Re: [WSG] list heading - best practice?

2012-03-04 Thread Joshua Street
I'd argue that headings after the content they 'head' fails the how it will appear without style sheets test. If styling's an issue, dig into your CSS selector toolbox for things like adjacent selectors (depending on browser support requirements) or, failing that, give it a 'listhead' class and

Re: [WSG] CSS3 Development tools?

2011-10-12 Thread Joshua Street
Hi Mike, Even if you're not an Eclipse fan Aptana is still worth a shot (I say this as it shares a lot of common code/is a plugin for Eclipse) While it feels heavier than Dreamweaver it has pretty nice completion and is aware of up to date syntax. If you want to work with markup in it as well

Re: [WSG] flat form with check boxes [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2011-09-11 Thread Joshua Street
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Chris Vickery chris.vick...@oaic.gov.au wrote: We’ve got some flat forms on our site, ie. They are not interactive forms, and have no submit button. They are indicating that it’s a check list that can be ticked once the page is printed. Hi Chris, Can you use a

Re: [WSG] FINAL VERSION OF MY SITE

2010-02-03 Thread Joshua Street
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Paul Novitski p...@juniperwebcraft.com wrote: A few quick notes: 1) Phone number formats vary from place to place, but in North America at least the convention is to insert spacing or punctuation between the first '1' and the area code. I would change

Re: [WSG] CSS Validation Error

2010-02-03 Thread Joshua Street
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Thierry Koblentz thierry.koble...@gmail.com wrote: -moz is a vendor prefix (not CSS3) Actually, vendor prefixes are a part of both CSS 2.1 http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#vendor-keywords as well as the CSS3 working draft... they're for proprietary

Re: [WSG] CSS Validation Error

2010-02-03 Thread Joshua Street
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Thierry Koblentz thierry.koble...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Thierry Koblentz thierry.koble...@gmail.com wrote: -moz is a vendor prefix (not CSS3) Actually, vendor prefixes are a part of both CSS 2.1

Re: [WSG] CSS Validation Error

2010-02-03 Thread Joshua Street
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:16 PM, David Dorward da...@dorward.me.uk wrote: On 4 Feb 2010, at 03:29, Joshua Street wrote: The prefix may be part of it to address parsing issues, but - afaik - that does not make these extensions CSS properties. Indeed - yet therein lies the frustration

Re: [WSG] website fonts

2009-06-21 Thread Joshua Street
Adding to what Tim said, It's possible that you're experiencing problems with Helvetica just because of a typo (you had written Helvitica). Also, it does not come with Windows Vista or Microsoft Office. Hope this helps! On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Tim Snadden li...@snadden.com wrote: On

Re: [WSG] object element in front of all content

2009-02-16 Thread Joshua Street
Why not just use a transitional doctype? On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Robin Gorry rob...@xplore.net wrote: Hi All, I am putting together a basic cross browser wysiwyg using the object element instead of an iframe to display the html, as the object element is standards compliant.

Re: [WSG] Firefox 3 candidate

2008-06-23 Thread Joshua Street
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all-older.html That's the official source. On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 8:01 PM, Paul Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Thanks for your replies to this thread last week. I'm on a PC today and trying to get both versions of Firefox running, the only issue is,

Re: [WSG] Testing emails for Outlook 2007

2007-11-07 Thread Joshua Street
On 11/7/07, Mohamed Jama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could always open the page in word document and if everything looks fine there it will look fine in outlook 2007 since its using MS Word to render! Problem with that is potential differences between Word HTML rendering 2003 - 2007. I

Re: [WSG] Testing emails for Outlook 2007

2007-11-06 Thread Joshua Street
On 11/7/07, Paul Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just wondering if anyone has found a clever way of testing your HTML emails for Outlook 2007? I don't have Vista and can't see myself buying it just yet! Office 2007 runs fine on XP, with the new stupid Word rendering engine and all. And

Re: [WSG] Opera for Nintendo Wii and CSS

2007-10-25 Thread Joshua Street
without hardware accelleration... which it might have, but not that I've heard of. I seem to recall a friend using his Wii to playback Youtube content, so it certainly can deal with video in some capacity... just don't go pushing tremendous frame rates or high-def H264 content ;-) -- Joshua Street

[WSG] Equal Height Columns/OTL background images

2007-09-20 Thread Joshua Street
into the 30thousand pixel padding void the technique depends upon. The heights are fluid, the widths is fixed. Am I barking up the wrong tree? Any help appreciated! Josh -- Joshua Street http://josh.st/blog/ +61 (0) 425 808 469

Re: [WSG] Skip to Content?

2007-07-02 Thread Joshua Street
is that much more painful). -- Joshua Street http://josh.st/blog/ +61 (0) 425 808 469 *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] dl v table for form layout

2007-05-21 Thread Joshua Street
/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** -- Joshua Street http://josh.st/ +61 (0) 425 808 469 *** List

Re: [WSG] colour matching transparent png files

2007-04-11 Thread Joshua Street
it. -- Joshua Street http://josh.st/ +61 (0) 425 808 469 ABN 64 515 086 181 *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] Markup for Poetry?

2007-03-29 Thread Joshua Street
/span /p There are a range of other possibilities listed on that page, also. In most real-world practice, most websites use non-breaking spaces extensively. This is, obviously, less than ideal in terms of unbloated semantic markup! -- Joshua Street http://josh.st/blog/ +61 (0) 425 808 469

Re: [WSG] How to mark up a flowchart?

2007-03-26 Thread Joshua Street
as an alternative... I have no answer. :P Josh -- Joshua Street http://josh.st/blog/ +61 (0) 425 808 469 *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join

Re: [WSG] How to mark up a flowchart?

2007-03-26 Thread Joshua Street
a visual form of communication. -- Joshua Street http://josh.st/blog/ +61 (0) 425 808 469 *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL

Re: [WSG] How to mark up a flowchart?

2007-03-26 Thread Joshua Street
On 3/26/07, Stuart Foulstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nobody mentioned nesting flowcharts (whatever that means: a flowchart is a flowchart). Well, no, but you'd have to nest *L's to represent recursion in a flowchart. The flowchart is recursive, therefore the definition/unordered/ordered list

Re: [WSG] Recommendations for Usability sub-contractor; SEC=UNCLASSIFIED

2007-03-01 Thread Joshua Street
in Canberra actually cares... which they won't). -- Joshua Street http://josh.st/blog/ +61 (0) 425 808 469 *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join

Re: [WSG] H1 not aligning to top

2006-03-21 Thread Joshua Street
really looks a lot like it should be a list... just a thought :-) Josh -- Joshua Street http://joahua.com/blog/ +61 (0) 425 808 469 ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] CAPS in stylesheets

2006-03-12 Thread Joshua Street
On 3/13/06, sime [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have never had a problem with the uppercase not working in strict. Maybe I'm not defining strict correctly. Here is a test page which works in FF,IE6: http://urbits.com/_/test.php You're serving it as text/html.

Re: [WSG] CAPS in stylesheets

2006-03-12 Thread Joshua Street
On 3/13/06, sime [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rephrased, what are the different situations in which you'd use HTML4 over XHTML1? So far I've been led to believe (outside of this list) that XHTML is a step forward. You're serving your XHTML as text/html, so it's effectively being parsed as HTML

Re: [WSG] CAPS in stylesheets

2006-03-12 Thread Joshua Street
On 3/13/06, Jay Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have also read (no personal first hand knowledge) that there can be issues between using DOM/DHTML scripts and XHTML. I don't know what these issues are but why invite trouble. This arises from non-DOM methods, which are often much simpler to

Re: [WSG] Wanted ASAP: Clean and Simple image gallery script

2006-03-11 Thread Joshua Street
On 3/12/06, Jay Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am open to other suggestions from members though. http://cat-scan.net/ (but this uses flat-files rather than a database). -- Joshua Street http://joahua.com/blog/ +61 (0) 425 808 469

Re: [WSG] Horizontal Menu- Site Check

2006-03-09 Thread Joshua Street
On 3/9/06, Bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Site: http://69.94.122.44/new.php?/caribbean/category/antiqua/ No help there right now, coz I'm at home and without access to IE, BUT... I do have a bug report for you. Firefox 1.0.x/Linux (and presumably on every other platform, and probably

Re: [WSG] targeting link class problem

2006-03-07 Thread Joshua Street
On 3/7/06, kvnmcwebn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How would i target a:hover on the following links? I tried a few things but cant get down to the classes(one, two). div id=navcontainershort ul li a href=# class=onebla bla/a/li

Re: [WSG] o 0

2006-03-03 Thread Joshua Street
On 3/4/06, Jens Brueckmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a font for the web that has a distinction between the uppercase letter O and the number 0. If such a font exist, which is it? Georgia uses pretty much the same shape for o, 0 and O, but lower-case is small, zero is bigger, and capital is

Re: [WSG] o 0

2006-03-03 Thread Joshua Street
On 3/4/06, Vicki Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My own main bugbear is in product serial numbers where there is a mixture of numbers and letters. It's all very well knowing that O is rounder than 0, but if you don't have one of each to compare, it can be very hit-and-miss. I'm sure there must

Re: [WSG] Quick Site Check Please

2006-02-28 Thread Joshua Street
On 3/1/06, Joseph R. B. Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It validates and renders correctly on FF 1.5, Opera 8.5 and IE 6.0. The only issue I discovered so far is a layout break when I zoom the text to unbelievable sizes in FF. Unbelievable sizes here being one step DOWN (decreasing font size)

Re: [WSG] Plain text v HTML on this list

2006-02-21 Thread Joshua Street
On 2/22/06, Terrence Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 22 Feb 2006, at 2:50 PM, Lachlan Hunt wrote: Outlook users should ...switch to a better mail client that isn't broken. Outllok can be configured to send plain text can't it? I think Lachlan meant that + bottom-quoting?

Re: [WSG] site check

2006-02-18 Thread Joshua Street
On 2/18/06, Paul Sturgess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/16/06, Joshua Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The BIGGEST thing I can see wrong with this site is the image map. Obviously the link areas aren't regular shapes, so even if you were to use a UL (navigation list) with positioned LI

Re: [WSG] site check

2006-02-16 Thread Joshua Street
On 2/17/06, kvnmcwebn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://63.134.237.108/ any feedback at all greatly appreciated Table-based layout? Was that guy looking at the same site? Looks pretty layout-table free to me... You're missing a H1, which isn't great... wrap the header image in an H1 element

Re: [WSG] site check

2006-02-16 Thread Joshua Street
One other thing... typo, your are here » above the imagemap. ** 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] site check

2006-02-16 Thread Joshua Street
On 2/17/06, kvnmcwebn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can i get a second opinion on felix's advice? It must've been offlist, but I'd guess it was about fonts ;-) My second opinion is I agree... he's generally right about such things! ** The discussion

Re: [WSG] IE6/7 have horizontal scrollbars on this

2006-02-10 Thread Joshua Street
://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help ** -- Joshua Street http://www.joahua.com/ +61 (0) 425 808 469

Re: [WSG] [Please don't flame :)] HTML, XML what's the difference.

2006-02-08 Thread Joshua Street
On 2/9/06, Stephen Stagg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is not meaningless, It is more readable than HTML, to a human. And when computers start to need to read websites automatically... Humans read content, computers read markup. Humans don't read HTML (excusing, perhaps, the rare breed that

Re: [WSG] [Please don't flame :)] HTML, XML what's the difference.

2006-02-08 Thread Joshua Street
Yep... I agree, hence web [...] recommendations are actually about rather than accessibility is actually about. Specs are purpose-agnostic (see pages that validate but are a semantic blight on the face of the web)... ironically, guidelines (human-language, practical documents) are actually more

Re: [WSG] cool FAQ page [follow up]

2006-02-07 Thread Joshua Street
On 2/8/06, Al Sparber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's another approach you're sure not to like :-) http://www.projectseven.com/csslab/swapclass/outline/ Hmm... it'd be nicer if there weren't anchor tags in there/the H3 were used directly. Not being amazingly JavaScript saavy, is there a

Re: [WSG] Opera Labs and Opera 9 Preview 2

2006-02-07 Thread Joshua Street
On 2/8/06, Gunlaug Sørtun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: heretic wrote: ... Maybe the standards community prefer to ride ponies instead of real race-horses? ;-) Must be something to do with keeping nearer the earth. Opera spoils web developers, and makes Internet Explorer (and Firefox, to a lesser

Re: [WSG] Padding Margin Problem

2006-02-05 Thread Joshua Street
Works fine here with Firefox 1.0.7 + web developer toolbar, irrespective of whether or not the top margin of #header is set to 0. On 2/6/06, Paula Petrik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm doing something fairly simple. The problem arises when I apply margins to my #header. When I simply apply

Re: [WSG] PDF files on web site

2006-02-03 Thread Joshua Street
Yes, but can you use an anchor fragment to link to a point in an Acrobat document? The other thing is why would we even bother with that when we have hypertext? On one site I did recently, the client wanted a PDF brochure with _identical_ information to what was in hypertext included. The PDF

Re: [WSG] IE7 hacks

2006-02-03 Thread Joshua Street
On 2/4/06, kvnmcwebn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well someone here (no names :) told me a while back that the *hmtl hack was ie future proof so maybe not. Well, it is. It's not going to affect any more versions of Internet Explorer (this has been known for some time now), hence any rules you put

Re: [WSG] PDF files on web site

2006-02-02 Thread Joshua Street
Yes, it's a good thing. PDF's aren't web pages. This is the distinction between a web site and a web application: applications are 'expected' to have 'application-like' behaviour (such as new windows, etc.). Also, PDF content rarely has the _behaviour_ of a web page (rich hyperlink

Re: [WSG] PDF files on web site

2006-02-02 Thread Joshua Street
Ah, righto. Linux user here, apologies... it's obviously simpler on other desktop systems ;-) On 2/3/06, Patrick H. Lauke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua Street wrote: Also I wasn't aware of way to override browser object settings for PDF files easily -- by all means feel free to correct me

Re: [WSG] PDF files on web site

2006-02-02 Thread Joshua Street
] ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help ** -- Joshua Street http://www.joahua.com/ +61 (0) 425 808 469

Re: Re: [WSG] IE7 Now what?

2006-02-01 Thread Joshua Street
Microsoft has newsgroups for identifying and reporting bugs. I blogged a for/against thing on IE7 preview beta 2 after having played with it for a morning, http://joahua.com/blog/2006/02/01/ie7-beta-2 , and discovered a zoom bug that doesn't play nice with CSS backgrounds. Bug is here:

Re: [WSG] Background-Image download order

2006-02-01 Thread Joshua Street
For the navigation, you can put all your nav images into the one file so that they all load at once, then use background-position to make them sit in place. As for making things readable before the background images download, how about setting a background colour as well? That way if users have

[WSG] Separate mobile content considered harmful?

2006-02-01 Thread Joshua Street
. But the subdomain thing comes into it, too, as well as the fact that this equates to providing different versions for different devices. 1. http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/TLD 2. http://wap.yahoo.com.au/sunrise/ -- note the evil subdomain Regards, Josh -- Joshua Street http://www.joahua.com/ +61

Re: [WSG] css/html snippets

2006-02-01 Thread Joshua Street
That web patterns thing people were bouncing around in here a month or so back? I've lost the address... if someone else doesn't post it, it's in the archives somewhere... probably something really obvious like webpatterns.org... Ah, yes, that's it. http://webpatterns.org/ On 2/2/06, Peter

Re: [WSG] list's with header text

2006-01-31 Thread Joshua Street
Regrettably not. I'd also love some way to associate a header element with content, much like fieldset's legend element does, but unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately, because it'd be potentially hellish to make work consistently with some automated content management stuff!) no such thing

Re: [WSG] 2 Q: New web site, which DTD I should use? and Compresion

2006-01-31 Thread Joshua Street
1) HTML 4.01 Strict, unless you've got really ambitious plans and a very good idea what user agents will be in play: keeping in mind Internet Explorer doesn't support XHTML served as application/xhtml+xml, so it's still going to be parsed as straight HTML in that browser. 2) So far as I'm aware,

Re: [WSG] 2 Q: New web site, which DTD I should use? and Compresion

2006-01-31 Thread Joshua Street
and look up to. Just because they are using it doesn't make it right. All the best, Jay Gilmore Developer/Consultant Affordable Websites and Marketing Solutions for Real Small Business. SmashingRed Web Marketing P) 902.529.0651 E) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Joshua Street http

Re: [WSG] No style

2006-01-31 Thread Joshua Street
Practically speaking, it's a good idea to reset font-size, padding and margin on * at the start of your CSS file. This does help improve consistancy somewhat. * { padding:0; margin:0; font-size:100.01%; } Then, obviously, you can style individual elements from that, and you know what the default

Re: [WSG] No style

2006-01-31 Thread Joshua Street
That's still going to be 1em of whatever 1em becomes by the time you get down to #editableArea (i.e. 1em of (x) on #editableArea of (y) on #body of (z) on #html), isn't it? On 2/1/06, Seona Bellamy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One possible solution would be not so much to have 'no style' but to

Re: [WSG] Sitecheck: 7 Sunrise Family website [sunrisefamily.com.au]

2006-01-31 Thread Joshua Street
On 2/1/06, Peter Ottery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cant replicate it here using firefox 1.0.2 and win xp. you may have fixed it..? Nope, but it occurs less frequently on FF1.0.x/XP than on other OSs, and I've only actually looked at it in Firefox 1.0.7 in XP (I figured it'd be relatively

Re: Moral High-horse - was Re: [WSG] Failed Redesign and the Media

2006-01-31 Thread Joshua Street
trying to change the way non-professional web publishers think about the media they're creating/the means by which they are creating it, so the how are you making money doing THAT? argument for being generally dismissive of non-web-standardites is something to be avoided. -- Joshua Street http

Re: [WSG] Sitecheck: 7 Sunrise Family website [sunrisefamily.com.au]

2006-01-30 Thread Joshua Street
On 1/30/06, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua Street wrote: I'm assured it's not going to move! I wouldn't believe that. In fact, here's a perfect example of why 301 shouldn't have been used. On Today Tonight (another 7 network program, for those of you not in Australia

Re: [WSG] Sitecheck: 7 Sunrise Family website [sunrisefamily.com.au]

2006-01-30 Thread Joshua Street
Many thanks. I'd only tested Opera in 8.5x (because, IMO, it's reasonable to assume if people are using Opera they're probably going to be people who bother upgrading their software!), so I'll be sure to take a look :-) On 1/30/06, Justin Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/30/06, Joshua Street

Re: [WSG] Web Site Template Review

2006-01-30 Thread Joshua Street
Two quick things. Your primary navigation list doesn't need to use pipe separators. It'd be much better to just use borders with CSS to achieve this. Also, maybe consider a skip to login as well as your skip to main content link. It makes things faster than tabbing through all the links between

Screen readers and JavaScript WAS: Re: [WSG] standards-happy javascript for faq

2006-01-30 Thread Joshua Street
On 1/30/06, Anders Nawroth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does the toggle function have to be connected to a a element, or do JS-enabled screen readers recognize onClick events attached to other elements? To add to this question, what happens where screen readers with JavaScript result in an

Re: [WSG] Display problem in IE for the PC

2006-01-30 Thread Joshua Street
Maybe give #169; a shot instead of copy; ... not certain, but it may help. Love the design, by the way. On 1/31/06, Kara Spellman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, This my first website using CSS. I've gotten most of the bugs out of it except for one on the home page. For some reason the copyright

Re: [WSG] Check boxes ticked (UK Law)

2006-01-30 Thread Joshua Street
Just out of curiosity, what about Tick this box if you don't want to receive massive amounts of spam? Is it really anti-checked box, or anti-default-opt-in? Seems pretty... open to abuse and/or re-interpretation, unless it's the latter. On 1/31/06, Philippe Wittenbergh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [WSG] Sitecheck: 7 Sunrise Family website [sunrisefamily.com.au]

2006-01-30 Thread Joshua Street
are floated) in order to trigger the scroll thingy. That's a technical term... On 1/30/06, Joshua Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many thanks. I'd only tested Opera in 8.5x (because, IMO, it's reasonable to assume if people are using Opera they're probably going to be people who bother upgrading

Re: [WSG] The dilemma: tabular data with sublevels

2006-01-29 Thread Joshua Street
On 1/29/06, Rene Saarsoo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is one usability problem still: the contents of th elements are centered by default in most browsers, making the table look like this: 1 Fruits Add Edit Delete 1.1 Apple Add Edit Delete

[WSG] Sitecheck: 7 Sunrise Family website [sunrisefamily.com.au]

2006-01-29 Thread Joshua Street
, is there a known FIX for a Firefox bug of this nature? Any other feedback is also welcomed, but especially on that point :-) Regards, Joshua Street ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] Sitecheck: 7 Sunrise Family website [sunrisefamily.com.au]

2006-01-29 Thread Joshua Street
/30/06, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua Street wrote: http://sunrisefamily.com.au/current/content/ The site looks good, it's a huge improvement over all the other 7 network web sites. However, one issue I have with it is why when I go to: http://sunrisefamily.com.au/ I get

Re: [WSG] The dilemma: tabular data with sublevels

2006-01-28 Thread Joshua Street
Select with Optgroups? Tables with (assuming two levels), a structure like this: tr th id=fruit colspan=2Fruit/thtdAdd/td tdEdit/td tdDelete/td /tr tr td/tdth headers=fruitApple/thtdAdd/td tdEdit/td tdDelete/td /tr etc? The other thing (this list is definitely the wrong place for me to say

Re: [WSG] The dilemma: tabular data with sublevels

2006-01-28 Thread Joshua Street
, nothing more. On 1/29/06, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua Street wrote: The other thing (this list is definitely the wrong place for me to say this) is if this is for a content management system or the like, where the client's browsing capabilities are a well known quantity, What

Re: [WSG] mailto: and email-subjects

2006-01-27 Thread Joshua Street
I've never read about setting the subject with title (unless you're using JavaScript to do magic to the href?), but imagine it doesn't much matter. I've NEVER encountered a mail client that choked if you fed it a subject as well... even if not all parse that into the Subject field. Hence, from an

Re: [WSG] The dilemma: tabular data with sublevels

2006-01-26 Thread Joshua Street
Hmm I'd strongly contest a definition list. Maybe nested UL's would be better... but Item 1 cannot be sensibly/reasonably _defined_ as Add, or Edit, or Delete. On 1/27/06, Paul Novitski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andreas, I could argue either list or table, but I'd be inclined to make it a

Re: [WSG] IE, selecting text, and lots of absolutely positioned elements

2006-01-23 Thread Joshua Street
= document.documentElement.scrollHeight+'px'; }, 1); setTimeout(function(){ onresize = fixIE6AbsPos; }, 100); } } HTH, Kay. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.zombiecoder.com/ On 1/23/06, Joshua Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At least, I'm fairly certain the absolutely positioned elements

Re: [WSG] IE6 and color display behavior

2006-01-23 Thread Joshua Street
Yep, that'd be the PNG files. Something to do with saving Gamma. My usual workaround is to open + re-save using the GIMP... it works though I'm still not quite sure why! Josh On 1/24/06, Joseph R. B. Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys and Gals, Here's a neat one for you. If you look at

[WSG] IE, selecting text, and lots of absolutely positioned elements

2006-01-22 Thread Joshua Street
At least, I'm fairly certain the absolutely positioned elements are causing the problem(s). I can't give an example page (NDA, and it's too complex to bother recreating -- the complexity is probably part of the reason it's so bad when text is selected/copied), just wondering if anyone else has

Re: [WSG] addEventListener

2006-01-19 Thread Joshua Street
On 1/19/06, Richard Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use the onclick event; a.onclick = function() { alert('not going there!');return false; } Its not an issue of standards it's in the javascript not the html. Richard http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm # Implementing

Re: [WSG] Glossary

2006-01-19 Thread Joshua Street
Definition list. It's a list of definitions ;-) On 1/20/06, Pat Boens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, What would be the best way to create a glossary: a table ? a definition list? something else? Thanks for your expert input. Pat -- Joshua Street http://www.joahua.com/ +61 (0) 425 808

[WSG] The Evils of innerHTML

2006-01-18 Thread Joshua Street
Is it? I'm using AHAH (H = HTML, as opposed to XML) to dynamically retrieve some content and innerHTML seems infinitely more sensible: the content being pulled in has an indeterminate number of paragraphs, so short of parsing the incoming document for paragraphs, recreating elements, and setting

Re: [WSG] The Evils of innerHTML

2006-01-18 Thread Joshua Street
deal of JS experience -- me) somewhat redundant, surely. And yup, I'll be serving this one as HTML :) Thanks, Josh Joshua Street said: do people consider it okay to use Supposedly faster than DOM methods, and usually requires less code. Personally, I don't see it as a problem for HTML

Re: [WSG] ufo flash adding padding/

2006-01-17 Thread Joshua Street
Good to hear you solved it, but one other thing. I observed in Firefox 1.0.x/Linux that the borders on your left navigation items appear/disappear at certain zoom settings. This might be something to do with the Flash items on the lower right, because they flickered around where the nav items were

[WSG] Print stylesheet switcher

2006-01-17 Thread Joshua Street
Hi all, I've got a page that has a print stylesheet, and two elements of important (i.e. the things you'd want to print) content. One is a list of items, whilst the other element is a kind of More information area (linked by XMLHttpRequest if JS is enabled). In the More information bit, there's

Re: [WSG] content type etc

2006-01-15 Thread Joshua Street
/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help ** -- Joshua Street http://www.joahua.com/ +61 (0) 425 808 469 ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

Re: [WSG] CSS Icon

2006-01-15 Thread Joshua Street
to the list getting help ** -- Joshua Street http://www.joahua.com/ +61 (0) 425 808 469 ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] pdf graphics

2006-01-14 Thread Joshua Street
We're waaay OT now, but I can't resist just posting this last message for those thinking about Photoshop-GIMP migration. GIMPshop! is a re-working of The GIMP's interface to make it more Photoshop-like. I haven't used it myself, because I recently went (was coerced into going) the other way (i.e.

Re: [WSG] pdf graphics

2006-01-13 Thread Joshua Street
Well, if Photoshop won't open them, the GIMP certainly can. Then it's just cutting it apart like you would had you received any other flat file, I suppose! Of course, if you need backgrounds then a kindly worded email to the client requesting the source file with layers, etc., would probably be

Tabluar forms WAS: Re: [WSG] br the correct use.

2006-01-13 Thread Joshua Street
On 1/14/06, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tables for forms is ok in some cases, forms can be considered tabular. This one has always confused me. There is a linear relationship between a field's label and the field proper, yes, but how does one mark that up as a table? SHOULD that be

Re: Tabluar forms WAS: Re: [WSG] br the correct use.

2006-01-13 Thread Joshua Street
anywhere that it's impossible to use thead, which seems a fair benchmark of what is most definitely a table. Maybe not... your example's use of the scope attribute makes it all seem remarkably sensible! Thanks, Josh On 1/14/06, Patrick H. Lauke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua Street wrote

Re: Re; Re: [WSG] br the correct use.

2006-01-13 Thread Joshua Street
Nope. Only, I'd add that there are existing apps out there that will fall into various server-side languages to do intelligent replacement of linebreaks - paragraphs, smart quotes, etc. KSES, used by WordPress (or at least it used to be) is one such for the PHP langauge (

Re: [WSG] Active Links

2006-01-12 Thread Joshua Street
or similar so I don't have to hand-code each link in my menu? Thanks! -H -- Joshua Street http://www.joahua.com/ +61 (0) 425 808 469 ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] Safari Lightening Entire Background Image

2006-01-12 Thread Joshua Street
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Re: [WSG] Site Check - ShetlandCoffee.com

2006-01-11 Thread Joshua Street
Love the design, but just one thing about the background. The dotted line fluctuates at the edge of each repetition, because there are dots right on the edges. I don't know if you can add/subtract a pixel in on one side of the graphic easily, or whether this'll interfere with the other repeating

Re: [WSG] Semantic image gallery software

2006-01-09 Thread Joshua Street
On 1/9/06, Al Kendall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Josh, Is it possible to leave the thumbnails with the main pic instead of having to go back the the thumbnails each time? Cheers Al Sure thing, there's a fairly simple templating system that lets you do just that if you so desire. On

[WSG] Semantic image gallery software

2006-01-07 Thread Joshua Street
/ Features list: http://cat-scan.net/features.html Blog: http://blog.cat-scan.net/ Demo: http://demo.cat-scan.net/ Kind regards, Joshua Street http://joahua.com/ +61 (0) 425 808 469 ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] CSS help with bullet removal in IE view

2006-01-07 Thread Joshua Street
list-style:none; on the UL should work well... failing that, try playing with padding: on the list. On 1/8/06, Artemis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My partner and I have a tagboard on our site and it looks greate in FF, but when you view in IE there are round bullets. Can someone help me get rid

Re: [WSG] ordered lists inside data tables

2006-01-04 Thread Joshua Street
http://www.usability.com.au/resources/tables.cfm is a great resource. I find particularly interesting http://www.usability.com.au/resources/tables.cfm#very , as it demonstrates that accessible tables needn't be meagre and can, in fact, contain quite a lot of structured information. It sounds as

Re: [WSG] Firefox 1.0.x rogue PNG background line

2006-01-04 Thread Joshua Street
. Lauke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua Street wrote: This is a seriously odd problem, resulting from Photoshop's PNG output/Firefox 1,0.x's PNG decoder (I think). Test case at http://joahua.com/blog/2006/01/04/photoshopfirefox-10x-and-the-case-of-the-mystery-line Anyone seen

[WSG] Firefox 1.0.x rogue PNG background line

2006-01-03 Thread Joshua Street
This is a seriously odd problem, resulting from Photoshop's PNG output/Firefox 1,0.x's PNG decoder (I think). Test case at http://joahua.com/blog/2006/01/04/photoshopfirefox-10x-and-the-case-of-the-mystery-line Anyone seen this before? Note that the size of both images is 210px: in the

[WSG] Multiple Firefox versions

2006-01-02 Thread Joshua Street
at the minute (though generally they're faster to adopt newer versions). Apologies for a slightly application/not-web-standards related question... all in the name of testing ;-) Regards, Josh -- Joshua Street http://joahua.com/ +61 (0) 425 808 469

Re: [WSG] Multiple Firefox versions

2006-01-02 Thread Joshua Street
Ah, yes, that's what I was trying to do. If I just install both I end up getting plugins overlapping between installs, and can't run both at once (I think because of the way it calls new windows?) Thanks! Josh On 1/3/06, Patrick H. Lauke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roberto Gorjão wrote: To me

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