Re: [WSG] Page shift in IE6

2007-11-21 Thread John Faulds
got in your corrected copy because I'm unsure which values I'm supposed to be tuning? Cheers John -- Tyssen Design www.tyssendesign.com.au Ph: (07) 3300 3303 Mb: 0405 678 590 *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.o

Re: [WSG] question about max-width's behaviour

2007-11-21 Thread John Faulds
The purpose of max-width loses if it can't overruled the ems behavior. It's not a case of max-width overruling ems. Ems is related to font-size which is why it's used for fluid/elastic layouts - it's *supposed* to increase as you increase the text size. If you don't want your layout to exp

Re: [WSG] Page shift in IE6

2007-11-21 Thread John Faulds
TED]> wrote: John Faulds wrote: Could you show me what you've got in your corrected copy because I'm unsure which values I'm supposed to be tuning? Ok, here's a smooth-working version... * html #wrap { width: 95%; width:expression(((document.compatMode

Re: [WSG] Page shift in IE6

2007-11-22 Thread John Faulds
Hi Georg, Yep, that did it. It looks like it was the % padding causing the problem. Huge thanks for the time and effort you spent helping me out on this one! Cheers John On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:56:44 +1000, Gunlaug Sørtun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: John Faulds wrote: I apprecia

[WSG] Markup question

2007-11-28 Thread John Faulds
I have to mark up a club constitution where all the paragraphs are numbered but there are also headings that are supposed to relate to paragraphs, e.g.: Heading 1 1. Paragraph goes here 2. Paragraph goes here 3. Paragraph goes here Heading 2 4. Paragraph goes here 5. Paragraph goes here

Re: [WSG] Markup question

2007-11-28 Thread John Faulds
n find in the WSG archives if you want to read the full discussion. John Faulds wrote: I have to mark up a club constitution where all the paragraphs are numbered but there are also headings that are supposed to relate to paragraphs, e.g.: Heading 1 1. Paragraph goes here 2. Paragraph go

Re: [WSG] CMS and site design

2007-12-03 Thread John Faulds
I'd think a little bit more about what you want your CMS to do before jumping in with Joomla. I've only given it a cursory look over before because I wasn't that impressed particularly by the sort of templating it uses and the code it outputs. If your client just wants to edit pages themsel

RE: [WSG] list image not showing properly

2007-12-06 Thread John Hancock
Hi Taco, Have you got a link to the page you're trying to fix this on? Regards, John Hancock Identity -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Taco Fleur Sent: Friday, 7 December 2007 12:51 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG]

Re: [WSG] Comment mark

2007-12-09 Thread John Faulds
It should be: (no 2nd !). On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:40:52 +1000, Hayden's Harness Attachment <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [WSG] typepad css problem

2007-12-12 Thread John Faulds
You've got a colon : after 'a' which is preventing the rule being read properly. Should be: a { display:block; width: 6em; padding 0.2em; line-height:1.4; background-color:#00; border 1px solid black; color:#d22539; text-decoration: none; test-align: center; } but you probably want to be m

Re: [WSG] Opera files antitrust against MS: standards one part

2007-12-13 Thread John Faulds
"First, it requests the Commission to obligate Microsoft to unbundle Internet Explorer from Windows and/or carry alternative browsers pre-installed on the desktop." I can't see that flying. Is anyone going to ask Apple to stop shipping their OS with Safari? On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:05:11 +1

Re: [WSG] Opera files antitrust against MS: standards one part

2007-12-13 Thread John Faulds
Delivering their OSes with half a dozen pre-installed standard-compliant alternatives to IE/win isn't a technical problem, so why not? I'm no lawyer and I'm also no MS fanboy, but I think 'why?' is as equally a valid question as 'why not?'. My latest computer with Vista came pre-intalled w

Re: [WSG] Opera files antitrust against MS: standards one part

2007-12-13 Thread John Faulds
but their os should be able to run other optional packages that the customer chooses. Out of all the applications Gav & I mentioned previously, all the alternatives are easily installed on Windows (including Vista), and that's certainly the case for other browsers, so I don't really see you

RE: [WSG] Do we just throw out the img tag

2007-12-16 Thread John Hancock
Personally, I think the img tag has the correct semantics (and attributes) for an image. I'd just keep them for images in paragraphs and use css background for everything else. An object is just that! -Original Message- From: Michael Horowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 1

Re: [WSG] BBC in Beta

2007-12-17 Thread John Faulds
Oh come on, let's not be so blinkered that we can't appreciate really good work in most areas! Felix isn't the only one who has a number of issues with the new design and for entirely different reasons - http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/comments/bbc_homepage_redesign/ I'd have to agre

Re: [WSG] BBC in Beta

2007-12-18 Thread John Faulds
Seems like someone is listening! The color buttons is gone No they're not. Unless you're referring to something different. -- Tyssen Design www.tyssendesign.com.au Ph: (07) 3300 3303 Mb: 0405 678 590 *** List Guidelines: http://w

Re: [WSG] BBC in Beta

2007-12-18 Thread John Faulds
Yeah, that's right. I can still see them and they still change the colour of the page. On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 04:31:49 +1000, Kim Kruse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well they are on my computer! (we're talking about the 4 colored buttons that changed the colors of the page..

RE: [WSG] BBC in Beta

2007-12-18 Thread John Horner
slypleasereload might do it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Faulds Sent: Wednesday, 19 December 2007 9:12 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] BBC in Beta Yeah, that's right. I can still see them and they still change

RE: [WSG] RE: BBC in Beta

2007-12-18 Thread John Horner
>- I really don't like the clock; it's so 1990s - we all have a clock on >our computer/phone; I don't think it's needed. I think you're missing the nostalgia, the "aah" factor embodied in that clock -- British people have spent many *many* hours watching it.

RE: [WSG] Preventing copying of text from web page.

2007-12-20 Thread John Horner
It's rather off-topic, but more to the point it's impossible, and your main task at this point is to explain to your client why even trying to do it is pointless and silly. If they can see the text, the text is on their computer. As Andrew said, either they want their information on the web or the

Re: [WSG] inline styles theoretical question

2008-01-01 Thread John Faulds
I mean the only reason i can see that they dont validate Inline styles are as valid as any other form of CSS as far as the W3C validator is concerned. But there's a difference between valid and best practice. Lately ive been using a lot of inline styles in textpattern forms (template blo

Re: [WSG] Re: inline styles theoretical question

2008-01-01 Thread John Faulds
A textpattern "form" with inline styles, only gets loaded once and when a change is made to it every page on the site is globally updated. You may only have one file to edit, but what gets sent to the browser is still a different page for each entry with the inline styles needing to be dow

Re: [WSG] Acronym element

2008-01-08 Thread John Faulds
you'd expand the acronym/abbreviation again). -- Regards John --- Tyssen Design www.tyssendesign.com.au Ph: (07) 3300 3303 Mb: 0405 678 590 *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/gu

RE: [WSG] Developing for Mac Browsers

2008-01-13 Thread John Horner
>can I safely develop in non Mac versions and expect >my web sites to behave the same on the Mac? Behave? Yes. But... I don't think anyone's made this point yet -- one key difference between the platforms is the display of form elements. Elements like buttons and select menus and checkboxes, et

[WSG] Developing for Mixed Browsers - Form Buttons

2008-01-13 Thread John Hancock
s (one shows a menu, one takes you to another page). Consistency is key - but remember that users usually browse in only one browser at a time. John Hancock identity.net.au PS. On a side-note, can we keep platform discussion to standards and implementation? 'My computer is bigger/bett

Re: [WSG] Compatibility and IE8

2008-01-24 Thread John Faulds
It's disturbing how well lemurs can illustrate the issue, too: http://www.katemonkey.co.uk/article/48/x-ua-lemur-compatible (the Zeldman lemur cracked me up completely) That's awesome! We can opt to save our energy for standards-based browsers and not bother learning new versions of IE. Lazy?

Re: [WSG] Explorer woes with list dropdowns

2008-01-28 Thread John Faulds
IE6 doesn't respect the *:hover pseudo selector if I remember rightly... It only supports it for anchors, e.g a:hover You may have to look at a small bit of javascript to 'activate' this behavior. No, because he's using one of Stu Nicholl's js-free menus. The trade off is a lot of IE conditi

Re: [WSG] long description and its implementation

2008-02-02 Thread John Faulds
You don't need a longdesc in that example because you're already linking to it by an anchor. On Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:34:09 +1000, dwain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: here's the link to the example: http://studiokdd.com/sandbox/abstract-christian-art-new-testament.html i have the jesus and discip

Re: [WSG] PHP includes

2008-02-05 Thread John Faulds
Also is their a preference in web standards for using PHP includes or something like SSI? SSI stands for server side include which is essentially what a PHP include is. The only difference is the syntax used to call the include. -- Tyssen Design http://www.tyssendesign.com.au Ph: (07) 330

Re: [WSG] Styling forms

2008-02-05 Thread John Faulds
Hi Germ17,I have seen your example presented in GERMWORKS.NETFYI, your approach is perfect to my knowledge, but the element should not wrapped by any element. It's not compliant/accessible...I request you to modify this example according to standards, if you believe the same. You're wron

Re: [WSG] Styling forms

2008-02-05 Thread John Faulds
For further discussion on which is the best method to use: http://www.accessifyforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=1926 On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:03:28 +1000, sri kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Germ17,I have seen your example presented in GERMWORKS.NETFYI, your approach is perfect to my knowled

Re: [WSG] use of in

2008-02-10 Thread John Faulds
I'd say the only time you need to use paragraphs inside list items is when a list item's content is made up of more than one paragraph. On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:13:54 +1000, Tim MacKay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Taco, In the case of the example you provided I'd say definitely no need for

Re: [WSG] use of in

2008-02-10 Thread John Faulds
If you have two paragraphs you might want to reconsider the use of a list. I don't agree. Consider as an example a 'list' of services - it may take more than one paragraph to adequately describe each service, but it is still a list. -- Tyssen Design http://www.tyssendesign.com.au Ph: (07

Re: [WSG] use of in

2008-02-10 Thread John Faulds
If the lists have a number of levels like Services Web Site Development Graphics SEO and more About Us Me You Someone else I'm not talking about presenting a list of links; I'm talking about presenting the actual content on a page. From your example above, it's qu

Re: [WSG] use of in

2008-02-10 Thread John Faulds
Assign the paragraph style to a HTML tag that is surrounding all other tags? If so, I would not feel comfortable with that. Why not? If this is your HTML: some text some text This .content { color: red; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5 } makes more sense and is more concise than p { c

RE: [WSG] an accessible question: server-side vs client-side validation

2008-02-11 Thread John Horner
>A website I was working on, client wants client-side >validation, something fancy, something Ajax. The whole point of AJAX is that it's *not* client-side. It's both. So your client is a little confused if they said that. ===

Re: [WSG] use of in

2008-02-10 Thread John Faulds
If you apply the style to the container, then you don't need to assign styles individually to different elements (except where you want them to be different). On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:22:52 +1000, Taco Fleur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Tim, What I mean by duplicate style is that if I ass

Re: [WSG] use of in

2008-02-11 Thread John Faulds
the flaw in this approach is the potential for adding divs for styling purposes only which is hardly ever necessary. I'm not saying that at all. Every layout is going to have containers; use the ones you've already got. Adding styles for every element has the potential for 'bloating' your CS

Re: [WSG] tableless forms !!!

2008-02-12 Thread John Faulds
Plenty of references here: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2006/11/11/css-based-forms-modern-solutions/ On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:01:26 +1000, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi , Could anyone tell me which is the best way to build a form without tables in w3c standards. I would really appreciate

RE: [WSG] hello - [OT]

2008-02-15 Thread John Hancock
an off-topic message, please at least mark it as such so the rest of us can hit the delete button without checking it first for relevant information! Kind regards, John Hancock Identity From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Ortenzi Sent: Friday, 15 February

Re: [WSG] books

2008-02-19 Thread John Faulds
And now you don't even need to buy Sitepoint reference material: http://reference.sitepoint.com/css On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:50:59 +1000, Paul McCann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I would also reccomend the Sitepoint books. Work well as a reference when your working too, or just forgot somethin

Re: [WSG] Site review - alachua co library

2008-02-26 Thread John Hancock
us with extremely large working areas should usually have a 17" TFT or lower to test on for 'the great unpixeled'. kind regards, John Hancock Identity [EMAIL PROTECTED] t: +61 2 8012 0274 f: +61 2 9799 6135 *** List

RE: [WSG] Screen Standards - was alachu

2008-02-27 Thread John Hancock
in terms of design - my method is usually to build a /mobile site for mobile users. John. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Hucklesby Sent: Thursday, 28 February 2008 4:41 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Site review

Re: [WSG] CMS review

2008-02-28 Thread John Faulds
Me, personally, I wouldn't use a CMS that produced mark-up like that. Especially not when I know there are others out there that will do a better job (haven't explored Powerfront too closely to find out whether it's possible to alter the output mark-up). I'd have to ask though: why are you

Re: [WSG] CMS review

2008-02-28 Thread John Faulds
Please consider that a cms is a tool too allow people to add there own content. So the inline styling may in fact be added by the end user. For the example site linked to - http://www.goodshepvic.org.au/ - I didn't even get as far down to what might've been user entered content. Incomplete d

Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-03 Thread John Hancock
How can you disagree with a capability? Isn't it a feature to be used if you so choose? For intranets etc that you can force this behaviour can actually be a good thing, but if you don't like it, you don't have to use it! Microsoft has certainly responded here, but in my opinion we shouldn'

Re: [WSG] SEO, fact or fiction

2008-03-06 Thread John Hancock
'd say these are more language-based or protocol based and that's a pretty small niche in web standards. I feel that more on the subject would take my response away from Web Standards, so feel free to contact me off-list if you want to discuss further. best wishes, John Ha

RE: [WSG] IE8 news - stats

2008-03-09 Thread John Hancock
the stats. For myself, I'd be unwilling to support people who steal rather than go to linux-based operating systems. Unfortunately, it's impossible to tell the difference! John Hancock Identity -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lea

RE: [WSG] SEO, fact or fiction and myths

2008-03-09 Thread John Hancock
t know how to set them or don't have the requisite server access. How do you justify these? Cheers, John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike at Green-Beast.com Sent: Monday, 10 March 2008 12:52 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Su

Re: [WSG] SEO, fact or fiction

2008-03-17 Thread John Hancock
uidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** best wishes, John Hancock Identity [EMAIL PROTECTED] t: +61 2 8012 2967 f:

Re: [WSG] IE 8 and grey

2008-03-17 Thread John Hancock
oup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** best wishes, John Hancock Identity [EMAIL PROTECTED] t: +61 2 8012 2967 f: +61 2 9799 6135 ***

Re: [WSG] Re: WSG Digest

2008-03-18 Thread John Unsworth
> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 3:20 AM > Subject: WSG Digest > > > * > WEB STANDARDS GROUP MAIL LIST DIGEST > * > > > From: John Hancoc

Re: [WSG] Why is deprecated?

2008-03-26 Thread John Hancock
t actually been deprecated is that the HTML working group were worried it would lead to the misuse of other presentational tags, indeed such as and , which should be considered whenever you use these 'newer' tags! cheers, John Kepler Gelotte wrote: Hi, I am just curious if anyone

Re: [WSG] Dreamweaver8

2008-04-07 Thread John Hancock
Please, please, please everyone. Discuss web standards on the web standards group mailing list, and "my text/WYSIWY editor is better than yours" on the HTML Editors mailing list... If there isn't one, feel free to set it up. thank

RE: [WSG] need some help

2008-04-10 Thread John Horner
Does the coder need to be in London? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joseph Ortenzi Sent: Thursday, 10 April 2008 10:00 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] need some help Hi All London Standardistas! Hope this little job requ

[WSG] Background-position in percentage

2008-06-03 Thread John Horner
I've just spent a bit of time looking at how background-position works when expressed as a percentage: background-position: 90%; and I'm wondering why it works the way it does. Here's the best way I can describe the effect of (90%, x-axis) positioning with percentages: "to position the image s

RE: [WSG] html vs. html

2008-06-22 Thread John Horner
Just to point out something that hasn't been mentioned as far as I can see -- of course, you can map file types to extensions on a webserver however you like. You could set .JPG to serve as HTML if you wanted. The original creators of Blogger, Pyra, used ".pyra" as their extension so I have no idea

[WSG] Good HTML/CSS training in Sydney?

2008-07-01 Thread John Horner
I'd be interested in hearing recommendations for good standards-based HTML and CSS training in the Sydney area. I'm looking at MaxDesign's website, of course, but not seeing specific dates for upcoming courses. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. The information containe

Re: [WSG] Re: Form (layout/accessibiity)

2008-07-09 Thread John Unsworth
then you might use a Definition List. The term postcode is the , then just add input elements in the and use title to explain the input use for screen readers. To all the more experienced members, please step forward to clarify or correct my advice. Your faithfully, I've got no signature set u

Re: [WSG] resetting input boxes

2008-08-07 Thread John Unsworth
Was just walking back from work when it occurred to me I should of specified that I was referring to Safari 2.1, sadly I'm stuck on a Hackintosh so no opportunity to run Safari 3. John Unsworth *** List Guidelines:

Re: [WSG] resetting input boxes

2008-08-07 Thread John Unsworth
hen it declares a universal - background: transparent; - it disabled Safari and IE7 from applying a class to the in a table when I tried to Zebra stripe the table rows. I removed it (the univeral reset), and at least in Safari (not yet tested on IE7) it was fixed. Firefox, Opera and Camino all rende

[WSG] Position and peace of mind

2008-09-03 Thread John Unsworth
rs? Finally why did the absolute position boxes just vanish in the IE7? I realise this might be too vauge a question, but I'm not even quite sure what my search terms might be trying to find the answer to this via Google. Generally the

Fwd: [WSG] Position and peace of mind

2008-09-03 Thread John Unsworth
-- Forwarded message -- From: John Unsworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 4 Sep 2008 14:05 Subject: Re: [WSG] Position and peace of mind To: Kepler Gelotte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 04/09/2008, Kepler Gelotte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John, > > It woul

[WSG] Incorporating Terms and Cons in signup page

2008-09-30 Thread John Unsworth
y of the concept of a single page signup document. I hope I've been clear, and I guess I'm interested in anything similar to this in best practice, accessibility and standards. Cheers for just being there folks, John Unsworth ***

[WSG] Re: .NET sites which are XHTML 1.0 strict

2008-10-09 Thread John Polling
don't care about web standards, let alone really understand what it means. (I may be generalising here a bit, but I'm right in most cases). John Polling Senior Web Developer White Agency Links: -- [1] http://www.sjplaw.co.uk/ [2]

[WSG] Question about presenting numeric percentages and accessibility.

2008-10-15 Thread John Unsworth
tter, more suitable sugestion? Many thanks, John Unsworth. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] Accessibility Transcripts for Audio and Video

2008-10-19 Thread John Unsworth
tive Cow"; http://forums.creativecow.net/ or even the Adobe website. Not surprisingly a quick google search provides some info, and this link looked informed. http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=Making_Video_Accessible Not exactly your question answe

RE: [WSG] URL length best practices

2008-11-04 Thread John Horner
Just a quick note that if you're going to shorten "Do collaborative online groups need to be successful" to make a URL, it would be better, from the SEO viewpoint, to cut out the common words, "do", "need", "to" etc. So, your URL would be collaborative-online-groups-successful.html not d

RE: [WSG] Fw: The Great Firewall of Australia

2008-12-02 Thread John Horner
Just want to put in a plug for Radio National's coverage of this topic so far: The Media Report: http://abc.net.au/rn/mediareport/stories/2008/2405376.htm Australia Talks: http://abc.net.au/rn/australiatalks/stories/2008/2419136.htm Disclosure, RN is where I work. -Original Message- Fro

RE: [WSG] Re: Html markup suggestions

2009-02-10 Thread John Horner
OK, I'll bite, what makes you say that there are no suitable microformats? Where did you look? -Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Porkandpaws Sent: Wednesday, 11 February 2009 8:26 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subjec

[WSG] IE and the element

2009-02-22 Thread John Horner
I adopted the use of the element in an application I'm working on, used like this: foo one main reason I liked buttons is that they can be disabled with an attribute, which was useful for things like keeping a "next" button everywhere, so that the layout was consistent, but disabling it when

RE: [WSG] IE and the element

2009-02-23 Thread John Horner
Thanks for all the discussion so far. It seems I'll have to re-code. I will definitely not be using Javascript. It seems entirely logical to me that there should be such a thing as a button, which can exist outside a form, which has an HREF attribute or can be wrapped in an anchor. But if there

RE: [WSG] IE and the element

2009-02-23 Thread John Horner
roup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] IE and the element On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, John Horner wrote: > Thanks for all the discussion so far. It seems I'll have to re-code. > I will definitely not be using Javascript. It seems entirely logical > to me that there should be such a thing as a button,

Re: [WSG] Website Creation Documentation Standards

2009-05-05 Thread John Unsworth
here - http://natbat.net/ In the end, presuming I was in the ball park when I assumed you meant deliverables, as best as I can tell there is only techniques that work for you, rather than a standard such that the W3C would endorse. Hope some of this is helpful. John Unsworth >>>  

Re: [WSG] using images for my website and accessibility

2009-07-14 Thread John Unsworth
7;ve usually been fortunate to either be able to create my own images, or have them supplied to me and then proceeded with the understanding that the client has already cleared there use. Thus far no problems. Hope this might help. John Unsworth. 2009/7/14 Marvin Hunkin : > hi. > tried lookin

[WSG] Out of Office AutoReply: WSG Digest

2009-10-02 Thread John Roots
I am on leave until 23 October 2009. In my absence please direct all enquiries to: Michael Theophilou: Acting IS MAnager Business Systems michael.theophi...@wesleymission.org.au ** This email and any files transmitted with it are

Re: [WSG] character codes and accessibility

2009-11-14 Thread John Unsworth
in the CSS as opposed to multiple character codes in the HTML. Regards, John Unsworth 2009/11/15 Luc : > Good evening list, > > When you use a character code, e.g. » as a list marker > (hardcoded in the li), how is that interpreted by a speech browser? > Does the user hear tho

Re: [WSG] IE8 bug?

2010-03-03 Thread John Unsworth
= and name=, use one or the other - they complete the same purpose, although I'm just reading this information from a book and haven't checked the specification per se. Cheers, John Unsworth On 4 March 2010 12:33, wrote: > Hi all, > > I have run in to what seems to be an IE8 b

[WSG] NVDA-screen reader software for windows

2010-03-10 Thread John Unsworth
be of interest to the group, and I apologise in advance if people think otherwise. Cheers, John Unsworth *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org

[WSG] Monospace font sizing

2010-03-18 Thread John Unsworth
ghts/2010/02/12/fixed-monospace-sizing/ As this nearly became a question to the group and only lucky chance provided the answer in minutes, and the information was previously unknown to me, I thought I'd share especially to those creating novel font stacks. Cheers, John Unsworth

Re: [WSG] AUTO: Ian IR SHORTLAND is out of the office. (returning 12/04/2010)

2010-04-01 Thread John Townsend
Ian, Your "Out of the Office" automated message is one of three such messages sent to the WSG list today. Thanks for advising me, I will note it in my diary. Regards, John Townsend > ---Original Message--- > From: ian.ir.shortl...@centrelink.gov.au > To: wsg@we

Re: [WSG] Yes/No structure?

2010-06-03 Thread John Unsworth
Vision - implied is if you don't check any, you would of selected No. So to sum up, before it's a question of which is the best markup to use, what is the actual end result of this action and can it be handled a better way? Cheers, John Unsworth On 4 June 2010 12:29, nedlud wrote: &

Re: [WSG] Yes/No structure?

2010-06-03 Thread John Unsworth
a visitor from the W3C who spoke to the WSG in Melbourne some time ago now called Richard Ishida who is all about internationalisation on the web. More links; http://rishida.net/ Cheers, John Unsworth On 4 June 2010 14:41, nedlud wrote: > Hmm. > I hadn't considered the wording of the

Re: [WSG] Video Accessibility Help

2010-06-15 Thread John Unsworth
d Flash was at school and it was Flash8 and given the presentation I mentioned it might be a tool built in?? Of course how this would be handled in HTML5 I'm less clear on:) Didn't really answer your questions directly, but I hope some of

RE: Using CSS instead of JS for accessibility (was Re: [WSG] CSS Expandable Menu)

2010-06-29 Thread John Stericker
ology, currently 3rd edition. She recommends a Javascript version for accessibility. I would agree. Best of luck on your journey . . . John -Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of David Dorward Sent: Tuesday, 29 June 2010 8:22

Re: [WSG] [Job] Senior Freelance Web Designer | Melbourne

2010-07-13 Thread John Unsworth
while, let's stop this thread hey? John Unsworth. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***

Re: [WSG] HELP WITH SETTING UP A CMS PROJECT

2010-09-15 Thread Sunday John
You may want to use use Wordpress for a start but consider TYPO3 for a professional development. Sunday John Solutions Provider Phone: 234 802 322 8712, 234 7029513356 Website: www.raphsonsolutions.com Email: sun...@raphsonsolutions.com --- @ WiseStamp Signature<h

Re: [WSG] Site for Vision Impaired

2010-11-26 Thread John Unsworth
If your clients are visually impaired then whilst a pleasing design a good thing, not at the expense of the information your audience is after. Hope this is helpful, Cheers, John Unsworth *** List Guidelines: http://webstandards

Re: [WSG] Horizontal Menu Bar Help Needed

2011-03-28 Thread John Unsworth
s 'Build your website the right way, using HTML and CSS' from Sitepoint, and 'HTML Dog, The best-practice guide to XHTML & CSS' by Patrick Griffiths enough. All the best, John Unsworth *** List

Re: [WSG] setting up visualf web developer with iis

2011-05-24 Thread John Unsworth
t questions from Marvin have had to have this information explained. Cheers WSG'ers John Unsworth > *** *** List Guidelines: http://websta

Re: [WSG] major web site project

2011-08-10 Thread John Unsworth
looking for and all the very best with the project. Kind regards, John Unsworth *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***

Re: [WSG] major web site project

2011-08-10 Thread John Unsworth
Sorry folks, quick correction here. Instead of 'education site for non-web geeks.' what I really meant was 'non-geek web users'. All the best, John Unsworth *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] which programming or web development tools which works well with jaws

2011-08-18 Thread John Unsworth
now were discussing the merits of software and not web standards :) My other suggestion would be to write to the guys behind NVDA (or join the forum). They are blind computer developers and likely have some experience that could assist you. Hope this is helpful somehow and congrats on the study deci

[WSG] something for your managers and clients

2004-06-23 Thread John Allsopp
Hi all, if you'd like a taste of the kind of thing your boss or client will hear at the briefing next week http://we04.com/briefing.cfm then I've just posted "5 things you should ask your web development team" http://www.westciv.com/style_master/house/good_oil/5_question

Re: [WSG] web standards related rss feeds?

2004-06-23 Thread John Allsopp
/dog_or_higher/index.rdf Maxine at westciv does Redemption Through Standards http://westciv.typepad.com/standards/index.rdf and you'll find a swag of great web development blogs in her blog roll john John Allsopp :: westciv :: http://www.westciv.com/ sof

[WSG] Problem with floated divs in gallery site

2004-06-24 Thread John Penlington
o create the gallery with three (or whatever) images to a line.   Just need a bit of help over the final alignment hump.   Many thanks to all who have helped me in the past.   Cheers,   John Penlington    

Re:[WSG] Problem with floated divs in gallery site

2004-06-24 Thread John Penlington
Hi all, Thanks for those suggestions. Unfortunately, my client requires the thumbnail galleries to align exactly as I've shown with the table layout - caption under image. The test page is at: http://www.bluemountainsgardener.info/fgtest/max_miller.asp I cannot control either the height or width

RE: [WSG] Problem with floated divs in gallery site

2004-06-24 Thread John Penlington
.asp Finally, Nick ... About those non-breaking spaces in the floated divs ... just junk from a much earlier version. I've removed them in the final version. Thanks, everyone for your help. I've really enjoyed this exercise. Only been doing full CSS web standards for the past six m

[WSG] What do browsers download?

2004-06-29 Thread John Horner
let you know what I found out in a second email a bit later, but I thought I'd raise the question for your interest/discussion first. "Have You Validated Your Code?" John Horner(+6

Re: [WSG] What do browsers download?

2004-06-29 Thread John Horner
l, that's the origin of the problem... jh "Have You Validated Your Code?" John Horner(+612 / 02) 9333 2110 Senior De

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