> Whats my cheapest option for getting ie7 to run on my intel based mac.
> Is it basically an option between boot camp, parallels or virtual pc?
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clicking either =) best bet is to use on clear labelling of your form
controls not on interpreting the visual design.
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an available font had an aspect value of 0.40, the font-size of the
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upposed to deal with this if said font is missing?
And how does it resolve line-height issues for fonts that have a low
aspect ratio?
Personally, I would like to see some decent column support before
trying to exert this degree of control on font-sizing.
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On 16/10/2007, at 10:47 AM, Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
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It goes something like this: with a reverse source order (content
before nav) content specific links will always appear before the
current se
lowing the most relevant (to the current context)
links to appear at the top of lists - effectively shortening them
considerably. With traditional source order link lists are
essentially random and people still have to scroll through the entire
list to find relevant links.
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Ben, this is damn fine summary.
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On 11/10/2007, at 12:40 PM, Ben Buchanan wrote:
Is there a prevailing wisdom in this matter?
Content first? Or navigation first?
This is a "jury is still out" issue since nobody has comprehensive
data, just small s
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For the record blueprint is not a google product, it's just hosted
at google code.
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this is nice, but do you have anything for the unites states along
this line?
You can always use New Zealands: http://www.e.govt.nz/standards/web-
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Are there any safari hacks that validate and will be somewhat
permanent?
I'm curious as to why you need a hack for safari as it's a reasonably
compliant browser. What are you trying to work around?
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Some clients do not want this at all, they think it "pollutes the
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My point being that fieldset could be used to wrap label and input
pairs?
No. is to group related controls, not labels and controls.
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I think it is (semi) safer to say 4% of visitors to sites using
thecounter.com counters do not have javascript enabled =)
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John Faulds:
> Surely people recognise links enough that they don't need to be told to
> click every single one?
I agree. The verb ('click here', 'go to' etc) really shouldn't form part
of the li
27;name' is **needed** to process form
controls and avoided language with special meaning within the spec.
see: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#successful-
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IE6 will get buggy if you only use imports.
Are you referring to FOUC - or other bugginess or both? If there are
other bugs can you enlighten me?
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9.5 Provide keyboard shortcuts to important links (including those
in client-side image maps), form controls, and groups of form
controls.
Well, technically it is a requirement of AAA level WCAG 1.0, but a
lot of experts consider accesske
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if (screen.width > 640) {
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IE will give you a security alert when you try to run a script from
your hard drive. You can change this setting in IE pref's or you can
insert a 'mark of the web' to force the offending page(s) to run in
the intranet or internet zone... google it.
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elf explanatory
/ui/css/ <-- ditto
/ui/js/ <-- ditto
or
/ui/optionalthemename/ <-- everything in here... ditto above.
I usually use some sort of server language and mod_rewrite to shorten
urls to /ui on the client side.
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See #4 & #5 (both point to Jared Spool's work, but there may be
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Gunlaug Sørtun:
Nothing wrong with 'conditional comments'
I always weigh it up with the cost of CC code size plus the server trip
for the file, vs. the code size for inline '* html hacks', usually the
latter method wins.
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Ditto. I've been agreeing with Patrick a lot lately... I'm not a
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Thanks for the definition, particularly the examples you provide for
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Terrence Wood wrote:
Jakob Nielsen responded to my request for clarification
Jacob has used this request for his latest article
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/within_page_links.html
Wow! there's my 15 seconds of fame. If he'd mentioned me by name I'd be
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distinctly different from a navigation menu.
Anyone else have thoughts on this?
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interesting url given, the running joke about shetland ponies on this
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- I'm just too busy. Text at my size suits me best =)
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Can i get a second opinion on felix's advice?
What did Felix advise?
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as graphics and part of it. This may help low vision users.
Does the "you are here >>" text refer to the image map or is there a
broken breadcrumb? If it refers to the image map maybe you need a
different label.
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tely the adults using the site still have difficulty
Occams razor says choose the simplist amongst possible solutions.
Sounds like too simple is not a solution in this case.
Thankfully your users are easy to identify =)
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you came from. The effort required to close a window. Locate other open
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http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/simplicity.cfm (about halfway
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Aside: Perhaps the noframe content could point back to the front page
where there is the option to review each product individually.
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left before) or notice.
Phew... it all seems so much more complicated than just using a back
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specialist audience - In the same way that I accept flash based
experiential sites are appropriate for flash designers for example.
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Serdar Kılıç:
The way *I* browse some sites is how I built my site.
Important point: that is your browsing habit. You *can* open new
windows if *you* want or prefer it. Shouldn't you give your users the
same degree of freedom over their browsing experience.
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windows?
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on). Most users requested additional contextual information (e.g.
tooltips, or deks). So indications are, IMO (based on this, and my
recent reading of Spool on global navigation) that less global
navigation, and more contextual navigation is generally better for
content rich sites.
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Herrod, Lisa would like to recall the message, "[WSG] Web design
education".
What does that mean and where does it come from? Someone else sent me
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situated on the same page confuse users? Or, put another way ,is your
recommendation suggesting that all links must load a new document
into an
existing browser window?
Yes to both.
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> what's gonna happen next.
When a user clicks on a link they *know* they will be taken to the
resource described by that hypertext link. It doesn't even need an
explantion because it is so fundamental.
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for usability. I have never disputed
that. Nielsen also says use platform conventions. Creating a list of links
to resources within a page is a convention for the web.
[1]: http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/struct/links.html#h-12.1
[2]:http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-
ur understanding of the USEIT article, you
are misinformed.
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http://www.google.com/search?q=free+search+engine+script
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visual browsers.
No, the redundancy is acutally for the opposite of visual browsers, but
ultimately every browser/user benefits.
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sat well within the design and served a purpose then I wouldn't hesitate
to use expanding and collapsing divs. I'd add an onfocus event though ;-)
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whole Q/A is not a term/definition argument. I'm not entirely
sure what you mean by "out of context" - I'm guessing you are stuck on the
idea that the Q's can only appear once on the page?
> And since we're talking about "browser feature&
Al Sparber said:
> I spent 20 years designing and building some of the most upscale food
> markets in America. So let's call it a push and move on, eh?
Your foo beats mine Al =)
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> a marketing-oriented person would probably eat you for lunch
I doubt it. I spent over a decade in marketing =)
Besides, a solution for getting topics above the fold has already been
discussed in this thread.
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e than one question on
> the page.
Agreed. One of the basic tenents of usability is to prevent errors.
Breaking basic browser funtionality (find function) contravenes this...
The rest is fixing what you just broke isn't it?
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ecomes more confusing when
a table is linearized. I say avoid rowspan if at all possible.
> scope, or id and headers?
Scope should suffice on simple tables (two or less heading levels, small
number of cols and/or rows), complex tables need headers and ids to w
ge.
It's usally appears once at the front. In a few thousand years we probably
will have a single interaction model for web pages, but in the meantime,
not everything from the print world translates that well to the digital
one.
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> [is it] better that the content all comes first?
Mark Pilgrim [1], Sarah Horton (of Web Style Guide Fame, in her latest
book) and others say it is.
Roger Hudson, WSG's very own Russ Weakley, and Lisa Miller say that it isn't.
[1]:
http://diveintoaccessibility.org/day_
t use of the available packets and minimise requests.
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I usually check in with htmldog to see what browser is doing what:
http://htmldog.com/ptg/archives/55.php
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I'll leave it to the W3C to explain:
HTML 2.0
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_5.html#SEC5.6.4
HTML 4.1
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/lists.html#edef-MENU
XHTML 2.0
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xhtml2-20050527/mod-list.html
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When would it be impractical to use standards methods?
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Seona Bellamy said:
> form element is inheriting the left margin
You have conflicting id's for content. Change to the textarea's id to
something else.
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My thinking is this: A form is a device to enable user to interact
with the site owner. A table is the representation of data recorded at
discrete intervals (or some other discrete dimension).
Oh, and one more point. I'd use my 2 s
it.wisc.edu/accessibility/online-course/standards/
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If you don't have PHP, then you will probably at least have SSI as part of
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ive class to like
> bold or something, now the only time when the text shows bold is when I
> press on it.
This is the correct behaviour. a:active is when the link is clicked.
You want to set up your style for the 'currentLink' class:
a.curr
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once you get past the caption. Try my one-second test for
layout vs. data tables which goes like this: "Would I put this table
into a spreadsheet?" If you answer no, then it is most likely a layout
table.
Ultimately your call though Vicki.
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not* a data table because the header cells of "item" and "charges
GST.." can both be removed without loss of meaning for the table.
Therefore, I recommend you not add any special markup to it.(OK maybe the
GST included part is important - put it in the caption).
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not* a data table because the header cells of "item" and "charges
GST.." can both be removed without loss of meaning for the table.
Therefore, I recommend you not add any special markup to it.(OK maybe the
GST included part is important - put it in the caption).
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can use metadata.
2. IE7 is released and taken up quickly so we can use CSS 2.1 and start
complaining about the lack of support for CSS 3.0 =)
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Blahblah 2005 by Month" where repeating that info (the purpose) in the
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In fact, the summary may need to be even more detailed and longer
Without a summary for guidance, one can spend several minutes trying to
decipher the content in a complex table and get very very frustrated. But
a summary that explains the structure allows one to b
but most people got it... you could say
"group of rows")
HTH, please share your discovery in 2005.
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uh-huh, standard corporate fare really.
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What's the best, cross-browser supported way to setup font sizes in
CSS documents?
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=FontSize
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how to get this keyword search box any narrower in ie?
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> it doesn't matter what goes on as long as it gets to the client in a
> standards-compliant, semantically correct form.
Correct.
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levels to boot!
Itch? My brain is melting! Where's the search?
To be fair, if you turn off js and just use the tabs and the left hand
navigation, the site navigation is pretty good. But dropdowns? Just say
no.
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Again, nothing personal Bob, this rant is for any designer who has
clients wanting that 1998 look.
And in fact, I have had off-list responses thanking me for my
contribution to this thread.
On 16 Dec 2005, at 11:44 PM, Bob Schwartz wrote:
No can do Bob. I showed yo
On 17 Dec 2005, at 6:46 PM, Thierry Koblentz wrote:
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Have I missed something or is this just, erm, frames using javascript
instead of a static page?
I'm not sure I understand your question.
Isn't what the OP is looking for? Being able to link to *and* frame
static page?
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to use a table, then so be
> it. As it happens I've only built 1 table based site this year and I
> have no shame and no regrets,
Good on you.
> the site brings in millions of dollars a year.
Yeah, so do google and amazon, both of which are pretty "laughable" in
terms
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> On Dec 16, 2005, at 3:42 PM, Terrence Wood wrote:
>> No, I don't want you to tell them the technical reason's of why one
design is better than another.
>
> Yes, you do.
Did you not read the rest of the paragraph above Tom? I thought it was
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