Really?
I'll give you ten to one that the majority of PC users have no idea what
that key does.
Regards,
Mike
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On Behalf Of ? ???
Sent: 29 September 2008 10:16
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re:
That is a different story though: we are not talking about _replacing_
the home key with a link, we are talking about implementing additional
affordance - if the user does not recognise it, or prefers to do things
differently, then nothing is lost.
Whether the additional noise on the page is a
Does anyone think that WCAG 2.0 will improve the user experience?
Or do you take my view that it only benefits developers,
and that the user experience will be worse in future?
_Personally_ I think that it is basically a retrograde step. Version
one was too complex for most people to fully
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On Behalf Of Brett Patterson
Sent: 24 October 2008 02:25
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] JavaScript clarification please
Oh, most definitely agreed. Sorry if I started an argument, I only
wanted to know
what it was. I
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On Behalf Of Brett Patterson
Sent: 28 October 2008 12:35
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] JavaScript clarification please
When you say support, are you saying that Internet Explorer will not
execute
JavaScript, or it will
That would (probably) be part of the wonders of 'Threaded' view in
Outlook: the 'Thread Closed' message is always filed in a different
place from the thread that you are reading!
Mike
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Unless it is a new extension that I have never heard of, there is no
such thing as 'rollover' in JavaScript.
/correct-pedant
Mike
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On Behalf Of Joe Ortenzi
Sent: 08 November 2008 03:53
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Not sure if it would help in this instance, but what about splitting
this into two files: load a transparent-background logo to quickly load
in front, with the ripples as a background? You may then be able to tile
the background to save a little.
Mike
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From: [EMAIL
If I remember rightly if you are able to save the image with a
transparent background it keeps the file size lower because a
transparent pixel takes less space than a pixel with colour
information.
It may be possible to get better compression on a file that contains
lots of pixels of the
Now I am even more confused!
I was always under the impression that HTML4 and lower were valid SGML.
That XHTML1 and up were valid XML
That XML was valid SGML
So how the ??? does that leave us with either 'serialisation' of the new
language being in-compatible with SGML?
Regards,
Mike
The HTML working group is working on HTML5 which will have two
serialisations.
A tag soup (and emphatically not SGML) serialisation
and an XML serialisation (which they are referring to as XHTML5).
Why do you say that HTML5 will not be valid SGML?
Mike
I am hoping that the live testing/trial that will
be carried out early next year just shows that this
is technically unfeasible. It is quite stupid to be
filtering the internet for everyone in Australia,
when it is much simpler to be done on each individual
PC through the use of software
I suspect that the OP miss-stated the problem. From my understanding, he wants
the BGcolor to extend for _only_ the width of the TEXT, not for the entire
width of the element.
Regards,
Mike
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Sent: Tue 12/2/2008
Do the additional wrapper divs make as much difference to the page
weight as the images that you imply are also required? Eleven extra
bytes is generally nothing compared to an additional image. Unless you
are adding them in four-figure quantities, no amount of DIVs are likely
to cause a problem
I think you may have missed the point of the earlier question - What can
flash bring to the learning environment that cannot be done with HTML,
CSS and JavaScript?
Regards,
Mike
PS: Please print and keep this email, as all paper these days comes from
managed forests, and therefore more trees
Any script that relies on an array being ordered, without actually doing
a sort() is seriously deficient. As you mentioned yourself, this
behaviour is entirely in agreement with the JS spec.
Regards,
Mike
From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org
To my eyes, the reason is that the font itself is larger on the right
hand side. Naturally this will give a larger line-height, unless you
have specified otherwise.
Regards,
Mike
Mike Brockington
Web Development Specialist
www.calcResult.com
www.stephanieBlakey.me.uk
www.edinburgh.gov.uk
This
Marvin,
It is a little hard for us to help you when you do not include the
offending source code.
Regards,
Mike
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From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org]
On Behalf Of Marvin Hunkin
Sent: 12 January 2009 01:37
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Quote: The fact is that many educators have found that they can use
Flash to teach their students effectively.
I think you (and those teachers that you refer to) are mistaking an
effective lesson, for effective teaching.*
Also, I think you mis-understand where the problem lies. Because of the
There were a couple of articles on SitePoint (if I recall correctly) six
months ago or so, that covered this, in a fairly positive light.
I'm afraid I'm not in a position to chase after them right now; perhaps
someone else does have the time?
Mike
Not to mention optimum line lengths, amount of whitespace, justification
...
It is unfortunately far too common to assume that lessons learned
centuries ago are no longer relevant, just because they weren't digital.
Actually, that was one of the big changes then: type was inherently
fixed-width,
That's part of why I posed it as a question, not as a statement.
Though, from what I recall, part of the problem was that the mechanism
of a DTD was not capable of making such a requirement, and the DTD was
regarded as more definitive than the written spec.
Mike
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In my own personal opinion, if you get into the situation where you want
to use a selector like:
.class1.class2 { stuff }
then it is time to do a little re-factoring. The whole point of allowing
an element to have two or more classes is so that each class remains
semantically logical. As you
Sounds like a case for a virtual machine, both the Microsoft and VMWare
products are free.
Mike
From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org]
On Behalf Of Brett Patterson
Sent: 26 February 2009 15:21
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
David,
I think you are reading things differently to me. I don't know the
authors true intention, but I read his words as being a call for anyone
who wants to see ARIA implemented to join their team, not necessarily
someone who is on the ARIA team.
I do also agree with the sentiments though -
I believe a best practice is for your web pages to use the same TARGET
attribute value so links from your page basically are updating the
same
new window and not creating a new window for every link followed
from your website.
Jon
I would have to disagree with that. If the user actually
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From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org]
On Behalf Of Kay in t Veen - Gmail
Sent: 13 March 2009 10:59
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Illinois Functional Web Accessibility Evaluator 1.0
Released!
double h1 tags are never
The only difference that you are likely to see is going to be due to a
different set of default fonts - iirc a few more were introduced with
Vista.
Regards,
Mike
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From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org]
On Behalf Of Peter Mount
Sent: 15
Hi,
One of the very first pages that I tested in the released version of IE8
was:
http://www.calcresult.com/reference/text/unicode-reference.html
The rendering of that page is slightly broken (at the moment) in IE6 and
IE7 in that the right-hand column overlaps some of the content. What
confused
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From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org]
On Behalf Of Chris F.A. Johnson
Sent: 25 March 2009 18:03
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] IE8 compatibility mode
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Gunlaug S?rtun wrote:
The start html tag is
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From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org on behalf of Gunlaug Sørtun
Sent: Thu 4/2/2009 6:15 PM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] IE7 CSS fix
It's far more reliable than CSS hacks, which may cause problems in
future browsers.
I don't agree with that
For the record, the problem that I was having seems to be limited to one
installation - everyone else who has tested this has had no issues, so I
am going to assume that there _isn't_ anything wrong with my code until
proved otherwise.
Mike
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From:
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 1:31 AM, Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
aboeh...@addictivemedia.com.au wrote:
I went through WCAG 1 and WCAG 2, and I expected an appropriate
guideline to
show up under Priority 1 (or Level A), but nothing. Or am I
missing
something in the obscure
Personally, I think there should have been a companion article
explaining why designers can't write code.
This is a classic example: the whole point of setting the base font size
to this value is to make the maths easier when sizing all other font
rules; but that itself exposes the fact that the
Tee,
My original comment was meant to be taken light-heartedly, but was also
taken in direct response to the article quoted by CK:
Why Programmers Suck at CSS Design
http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/169/
Your comment itself seems to be contradicting itself:
If developers _are_
There must be more to this than what you have said, because:
Li.item361 a span { what:ever; }
Should work okay, indeed is probably too verbose/explicit.
Mike
Mike Brockington
Web Development Specialist
www.calcResult.com
www.stephanieBlakey.me.uk
www.edinburgh.gov.uk
This message does not
Judging by the lack of responses, I am probably not the only one who
didn't understand your question.
Particularly, you seem to be using the term 'image mapping' to mean
something other than using an image-map element, but I'm not aware of a
standard technique for this.
Regards,
Mike
Kevin,
I think that was meant to be a hint that we might be able to debug your
code if we could see some of it - very few of us enjoy the extra
challenge of 'working blind'.
Mike
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From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org]
On Behalf Of
Marvin,
Have you been able to confirm whether this is actually a problem with
the display of your page, or a problem with the way that Jaws is
interacting with IE ?
It might be that the font _is_ Times, but Jaws is mis-leading you. Not
too sure what else you would be able to 'see', but have you
The link to the PDF version has an extra folder in it, that should not be
there, the actual link to the PDF is:
http://keryx.se/resources/html-elements.pdf
Regards,
Mike
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From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On
Behalf Of Keryx Web
I don't really see how the ability to download fonts (that is what you are
talking about, isn't it?), will affect web accessibility significantly.
It will have a big impact on design, but the technological change surely only
affects the back-end of the web browser, not the actual display.
PS I
One of the main points of using Unicode is that you don't need to use
entities, other than for a handful of chars used by HTML.
I always keep a good reference handy, so that I can copy and paste
straight into my files, the one I use is:
Chris,
I am not sure what system you tested this on, but it doesn't work on any
system I tried, and indeed it shouldn't: the marker is a part of the LI
not of the UL.
Regards,
Mike
Mike Brockington
Web Development Specialist
www.calcResult.com
www.stephanieBlakey.me.uk
www.edinburgh.gov.uk
Not sure that I understand the question, but none of the CSS that you
show here applies to the code snippet that you included: they have no
classes in common.
Regards,
Mike
Mike Brockington
Web Development Specialist
www.calcResult.com
www.stephanieBlakey.me.uk
www.edinburgh.gov.uk
This
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From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org]
On Behalf Of Philippe Wittenbergh
Sent: 01 November 2009 23:05
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] [OT] Google search/index/webmaster help
Because that file is being served as
When I look at your homepage in IE7, the first image in the sequence
loads correctly, but then the slideshow continues with images that are
less than an inch wide, at the top left of their container. Was this
what you meant about it being broken; I noticed a second email that
implied the whole
There is actually a fourth option, which is a pair of buttons, which is a good
idea if both choices require an action, such as feeding on to a different form,
or if this is the last action of the form.
For me, the main thing to think about is 'negative responses' - with a radio
button you get
The basic plan that I follow is to use % for structural items, which generally
need to be proportional to other structural items, and ultimately the viewport
itself.
Then, pixels purely for borders and images,
And EMs only for text.
Margins and padding can be either pixels, EMs or % depending
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From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On
Behalf Of Thierry Koblentz
Sent: 30 October 2010 20:30
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: RE: [WSG] A simple IE and JS detection method?
snip
On the second pahe I've checked
Have you tried making the border colour (for just that one cell) to be white,
or transparent, or whatever matches the background?
Regards,
Michael
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Behalf Of Grant Bailey
Sent: 30 September 2011 10:01
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