Re: [WSG] Safari Beta 4

2009-02-27 Thread Todd Budnikas
year and do pass the web standards Acid 3 test. Safari 4 was unveiled this month. Both browsers are still in the dev stage, so I reckon Mr. Andrew Lyle was misinformed. http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/presto-2-2-and-opera-10-a-first-look/ Todd Budnikas wrote: according to Mr. Andrew Lyle

Re: [WSG] Safari Beta 4

2009-02-25 Thread Todd Budnikas
according to Mr. Andrew Lyle: Safari 4 is the first web browser to pass the web standards Acid 3 test which demonstrates how well a browser adheres to CSS, javascript, XML and SVG. So, i'd say it's handling them pretty well :) http://acid3.acidtests.org/ On Feb 25, 2009, at 10:39 PM,

[WSG] Reset Forms

2009-02-23 Thread Todd Budnikas
A question came up today inquiring about a design my company has recently completed. There is currently in the design an option to reset the form on one of the pages. Does anyone have any opinions on the usefulness of that feature, or statistics on whether or not people use it? Luke

Re: [WSG] Accessibility testing

2009-02-11 Thread Todd Budnikas
The Firefox Web Developer Toolbar (by Chris Pederick: http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/) has an option under Tools to validate Section 508. In the end, it ultimately just point to this site: http://www.cynthiasays.com/fulloptions.asp There is an optional select menu to change from

Re: [WSG] Layering Images

2009-02-11 Thread Todd Budnikas
Nathan, sounds like you should just apply position:absolute to to both the image and your a and apply position:relative to the li (parent) for the img and a to work off of. It would be helpful though to see the CSS in addition to the markup. I apologise if this has been dealt with before, but

Re: [WSG] Layering Images

2009-02-11 Thread Todd Budnikas
:15 PM, Todd Budnikas to...@missiondata.com wrote: Nathan, sounds like you should just apply position:absolute to to both the image and your a and apply position:relative to the li (parent) for the img and a to work off of. It would be helpful though to see the CSS in addition to the markup

Re: [WSG] CSS IE6/7 - what a surprise

2009-01-23 Thread Todd Budnikas
Damian probably gave you your answer, but I'll also say that if you review the original documentation from http://www.positioniseverything.net/easyclearing.html for the code you're using, you'll see that they recommend conditional comments to trigger hasLayout. In your case, in the head

Re: [WSG] CSS IE6/7 - what a surprise

2009-01-23 Thread Todd Budnikas
a CSS hack, for ease of display): #NameofContainingDiv { *zoom: 1; /* all your other styles for the element */ } #NameofContainingDiv:after { clear: both; content: '.'; display: block; height: 0; visibility: hidden; } David Todd Budnikas wrote: Damian probably gave you your

Re: [WSG] Out of Office AutoReply: WSG Digest

2008-12-22 Thread Todd Budnikas
anybody know when Geoff is coming back?? On Dec 22, 2008, at 9:01 AM, Geoff Pack wrote: I am on vacation until 5 January 2009. If it's urgent, you can contact me on: m. 0429 348 132 e. ge...@dhillon-pack.net Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. The information

[WSG] Five Second Usability Test

2008-12-22 Thread Todd Budnikas
holidays everyone. Enjoy! --- Todd Budnikas Creative Director http://www.missiondata.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help

Re: [WSG] Full Width Striped Background with Centered Content

2008-12-02 Thread Todd Budnikas
if you apply a min-width to your body in css it will also solve this, including IE6 even though it doesn't understand it. Adding this to your body solved it for me in your example: min-width:900px; On Dec 2, 2008, at 4:01 PM, Chris Cressman wrote: Someone solved this for me. It was as

Re: [WSG] your best practise for CSS sprites for elements that have no height declared

2008-11-25 Thread Todd Budnikas
Brett, i'm not sure if the previous recommendation of PNG was for the 8-bit pngs with transparency, but that's what I'd argue. I often check between GIF and 8-bit PNG when i export, to see which looks the best at the smallest size, and PNG often wins. On Nov 25, 2008, at 8:15 AM, Brett

Re: [WSG] your best practise for CSS sprites for elements that have no height declared

2008-11-25 Thread Todd Budnikas
wouldn't best practise for CSS sprites include image quality? On Nov 25, 2008, at 11:23 AM, Brett Patterson wrote: First of all, No I am not! Second I have tried out differences. Notice the difference in file sizes. Thirdly, I did not say that png did not support 8-bit, nowhere does it say

Re: [WSG] First Attempt

2008-11-24 Thread Todd Budnikas
As someone who hasn't opened dreamweaver in years and codes css and xhtml by hand, but learned to build websites in Dreamweaver, I would say Rachel's approach might be difficult for some. This being your first website Kate, I would say to use some of the better tools Dreamweaver offers and

Re: [WSG] Strange character encoding issue

2008-11-19 Thread Todd Budnikas
on Apache servers, you can add this to your httpd.conf: AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 On Nov 19, 2008, at 11:23 AM, David Dorward wrote: James Jeffery wrote: Never had a problem with character encodings on web pages, but since I reinstalled the OS on my iMac I have had an issue. Your server

Re: [WSG] Reset form fields to default values when user clicks the refresh/reload button in there Browser, not on the page.

2008-11-13 Thread Todd Budnikas
Do you just mean a form reset input button? input type=reset value=Reset!? You lost me on the but instead using the browser's button.. what button? On Nov 13, 2008, at 11:00 AM, Brett Patterson wrote: How do I get a form field to reset itself back to its default value if the user has

Re: [WSG] Reset form fields to default values when user clicks the refresh/reload button in there Browser, not on the page.

2008-11-13 Thread Todd Budnikas
in other browsers. NOT with an input button to reset. Thanks. On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Todd Budnikas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you just mean a form reset input button? input type=reset value=Reset!? You lost me on the but instead using the browser's button.. what button? How do I

Re: [WSG] Reset form fields to default values when user clicks the refresh/reload button in there Browser, not on the page.

2008-11-13 Thread Todd Budnikas
, and then decides to reset the page for whatever reason using the browser's default refresh or reload button, the user-selected 2, will change back to default# (or 0). The reason is because for some reason, unknown to me, it is a major part of my grade. On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Todd Budnikas

Re: [WSG] Reset form fields to default values when user clicks the refresh/reload button in there Browser, not on the page.

2008-11-13 Thread Todd Budnikas
:32 PM, Brett Patterson wrote: Sorry, but no. If you look in FF3 it keeps the text entered in the form field when page is refreshed the same. It does not remove it. There are no code examples, and I have exhausted the library and internet resources. On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Todd

[WSG] URL length best practices

2008-11-04 Thread Todd Budnikas
Wondering if people have insights into the length of a url for an article, and whether or not it is recommended to complete the name of an article in the url. For instance: http://egovau.blogspot.com/2008/10/do-collaborative-online-groups-need-to.html The name of this article is Do

Re: [WSG] URL length best practices [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2008-11-04 Thread Todd Budnikas
i completely agree with Justin, and all points from just about everyone who responded, so thanks. A follow-up question is then do you paraphrase an article title into a url, or just chop it? /music/a-fresh-and-powerful-new-cd-from-the-most-influential/ or /music/influential-musician-new-cd/

Re: [WSG] Standards and Adobe Contribute

2008-11-02 Thread Todd Budnikas
with respect to both sides here, I have had numerous clients come to me requesting Contribute as a solution. I would say the reason, in every case i believe, is the cost. It's a 1 time fee of $99. I imagine, that if you can offer something comparable or cheaper to them, they would appreciate the

Re: [WSG] Question about presenting numeric percentages and accessibility.

2008-10-15 Thread Todd Budnikas
i would use the unicode entity for fractions: http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/mathchart.html#fractions so, 2/3 would be pcolour #8532; of natural.../p Hi all, Just a quick question. I'm writing up a website for a simple brochure site, and the copy I'm provided

Re: [WSG] [IE7 Glitch] footer is expanding, and acting wonky with scrolling.

2008-10-09 Thread Todd Budnikas
recently came across something similar, and was able to solve with a combination of display:inline-block; on the p and overflow:hidden; on the containing div. Might want to give that a shot. On Oct 9, 2008, at 3:24 PM, Andrew Brown wrote: Margin is already set to zero. Removing the padding

Re: [WSG] Is it a good practice to have 'Back to Top' link?

2008-09-29 Thread Todd Budnikas
tee wrote: Wow, how glad I mentioned this. I had no idea there is short-cut for email. If I, who spends 10 hours a day working on computer don't know, chances are, most folks don't know either. So there is really a good reason to have 'back to top' implemented. On Sep 29, 2008, at 5:23

Re: [WSG] Uppercase Tag Names

2008-09-26 Thread Todd Budnikas
it's irrelevant according to HTML 4 how you write the tags, so on one front, your instructor is ok to say you should code that way (as it does conform) but you have every right to say that he's *incorrect* when saying you need to so that you can conform to HTML 4.01. Tough spot to voice

Re: [WSG] semantics of a simple form

2008-09-25 Thread Todd Budnikas
On Sep 25, 2008, at 4:28 PM, kevin mcmonagle wrote: im not an expert on this but should there be a fieldset or legend around this? not even sure if it qualifies as a form, although it has a submit button. h4Check-in Date:/h4 select name=... option value=101/option . /select

Re: [WSG] Background-Image not displaying in IE5 IE6

2008-09-25 Thread Todd Budnikas
Kristine Cummins wrote: I have a div container that has a background image (gradation) which is displaying fine in IE7 Mozilla, but it's not displaying in IE5 IE6. http://www.cpwrehab.com/test/index.html On Sep 25, 2008, at 10:08 PM, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Add... * html #container,

Re: [WSG] Equidistant floats in a container

2008-09-08 Thread Todd Budnikas
I need to float elements in a container so that they have the same margin between them. I've seen somewhere a technique how this can be done without additional classes, but can only remember part of it. This works in Firefox and Chrome, but not in both IEs: div ... ul

Re: [WSG] DocType Given is... Document Looks Like...

2008-09-04 Thread Todd Budnikas
Cole, can you post a url so people can see the validator results and review the code? Everything looks on the up-and-up from what you've posted. I've never used the FF HTML Validator extension (is it the one based on HTML Tidy?), so i can't speak for that. The Web Developer extension just

Re: [WSG] DocType Given is... Document Looks Like...

2008-09-04 Thread Todd Budnikas
mark and “0 errors / 0 warnings” at the bottom-right-hand corner of FF. As mentioned, no where near an emergency or a problem, but I am just curious. Cole From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Todd Budnikas Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 7:08 PM To: wsg

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

2008-09-03 Thread Todd Budnikas
On Sep 3, 2008, at 6:19 AM, David Storey wrote: On 3 Sep 2008, at 11:42, tee wrote: On Sep 3, 2008, at 2:36 AM, David Storey wrote: On 3 Sep 2008, at 11:28, Regnard Raquedan wrote: Well, if it's akin to Safari, then it's as good as testing it there, right? :) Or is it...? No, it