Re: [WSG] Accessibility changer

2012-04-25 Thread Duncan Hill

On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 01:15:22 +0100, James ja...@insydney.com.au wrote:


Thanks Russ and all those involved with last nights meeting :)

One set of technologies that will change our ability to access  
information.

http://insydney.com.au/information/GoogleProjectGlass.htm

Should be able to realtime change our vision and hearing.

We may have to think realtime accessibility standards?

James.

There are many more intrusive features that we may need to rethink apart  
from accessibility.  :(


Duncan


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Re: [WSG] :: opera mini 5.1 ::

2010-08-05 Thread Duncan Hill
On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:27:24 +0100, David Laakso  
da...@chelseacreekstudio.com wrote:



markup
http://chelseacreekstudio.com/site/portfolio/01.php
css
around line 669
http://chelseacreekstudio.com/site/css/sisu.css

The image does not fill the width of the window in
Sanyo Mirro scp3810 for BoostMobile running Opera Mini 5.1
nor in the Opera Mini Simulator.
http://www.opera.com/mobile/demo/

What to do?

aside
It does fill the window in Mac OS X 10.4 at 600, 480, and 400.
And it fills the window in the iPhoney Simulator...
/aside

Best,
~d


Only an old Nokia N80 to test on.
Messed with Opera Mini settings and the only way to get the image to  
display at larger than mini size was to set Image Quality to High, but  
then it did not respect the screen width.

Doesn't seem to provide any clues I'm afraid.

Best wishes

Duncan


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Re: [WSG] :: opera mini 5.1 ::

2010-08-05 Thread Duncan Hill
On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 21:41:33 +0100, David Laakso  
da...@chelseacreekstudio.com wrote:



Whoops. Hit send too soon. Here's the rest of it...


Got the iPod screenshot, thanks -- will look into it.

The image issue has been resloved in the Opera Mini Simulator and in the  
Sany Mirro handset [a low-end device] with Duncan's suggestion of  
setting Image Quality High. This makes the image from too narrow to too  
wide.


I changed the CSS as follows to reduce the image width: /* was 96% */

@media handheld, screen and (max-width: 480px), screen and  
(max-device-width: 480px) {

body#p #main img {
max-width : 35% !important;
height : auto !important;
}
} /* for Opera Mini 5.1 on SanyoMirro 4 BoostMobile*/



Best,
~d

I've tried just about every combination of settings on the N80
screen size is 352x416
tried portrait and landscape, it lands in an awkward patch of your @media  
values.


Having checked in Opera desktop, which does respond to the @media queries,  
and the N80, I have a suspicion that there may be something in your header  
that is maintaining a side scroll on the handheld.

Could that be an overflow failure in Mini or a minimum size setting.
Best settings for Portrait or Landscape:
Images: On
Image Quality: High
Font: Medium
Mobile View: Off
Fullscreen: On or Off


Best wishes

Duncan


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Re: [WSG] IE6 Finally Nearing Extinction [STATS]

2010-06-23 Thread Duncan Hill
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:04:52 +0100, Tom Livingston tom...@gmail.com  
wrote:



If I may...

if you're happy with your web experience in IE6, then you need do
nothing IMHO. Eventually, and I imagine IE9 will speed this up,
developers are going to stop giving as much care to IE6 as they do now
- if they do at all. Your web experience in IE6 will begin to dwindle
to text-only pages. Sure, the info is there and If that's all you
want, you'll be fine. ;-)


No, I never said I was happy with the IE 6 situation, I use it to the  
absolute minimum, and never browse with it, or indeed with IE 7 or IE 8.
The whole point of my comment was that too many people think this is all  
going to be fixed with the advent of IE 9. I fear that it is just the  
opposite.
Many users are 'locked' to IE 6 because of Operating System  
specifications, do you think that IE 9 being locked to only Vista and Win  
7 users is going to ease this problem.
My point was that with around 64% of the Windows user base still using XP,  
a far bigger problem is about to land on our desk.
At minimum an XP user must buy a new operating system to have access to IE  
9, and in many cases that upgrade will require a new higher spec system to  
run on.
The 'corporate' world does not appear to have embraced Vista or Win 7 and  
it could be a considerable time before they do, given the current  
financial climate the small businesses that I have spoken too will extend  
the life of their systems as far as possible. 'Domestic' users are feeling  
the pinch just as much.


Anyone who has recently bought a new machine will probably have little  
trouble when IE 9 is released, but consider the costs involved for a user  
with an older low spec machine. New system, new operating system, and in  
some cases a need to upgrade other software to match the new system can  
run to quite a sum of cash.
Can we reasonably expect this expenditure purely to have the functions  
that IE 9 will bring, and what exactly are those so essential functions.  
Perhaps if they were so essential, the corporate world would have been the  
first to head toward system upgrades.
The overriding problem is not really the browser itself, it is the fact  
that IE is so tightly bundled, and locked into the Operating System.
I am well aware of the problems of keeping IE 6 happy, IE 7 is not a great  
lot better, but until the operating systems themselves have truly gone  
extinct, those browsers are still going to be around.
Unless authors and businesses, particularly eCommerce sites, consciously  
make the decision to exclude an unknown chunk of their potential market we  
will soon have another member of the IE family to deal with.


We will never 'kill' IE 6 by ignoring and potentially alienating its user  
base, only if Microsoft take the browser out of the operating system and  
produce a competitive stand alone browser will we have a chance to emerge  
from the whole IE mess.


Were a personal computer only a tool for browsing the internet, we 'might'  
be justified in applying pressure to users to upgrade their system, but in  
the real world a PC has many wider uses, possibly much more important to  
the individual user.
Should we continue to try and communicate with those users, even if it  
means presenting the information in much simpler form, or should we be  
responsible for alienating and denigrating those users and potential  
buyers of our information/product.


Duncan
(sent from my ageing, low spec machine using Opera 10.54)


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Re: [WSG] IE6 Finally Nearing Extinction [STATS]

2010-06-14 Thread Duncan Hill
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:31:03 +0100, Edward Lynn  
edward.l...@randluk.co.uk wrote:



Hi everyone,

For me the IE6 issue is to a degree self perpetuating. We all do our  
best to

support IE6 and provide an experience which is as little degraded as
possible, and in doing that very thing, we give IE6 users no reason to
upgrade. If everyone started not to ignore ie6, but to give them a  
degraded
experience, and advise the user what they are missing out on, perhaps  
these

users would start have have more of a reason to upgrade.

Ed


Ed,
This is not aimed as a personal comment, just my general thoughts about  
browsers.
You are only seeing this from a 'Browser' point of view, what about the  
numerous people who have an elderly system that is not even capable of  
running something like IE 8.
I still use 3 P3 machines with Win 2000, I can't go above IE 6 without  
upgrading the OS. XP will run on a P3 machine, but for sure neither Vista  
nor Win 7 will work.
I can no longer buy a new copy of XP, therefore to upgrade my browser I  
would have to buy a new system.
If my systems will cope with all the other major browsers, is seeing bells  
and whistles in IE a reason to spend large sums of cash. Not to mention  
the environmental aspect of throwing away solidly working machines just  
for the sake of a browser.
The situation is soon to become even more complex, Microsoft will only  
release IE 9 for Vista and above. Somewhere it was reported that XP still  
accounts for around 64% of the Windows user base.
A real browser from Microsoft could solve all the problems, but it would  
need to be unbundled from the operating system and have as wide a reach as  
say FireFox and Opera for system requirements.
I have Win 7 capable machines, but why should I need to buy new OS just  
for the sake of a browser, those machines perform every function that I  
need in all other respects.


Just what are all the wondrous features that an IE 6 user is missing out  
on, how essential are they to the function of dissemination of  
information. What happens as the instances of bandwidth capping become  
more widespread.
Much of what we are fed these days is 'bloat', from the operating systems  
to web ads and more. I started with a Sinclair ZX81 with a massive  
1Kilobyte of memory, we've moved forward a long way, but is it all for the  
better?


Duncan


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Re: [WSG] IE6 Finally Nearing Extinction [STATS]

2010-06-11 Thread Duncan Hill
On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:32:03 +0100, Foskett, Mike  
mike.fosk...@uk.tesco.com wrote:



Hi all,

Ref Links for light reading article:  
http://mashable.com/2010/06/01/ie6-below-5-percent/


Which basically states IEv6 has dropped below the 5% threshold across  
USA and Europe.


Nice figures, the stats were produced for May 2010, and calculated for 15  
Billion page views.
The quoted 4.7% using IE 6 therefore still amounts to around 70 Million  
page views during May 2010.

(that's the entire population of the UK, and then some)

. dead?

Duncan


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Re: [WSG] lost my data

2010-04-05 Thread Duncan Hill
On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:27:10 +0200, Marvin Hunkin startrekc...@gmail.com  
wrote:



hi.
well think one of my projects is online.
but got the other projects, on one of my cds, got from my lecturer.
but lost the dream weaver stuff, and a couple of other projects.
but got the majority.
but lost projects from other campuses.
so was wondering.
any accessible, free recovery software i could try to recover the files.
the folders that the projects were in were:
c:\Docs\Tafe
i do have a folder called c:\Docs
so is that space over written.
any one had the same problem.
and able to use recovery software and were they successfull.
marvin.


Hi Marvin,

Try using Parted Magic from http://partedmagic.com/
It is Linux based and will run a number of utilities that may help you  
recover some of your data.
You will need to get the assistance of a sighted person though, it is just  
too complicated to describe all of the steps via email.
You will first have to burn a CD or add the software to a USB stick, you  
then boot the system from either the CD or USB to get to some fantastic  
utilities.

It has worked well for me in the past.

Good luck

Duncan


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Re: [WSG] :: makeready ::

2010-01-26 Thread Duncan Hill



OK. Know from nothing about tables. Will look into.

David, I found this article a help in getting started with marking up  
tables correctly.


article by Zoe Gillenwater
http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=0BEA6

Duncan


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Re: [WSG] 8 invites for Google Wave

2009-12-04 Thread Duncan Hill

Duncan's 4 invites all gone  :)

On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:10:42 -, Russ Weakley r...@maxdesign.com.au  
wrote:



ADMIN

Google Wave invites are totally off topic - though its great to see  
people sharing.

Can we do the following:

1. if you have WAVE invites, feel free to post to the list - just for  
today only!
2. anyone asking for WAVE invites to respond directly to the invitee OFF  
LIST!


Thanks
Russ




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Re: [WSG] Google Wave webstandardsgroup?

2009-12-04 Thread Duncan Hill
On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:04:52 -, Krystian Szastok sunl...@gmail.com  
wrote:



I think it's a great idea.

Problem is that wave is for group projects, so really, if we wanted to
roll it out we'd need to start creating some kind of community
projects I guess...

But I do definitely want to participate.

Thanks,
Krystian

I'm still just feeling my way in Wave, but it seems that it can be  
one-to-one as easily as it can group involvement.


There is of course the risk that main-line topics get handled in a Wave  
and that could exclude any list members that have not signed up, or do not  
have the facility to use Wave.
It would probably also not show up in the list archives and I know from  
personal experience that I have had many of my own queries answered with a  
simple archive search.


Perhaps an idea to start is to add our 'Wave' address to our signature.

Duncan
dun...@googlewave.com


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Re: [WSG] 8 invites for Google Wave

2009-12-03 Thread Duncan Hill

4 invites up for grabs.

?? can we also post to say they've all gone to save people chasing  
needlessly.


Duncan

On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:10:42 -, Russ Weakley r...@maxdesign.com.au  
wrote:



ADMIN

Google Wave invites are totally off topic - though its great to see  
people sharing.

Can we do the following:

1. if you have WAVE invites, feel free to post to the list - just for  
today only!
2. anyone asking for WAVE invites to respond directly to the invitee OFF  
LIST!


Thanks
Russ




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