Re: [WSG] which tag to use for link to reference?

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Re: [WSG] More on forms

. (You should also use regular expression literals ( /bar/ instead of new RegExp(bar) ) as they avoid having to escape things for regex and then escape them again for the string.) -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk *** List

Re: [WSG] list heading – best practice?

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Re: [WSG] Best Practice - Content Within Tables

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Re: [WSG] a:link behaviors issues

don't is when you have a non-linked anchor (which you shouldn't have these days since `id` on a heading or div/section/etc makes more sense). -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] HTML5 and invalid meta tags

be registered in the WHATWG Wiki MetaExtensions page. [WHATWGWIKI] Anyone is free to edit the WHATWG Wiki MetaExtensions page at any time to add a type. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] Breaking validation using noscript - Is there a solution?

enhancement[1] is a better approach, but it isn't deprecated Which means you would need to use a transitional doctype. The relationship between Appears in transitional but not string and is deprecated is not 1:1. [1] http://icant.co.uk/articles/pragmatic-progressive-enhancement/ -- David Dorward

Re: [WSG] Accessible Modal/Lightbox Code

to the other images. So, despite being CSS 3 based and without JavaScript, a cursory glance at it leads me to conclude that it is highly inaccessible. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] Title tags - site name then keywords?

, Pipework, Welding - ABC Engineering Ltd And put titles in the title element, not a list of keywords. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] Need to access parent content from iframe

iframe js? p.s. The iframe and parent window are different domain. The js file resides in iframe. No. https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Same_origin_policy_for_JavaScript -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk *** List Guidelines

Re: [WSG] Need to access parent content from iframe

On 5 Apr 2011, at 11:55, Mahendran Venkatesan wrote: I thought the policy is applicable only for accessing the content from parent window to iframe. So, the access permission in both ways is not possible. It applies to all cross origin communication - XHR, frames, etc, etc. -- David

Re: [WSG] Need to access parent content from iframe

but not mozilla.com or org. So you can, but only in non-standard and very limited ways. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] why :first-child pseudo-class doesn't work for some selectors/elements?

the two individually as I thought maybe they can't be grouped, but it makes no differences. !-- Container -- body !-- 1st Child -- dl ... /dl !-- 2nd Child -- h2Heading 2 this is the first-child and the bg color should be in Olive./h2 Ditto. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] HTML5 v. HTML 4.x

markup, but I have not seen anything to indicate that they do. So what exactly is the benefit? It saves having to rewrite the site when AT, SEs, etc do have significant support for them. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] To marquee or not to marquee here is the question!!! [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

is abbr. I don't like marquee, but the only argument I have against it (when the alternative is JavaScript to achieve the same effect) is that it is purely presentational and therefore doesn't belong in markup. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] Default style declaration?

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Re: [WSG] Fixed-position menus?

linking to fragment identifiers in the document (#foo - div id=foo). If the user wants to get back to the menu, it is not a great hardship to scroll back up or hit the home key. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk *** List

Re: [WSG] Touch screens

, but it is imperfect. AFAIK, explicitly duplicating the hover events in touch events will give you decent control. That said, using hovers isn't a good idea for triggering menus in the first place. http://www.cennydd.co.uk/2010/end-hover-abuse-now/ sums up the problems quite nicely. -- David

Re: [WSG] accessible screen reader cms

stick with the tools you have and try to get some advice on the specific problems you are experiencing. where to get php from and which version. http://php.net/ — 5.3.3 is the latest stable version. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] css

it is clever to make content appear and disappear in CSS, JavaScript is much better suited to this type of task. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] XHTML or HTML?

html - but will work fine in all browsers (as far as I know). As far as browsers are concerned, it is will act no differently to HTML 4.01 Strict (or a number of other Doctypes). When you come to perform basic QA using a validator, on the other hand, you get very different results. -- David

Re: [WSG] XHTML or HTML?

On 11 Nov 2010, at 10:50, Chris Taylor wrote: From: David Dorward Sent: 11 November 2010 10:30 On 11 Nov 2010, at 09:18, Chris Taylor wrote: In fact, this is HTML5-style - !doctype html - but will work fine in all browsers (as far as I know). When you come to perform basic QA using

Re: [WSG] XHTML or HTML?

is mandatory. Meta charset if you think people are more likely to view a locally saved copy of the document than a copy that has gone through a transcoding proxy. Links to any stylesheets. Scripts that need to run before the page has finished loading. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] A simple IE and JS detection method?

On 29 Oct 2010, at 09:49, Mathew Robertson wrote: Browsers support expando elements (aka, you can bind properties into the DOM object), so adding a class attribute is valid Valid has a specific technical meaning when dealing with SGML and XML. What browsers supports isn't it. -- David

[WSG] CSS, :hover and touch screen devices (Was: CSS rollovers for images?)

beyond indicating the possibility of activation, and one you start doing that … http://www.cennydd.co.uk/2010/end-hover-abuse-now/ -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] Image Maps

is an (oldish) resource which describes some of the issues and ways to work around them. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] CSS support of HTML5 tags not ready yet?

support) in DOM. I suppose DOM will still work in older IEs when CSS is off yes? Yes -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] CSS support of HTML5 tags not ready yet?

display: block, the rendering fails (usually quite badly) if JS or CSS isn't available. I wouldn't depend on those elements until HTML5 browsers are common. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] un-border-collapse, possible?

(with inherit meaning to inherit the value from the parent element). -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join

Re: [WSG] html5 issue

On 27 Aug 2010, at 19:30, Tom Livingston wrote: Line 12, Column 21: A charset attribute on a meta element found after the first 512 bytes. Can anyone tell me why? You have too much content before the meta tag. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] Semantics, lists and links

. I'm not sure yet if a p in the nav would be necessary for old browsers. A single link will rarely be an entire paragraph. Lists are the right choice here, other posts to this thread explain some of the ways that screen readers handle them. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] HTML5 offline storage question

system. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***

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

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Re: [WSG] Is it still necessary to encode ampersands?

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Re: [WSG] Is it still necessary to encode ampersands?

excuses of the hand crafter — it isn't a lot of manual work! -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm

Re: [WSG] Re: IE 6 Nightmare plus new margin problem

On 28 Apr 2010, at 09:43, Kevin Ireson wrote: Try removing display-inline. you dont need it when you use float. Yes, you do. It fixes the IE double margins on floats bug. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk *** List

Re: [WSG] validator error or my code?

and usability to pass a buggy automated test. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh

Re: [WSG] validator error or my code?

religiously. They should do, but people do make mistakes. This isn't a matter of deviating from the spec though. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] Minimal forms or marking up a search field

for these elements are provided via the value attribute (for Submit and Reset buttons), the alt attribute (for image buttons), or element content itself (button). — http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/WD-WCAG20-TECHS/H44.html -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] Data URI encoder

it? Do browsers which don't support it still use the earlier declaration? Or do they go I accept url() values, will override now? -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] CSS Validation Error

the vendor prefix. Who is going to maintain a central list of all proprietary extensions and the values they accept? How would they be versioned? -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] CSS Validation Error

extensions. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***

Re: [WSG] e-mail link

(for users not aware of Copy email address features on web browser context menus * Use a form for users who prefer it or don't have access to an email client (including webmail) -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk *** List

Re: [WSG] fonts

a matter of aesthetics. That said, changing fonts mid-line (and as links are inline elements, this is probably what you are suggesting) is generally a bad idea. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] AAA Accessibility and validation

that a style sheet is not a document. Meanwhile, WCAG 2.0 makes no requirement that CSS be valid (and when refers to 'markup' rather than 'documents'). -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] AAA Accessibility and validation

to published formal grammars., but it can be argued that a style sheet is not a document. Meanwhile, WCAG 2.0 makes no requirement that CSS be valid (and when refers to 'markup' rather than 'documents'). -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] breaks, lists in a form or not, and more or less divs

apply) -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***

Re: [WSG] More on understanding html5

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Re: [WSG] More on understanding html5

. It is recovering from the error in the HTML 4.x in a very strange and illogical way. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] google chrome frame

of supporting those users Vs. not doing a lot of work. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh

Re: [WSG] @font-face?

time (seconds, but very noticeable) the embedded font appears. http://24ways.org/2009/designing-for-the-switch has good coverage of this. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] Re: WSG Digest

a URI please? -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***

Re: [WSG] Deprecated start for lists confirmation

are deprecated or appear only in Transitional/Frameset but not both. In this case, the start attribute is both deprecated and does not appear in Strict. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] Including a DIV element inside an HREF tag

packages) -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***

Re: [WSG] Including a DIV element inside an HREF tag

On 4 Nov 2009, at 15:18, Stuart Foulstone wrote: Since links are inline elements, they shouldn't contain block elements, such as div and p. Why not use span (native) inline elements? Because it screws up the semantics. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] Including a DIV element inside an HREF tag

the group of users who don't have javascript or have it disabled. No, it doesn't. The link is still accessible with mouse, keyboard and any other input device — it just doesn't fill the entire box. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] skip links

for those folk also? Assuming they know the link is there. If it is styled to as to be invisible or off-screen, then it hurts more than it helps. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] wrap in print

On 13 Oct 2009, at 11:02, Naveen Bhaskar wrote: Is there any way to wrap the text around an image while printing. Float the image in a print media stylesheet. http://css.maxdesign.com.au/floatutorial/ http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/media.html -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] Local W3C CSS Validator for Windows

On 8 Oct 2009, at 12:48, Daniel Anderson wrote: Can anyone help me with a good W3C CSS Validator that will run on Windows? The W3C only provide one CSS validator. It is written in Java though, so it should run on Windows. http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/DOWNLOAD.html -- David

Re: [WSG] unbalanced q tags for extended quotations?

and blackened as they passed./P /BLOCKQUOTE -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh

Re: [WSG] Ordered list start value

only in Loose (Transitional). -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh

Re: [WSG] [Spam] :The wisdom? of using q to clear

On 29 Sep 2009, at 15:35, Nancy Johnson wrote: I'm not sure q is supported by all browsers. It isn't, but so what? It still causes problems in browsers which do support it when it is abused. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] [Spam] :The wisdom? of using q to clear

to know :-) Such as those described in the message to which the highest level quote in this mail was a response to. (The joy of context lost due to top posting) … and the generation of quote marks around the element. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] Ordered list start value

On 28 Sep 2009, at 14:02, T. R. Valentine wrote: What is the proper way to start an ordered list at a value other than '1' in XHTML? I had ol start=9 flagged because 'there is no attribute start' Use Transitional. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] web hosting

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Re: [Spam] :Re: [WSG] thomas hull website

On 3 Sep 2009, at 23:03, thomas hull wrote: Thank you. I dont understand anything u wrote. I am a newbie! If u got the patiance, please ! Start here: http://opera.com/wsc/ -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk *** List

Re: [WSG] STYLING QUERY

, conflicting styles are applied to a given element. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help

Re: [WSG] Looking For Images

good recommendations out of context. Also, while I appreciate your situation, this mailing list is supposed to be about the discussion of web standards. I don't think requests for graphic design work and media sourcing really fall into category. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] Accessible Forms

, then it will be generating those labels for you, and removing the id attribute will break things. Otherwise, you should be adding the labels yourself. Either way, the id attributes are important. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] Accessible Forms

idea. Any thoughts? It isn't really a bad idea. It isn't as well supported as using the for attribute, so you should use that as well. Beyond that it is a matter of person taste. I find having the inputs outside the labels provides for more flexible styling options, YMMV. -- David Dorward

Re: [WSG] hr / or CSS3 Border Background

is deprecated. Which specification deprecated it? -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh

Re: [WSG] hr / or CSS3 Border Background

On 9 Aug 2009, at 10:38, tee wrote: On Aug 9, 2009, at 1:36 AM, David Dorward wrote: On 9 Aug 2009, at 03:53, tee wrote: Then my question, what about those who prefer to stick with XHTML? By Stick with XHTML do you mean not to move to an unstable, draft markup language? Plenty

Re: [WSG] hr / or CSS3 Border Background

the element itself. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***

Re: [WSG] Form question

steve.haffen...@gmail.com wrote: Can anyone tell me why the HTML specification does not restrict form elements from appearing outside of the form tag? For use in client side scripts IIRC. (HTML 4.01 does have some flaws) -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

Re: Re: [WSG] Form question

Mathew Robertson wrote: Another related question to ask... Why is putting a hidden input field, as the first child of a form element, disallowed? Because it is an %inline element. The child element(s) of a form must be %block. http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.3 -- David

Re: [WSG] Back to basics!

(which you don't want). #8220; is hard to read when you are editing your source (and takes up 7 bytes). Just use “, it *is* in UTF-8 after all. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] Fieldset and Legend

the CSS specification? No. It contradicts the HTML specification (multiple times, since you aren't allowed nested anchor elements either). -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] DIV Javascript Problem

a validator before asking humans to look at code please. It saves their time if you don't waste it with errors that a machine can pick up. It is also odd for a JS script to expect a string containing comma separated data rather than a separate JS argument for each piece. -- David Dorward http

Re: [WSG] Rendering difference between Strict Transitional doctypes in FF, IE8 Safari

David Hucklesby wrote: I don't see anything in the W3C recommendations that forbids frames of any kind? http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/index/elements.html clearly marks iframe as a feature of the Loose (AKA transitional) DTD. ***

Re: [WSG] website fonts

. (Which is not to say that style sheets shouldn't suggest fonts, just that that isn't a good argument). -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe

Re: [WSG] no scrollbars in ff

kevin mcmonagle wrote: Any suggestions? I suggest not asking people to debug code based on third party examples that work instead of the code that actually causes the problems. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ *** List

Re: [WSG] valid meta tags

quote who=Andrew Cunningham Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: There are important differences between meta http-equiv='content-language' and lang and xml:lang attributes the lang and xml:lang attributes can only contain a single language But describe the element they apply to and its children

Re: [WSG] PNG - how cross-browser standard reliable?

been of using .pngs in web pages. PNG is fine unless you have gamma information in the file[1] or 24-bit translucency and a need to support IE6[2] [1] http://hsivonen.iki.fi/png-gamma/ [2] http://www.dillerdesign.com/experiment/DD_belatedPNG/ -- David Dorward

Re: [WSG] Where is browser compatibility in wcag?

there are old browsers that do not support HTTP 1.1 and so do not send the HTTP Host header. A line needs to be drawn somewhere. The problem is that nobody can really seem to agree on where a reasonable place to draw it is. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] IE8 compatibility mode

to IE7 compatibility mode would resolve any issues. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help

Re: [WSG] TYPE attribute of BUTTON

does with them. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***

Re: [WSG] add to favorites?

to them. 2. To cover up a Oh, you have to love this website, please add it to your bookmarks, pretty please message with something resembling something useful. ... which is just tacky. Are there any other reasons? -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] a WCAG 2.0 question

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Re: [WSG] DHTML Menus

is probably a better approach most of the time. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh

Re: [WSG] Code scan, complient to guidelines version 2.0

Thiru Yoganathan wrote: I am looking for a code scan tool that compliant to the new accessibility guidelines v2.0 We currently use Bobby, however that is still adhering to the guidelines, version 1.0 Does anybody know of a tool which can do this? I use siteSifter -

Re: [WSG] DHTML Menus

broken again. Then there are other arguments again them: http://www.message.uk.com/index.php?page=81 -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] IE and the button element

for example. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***

Re: [WSG] Marking up news

). -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh

Re: [WSG] Accessibility testing

should be avoided. The prolog is optional if the defaults (XML 1.0 and UTF-8 or UTF-16) are used. It is forbidden if HTML 4.01 is used. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] A Semi-Transparent Background Color?

appear until CSS 3. There are some implementations of the drat, but they aren't universal. I wrote about how to make use of the technique with various fallbacks here: http://dorward.me.uk/www/css/alpha-colour/ -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] label:hover - more harm than good?!

on checkbox or option. It should do. Have you properly associated the label with the input by giving the input a unique id and using it in the for attribute of the label? -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] Image with borders due to Anchor tag

with text in it to remove the underline. Because it is a border not an underline, and it is drawn around the image not the entire link. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] Image with borders due to Anchor tag

a very different effect to a border around just the image. There's no selector in CSS to select an element based on its descendants either. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] Blockquote

the wrong problem and should be seeking to license the content or otherwise use it within the constraints of the law. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] JavaScript as External File vs. Internal Code and linking to images

to linked images? You aren't reading the resource at the URL from JavaScript though - you are changing the DOM so it references a different URL (and it is still using the URI of the HTML document as a base). -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

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