Re: [WSG] best formatting for alt text

2010-11-12 Thread Christian Montoya
are using images for text, you should still wrap them semantically. -- -- Christian Montoya mappdev.com :: christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] Google 'X-ray' banner

2010-11-08 Thread Christian Montoya
In the future, right click, Open Image in New Tab. At least if you are using Google Chrome... http://www.google.com/logos/2010/xraydiscovery2010-ps.gif -- -- Christian Montoya mappdev.com :: christianmontoya.net *** List

Re: [WSG] CSS rollovers for images?

2010-10-19 Thread Christian Montoya
to expect? I think people might expect a larger version of a thumbnail when they click on it, not necessarily when they hover over it. I guess it depends on how you would indicate to the user that this functionality exists. -- -- Christian Montoya mappdev.com :: christianmontoya.net

Re: [WSG] Image Maps

2010-10-14 Thread Christian Montoya
to use an image map. So yes, there are people out there still using image maps. I'm one of them. But not by choice. -- -- Christian Montoya mappdev.com :: christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] :: makeready ::

2009-12-22 Thread Christian Montoya
, instead of vertically, or if they were not present and the 3 sets were displayed as a horizontal sliding ribbon. In essence, more of a pagination view instead of disparate vertical blocks. -- -- Christian Montoya mappdev.com :: christianmontoya.net

Re: [WSG] Remove CSS inheritance property

2009-06-01 Thread Christian Montoya
across browsers, it's better to have a base reset that sets an exact default, which this framework has done for you. -- -- Christian Montoya mappdev.com :: christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

[WSG] CSS 3 Media Queries iPhone / Opera Mini 4

2009-05-29 Thread Christian Montoya
will not understand the second example and therefore not render any screen styles at all. What is the preferred course of action here? Can I really inject a media query into all of my link media attributes without affecting older browsers? -- -- Christian Montoya mappdev.com :: christianmontoya.net

[WSG] Problems with IE 6 on a simple example page

2009-05-28 Thread Christian Montoya
? Any help solving these three problems would be greatly appreciated! -- -- Christian Montoya mappdev.com :: christianmontoya.net -- -- Christian Montoya mappdev.com :: christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] Span within a li

2009-05-11 Thread Christian Montoya
item361. Is it possible? Note... only the 'item361'; not item111 or item359, nor 'current'. li.item361 span { [styles go here] } -- -- Christian Montoya mappdev.com :: christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] Safari background image problem with transparent PNGs

2009-03-31 Thread Christian Montoya
Would someone please post a solution to this problem in Safari's rendering rather than criticizing the example posted or insisting on an alternate route? For f***'s sakes already. Regards not accepted, -- Christian Montoya mappdev.com :: christianmontoya.net

[WSG] Safari background image problem with transparent PNGs

2009-03-30 Thread Christian Montoya
here: http://blueprintcss.org/img/shift-safari.png I've looked around for a possible fix for this but found nothing. It goes away if I use: background-attachment:fixed but that doesn't fit the design I'm trying to make. Any ideas? -- -- Christian Montoya mappdev.com :: christianmontoya.net

Re: [WSG] IE8: Extensions to CSS

2009-03-26 Thread Christian Montoya
... because 5 years down the road, there's always a chance that a new property will become a candidate for an upcoming CSS spec. At least they followed the convention of prefixing the extensions. -- -- Christian Montoya mappdev.com :: christianmontoya.net

Re: [WSG] Browser Backwards Compatibility -- How far back?

2009-03-14 Thread Christian Montoya
! site mike also work with IE 5.0, but they won't lose sleep if it doesn't. I think it's safe to say that if your client wants to guarantee support for an older browser not in this chart, then you should charge extra. -- -- Christian Montoya mappdev.com :: christianmontoya.net

Re: [WSG] Implication of empty divs

2009-02-08 Thread Christian Montoya
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Ben Lau bensan...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Are there any (seriously) bad implications of having empty DIVs around your HTML document? No. p.s. ignore all the long-winded answers. -- -- Christian Montoya mappdev.com :: christianmontoya.net

Re: [WSG] Opera Targeting?!

2009-02-03 Thread Christian Montoya
dead and stable to be two entirely different things. Dead is more akin to abandoned or unsupported. And it's still entirely possible that while Microsoft is supporting IE 7, they could release a patch for it, if they ever decide they need to. -- -- Christian Montoya mappdev.com

Re: [WSG] Website review : http://webprocafe.com

2009-01-16 Thread Christian Montoya
sections, etc. Why so many? It takes attention away from the other links. -- -- Christian Montoya mappdev.com :: christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] embedding quicktime .mov cross-platform

2009-01-15 Thread Christian Montoya
My recommendation is that you convert the movies to FLV and use a standard Flash FLV player. You'll find better support that way, and you can do things like basic streaming, rather than just putting the videos on the page with object or embed. -- -- Christian Montoya mappdev.com

Re: [WSG] Title attribute

2009-01-11 Thread Christian Montoya
thought the Title attribute was the anchor text. a href=...THIS is the anchor text/a -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] Chrome and Safari render the same...or do they?

2009-01-08 Thread Christian Montoya
) And this, my friends, is why web developers like me always insist that specs should be more specific instead of being so flexible. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] valid lightbox++ ??

2008-12-16 Thread Christian Montoya
. Maybe you could try to find a way to use the class= attribute to pass your options to Lightbox++, or use a similar plugin for jQuery that allows options to be submitted via the metadata plugin. This way you won't have to rely on putting incorrect attributes in your tags. -- -- Christian Montoya

Re: [WSG] Downloading Fonts

2008-12-09 Thread Christian Montoya
the browser makers disagree about the Right Way (tm) to do it. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join

Re: [WSG] Acceptable JavaScript Coding Practice?

2008-12-09 Thread Christian Montoya
of gotchas out there. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

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

2008-11-25 Thread Christian Montoya
don't even bother with GIFs anymore, the 8-bit PNGs come out smaller almost every time. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

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

2008-11-25 Thread Christian Montoya
PNGs will not cut the job, and GIFs are, again, majority of the time smaller and better. Brett, I am afraid that you might be using a bad image processing program that does not do a good job of optimizing PNGs. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net

Re: HTML reached end of life?? (Was: Re: [WSG] Sorry Link)

2008-11-24 Thread Christian Montoya
?? Don't believe everything you read on the Internet! -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm

Re: [WSG] HTML/XHTML/XML - Question about the future of.

2008-11-21 Thread Christian Montoya
their markup language with data from Facebook. It's not just a valid use of XHTML; it's actually a useful one, too. http://developers.facebook.com/connect.php But unless I'm doing something that justifies it, I stick to HTML 4.01. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net

Re: [WSG] Text-only version

2008-11-20 Thread Christian Montoya
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Steve Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can do a lot of what Betsie does using CSS but the one thing you can't do is replace the images with their 'alt' attributes. Does this solve some problem? -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net

Re: [WSG] Animated gifs

2008-11-20 Thread Christian Montoya
this is a bad idea! Show him some good looking websites that are similar in their style but don't rely on animation. Make him think it was HIS idea. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http

[WSG] Disappearing legends in IE 6

2008-11-17 Thread Christian Montoya
in advance. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] Disappearing legends in IE 6

2008-11-17 Thread Christian Montoya
what good would come of applying negative margins to legends, I'm going to remove them for good. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] img cannot be contained within the body?

2008-11-06 Thread Christian Montoya
anyway, but am just curious. The specs say that inline elements have to be contained within block level elements. IMG is inline, DIV is block. BODY is neither. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] JavaScript clarification please

2008-10-24 Thread Christian Montoya
though Javascript has objects, I think the style of writing it is more accurately described by the prototype model. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] CSS font-size-adjust

2008-10-21 Thread Christian Montoya
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 7:14 AM, Rob Schumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Christian, Christian Montoya wrote on 20-10-2008: http://unitinteractive.com/blog/2008/06/26/better-css-font-stacks/ Back in September 2006 I wrote a piece that reached some similar conclusions to that above http

[WSG] CSS font-size-adjust

2008-10-20 Thread Christian Montoya
. [1] http://blueprintcss.org -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] CSS font-size-adjust

2008-10-20 Thread Christian Montoya
please read the body of my email instead of just looking at the title and then post a response that is on-topic? -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] CSS font-size-adjust

2008-10-20 Thread Christian Montoya
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 8:41 PM, David Hucklesby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:36:26 -0400, Christian Montoya wrote: - What's the support across browsers / machines for the font-size-adjust property? - Is adjusting the aspect value bad form? Is this as bad as letter-spacing

Re: [WSG] CSS font-size-adjust

2008-10-20 Thread Christian Montoya
please read the body of my email instead of just looking at the title and then post a response that is on-topic? -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] Flash replace Javascript in Future?

2008-10-16 Thread Christian Montoya
. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] Browser loading images issue

2008-10-15 Thread Christian Montoya
/employee_listing.html Stylesheet is: http://www.cpwrehab.com/styles.css I noticed you have some CSS hacks like: * html #container, * html #headercontainer { height: 1%; overflow: visible; } If you remove those, does this problem go away? -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net

Re: [WSG] best practices for using access keys

2008-09-07 Thread Christian Montoya
than just the standard mouse keyboard, don't use accesskeys. Don't use tabindex either. I hate running into cookie-cutter weblogs and such that don't need these things but use them anyway, making the expected use-case scenarios very confusing. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net

Re: [WSG] Google chrome... Accessibility coming very soon???

2008-09-05 Thread Christian Montoya
software/devices for a proprietary browser. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL

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

2008-09-04 Thread Christian Montoya
. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

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

2008-09-03 Thread Christian Montoya
they are not in Chrome (Safari on Windows has a compatibility layer), or if it is a older branch. I'm thinking more the former. Could someone tell me if it has Google Download Accelerator or other Google Toolbar features built in? I'm just wondering how much is under the hood... -- -- Christian

Re: [WSG] Facebook downgrading support for IE6

2008-09-02 Thread Christian Montoya
://siteanalytics.compete.com/google.com+myspace.com+facebook.com/?metric=uv -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm

Re: [WSG] Skype changing format of my pages

2008-08-26 Thread Christian Montoya
didn't break! -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] resetting input boxes

2008-08-08 Thread Christian Montoya
henchman lurking in the shadows, ready to strike when margin and padding have been defeated. Eric Meyer's CSS reset is old and outdated. gotta run, hope that helps. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] resetting input boxes

2008-08-07 Thread Christian Montoya
for form styling. And some will render a completely bland form if you apply the simplest of resets. So I don't know if there's much more that can be done past what Blueprint already offers. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net

Re: [WSG] Pop-Ups (BOM)

2008-07-17 Thread Christian Montoya
is played. The other option is an error message that appears in the document flow. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org

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

2007-12-16 Thread Christian Montoya
it was something called outsourcing. So, yeah. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL

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

2007-12-16 Thread Christian Montoya
system, and OOo appeals to the same powers-that-be as Opera. Do you follow the news about the companies you support? -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

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

2007-12-13 Thread Christian Montoya
than when we were discussing the target lawsuit. Windows is known for supporting many drivers and programs out-of-the-box. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

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

2007-12-13 Thread Christian Montoya
. Regardless, I think Opera struck when the iron was hot and I can see this having a lot of traction. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] preserve whitespace

2007-12-11 Thread Christian Montoya
in the value of a table data cell. I could use pre /pre around the data. Or I could use an nbsp; for each leading blank. Any others? What is the standard way to do it? I would recommend pre over nbsp;, that way the data itself would stay clean. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net

Re: [WSG] Browser test: Construct

2007-12-09 Thread Christian Montoya
On Dec 9, 2007 3:21 AM, Philippe Wittenbergh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 9, 2007, at 4:37 PM, Christian Montoya wrote: Is there any way at all to prevent the FAYT behavior? If I apply return false, will that work? I don't know :-) Nobody ever managed to block FAYT, seen from here

[WSG] Browser test: Construct

2007-12-08 Thread Christian Montoya
supported. If I could get some tests on older browsers and other operating systems, that would be great. Thanks in advance! -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] Browser test: Construct

2007-12-08 Thread Christian Montoya
On 12/8/07, Philippe Wittenbergh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 9, 2007, at 11:49 AM, Christian Montoya wrote: I just created a layout tool: http://lab.christianmontoya.com/ construct/ [...] If I could get some tests on older browsers and other operating systems, that would

Re: [WSG] Disabling Fonts in Font Stacks

2007-11-28 Thread Christian Montoya
sure there are not any problems with one font not being available, but aside from changing the stylesheet or removing the font, I don't seem to be able to do this. If you use pixels for font-sizing, the text will be the same size regardless of which font is used. -- -- Christian Montoya

Re: [WSG] Validation questions

2007-11-26 Thread Christian Montoya
with CDATA, I don't have a specific example but look that up and you'll find your solution. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] SIte Maps?

2007-11-21 Thread Christian Montoya
and you don't need a sitemap. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

[WSG] Site content not showing up in Firefox on Leopard

2007-11-20 Thread Christian Montoya
Here is a screenshot of a page from my site in Firefox 2.0.0.9 on Leopard 10.5.1: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thephotoherald/2049540131/ I have no idea why so much text is not appearing at all. Could someone with Leopard look into this for me? Thanks in advance. -- -- Christian Montoya

Re: [WSG] Help (another topic)

2007-11-10 Thread Christian Montoya
, do not e-mail the list about programming questions. ?php echo $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; ? in a .php file and the rest of the file can just be plain HTML. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] POSH article question

2007-11-02 Thread Christian Montoya
cover all the bases. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] POSH article question

2007-11-01 Thread Christian Montoya
, and yet the buttons for these say i and b! Annoying! -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help

Re: [WSG] multilingual website advice

2007-11-01 Thread Christian Montoya
/implementation/archives/internationalization-of-documents-documentation-16608 Another issue is graphics... if you've got any stock images of people like some sites do, you have to think about what certain cultures might think about how people dress. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net

Re: [WSG] SilverLight

2007-10-30 Thread Christian Montoya
On 10/30/07, Derek Featherstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/30/07, Christian Montoya wrote: On 10/30/07, Derek Featherstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian - do you have a reference for that anywhere? I'd be really interested in seeing it (as I'm sure others would be too!) Just

Re: [WSG] Re: worst site I've seen lately

2007-10-29 Thread Christian Montoya
enough to look through their catalog. Maybe my tolerance for pain is lower than yours. It's just too hard to go through them all. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] SilverLight

2007-10-29 Thread Christian Montoya
Silverlight and Flash is that Silverlight is rendered XML while Flash is a compiled format. Therefore, Microsoft claims that Silverlight is much easier for screen readers, search spiders, etc. to work with. We'll see if things really do work out that way. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net

Re: [WSG] SilverLight

2007-10-29 Thread Christian Montoya
On 10/30/07, Derek Featherstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/29/07, Christian Montoya wrote: ... Silverlight is rendered XML while Flash is a compiled format. Therefore, Microsoft claims that Silverlight is much easier for screen readers, search spiders, etc. to work with. Christian - do

Re: [WSG] SilverLight

2007-10-29 Thread Christian Montoya
with Flash... not that I'm bashing Flash here. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL

Re: [WSG] Re: worst site I've seen lately

2007-10-28 Thread Christian Montoya
. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash

2007-10-23 Thread Christian Montoya
types who are all involved in advertising/licensing related functions and they all use Firefox by choice. Have you ever asked your users what they actually use? Do you have any stats on browsers (Google analytics will tell you this)? If not, you are just making a poor assumption. -- -- Christian

Re: [WSG] Leopard mail and standards

2007-10-22 Thread Christian Montoya
.. it doesn't. You should do a test and send us your results. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join

Re: [WSG] Web Standards In Colleges and Universities

2007-10-21 Thread Christian Montoya
to him that people can do some really great stuff by hand and it's cheaper that way than relying on commercial software and if they can make it look just as good (or better), then he shouldn't force them to use Dreamweaver. At least that would be something of a compromise. -- -- Christian Montoya

Re: [WSG] Jquery and/or Yahoo UI

2007-10-13 Thread Christian Montoya
-friendly framework like jQuery, you may as well take advantage of the face that it makes all the proper DOM methods very easy to use. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] Jquery and/or Yahoo UI

2007-10-13 Thread Christian Montoya
On 10/13/07, Christian Montoya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/13/07, Jason Foss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry if this is a bit of a newbie question, but what's the issue with innerHTML? But if you are already using a very DOM-friendly framework like jQuery, you may as well take advantage

Re: [WSG] Jquery and/or Yahoo UI

2007-10-13 Thread Christian Montoya
interaction? You are correct. But Simon was also talking about standards compliance, which includes using DOM standards. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] Jquery and/or Yahoo UI

2007-10-12 Thread Christian Montoya
methods and you will be fine. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] DOCTYPE prevents script processing in IE!

2007-10-08 Thread Christian Montoya
. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] Cost of Accessibility

2007-10-05 Thread Christian Montoya
Then they will still have to the right to have a bad, accessible site. The case has nothing to do with that. The case is deciding whether they have the right to discriminate against the blind. Let's all at least get on board with facts, ok? -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net

Re: [WSG] Cost of Accessibility

2007-10-05 Thread Christian Montoya
in your way of analyzing the issue here. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL

Re: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-04 Thread Christian Montoya
little evidence of this. I can't speak at all for Michelle's character but let's not make this a mudsling. It's way off-topic. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Christian Montoya
about the technology behind websites. Well, I'm complaining about the people making peanut-gallery comments on this list who know nothing about business or law. Make the arguments you want based on your opinions, but don't make things up. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net

Re: [WSG] Accessible Adobe Photoshop and flash With Jaws

2007-09-26 Thread Christian Montoya
and Photoshop. If I were you, this would be my argument and I would tell them that you should be able to pursue this diploma with whatever technologies you are able to work with. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net

Re: [WSG] question on 'logical tab order'

2007-09-22 Thread Christian Montoya
to set up a tabindex because that always messes with the natural behavior that someone would expect. Browsers are already set up to tab through things linearly, so just place them linearly. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net

Re: [WSG] prettier forms

2007-09-14 Thread Christian Montoya
/200701/styling_form_controls_with_css_revisited/ hope it helps. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join

Re: [WSG] Accessible Open Source CMS

2007-09-12 Thread Christian Montoya
Pattern? http://www.textpattern.com/ I do: use Wordpress http://www.wordpress.org/ -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] Browser Check

2007-09-07 Thread Christian Montoya
be confusing. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] will Eric Meyer�s C SS SCULPTOR put me out of job?

2007-08-27 Thread Christian Montoya
make more money). It won't replace anything. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join

Re: [WSG] Standards and Blogs

2007-08-13 Thread Christian Montoya
/2006/02/13/serve-your-weblog-as-html-401/ -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join

Re: [WSG] IE7 on XP security problems

2007-08-09 Thread Christian Montoya
=65); which is not a FF property, it's an IE ActiveX property. My suggestion is to hide this behind a conditional comment for IE 6 and use some other method with IE 7. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com

Re: [WSG] Who's A Front End Developer?

2007-07-04 Thread Christian Montoya
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[WSG] Site Build It and CSS???

2007-06-29 Thread Christian Montoya
it is to make a CSS template for it. Has anyone on this lists worked with it in the past? Please let me know how it is. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com *** List Guidelines: http

[WSG] Opera and Decimal Percentage Widths

2007-06-26 Thread Christian Montoya
%. It seems that Opera 9+ just doesn't do fractional sizes. Is this a bug in Opera? -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] Safari now on Windows

2007-06-12 Thread Christian Montoya
On 6/11/07, Geoff Pack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Ellis wrote: Now I don't have to buy a Mac... Then how will you test for Safari 1, 2, IE 5 Mac, etc? By posting to the Web Standards Group mailing list (with the subject line, Mac test please). -- -- Christian Montoya

Re: [WSG] Print style sheets

2007-06-08 Thread Christian Montoya
. Any suggestions for how to get around this? Should I have used a select list? Isn't this problem solved by putting return false; in the event handler? Or am I missing something? -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com

Re: [WSG] Recommended screen size

2007-06-04 Thread Christian Montoya
layouts. Specifically can anyone recommend a site dealing with coverting existings layouts to relative sizing. You mean fluid layouts? I have a site for that: cssliquid.com. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com

Re: [WSG] A CMS for POSH sites?

2007-05-25 Thread Christian Montoya
about using semantic HTML (it encourages em and strong at the least) and there are some plugins out there that add microformats support if you are interested in that. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com

Re: [WSG] Converting font size from pt to % or em

2007-05-25 Thread Christian Montoya
Windows' font-scaling to compensate, 1em = 100% = 18px = ?pt. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] Converting font size from pt to % or em

2007-05-25 Thread Christian Montoya
. The point that Felix is making is that setting the body to something small like 62.5% is very destructive, since user stylesheets and user settings usually just override the body rule (and ruin all your specific rules). -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com

Re: [WSG] Converting font size from pt to % or em

2007-05-25 Thread Christian Montoya
On 5/25/07, Paul Novitski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 5/25/2007 03:10 PM, Christian Montoya wrote: I hate to make a quick reply to a long post, but not all designers set body font size to 62.5% when creating websites. It's enough to start at 100% and set nested containers to fractions

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