Re: [WSG] cross-browser or vendor-specific CSS

2012-06-30 Thread Tom Livingston
od following and community around > them and there are loads of extensions (mixins, functions etc.) in Github and > the like. > > http://compass-style.org > http://sass-lang.com > > On 30 June 2012 13:55, Tom Livingston wrote: > Learn something new everyday. Never heard o

Re: [WSG] cross-browser or vendor-specific CSS

2012-06-30 Thread Tom Livingston
Learn something new everyday. Never heard of this before! Sent from iOS 5 On Jun 30, 2012, at 12:03 AM, David Hucklesby wrote: > On 6/29/12 11:08 AM, coder wrote: >> >> - Original Message - From: "David Hucklesby" >> >>> Start with a simple design for mobile and old browsers. Add adva

Re: [WSG] cross-browser or vendor-specific CSS

2012-06-29 Thread Tom Livingston
fussing and extra markup for "old" browsers. HTH -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] What is the best element?

2012-06-01 Thread Tom Livingston
Thanks all On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 4:40 PM, wrote: > ** > > Tom - > > Your markup should work. For a detailed description, look at > http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/lists.html#h-10.3 > > > > Debbie > > On 2012-06-01 21:28, Tom Livingston wrote: > >

Re: [WSG] What is the best element?

2012-06-01 Thread Tom Livingston
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Patrick H. Lauke wrote: > On 01/06/2012 21:00, Tom Livingston wrote: >> >> a definition > > >> What's most semantic and appropriate? > > > a definition list? > > P > -- > Patrick H. Lauke I was going this

[WSG] What is the best element?

2012-06-01 Thread Tom Livingston
be: Shipping facility ... ... ... or a instead of s? What's most semantic and appropriate? TIA! -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com ***

Re: [WSG] Media queries and roles

2012-05-25 Thread Tom Livingston
e desktop version's navigation instead of > making duplication. > > tee > > > On May 24, 2012, at 1:12 PM, Tom Livingston wrote: > >> List, >> Thanks tee. My thoughts as well, but wasn't sure. Also, I thought of absolute pos., but I do not think the

[WSG] Media queries and roles

2012-05-24 Thread Tom Livingston
'navigation', should the mobile nav at the bottom have that same role? Will that mess up screen readers et al? TIA -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 |

Re: [WSG] Time element question

2012-05-22 Thread Tom Livingston
ine-readable format. If, > however, you don't give the @datetime value then the content of the element > itself must be a valid date. So this is OK: > > now > > and this is OK > > 2012-05-22 > > HTH > > Phil. Thanks for the info! -- Tom Livingston | Senior

[WSG] Time element question

2012-05-22 Thread Tom Livingston
't sure if *any* text was ok to be inside the time tags. I found a lot of info on the datetime attribute, but not if the above type of thing is allowed or not. Thanks -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.

Re: [WSG] box-shadow is causing black borders in IE9

2012-04-20 Thread Tom Livingston
I use VMWare and have not run into it... Yet Sent from iOS 5 On Apr 20, 2012, at 11:17 PM, Al Sparber wrote: > On 4/20/2012 10:18 PM, tee wrote: > >> And a google search showed that I am not the only one having this bizzarre >> behavior in IE9. >> >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/100395

Re: [WSG] Responsive Design Cost

2012-04-03 Thread Tom Livingston
.2220 > F: 646.613.0649 > www.tmp.com > Twitter: @Spellacy > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/michael.spellacy > Please consider the environment before printing this email. > That's about on par with us. Half again - at least - as much for different breakpoints. Like you say, there are us

Re: [WSG] Re: WSG Digest

2012-04-01 Thread Tom Livingston
You're kidding, right? You're not really arguing about More CSS are you? To quote a popular TV personality: "Bazzinga!" Check the date today, people... Sent from iOS 5 On Apr 1, 2012, at 1:49 PM, "Chris F.A. Johnson" wrote: > On Sun, 1 Apr 2012, Chad Furman wrote: > >> Eww. Why is "twenty-

Re: [WSG] Semantic or no?

2012-03-02 Thread Tom Livingston
Thank you Patrick. On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Patrick H. Lauke wrote: > Run it through a validator and find out... > > (spoilers: yes) > > > On 02/03/2012 16:39, Tom Livingston wrote: >> >> Hello Listers, >> >> Quick question (maybe). >&g

[WSG] Semantic or no?

2012-03-02 Thread Tom Livingston
s into an LI really semantically ok/allowed? TIA -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/ma

Re: tabs - was[WSG] Expected behaviour of links to external websites

2011-12-30 Thread Tom Livingston
On Dec 30, 2011, at 3:39 PM, "Patrick H. Lauke" wrote: > On 30/12/2011 17:32, coder wrote: >> You just aren't getting this, are you Rob. We're talking about what you >> do if you don't know there are options. > > Again, let me turn this discussion around once more. Explain to us WHY you > fe

Re: [WSG] media queries can't understand body tag

2011-09-29 Thread Tom Livingston
I would just add orientation to your queries and show/hide the right one with the orientation change. Sent from my iPhone On Sep 29, 2011, at 5:28 PM, tee wrote: > If you have SDKs, you can open Dashcode, create a page for Mobile Safari and > check the resource log. There is also Browser sim

Re: [WSG] media queries can't understand body tag

2011-09-29 Thread Tom Livingston
Unsubscribe link is in the footer. Sent from my iPhone On Sep 29, 2011, at 2:46 AM, Teddy Knoy wrote: > My name is Ted Knoy and I have been receiving your company's e-mail for some > time. I assume that this is confidential company information so I don't > understand why I have been receivin

Re: [WSG] media queries can't understand body tag

2011-09-27 Thread Tom Livingston
David, with nothing but mobile Safari, if I hit a page with multiple queries or an element specced as display:none but has a bg image, how to you *verify* that an unwanted image loads anyway or not? There's no inspector that I'm aware of like desktop version. Sent from my iPhone On Sep 27, 20

Re: [WSG] media queries can't understand body tag

2011-09-27 Thread Tom Livingston
ebook by Ethan > Marcotte, that by targeting the rules in the media queries it prevent browers > from loading unnecessary rules. But I can't find this important peice of info > from the book with a quick search just now. > > > tee > > > On Sep 27, 2011, at 7:02 PM,

Re: [WSG] media queries can't understand body tag

2011-09-27 Thread Tom Livingston
11 at 9:59 PM, Tom Livingston wrote: > I'm not 100% sure, but I believe so, yes. I was just brow-beaten > offlist by someone because of my reply below. YES, I have an iPhone, > but what I don't know is how to test - with JUST iOS Safari - whether > of not a bg image is downlo

Re: [WSG] media queries can't understand body tag

2011-09-27 Thread Tom Livingston
background:blue > url(bg-bodytop-1024.jpg) no-repeat left 20px} } > > > tee > > > On Sep 27, 2011, at 4:20 PM, Tom Livingston wrote: > >> I believe it's the iOS Safari with the issue, where it would be most >> troublesome. Not sure how to test t

Re: [WSG] media queries can't understand body tag

2011-09-27 Thread Tom Livingston
I believe it's the iOS Safari with the issue, where it would be most troublesome. Not sure how to test this. Sent from my iPhone On Sep 27, 2011, at 7:08 PM, Hassan Schroeder wrote: > On 9/27/11 3:33 PM, Tom Livingston wrote: >> I believe that Safari may be the browser with the

Re: [WSG] media queries can't understand body tag

2011-09-27 Thread Tom Livingston
I believe that Safari may be the browser with the 'loads anyway' problem. Sent from my iPhone On Sep 27, 2011, at 5:33 PM, Hassan Schroeder wrote: > On 9/27/11 1:42 PM, Frances de Waal wrote: > >> As far as I know all the stylesheets ánd all the linked resources in them >> like background-ima

Re: [WSG] IE9's Browser Mode Controls - Reliable?

2011-09-23 Thread Tom Livingston
ut at least convenient - have you tried > https://browserlab.adobe.com/ ? > You can check a wide range of browsers easily, including IE6/7/8/9 > > HTH > Russ > Also see http://www.browsercam.com/ -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456

Re: [WSG] adobe tools that works well with jaws?

2011-08-24 Thread Tom Livingston
ign suite, adn what is acessible >> and what is not? >> let me know asap. >> doing a website development course online. >> so what to purchase in australia. >> >> Yikes. Time to switch to decaf. -- Tom L

Re: [WSG] HTML5 Elements question

2011-08-17 Thread Tom Livingston
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Patrick H. Lauke wrote: > On 17/08/2011 15:04, Tom Livingston wrote: >> >> Just trying to get a better grip on the proper use of the new >> elements. I have a site with a persistent nav of the site on the top >> of the page and on a cou

[WSG] HTML5 Elements question

2011-08-17 Thread Tom Livingston
u fall in, like "members" etc. Thanks in advance. -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/g

Re: [WSG] Aside and section

2011-01-31 Thread Tom Livingston
o this maybe useful to you > http://html5doctor.com/wp-content/uploads/HTML5Doctor-sectioning-flowchart.pdf > > >  - S > > > > > On 28 January 2011 15:42, Tom Livingston wrote: >> >> Thanks for the replies. Still working out the new elements in my head. >> &g

Re: [WSG] Aside and section

2011-01-28 Thread Tom Livingston
subscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > *** > > -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com ***

[WSG] Aside and section

2011-01-24 Thread Tom Livingston
Is it ok to nest elements inside the element? Can't come up with anything about this scenario on Google... I'll have a first real attempt at an HTML5 page for critique soon... -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 51

Re: [WSG] css

2010-11-16 Thread Tom Livingston
gap between the bottom of main menu items and top of sub menu items. -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgr

Re: [WSG] Image Maps

2010-10-15 Thread Tom Livingston
I was able to recreate my situation with text and bg images. I am fascinated how this thread grew. All great things to keep in mind. TY all. Sent from my iPod On Oct 15, 2010, at 3:35 AM, Jayachandran Kandasamy wrote: > Hi All, > > I am encountering a strange problem in image mapping techni

Re: [WSG] Image Maps

2010-10-14 Thread Tom Livingston
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:52 PM, David Dorward wrote: > > On 14 Oct 2010, at 17:27, Tom Livingston wrote: > >> Are image maps still ok? > > Still? > > Server side image maps are as inaccessible as ever. > > Client side image maps had issues last time I looked

[WSG] Image Maps

2010-10-14 Thread Tom Livingston
Are image maps still ok? -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] html5 issue

2010-08-27 Thread Tom Livingston
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Thierry Koblentz wrote: >> "/>" is not necessary  to close the meta tag. >> >> >> >> Maybe this solve the problem. > Thierry is correct, the "/" made no difference. It was put back in. Thanks all. --

Re: [WSG] html5 issue

2010-08-27 Thread Tom Livingston
was the trick! I can't, however, change the number of dashes as that is a ColdFusion comment and, well, I'm using ColdFusion! Thanks Again. -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com

Re: [WSG] html5 issue

2010-08-27 Thread Tom Livingston
was the trick! I can't, however, change the number of dashes as that is a ColdFusion comment and, well, I'm using ColdFusion! Thanks Again. -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com

Re: [WSG] html5 issue

2010-08-27 Thread Tom Livingston
> That was it. I was using Paul Irish's trick with conditional comments > to feed IE's CSS w/o conditionals with this: > And when I said "w/o conditionals" I mean the traditional method, feeding IE's their own sheets. But, as I said, I'll be going back to th

Re: [WSG] html5 issue

2010-08-27 Thread Tom Livingston
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 3:11 PM, David Dorward wrote: > > On 27 Aug 2010, at 19:30, Tom Livingston wrote: > >> Line 12, Column 21: A charset attribute on a meta element found after >> the first 512 bytes. >> >> Can anyone tell me why? > > > You have too

Re: [WSG] html5 issue

2010-08-27 Thread Tom Livingston
y page: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";> Title Any help would be appreciated. Can't post a link at this time... -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com *

[WSG] html5 issue

2010-08-27 Thread Tom Livingston
In an attempt to begin "using HTML5", I am getting this error: Line 12, Column 21: A charset attribute on a meta element found after the first 512 bytes. Can anyone tell me why? -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 51

Re: [WSG] Getting my feet wet in HTML5

2010-08-13 Thread Tom Livingston
> truly understand CSS. > > If you are worried about a client, than do it on your personal site or for a > more progressive client. > > Ted Thanks Ted. Appreciate it. -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer |

Re: [WSG] Getting my feet wet in HTML5

2010-08-13 Thread Tom Livingston
ith folk accepting it. For a simple > example, see: > > http://www.betasite.fsnet.co.uk/gam/altgam/gwelanmor.html > > Also see: > This is great. THanks. One other thing that's making me shy from the edge. A production (client site) site that relies on JS to render makes me sweat

Re: [WSG] Getting my feet wet in HTML5

2010-08-13 Thread Tom Livingston
one). My structure above is what I am literally using on a page. WHat I am after is an HTML5 analogy to this. Does a div.section belong in there somewhere? THanks -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com *

Re: [WSG] Getting my feet wet in HTML5

2010-08-13 Thread Tom Livingston
using HTML5 elements, but using it as an analogy - via the classes and IDs - could this be improved upon? Is there a place for (s) here? Did I get the element concepts right? Thanks again... -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.

Re: [WSG] Getting my feet wet in HTML5

2010-08-13 Thread Tom Livingston
Ps and As and a picture Content with an H2, a UL, Ps and As and a picture Sidebar Footer

Re: [WSG] Getting my feet wet in HTML5

2010-08-13 Thread Tom Livingston
- I actually have this book. And read it cover to cover. The problem comes when I actually have to BUILD something using these elements... guess I'll read it again... -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interacti

Re: [WSG] Getting my feet wet in HTML5

2010-08-13 Thread Tom Livingston
l/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > *** > > THanks all -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic | ph: 51

[WSG] Getting my feet wet in HTML5

2010-08-12 Thread Tom Livingston
quot;Uh oh... it's the same as i've always done with etc. Am I wrong? Is there still benefit to using ... I don't wanna just substitute div for section... am I way off track already?? help... -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic | p

Re: [WSG] Paul Irish/Divya Manian HTML5 Boilerplate

2010-08-12 Thread Tom Livingston
Like the site says, it's "delete-key friendly" :-) On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:40 AM, David Hucklesby wrote: > On 8/12/10 4:57 AM, Tom Livingston wrote: >> >> Anyone have any thoughts on this? Worth a try? On a production site? >> >> http://html5boil

Re: [WSG] Paul Irish/Divya Manian HTML5 Boilerplate

2010-08-12 Thread Tom Livingston
; Webmaster & ERP Administrator >>> 800.650.6506 (TOLL FREE) >>> 330.655.0341 (DIRECT) >>> www.lexi.com >>> >>> -Original Message- >>> From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On >>> Behalf Of

Re: [WSG] Paul Irish/Divya Manian HTML5 Boilerplate

2010-08-12 Thread Tom Livingston
What is " profrontend template " ? Tnx -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guid

[WSG] Paul Irish/Divya Manian HTML5 Boilerplate

2010-08-12 Thread Tom Livingston
Anyone have any thoughts on this? Worth a try? On a production site? http://html5boilerplate.com/ Looks pretty good to me... what say ye? -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com

Re: [WSG] IE6 Finally Nearing Extinction [STATS]

2010-06-23 Thread Tom Livingston
too will extend the life of > their systems as far as possible. 'Domestic' users are feeling the pinch > just as much. >[snip] > Duncan > (sent from my ageing, low spec machine using Opera 10.54) > -- T

Re: [WSG] IE6 Finally Nearing Extinction [STATS]

2010-06-22 Thread Tom Livingston
hout > upgrading the OS. XP will run on a P3 machine, but for sure neither Vista > nor Win 7 will work. > I can no longer buy a new copy of XP, therefore to upgrade my browser I > would have to buy a new system. -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive

Re: [WSG] Video Accessibility Help

2010-06-22 Thread Tom Livingston
FYI, I just looked at the site we used this on. Apparently something changed with the latest FLash player, and the caption on/off is broken, but the captions default to on. On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Tom Livingston wrote: > We have successfully used FLash CS4's ability to capt

Re: [WSG] Video Accessibility Help

2010-06-22 Thread Tom Livingston
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Re: [WSG] Up-to-date resources for mobile front-end dev

2010-04-01 Thread Tom Livingston
Fabulous! Thanks all. yes, I do know how to Google, but I thought listers might have thinned the pack to the most up-to-date and reliable info. Thanks again! *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Uns

Re: [WSG] Up-to-date resources for mobile front-end dev

2010-04-01 Thread Tom Livingston
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 12:05 PM, David Laakso wrote: > Tom Livingston wrote: >> >> List, >> >> Does anyone have any good Up-to-date resources for mobile front-end dev? >> Thanks to those who replied... -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media

[WSG] Up-to-date resources for mobile front-end dev

2010-04-01 Thread Tom Livingston
List, Does anyone have any good Up-to-date resources for mobile front-end dev? -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] @media

2010-02-23 Thread Tom Livingston
> Does this help? > Russ Very much. That's great! THanks a lot!! -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com *** List Guide

Re: [WSG] @media

2010-02-23 Thread Tom Livingston
rst body rule would be ignored - or, according to the spec, SHOULD be ignored - because there is no media type specified for it? Just trying to follow you here... -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com **

Re: [WSG] Progressive Enhancement related article

2010-02-17 Thread Tom Livingston
YES! THanks SO much! Sorry Mr. Clarke ;-) On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Simon Wilder wrote: > http://24ways.org/2009/ignorance-is-bliss is that article. Was by Andy > Clarke for 24ways. I hope this was the one you were after. > > On 16 Feb 2010, at 21:29, Tom Livin

[WSG] Progressive Enhancement related article

2010-02-16 Thread Tom Livingston
and I unfortunately didn't bookmark it. If you know of this article, please forward a link - OFF LIST. Thanks a bunch, if you spend any time on this. I appreciate it. -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlin

Re: [WSG] Progressive Enhancement

2010-02-09 Thread Tom Livingston
get at now is how people are delivering a base experience to IE 6, and building on it for modern browsers. Hope I am explaining my point right. Thierry, I agree with you whole-heartedly. Also, IMHO, Google buried that date feature. I had to dig for it. ;-) -- Tom Livingston | Senior

[WSG] Progressive Enhancement

2010-02-05 Thread Tom Livingston
ted, email me and I can forward findings to you. Thanks in advance for any help as I dig into this. -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com *** List Guidel

[WSG] Foreign language issue

2010-01-21 Thread Tom Livingston
alts are not. If anyone could educate me as to why this is occuring - OFF-LIST - i would appreciate it. Thanks a lot. -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlin

Re: [WSG] CSS Popup

2010-01-12 Thread Tom Livingston
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 3:14 PM, David Hucklesby wrote: > On 1/11/10 11:25 AM, Tom Livingston wrote: >> >> Hello list, >> >> I tried to repurpose this example from Eric Meyer: >> http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/popups/demo.html >> >> His page work

[WSG] CSS Popup

2010-01-11 Thread Tom Livingston
Hello list, I tried to repurpose this example from Eric Meyer: http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/popups/demo.html His page works in IE6. My attempt, however, does not. Can anyone see why? http://www.mlinc.com/css_popup/ Thanks in advance -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer

Re: [WSG] [WSG Announce] Some links for light reading (22/12/09)

2009-12-24 Thread Tom Livingston
y subscriber to this list agrees with. Sounds > simple enough to me. > > Merry Christmas (to all who will celebrate it). > > and loosen up :-) > > -- > Al Sparber - PVII > http://www.projectseven.com > Dreamweaver Menus | Galleries | Widgets > http://www.projectseven.

Re: [WSG] :: makeready ::

2009-12-23 Thread Tom Livingston
ail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > ******* > > -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic

Re: [WSG] Accessible Forms

2009-08-19 Thread Tom Livingston
g > Subject: RE: [WSG] Accessible Forms -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelin

Re: [WSG] Accessible Forms

2009-08-19 Thread Tom Livingston
For clarity, I submit this edit: First Name The for attribute matches the input ID. Always. On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Tom Livingston wrote: > The reason I use this was because I found an easy way to style forms > that included the broader compatibility for the clickability of

Re: [WSG] Accessible Forms

2009-08-19 Thread Tom Livingston
ach other: >         label {position:relative;} >         input {position:absolute; right:x;} > I think there are some older browsers that like one method over the other. > Just a few thoughts. > Jim > -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518

Re: [WSG] Accessible Forms

2009-08-19 Thread Tom Livingston
> Have you tested it out with any screen readers? I would like to hear > about the results. > > Kevin > > -Original Message- > From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] > On Behalf Of Tom Livingston > Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 2:

Re: [WSG] Accessible Forms

2009-08-19 Thread Tom Livingston
AM, James O'Neill wrote: > I think the ID's are required for the 'for' attribute to work for labels, > which enables the their clickability. When these labels are clicked on they > focus on the element whose ID is in the for attribute. >> Thank you, >&

Re: [WSG] ADA Compliant Flash

2008-07-07 Thread Tom Livingston
is possible to make a Flash file ADA compliant, and if ANY file can pass ADA (i.e. does a passing Flash file have to be very simple/lack-luster), I'd love to hear about it and see some resources. Thanks -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic |

[WSG] ADA Compliant Flash

2008-07-07 Thread Tom Livingston
Hello list, Is it possible to have an ADA (no, not the dentists' thing) compliant Flash site? Anyone have a good resource, if it is possible? All my searching has resulted in the feeling that this subject is one people avoid. -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic

Re: [WSG] Firefox 3 candidate

2008-06-18 Thread Tom Livingston
t for FireBug to become compatible with it as it is so crucial > for us of course. I am using FireBug 1.2.0b2 with FF3. Works fine. -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx

Re: [WSG] Alt versus Title Attribute

2008-05-28 Thread Tom Livingston
arranted extremes, > especially if, as Andrew points out, it doesn't accompany some effort to > respond to the question at hand. > I move that henceforth it should be acceptable here to use 'tag' as > shorthand for 'attribute' and 'code' for 'marku

[WSG] Alt versus Title Attribute

2008-05-27 Thread Tom Livingston
ight to me... Thanks -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubsc

Re: [WSG] POSH article question

2007-11-02 Thread Tom Livingston
Well, maybe this is better: Lets make this word visually called out p b{color:#f00; font-weight:normal;} -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com

Re: [WSG] POSH article question

2007-11-02 Thread Tom Livingston
ag to achieve the color, etc. through the style. And when styles are off, the visual effect is intact. Lets make this word red to visually call it out p b{color:#f00; font-weight:normal;} No? Am I STILL in need of more coffee for this??? -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Me

Re: [WSG] POSH article question

2007-11-02 Thread Tom Livingston
an in your example, but I may still be thinking about it from a visual standpoint... Also, can you - or anyone else - give me an example of a semantic use of ? Emphasized text as opposed to italicized? Around here, bold text is emphasized text, if you know what I mean. :-P Thanks for the discuss

Re: [WSG] POSH article question

2007-11-02 Thread Tom Livingston
> Case in point, Wordpress doesn't offer or in the post editor, > just and , and yet the buttons for these say "i" and "b"! > Annoying! > Thanks Christian and others, Another question though... do you have an example of proper, semantic use of vs ? Is it just just a tag to allow you to style

[WSG] POSH article question

2007-11-01 Thread Tom Livingston
r 2 ago that "b" and "i" were so "last year" I'm just still a little confused with this statement. I am SLOWLY trying to better my skill set here. Sorry if this is basic stuff to you... Thanks -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive

Re: [WSG] Levels of 508 compliance

2007-10-03 Thread Tom Livingston
Thanks folks! -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

[WSG] Levels of 508 compliance

2007-10-03 Thread Tom Livingston
Hi listers, Does anyone have a reference (link) to a site that actually spells out what criteria must be met for the levels of WCAG and 508 compliance. Can't seem to come up with quite what I am after from Google... Thanks a lot in advance. -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Deve

Re: [WSG] Form styling

2007-09-26 Thread Tom Livingston
where one method is needed over another. > http://www.dave-woods.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/accessible-forms1.html > > -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 |

[WSG] Form styling

2007-09-26 Thread Tom Livingston
les, but it's always a struggle. Especially where labels are to the left of text inputs. Thanks a bunch in advance. -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | www.mlinc.com ***

Re: [WSG] CSS height/padding

2007-08-01 Thread Tom Livingston
On 8/1/07, Daniel Kendrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree Al. > > Christian its not bad. There are MANY pixel to em calcs online to google it. > :) > > --DK I use this religiously (well, ya know...): http://riddle.pl/emcalc/ -- Tom Livingston | Senior Multime

Re: [WSG] Best practice embedding a Quicktime/Flash video

2007-06-28 Thread Tom Livingston
essage. Just a thought. And 2¢... :-P -- Tom Livingston | Senior Multimedia Artist | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsu

Re: [WSG] Best practice embedding a Quicktime/Flash video

2007-06-27 Thread Tom Livingston
On 6/27/07, David Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I'm looking for some advice on best practice methods of embedding a QT/Flash movie in a page in a standards compliant way, so any ideas would be very gratefully received! I use this: http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/ Not sure about

[WSG] Re: IE 6/7 issue

2007-03-30 Thread Tom Livingston
On 3/30/07, Tom Livingston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi list, Here's the page: http://proof.mlinc.com/mlinc.com/06/news/ Hit it in FF/Safari for desired layout for head/paragraph relation. Why won't it work in IE 6/7? Just can't see it. Thanks -- Always happens to

[WSG] IE 6/7 issue

2007-03-30 Thread Tom Livingston
Hi list, Here's the page: http://proof.mlinc.com/mlinc.com/06/news/ Hit it in FF/Safari for desired layout for head/paragraph relation. Why won't it work in IE 6/7? Just can't see it. Thanks -- Tom Livingston | Senior Multimedia Artist | Media Logic | ph: 518.45

Re: [WSG] Close captioning Flash video

2007-03-26 Thread Tom Livingston
On 3/26/07, Tom Livingston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello list, Anyone have resources for close captioning Flash video? Thanks. -- Here's where we are headed. We found a Flash component to do captioning and we were going to a link to a transcript for screen reader users. Our

[WSG] Close captioning Flash video

2007-03-26 Thread Tom Livingston
Hello list, Anyone have resources for close captioning Flash video? Thanks. -- Tom Livingston | Senior Multimedia Artist | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com *** List Guidelines: http

[WSG] Layout oddity

2007-02-26 Thread Tom Livingston
am sure... TIA -- Tom Livingston | Senior Multimedia Artist | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandard

[WSG] Re: Layout oddity

2007-02-26 Thread Tom Livingston
See. When i say it out loud is when I find my problem. DOH! Thanks anyway ... On 2/26/07, Tom Livingston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi listers, here's the page: http://proof.mlinc.com/mlinc.com/06/clients/stories1.cfm It validates. Scroll down to the third "story block"

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