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[WSG] Flight Centre looking for talented front end developers to start immediately

[Ryan Blunden]

Hi everyone,

Flight Centre are currently seeking full-time front end developers to start
immediately. This is an excellent opportunity for the right applicants to
get experience in a global ecommerce environment and enterprise content
management systems. Salary will be negotiated based on skills and experience
and you must be able to work full-time at our Brisbane head office.

Flight Centre is a global company that encompasses many other travel brands
(Escape Travel, Travel Associates, Cruiseabout and others) and we are in the
process of rolling out our new travel product architecture across our
national and international sites. There will be a mix of both maintenance
work for existing sites and project work building new sites.

We’re after people who have:

   - At least 3 years commercial web development experience,
   - solid JavaScript skills (design patterns, Crockford, the good parts
   etc),
   - experience with jQuery and jQuery UI,
   - a passion for front end development best practices (web standards,
   progressive enhancement, accessibility),
   - a great attitude, and enjoy working in an open plan team environment,
   - a desire to see continuous innovation and improvement in the work they
   do.

Experience with functional testing platforms, unit testing and other
JavaScript frameworks (e.g. ExtJS) would be an advantage.

We have a great and talented bunch of web developers and the working
environment at Flight Centre really is fantastic!

If you want to find out more or would like to submit your resume for
consideration, please email me at ryan.blun...@flightcentre.com.au. Ensure
your resume highlights your front end development experience (e.g.
JavaScript you have written) and has a list of sites you’ve worked on
recently.

Hope you all have a great festive season!

Cheers,
Ryan
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[WSG] Flight Centre looking for web developers

[Ryan Blunden]

Hi everyone,

 

Flight Centre are currently seeking full-time contract junior to
mid-level front end developers to start immediately. This is an
excellent opportunity for the right applicants to get experience in a
global ecommerce environment and enterprise content management systems.
Contract rate will be negotiated based on skills and experience.

 

Flight Centre is a global company that encompasses many other travel
brands (Escape Travel, Travel Associates, Cruiseabout and others) and we
are in the process of rolling out our new travel product architecture
across our national and international sites. There will be a mix of both
maintenance work for existing sites and project work building new sites.
Also, these contract positions may well turn into permanent roles in the
future.

 

We're after people who have:

* At least 2-3 years commercial web development experience,

* experience with jQuery and jQuery UI,

* a passion for front end development best practices (web
standards, progressive enhancement, accessibility),

* a great attitude, and enjoy working in an open plan team
environment,

* a desire to see continuous innovation and improvement in the
work they do.

 

Solid JavaScript skills will definitely come in handy and will be highly
regarded.

 

We have a great team and the working environment at Flight Centre really
is fantastic.

 

If you want to find out more or would like to submit your resume for
consideration, please email me at ryan.blun...@flightcentre.com.au.
Ensure your resume highlights your front end development experience
(e.g. JavaScript you have written) and has a list of sites you've worked
on recently.

Cheers,
Ryan

Ryan Blunden | Web Developer

Web Solutions | Flight Centre Technology - IT SM

Team No: +617 3170 7050

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RE: [WSG] Hi all, need some help with a peekaboo bug in IE - SOLVED

[Ryan Blunden]

And of course, you would put any IE specific hacks such as the Holly Hack in
an 'ie-hacks' style sheet that would be included in your pages via IE
conditional comments.

See http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/10/12/480242.aspx for more info.

Ryan 

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On Behalf Of Ric Raftis
Sent: Saturday, 31 December 2005 4:25 PM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Hi all, need some help with a peekaboo bug in IE - SOLVED

G'day Barrie,

I think what you need here is called the Holly Hack.  It fixes ul, li
problems that IE mucks up.  CSS for my sites where I use uls include:-

/* Fix IE. Hide from IE Mac \*/
* html #navbar ul li { float: left; }
* html #navbar ul li a { height: 1%; }
/* End */

Reference: http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?page=2&cid=C37E0

Regards,

Ric



Barrie North wrote:

>How weird, it was being caused by the styles on the ul in the black 
>main menu box. I don't know why that would shift the whole column, o well.
>
>Barrie North
>Compass Design
>
>-Original Message-
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>On Behalf Of Barrie North
>Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 9:57 PM
>To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
>Subject: [WSG] Hi all, need some help with a peekaboo bug in IE
>
>I am making a site for IE6+ and am really stuck over an IE bug.
>
>http://joomlashack.compassdesigns.net/js_jshack06v2/index1.html
>
>Some strange bug is occurring in IE6, the left column bounces all over. 
>It seems to be related to the peekaboo bug and you can see it when you 
>mouse over the links to the left column in the "main menu". Refresh the 
>page in IE so see the bug again.
>
>Also, if you click on the "blog" link
>http://joomlashack.compassdesigns.net/js_jshack06v2/index1.html
>you get a two column layout. For some reason the left column decides it 
>wants to be in a different place.
>
>The solutions I know of involve position:relative and height:1% and 
>line-height:1.2. I have tried all three of these but not had anything work.
>
>Apologies in advance for not making a page that isolated the bug better.
>This is CMS output and I found this bug late in the production cycle...
>
>Cheers
>Barrie North
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RE: [WSG] CSS Driven?

[Ryan Blunden]

I've found this particular topic so interesting, as I've gotten an insight
into the different approaches people take towards building standards based
designs or should I say, CSS driven designs.

As we all know, there is not one perfect, fully robust, all conquering 100%
correct way to design any conceivable web interface for a client or user,
and I think this is what a few people have alluded to in their posts, albeit
they are saying it in different ways. So without a perfect solution being
present, you're left to find the best solution you can, under your often
unique set of circumstances.

I'd like to think everyone on this list understands the holistic nature of
designing with web standards, understanding why the effort is worth it, but
also realising that the ideals of designing with web standards must always
be taken with a good deal of common sense (and humour, cheers Russ). There
are so many factors to consider when designing an interface and personally,
that's what I love about this work, it's never boring and always
challenging.

As developers, all we can ever hope for is to do the best job we can with
the knowledge we have at the time, delivering the best solution possible for
the client and of course, the end user. If everyone who has posted different
arguments is doing the best they can, then I say well done and good stuff!

Ryan Blunden

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RE: [WSG] Page Check: www.qm-consulting.co.uk/test/indextest

[Ryan Blunden]

Hi Richard,
 
Your content is indeed usable, accessible, semantic and 
valid, but if I was a potential client of yours, I wouldn't be saying, 
'Wow, that site looks great, I hope my site will look like that'. I'm not trying 
to put you down, I'm simply giving you my 
honest opinion.
 
Now maybe I'm completely out of touch and maybe all our 
sites should look like Jacob Neilson's but from my experience, sites need to be 
aesthetically pleasing as well as accessible and CSS and DOM scripting gives us 
more than enough power to do both. Perhaps you could sit down with a graphic 
designer to work more visual elements into your site and improve the overall 
look and feel? I think it would be worthwhile.
 
Also, what is the business case for needing the W3C badges, 
really?
 
Best Regards,
Ryan



From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of QM Consulting 
LtdSent: Saturday, 5 November 2005 2:42 AMTo: 
wsg@webstandardsgroup.orgSubject: [WSG] Page Check: 
www.qm-consulting.co.uk/test/indextest

I have been following this list with interest for 
some time and I am currently working on creating my web site. I've done some 
testing on IE and Firefox and validated on w3. I would appreciate any feedback, 
regarding standards, semantics, usability, accessibility etc. 
 
The page is at http://www.qm-consulting.co.uk/test/indextest.html
 
Thanks,
 
Richard Morton
 
 
 
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RE: [WSG] Help with accessible horizontal menu

[Ryan Blunden]

Hi Colin,

Whilst I'm certainly no expert, I do have some questions for you:

 - Why does every  element in your menu source code have tabindex="10"?

 - What do you mean by "In javascript onfocus and onblur works only in
firefox". Do you mean applying the behaviour via the DOM doesn't work in IE
(using your code), or that IE is not recognising the onfocus and onblur
events?

 - Also when I disabled JavaScript in IE, the styling on the menu wasn't
applied and it was a left as a standard un-ordered list which wasn't real
pretty. What is the reason for applying the styles in IE using JavaScript or
have I missed something?

 - In terms of your approach to making a horizontal nested menu accessible,
what are the perceived benefits for users with disabilities using a nested
menu system like this? Would someone using a mouth stick or a screen reader
appreciate having all the nested links available either way, styled or
un-styled? Whilst the menu items are accessible, is it equally user
friendly? For example, what if one of the above users went to page menu 2,
then from that page wanted to go to link item menu 5. Would they have to go
through every single link in the menu before getting to menu 5?

Sorry I don't have any answers for you but I thought asking those questions
may help me understand where you're coming from in your design and
implementation. Hopefully the questions asked are useful ones :)

Best Regards,
Ryan

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On Behalf Of Colin Meerveld
Sent: Thursday, 22 September 2005 9:43 PM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: [WSG] Help with accessible horizontal menu

Hi

I' am building an accessible horizontal menu. I have some problems with
tabbing the menu. I tested the menu in IE 6.0, Firefox 1.05 and opera 8.0.
IE and Opera doesn't support it at all and firefox only with javascript. It
does navigate to the menu but the menu doesn't expand. It looks like CSS
focus works different when you use the tab. In javascript onfocus and onblur
works only in firefox. I like to have some feedback tested the menu with
other browsers and perhaps some tips and tricks to solve this.

Other things I also have to solve are:

Work in IE without Javascript
Submenu's (now only work in Firefox and IE but don't expand menu by
tabbing)
IE comment hack without  probable solved when IE works
without JS

You can find the menu here:
http://www.sportfotografen.nl/accessibility/projects/semantic/menu.html


Kind regards,

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RE: [WSG] Clearleft.com

[Ryan Blunden]

Thanks guys for pointing that out, very useful.

Ryno 

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Ryan Blunden wrote:
 
> Andy Budd wrote:
 
> > That's very odd. Anybody got any idea why the CSS validator should be
throwing up an error on:

> > line-height: 1;

> > but is happy with

> > line-height: 1.0;

> > Looks like a bug in the validator to me.
 
> I'd say so, but wouldn't the error have more to do with the fact that 
> the value of line-height needs a unit of reference (px, % or em)?

Actually, using a unit for line-height can get you into trouble:
http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/auth/line-height.html
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RE: [WSG] Clearleft.com

[Ryan Blunden]

Hey Andy,

Nice looking site, simple, clean, well laid out and easy to read, good
stuff. 

> That's very odd. Anybody got any idea why the CSS validator should be
throwing up an error on:
>
> line-height: 1;
>
> but is happy with
> 
> line-height: 1.0;
>
> ?
>
> Looks like a bug in the validator to me.

I'd say so, but wouldn't the error have more to do with the fact that the
value of line-height needs a unit of reference (px, % or em)?

Best Regards,
Ryno 

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Sent: Thursday, 22 September 2005 6:09 PM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Clearleft.com

Christian Montoya wrote:

> It gets worse... W3C gave you a CSS ERROR, which means they checked 
> your site just as you were editing, I'm sure... so the name is wrong, 
> the listing is wrong, and now you are disqualified from the featured 
> list. Hate it when that happens!

That's very odd. Anybody got any idea why the CSS validator should be
throwing up an error on:

line-height: 1;

but is happy with

line-height: 1.0;

?

Looks like a bug in the validator to me.

Yours

Andy Budd

http://www.andybudd.com/
01273 241355
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RE: [WSG] two column

[Ryan Blunden]

Hi JoAn,

WSG member Andrew Krespanis put together an excellent presentation on a
3-column content source ordered layout at
http://www.leftjustified.net/site-in-an-hour/ with the actual site at
http://www.leftjustified.net/site-in-an-hour/site/.
 
I realise that you're after a two column layout and that is the beauty of
Andrew's design, it couldn't be easier to convert it two a 2 column layout. 
 
Here's a quick and dirty guide:
 
 - Remove the column #right in the HTML source code (was the right column)
 - In the default.css style sheet, change the percentage of #sub to 99% to
fill the container width (#outer)
 - In the default.css style sheet, Change the width of #center to fill the
width of #sub (the container of the two columns)
 
Presto, a rock solid two column layout.
 
I imagine you'll want to do some tweaking to the above and both the CSS and
HTML is well documented in terms of how the design works.
 
"Note from Andrew: Get rid of the ie7 script that is included as it has been
known to cause IE to crash. It's only there for max. and min width support,
which you won't be needing if you're making a fixed width design."
 
Best of luck,
Ryan Blunden



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On Behalf Of JoAn
Sent: Sunday, 18 September 2005 10:41 AM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: [WSG] two column


Hi! I'm new to the list and to CSS. I really need a two column
source-ordered CSS layout so that the left column can be used for navigation
and the 2nd column would be for content. I suppose I'd need about 160px for
the left nav and the balance for the content. But I'd like the content
source to show first in the source code. Plus I'll need the header and the
footer. I've searched and searched but can only find the 3 column
source-ordered layout and can't figure out how to redo it to two column.
 
Would you help me out please? Thanks in advance! JoAn

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RE: [WSG] Fix for min-max in IE - no javascript

[Ryan Blunden]

Hi Rachael,

Although some may not agree with this method because of the need for
multiple div wrappers, the solution at
http://www.cssplay.co.uk/boxes/width2.html I think is great because it
appears to work in IE5+, doesn't require any javascript and works in
standards compliant browsers that understand the min-width CSS property.

Best Regards,
Ryan

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Sent: Wednesday, 31 August 2005 7:01 AM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: RE: [WSG] Fix for min-max in IE

Thanks everyone for your reply, I'll try each option today...

David - these are HTML 4.0 pages because of the content management it is
running off... so it doesn't seem to be just an XHTML problem. Hmmm...

Irina - thanks for pointing out the background stuff when javascript is
turned off... will be doing something about that!!

Thanks,
Rach 

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Subject: Re: [WSG] Fix for min-max in IE

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:19:33 +1200, Rachel Radford wrote:
>
> We have just launched a site (www.eastwoodhill.org.nz) but have 
> received feedback that IE for windows is crashing!!!  We have figured 
> out that it is a bit of Javascript making it crash  this bit of 
> Javascript mimicks the CSS min-max behaviour that is needed for the 
> navigation and for some images that have captions underneath them such 
> as the one on the home page.
>
Hi Rachel,

We observed the same problem in my web class. I have reason to believe that
this only happens on XHTML documents. At least, one document I had coded as
HTML 4 strict did not have this problem.

This may not be a viable solution for you, but you may like to give it a
try. Seems to be an IE6 on Win XP SP2 problem only. Again, I may be wrong.
Needs testing.

BTW - IE did not exactly crash for us - it simply locked up.

Cordially,
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RE: [WSG] Fix for min-max in IE - no javascript

[Ryan Blunden]

Hi Rachael,

Although some may not agree with this method because of the need for
multiple div wrappers, the solution at
http://www.cssplay.co.uk/boxes/width2.html I think is great because it
appears to work in IE5+, doesn't require any javascript and works in
standards compliant browsers that understand the min-width CSS property.

Best Regards,
Ryan

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On Behalf Of Rachel Radford
Sent: Wednesday, 31 August 2005 7:01 AM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: RE: [WSG] Fix for min-max in IE

Thanks everyone for your reply, I'll try each option today...

David - these are HTML 4.0 pages because of the content management it is
running off... so it doesn't seem to be just an XHTML problem. Hmmm...

Irina - thanks for pointing out the background stuff when javascript is
turned off... will be doing something about that!!

Thanks,
Rach 

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of David Hucklesby
Sent: Wednesday, 31 August 2005 5:49 a.m.
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Fix for min-max in IE

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:19:33 +1200, Rachel Radford wrote:
>
> We have just launched a site (www.eastwoodhill.org.nz) but have 
> received feedback that IE for windows is crashing!!!  We have figured 
> out that it is a bit of Javascript making it crash  this bit of 
> Javascript mimicks the CSS min-max behaviour that is needed for the 
> navigation and for some images that have captions underneath them such 
> as the one on the home page.
>
Hi Rachel,

We observed the same problem in my web class. I have reason to believe that
this only happens on XHTML documents. At least, one document I had coded as
HTML 4 strict did not have this problem.

This may not be a viable solution for you, but you may like to give it a
try. Seems to be an IE6 on Win XP SP2 problem only. Again, I may be wrong.
Needs testing.

BTW - IE did not exactly crash for us - it simply locked up.

Cordially,
David
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RE: [WSG] Fix for min-max in IE - no javascript

[Ryan Blunden]

Hi Rachael,

Although some may not agree with this method because of the need for
multiple div wrappers, the solution at
http://www.cssplay.co.uk/boxes/width2.html I think is great because it
appears to work in IE5+, doesn't require any javascript and works in
standards compliant browsers that understand the min-width CSS property.

Best Regards,
Ryan

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Rachel Radford
Sent: Wednesday, 31 August 2005 7:01 AM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: RE: [WSG] Fix for min-max in IE

Thanks everyone for your reply, I'll try each option today...

David - these are HTML 4.0 pages because of the content management it is
running off... so it doesn't seem to be just an XHTML problem. Hmmm...

Irina - thanks for pointing out the background stuff when javascript is
turned off... will be doing something about that!!

Thanks,
Rach 

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of David Hucklesby
Sent: Wednesday, 31 August 2005 5:49 a.m.
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Fix for min-max in IE

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:19:33 +1200, Rachel Radford wrote:
>
> We have just launched a site (www.eastwoodhill.org.nz) but have 
> received feedback that IE for windows is crashing!!!  We have figured 
> out that it is a bit of Javascript making it crash  this bit of 
> Javascript mimicks the CSS min-max behaviour that is needed for the 
> navigation and for some images that have captions underneath them such 
> as the one on the home page.
>
Hi Rachel,

We observed the same problem in my web class. I have reason to believe that
this only happens on XHTML documents. At least, one document I had coded as
HTML 4 strict did not have this problem.

This may not be a viable solution for you, but you may like to give it a
try. Seems to be an IE6 on Win XP SP2 problem only. Again, I may be wrong.
Needs testing.

BTW - IE did not exactly crash for us - it simply locked up.

Cordially,
David
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RE: [WSG] Fix for min-max in IE - no javascript

[Ryan Blunden]

Hi Rachael,

Although some may not agree with this method because of the need for
multiple div wrappers, the solution at
http://www.cssplay.co.uk/boxes/width2.html I think is great because it
appears to work in IE5+, doesn't require any javascript and works in
standards compliant browsers that understand the min-width CSS property.

Best Regards,
Ryan

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Rachel Radford
Sent: Wednesday, 31 August 2005 7:01 AM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: RE: [WSG] Fix for min-max in IE

Thanks everyone for your reply, I'll try each option today...

David - these are HTML 4.0 pages because of the content management it is
running off... so it doesn't seem to be just an XHTML problem. Hmmm...

Irina - thanks for pointing out the background stuff when javascript is
turned off... will be doing something about that!!

Thanks,
Rach 

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of David Hucklesby
Sent: Wednesday, 31 August 2005 5:49 a.m.
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Fix for min-max in IE

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:19:33 +1200, Rachel Radford wrote:
>
> We have just launched a site (www.eastwoodhill.org.nz) but have 
> received feedback that IE for windows is crashing!!!  We have figured 
> out that it is a bit of Javascript making it crash  this bit of 
> Javascript mimicks the CSS min-max behaviour that is needed for the 
> navigation and for some images that have captions underneath them such 
> as the one on the home page.
>
Hi Rachel,

We observed the same problem in my web class. I have reason to believe that
this only happens on XHTML documents. At least, one document I had coded as
HTML 4 strict did not have this problem.

This may not be a viable solution for you, but you may like to give it a
try. Seems to be an IE6 on Win XP SP2 problem only. Again, I may be wrong.
Needs testing.

BTW - IE did not exactly crash for us - it simply locked up.

Cordially,
David
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RE: [WSG] Randomly load images into the background-image selector...

[Ryan Blunden]

Hey Andrew,

I'd like to see a script that does that! Have fun digging.

Regards,
Ryan 

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On Behalf Of Andrew Krespanis
Sent: Thursday, 25 August 2005 11:21 AM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Randomly load images into the background-image
selector...

Aaaah, I over thought the situation -- I thought you wanted to *fade*
between the images, not just choose one at random...

Here you go :)




function randomBG(targetObjID) {
var obj, imgs, randNum;
obj = document.getElementById(targetObjID);
imgs = new Array();
imgs.push( 'foo.jpg');
imgs.push( 'bar.jpg');
imgs.push( 'w007.png');
randNum = Math.random() * (imgs.length - 1);
randNum = Math.round(randNum);
obj.style.backgroundImage = imgs[randNum];

// Uncomment followning line to test
//alert(imgs[randNum]);
}

window.onload = function() { randomBG('swapMe'); };  



Test div




Valid xhtml1.1... NOT! ;) (at least the script is application/xhtml+xml
friendly)

The next step for this script would be to adapt it to OOD, thereby allowing
other scripts to add to the imgs array without needing to resort to global
var's.

I'm 90% sure I've got a script at home that does the above, but fades
between the remaining  images after choosing the initila one at random I
say 90% sure because I remember needing that functionality for a client site
but I may have ended up using an  element due to problems with Opera <
7.5 and Safari < 1.1

If you're interested in that one, respond and I'll go digging tonight.

Cheers,
Andrew.

http://leftjustified.net/
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