RE: [WSG] positive-discrimination === not positive and IMG properties

2005-12-13 Thread Jonathan Bloy
On Tuesday, December 13, 2005 2:31 PM Nathan wrote: >I'd just like to point out that the alt text does benefit >everyone in situations like providing tooltip content You mean everyone who uses Internet Explorer. That's the only browser that treats alt attributes as a tool tip. "Modern" browsers,

RE: [WSG] Horizontal CSS based Navigation

2005-11-23 Thread Jonathan Bloy
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/sprites/ It's a standards-based technique to replace image maps. --- Jonathan Bloy Web Services Librarian Edgewood College Library Madison, Wisconsin http://library.edgewood.edu <>

RE: [WSG] DW 8 & standards

2005-10-11 Thread Jonathan Bloy
hat would be fantastic. My favorite editor is TSW Webcoder. http://www.tsware.net/ It includes autocomplete. And is very customizable. For example, you can create your own toolbar buttons for whatever tags you want. Plus it's free (as long as you register). --- Jonathan Bloy Web Services L

RE: [WSG] AOL browser bug

2005-09-17 Thread Jonathan Bloy
. Here's a page that links to the instructions and the files you need. http://www.skyzyx.com/archives/94.php --- Jonathan Bloy Web Services Librarian Edgewood College Madison, Wisconsin http://library.edgewood.edu **

RE: [WSG] Online Resources for HTML Beginners

2005-08-29 Thread Jonathan Bloy
improve my understanding of more complex concepts. As an aside, A List Apart now sports a classy new design. --- Jonathan Bloy Web Services Librarian Edgewood College Madison, Wisconsin http://library.edgewood.edu ** The discussion lis

RE: [WSG] Hiding styles from IE5?

2005-06-22 Thread Jonathan Bloy
On Wednesday, June 22, 2005 12:22pm, Roberto Gorjão wrote: >I really think, in my very humble opinion, that it's hard to make a website >to function in IE 5.0, unless my "multiple IE" testing method provides me with > >It's a shame that the @import doesn't hide styles from these versions >of IE.

RE: [WSG] Skip Navigation Visibility

2005-04-14 Thread Jonathan Bloy
On Wednesday, April 13, 2005 9:50pm, Lea de Groot wrote: >I've seen a couple of sites with a very nice tab interface >whereby the 'skip' link became visible on the first tab, >but was hidden if that didnt happen. I think Mike Pepper >does it at http://www.seowebsitepromotion.com/ That's the method

RE: [WSG] Web standards as a selling point?

2005-04-12 Thread Jonathan Bloy
On April 12, 2005 4:01 AM, Nick Gleitzman wrote: >I find this simple question works really well to couch Standards in terms >that clients can understand: > >'Do you want your site to work yesterday, or tomorrow?' > >Guess what the answer is, 100% of the time. > >You can elaborate a little by explai

RE: [WSG] Extra hidden content

2005-04-01 Thread Jonathan Bloy
>Stevio wrote: > How do you handle the situation of hidden elements becoming displayed > when the normal stylesheet is not used? >Patrick wrote: >Pages should make sense when stylesheets are disabled (for users of screenreaders, >text-only >browsers, users with css disabled, search engine spider

RE: [WSG] 3 cols width any column longest and no div clear

2005-03-16 Thread Jonathan Bloy
any of these exactly fit your criteria, but there are a lot of three column examples on the css-discuss wiki. http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=ThreeColumnLayouts HTH --- Jonathan Bloy Web Services Librarian Edgewood College, Madison Wisconsin

RE: [WSG] Redundant Code

2005-03-14 Thread Jonathan Bloy
On Monday, March 14, 2005 5:44pm, Sigurd Magnusson wrote: > >Don't know the maximum number of pixels a page can have; it very likely >depends on the user agent. I would have thought the most robust way is >to have a fluid design; which led me to an idea--having a fluid design >only in the print med

RE: [WSG] TWS WebCoder (was: Help - newbie)

2005-01-19 Thread Jonathan Bloy
e free aspect is great and I really like the extended search and replace function (a feature that Homesite has, but I haven't seen in any other html editor). Chalk up another endorsement for TSW WebCoder! --- Jonathan Bloy Web Services Librarian Edgewood College http://library.edge