned. Cheers Peter -- Peter Asquith http://www.wasabicube.com/ ** The discussion list

Re: [WSG] Issue with CSS, Flash and FireFox

2005-06-02 Thread Peter Asquith
absolutely relative to the page, but the other content of the page was being centred. Presumably on a 1024x768 the menu positioning looked right. Cheers Peter -- Peter Asquith http://www.wasabicube.com/ ** The discussion list for http

RE: [WSG] Regarding foreign languages

2005-06-02 Thread Peter Firminger
server-side languages have this need or whether they work it out themselves. Not that I want to start that discussion here (as server-side technology is off topic) but as a concept, it may well be part of the problem and I just wanted to add it to your debug process. Peter

Re: [WSG] Multiple class names in older browsers

2005-06-01 Thread Peter Asquith
Seems to work fine in IE5.01/Win on XP SP2. Cheers Peter Maxine Sherrin wrote: I need to find out if multiple class names, like this: Were supported in older browsers, in particular IE5 and IE5.5. -- Peter Asquith http://www.wasabicube.com

RE: [WSG] Looking for a standards-compliant classified advert solution [MOVE TO CMS LIST]

2005-05-31 Thread Peter Firminger
This is really a topic for the CMS list. Please carry on the conversation there. Regards, Peter -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Nicol Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 10:09 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Looking

Re: IE Compliant (was RE: [WSG] (No subject header))

2005-05-27 Thread Peter
or... I can't be bothered to design anything other than for IE Peter Thomas Livingston wrote: On May 27, 2005, at 1:05 PM, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Funny how one can play with words. If a Web _site_ advertised that, I'd take it as We hacked the crap out of our code so IE users can see

Re: [WSG] a elements and what they can contain

2005-05-26 Thread Peter Ottery
re: a elements may only contain other inline elements hang on, so if i have an anchor tag wrapped around an image (display:inline by default), its deemed fine by the validator, but if I make that image display:block via the css, (for design purposes, which must be a pretty common practice on

Re: [WSG] a elements and what they can contain

2005-05-26 Thread Peter Ottery
Damien wrote: As to your question about a tags for block level elements, can you give an example when you would use this? not a good one, no :) i had a fleeting thought like what if, for some ungodly reason, you wanted to link an entire sidebar div to another page - but it was fleeting. just

Re: [WSG] Definition Lists

2005-05-24 Thread Peter Costello
Thanks Guys much apreciated. On 5/20/05, Lea de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 20 May 2005 15:17:19 +0100, Peter Costello wrote: However, even though theres only one item, the dl seems like the most appropriate tag. Yep, if semantically its a list which just happens to have only

RE: [WSG] CMS list archive?

2005-05-24 Thread Peter Firminger
-archive.com/cms@webstandardsgroup.org/ Regards, Peter -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of tee Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 9:48 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] CMS list archive? Hi Russ or Peter, Where can I get to CMS

Re: [WSG] Forms question

2005-05-23 Thread Peter Asquith
Lynx, for example). If the cols are not defined in the markup then what is the browser supposed to show? Cheers Peter -- Peter Asquith http://www.wasabicube.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

Re: [WSG] Forms question

2005-05-23 Thread Peter Asquith
Peter -- Peter Asquith http://www.wasabicube.com/ ** 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] label tag wrapping around checkbox

2005-05-22 Thread Peter Ottery
sports fans, if you had part of a form that had a checkbox that when checked enabled a file upload input, how would you mark that up? the result should look something like this: http://skunkworks.farcrycms.com/wsg/label/label.gif but i wasnt sure what the label tag/s would/should wrap around...

[WSG] Definition Lists

2005-05-20 Thread Peter Costello
though theres only one item, the dl seems like the most appropriate tag. -- -- Peter Costello www.domestik.net ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting

RE: [WSG] mambo and web standards [MOVED TO CMS]

2005-05-17 Thread Peter Firminger
://webstandardsgroup.org/manage/ and select it from the mail lists in your email preferences. Please move this thread to that list for any further discussion so that those who are not interested don't need to see the traffic, that is indeed off-topic, on the mail WSG list. Regards, Peter It'd be better

Re: [WSG] ® character

2005-05-17 Thread Peter J. Farrell
Lee wrote: Hello Listpeople, Anyone know if there's an XHTML special char. for ® ? Can't you use the standard registered entity reference: reg;? http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/ section C-12. Best, .Peter -- Peter J. Farrell :: Maestro Publishing blog:: http://blog.maestropublishing.com email

Re: [WSG] ® character

2005-05-17 Thread Peter J. Farrell
Kornel Lesinski wrote: #174; You should avoid all named entities in XHTML, except quot, amp, lt, gt. For all other characters use unicode encoding or numeric unicode entity reference. Then why does the W3 use it in their example? http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/ section c12 -- Peter J. Farrell

Re: [WSG] Site check

2005-05-17 Thread Peter J. Farrell
Tom Hamshere wrote: I know it's not perfect (particularly that there are priority 2 accessibility issues), but could people please take a look at http://www.lastminute.com Any feedback appreciated. One word: pink? -- Peter J. Farrell :: Maestro Publishing blog:: http

Re: [WSG] Site check

2005-05-17 Thread Peter J. Farrell
Peter J. Farrell wrote: Old Computer programmers never die, they just decompile. -- Tom Hamshere wrote: I know it's not perfect (particularly that there are priority 2 accessibility issues), but could people please take a look at http://www.lastminute.com Any feedback appreciated. One word

Re: [WSG] mutli language websites

2005-05-16 Thread Peter J. Farrell
the default charset for HTML as well as source code unless otherwise set. Best, .Peter -- Peter J. Farrell :: Maestro Publishing blog :: http://blog.maestropublishing.com email :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Create boilerplate beans! Check out the Mach-II Bean Creator - free download. http://blog.maestr

RE: [WSG] Online payments [CLOSED]

2005-05-13 Thread Peter Firminger
, see the resources section for details) Detailed software support such as using a browser, installing a server, installing any tools etc. Product and service advertisements of a purely commercial nature Employment opportunities Peter -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto

RE: [WSG] Privacy Statements - THREAD CLOSED

2005-05-09 Thread Peter Firminger
Goodbye! P -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 10:23 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org; russ - maxdesign Cc: Web Standards Group Subject: Re: [WSG] Privacy Statements - THREAD CLOSED

Re: [WSG] Cleaner two column float left?

2005-05-04 Thread Peter Ottery
Tee wrote: Is it possible to make it this way and make IE happy at the same time? div class=twoCol labelitem 1/label labelitem 2/label labelitem 3/label labelitem 4/label labelitem 5/label. /div So that I don't need to put a spacer class in between every two items. there may be

Re: [WSG] Form Validation error

2005-05-04 Thread Peter J. Farrell
/mcart/mof.cgi / should be: form method=post action=../cgi-bin/mcart/mof.cgi div id=formContentContent here/div /form My Doctype is xhtml transitional. Also, have anybody done the e-commerce site that is fully xhtml validated? I find it too much a challenge! Tee -- Peter J. Farrell :: Maestro

Re: [WSG] Juicy Studio offline [CLOSED]

2005-05-03 Thread Peter Firminger
Way OT now folks. Please send suggestions to Gez at the email address mentioned on the page (as Douglas correctly asked you to do). P Visit his site for more information about the situation and how to contact him with suggestions. http://juicystudio.com/ Thank you!

Re: [WSG] Re: [WSG Announce] Web Essentials 05 Launched

2005-05-03 Thread Peter Ottery
Maybe a specific topic addressing the commercial benefits of Web Standards at WE05 could have been included. I believe there is. 1.30pm, day 1... Brett Jackson, John Horner, David McDonald Panel: Moving your organisation to standards Theme: Strategy Audience: Managers

Re: [WSG] Padding tables in IE

2005-05-02 Thread Peter Ottery
Andreas wrote: I am having difficulties getting IE to give a table a padding-left. I dont think adding padding to the table itself is going to be reliable - as youve found out :) I'd say that what you want to do is add padding to the cell/s of the table. If you want to add padding to one column

Re: [WSG] Padding tables in IE

2005-05-02 Thread Peter Ottery
Andreas Boehmer wrote: Gee, that's a new one to me! Is col a HTML 4 tag? I've never come acrossit. absolutely, a quick googling turns this article up - looks like quite a good rundown... http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/tables/tablesaccessibility.html or theres always the w3c spec if youre up for

Re: [WSG] Mystery connection of css and non-liquid design

2005-05-02 Thread Peter Ottery
On 5/2/05, Gunlaug Sørtun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] wrote: Something I find really strange is that a lot of people who put emphasis on Web Standards suddenly found their way back to non-liquid, 800px, centered design. I am wondering why that is? i really admire a

Re: [WSG] recreating a table form with simple floating

2005-05-02 Thread Peter J. Farrell
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 21:41:11 +0100, tee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to create a complex online order form that look something like this: http://www.melsmarket.com/cgi-bin/orderonline.cgi All I have to say, is... Tidy: 486 warnings, 7 errors - Too many warnings to display -- Peter J. Farrell

[WSG] Fake Horizontal Frames Layout

2005-04-30 Thread Peter J. Farrell
to the text that is displayed above) I know this is a strange question, but I want to avoid using a frame here. Thanks in advance for any help... -- Peter J. Farrell :: Maestro Publishing blog:: http://blog.maestropublishing.com email :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Create boilerplate beans! Check out

Re: [WSG] Fake Horizontal Frames Layout

2005-04-30 Thread Peter J. Farrell
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Peter J. Farrell wrote: I'm newer to CSS then I'd like to admit, but I was wondering if it is possible to create a layout that consists of three content areas (Think about a 3-column layout turned 90 degrees). You've got plenty of fun waiting for you up the CSS-road

Re: [WSG] Firefox bug?

2005-04-29 Thread Peter J. Farrell
, Cornwall (U.K.) www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk Looks just fine to me...Win XP on FF and IE with NVidia 6600. I have a new/fast computerhowever, I've seen this problem on older computers like my win98 with FF. best, -- Peter J. Farrell :: Maestro Publishing blog:: http

RE: [WSG] Urgent navigation problem

2005-04-28 Thread Peter Goddard
Hi Mary All looks ok to me, have you solved this one? Peter -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mary Wright Sent: 28 April 2005 10:49 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Urgent navigation problem I've just removed the table

Re: [WSG] new mycareer.com.au design

2005-04-27 Thread Peter Ottery
hi, thanks for your kind words and feedback peoples. have tried to quickly answer those main questions below: re Just curious to know what the many lines of CDATA code achieve and the reason for putting them inline? no idea personally :) , but the dev guy says it's definitely something we want

[WSG] new mycareer.com.au design

2005-04-26 Thread Peter Ottery
very proud to say the new mycareer site launched today: http://mycareer.com.au/ its the next major site from the Fairfax Digital network to take on css layout as part of a redesign. the site gets hundreds of thousands of visitors a month and is one of australias largest job ad websites. check it

[WSG] a required field marker in forms

2005-04-22 Thread Peter Ottery
. cheers, pete ~~ Peter Ottery ~ Senior Designer Daemon Pty Ltd 17 Roslyn Gardens Elizabeth Bay NSW 2011 www.daemon.com.au ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] a required field marker in forms

2005-04-22 Thread Peter Ottery
Dmitry wrote: Hi Peter, I am not shure about asteri, but I think it is not very usable that if I click on the text near checkbox, checkbox doesn't change its state. for sure. that behaviour (thanks to using labels) works for me in PC IE5+ and Firefox (which is a pretty large slice of users

RE: [WSG] Mystical belief in the power of Web Standards, Usability, and tableless CSS

2005-04-20 Thread Peter Firminger
quote There is nothing wrong with any of the above except they're being touted by...guess who?...people who offer web design services specializing in...guess what?...Web Standards, Usability, and tableless CSS. These are simply tools. Remember, nobody gets excited about the tools used to build a

RE: [WSG] Mystical belief in the power of Web Standards, Usability, and tableless CSS

2005-04-20 Thread Peter Firminger
Further more (this rubbish by or about people justifying their inability to do a job right really annoys me). A person developing a website is expected to produce a product that serves HTML or XHTML and through that some other files (images, stylesheets etc.) to a browser. Lets just go with the

Re: [WSG] Disjointed Rollovers in css

2005-04-19 Thread Peter Ottery
tech reasons... [1] http://www.adaptivepath.com/ anyway, hth, cheers, pete ~~ Peter Ottery ~ Designer Daemon Pty Ltd www.daemon.com.au ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org

RE: [WSG] Adobe Buys Macromedia [CLOSED and Moved to Blog]

2005-04-18 Thread Peter Firminger
Oh, and sorry...this is fairly off topic. Apologies... Patrick Yes I was thinking the same. Very interesting news with on-topic repercussions down the track but not really a valid discussion point here and now. However, I have set up a page in the WSG Blog for this discussion...

[WSG] Housekeeping [ADMIN]

2005-04-14 Thread Peter Firminger
mail client but as far as I know you can get the posters direct address from the From address. In Outlook it is shown as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Peter Firminger [EMAIL PROTECTED] and by double clicking Peter Firminger you are given the address in a dialogue box to copy. The alternative

Re: [WSG] Access Key question

2005-04-06 Thread Peter J. Farrell
-1Z7... etc. .pjf -- Peter J. Farrell :: Maestro Publishing blog:: http://blog.maestropublishing.com email :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone :: 651-204-0513 ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] Access Key question

2005-04-06 Thread Peter J. Farrell
-1Z7... etc. .pjf -- Peter J. Farrell :: Maestro Publishing blog:: http://blog.maestropublishing.com email :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone :: 651-204-0513 ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: [WSG] Hidden Content

2005-03-30 Thread Peter J. Farrell
://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=ScreenreaderVisibility Check out the Google Webmaster guidelines: http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html Hidden text probably makes google think you are doing some sort of spam site. Googlebot basically sees what Lynx sees. -- Peter J. Farrell :: Maestro

RE: [WSG] Page views per month, peak rates in an hour [CLOSED]

2005-03-28 Thread Peter Firminger
Way off topic... Please reply to Siggy off list. Listdad -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sigurd Magnusson Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 8:38 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: SPAM: [WSG] Page views per month, peak rates in

Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: [WSG] Who's putting javascript in my code?

2005-03-24 Thread Peter J. Farrell
? -- Peter J. Farrell :: Maestro Publishing blog:: http://blog.maestropublishing.com email :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Laziness: Success is a journey, not a destination. Stop running. -- ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: [WSG] Who's putting javascript in my code?

2005-03-24 Thread Peter J. Farrell
of the preAmble() - I can't remember at the moment. I highly recommend Trend Micro Internet Security Suite 2005. hth, .pjf -- Peter J. Farrell :: Maestro Publishing blog:: http://blog.maestropublishing.com email :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are 6 billion people on this planet.and I like 8

Re: [WSG] Firefox bug on mouse scrolling

2005-03-24 Thread Peter J. Farrell
on? I'm thinking it could be a video display driver problem with mouse scrolling - have you updated you display driver recently? Maybe a screen shot of what you are seeing might help... .pjf -- Peter J. Farrell :: Maestro Publishing blog:: http://blog.maestropublishing.com email :: [EMAIL

Re: [WSG] Semi-newbie: advice needed

2005-03-23 Thread Peter Asquith
A Meyer (http://www.meyerweb.com) These three give you the rationale for the Web Standards approach, the practical implementation and the nitty-gritty of CSS, respectively. Cheers Peter Mark B wrote: Hiya. I'm an experienced HTML CSS coder who has dabbled a little with the XHTML/CSS way

Re: [WSG] Site Review: testdrive.fueladvance.com

2005-03-22 Thread Peter J. Farrell
REFERENCE: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/text.html#edef-P W3C: "We discourage authors from using empty P elements. User agents should ignore empty P elements." However when I strip it - your content boxes no long line up in FF. -- Peter J. Farrell :: Maestro Publ

RE: [WSG] Standards compliant site, clients wants to make updates themselves

2005-03-21 Thread Peter Flaschner
of html, aka a php include), but once you've got it down, you'll have a hard time imagining working without it. Peter Flaschner www.peterflaschner.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Julián Landerreche Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 9:54 AM To: wsg

Re: [WSG] Site Review - coylemedical.com

2005-03-16 Thread Peter J. Farrell
of the fix for this. -- Peter J. Farrell :: Maestro Publishing blog:: http://blog.maestropublishing.com email :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] C:\WINDOWS C:\WINDOWS\RUN C:\WINDOWS\RUN\AMUCK -- ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

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