There was a discussion on this on Roger Johansson's site last year:
http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200608/selecting_country_names_in_forms/
On Thu, 24 May 2007 08:58:16 +1000, Sarah Peeke (XERT)
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Hi folks,
Just wondering what you think about form usability
I use Fireworks.
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Hi there,
Just a quick one - what do people most commonly mock up web site designs
in? (Photoshop?)
Also, if possible, Linux and GPL or similar would be great!!
Cheers,
Doug
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You could probably use this techique:
http://alistapart.com/articles/sprites
On Fri, 25 May 2007 11:44:15 +1000, Felisimina Jom
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Hi Everyone
We are trying to put together a map of Australia where the states appear
on hover and are clickable.
As I understand i
Surely Wordpress (can't speak for Textpattern) will output whatever you
put into your templates, including doctype?
On Fri, 25 May 2007 13:55:47 +1000, David Hucklesby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Following up on Lisa McLaughlin's recent query about blogging software,
I wonder if anyone can
But sometimes at least one phone number might be required but others are
optional (e.g. mobile, home, fax etc) - doesn't seem as logical to split
your phone number fields up into different groupings.
On Mon, 28 May 2007 10:26:31 +1000, Mike at Green-Beast.com
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M
Looks good. Only comment I'd make is about your skills and their ratings:
at the moment that information is only really of value to people already
in the web dev game and not really useful to anyone who doesn't know
anything about web development but who wants a website done. If you're not
Additionally, code redundancy is also a problem when it comes to
templates (though, some would say this is a feature of EE)
I've not found that so far. Once you get your head around the way you can
embed templates in other templates, it's just like using includes.
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I liked what I saw of Silverstripe but unfortunately it has a certain PHP
memory limit requirement which my web host wasn't willing to change so it
ruled it out for me unless I wanted to change hosts.
On Tue, 29 May 2007 08:50:15 +1000, Robin Gorry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have head v
;ve built a page where an animation is
positioned beneath some other elements, and a button is not clickable in
Firefox.
Thanks,
John
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It probably shouldn't be used for pairing as you describe, but rather a
group of inputs that all share some common-ground. In my case I use them
to contain groups of required versus non-required inputs as well as the
type of information sought (contact info, etc.).
Sorry to bring this up aga
Thanks, everybody, for your help on this issue.
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I've not had that much experience with DW/Contribute, but I know they've
both got pretty ordinary CSS support which means in a lot of cases you
have to create separate Design Time Stylesheets just to get your layout to
look presentable in Contribute.
On Thu, 31 May 2007 09:50:33 +1000, Marc
m going to fix in the next
days.
By the way, thank you all in advance for your
kind support.
Kind regards,
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Consultant,Usability Specialist & Trainerhttp://www.webnauts.net
example in IE
with 12,8 px.
Can you please be more specific? Am I getting something wrong here?
And at last, I have not claimed here that I am perfect, while if I did so, I
would not need to
ask for a review here, or elsewhere...
Thanks and regards,
John
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different kind of control, for
instance a SELECT menu. The value of "none" can be the default, and
your script can chuck an error if it sees "none" submitted.
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If you want to get good data from your form, and you have two radio
buttons, then neither should be checked by default. Your CGI script or
whatever should do the checking and return the form with "you must
select a button to proceed".
the difference between a radio butt
At 11:36 AM +1100 2/2/05, John Allsopp wrote:
John,
the difference between a radio button set and checkboxes is (going
way back to Mac UI guidelines in the 80s) is that a radio button
group always has a value
[snip -- I did know the difference between checkboxes and radio buttons!]
If you&#x
John,
[snip -- I did know the difference between checkboxes and radio
buttons!]
I was almost certain you did :-)
If you're saying that a set of radio two or more buttons must always
be shown with at least one pre-selected, i.e. as soon as the page
loads, one is already selected, then ther
heartily agree, Mike.
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buttons, you'd need a label that said "you do not have to answer this
question" and then you have to hope the user sees it (whereas in the
popup menu case, they see it while making the choice.)
And we also avoid the problem of them checking a radio button then not
being able to un
Does anybody have any idea as to why the following turned up at the forum?
> hi i am fine. what is going on there?
>i will contact u afterwards.i am on vacation
>take care.bye
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Cynthia Says, WAVE and with some care
with Bobby.
Off topic: What are all those Meta Tags for?
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support it) and
due to other complications.
Your new window does not open on your privacy policy page to send you an
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Have a look here to see how to solve this:
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forums may be found
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TeamMy kindest regards,John S.
Britsioshttp://www.webnauts.net
/articles/accesskeyconflicts/37
Even though I still use accesskeys on my site.
About your Meta Tags, you just spoil your SEO. From all that stuff you only
need the title, description, keywords and the robots.
Besides, make your JavaScript and CSS external.
Kind regards,
John S. Britsios
http
Zachary,
You are right. As I wrote in my previous mail, I use accesskeys. And mainly
for the reason you mentioned.
PDA, Mobile, etc devices. But I use numbers for accesskeys.
Kind regards,
John S. Britsios
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ers don't respect it. It doesn't offer a rationale.
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27;re off-topic.
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with Molly Holzschlag and Eric Meyer on
Women on the Web, while I (John Allsopp) am organizing a panel with
Dave Shea, Doug Bowman, Jon Hicks and Eris Free on Web design and
development in 2010.
As to Neerav's comment about price, WE and SxSW are two quite radically
different events.
SxSW con
ot always bad things.
Right now, everyone on the web is working to implement standard based
browsers except one. Who is it and why?
John
oh, and before anyone accuses me of being a raving communist, I run a
business, am a director of two, and try to be as ethical as possible in
all my busines
in there, but the goal is on security."
IE 6 buggy rendering engine it is then.
Sigh
john
p.s. developers everywhere are excited by this, checkout Slashdot, etc ad nauseam. Why? Cause no one RTFAs. The fineprint is that this is IE6 SP2 all over again.
If I were a cynic, I'd say this
Excuses!)"
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html which was very
entertaining, but I'm not sure I got it or I wouldn't be asking...
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roman letters. So I can set the whole
page to be vietnamese I guess and it won't stop the English being
English... Or would that cause a problem?
Thanks again,
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d you drop me a line offlist and
I'll put you in touch with them.
Thanks in advance,
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after this kind of thing, fonts, keyboard layouts and
so on, and they use and recommend Unicode here:
http://www.vps.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=91 so they're solidly on
board with standards too.
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such a simple thing.
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ns.
Just as an aside why
and not
.whatever {shape: circle}
?
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ing directly related to
table-cell display either.
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What I want is the ability to align the content of a DIV, for
instance, or any block element, vertically, and I'm asking why it
wasn't included in CSS-1.
I can't think of any policy-type reason why it wasn't, that's all, and
I don't see vertical alignmen
it just a matter of style?
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ilters/css_only/import_single_quotes_no_url.html
but I'm guessing that the fact it's inside
gets around that? Hacks within hacks within hacks...
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is being used by
the person reporting the problem.
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At 09:58 AM 02/24/2005, David R wrote:
>...But wouldn't it have just been easier to go over the selectors primer and
>learn the properties as you need them?
I did a search on this newsgroup and couldn't find a URL.
Is this available on the web?
Thanks!
.../j
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lor:transparent" or
"color:inherit" coming out lime green due to the browser's desperate
attempt to interpret it as if it were a hex code "#TRANSP"?
It's a minor bug, but a very eye-catching one as you can imagine.
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Dear Helmut,
You have two errors.
Line 2: A quoted string cannot be immediately followed by text. It must be
followed by a space or the end of the tag.
Line 7: The "EMBED" element cannot be used here. It is not contained in an
element that allows its use.
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" via the context menu -- what's the reason for
that?
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tandard, it was fine.
Which led him to ask a very sensible question -- why isn't there some
kind of identifier like the DOCTYPE for CSS?
Any thoughts?
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I imagine something has got in a loop.
I know Peter F is busy tonight, and I'm not going to call him to ruin
his night off, I will call Russ.
In the meantime, if everyone can be a little patient while the problem
is solved, that will be best.
John
On 09/04/2005, at 6:36 PM, Ryan wrote:
Ye
em by telling them they should follow that set of steps...
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ns? We're scratching our heads...
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tty much exactly the same...
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How about trying the same resolution so the rendering is the same?
Didn't think of that. Good point.
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aught many of us before!
Not stupid at all, but I checked that and no, it's all happening via
HTTP from a web server, no local paths involved.
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John Horner schrieb:
Not stupid at all, but I checked that and no, it's all happening
via HTTP from a web server, no local paths involved.
If it's not too much trouble, could we see an URL? Ingo
It'd be no trouble at all, but it's all happening inside our network,
so it&#x
or: missing ) after argument list
myfunction('Don't Look Now')
^
anyone got an explanation? Am I missing something obvious? It's the
same if I use ' instead.
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the JavaScript.
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and then unescaped it at the "other end"... I can stop scratching my head now!
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var msg="Don't Look Now";
Don't Look Now
Very smart Bruce. The other method's more compact, but that's some
good lateral thinking.
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Dear Sara,
When a document begins with an declaration. IE 6 for Windows doen't see the Doctype, so
it lapses into "quirks mode".
Therefore I would suggest you not to use it.
Kind regards,
John S. Britsios
Accessibility & SEO Consultant,
Usability Specialist & Trainer
n a negative z-index, and the parent a positive one (or 0)That ought to do it,John John Allsopp style master :: css editor :: http://www.westciv.com/style_master support forum :: http://support.westciv.com blog :: dog or higher :: http://westciv.typepad.com/dog_or_higher
ight anyone could shed on this...
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rt version of why this is a problem is "in HTML, & followed by a
string of characters is a character entity, like é for an e
with an accent". The validator "thinks" you've used an unknown entity.
ent go together, isn't it?
Number 5 on the Eightfold Path is that one should "earn one's living
in a righteous way".]
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y arguments are about speed:
faster redesigns and updates, but also smaller pages for faster
downloads.
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obody's mentioned of course is that
search engines don't know it's a dynamically-generated page and are
therefore more likely to index it.
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sense.
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nd were developed in Australia by people who have been involved with Web Standards since the very beginning(oh yeah, that includes me)http://westciv.com/courses/index.htmlWe also have a lot of very useful free training resources too,http://westciv.com/style_master/house/index.htmlthanksjohn John All
or Mac), now at Technorati,
is one of the drivers of microformats, along with Eric Meyer. Both
will be speaking at Web Essentials later in the year, and I've little
doubt Microformats will be on the agenda there.
John
On 26/05/2005, at 1:32 PM, Andrew Krespanis wrote:
On 5/24/05, Ben Curt
I believe that, and all my reading leads me to believe that
elements may only contain other inline elements (not including
elements.
Can anyone point me to the definitive part of the HTML spec that says
this?
Thanks,
john
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Lea,
that would be this bit yes?
j
On 26/05/2005, at 4:47 PM, Lea de Groot wrote:
On Thu, 26 May 2005 16:30:30 +1000, John Allsopp wrote:
Can anyone point me to the definitive part of the HTML spec that
says this?
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/links.html#edef-A
is one
fically mention this with regard
to anchors.
I'd say so too.
I've "known" this for years, but in preparing something quite
technical, I needed to satisfy myself it was 100% the case.
thanks
j
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Thanks Lea,
all sorted now,
john
On 26/05/2005, at 5:20 PM, Lea de Groot wrote:
Yep, as Ingo says, the '%inline;' means 'only inline elements in here'
and the '-(A)' means 'except that exciting one, the anchor'.
John Allsopp
style master
a whole nutha post
j
p.s. any rugby fan WSG members whole live near Bondi, I'll be at the
beach road hotel to watch the Super 12 final (I only say this cause
Peter lives in Bondi too, though he probably quite sensibly hates
rugby :-)
john
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Hi,
Luckily, I thought it a little strange to receive an email from WSG
informing me that I'd been removed from their mailing list. Especially as
the email was from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and contained a download -
which I ignored! I'm just wondering, as I use MailWasher Pro, I could
bounce said email b
em to have been
updated in a year or so.
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> Quick question, I have a client with lots of HTML file that
have inline CSS. (Over 300 docs) I am looking for some
software, or way, that will export this inline css into a
external css file. Or even just move it into a embedded style sheet.
Am not aware on any package that would do this
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Hi Nanna,
I think you'll find that if you give the relevant td's a font size, this
should overcome the problem.
Fingers crossed!
Tim.
>> It may, since the content of tables often does not
>> inherit font
>> settings on a container element or even the body
>> If it has to stay in a table, add a rul
e go a bit easier on those (not so many) few...
As for the bug, Kim I too cannot see any evidence of it. I'm viewing
it on Mac IE 5.1.5, OS 9.1. Could you post a screenshot of what
you're seeing?
HTH,
John
While you're correct in noting that IE on OS9 has been "ditched",
of a fuss than using
CSS counters and content which won't work completely anyway)
john
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ome, so I'd be
happy to be proved wrong.
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Deve
sections and so on
Whether 6 deep is enough I am not entirely sure though, they can get
very complex!
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, is blind.
It definitely pays to stop and think about accessibility when we come
to consider even what may appear quit straightforward aspects of what
we do.
Very good question Richard,
john
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You've already got the answer, but I just wanted to note that:
all browser/platform combinations.
is a bit optimistic! "All"?
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ime to test at the moment.
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Visual Studio? Honestly, who uses that? ;-)
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CoxSent: Thursday, 21 July 2005 9:20 a.m.To:
wsg@webstandardsgroup.orgSubject: [WSG] Unicode in Visual Studio?
For xhtml, css ?
Hi all,
I use Vis
When the ID and the CLASS have the different value on the same
attribute, the ID always wins. However, you can use to
achieve what you want.
Paragraph one
Paragraph two
Paragraph three
Hope that helps
John
Best Regards,
John Yip
Technical Manager
Nano Systems Pty Limited
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Matt,
Thanks for pointing that out!
John
Best Regards,
John Yip
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Nano Systems Pty Limited
226 Victoria Street
BEACONSFIELD, NSW 2015
Tel: +61 2 9341 3366
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We are now providing web hosting
I've read that we should avoid using implicit labels because, while it
shouldn't be any different, in testing it would appear screen readers
can struggle and output misleading info, etc.
/me goes off to find link
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John,
I've been waiting for one of the Australian members of the mailing
list to comment on the new look/code for http://abc.net.au/ so I
might as well raise the issue myself.
I personally had nothing to do with the design, code or any other
aspect of it (apart from being involved
esign - The image replacement techniques, misuse
of flash (rarely is it used well, and even when it is used well, it
tends to be used for everything (text and still graphics as well as
interactive stuff) rather than jsut for what it does well).
Just my not so humble appearance.
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