Re: [WSG] Input Desired

w.w3.org/css-validator/ [4] http://www.positioniseverything.net/ -- -- Damian Sweeney Learning Skills Adviser (online) Language and Learning Skills Unit Instructional Designer, AIRport Project Equity, Language and Learning Programs University of Melbourne 723 Swanston St Parkville 3010 www.services.unimelb.edu.au/ellp/

Re: [WSG] Clearleft.com

back, but when it did the site worked well on other browsers. Cheers, Damian -- -- Damian Sweeney Learning Skills Adviser (online) Language and Learning Skills Unit Instructional Designer, AIRport Project Equity, Language and Learning Programs University of Melbourne 723 Swanston St

[WSG] Verb this link (WAS Click here--reference)

absolutely no confusion as to what you are being asked to do: Register! Don't just look at the registration form and decide whether or not to. In response to Christian's claim - sorry but no one said we were abandoning the title attribute at all! This is a question of usability,

Re: [WSG] Clearleft.com

Hi Andy, Great look and feel. I like the font sizes, they're refreshingly readable. One wierd issue though. In Firefox on Debian (sarge), trying to use the mousewheel dies half way down the page. I usually only encounter problems like this with things like google ads and flash animations, but wit

Re: [WSG] Click here--reference

ister>Forbes Conference. How about: Fill in the href="http://www.forbesconferences.com/?page=register";>Forbes Conference Registration Form. Damian -- -- Damian Sweeney Learning Skills Adviser (online) Language and Learning Skills Unit Instructional Designer, AIRport Project

Re: [WSG] Suckerfish nav moving page background image

There's a js style switcher on the page at the top right for those with better ideas than mine: How about moving the background image info from the body to the #container in layout-centre.css? Damian G'day Here's a screenshot of what I'm experiencing http://media.compliance.org.au/data/

Re: [WSG] Suckerfish nav moving page background image

Seems fine here in FF on Mac. The flyouts cause a horizontal toolbar to appear which makes the vertical one increase, but no jumping backgrounds. Damian Make sure you shrink the browser width down so that the flyouts would cause vertical scrollbars. > > > I have an odd problem with my pag

Re: [WSG] Accessibility, the possibilities

22/05 10:18 PM "Damian Sweeney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent this out: I get a 404 for http://www.alistapart.com/topics/accessibility/ Works for me. and a page full of articles for > http://www.alistapart.com/topics/userscience/accessibility/ 404 Okay, now everybody imme

RE: [WSG] Accessibility, the possibilities

Well, this is curious. I get a 404 for http://www.alistapart.com/topics/accessibility/ and a page full of articles for http://www.alistapart.com/topics/userscience/accessibility/ Can anyone break this deadlock? Damian > From: Damian Sweeney Hmm, alistapart is back with a funky

RE: [WSG] Accessibility, the possibilities

Hmm, alistapart is back with a funky new design and structure alistapart has many articles on accesibility http://www.alistapart.com/topics/accessibility/ should be: http://www.alistapart.com/topics/userscience/accessibility/ Damian **

Re: [WSG] accessibility - opening new windows philosophy

ng the user's > browser / making it more user-friendly. What is the general feeling towards > having pdf and other non-html documents open in a new window? > > -- Damian Sweeney Learning Skills Adviser (online) Language and Learning Skills Unit Instructional Designer, AIRport Proje

Re: [WSG] Learning The DOM

> How much JavaScript do you know? Next to none. > What kind of things about DOM Scripting need clarifying? Potential pitfalls, how browser support differs and what constitutes 'behaviour'. > Do you want to see examples of "cool stuff" with a kind of "DOM > Scripting for dummies" style explanat

RE: [WSG] HR - Presentation or Structure?

been that accessible design from the ground up results in better content, not worse. Cheers, Damian -- Damian Sweeney Learning Skills Adviser (online) Language and Learning Skills Unit Instructional Designer, AIRport Project Equity, Language and Learning Programs University of Melbourne 723 Swanst

RE: [WSG] HR - Presentation or Structure?

Yes the technology (HTML) does not favour it but human practice of communication does. It is not the human practice of communication, but the assumptions we make when authoring the material in the first place - even before it gets to the web. Cheers, Damian -- Damian Sweeney Learning S

Re: [WSG] html nowrap question

Hi Ted, The nowrap attribute is not a valid Strict element (either in HTML or XHTML doctypes). It is a valid attribute in both HTML 4 and XHTML 1.0 Transitional doctypes. However, in XHTML it must have a value (nowrap="nowrap"). This combination is still valid HTML 4 Transitional. I'd suggest usi

Re: [WSG] Character encoding

>> What benefits or problems avoided do you perceive by doing this and >> what other characters are you escaping? > > Lea, I'm not sure why I always escape the dash - perhaps because I can??? > :) > While preparing my recent post about image replacement I was playing with fangs and noticed that I

RE: [WSG] alt tags and image captions

>> -Original Message- >> From: Hope Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Saturday, 4 June 2005 12:40 PM >> To: Web Standards Group >> Subject: [WSG] alt tags and image captions >> >> Having never seen/heard a screen reader in action, I am >> uncertain about how >> to make some aspects

Re: [WSG] why doesn't this validate with w3c.org and what to do about it

TIA -- ::Bruce:: ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******

Re: [WSG] elements and what they can contain

haven't come across one yet, but I'd be curious if there is a need. Cheers, Damian -- Damian Sweeney Learning Skills Adviser (online) Language and Learning Skills Unit Instructional Designer, AIRport Project Equity, Language and Learning Programs University of Melbourne

Re: [WSG] frames

posting to the list & getting help ****** -- Damian Sweeney Learning Skills Adviser (online) Language and Learning Skills Unit Instructional Designer, AIRport Project Equity, Language and Learning Programs University of Melbourne 723 Swanston St

Re: [WSG] Valid scenarios?

> Roger Johansson wrote: > >> Unless I'm misreading the W3C Recommendation, blockquote elements can >> only have block-level content. That makes the second example >> incorrect. From < http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/text.html#h-9.2.2 >: >> So yes, the p (or some other block-level element) is nec

Re: [WSG] The mother of all html references?

the past 6 months or so, and so far it's been fine. Can anyone recommend another on-line reference that they prefer so I can take a look? Cole -- Damian Sweeney Learning Skills Adviser (online) Language and Learning Skills Unit Instructional Designer, AIRport Project Equity, Language and Le

Re: [WSG] Sometimes you just cant help people ...

I still use the 'skip' so as to convey that the link is within the page. Similar logic applies to 'Back/Return to top'. Is my logic flawed in this regard? What do usability gurus out there think? Damian In discussion's I've been involved in, the best link text describes the link's destination,

Re: [WSG] Weird CSS validation issue

Granted, it's weird. What happens if you separate the media declarations? I say that because I noticed a long list of warnings half way down related to a particular media type (not sure which one). It might be that the validator is balking at some styles even though they are valid for the scree

Re: [WSG] Sometimes you just cant help people ...

Actually, you can help people, by using a phrase that is pronounced as intended like 'skip to main content': http://www.stcsig.org/usability/newsletter/0304-observing.html Damian I was talking to a blind friend over the weekend, and since he uses Jaws screen reading software, the subject of we

Re: [WSG] Site critique please

I like the design. You're getting a couple of CSS validation errors. Also, I think you should be consistent in the positioning of your main menu. If you need the left column for sub-navigation inside the site, then use the horizontal style on the home page as well. Damian Hi everyone Would very

Re: [WSG] Positioning text

Try z-index: http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_pos_z-index.asp Damian I am trying to get the graphic logo (CRF logo above) in my header to be positioned behind the grapic and between (CRF) and "This is some text for testing purposes". Does anyone have any ideas? Thank you. HTML: http://www.choroider

Re: [WSG] video standards?

.mov is generally not available for Linux (with the exception of using Codeweavers wine ($$) to run Quicktime for Windows in Linux). .mpg works well (as it does in Mac and Windows). Only some .wmv and .avi files will play (not sure what the distinguishing factor is) in most of the players avail

Re: [WSG] problem with print style sheet

Works here. I printed to pdf using Firefox 1.0PR on Mac OS X. The resulting file can be found at: http://members.iinet.net.au/~damianfs/KDPV.pdf What software is giving you this problem? Damian Hello, I'm working on a site (http://www.cdkd.be/nl/home.php) and th

Re: [WSG] Height in IE6 for Windows

Damian I took out the "min-height:" out. Does that make any change? HTML: http://www.choroideremia.org/New/CRFHeader.htm CSS: http://www.choroideremia.org/New/CRF_css1.css This now looks broken in Firefox (image smaller and too high) and the image doesn't display at all in Safari. You've also now

Re: [WSG] Height in IE6 for Windows

Damian HTML: http://www.choroideremia.org/HNew/CRFHeader.htm I get a 404 error on this URL and can't guess the right page. Sorry. I should check my typing. HTML: http://www.choroideremia.org/New/CRFHeader.htm CSS: http://www.choroideremia.org/New/CRFHeader.htm IE is not your only issue. Safari has

Re: [WSG] Height in IE6 for Windows

have redesigned a header for a web page. Firefox 1.0 displays the HTML and CSS just what I am trying to achieve. However, IE6 ignores the height in " #logowrapper {". Why? And how do I fix it? Thank you. HTML: http://www.choroideremia.org/HNew/CRFHeader.htm I get a 404 error on this URL and can't

RE: [WSG] Help with fieldset in a li

io buttons in a group. This fixes the positioning problem for the list items in Firefox and IE and seems semantically sound to me. No legends are used. Thanks again for the excellent responses, Damian -- Damian Sweeney Instructional Designer, AIRport Project Equity, Language and Learning Programs

RE: [WSG] Help with fieldset in a li

lost password would be in a separate fieldset with new legend of forgotten password. -- Susan R. Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Damian Sweeney Instructional Designer, AIRport Project Equity, Language and Learning Programs University of Melbourne 723 Swanston St Parkville 3010 www.services.unimelb.ed

[WSG] Help with fieldset in a li

the legend. So, a couple of questions: Firstly, am I using fieldset and legend in the correct semantic manner? Secondly, if I am using it correctly, are there suggestions for fixing the display in Firefox and IE? Many thanks, Damian -- Damian Sweeney Instructional Designer, AIRport Project

Re: [WSG] Site Review Request

nd general code quality. http://www.danbowling.com Thank you for your time, Dan Bowling W: http://www.danbowling.com -- Damian Sweeney Instructional Designer, AIRport Project Equity, Language and Learning Programs University of Melbourne 723 Swanston St Parkville 3010 www.services.unimelb.edu.au/ellp/ ph 03