RE: [WSG] More on spam traps

2012-08-22 Thread Mike Kear
submitter sees the same result either way. Even if the submission is just discarded to the bitbucket in the sky. They have no way to know their submission has been discarded. Cheers Mike Kear AFP Webworks Windsor, NSW, Australia http://afpwebworks.com From: li

RE: [WSG] CSS3 Development tools?

2011-10-11 Thread Mike Kear
e was available to handle CSS3. I assume it will be one day, but I need a tool to help me NOW. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion 9 Enterprise, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from A

[WSG] CSS3 Development tools?

2011-10-11 Thread Mike Kear
checking, code hinting, a colour picker, bracket balancing, that kind of thing. I'm developing enough with CSS3 rules now, that I'm looking for a tool to assist me and speed up my development. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion

RE: [WSG] How do you cater to users with disabilities?

2011-08-23 Thread Mike Kear
cally saying that users with special needs will have to swim for themselves and it's up to them to find some software of their own to get around all the obstacles the A/Bs put in their way. I'm glad at least property developers have been forced to change that attitude. Cheers Mike

[WSG] How do you cater to users with disabilities?

2011-08-18 Thread Mike Kear
include JAWS in your site testing? Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion 9 Enterprise, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month ***

RE: [WSG] Detecting Mobile user agent - what methods work best?

2011-01-06 Thread Mike Kear
site for mobile, with fall-back for any phones you don't detect to a standards based browser, and let them scroll back and forth if necessary. SIMPLE. Worth following up, and I'll do some experiments with this in mind. Good thinking David. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW,

[WSG] Detecting Mobile user agent - what methods work best?

2011-01-06 Thread Mike Kear
[D] server side detection using CGI.User_Agent (but there are so many user agents to detect) [E] screen resolution detection (but is that reliable?) Are there any other ways to do this? How do the rest of you handle serving pages to both computer screens and mobile device screens?? Ch

RE: [WSG] Need a fresh eye - can anyone see what's wrong please?

2010-11-30 Thread Mike Kear
YEP! That did the trick. I thought i'd checked all those things, but i missed that one on the IE-Only style sheet. Thanks. I knew having a fresh eye look at it would see something that i was too close to to notice - couldn't see the wood for the trees. Cheers Mike Kear Wi

[WSG] Need a fresh eye - can anyone see what's wrong please?

2010-11-30 Thread Mike Kear
for IE? Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion 9 Enterprise, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month *** List G

The solution (was: [WSG] Why does IE show text decoration on these buttons?)

2010-05-03 Thread Mike Kear
de you say that? Background was waay down on my list of things to check out. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia 0414 622 847 Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks Pty Ltd http://afpwebworks.com Full Scale ColdFusion 9 hosting

RE: [WSG] Why does IE show text decoration on these buttons?

2010-05-03 Thread Mike Kear
ecoration: underline which is required elsewhere in the site. There's a screenshot of what I'm talking about at http://uniquecelebrations.com.au/screenshot.jpg. In my system this problem doesn't appear in Chrome or Firefox but does appear in IE7. http://uniquecelebrations.com.

[WSG] OT: Dominos Pizza - Looking for someone who's worked there

2009-06-15 Thread Mike Kear
not for any competing project. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia 0422 985 585 02-4577-4898 Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks Pty Ltd http://afpwebworks.com Full Scale ColdFusion hosting from A$15/month ***

[WSG] SEO - how to upgrade my skills?

2009-05-11 Thread Mike Kear
way for me to update SEO skills? Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia 0422 985 585 Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks Pty Ltd http://afpwebworks.com Full Scale ColdFusion hosting from A$15/month ***

RE: [WSG] SEO - how to upgrade my skills?

2009-05-11 Thread Mike Kear
e up todate and much more compliant. I'll upgrade my own site when I get time, but paying work takes precedence over non-paying work in our household. Thanks for pointing it out. Just what I needed. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia 0422 985 585 Adobe Certified Adva

[WSG] PNG - how cross-browser standard reliable?

2009-04-27 Thread Mike Kear
en of using .pngs in web pages. Last time I tried using a png, I found it worked ok in some browsers and not in others. Is this still a relevant issue? Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia 0422 985 585 Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks Pty Ltd <http:

[WSG] Was given a shocker this week ...

2009-04-06 Thread Mike Kear
o. Maybe I can write it up as a case study later when the new site is up. If the client agrees. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia 0422 985 585 Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks Pty Ltd

RE: [WSG] Chrome now higher traffic than IE

2009-03-03 Thread Mike Kear
eck a page looks like it's supposed to after I upload it. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia 0422 985 585 Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks Pty Ltd <http://afpwebworks.com> http://afpwebworks.com Full Scale ColdFusion hosting from A$1

RE: [WSG] Chrome now higher traffic than IE

2009-03-03 Thread Mike Kear
o check a page I've just uploaded is the same as on my dev machine. So my own browsing is not significant in those numbers. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia 0422 985 585 Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks Pty Ltd <http://afpwebworks.com

RE: [WSG] Chrome now higher traffic than IE

2009-03-03 Thread Mike Kear
the others. THAT makes life a LOT easier for us! As long as no one has any overpowering majority, they all have to pay attention to each other. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia 0422 985 585 Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks Pty Ltd http://afpwebworks.com

RE: [WSG] Chrome now higher traffic than IE

2009-03-02 Thread Mike Kear
Oops.There's a senior moment. Of course I mean IE is not the highest traffic BROWSER on these two sites of mine, not SERVER. Sorry. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia 0422 985 585 Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks Pty Ltd

[WSG] Chrome now higher traffic than IE

2009-03-02 Thread Mike Kear
: 0.46% Netscape: 0.22% Other: 0.15% - Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia 0422 985 585 Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks Pty Ltd http://afpwebworks.com Full Scale ColdFusion hosting from A$15/month

RE: [WSG] BIIIIIIIG white space in Firefox not IE6

2005-04-29 Thread Mike Kear
Thanks Bert - you pointed me at the problem . I have 'clear:left' in lots of places. So that's solved that problem. Now I have another http://atalkingdog.com/goarticle.cfm?pid=716354 shows a series of paragraphs with pointers to other pages. But now they're indenting and not clearing. I

[WSG] BIIIIIIIG white space in Firefox not IE6

2005-04-28 Thread Mike Kear
/goArticle.cfm?pid=11 (and yes, that’s me so no personal comments!) Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia http://afpwebworks.com .com, .net, .org etc domains start at A$20 / year Full scale ColdfusionMX hosting from $15/month. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus

RE: [WSG] Sydney WSG meeting tonight

2005-04-27 Thread Mike Kear
I'd love to be there, but sadly Thursday nights is bad for me I have a totally inflexible other commitment. But I wish you all well, and I'll be thinking of you while I try to keep my eyelids from drooping with the boredom of what I have to do instead. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW,

RE: [WSG] new mycareer.com.au design

2005-04-26 Thread Mike Kear
That's certainly an expression I can't imagine ever uttering myself. Good work. You're a leader in our industry. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia http://afpwebworks.com .com, .net, .org etc domains start at A$20 / year Full scale ColdfusionMX hosting from $15/mo

[WSG] Peekaboo Bug giving problems

2005-03-26 Thread Mike Kear
://atalkingdog.com/styles/atalkingdog3.css   Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com Business Strength ColdFusion,PHP,ASP,ASP.NET hosting from $15/Month            

[WSG] Menu sits above the line in IE - anyone see why?

2005-02-03 Thread Mike Kear
I've been trying to figure this one out for a while now, and I can't see what's wrong. (I'm learning - but painfully slowly it seems)  The top navigation menu sits where it's supposed to in Firefox (the bottom of the menu should touch the top of the white 'content' area) but in IE it's about 20pixe

Re: [WSG] Default state of radio buttons. (Maybe OT?)

2005-02-01 Thread Mike Kear
Well I got involved in it because (i thought) someone said at the beginning of this thread that it was only valid markup if a set of radio buttons had one and only one 'checked' item.My point was that regardless of the validity of the code, it is sometimes invalid communications/user interface to h

Re: [WSG] Default state of radio buttons. (Maybe OT?)

2005-02-01 Thread Mike Kear
Perhaps, Kornel, but in that case how to you tell the difference between responses where people preferred not to say/didn't know (i.e. an answer to the question), and where people didn't answer the question or didnt notice it?There are cases where a default is a bad thing, and you need to be able t

Re: [WSG] Default state of radio buttons. (Maybe OT?)

2005-02-01 Thread Mike Kear
2 Feb 2005 08:54:31 +1100, Wybrow, Mark<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>> Or pass hidden parameters onto the action page ... these then can be over> ridden if the radio is selected>>> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On> Behalf Of Mike Kear> Sent: Wednesday

RE: [WSG] Default state of radio buttons. (Maybe OT?)

2005-02-01 Thread Mike Kear
With radio buttons, no value is passed to the form's action page unless one of the options is selected.   This will normally cause an error in the processing page unless special consideration is given to this possibility.Normally if there are radio buttons on the form, it is best to ensure that at

Re: [WSG] Floats dont float - can you see what i've got wrong please?

2005-01-26 Thread Mike Kear
could. Thanks for your help, it fixed the problem. Cheers Mike Kear AFP Webworks Pty Ltd Macromedia Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer. http://afpwebworks.com - Original Message - From: "Bert Doorn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 9:12 PM

[WSG] Floats dont float - can you see what i've got wrong please?

2005-01-25 Thread Mike Kear
http://www.grandchesterdesigns.com.au/styles/GrandchesterDesigns01.css   I'd be REALLY grateful if i could get this page looking proper by the weekend,  so if anyone could help me, I'd be most grateful.   Cheers Mike Kear AFP Webworks Windsor, NSW, Australia.

Re: [WSG] Convert uppercase file names to lower case

2005-01-20 Thread Mike Kear
e is inside your site, changing its name should have Dreamweaver changing every page that links to it. Hope this helps. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks == ColdFusion, ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, PERL hosting from $15/month. - Original Messag

[WSG] Why does my menu float high in IE?

2005-01-18 Thread Mike Kear
orehead and say OH YEAH!! OF COURSE!!!   The page in question is at http://staging.atalkingdog.com  and the style sheet is at http://staging.atalkingdog.com/styles/atalkingdog3.css   Cheers, Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia http://afpwebworks.com AFP Webworks Pty Ltd ColdFusion, .asp, .asp.net, php, perl hosting starting at A$15/month.  

[WSG] Footer on the very bottom of the viewing port

2004-04-07 Thread Mike Kear
I want to have a footer stuck to the bottom of the browser window, but if the window reduces in size, the footer goes over the top of other page content. What I'd like to do is have the footer stick to the bottom of the browser, except if it collides with other page content, which will push it down