extension, I
forgot to change the path in the links.
Fixed.
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/td would save me more than 5kB of page size... Decisions, decisions.
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Please report any problems in FFox 3.5.
Known issue: The checkmarks (✓) do not work in MSIE or Webkit based
browsers. It does not make the table less understandable though.
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Hi
I looked at my logs today and I saw a lot of hotlinking gping on.
So just why does this code not work?
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+\.)?keryx\.se/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteRule .*\.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$ /bilder/image-theft.png [L]
Lars
I hope nobody has missed this:
http://interact.webstandards.org/
It is with great pleasure that we unveil the WaSP InterAct Curriculum,
an initiative that aims to unite industry, educators, and practitioners
with one common goal: to improve the quality of education that the next
generation
Den 2009-02-09 03:02, Joseph Taylor skrev:
I wouldn't worry about document.write examples too much.
You just need to keep in mind that the book is designed to teach the
language from scratch, and quite possibly the reader hasn't scripted
before.
Starting from point zero, document.write is a
Chris Vickery skrev:
That's an awesome help. Thanks everyone!
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/11/googles-seo-starter-guide.html
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990321.html
http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
Morec thoughts:
http://shiflett.org/blog/2007/jan/url-vanity
Paul Novitski skrev:
I would love to get your critical comments on Danny Goodman's JavaScript
Bible
http://ca.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470069163.html
I'm updating the book to its 7th edition and am making some significant
changes, including upgrading it to include separation
Brett Patterson skrev:
I am sorry, but I must ask. Are you saying that the term JavaScript is
owned by Sun? Or just the Java part? And, yes, JavaScript is implemented
in Internet Explorer.
I see that your question has already been answered. I will give some
additional points.
Mocha was
Keryx Web skrev:
JavaScript has no pure hash-tables, aka associative arrays. Object
properties can be used to emulate associative arrays, though. A PHP
programmer will feel very limited, though.
A JavaScript object *is* not an array ...
It can have methods as well as properties.
geekspeak
Mathew Robertson skrev:
All this talk over JavaScript not supporting classes, is incorrect. I put together a
little demo of classical class-based inheritence.
The only real limitation is that you can't do protected members and friends
and the syntax might be considered to be a little clunky.
Brett Patterson skrev:
I like that explanation. I get it now. Thanks. One more quick question
though, what is a let-block, in general? Thanks. That really does make
it a lot easier to understand.
Brett
Normally JavaScript does not have block scope.
var foo = 1;
{
foo = 2;
}
alert(foo);
Brett Patterson skrev:
I am in the middle of a conversation with this guy who says that
JavaScript is an object-oriented language. Is he correct? Could you
please site some references?
I have read the whole thread up until now, but will answer your starting
message, since I am not
Anthony Ziebell skrev:
Still confuses me though - if someone is object-orientated but is in
essence prototype-based (with regards to object, inheritance, etc), why
is it incorrect to say JavaScript is prototype-based?
Your confusion comes from comparing apples to steam trains.
Prototypes
Adam Martin skrev:
Hey guys... it is great that talk about accessibility and chrome has
been raised - but I do think that we need to wait until it is out of beta.
A beta is supposed to be feature complete. otherwoise it's an alpha.
Lars Gunther
Concerning Chrome, I have some unanswered questions about V8.
Exactly what JavaScript features does it support? (This is NOT a
question about it's speed.)
The release statememt simply says that it follows the EcmaScript 3.0
standard, but we all know that it is quirky in places and that
Breton Slivka skrev:
- Array and string generics
You can apply array functions to strings, if that's what you mean.
And vice versa
- Expression closures
I don't know how you could have javascript without those. Pretty much
every website would break. Event handlers would be impossible.
Ted Drake skrev:
Slightly off topic...
There is a really good Wordpress template/plugin that detects the very
specific user-agent for iphone and touch and changes your theme to an iphone
specific layout.
There is a plethora of such solutions covering most major
PHP-frameworks, RoR, etc. That
All right. I will stop complaining about designing for the iPhone and
try to attack this from a positive angle.
How can we go about making our mobile websites according to sound
principles. Bearing in mind that mobile browsers often lack the features
we wish they had. Borrowing the
Matthew Pennell skrev:
To that end, you either sniff for devices and/or serve mobile content on
a different URL.
Yes, but if iphone is part of your URL, what does that say to people
using Nokia, Sony-E, LG or any other smartphone? And what about Opera
Mini, Opera Mobile, MSIE Mobile (OK
Svip skrev:
I see where you're coming from, but let's not forget that the iPhone's
browser is (as of right now) the largest mobile browser, in the
fashion, that it is basically the same browser you get on your
computer.
The good thing about the iPhone is that suddenly USA is getting to know
Ben Dodson skrev:
I don't personally have a problem with having iphone in a URL as it is
generally used for applications that are very specific to the iphone.
It is 1998 and I am developing an application that is very specific to
MSIE... A strategy proved bad!
IMO this is *exactly* the
I am feeling moody today, but...
Are we selling our soul for a shiny newish toy from Apple?
A specific app or device should not be part of an URL. Period.
URL's like iphone.domain.com are an abomination! Even if the content is
standards based.
Lars Gunther
Keryx Web skrev:
Correction: Two errors in FFox 3.1a1pre:
http://www.glazman.org/weblog/dotclear/index.php?post/2008/06/06/CSS-3-Selectors-test-4
Now (probably) fixed!
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=420245 (See comment 17 and
onwards)
Lars Gunther
Rahul Gonsalves skrev:
#foo {
border: 1px solid fuscia;
-moz-border-radius: 0.5em;
-webkit-border-radius: 0.5em;
border-radius: 0.5em;
}
This will ensure that browsers like IE6/IE7 only see the first line
(border...) and draw a straight box around #foo. Slightly smarter
browsers like
Hi
As a PHP developer I expect myself and fellow programmers to use PHPDoc
for every single file/class/function/etc they will ever write. It has
become non-negotiable.
Most programming languages have their own implementation of this now,
all in honor of JavaDoc, who invented the system.
Ian Chamberlain skrev:
Fingers crossed this is not too far off topic; being a newby to PHP; any
clues where I can find how-to's, snippets, libraries or even application
suites built from PHP that are built to a good minimum standard please.
I am guessing that PHP is much like JavaScript in
Andrew Cunningham skrev:
although i'd go further and say that browsers implementing italic as
default presentation for em and bold as default presentation for
strong are also wrong. Its attempting to make the typographic
conventions of the Latin and Cyrillic scripts universal when they
Justin Sinclair skrev:
Are there really torrents of em and strong abuse out in the real world?
I've been guilty of that sin in the past myself.
I think the torrent was stemmed while still a creek - if that saying
works in English.
One emmight/em argue that it is possible to get such an
Kepler Gelotte skrev:
Hi,
I am just curious if anyone can explain why the u tag has been deprecated
while b and i are still allowed.
Summary (most things have been said already):
Underlines on paper have no usability impact, since you cant click on
it! Underlines on web pages have a
Thomas Thomassen skrev:
Thanks. Got a link to where I can follow that incase there's response?
http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2008-March/014252.html
There have been two responses so far. One wishing to expand the
suggestion and one that is simply positive. No word from
Thomas Thomassen skrev:
I posted a comment about it in the W3C public HTML discussion group,
hoping it'd be picked up and amend HTML5's specification to allow this.
However, there's yet been any response. Is there any other place I could
air this issue in hope of it getting heards by the
Kristine Cummins skrev:
I’ve got a background graphic designated in my style sheet
Backgrounds are decorative and do not need alt *attributes*. Therefore
CSS does not have a way of providing alternate text.
If it is part of the content and should be seen by search engine bots
and screen
tee skrev:
Perhaps it will help the web standards if W3C to be more authoritative
and dictatorial?
MUST NOT, MUST, ABSOLUTELY NOT, ILLEGAL TO USE, NOT ALLOWED
to replace these ambiguous MAY NOT, SHOULD, SHOULD NOT.
If one reads the specs these words are not ambiguous. W3C uses these
words
Thomas Thomassen skrev:
I posted a comment about it in the W3C public HTML discussion group,
hoping it'd be picked up and amend HTML5's specification to allow this.
However, there's yet been any response. Is there any other place I could
air this issue in hope of it getting heards by the
Amrinder Sandhu skrev:
Hello Friends
I am a web standard designer from India where there is very less
awareness about terms like Web Standards, Usability, Accessibility and
User experience
Perhaps you could contact Navjot Pawera, Web Standards Project
International Liaison in India?
David Dorward skrev:
From the spec:
The FIELDSET element allows authors to group thematically related
controls and labels. ---
As I said, I am no minimalist. And yes, I have read the spec. It does
not forbid me to use fieldsets outside of forms. Specs use the language
of MAY NOT, SHOULD,
tee skrev:
I thought fieldset (with legend) are used only for form elements, I am
curious why you would used it in your right column's content.
A. It is valid. You may use it according to the DTD.
B. It is being used for grouping of content.
C. I am not a minimalist in interpreting
Now that safari 3.1 is out I was reminded of something I had intended to
do for a long time. I took this:
fieldset.inforuta {
padding: 20px;
font-size: 90%;
-moz-border-radius: 15px;
}
And turned it into this:
fieldset.inforuta {
padding: 20px;
font-size: 90%;
Rahul Gonsalves skrev:
On a test file [1], Safari 3.1 styles fieldsets with rounded borders
very happily. Perhaps there's something else at play here?
I think I've reduced the problem. There are no rounded corners when the
fieldset has got a legend element. In my Safari this testcase shows
Keryx Web skrev:
Quick question.
I have not got IE 8 beta 1 myself... Does it understand grey, spelled
with an e - as it should be ;-)
I have researched this myself now and will set all confusion to rest!
Grey is a valid CSS color name defined in CSS 3, not CSS 2.1.
As has been stated
Quick question.
I have not got IE 8 beta 1 myself... Does it understand grey, spelled
with an e - as it should be ;-)
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krugonN skrev:
If I remember right in the FAQ he says that he only makes the toolbar
once the final version is released. So until FF3 final is released his
toolbar won't be available :(
More detailed: http://chrispederick.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=6796#p6796
Summary: He is working on
aleagi skrev:
Hello Mike,
I agree with you.
There's a lot of users still working in obsolete machines or/by
option, browsing with IE6.
That would be all of my colleagues - and me if I want to access the
intranet for our town. It won't work in MSIE 7 (and hence not in MSIE 8
with any
Alexey Novikov skrev:
I use this pattern:
a href=document.pdfTitle_of_This_Lengthy_Document/a, PDF, 1234kb
I would suggest putting the abbreviation PDF and the size inside the
a-element if anyone tabs from link to link with JAWS or anything similar.
or with icon:
a href=document.pdfimg
Thomas Thomassen skrev:
Yes, that is an issue. But saving webpages to disc has always been
unreliable. Espesially now with the extensive use of AJAX and other
embedded and streamed content.
Not to mention IE:s habit of botching up the markup badly. Valid and
well-formed XHTML will often be
[EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev:
One question that I have yet to see anyone ask is: How good will IE8
actually be?
If it is perfect, then there is no need to worry about future
versions...
No browser is, and never will be perfect. (Look at Acid 3.
http://acid3.acidtests.org/ And when most browsers
Thomas Thomassen skrev:
There's no difference between XHTML 1.1 and XHTML 1.0 Strict. XHTML 1.1
only advantage is that it's modulized
Not entirely true. XHTML 1.1 includes ruby.
and can only be sent as XML so it
can be extended. If you're not extending it then you're better off with
XHTML
Rimantas Liubertas skrev:
Can you elaborate what appendix C are you talking about?
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-media-types/xhtml-media-types.html#summary
(latest version, supposedly) does not confirm this.
The 2nd edition opens things up a bit:
russ - maxdesign skrev:
It is a very interesting chart (I haven't seen anyone map out the IE8
situation this well), but it also renders poorly in Safari (can't read a lot
of the text)... Do you have a simpler version of the chart (like, horror of
horrors, an image) you could post and then link
Could this be true? MSIE 8 will support true XHTML...
Chris Wilson wrote this on Jeremy Keiths blog:
Jeremy - any content-type or DTD that is not broadly deployed when we
ship can be opted in to best standards support. So HTML5 can be opted
in; the XHTML mime type could be, as could any other
Patrick H. Lauke skrev:
Keryx Web wrote:
He is telling us that we (soon?) can use application/xhtml+xml and
that MSIE will support it. Am I hearing this right?
doubt it. XHTML 1.0 can be served as text/html, and that's probably what
he's referring to.
Yes, I doubt it too, but he
Patrick H. Lauke skrev:
doubt it. XHTML 1.0 can be served as text/html, and that's probably what
he's referring to.
May I also add that I do not trust this enough to add it to my flowchart
that I've done to illustrate MS proposal... (Which hits a nasty bug in
FFox!)
Philippe Wittenbergh skrev:
I'm styling the col element, not a descendant or child of col (there
are none, anyway).
(col:first-child applies to the first column, child of colgroup)
width applies perfectly to the col element.
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html#columns
I was surprised to
He all!
I have been searching the net for rumors and facts about E4X
implementations. This is what I've found:
Mozilla (Spidermonkey and Rhino) support E4X today - and has been doing
it for a while!
Adobe does too.
So does (already/soon?) MbedThis. At least they are 100% committed.
Keryx Web skrev:
He all!
Should have been Hi all!
Answering (partially) my own question.
Webkit:
The E4X standard adds some XML-related features to the
JavaScript language. We should consider adding these to the
JavaScriptCore engine.
I found the tracking bug as well:
http
Hi again!
I do have a lot of questions - at least a few at the moment.
How do you handle ordinal numbers in order to satisfy both the normal
reader as well as screen readers.
a. Today, when a screen reader *might* read both an elements textcontent
and it's title-attribute, it's title
Ross Bruniges skrev:
the abbr and acronym elements have extra value
in the fact that a screen reader will say
out each letter opposed to trying to pronounce the word.
Here is how I understand the difference between an acronym and other
abbreviations:
Acronyms should *not* be spelled as, but
Kepler Gelotte skrev:
That's interesting. I had thought of the lang attribute as well but didn't
think that Roman Numerals were attached to any language in particular (as
Lars points out).
I think maybe the HTML specification needs something like a num attribute
that allows you to specify the
David Dorward skrev:
On 2 Dec 2007, at 13:08, Keryx Web wrote:
Consider the following, more common problem:
I want to write a big number, say 2345678912.123
How big was it? Hard to see, isn't it? Let's add thousand separators
the American way:
2,345,678,912.123
Yea, now I see how big
Geoff Pack skrev:
Since they're Roman numerals, shouldn't there be a lang=la in there
somewhere?
Roman numerals may be used in more languages than latin. They are simply
put just another way to write a number.
Lars Gunther
Who BTW has read Latin...
To everybody who has answered me in this thread:
1. I do realize that it is impossible to use perfect markup today,
mainly because of the ghastly Outlook 2007. (A product I am boycotting
BTW - but tell the to the mobile phone manufacturers. It syncs with
Outlook is the ubiquitous sales
When Outlook 2007 came out it incurred upon itself the righteous wrath
of all standardistas thanks to the stupid decision to use Word as its
HTML/CSS rendering engine.
In a few days Mac OS X Leopard will be out with much touted templates
for the mail app. Here is my question: Are these made
Jens Brueckmann skrev:
there do exist counters in CSS, see
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/generate.html#counters
but, as you might have guessed, they are not supported by Internet Explorer.
Yes. I was a bit too short on that one...
As you already observed, list counters are rather content
Hi all!
Short version:
A. li value=3 is not allowed in strict HTML 4/XHTML 1.0, Spec says
use CSS.
B. I want to start at 3.
C: CSS has no means to specify a start value!
Pick your poison:
1. Invalid code
2. Use a transitional DOCTYPE
3. Set value with DOM-script
Long version:
How do we
Hi again!
CSS considers only element nodes to be children or siblings. The DOM
does not.
This is a pedagogic discrepancy understandable to people used in
traversing the DOM who are frustrated that MSIE is natural with
nextSibling and that the rest are according to spec.[1] Something that
Anders Nawroth skrev:
You are looking for thead/tbody HTML elements:
No, I want to stop the leftmost *column* from scrolling as well!
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Philippe Wittenbergh wrote:
Mind if you add some different background colour on alternate rows
or some such ?
The table is much wider than my monitor (or my browser window,
which is probably more important...), and it is quite difficult
to keep track of things.
Alternate row colors will
[EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev:
I'm afraid this doesn't give me much confidence when your label for
HTML5 is (X)HTML 5
One of the major points about HTML5 is that it is _not_ XML based.
Already answered by liorean. May I add that prominent members of the
WHAT-WG mailing list have read and OK'd my
I have now made it possible for MSIE to see my sheet as well.
I have provided an plain HTML version, but do not want any linking to
it. This is the set of rules in my .htaccess that I think should do the
trick:
---
RewriteEngine On
# The simple html version shall not be directly
David Dorward skrev:
On 10 Aug 2007, at 08:53, Dean Edridge wrote:
But it's not supposed to work in ie5, 6 or 7. It's a XHTML document.
But why? I can't see anything that could not be expressed in HTML in
that document.
XSLT and perhaps SVG is coming...
Lars Gunther
Hello everyone on the mailing lists that I have used to produce my
(X)HTML Best Practice Sheet!
It is no longer called a cheat sheet, and it has gone live today.
Check it out at http://keryx.se/resources/html_elements.xhtml and feel
free to use it or as you please - or improve it!
There are
Andrew Freedman skrev:
Any chance that you could perhaps upload the page or post the correct link?
Ooops!
http://keryx.se/resources/html-elements.xhtml
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I have been wondering about the (absent) standard for documenting
JavaScript: JSDoc.
In PHP one can expect any seasoned developer to use PHPDocumentor (or
something similar, like Doxygen). In JAVA one would expect Javadoc to be
used by most.
However, except for Foundations of Ajax
Hello all!
Who, in your opinion, are the 5 best JavaScript gurus?
This is a question that might seem silly, but there is actually a great
deal of thought behind it. I am working on a paper at university level,
that intends to describe the benefits of unobtrusive DOM-scripting,
compared to
Tee G.Peng wrote:
Hi, I finally got a chance to read the WCAG Samurai Errata. Maybe
something to do with my understanding in English, I see there is
autority tone in there.
Guideline 11, bullet point 3, point 4: I really mean this...
Not so convincing, perhaps?
Lars Gunther
Ryan Moore wrote:
I see that it relies on a source of JS to complete the effect, and i'm
wondering if it's possible to complete this purely with XHTML CSS.
Anyone have a good example of this?
Just do not do it. It cannot be done.
a. JS is the best tool for *behavior*. CSS for design.
b.
Hello everyone.
A few months ago I started this article on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_layout_engines_%28ECMAScript%29
However, my wife has got ill and received a heart transplant, so my time
and energy for Wikipedia articles are somewhat lacking. If some of you
Adrian Lynch wrote:
Knowing that XHTML5 is developed in the same spec means that we can
push forward with our XSLT based workflows, and simply adjust to suit
once XHTML5 is supported at the browser level.
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I had the same concern. As it turns out one can - at least in many cases
- use the
Hi all!
Is it possible to get MSIE 6 to have a repeated alpha-transparent png
background? Check this page http://ne.keryx.se/~gorgnut/new_site/
It is made by a student of mine and the faded border is supposed to
stretch and the hacks for MSIE I know can't be used if the image gets
repeated.
This message has already been posted to the what-wg mailing list and to
the wasp-edutf mailing list. Please forgive duplication and feel free to
ignore...
Hello yet again!
For the benefit of myself and my students I have started to put together
a cheat sheet of (X)HTML elements. Although only
Hello again!
Firefox 3.0 will support incremental rendering of true XHTML, since bug
18333 has been fixed: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18333
and http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/3.0a2/releasenotes/
One argument in support of XHTML has been speed (seldom heard today,
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