Re: [WSG] WSG Melbourne: Meet Doug Bowman and Dave Shea - Venue Confirmed

2004-10-04 Thread Marc Greenstock
Damn I was just in Melbourne, had a beer or to at 3 Degrees and everything. Just to note anyone who likes chocolate, it's right across the courtyard :) Hope to catch it next time :) David McDonald wrote: The venue has now been confirmed for the WSG Melbourne meetup, with special guests Doug Bowm

[WSG] Handheld Browsers

2004-09-14 Thread Marc Greenstock
It seems browser incompatibility is as significant in handhelds as it is in PC's. I recently had the privilege of viewing a few of my sites on IE on a Pocket PC 2003 environment. Man does it suck! It renders the screen media stylesheet, and doesn't support the handheld media. Does anyone know

Re: [WSG] Web standards planet

2004-09-12 Thread Marc Greenstock
I think someone should now come in to Jad's defense, anyone? No... Ok fine, I will. If you happen to really read Jad's post, the first word in the first paragraph is 'Yesterday'! Jad has constructed this site in less than a day, on a weekend of all days and I think he has done a marvelous job.

Re: [WSG] Brisbane Meeting, Wednesday

2004-09-08 Thread Marc Greenstock
Hey Barry, I second that, it was a very interesting night... Thanks guys! The semantic extractor is located at: http://www.w3.org/2003/12/semantic-extractor.html Great tool, been playing with it all morning :) In regards to the others, lets hope someone was taking notes... Lea, I think I spotted y

Re: [WSG] Browsing without images

2004-09-04 Thread Marc Greenstock
Patrick H. Lauke wrote: just checked the various IR methods. your best bet looks like Gilder/Levin and/or the Shea enhancement http://www.mezzoblue.com/tests/revised-image-replacement/ Hmmm... I like the Gilder/Levin method... Oh and sorry I haven't been keeping up with the old image replacement

[WSG] Browsing without images

2004-09-04 Thread Marc Greenstock
I just realised there is a problem with using css to insert images such as styling a h1 element to show a logo. Many rural users browse with images off to conserve bandwidth, however it's (in my assumption) not likely that css will be turned off too. If this is the case nothing will show and th

Re: [WSG] PHP is stopping my page validating as xhtml 1.0 Strict

2004-08-25 Thread Marc Greenstock
Hi Steven, Firstly XHTML DOES support the name attribute for input elements, there is no other way to parse form data. It appears the problem lies elsewhere, not in the PHP code either. I do recommend removing the PHPSESSID it can cause problems, there is plenty of info to remove the url rewrit

[WSG] Job Posting

2004-08-18 Thread Marc Greenstock
I know it's not common for this list to hold job postings although we are really desperate to find someone here. From: http://jobs.careerone.com.au/search/dsp_show_job.cfm?AD_ID=1235550 Shock Media Studios, (www.shockmedia.com.au) an Advertising and Information Technology based company, is seekin

Re: [WSG] Accessible image rotators

2004-07-22 Thread Marc Greenstock
You could use a database, but if you just want a low maintainance method make a tab deliminated text file eg; image1.jpgThis is the first image image2.jpgThis is the second image image3.jpgThis is the thrid image Now of course the image names will reflect the images in your rotate dir

Re: [WSG] CSS Opacity

2004-07-13 Thread Marc Greenstock
Joe Leech wrote: I know this really isn't strictly *standard* but... I am using the css level 3 opacity property (and using the alpha filter for IE) for various content boxes to show the background image. However, I have just placed an image in the opaque block and it is opaque - but I don't w

Re: [WSG] entities bug in camino

2004-07-05 Thread Marc Greenstock
s in > it. You should lodge these bugs at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/, rather > than here and you'll get noticed by the Camino development team. > > HTH > James > > Marc Greenstock wrote: > > >Hi all, &

[WSG] entities bug in camino

2004-07-05 Thread Marc Greenstock
Hi all, I hope this isn't too OT but I have discovered a bug in camino and doczilla. Enetities like » and ° causes a xml parsing error when the content-type is application/xhtml+xml. I posted this here because application/xhtml+xml would be common use and when most people are using a 'typical' b

Re: [WSG] IE5 Mac-friendly drop down menus

2004-06-27 Thread Marc Greenstock
I'm working on an accesssable version of the YPslideOutMenu. You can view it at www.v2.shockmedia.com.au, I have feed back that it doesn't work that well in IE5 (Mac) and Safari, however it is my intention to make it work. It works perfectly in pretty much all the windows compatable browsers but

Re: [WSG] OT - Standards Compliant Websites Directory

2004-06-24 Thread Marc Greenstock
Andy Budd wrote: A directory is a good idea, however there are quite a few sites doing similar things these days. Somebody could write a bot that validates as it crawls. Then you could have a standards compliant SE. Andy Budd http://www.message.uk.com/ **

Re: [WSG] Standards Compliant Websites Directory

2004-06-24 Thread Marc Greenstock
Great Idea, For the categories you may want to download the dmoz RDF dump from http://rdf.dmoz.org/. Get the structure.rdf.u8.gz. That should give you a pretty good comprehensive category listing. Dmoz has put a lot of time planing their categories so it's bound to be the best available. Just a

[WSG] Mac testers please

2004-06-21 Thread Marc Greenstock
Hi all, I was wondering if anyone could be so kind as to test my site using IE for Mac 5+ and Safari http://www.v2.shockmedia.com.au Thanks. * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guideli

Re: [WSG] Must Read

2004-06-15 Thread Marc Greenstock
This method uses GD, which unfortunately is the only bundled graphics library available in php. GD is fine for most purposes, it can be a little memory intensive at times though. The problem here is that the function imagegettfbbox() is sometimes unpredictable and may not get the correct height and

Re: [WSG] Interesting reading

2004-06-14 Thread Marc Greenstock
Hahaha, I knew this would ruffle a few feathers. Marc. - Original Message - From: "Mordechai Peller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 8:43 AM Subject: Re: [WSG] Interesting reading > Marie wrote: > > >I can't believe y'all are taking this guy se

[WSG] Interesting reading

2004-06-14 Thread Marc Greenstock
A friend of mine sent me this link; http://www.decloak.com/Dev/CSSTables/CSS_Tables_05.aspx He loves to play devils advocate so he just refuses to adopt current standards, it's ok though cause he's the competition. Happy reading :) * The discuss

Re: [WSG] file extensions

2004-06-13 Thread Marc Greenstock
James Ellis wrote: Hi The portability of URI's is an important point here: as discussed, if a web developer wants to move from X to Y server side language yet retain the URL stucture then this is the way to go, in Apache it's just a simple matter of telling it how to handle certain extension-le

Re: [WSG] file extensions

2004-06-12 Thread Marc Greenstock
Christopher Kennon wrote: Hi, Below is the url and excerpt from the passage in question. I've tried it and it works. The images are displayed, but someone looking over the code commented that it appeared that an image was used, but the extension was missing. Thus the question was inspired. Chri

[WSG] Rant about Bobby

2004-06-09 Thread Marc Greenstock
Don't mind me I just want to rant about Automatic Accessibility checkers such as bobby.   Bobby contradicts it's self all the way through the WAI test, failing everything it THINKS is wrong. Let me give you a few examples...   Problem: Do not use the same link phrase more than once when the l

Re: [WSG] meta http-equiv

2004-06-09 Thread Marc Greenstock
Alan Milnes wrote: The correct content type or MIME type for an XHTML document is "application/xhtml+xml". Although I might add internet explorer doesn't understand it so you need to determine if the users browser accepts it.You can do this in PHP by writing: : SNIP: The suggested meth

Re: [WSG] meta http-equiv

2004-06-09 Thread Marc Greenstock
Jamie Mason wrote: Hey, just a quick question, is the below the correct markup for a transitional XHTML document? I thought the meta http-equiv was text/xhtml, so I've lost confidence in the rest of the code being correct also. Thanks a lot! Sorry to always be the one with the menial questions.

Re: [WSG] applying styles to

2004-06-09 Thread Marc Greenstock
developers. > > Wait till you see what IE does with the tag... hint: put a > top border on it and a background image in :D > > This is the thing: don't worry about pixel perfectness, it doesn't exist. > > Cheers > James. > > Marc Greenstock wrote: > >

[WSG] applying styles to

2004-06-08 Thread Marc Greenstock
Hi all, I can't figure it out, Internet Explorer puts a 10px margin to the left of the legend, setting padding and margin to 0px removes about 3px but that still leaves about 7px that I don't want. FireFox handles it fine. I don't even have the ability to align the content of the tag in IE.

Re: [WSG] legal requirements for accessability

2004-05-26 Thread Marc Greenstock
Haha, I love your rant! It's very true. The question most asked by a client is "How much does a website cost?", this reflects immediately on the client as having less than half a clue. Some (not all) of my clients I have dealt with have this mentality, they don't have a clue what a website is or

Re: [WSG] strange white flash on mouseover

2004-05-24 Thread Marc Greenstock
Unfortunately images called in through CSS don't cache at least with IE. Go to IE Menu > Tools > Internet Options > Temporary Internet Files > Settings Turn "Check for newer versions of stored pages" to Automatically. The problem will go away in your browser but anyone else who doesn't have the