Re: [WSG] The mailto link

2012-01-04 Thread Ted Drake
our mobile world. While not completely supported, you can use the tel: link as well. -- Ted Drake Yahoo! Inclusive Design http://accessibility.yahoo.com Twitter: @yahooaccess Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/YahooAccessibility On 1/4/12 6:18 AM, "Lesley Binks" wrote: > On 3 Ja

Re: [WSG] Accessible Slideshow

2011-12-06 Thread Ted Drake
: On 12/6/11 12:44 PM, Ted Drake wrote: Re: [WSG] Accessible Slideshow These are just some of the features I would look for in an accessible slideshow. -- Ted Drake Does such a slideshow exist; and, if so, can you please point to one that uses those features... and, includes any othe

Re: [WSG] Accessible Slideshow

2011-12-06 Thread Ted Drake
let the user know the slideshow has changed. 6. Are there alternate buttons if it is on a mobile device and uses a custom swipe gesture? These are just some of the features I would look for in an accessible slideshow. -- Ted Drake Yahoo! Inclusive Design http://accessibility.yahoo.com Twitter

Re: [WSG] Divs for tabular data

2011-12-05 Thread Ted Drake
I remember seeing this for the first time. I was asked by a backend engineer to help them fix a layout issue in a data table. When I looked at the source code, the page was a jumble of absolutely positioned cells to look like a data table. I shook my head and said he was on his own. I wasn't about

Re: [WSG] Story Boards

2011-10-25 Thread Ted Drake
Hi Marvin I'm not sure what you are trying to build with svg, but maybe you should take a look at Yahoo's YUI Charts. You can use a data table as the source for the charts. This gives users like you access to accessible data while also allowing the YUI library to build an interactive chart for free

Re: [WSG] Table borders

2011-09-30 Thread Ted Drake
marked up table, add the YUI data table javascript for even more accessibility, plus you can sort, stripe, and even create a chart from the table. http://new.yuilibrary.com/yui/docs/datatable/ Although it's not as pretty as the excel exported markup :-0 -- Ted Drake Yahoo! Accessibility Lab

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

2011-08-24 Thread Ted Drake
our programming. Most Yahoo sites use ARIA roles and the YUI JavaScript library, which is used on all of our sites, includes many components that integrate focus control and ARIA attributes. You can learn more at http://accessibilty.yahoo.com/library/ Ted Drake On 8/18/11 6:12 AM, "Mike

Re: [WSG] possible to make DT and DD behave like TH and TD column visually?

2011-04-04 Thread Ted Drake
Don't get me wrong, I love the DL. I've been accused of abusing it way too many times :) However, I think you should simply use a data table for this. The table will solve many of your layout questions. It also provides more structural feedback for screen reader users. For CSS table {border:none;

Re: [WSG] HTML5 v. HTML 4.x

2011-01-26 Thread Ted Drake
Hi Steve Can you give some links to research that back up this statement? As far as I know, the screen readers will accept the new tags when you are using something other than Internet Explorer. However, the question is what they do with them. You cannot navigate via articles like you’d use th

Re: [WSG] Accessible modal windows / lightboxes

2011-01-20 Thread Ted Drake
://yuiblog.com/blog/2009/03/05/aria-grids/ * http://yuiblog.com/blog/2007/12/21/menu-waiaria/ * http://yuiblog.com/blog/2008/12/08/video-kloots-aria/ Ted Drake Yahoo! Accessibility Lab http://accessibility.yahoo.com On 1/20/11 4:13 AM, "James Grant" wrote: Hi WSG'ers, Does a

RE: [WSG] alt text on email graphic

2010-11-29 Thread Ted Drake
If a spider could read the alt attribute, don't you think they could read the href attribute? Alt="j...@smith.com" or href="mailto:j...@smith.com"; It doesn't matter where you put the valid email address, the spiders will find it. However, messing with images will just make it more difficult on

RE: [WSG] best formatting for alt text

2010-11-15 Thread Ted Drake
There was a description of using creative styles a few years ago. I think it was part of building bullet proof web sites. The theory is that if you had an image with text (fancy header), it would be nice to still have some styles associated with the text that is displayed if the image is broken

RE: [WSG] XHTML or HTML?

2010-11-10 Thread Ted Drake
Benjamin always has a way of cutting through the fog and giving succent advice. Ted -Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 3:26 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subjec

RE: [WSG] XHTML or HTML?

2010-11-10 Thread Ted Drake
Thierry's right. It's time to start making those baby steps into HTML5. But you'll also need to add your charset and lang definition ... ted -Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Thierry Koblentz Sent: Wed

RE: [WSG] HTM5 Semantic markup overly done?

2010-10-01 Thread Ted Drake
I'm on the fence right now about headers. I've seen use of h2's without a header wrapper in a section. This gives screen readers structure, but it breaks the HTML5 outline methodology. Shouldn't you change it to an h1 when it goes in a header. It's a struggle between building good html5 code for

RE: [WSG] Semantics, lists and links

2010-08-26 Thread Ted Drake
A screen reader will not say bullet. It will, however grab that list and add it to a secondary navigation tool for the page. Screen reader users are able to see all of the lists on a page, as well as all headers. They can then skip directly to the items they are interested in. So use your lists

RE: [WSG] Getting my feet wet in HTML5

2010-08-13 Thread Ted Drake
y feet wet in HTML5 On 13 Aug 2010, at 18:51, Ted Drake wrote: > You need to build a site to learn HTML5 semantics, it's like the old days of > hybrid table-based layouts. 7 years ago you really needed to ditch tables to > truly understand CSS. Are you suggesting that to switch

RE: [WSG] Getting my feet wet in HTML5

2010-08-13 Thread Ted Drake
Take a look at the js, it's pretty simple. However, it is true that you are leaving yourself open. At Yahoo, we treat IE6 as an a-level browser. http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/articles/gbs/ So you aren't going to see me push to change Yahoo! Finance to HTML5 tags. However, I have been doing it t

RE: [WSG] Getting my feet wet in HTML5

2010-08-13 Thread Ted Drake
Tom, just go for it. You can add the modernizr or similar js to get IE to recognize the elements. But you won't appreciate the semantics of HTML5 until you ditch divs for the new tags. I speak from experience. There's a certain level of awareness you get while trying to decide the most semantic

RE: [WSG] CSS Expandable Menu

2010-06-28 Thread Ted Drake
The YUI3 menu widget has great accessibility support http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/3/node-menunav/ Accessibility & Usability Minded The MenuNav Node Plugin was built with both accessibility and usability in mind. The MenuNav Node Plugin implements established mouse and keyboard interaction

Kill this thread: RE: [WSG] IE6 Finally Nearing Extinction [STATS]

2010-06-23 Thread Ted Drake
I think it's time for this thread to die. Ted From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of zapcat Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 9:37 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] IE6 Finally Nearing Extinction [STATS] On Jun 23, 2010, at 9:2

RE: [WSG] HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives

2010-05-17 Thread Ted Drake
This has some nice descriptions about why you'd use certain strategies for alternate text. I'm gonna start throwing in some aria-describedby attributes right away. Thanks for putting this together. Ted -Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.o

RE: [WSG] CSS off button

2010-01-22 Thread Ted Drake
That's because you have so many different css files It might work better if you had a base css that included imports within it to the sub css files. When you switch that with a new css file the imports should also be

RE: [WSG] CSS off button

2010-01-22 Thread Ted Drake
I think your requirements may be a bit confused. I would suggest you look at two articles 1. backwards compatible style switcher http://www.alistapart.com/articles/n4switch/ 2. zoom layout by Sir Joe Clark http://www.alistapart.com/articles/lowvision/ Joe tells you why it's a good idea to create a

RE: [WSG] AAA Accessibility and validation

2010-01-13 Thread Ted Drake
Nick Zoom:1 is not bad enough to warrant a conditional comment and separate style sheet. It's a valid rule that basically says show the screen at 100%. A user style sheet can still over-ride this rule. It's an easy way to add hasLayout without causing other issues. This is what Microsoft recomm

RE: [WSG] my latest version of my page

2009-09-21 Thread Ted Drake
Use semantic markup. The nav should be a list, not a stack of paragraphs. Ted -Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Dave Westell Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2009 8:37 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] my

RE: [WSG] Accessible websites (was: accessible free web hosting account)

2009-07-01 Thread Ted Drake
all of the customization functionality works. The personalization features were built by Dirk Ginader who also made this presentation on why and how you should build sites for everyone. http://www.slideshare.net/ginader/the-5-layers-of-web-accessibility Ted DRAKE -Original Message

RE: [WSG] free screen reader friendly web hosting

2009-06-17 Thread Ted Drake
This is a very confusing email. The host has nothing to do with how screen-reader friendly your web site is. Are you looking for a host which has a screen-reader friendly admin interface? This would be geared to the developer not the end user. The language you use is also not tied to screen reader

RE: [WSG] SEO vs. Accessibility

2009-05-27 Thread Ted Drake
Try Thierry Koblentz's technique that fixes a lot of these issues. http://tjkdesign.com/articles/tip.asp Ted -Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Hargreaves, Michael Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 6:07 AM To: wsg@webstandar

RE: [WSG] Mysterious background dis-appearing

2009-05-04 Thread Ted Drake
the background image may have been afraid that Colonel Anna was gonna break him in two. :) Are you seeing this in any particular browser? it looked ok in my firefox. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidel

RE: [WSG] Re: Browser Backwards Compatibility -- How far back?

2009-03-23 Thread Ted Drake
The Yahoo! Graded Browser Support matrix is a good standard of what browsers are appropriately supported. http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/articles/gbs/ You can point clients to this page for justifications. It is appropriate for general use web sites. If your users are disproportionally stuck behi

RE: [WSG] meta tag questions

2009-02-24 Thread Ted Drake
You can see dublin core as well as RDF and microformatted information has been indexed by yahoo when you use the BOSS api and/or build a SearchMonkey application. I don't know how much it influences Yahoo's rankings, but it is being used in building the index. http://developer.yahoo.com/boss http:

RE: [WSG] Downloading Fonts

2008-12-08 Thread Ted Drake
Safari and firefox3 support the @font-face attribute. I don't know the status of Opera and IE8. This allows you to put a font file on your server and reference it in the CSS. Ted _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Ducker Sent: Monday, December 0

FW: [WSG] High-Pass Filter and Yahoo's reset stylesheet (question regarding validation)

2008-11-21 Thread Ted Drake
Here's a reply from Nate K, the architect of grids, fonts, reset, . files in YUI _ From: Nate Koechley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 7:27 PM To: Ted Drake Subject: Re: [WSG] High-Pass Filter and Yahoo's reset stylesheet (question regarding

RE: [WSG] Another Question about JavaScript.

2008-11-14 Thread Ted Drake
Regardless of the JS, this is a web standards group. This example has no labels on your form inputs. The previous example was using tables for layout. Don't concentrate on a single issue and forget semantic, standards-based markup from the very beginning. Ted **

RE: [WSG] Mark-up for physical/postal addresses

2008-10-28 Thread Ted Drake
Personally, IF the address had a name associated with it, I would use a definition list. However, there are some purists out there that can't see beyond using a dl for anything other than defining a word. But John Doe is a term and his address, phone number, etc are describing him: John D

RE: [WSG] div over flash

2008-10-23 Thread Ted Drake
The YUI container library offers the iframe shim, built in for ie6. Watch the wmode:transparent if your flash movie contains actual content. Wmode:transparent makes it justifiably invisible to screen readers. It's basically telling the browser and screen reader the flash movie is for decoration an

RE: [WSG] Question about accessibility

2008-08-27 Thread Ted Drake
It's not too difficult to use CSS to turn a list of links into an "image map". Just give the ul the image as a background and position relative. You can then define the size and absolute position of each list item and position the text off screen. This still isn't as accessible as a simple list, b

RE: [WSG] Skype changing format of my pages

2008-08-26 Thread Ted Drake
functionality. It’s annoying sometimes, but easy to ignore. Ted Drake http://last-child.com From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of designer Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 8:29 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Skype changing

RE: [WSG] Mobile graded browser support

2008-07-21 Thread Ted Drake
FYI: David Storey is one of the lead engineers of Opera Browser. It's a rare honor to have a browser architect reflect on the industry in mailing lists. Do you see similar responses from Firefox, Safari, or IE architects? So, keep his suggestions in mind, he knows what he's talking about. I

RE: [WSG] iphone should not be part of your url

2008-07-21 Thread Ted Drake
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. Sure, it's arguable if you should design for a particular appliance. However, they've done the work for you an

RE: [WSG] web optimization

2008-07-07 Thread Ted Drake
The best information is on the Yahoo Developer Network. http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/ Ted _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 1:40 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] web optimization

RE: [WSG] Breadcrumbs showing organisational structure and usability

2008-06-06 Thread Ted Drake
Damn, this is refreshing to hear for a change! Enough said. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Harris Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 9:13 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Breadcrumbs showing organisational structure an

RE: [WSG] Stumped need suggestions - how to highlight two links at once

2008-06-04 Thread Ted Drake
First off, I'd question the usefulness of this. The disjointed relationship between the links would merely confuse the user. It would be really ugly to do this but here you go >Blood Pressure In your style sheet, you'd give position relative to the main container. .disjointedmess a spa

RE: [WSG] Alt versus Title Attribute

2008-05-28 Thread Ted Drake
Sorry but on hover, IE6 will show "this is a dog" and other browsers will show "oh no it isn't" If your tooltips are really that critical, use the YUI tooltip javascript to get cross-browser compatibility to display the title attribute. You can also style them. http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/conta

RE: [WSG] Fwd: using fieldsets and legends (outside a form) for adding structural markup

2008-05-23 Thread Ted Drake
Thierry Koblentz wrote:   Does that mean we should drop the ABBR element because IE can't handle it properly? Julien wrote: You have the answer: http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/how-to_fix_the_ABBR_element.asp ;) Touché! **

RE: [WSG] Fwd: using fieldsets and legends (outside a form) for adding structural markup

2008-05-21 Thread Ted Drake
posts. I logged a bug and they’ll fix it in a future release. But it just goes to show this is a commonly misused pattern. Go for the header and div. it’s semantic and the header gives screen readers (and Opera) something to navigate with. Ted Drake Last-child.com _ From

Re: [WSG] Older Browsers

2008-05-08 Thread Ted Drake
libraries, government organizations, military, and other large organizations have locked down computers that don't allow installation of fire fox. They also have purpose built web applications that only run in IE6 that are critical for their day to day jobs. That is a major reason for the larg

RE: [WSG] :: CSS Code Formatting ::

2008-05-06 Thread Ted Drake
>From Yslow http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/ Reduce the number of css files used Link to them in the top of the page, no inline styles Gzip and reduce the whitespace when going to production. These are fairly simple steps for the average web developer. Visit yslow for more performa

RE: [WSG] animated scroll

2008-04-24 Thread Ted Drake
Ah, where's your sense of adventure? Certainly hundreds of javascripts for 1 pound means quality. It reminds me of a night with two super-gigantic pizzas for $2.99. They may not have been good, but I didn't forget about eating them for months. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTEC

RE: [WSG] An efficient CSS architecture

2008-04-24 Thread Ted Drake
The Yahoo YUI CSS framework is a big help. http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/ The Reset, base, and fonts give you a good foundation. The grids make it super easy to build layouts. Combine all four into a single css file: http://yui.yahooapis.com/2.5.1/build/reset-fonts-grids/reset-fonts-grids.css An

RE: [WSG] seo / standards question

2008-04-09 Thread Ted Drake
I would also add that the h2 is probably not the correct header level. Depending on your page structure, the set of related links is probably more h3 level than h2. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Taylor Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 20

RE: [WSG] Dreamweaver CS3

2008-04-04 Thread Ted Drake
I use Dreamweaver in code view. However, it makes it easy to convert a semantic marked-up word document into valid code, is easy to organize code, and I am used to the key commands. That probably describes dozens of editors for different people. If it comes with a package, you're in good shape.

RE: [WSG] accessible fluid button

2008-04-04 Thread Ted Drake
YUI button from Yahoo http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/button/ _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Naveen Bhaskar Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 7:10 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] accessible fluid button Hi, could anyone tell me wh

RE: [WSG] Rogue text appears in IE6.

2008-04-03 Thread Ted Drake
I think that you should read through the documents on positioniseverything a bit closer. It’s not just the comments. Removing comments from source code is a really bad idea for best practices. Other people may have to work on your site and it’s a pain to reverse-engineer code. Use native comme

RE: [WSG] Rogue text appears in IE6.

2008-04-03 Thread Ted Drake
That is one of my favorite ie6 quirks, the mysterious duplicated text bug. I hope that's what you have and not just a bad comment. It's one of those things that have you scratching your head and marveling over the oddity of it. The answer is at position is everything _ From: [EMAI

RE: [WSG] Semantic markup for a person's name or business name

2008-03-26 Thread Ted Drake
Hi Cole Microformats use the h, as in hcard, hevent, hreview. However, many of them are based on existing standards, i.e. vcard The hcard microformat uses vcard as a class for backwards compatibility. Microformatted user information can be directly saved to a person's contact list, events can be

RE: [WSG] long description and its implementation

2008-02-04 Thread Ted Drake
It's been a while since I've dealt with the issue of screen reader accessibility and UFO insertion. I thought I remembered ours being screen reader accessible until using window mode: transparent. Here's a blog post about our solution. http://www.last-child.com/make-flash-accessible-to-screen-read

RE: [WSG] Markup question

2007-11-29 Thread Ted Drake
/contracting dl-based FAQ page (http://tjkdesign.com ) Ted Drake http://last-child.com Paris, France -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike at Green-Beast.com Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 11:04 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject:

RE: [WSG] Re: worst site I've seen lately

2007-10-28 Thread Ted Drake
Welcome to the world of post-iPhone web design. I've already seen a Yahoo maps hack that adds the same sliding behavior. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Roper Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 6:23 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sub

RE: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash

2007-10-23 Thread Ted Drake
You can get dhtml to cover flash by setting the flash to use wmode:transparent. However, this makes the content in the flash invisible to screen readers. IE6 is hell with z-index. Especially when combined with form elements. IE7 is much better and you should be able to create a page that works in

RE: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Ted Drake
n ethos. They should have taken this more seriously. I only hope that they grow from this experience and develop a much better site that is an example of great design with great accessibility built in. Ted Drake http://last-child.com **

RE: [WSG] Popup 'box' on hover

2007-08-23 Thread Ted Drake
I think it was Jeremy Keith that railed against having CSS do what JavaScript should do and vice versa. This is going beyond what CSS is good for. You'll have inconsistent behaviors, require the user to download invisible images, and more. I'd suggest looking at the container library with the YU

RE: [WSG] HELP with CSS

2007-07-27 Thread Ted Drake
're not alone. Too many people approach CSS without having a good understanding of structural markup. Your code will be bloated and you will end up with complicated CSS until you understand how to use the structural elements correctly. Ted Drake www.last-child.com -- From:

RE: [WSG] Accessible Drop Down Menu Example

2007-06-06 Thread Ted Drake
> On Behalf Of Ryan Moore > was just looking for an example of a good accessible drop down menu for part of a web application i'm developing. >From Thierry --- http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/Pure_CSS_Dropdown_Menus.asp"; /> HTH --- Regards, Thierry | www.TJKDesign.com -

RE: [WSG] Firefox & Wmode

2007-05-29 Thread Ted Drake
em. Also go through your javascript and look for anything that is creating a container with z-index that could be causing an overlap. I hope that helps Ted Drake www.last-child.com <http://www.last-child.com/> **

[WSG] sliding door based button breakign on :active state

2007-03-30 Thread Ted Drake
Ted Drake Yahoo! Answers Coming soon... European Finance - Paris Member of the Yahoo! Accessibility Stakeholders Group   Enable Your Audience Are you serving the 55 millon kids and adults with disabilities in the United States? How about the 550 million around the world

rel post, was: RE: [WSG] style sheets - best practices

2007-03-15 Thread Ted Drake
Barney, Do you have any idea where that article was or who wrote it? I'd like to read this. Thanks Ted A while back I read this article on the secret power of the rel property in links... The author went about listing examples of different objects you could link and different terms for what r

RE: [WSG] style sheets - best practices

2007-03-15 Thread Ted Drake
Hi all I used to think that modularizing css was a grand idea. It certainly makes it easier to maintain your code. At Yahoo!, we have a huge responsibility to reduce our server demands and make pages load as fast as possible. We have found that it is actually better to have one enormous css file

RE: [WSG] broken sprite - very odd ie6 thing

2006-03-14 Thread Ted Drake
2006 3:21 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] broken sprite - very odd ie6 thing Ted Drake wrote: > Has anyone seen this before? I don't know why it is showing such odd > behavior with the background image. There's another link in the list with a > similarly broken

[WSG] absolute positioning, z-index, and IE6 - summary

2006-03-14 Thread Ted Drake
ngenious solution to the conflict between z-index on elements and subsequent select elements. He uses an iframe with z-index-1 that sits under the targeted element. I've used this negative z-index on some of the subsequent elements and it is helping. Fixing all of the pages will be a long journ

[WSG] broken sprite - very odd ie6 thing

2006-03-14 Thread Ted Drake
n the link _ _ |_ _| _||_ _||_ Instead of +link Has anyone seen this before? I don't know why it is showing such odd behavior with the background image. There's another link in the list with a similarly broken arrow and another with a perfectly fine printer sprite. Ted Drake Front-end

[WSG] z-index conflict in IE6 with positioned elements

2006-03-13 Thread Ted Drake
/bugreports/archives/2006/01/Explorer_z_index_bug.html   Aleksandar has a suggested fix that works for simple pages. I’ve got too many positioned elements on my pages and it’s a virtual pile-up of ungodly proportions.   Has anyone found a solution to this problem?   Thanks   Ted Drake Front-end

RE: Solution! RE: [WSG] form button css

2006-02-27 Thread Ted Drake
ct link to notify you. Do you mean for folks who find things that don't seem to work to leave a comment in the comments areas? I am a bit confused.   Like they site by the way, bookmarked it! - Original Message ----- From: Ted Drake To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org

Solution! RE: [WSG] form button css

2006-02-27 Thread Ted Drake
xt-transform: none; }   Thanks, James Gellan Rayne Creative 404-468-6347   ----- Original Message - From: "Ted Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <wsg@webstandardsgroup.org> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 19:48 Subject: [

RE: [WSG] form button css

2006-02-27 Thread Ted Drake
form buttons have an inherent value that makes it display margins differently than inputs or labels.   I got it to look spiffy when I floated everything, but that is too drastic for a simple form.   Ted Drake www.last-child.com --new Advanced CSS resources site   From: [EMAIL

[WSG] form button css

2006-02-27 Thread Ted Drake
o: #foo form { text-align:center; padding:0; } #foo label { color:#fff; font-size:85%; margin:0 5px; font-weight:bold; } #foo input { margin:0 5px;} #foo button {border:none; height:23px; background:none; padding:0 0 0 0; margin:6px 0 -6px 0;} Thanks Ted Drake -- New Advanced CSS Resourc

[WSG] making table cells share equally

2006-02-21 Thread Ted Drake
Hi all you former table hackers out there. I’ve got a simple question. If I have two or three columns in a table and I want the cells to share the space equally, what would you suggest?  I don’t have a width on these cells right now and if one cell has lots of content, it’s pushing the oth

RE: [WSG] flash z-index conflict

2006-02-18 Thread Ted Drake
You Rawk! I haven't seen a diva put in here place like that since Julia Childs told Emeril his chicken was scrawny. For the record, here's my ufo script var FO = { movie:"/images/home-flash-standin.png", width:"710", height:"250", majorversion:"6", wmode:"transparent", build:"0" }; UFO.crea

[WSG] flash z-index conflict

2006-02-18 Thread Ted Drake
applied a super-fantastic z-index of 2000 to the dropdown and a humbling z-index of 10 to the flash container.   thanks   Ted Drake Front-end Engineer Yahoo! Tech  

RE: [WSG] site check

2006-02-16 Thread Ted Drake
I'd love to see the site of the third party consultant... come on... sneak it into a message to us... Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of kvnmcwebn Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 2:35 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] site

RE: [WSG] site check

2006-02-16 Thread Ted Drake
I don't see what this person is complaining about. Are you sure he looked at the right site? I do see a table in your code that could easily be replaced and should be. But in general, the home page didn't look bad. I got a similar message from a client that had a friend look at the design. The gu

RE: [WSG] just sharing the frustration

2006-02-15 Thread Ted Drake
There goes Patrick showing off his regular expression prowess again. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick H. Lauke Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 5:01 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] just sharing the frustra

RE: [WSG] Font size menu

2006-02-15 Thread Ted Drake
Daz On 15/02/06, Ted Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why an ordered list? Regardless of semantic purposes, you may come across some cross-browser compatibility issues if you are doing any kind of image replacement or background images. I would go with an unordered list as you don'

RE: [WSG] Font size menu

2006-02-15 Thread Ted Drake
Why an ordered list? Regardless of semantic purposes, you may come across some cross-browser compatibility issues if you are doing any kind of image replacement or background images. I would go with an unordered list as you don’t need to go to the smallest size before getting to the medium

RE: [WSG] just sharing the frustration

2006-02-15 Thread Ted Drake
Give you writers a very quick lesson in standards. They apply to writing in Word just as much as the web. Don't assume they know about headers, unordered lists, ordered lists, etc. The more they use these basic structural elements in their word documents, the quicker your work will be. It makes se

RE: [WSG] just sharing the frustration

2006-02-14 Thread Ted Drake
Here's a helpful hint on doing this crap. Use htmlTidy, while I haven't used this, I've heard it's really good. Normally, what I do is create a new basic html page in dreamweaver. I go to the design view and paste the content into the screen. I then switch to code view and run a few search and rep

[WSG] new yahoo user interface library

2006-02-14 Thread Ted Drake
the http://www.yuiblog.com/ yahoo user interface blog and learn how to use these advanced programming techniques.   Ted Drake Front-end Engineer Yahoo! Tech  

[WSG] print style question

2006-02-13 Thread Ted Drake
vel and applied the page-break-before style to the second table. I've also tried clear:both and float:none to avoid any descending behaviors. Does anyone have a suggestion for finding the printing conflict? Thanks Ted Drake Front-end Engineer Yahoo! Tech **

RE: [WSG] Target sued over non-accessible site

2006-02-09 Thread Ted Drake
This has the potential for making some positive improvements in the commercial web sphere. Target is not blind to good design. Their new prescription bottles have been hailed as one of the best designs of the last decade (I think they were designed by a graduate student before Target purchased the

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

2006-02-08 Thread Ted Drake
Hi Marilyn This is far from a perfect world. Before we can have perfectly lovely xml documents, we need to make sure all of the resources delivering content are also delivering perfectly lovely xml. Or... a broken page. Not everyone has the resources to put this together. So, it's good to have a

[WSG] IE7 hacks

2006-02-03 Thread Ted Drake
Hi everyone I posted a hack to IE7 today. I know I'm not the first one to find this, but thought I'd throw it out there for all to love on. www.tdrake.net It's pretty simple. But please, think beyond hacks. Ted Drake www.tdrake.net ***

RE: [WSG] Websites in Different Languages

2006-02-03 Thread Ted Drake
You may find some practical advice here: http://www.chin.gc.ca/English/index.html the Canadian Heritage Information Network. Canadian sites that are sponsored by the government are required to be bilingual. This network offers support to Canadian museums and other non-profit organizations. I would

RE: [WSG] Article: DL + DOM = "cool" FAQ page

2006-02-01 Thread Ted Drake
Nice work Thierry. I'm going to add this one to the library. I know there are plenty of hide/show examples out there. This one has a nice combination of clean code and attention to accessibility. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thierr

[WSG] IE7 Now what?

2006-02-01 Thread Ted Drake
Hi All   I’ve been following the IE7 progress. It isn’t an IE6 patch and it is far, far better than beta 1.   I’ve written some notes on my blog: www.tdrake.net about the launch.   For the most part, IE7 Beta 2 is pretty good. It’s not perfect, but pretty good.  Think of it as Firef

RE: [WSG] Web Site Template Review

2006-01-30 Thread Ted Drake
A form inside a fieldset? [EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED] Come on everyone, where's the outrage? I remember trying to use a fieldset outside a form and had to don the asbestos fire suit. Seriously, I don't see any benefit to putting the fieldset outside a form. I would assume it's just slopp

[WSG] use alpha transparent png mask - was: Display problem in IE for the PC

2006-01-30 Thread Ted Drake
I like the design as well, but I think you're missing a bit of css potential. Instead of putting the fade onto your images, use a background image with alpha transparent png that sits on top of the image. The image would be solid on the outside, transparent square in the middle and have the fade tr

RE: [WSG] BLOCKQUOTE Problem

2006-01-28 Thread Ted Drake
Why are you using #blockquote? You can target paragraphs et al within a blockquote with descending selectors: blockquote p, blockquote a, blockquote cite, etc. I'm getting a bit tired of my over the top blockquotes: http://www.tdrake.net/durward-and-the-rocket/ But I have messed with some of th

RE: [WSG] Cite in

2006-01-26 Thread Ted Drake
That's a nice trick Russ. I like that approach. I did some tests with attribute selectors on this page: http://www.tdrake.net/attribute-selectors-to-provide-language-information/ For what it's worth, IE7 will recognize attribute selectors but does not generate content. On the above page, it would

RE: [WSG] Cite in

2006-01-26 Thread Ted Drake
I think the actual answer should be. The cite attribute is not displayed by any browser. However it is available if you right click on the blockquote and look at the properties. It is also available for some future semantic web research. I use it often since it only takes a few moments to add it a

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