RE: [WSG] Cite in

I believe Jeremy Keith or PPK has a javascript that pulls the cite attribute out of the blockquote and places it as a link after the blockquote. It looks like a research paper citation/footnote. ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick H

RE: [WSG] Print stylesheet switcher

Hi Joshua I discussed something like this with Dunstin Diaz, http://www.dustindiaz.com/?id=86&paged=2, of the AJAX style sheet switcher fame. He suggested the print style sheets could be handled similarly. For usability sake, I would suggest taking the visitor to a screen that showed them what t

[WSG] IE7 updates the select box

presentation? IE7 beta 2 will be released in the not too distant future for developers. We need to begin looking for example pages to test on for finding problems and solutions. Ted Drake Front-end Engineer Yahoo! Tech ** The discussion list for

RE: [WSG] tag

It would help to have a page to look at. Here’s my first guess. Are you floating the image and text? If so, perhaps justify is extending the width of the text to make it too long to fit in the same space as the image and it drops down below the image?  Does this make sense?   CSS will ov

RE: [WSG] Yet Another Float Problem

I forgot about haslayout when I suggested float. My how your mind begins to skip things when they aren't staring you in the face. Avoid using height:0 as the hack. It could come back to haunt you in the future. Use zoom:1; instead. This will provide layout without creating a potential size confl

RE: [WSG] Yet Another Float Problem

Try floating the wrapper to see if that helps. I don't see a difference between firefox and IE, although it could be my version of IE. What is the background image? The guy in the suit? Didn't Opera remove advertising? Ted Drake www.tdrake.net -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [WSG] Could really use some help with image overflow

I started to look at your CSS but got lost in all of the empty rules. I realize you are using a template css file, it would help to clean it up before seeking advice. Not a rant, just a suggestion.   I first thought that you might want to add a percentage based width to the image, but tha

[WSG] the kind of assignment that makes you want to scream

Can you imagine being the one stuck with creating this navigation scheme? http://shop2.outpost.com/product/4600108?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG   holy moley, mother of all tabs. It makes me itch just looking at it.   Ted Drake Front-end Engineer Yahoo! Tech  

RE: [WSG] CSS and the University Syllabus

I'm using a series of definition lists for my syllabus: http://www.tdrake.net/palomar/100-schedule.html Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paula Petrik Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 9:50 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG]

RE: [WSG] Standards and Aesthetics

Hi John Sites look similar because the early standards-based web developers were so influential. CSS-based design is different beast than table hacking and people feel more comfortable riffing off a successful site than learning a new technique with a design out of their head. As standards-based

[WSG] XSL and CDATA

Hi Everyone I just posted something about XSL and CDATA. I'm not announcing it as if I'm standing on the mountain preaching to the masses. I'm hoping that if I'm wrong in my logic, someone could clear it up in the comments. http://www.tdrake.net/xsl-cdata-and-me/ I guess I could have just poste

RE: [WSG] Mambo & Accessibility

www.GAWDS.org (Guild of Accessible Web Developers) has a fully accessible CMS platform. I would recommend moving away from Mambo if you are interested in standards. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Ferguson Sent: Thursday, Decemb

RE: [WSG] firefox 1.5 is official

Try this http://overstimulate.com/projects/canvas/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lachlan Hunt Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 4:36 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] firefox 1.5 is official Geoff Pack wrote: > Can som

[WSG] firefox 1.5 is official

Firefox has just officially released 1.5 http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/releases/1.5.html It's time to upgrade. If you haven't been using the beta, you'll be pleasantly surprised. Ted ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/

[WSG] info on a css hack

ciated. Thanks Ted Drake www.tdrake.net ** 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] My Turn for a Site Critique

I have to say, I felt cheated by your navigation. You've got some big, chunky boxes just ripe for a nice rollover effect and all I got was an underline?!? Am I getting jaded? Spoiled? Is this not the final version? You've done a nice job with the wordpress pages and blog home page. Ted -O

RE: [WSG] University textbook or other resources?

Lloyd, are you an instructor? If so, check with the book publishers for instructor test books. I was able to get one of Molly H's books to see if it was appropriate for a class and they are happy to send you others. Zeldman's book isn't accessibility oriented but is a great foundation for student

RE: [WSG] OT: Need recomendations for a JavaScript/DOM book

I would recommend starting with Domscripting by Jeremy Keith. Then, follow with DHTML Utopia, I don't remember the author of DHTML Utopia. Jeremy has the ability to make scripting understandable to a visual designer. DHTML Utopia goes more in-depth but can be hard to read for a beginner. I had t

RE: [WSG] safari, png, and me

Test machine was 1.3.1, what is the solution? I didn't find anything on PNG Gamma correction. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jan Brasna Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 10:23 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] safari

[WSG] safari, png, and me

s? Should it be websnap adaptive? Exact? Thanks Ted Drake Front-end Engineer Yahoo! ** 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] horizontal scroll on menu

There is the overflow-y: scroll; property to force a scroll bar on the vertical axis. You will still need to manage the width of your list to work with the new scrollbar. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of kvnmcwebn Sent: Tuesday, Novemb

RE: [WSG] position fixed on the thead

This solution is really cool. The programmer is simply putting the thead and tfoot outside a scrolling div with absolute positioning. The tbody is all that is left in the div and it scrolls. http://web.tampabay.rr.com/bmerkey/examples/nonscroll-table-header2.html Thanks Scott for finding it. T

RE: [WSG] position fixed on the thead

x27;t care.  We are only using it in a controlled environment.   Regards, Gary   On 11/8/05, Terrence Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ted Drake said: > I'd like to keep the thead fixed and let the remainder of the > rows scroll underneath it. I looked ar

[WSG] position fixed on the thead

THEAD and TFOOT can't be fixed with 'position: fixed' in CSS on the w3.org site. http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/impl-pr2/evaluations/eval_mac_ie5.xml I looked at the table gallery and didn't find any examples. http://icant.co.uk/csstablegallery/ A

[WSG] to border or not to border, that is the question

Hi All I've always been one to remove border attributes from data table markup. However, today I disabled styles on a fairly complicated table and realized it made very little sense without any demarcation between the cells. It would be simple enough to do http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See ht

RE: [WSG] Is there a standard for this?

Standard or not, the animation will not begin. If you are using CSS rollovers, the image is not getting reloaded, simply moving from one part of the image to another. It is standard practice to not have animated objects loop through the animation indefinitely. So the answer is: it will be static

[WSG] Adding a header to a tbody

Hi All   I’ve got a new question. I’m building a large table and would like to add some tbody elements within a cell that discusses product features. I thought it would be nice to break it down between accessories, batteries, weight, good karma, etc. It would be even better if I could

RE: [WSG] mixing and matching vertical and horizontal dropdowns, deep breath, has anyone done it before?

reath, has anyone done it before? Ted Drake wrote: > Hi All > > I'm plugging away at a dropdown menu that is based on the hybrid > dropdowns ala alistapart: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/hybrid > > The second level is horizontal. But, here's the kicker, we'

[WSG] mixing and matching vertical and horizontal dropdowns, deep breath, has anyone done it before?

Hi All I'm plugging away at a dropdown menu that is based on the hybrid dropdowns ala alistapart: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/hybrid The second level is horizontal. But, here's the kicker, we'd like to make the third level a vertical dropdown. As they say on MTV: pimp my dropdowns. For t

RE: [WSG] Radio New Zealand site relaunch

e photo of Kate Mead on the concert fm today page is not the most flattering. At least on my screen she is very pale and cyan, perhaps a bit of New Zealand sun would help. Nice job. Ted Drake www.tdrake.net -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behal

[WSG] Adding some international flavor with attribute selectors

Hi All I just posted a piece that I've been working on about attribute selectors. Please feel free to let me know if I need to make any corrections or additions. I hope it is a useful tutorial. http://www.tdrake.net/attribute-selectors-to-provide-language-information/ Ted Drake www.tdrak

RE: [WSG] liquid faux columns

PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] liquid faux columns Ted Drake wrote: > Sounds simple enough? However, I'd like the columns to be flexible. > So, my first thought was to create two background images, one for the > right and one for the left and apply them to the d

[WSG] liquid faux columns

Hi All I'm working on a project in its initial stages and thought about using a simple background image to create flexible columns. Here's a sketch: | | | | | | | | So

RE: [WSG] Quoting Code Snippets

I have found the easiest approach is to cut and paste the code into the design view of Dreamweaver. This will translate all of the <,> and other symbols into the & style codes and your web page will display them correctly. Try wrapping the snippet in tags. The most effective approach that I have

RE: [WSG] cutting and pasting content

Hi Thanks for the feedback. I didn't post the url because it is still on a test server. We are not using any absolute positioning and the content is not floated either. The maincontent div is floated left, if that means anything. The tags have no style's associated with them. It's a good thing

[WSG] cutting and pasting content

ontent to be selected in IE and not having it try to select the entire page? Thanks Ted Drake CSA Travel Protection www.travelprotection.net ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidel

RE: [WSG] Orange and Blue

I wish this weren't so off-topic, web standards wise. There have been some interesting posts that go beyond just coding but making out sites more effective. For more information on the effects of blue, look at the works of Yves Klein, an artist from Paris in the 1950's? Some will disregard hi

RE: [WSG] Orange and Blue

orange and blue are complementary colors and will grab your attention. It's why the colors are often used in sports. If you want to be really annoying, go with a  purple background with yellow text.   complementary colors are good in small doses, if you have a blue bar and want the purchase

[WSG] 4 years ago...

Anil Dash celebrates the 4 year anniversary of Jeffrey Zeldman's To Hell with Bad Browsers post on Alistapart.com   I'm sure the majority of us on this list share the appreciation for this and many other contributions from Zeldman.   http://www.dashes.com/anil/2005/02/17/and_jeffrey_sai   Te

[WSG] " or " - when is it strictly enforced?

Is this an xhtml strict requirement? I have been using plain quotes thinking the " code was for the nice curly quote effect. Should I begin transforming my sites? It's not an easy search and replace. Ted David R wrote: But officially when " isn't being used to delimit attribute values it

RE: [WSG] active and current id's in lists

AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] active and current id's in lists On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 08:59:59 -0800, Ted Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The active id is giving you the opportunity to make that list item stand > out from the others. > The current id is giving y

RE: [WSG] active and current id's in lists

The active id is giving you the opportunity to make that list item stand out from the others. The current id is giving you the opportunity to make the link stand out from the others. Here's an example. The current list item is a different color than the other list item buttons. The active link

[WSG] off-color language on the list

Hi All I don't want to sound like the prudish aunt that smacks your knuckles when you say four letter words, but I thought I'd pass on just a wee warning and suggestion. These posts are often picked up by search engines and archived. It is very possible that one of your bosses or clients could do

RE: [WSG] Pages reloading

I'm looking at the pages with a T-1 line and they are still flickering. I think you have an issue with it re-building the structure of the page. Are you doing something unusual with the watermark double text? Are you using a table to get the zebra effect? Are you using sifr flash replacement s

[WSG] help with mystery IE padding

Hi All I've been pounding my head against the desk for a while trying to figure out why I'm getting a space between my h1 tag and the topnav. It looks fine in firefox, naturally, but in IE, there is about a 10px margin between the h1 and ul#topnav. This is visible by the jog in the blue bar as it

RE: [WSG] double space after period

I must have been in a poetic mood and thought about the lines dropping down, I didn't think about the extra space. I need some coffee. Thanks for pointing it out Patrick. -Original Message- > > I don't even know what this would work like, just throwing it out. It > would be easier to co

RE: [WSG] double space after period

How about this One flew over the cuckoos nest should be on the top of everyone's list of kid's books. In fact, it is even more important than Joe Joe the Big ol' cornflake. style sheet br {display:inline; width:2em;} I don't even know what this would work like, just throwing it out. It would b

RE: [WSG] cover me -- I'm gonna be naughty!

r me -- I'm gonna be naughty! Ted Drake wrote: > I know it is a bad thing to spam your keywords. But if we need to do it to be > competitive, Sorry if I sound flippant, but if the business' competitiveness can only be maintained by spamming, then I'd say there's a fundamen

[WSG] cover me -- I'm gonna be naughty!

The recent discussion of css and seo had me wondering. I have convinced the big wigs that although search engine rankings are very important, and they are with our very competitive keyword, we need to maintain accessibility. I have kept our alt tags pure, our h1 tags are using an image replacem

[WSG] cover me, I have a flash question

throwing up ... a large image into the page.  It was featured on the ESPN site.   I could only find a reference to the php version on alistapart. Does anyone know where I could find this? Has anyone had any experience using it?  Any feedback or suggestions?   Thanks   Ted Drake Web Content

RE: [WSG] Image replacement and printing

Rimantas is only giving half the answer. I came across this problem as well, and although my solution isn't the most elegant, it works. We placed a div in the header with a class="print". The div contains a header image that looks good on the printed page. The style sheet has .print {display:none

RE: [WSG] Container primer?

Try the Eric Meyers on CSS book, part one or two. It will walk you through the evolution of tables to standards in easy steps. -Original Message-From: Robin Lauryssen-Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 10:41 AMTo: wsg@webstandardsgroup.orgSubject:

[WSG] OT? working with yahoo stores

standards-based would be beneficial. Thanks Ted Drake www.tdrake.net  

[WSG] no more width and height?

tml strict? xhtml 1.0 transitional? Is it more backwards compatible to keep it in? Should I just take a deep breath and say goodbye to the attributes? Ted Drake Web Content Editor CSA Travel Protection http://www.csatravelprotection.com -Original Message- From: Kevin Francis [mai

[WSG] stretch them columns

Hi All I know this has been covered, but I can't remember where to look. I just put together a quick, and I do mean quick, sample site, http://www.tdrake.net/greens to test a design concept. I want the two content bars to stick to the outside edges and the empty space between to expand and con

RE: [WSG] Correct styling of text material submitted as a table

Patrick has some great ideas, I like the use of list items in the cells to simplify the presentation. I started to put together a similar table and then thought it may not be the best approach. I'm all for tables in the right instance. But this content you are working on could be done with divs

RE: [WSG] Correct styling of text material submitted as a table

wait, now I'm confused. table headers, thead/tbody, summary tags are structural? I thought they were meant to define the data and were good. Ted -Original Message- From: Patrick H. Lauke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 12:13 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subje

RE: [WSG] Correct styling of text material submitted as a table

Hi Marilyn As the one that started the last table thread, I would recommend providing us with an example. Your request, like mine, can be interpreted in many ways. Ted   -Original Message-From: Marilyn Langfeld [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 11:47 A

RE: [WSG] Popups

Hi David I struggled with this as well. I tried the nicetitles javascript which allows you to put the information in the title tag and firefox will show the entire text. It also gives you the ability to style the "tooltip" window that pops up. We decided against it for our particular use. We hav

[WSG] the propsed table/form - - was: Can I use a table in a form?

Thank you everyone for your comments. Sometimes a question generates more questions than answers, but that is what we are here for. Each person's suggestions was interesting. I've taken the advice to heart and I understand the importance of semantic and valid coding. I put together a sample t

RE: [WSG] Can I use a table in a form?

l their be any feedback to the screen reader that the input is meant to handle the age of a traveler? -Original Message- From: Andy Budd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 10:02 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Can I use a table in a form? On 12

RE: [WSG] Can I use a table in a form?

I have tried hiding labels in the past. But I came across very inconsistent behavior. Some labels would show, some wouldn't. I was using display:none. I'm sure there was something else going on in my code, but it seemed like the inconsistency in browsers treating forms made the label hiding an i

RE: [WSG] Can I use a table in a form?

rg Subject: Re: [WSG] Can I use a table in a form? Ted Drake wrote: > How can I use a table and still validate for accessibility? Will it be a > problem with xhtml? Ted, try here: http://www.accessify.com/tools-and-wizards/accessible-form-bu

[WSG] Can I use a table in a form?

put to get AAA. With a table, I can assign a label to the column headers, but will that translate as a label for each input below it? Is this even an issue for XHTML? Ted Drake http://tdrake.net ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgr

Re: [WSG] How to create a mark-up guide?

This is great Patrick. I'm going to save it as a layout.css and use it for all sorts of stuff. You are the bomb! Ted -Original Message- From: Patrick H. Lauke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 11:15 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [Norton AntiSpam] Re

[WSG] How to create a mark-up guide?

And all that Malarkey http://www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk/archives/css_markup_guides.html has a recent post about how he creates sites with black and white drawings and adds the div id's etc after the client has approved... This made me think that I should go back to our re-designed web site and cr

RE: [WSG] Slightly more OT... Interview with IE Dev team

I'm not one to continue off topic discussions ok, stop the cat calls. I just went to the main page for Internet explorer to look for some information and while the images were loading, I noticed the alt attribute of one image was "Need alt text" Look a the image that represents the guy's low

RE: [WSG] Slightly OT... Interview with IE Dev team

I'd like to know what their reaction is to the IE7 project and whether or not they would consider adding the functionality in one of their service pack upgrades. Ted -Original Message- From: David R [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 9:44 AM To: wsg@webstandardsg

[WSG] Still need help with the list style

Hi All Thanks for the help so far, but I'm still having problems. http://v4.csatravelprotection.com/csa/linkview.do I should explain the situation a little better, there are several unordered lists on the page, a top right nav, a top main nav, and in the body of the page, there is a navigatio

RE: [WSG] Need help with the list style

I didn't see it on another computer, but it keeps showing up on my screen. I've hit shift-refresh. Perhaps it is just a bug on my box. Is there a better way to refresh the css cache on IE? Thanks Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Pringle,

[WSG] Need help with the list style

I've got this navigation list that looks fine in ff and opera but it suffers from a mystery inheritance problem in IE I'm using: list-style:none !important; and yet it continues to show a bullet in the boxes. http://v4.csatravelprotection.com/csa/linkview.do Does anyone have a suggestion? thank

RE: [WSG] A new year challenge - was [ Web Design in 2005]

Comparing flash to css/standards-design isn't really fair. Each has its advantages when done well. If you consider this firm's audience, the flash site is fine. It's artistic, features the product and services well, and tries to wow the future client with animation and rollovers. It's audience

[WSG] sort of site check, content more than css

I have joined the blog world with tdrake.net. http://tdrake.net While the design is fresh off the presses and I would appreciate any comments, I'd like some feedback on the content. I will be speaking at the upcoming Museums on the Web 2005 Conference http://www.archimuse.com about how and wh

[WSG] putting code into a web page

A Travel Protection Or something like that. Now, my question is, what is the best way to represent code. Should I convert all my < signs to the < code? Should I wrap it in a tag? I've seen people use text fields, but that doesn't seem very semantic. What is the best? What does

[WSG] why is IE showing bullets?

Ok, I've got some inheritance problems. I keep waiting for my rich uncle to die but he keeps on kicking oops, wrong discussion group In firefox, the list looks fine. duh. In IE, the list is showing the bullets that go with the standard ul in the maincontent div. Here's the set-up: http:/

[WSG] opera float question

age I'm as dull as a plastic butter knife? Ted Drake Web Content Editor CSA Travel Protection http://www.csatravelprotection.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guideline

[WSG] color schemer

Hi all we are going out of the bounds of web standards with the color schemer references. So, I'll throw my two cents in and tip the see saw way off balance.   Using colorschemer, color palette mambo jambo,  color my site beautiful, or any other color scheme generator is like using a wy

[WSG] images and the dl

of those styles I threw together and it worked the first time and never went back and optimized. It probably would be fine without it. Ted -Original Message- From: Mordechai Peller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 2:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG]

RE: [WSG] Need better markup

The definition list will give you more flexibility in associating the information. You have an architectural product, lets say a column. The data term is "Architectural Column", the image is the data definition. When you decide to add prices or dimensions, just add another dd and provide addit

RE: [WSG] Need better markup

by the way, I'd gladly trade some more definition list advice for one of your cool winged liberty angel statues. Or maybe a cupola... -Original Message- From: Collin Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 12:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WSG] Need better m

RE: [WSG] Need better markup

%; border:1px dotted #333;} #salescontacts dt {position:relative; margin: 0; font-weight:bold;} #salescontacts dd img {float:left; margin:0 2px 0 0;} #salescontacts dd {font-weight: normal; display:block;} Ted Drake Web Content Editor CSA Travel Protection http://www.csatravelprotection.com

RE: [WSG] accessible image form buttons

this is the style we use for our submit button input.submit { border: 3px double #999; border-top-color: #ccc; border-left-color: #ccc; padding: 0.15em; background: #feb333 url(../images/o.gif) repeat-x 0 0; color: #333; font-weight: bold;

RE: [WSG] my form field looks like the girl that chewed gum on willy Wonkas

to #search in your html and removing the id from the input field. Terrence Wood. On 2004-12-17 9:02 AM, Ted Drake wrote: > Can a form action cause a form field to grow? Here's a page that has a > similar form, look at the way it's input fields behave properly. > ht

[WSG] my form field looks like the girl that chewed gum on willy Wonkas

form action at freefind.com. Can a form action cause a form field to grow? Here's a page that has a similar form, look at the way it's input fields behave properly. http://tcdpc/csa/contact-travel-insurance.do Thanks for any feedback on this question Ted Drake Web Content Editor

RE: [WSG] A land of wasted web opportunity

This may be off topic, but I've found the Aussies and Kiwis to be very forward thinking in the internet world. The Australian Museums Online database was a great project. The French have also done some great work, the minitel and I really like a Paris site that allows you to look at a photograp

[WSG] new standards based site

Hi This may have been around for a while but I just noticed this site is standards based. http://www.bet.com/ With all of the banner ads and stuff it's good to see that they've been able to integrate it with standards. It's not the greatest example but it's always nice to see a big site ditch t

RE: [WSG] Experimentations in XSLT

What is the cms that you are trying? Is it mosxml? I've been looking into that one and would be interested in your opinion. I haven't gotten it to work but I think the product looks promising. Jonathan T. Sage wrote: >Since this list is standards based, and I've yet to see any real >writeup a

RE: [WSG] Site Critique - do your worst...

Hi Sam I couldn't tell if the disjointed, oddly overlapping elements were intentional or not. It looks like you have a conflict in your width or margins which make the banner on the right drop below the content on the left. The scattered links on the right look like something is supposed to hap

RE: [WSG] a (NOT SO) quick target question

that understand it and to be ready for the next step to strict. Now, back to the discussion at large. Ted Drake CSA Travel Protection http://www.csatravelprotection.com -Original Message- From: Mordechai Peller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 3:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROT

RE: [WSG] a quick target question

I'm a bit confused by the (this.href) code. Should I replace that with the page in the href="" section or is it looking back at the href and use that url? I understand the repetition for keypress/onclick are for those without a mouse and those with a mouse. n'est-ce pas? Ted -Original Mes

[WSG] a quick target question

Could someone give me the appropriate replacement for target="_blank". I can't remember the correct javascript statement that opens it in a new window. I'm sure others could use it as well. Thank you Ted Drake Web Content Editor CSA Travel Protection http://www.csa

[WSG] designing for the cell phone and PDA

Is there anyone out there that has had some success building a style sheet to make their web site look good on a pocket pc or cell phone? I'd like to add this feature to our site but I haven't had much luck. Are there any successes or failures out there? Thanks Ted Drake Web Cont

RE: [WSG] new msn search engine

You got me! I swear I looked at it this morning with the w3 validator and it only had a few errors.  I must have been validating the wrong tab.  It's really strange, when you look at the validation results and compare it to the source code it seems to be looking at two different pages.  th

[WSG] new msn search engine

 I noticed today the MSN search page has launched their new beta version. It is standards based! It's almost xhtml1.0 strict valid! Is this a sign of good things from Microsoft?  http://search.msn.com I'm looking at the results page, I didn't check the splash page. Ted  

RE: [WSG] Site Check Please

I don't like the disconnect between the word pairs flowers plants and wedding events. If they share the same drop down, they should look like they share the same button. In ff1.0 the topnav sits about 10 pixels too far left, outside the main section. Are there hover effects on the various

[WSG] section tag

What is the section tag? How would it be used? Ted You said: In summary, It seems to me that is unnecessary and a poor substitute for XHTML 2.0's tag. In the meantime I'd probably use and nest it deeply. Anyway, that's my thought process. .Matthew Cruickshank http://holloway.co.nz/

[WSG] contacting list members

I hope this isn't too off topic. I looked at the main web site to see if there was a way to contact members. I was interested in getting some information from people in different countries about the standards environment where they live. I found that there were four people on the list from Fran

RE: [WSG] Sometimes you just cant help people ...

In one of the accessibility forums that I attended, it was suggested we use skip to main content instead of content. Some screen readers will read content with the inflection that it will bring you happiness and a sense of content rather than give you content.   I do like your idea of bein

RE: [WSG] Fieldsets can be used outside the box - Correct use of

page next week. Thanks Ted -Original Message- From: Derek Featherstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 8:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WSG] Fieldsets can be used outside the box - Correct use of On Tuesday, November 23, 2004 11:22 AM, Ted Drake w

[WSG] Fieldsets can be used outside the box - Correct use of

I think a fieldset could be used outside a form if you are using it to group similar links. We can fixate on the name or look at the purpose. It says, the fields inside it are related. If the standards say it can be outside a form than we can use it to group similar objects. I have used it to

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