Re: [WSG] data generator
I wasn't talking to you dwain. On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 3:39 PM, dwain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: target had something that just works and look what happened to them. wonder how they feel about accessibility now? although it's not the end all and be all of web design and development, if you are wanting standards compliance then shouldn't go just part of the way, like microsoft does, to be standards compliant, that means being accessible to all. we do have laws about that now, even for the web. let's go to target. dwain On 2/22/08, Gary Menzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah - our development team will definitely be using this. Sometimes accessibility is not all it is cracked up to be. Sometime you just need something that works. On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 3:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]@R KULEKCİ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i think very good resource. thanks! 2008/2/23, Thierry Koblentz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This is pretty cool tool to generate volume of any kind of data (it even includes SQL options) http://www.generatedata.com -- Regards, Thierry | http://www.TJKDesign.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** -- dwain alford The artist may use any form which his expression demands; for his inner impulse must find suitable expression. Kandinsky *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] force download a media file
The choice on how to handle any MIME type is in the hands of the downloading application and cannot be controlled by the source site. If it was not for this, it would be too easy for a site to infect any target operating system with malicious intent. Regards, Gary [that is - if you find a way to do it, it is a fault in the browser] On 6/13/07, SJL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have this problem where i want to force download and mp3 and mp4 format file, but by default the browsers are handling it. I actually want the save as window to appear and give the choice to the viewer. I have goggled and tried a lot of them, but nothing worked, as my server doesnt support asp/php. can it be done using javascript/ajax? Kindly advice. Thanks and regards, Sijo Louis *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] force download a media file
In regard to content-disposition The following RFC states (very late in the text in the section on Security) In general, the receiving MUA should not name or place the file such that it will get interpreted or executed without the user explicitly initiating the action. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2183.txt So - while it may seem like content-disposition is an answer, a well behaved MIME-type interpreter should still ask the user what they want to do with the file. So, this still does not (or at least should not) allow an MP3 (or any other file) to be run or executed without the users intervention. At minimum, the behaviour for content-disposition is not guaranteed. In fact, some browsers continue to be naughty in that they actually DOWNLOAD the file first (to some temporary location), then fire up an appropriate application to handle the MIME type against the downloaded file rather than running the handling application as a plug-in (freestanding or embedded) and passing it the address/URL of the resource to process. Regards, Gary On 6/13/07, C. Bergström [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lea de Groot wrote: On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:40:39 +0530, SJL wrote: I have this problem where i want to force download and mp3 and mp4 format file, but by default the browsers are handling it. I actually want the save as window to appear and give the choice to the viewer. Zipping the file is the only way I know of to ensure a download. Have you tried adding a header with something similar to below.. Response.AppendHeader(Content-Disposition,attachment; filename=\ + strFileToDownload + \); Response.ContentType = audio/mpeg; ./C *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] force download a media file
And I forgot to add... By the time you could execute Javascript (and that would not be possible once the MIME type has been specified) the browser would have already decided what to do with the content (NOTE: I cannot see how you could execute any JS once you were outside of the HTML MIME type). Regards, Gary On 6/13/07, Gary Menzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In regard to content-disposition The following RFC states (very late in the text in the section on Security) In general, the receiving MUA should not name or place the file such that it will get interpreted or executed without the user explicitly initiating the action. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2183.txt So - while it may seem like content-disposition is an answer, a well behaved MIME-type interpreter should still ask the user what they want to do with the file. So, this still does not (or at least should not) allow an MP3 (or any other file) to be run or executed without the users intervention. At minimum, the behaviour for content-disposition is not guaranteed. In fact, some browsers continue to be naughty in that they actually DOWNLOAD the file first (to some temporary location), then fire up an appropriate application to handle the MIME type against the downloaded file rather than running the handling application as a plug-in (freestanding or embedded) and passing it the address/URL of the resource to process. Regards, Gary On 6/13/07, C. Bergström [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lea de Groot wrote: On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:40:39 +0530, SJL wrote: I have this problem where i want to force download and mp3 and mp4 format file, but by default the browsers are handling it. I actually want the save as window to appear and give the choice to the viewer. Zipping the file is the only way I know of to ensure a download. Have you tried adding a header with something similar to below.. Response.AppendHeader (Content-Disposition,attachment; filename=\ + strFileToDownload + \); Response.ContentType = audio/mpeg; ./C *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] position fixed on the thead
We are using the fixed THEAD/TFOOT extensively and dont have any problems with it. I also applied the concept to fixing a left hand section - which also worked. Yes, and while it uses a DIV wrapped around the table (and the fixed sections are anchored to that DIV) it provides the very familiar behaviour the people expect from a table with very minimal CSS. Is it standard across all browsers? Don't know, don't care. We are only using it in a controlled environment. Regards, Gary On 11/8/05, Terrence Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ted Drake said: I'd like to keep the thead fixed and let the remainder of the rows scroll underneath it. I looked around for a solution to this recently. Most solutions rely onwrapping parts of the table in divs and positioning those, and that justdidn't appeal to me.I did find this one, which is valid but haven't used it: http://www.imaputz.com/cssStuff/bulletVersion.htmlkind regardsTerrence Wood.** The discussion list forhttp://webstandardsgroup.org/See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help**
Re: [WSG] position fixed on the thead
I will have to wait until I am work and find the reference. The solution actually ensures that the head and foot still look like they are part of the table. I.E. the scroll bar still sits alongside the head and foot. I.E. it looks like a real listbox. Gary On 11/8/05, Ted Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Gary Could you send a sample url? I have come across some jscript solutions. I've been told that the caption doesn't play nicely with overflow:scroll on the tbody. But I haven't tested it yet. Thanks Ted From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Gary MenzelSent: Monday, November 07, 2005 3:51 PMTo: wsg@webstandardsgroup.orgSubject: Re: [WSG] position fixed on the thead We are using the fixed THEAD/TFOOT extensively and dont have any problems with it. I also applied the concept to fixing a left hand section - which also worked. Yes, and while it uses a DIV wrapped around the table (and the fixed sections are anchored to that DIV) it provides the very familiar behaviour the people expect from a table with very minimal CSS. Is it standard across all browsers? Don't know, don't care. We are only using it in a controlled environment. Regards, Gary On 11/8/05, Terrence Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ted Drake said: I'd like to keep the thead fixed and let the remainder of the rows scroll underneath it. I looked around for a solution to this recently. Most solutions rely onwrapping parts of the table in divs and positioning those, and that justdidn't appeal to me.I did find this one, which is valid but haven't used it: http://www.imaputz.com/cssStuff/bulletVersion.htmlkind regardsTerrence Wood. ** The discussion list forhttp://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] nowrap: nowrap
maybe try.. white-space: nowrap On 10/27/05, CHAUDHRY, Bhuvnesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there any way to specify anowrapfor content ofa Table Header or a Table Cell ? I have tried nowrap: nowrap; but it doesn't work. Any ideas? Thanks Bhuvnesh Chaudhry * This e-mail message (along with any attachments) is intended only for the named addressee and could contain information that is confidential or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that any dissemination, copying or use of any of the information is prohibited. Please notify us immediately by return e-mail if you are not the intended recipient and delete all copies of the original message and attachments. This footnote also confirms that this message has been checked for computer viruses. *
Re: [WSG] The Big Lie about CSS
Browser DO go back out and update files (according to the policy set by either a network admin or the user - which may mean NEVER). BUT - the biggest problem is all the Proxy Servers inbetween the user and the site. You cannot always gaurantee that the policy on the proxy is set correctly (or if it even works). There are proxies out there that ignore the request to refresh objects. Then you are stuffed. We have experienced this before. On 9/19/05, Jake Badger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That might be an issue if you're changing the stylesheet all the time(although even then browsers should still update the cached file if it's changed) but generally people are talking about updating itinfrequently and irregularly. In that case it might take a while tofilter down to everyone's cached stylesheet but it's not going to be amajor problem. I know if I see a site with what looks like bad stylesheet I'm going to refresh which will generally fix the problem.JakeOn 19/9/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:I was thinking this morning that we constantly tell people two thingsabout CSS, as in this wonderful presentation: http://www.hotdesign.com/seybold/ (pages 9 and 10)we tell them a) it's more efficient because the style sheet only gets downloaded once!and then we tell them b) you can reformat your whole site just by changing the CSS file!and what, we just hope nobody notices that they contradict each other?In other words, what do you do to ensure that your newly-updated stylesheet isn't cached? In the past, I've resorted to doing this: !--#include virtual=link-rel.txt --where link-rel.txt contains link rel=stylesheet href="" 09-18.css type=text/cssso that when changes are made, I can just change the include to referto 2005-09-19.css and be sure there's no caching going on. Or, inthe case of a major browser-hanging bug, 2005-09-19-11-15AM.css ...Have You Validated Your Code?John Horner(+612 / 02) 8333 3488 Developer, ABC Kids Onlinehttp://www.abc.net.au/** The discussion list forhttp://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting helpThe discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfmfor some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] Content that jumps
There is nothing to see. I am on IE 6 and get a blank page with the following HTML in it. !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//ENHTMLHEADMETA http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=utf-8/HEADBODY/BODY/HTML And. it takes AGES to come back with that response. On 9/16/05, Taco Fleur - Pacific Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The content has stopped jumping, haven't changed anything in the structure. Has anyone seen anything like this before? Taco Fleur - Pacific Foxan industry leader with commercial IT experience since 1994 … http://www.pacificfox.com -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Taco Fleur - Pacific Fox Sent: Friday, 16 September 2005 11:25 AMTo: wsg@webstandardsgroup.orgSubject: [WSG] Content that jumps Hi all, I have this page with 3 columns, for some reason the divs jump when the page is loaded. I checked if the HTML is valid, and it is. Anybody any idea on this? http://testing.icanmls.pacificfox.com I am looking at it in IE6 by the way. Thanks, Taco Fleur - Pacific Foxan industry leader with commercial IT experience since 1994 … http://www.pacificfox.com
Re: [WSG] accessibility - opening new windows philosophy
There is a flip-side to the no new window recommendation.. Many of our users are very computer illiterate and giving them too many options confuses them. We do open our PDF documents in a new window and never have any complaints about it. We DO get complaints, though, when things are too hard to use or if the page they were on disappars because we opened a document in that same window or if the file downloaded and they can't find it (happened regularly before we launched the PDF in another window). We also get complaints from Mac users for similar reasons (because, apparently, the default behaviours that have sometimes been set up always just download files to one place and dont give the user an option of saying where they want the file - and then they can't find it). I'm all for web-standards - but when a user base clearly has problems in dealing with a move to a standard then I would prefer to cater for my user base over the standard. There are always exceptions to every rule. Regards, Gary On 8/16/05, Damian Sweeney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ted,I would say let the user decide. Wherever possible I try to provide enoughinformation in the link itself so that the user knows what to expect and can proceed as they wish. Many people will set up their browser to dealwith different file types according to their preference (open the documentin the browser, open it in the application, download the file). Opening in a new window removes user choice. By providing a plain link you give usersthe option that you use of `right-click - open in new window`. How do Ichoose to open a new-window-link in the current window if that is my preference?The only time I open links (to web pages) in a new window is when I haveto place a link inside someone else's frame and I warn the user that I'mdoing it. I wouldn't use a new window for the downloadable documents you are referring to.Unexpected pdfs are annoying, especially for low-bandwidth users. So, Iwould recommend something like:a href="" stuff (pdf format, 200kb)/a Include all the info in the link, if you can, for people who only read thelinks.Cheers,Damian Hi All We've had a discussion at work about pdf documents and hijacking the user's browser / making it more user-friendly.What is the general feelingtowards having pdf and other non-html documents open in a new window?--Damian SweeneyLearning Skills Adviser (online) Language and Learning Skills UnitInstructional Designer, AIRport ProjectEquity, Language and Learning ProgramsUniversity of Melbourne723 Swanston StParkville 3010 www.services.unimelb.edu.au/ellp/www.services.unimelb.edu.au/llsu/airport.unimelb.edu.au/ph 03 8344 9370, fax 03 9349 1039 This email and any attachments may contain personal information orinformation that is otherwise confidential or the subject ofcopyright. Any unauthorised use, disclosure or copying of any part ofitis prohibited. The University does not warrant that this email orany attachments are free from viruses or defects. Please check anyattachments for viruses and defects before opening them. If thisemail is received in error please delete it and notify us by returnemailor by phoning (03) 8344 9370. **The discussion list forhttp://webstandardsgroup.org/See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfmfor some hints on posting to the list getting help**
Re: [WSG] alphabetic horizontal list problem
If the list is a ul/ul based list you should be able to float the ul right.
If that is giving problems then you might need to wrap a div around it and float the div right.
The following code uses a bit of JS to make getting the list easier, but has a floated right ul (with appropriate inline style on the li) and seems to work correctly...
htmlheadstylebody{font: 10pt 'Lucida Grande',Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;}#index1{float: right;}#index1 li
{display: inline;margin-left: 3px;margin-right: 3px;}/style
/head
body
ul id=index1scriptvar alphabet = ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ;for(i=0;i26;i++){document.write(li+alphabet.substr(i,1)+/li);
}/script/ul
/body/html
Regards,
Gary
On 7/22/05, Stephanie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I need to create an alphabetic horizontal list to link to content on a page - problem I am having is that I want to float the list right but when I do that the alphabetic list is ordered from Z - A instead of A - Z.
Any clue as to how to solve this problem?
Stephanie Champion
Re: [WSG] 2 ?'s
Got an error on that page. You appear to be missing the ##'s around expandPath. Could not find the included template expandPath(header.cfm). Note: If you wish to use an absolute template path (e.g. TEMPLATE=/mypath/index.cfm) with CFINCLUDE then you must create a mapping for the path using the ColdFusion Administrator. Using relative paths ( e.g. TEMPLATE=index.cfm or TEMPLATE=../index.cfm) does not require the creation of any special mappings. It is therefore recommended that you use relative paths with CFINCLUDE whenever possible. The error occurred in /vservers/thehatchflys/htdocs/controls/template.cfm: line 12 10 : /cfsilent 11 : !--- include application header --- 12 : cfinclude template=expandPath(header.cfm) 13 : !--- include application navigation --- 14 : cfinclude template=navigation.cfm On 7/23/05, csslist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks! thats the best one i have seen so far.the only 2 i have tested so far that aren't so good is on ie mac it floats up near top and on pc opera 8 it's kinda funky. seems to have even fixed my 1 px left float on safari for the header whoo hoo.another problem is the menu on pc ie6 has too big of spaces, any suggestion on that or any of it? http://www.thehatchflyshop.com/controls/template.cfmbtw~ i'm not charging the client for cssp, just going so it doesnt have to be perfect ;)thanks From: Rick Faaberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 10:31 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.orgSubject: Re: [WSG] 2 ?'sOn 7/22/05 7:10 PM csslist sent this out: anyone have a good linnk to a tut or other about footers and always having them at bottom under the content.This was on this list recently:--- quotingLooks like someone has found a mostly-reliable CSS-only solution to that common footer problem - getting a footer to stick to the bottomof the viewport no matter how long or short the content is, whichdoesn't overlap the content when the window is resized:Explanation: Example: --- end quotingSeems to work in Safari and degrades okay in IE Mac.Hth,Rick Faaberg** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfmfor some hints on posting to the list getting help**
Re: [WSG] 2 ?'s
Remove all the whitespace between each set of the li/li tags. That will make IE behave. i.e: no whitespace inbetween the sets of tags. lia href="" href="" service/a/lilia href="" href="" album/a/lilia href="" href="" us/a/lilia href="" href="" href="" board/a/li This same problem happenes if you create a display:inline li item - it renders one white space if there are any. Regards, Gary On 7/23/05, csslist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yeah, try it again, i was trying to get around a w3c error saying it couldnt find the closing body tag but its there. cutting up the page into header, nav and footer sections, when u do that the validator takes a crap From: Gary Menzel [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2005 1:26 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.orgSubject : Re: [WSG] 2 ?'s Got an error on that page. You appear to be missing the ##'s around expandPath. Could not find the included template expandPath(header.cfm). Note: If you wish to use an absolute template path (e.g. TEMPLATE=/mypath/index.cfm) with CFINCLUDE then you must create a mapping for the path using the ColdFusion Administrator. Using relative paths ( e.g. TEMPLATE=index.cfm or TEMPLATE=../index.cfm) does not require the creation of any special mappings. It is therefore recommended that you use relative paths with CFINCLUDE whenever possible. The error occurred in /vservers/thehatchflys/htdocs/controls/template.cfm: line 12 10 : /cfsilent11 : !--- include application header ---12 : cfinclude template=expandPath(header.cfm) 13 : !--- include application navigation --- 14 : cfinclude template= navigation.cfm On 7/23/05, csslist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks! thats the best one i have seen so far.the only 2 i have tested so far that aren't so good is on ie mac it floats up near top and on pc opera 8 it's kinda funky. seems to have even fixed my 1 px left float on safari for the header whoo hoo.another problem is the menu on pc ie6 has too big of spaces, any suggestion on that or any of it? http://www.thehatchflyshop.com/controls/template.cfmbtw~ i'm not charging the client for cssp, just going so it doesnt have to be perfect ;)thanks From: Rick Faaberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 10:31 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.orgSubject: Re: [WSG] 2 ?'sOn 7/22/05 7:10 PM csslist sent this out: anyone have a good linnk to a tut or other about footers and always having them at bottom under the content.This was on this list recently:--- quotingLooks like someone has found a mostly-reliable CSS-only solution to that common footer problem - getting a footer to stick to the bottomof the viewport no matter how long or short the content is, whichdoesn't overlap the content when the window is resized:Explanation: Example: --- end quotingSeems to work in Safari and degrades okay in IE Mac.Hth,Rick Faaberg** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help**
Re: [WSG] using scalable vector graphics
Browsers that dont support SVG natively require some type of embed tag. On 7/18/05, Joshua Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 13:39 +1000, Joshua Street wrote: svg xmlns= http://www.w3.org/2000/svg version=1.0 rect stroke=black fill=none rx=5px y=16px x=72px width=202px height=61px/ /svgErr, of course, it closed the /svg tag properly... oops.Josh**The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfmfor some hints on posting to the list getting help**
Re: [WSG] Will HTML be nicer to PHP than XHTML?
My 2c worth. I can't see how any scripting language would be considered more or less XHTML friendly than any other scripting language. Once you move to a scripting language and not to just a plain text file with markup in it, you have to use the language to generate the markup. The markup is just strings. The scripting language knows absolutely nothing about the markup language itself (other than what people tell it - i.e. additional libraries or functions to make some of the generation easier). So my call would be that PHP is no more ideally suited (or otherwise) to any particular markup language that is text based (e.g. TEX, ROFF, HTML, XHTML, XML, etc. etc.). Similarly with MySQL as a content manager - markup is just text, store it in a text field in any database and it will all work (assuming you adhere to any character escaping that the databases language requires). Regards,Gary On 6/28/05, Roberto Gorjão [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Olá a todos!I've read Ian Hickson and Stuart Langridge objections to the use ofXHTML without serving it as application/xhtml+xml. I also read the article "WaSP Asks the W3C"(http://www.webstandards.org/learn/askw3c/sep2003.html) and I decidedthat I sure am not going to create two versions of my sites just for the sake of serving XHTML as it should to browsers which can understand it,as suggested at the W3C tutorial about "Content-Negotiation"(http://www.w3.org/2003/01/xhtml-mimetype/content-negotiation ).Anyway, I noticed that many of you use XHTML and I sure was beginning toenjoy using it myself, and it seemed to me a good way to practice forthe inevitable future… is it? I mean: a good way to practice, as I believe that XML is the inevitable future… I'm initiating now my studyon PHP and MySQL and I read some objections about using XHTML with PHP…Will XHTML interfere with my learning of PHP? Would it be a good idea to stick with good old plain HTML?Obrigado!Roberto**The discussion list forhttp://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfmfor some hints on posting to the list getting help**
Re: [WSG] Semantic tag for copyright slug?
Of course, with XHTML, you can actually define your own tags (includingcopyright /, trademark /, flyingpigs /). And don't forget namespaces as well (fairytales:flyingpigs /) flyingpigs It'll be nice when all browsers behave and play together in the same playground. /flyingpigs signatureGary Menzel/signature PS [Is it FLEX?, is it XAML?, NO- it's.. JAML - _javascript_ Application Markup Language (watch this space)] /PS On 5/1/05, Cole Kuryakin - x7m [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James -Thanks for the reply as well as the clarification about the Label tag. I'llcontinue using p's for copyright info. Cole- Original Message -From: James Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 1:02 PMSubject: Re: [WSG] Semantic tag for copyright slug? Hi Cole Label is a form field tag... it can't be used outside of a form. (well it can but you'll have invalid html according to the w3c) http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/forms/label.html The issue here is how far you go with your semantics. Do we have a tag for trademark, registered mark, service mark?. To all intents and purposes it's a paragraph or phrase of text on the page. Cheers James On 4/30/05, Cole Kuryakin - x7m [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This maybe taking the whole semantic thing too far, but is there a copywright tag (not the Meta Tag) that one should use for copyright information? I've searched the web, but can't find one defined other than the metatag. The use for this would be - frequenlty for my projects - in the footer, where you say Copyright 2005 - some company, inc. all rights reserved. That kind of thing. I've been enclosing this kind of information in p/p tags for years, but am just wondering if there's a more semantically-appropriate tag touse - like label/label maybe? Cole ** The discussion list forhttp://webstandardsgroup.org/See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfmfor some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] To Table or Not To Table for Forms
There is nothing about a form tag that makes it tabular. Many form's just dont fit into neat columns and rows. These days I code elements firstly so they are semantically correct. Then I use CSS to attempt to lay them out as best as I can (with what I know and what I can teach myself from all the online resources). And, as the other parts of this thread show, you can do a HELL of a lot with CSS to layout semantically created forms. After that I will look too using the smallest amounts of _javascript_ to tweak things at runtime. Then (and this is usually when what I am building is an application that just happens to use a browser) I will go to using larger amounts of _javascript_ - but then I am usually in control of the end platform and can restrict the browser appropriately (be it IE or Firefox - for example). The data that is collected by a form tag may have a consistent schema to it (such as name, address, phone) which is stored in a database as a collection of like objects (what we usually call a table) - but even that does not justify a form as being tabular data. What constitutes tabular data is when you want to display such a collection of like objects (which may or may not come from a database table) in a manner that can be considered, semantically, tabular. Or when you clearly are working with items that semantically are a grid ( e.g. a spreadhseet, or a even a complex report of some kind). We (and I do it too - but I think it is very lazy) have always just thought of forms on the web as just being a set of labels and fields rolling down the screen (because that was all that was ever possible). Whereas the print world (and just about everyone else) things of forms as information placed as clumps on the page that make sense to be grouped together. So we should be embracing that view now that we have CSS to help us lay things out (although it is still not perfect). Semantically (i.e. the meaning attached to the tag actually representing what the tag is actually doing) a form is exactly that (something that contains tags that will collect data). This then generally implies that you would find label (something to give the user feedback on what information was being requested) and input/select/textarea (places to put the data - my own personal opinion being that we should only have an input tag with attributes to tell it how to behave OR that the input tag should only be for text and not for type=radio or type=checbox as these are semantically different elements). That said, the next question may be What about tabular data that you want to input as a result of a parent/child relationship?. My answer to that is that HTML/XHTML is lackingany suitable construct to achieve this ( i.e. there needs to be some type of tabular entry element in the specification that allows such data entry for a form). So, in this case, (i.e. to visually layout some fields in a form that need to accept data in a tabular way - yes it is a table). And, with all that said, it's only just my opinion (gleaned from all the available information on the semantic approach to markup). But, when the chips are down and you have to deliver, you do what works. Regards, Gary Menzel On 5/1/05, Cole Kuryakin - x7m [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been wondering the same thing as Tee - whether to use the table for form or not, still can't make up my mind. I've been using tables for my forms just because it's fast and easy to align stuff - like a horizontal double or triple-column input design or even putting a text label AFTERa check box or radio button - but I don't want to take the fast way out if using tables for my forms is not adhearing to the spirit of web standards or accessibility. I have read elsewhere that using tables for form elements is permissable as it's considered tabular data. I'm interested in the group's overall opinion on this subject. Cole
Re: [WSG] Site Review Please
Standards advice is free. But I charge for site reviews. On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 04:52:55 -0500, Levi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No replied after 13 days... yeesh. Was it that bad or that good? no comments at all? worked perfect on everyone's computer/browsers? here is the url again: http://ffxi.anime-madness.com -levi On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 18:36:17 -0500, Levi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy, I've been coming signed up only a few weeks here and have read only two dozen or so topics, mainly because I've been working on a new site and have had midterms to study for (UCF student in Orlando). The site was completed on the 11th though I am still working on backend PHP functionality. If some of you professionals could run it through the gauntlet, that would probably helpful to me (I find it hard to get rid of the if they don't use IE6.x or Firefox, screw them anyway, my sites aren't selling anything mentality). Two pages wont show up as XHTML Transitional complaint because they are using Flash (I've only seen one solution to making compliant html flash implementation and I disliked the drawbacks of not being able to inform the user to upgrade their Flash if they are using an old version). Thanks for any replies. http://ffxi.anime-madness.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help ** ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help ** ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] GMail... Terrible!
My opinion. Dont use it if it doesnt work for you. While I am all for webstandards, there is nothing that says people HAVE to produce a program that works in a particular way. And while there are accessibility standards - there is NOTHING stopping someone with accessibility issues from using the comptetition (such as Yahoo or Hotmail). And while there is plenty of noise about court cases from people who have been disadvantaged by people not adhering to accessibility guidelines, you would find that if there are suitable alternatives for people to use that such cases dont hold water. No-one is forcing people to use GMail (or even your website - for that matter). The biggest problem is for businesses who have clients who cannot use a site because it is not accessible (especially if the business expects all clients to deal with it through the website). So.. GMail. if it works for you - use it - if it doesn't - then use something else. Regards, Gary Menzel On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:09:14 +1100, Chris Stratford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Bennett wrote: For figuring out the structure of a Gmail page I've found the best method is to use Mozilla's DOM Inspector; it lets you pick through all of the framesets and hidden DIVs to figure out what's actually going on. Yesh thats what I used to get that deep. But the DOM inspector doesnt seem to nest below the second or third iframe. (i cant remember). Thanks for the link :) damn gmail:S -- Chris Stratford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.neester.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help ** ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] GMail... Terrible!
I'll repeat myself - just so that people know I am serious about this.. There are plenty of accesible free webmail clients available. Explan to me why GMail has to make it's product accessible to everyone? And quoting the laws about discrimination wont cut it. They have the right to shoot themselves in the foot and lose all the users who can't access their FREE site because of all the other alternatives. Now - if they had a monopoly on free webmail sites - it would be a different story. But they dont. In fact, they are a late-comer to the marketplace and may have a great deal of difficulty in gaining market share. Tough luck to GMail if they lose any or all of that share because their product is not able to meet everyones needs. Now.. the GOOGLE site is a different story - because they DO have somewhat of a monopoly. Although there are many search sites, very few provide the same functionality in terms of the accuracy of searching as their site does. That one HAS to be accessible or they are actually denying someone the unique features of that product. So - build more ramps on more buildings - they need to be accessible. But there are plenty of free webmail clients out there. Lets leave GMail alone so we ALL get some choice. Regards, Gary Menzel On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 15:40:57 +1100, Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Gary Menzel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 15 February 2005 3:28 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] GMail... Terrible! My opinion. Dont use it if it doesnt work for you. While I am all for webstandards, there is nothing that says people HAVE to produce a program that works in a particular way. And while there are accessibility standards - there is NOTHING stopping someone with accessibility issues from using the comptetition (such as Yahoo or Hotmail). That's the right attitude! While we're at it: why do we still bother with these useless ramps infront of public libraries? There are enough buildings around that have got wheelchair access for those people that need it. So let's do something more aesthetically charming with stairs or, even better, a climbing wall! Woohoo! Here comes the 21st century. Progress at its best. ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help ** ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] Heading without line break
Have you tried changing the DISPLAY style to INLINE instead of BLOCK ? Gary On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 12:31:15 +1100, Ryan Sabir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heya? How would I tell a stylesheet to not put a line break at the end of an Hx tag? e.g. h3My heading/h3 and some more text. I want the words and some more text. to appear on the same line. How would I do this? thanks, bye! --- Ryan Sabir Newgency Pty Ltd 2a Broughton St Paddington 2021 Sydney, Australia Ph (02) 9331 2133 Fax (02) 9331 5199 Mobile: 0411 512 454 http://www.newgency.com/index.cfm?referer=rysig ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help ** ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] CSS alignment issues
Just a note. The a two page article link takes you to a subscription page for the NY Times. I didn't subscribe - just because I usually dont subscribe to things like that just to read a link from another page. So it could become counter-productive to the argument (even though it is not really Firefox's fault). Just a suggestion. Regards, Gary On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 01:19:56 +1100, Tatham Oddie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob, Thanks for your help here... I now finally have the page working how I want. As for making the whole world FF-users, if you visit my site from any other browser soon you will be redireted via this page: http://www.e-oddie.com/sydneylife/GetFirefox.aspx Hopefully that should get some more users switching. Thanks again, Tatham -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of designer Sent: Sunday, 26 December 2004 11:32 PM To: webstandards group Subject: Re: [WSG] CSS alignment issues Hi Tatham, - Original Message - From: Tatham Oddie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org; 'designer' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2004 12:03 PM Subject: RE: [WSG] CSS alignment issues Bob, I really didn't want to use a table - otherwise I would have been able to say that there isn't a single table in the whole site. Now I'll just have to talk about the sub-sites... Grr. Anyway, the code was a bit more complex than you posted as I had to center vertically the text and the block. I've updated the verion on http://www.e-oddie.com/ which works in IE, but not FF. I just can't seem to make that work. Must be having a complete blinder today - as I used to do everything with tables. Anyway, I'm telling all my users to get Firefox and I'm a Firefox user so I need to work out this prob. Any ideas? Thanks, Tatham --- After writing to you, I thought I'd better check out what I'd said [ :-) ] so I knocked up this: http://www.marscovista.fsnet.co.uk/gwelanmor/middle/centering.html You can see how I've applied some 'content' with a background and some text, the latter positioned with margins. The CSS is embedded, for simplicity. It works in FF, IE6, IE5.5, Opera . . . Until all the world becomes FF :-), there emare/em times when you just HAVE to use a table, albeit a tiny one . . . HTH a bit more. Bob McClelland, Cornwall (U.K.) www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help ** ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help ** ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] an even more amazing css zen garden entry
Russ. You left out vomit appeal! Gary [PS - however, it does show that you can do ANYTHING with the CSS Zen Garden approach] On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 08:11:06 +1100, Michael Kear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: More proof that good/bad design is nothing whatever to do with tools/code/software, and everything to do with the designer's mind. Merry Christmas everyone! 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 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of russ - maxdesign Sent: Saturday, 25 December 2004 1:38 AM To: Web Standards Group Subject: [WSG] an even more amazing css zen garden entry Now there were some people on-list who thought the last Zen Garden entry I posted lacked a certain wow factor. Well, how about this entry which seems to have it all... Style... Class... Wow... and lots of animation! http://brucelawson.co.uk/zengarden.htm :) Russ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help ** ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help ** ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
[ADMIN] Thread Closed - Re: [WSG] HOW DO I KNOW THAT MY HTML FILE HEADER IS BEING SENT CORRECTLY?
PERL questions should be directed to a PERL list as PERL is a scripting language and NOT a web standard. This is in accordance with the guidelines of the WSG email list. If you have the answer to this question, please reply OFF LIST to the sender. Regards, Gary Menzel (for WSG CORE) On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 08:38:55 -, Charles Slack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, This is probably a really easy one. I am just setting myself up to try Perl scripting. My first job is to set the Character Set and MIME Type to be sent in the header. What test should I carry out to make sure that the header is correct? Regards, Charlie ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] Tables inside a div
Just remember - as far as I have found - if you dont set the width on the DIV then the DIV will size to whatever the content is. If you dont have a width on the DIV and say the TABLE is 90% - what will it be 90% of? The closest bounding ancestor area that has a width - which will be the body tag (actually the window object - which is where the body tag gets it dimensions from).. . or something close to that. It you make the DIV 400px wide - then the TABLE will be 90% of that. Or if the DIV is wedged between two other DIVs (like a three column layout) the TABLE will be 90% of whatever is available in that area. Unless the right and left columns are also somehow sizing automatically. There are some dodgy exceptions to this that often mean that if you want a table to fill the available area you use 99% instead of 100% (browser bugs). Regards, Gary ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] rationalising my refusal to support IE/NS4
That all sounds good to me. You dont want to say too much - only focus on the big things - because otherwise they will get suspicious and ask you to explain in more detail (which, of course, they will understand even less). And I know what you mean about a Week of Friday Afternoons. I - for one - will be glad when Christmas is over and things get back to normal again. Regards, Gary On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 14:43:22 +0800, Kay Smoljak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, I have a requirements document here that I'm quoting for, that mentions that the web site should be optimised for IE4 and Netscape 4. Now, I'm not really blaming the client here - they obviously have no idea what it is they're asking and have probably based it off quote they got to do their site in 1999. However, I would like to educate them on why supporting these dinosaurs is not a good idea. I have added my standard blurb about cross-browser and cross-platform support, including that older browsers will receive a plain 'unstyled text' version of the site, which will still allow all content to be fully accessed. What I then want to say is that Fully supporting version 4 browsers (which are now nearly 8 years old) is possible, however extra construction and testing time will be required. We would not recommend supporting fully these browsers, as the visual design possibilities will be limited, the accessibility of the site lessened, and download time increased. I'm feeling like this whole week is one big Friday afternoon, and that somehow sounds rather lame. Can anyone recommend any other reasons or throw in some kick-arse buzzwords to make me look good? -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help ** ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] Semantic Mark-Up for Product Catalog
Yes both are viable. I would use the dl when I was expecting to have a few per page type layout that would be more like a brochure layout. I would use the table when what I wanted was - you guessed it - a table layout. My own personal guideline for table VS anything else is simply asking myself the question Is this a table?. If the answer is Yes then I use a table. Otherwise I use an appropriate tag. In the case of a set of products (or similar, Contacts, Events, News, in fact mostly any single entity that you may have a collection of with a name) I regularly use dl because you can say all of those have a This generic term (e.g. Product Name) equates to this specific instance (e.g. CSS Stylesheet Editor) relationship. That is - this equals that. (Which is basically what a definition list is semantically). But I would use it differently to the original suggestion... dl id=cssed1 dtPhoto:/dt ddimg src=csseditor.gif/dd dtName:/dl ddCSS Stylesheet Editor/dd dtDescription:/dt ddGreat editor for CSS stylesheets/dd dtPrice:/dl ddFor you... $10/dd /dl That markup has many possibilities (including being able to style each product individually if you want) I have also used the exact same markup to provide different views of the information depending on the context of the surrounding container tag (e.g. a main page body versus a side bar). Regards Gary On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 09:19:22 -0800, Chris Kennon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Both are viable solutions, would the dl be more scalable for floating an image with caption beside it. With the table you mentioned Lynx support, does Lynx choke on dl? ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] Another amazing css zen garden entry
Works fine in my copy of Firefox. Very nice crab. Gary On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 16:28:30 +1100, Hugh Todd [EMAIL PROTECTED] I I see it beautifully in Safari, but in Firefox only a blue background and tiny Times Roman text. What the...? ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] Western Australian Government Website
Just to add into the conversation... the Queensland Government has done HEAPS in regarding to CUE across most (but still not quite) all. The best place to start is: http://www.qld.gov.au/departments/index.html You'll note that even when you move sites (which often means moving departments) that they have a not only a consistent look and feel - but even a consistent standards compliant approach. Having said all that - there is no gaurantee you wont find something that LOOKS like the other sites but that still uses horrid markup. Regards, Gary Menzel [PS if government people in other states require contacts in the QLD Government for potential experience sharing please contact me off list and I will try and put you in touch with the right people] On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 13:19:35 +0800, Kay Smoljak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 16:05:49 +1100, Natalie Buxton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip http://www.wa.gov.au/ snip Alas, I was wrong and it's killing me how poor it is in relation to standards, accessibility and usability. I know some of the people involved with upgrading the web sites for the entire WA government to a common look and feel. As far as I understand it will be happening in the next few months (ie, before the election is called, at which point all non-essential changes to the sites are frozen). While I'm not sure if 100% validation is one of their goals for the new site, I do know that accessibility is a big issue for them and I have no doubt the new sites will be much, much better than what's there now. I believe that several years of planning and discussion has gone into the project! I might drop an email to someone and try to find out more... Cheers, K. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help ** ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] Web Standards Eye Candy: http://www.scottschiller.com/
Works fine for me in Firefox. Works fine in IE too. On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 08:53:50 -0500, Felix Miata [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kathryn Ross wrote at Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:59:29 +1100: document http://www.scottschiller.com/ Firefox's busy wheel has been spinning on this for over a half hour now without putting any text on a page. Anyone else? -- Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof... U.S. Constitution, Amendment 1 Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/auth/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help ** ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] Re: image captions again
Use span instead of div. That seems to give a more pleasant outcome. Regards, Gary On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:10:35 -, designer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ignore my last message - I realised I'm putting a block level div in an inline p Duh! :-) But I don't know how to get around it . . . . http://www.treyarnon.fsworld.co.uk/imagesintext.html Bob McClelland, Cornwall (U.K.) www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help ** ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] Web Standards Eye Candy: http://www.scottschiller.com/
it jumps like that because no CSS is actually loaded (well - nothing that has any signifcant impact on style) until the JS routine runs after the rest of the page is loaded. It could be fixed easily by having a default style that made eveything hidden to begin with. Then the script could enable the startup state. I got the content, but also got a flash of unstyled content - not very nice. Once it got there, it was a very nice site, but this FOUC clearly needs attending to. . . ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] why oh why
Probably because IE is more forgiving if the server does not have the correct MIME types set up ?? That's just a guess - but it is probably close to an answer. Regards, Gary On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 17:59:05 -0600, Leslie Riggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using FF1.0 on a WinME machine, it doesn't render - I see the code instead. Same result with FF1.0 on XP SP2. Leslie Riggs A friend of mine came across this site yesterday and when he accessed it with Firefox he got nothing but code on the screen. http://www.ceinternet.com.au/site/index.htm I tried it with Firefox 0.9 this morning and got the same result. However when the site is viewed with MSIE 6 and NS 7 you get the actual page. Needless to say there is a wee validation problem. Anybody got any ideas why it behaves so diffently with Firefox. Rises out from lurk mode I don't have any problem seeing it with FF1.0 . /back to lurk mode William Haggerty VWH Web Services http://vwh.ca ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help ** ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] Font size and arrogance
One comment... which can be use by everybody As long as you do that - there wont be any problems. If the user is an idiot - and they configure their machine in a stupid way - that's no-one's fault except the user. Gary ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] screen resolution and standards
Another thing that is often forgotten is that many people DONT run applications (which also means browsers) at full screen resolution. Many people still run lots of overlapping windows (the messy desktop approach). So - it's all well and good to not design for 640x480 - but there will be lots of people out there that don't have their browser size to much more than that. Not to mention all the toolbars that seem to clutter the Browser these days - which all take up screen real-estate. Does this mean we only design for 640x480? No - but it does mean your design should still be usable if people aren't running it at the resolution you thought they would. Sure - they can scroll - but (strange as it may seem) there are also many users out there that just wont bother scrolling to get to the interesting bits. And before all the cries go up about Come on, the stats show etc.. I can tell you that I see this around my workplace every day. The stats only show what the machine is capable of - not how people use it. And many of them use it very differently than how we might expect. Regards, Gary ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04 http://we04.com/ Web standards, accessibility, inspiration, knowledge To be held in Sydney, September 30 and October 1, 2004 See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] NYTimes.com Article: Microsoft Quits a U.N. Standards Group
This company is really starting to scare me. The UN Standards group or Microsoft? If Microsoft, Why? The article also mentioned a couple of well known companies who also had issues with the same standards group (SAP in Germany inparticular) - primarily (it seems) over the groups insistance that Intellectual Property placed into the Open Source arena governed by that body would be indemnified by the contributing company. If I was involved with this group and was required to warrant something I placed into an Open Source project which I then had little control over how it would be used, I'd be pulling out too. Regards, Gary Menzel ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04 http://we04.com/ Web standards, accessibility, inspiration, knowledge To be held in Sydney, September 30 and October 1, 2004 See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] NYTimes.com Article: Microsoft Quits a U.N. Standards Group
the issue of IP and standards is a tricky one. There are many standards bodies, the ones we know best are probably the W3C and the ISO. Oh - I can completely understand what you are saying regarding IP, John. Where I was coming from in regard to the article is the following two quotes. Two people who participate in the standards group said that several United States and European companies were concerned about intellectual property rights guidelines in effect within the group. The guidelines would force corporations who contribute technology to indemnify the United Nations against potential challenges involving intellectual property claims and (following straight on from the above quote) In May, at a meeting of the United Nations group, the general counsel for SAP, the German business software firm, announced that his company would suspend all participation in the organization until the intellectual property issues had been settled. My point was this. if Microsoft were the company mentioned in the original post as This company is really starting to scare me. then my question in asking Why? is quite valid in terms of singling out one company who has chosen to withdraw from the group because they are not happy with the arrangements. From that article it appears as though other members of the group are not happy with what is being proposed. In other words, I read the article as being more damning of the way the UN is conducting business rather than being damning of Microsoft. If I have got the wrong impression - then the press has (once again) succeeded in muddying waters that it really has no business playing around in. And if there are problems with a member company of a standards body making donations to that standards body, then how else do they get funding? In any case, it's just my opinion. Regards, Gary Menzel ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04 http://we04.com/ Web standards, accessibility, inspiration, knowledge To be held in Sydney, September 30 and October 1, 2004 See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] list item markers disappear behind floated image
Well - I have not experienced this - but - if I was looking for a quick fix (although it will sound like a hack) I would look at adding a DIV around either or both blocks of text and see if that helps with the visible/invisible image issue. (I know - it sounds like wrapping table tags to give nice layout - but CSS is still not perfect and certainly not across all browsers) Gary Menzel - Original Message - From: Peter Ottery [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:52:05 +1000 Subject: [WSG] list item markers disappear behind floated image To: Web Standards Group (E-mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I have a problem with images that are floated left and then when a list wraps around that image the list bullet points themselves dont get pushed out by the floated image and instead remain behind (or on top of) the image. to help explain i've put a simple demo page together to show the problem in its most basic form explain in a bit more detail: http://c41.com.au/test/ul_test.html the css is all inline very basic. the img tag has an empty src on purpose. this is just an *example* of the prob. dont fear, the execution looks better than the example :) basically what I'm looking for is if there is a way to make the list item markers always obey the floated image, but just behave as normal when the image doesnt appear. any help greatly appreciated. hope i've explained this well enough... pete ps: apologies if my emails arrive in your inbox as html or rich text. I send them as plain text and i think the mail server here forces them to be plain/rtf on the way out. please dont reply to this list about this problem. ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04 http://we04.com/ Web standards, accessibility, inspiration, knowledge To be held in Sydney, September 30 and October 1, 2004 See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
[WSG] OT: Next Bris meeting - is Rudy out there?
Apologies to the list for this (slightly) OT post but the Brisbane organisers were hoping that (we think) Rudy from the Gold Coast could get in touch with us regarding the presentation he has volunteered for next months meeting. Reponses directly to me - from Rudy (or anyone that knows him that can provide some contact details). Thanks. Gary Menzel Web Development Manager IT Operations Brisbane -+- ABN AMRO Morgans Limited Level 29, 123 Eagle Street BRISBANE QLD 4000 PH: 07 333 44 828 FX: 07 3834 0828 To unsubscribe from this email please forward this email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If this communication is not intended for you and you are not an authorised recipient of this email you are prohibited by law from dealing with or relying on the email or any file attachments. This prohibition includes reading, printing, copying, re-transmitting, disseminating, storing or in any other way dealing or acting in reliance on the information. If you have received this email in error, we request you contact ABN AMRO Morgans Limited immediately by returning the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and destroy the original. We will refund any reasonable costs associated with notifying ABN AMRO Morgans. This email is confidential and may contain privileged client information. ABN AMRO Morgans has taken reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy and integrity of all its communications, including electronic communications, but accepts no liability for materials transmitted. Materials may also be transmitted without the knowledge of ABN AMRO Morgans. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited its directors and employees do not accept liability for the results of any actions taken or not on the basis of the information in this report. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited and its associates hold or may hold securities in the companies/trusts mentioned herein. Any recommendation is made on the basis of our research of the investment and may not suit the specific requirements of clients. Assessments of suitability to an individuals portfolio can only be made after an examination of the particular clients investments, financial circumstances and requirements. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited (ABN 49 010 669 726 AFSL 235410) A Participant of ASX Group
[WSG] Next Bris meeting
next Bris meeting: I should remember from the inaugural one when the next is (but I've forgotten) The next Brisbane meeting is on the 14th July 2004. Planning is underway now. An official announcement will be made in the next week or so. Gary Menzel Web Development Manager IT Operations Brisbane -+- ABN AMRO Morgans Limited Level 29, 123 Eagle Street BRISBANE QLD 4000 PH: 07 333 44 828 FX: 07 3834 0828 To unsubscribe from this email please forward this email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If this communication is not intended for you and you are not an authorised recipient of this email you are prohibited by law from dealing with or relying on the email or any file attachments. This prohibition includes reading, printing, copying, re-transmitting, disseminating, storing or in any other way dealing or acting in reliance on the information. If you have received this email in error, we request you contact ABN AMRO Morgans Limited immediately by returning the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and destroy the original. We will refund any reasonable costs associated with notifying ABN AMRO Morgans. This email is confidential and may contain privileged client information. ABN AMRO Morgans has taken reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy and integrity of all its communications, including electronic communications, but accepts no liability for materials transmitted. Materials may also be transmitted without the knowledge of ABN AMRO Morgans. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited its directors and employees do not accept liability for the results of any actions taken or not on the basis of the information in this report. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited and its associates hold or may hold securities in the companies/trusts mentioned herein. Any recommendation is made on the basis of our research of the investment and may not suit the specific requirements of clients. Assessments of suitability to an individuals portfolio can only be made after an examination of the particular clients investments, financial circumstances and requirements. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited (ABN 49 010 669 726 AFSL 235410) A Participant of ASX Group
Re: [WSG] height problem in firefox
Please take a look at that and maybe you can find out why the white background is not rendering OK in Firefox. I couldn't see any other replies to this (but mail delivery seems to have been an issue here lately). I have just had a look in Firefox (0.8 version) and cannot see any difference between that and IE. Gary Menzel Web Development Manager IT Operations Brisbane -+- ABN AMRO Morgans Limited Level 29, 123 Eagle Street BRISBANE QLD 4000 PH: 07 333 44 828 FX: 07 3834 0828 To unsubscribe from this email please forward this email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If this communication is not intended for you and you are not an authorised recipient of this email you are prohibited by law from dealing with or relying on the email or any file attachments. This prohibition includes reading, printing, copying, re-transmitting, disseminating, storing or in any other way dealing or acting in reliance on the information. If you have received this email in error, we request you contact ABN AMRO Morgans Limited immediately by returning the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and destroy the original. We will refund any reasonable costs associated with notifying ABN AMRO Morgans. This email is confidential and may contain privileged client information. ABN AMRO Morgans has taken reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy and integrity of all its communications, including electronic communications, but accepts no liability for materials transmitted. Materials may also be transmitted without the knowledge of ABN AMRO Morgans. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited its directors and employees do not accept liability for the results of any actions taken or not on the basis of the information in this report. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited and its associates hold or may hold securities in the companies/trusts mentioned herein. Any recommendation is made on the basis of our research of the investment and may not suit the specific requirements of clients. Assessments of suitability to an individuals portfolio can only be made after an examination of the particular clients investments, financial circumstances and requirements. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited (ABN 49 010 669 726 AFSL 235410) A Participant of ASX Group
RE: [WSG] Ordered list mark-up
Any more thoughts on this one please ? My only comment is that the CSS solution provided isn't widely supported across commonly used browsers (like IE and Moz). This was highlighted in the original post of the solution. There is no other automatic way I can see of doing what you want (other than styling out the bullet completely and using your own numbering as part of the text when you generate the list). You could either generate the numbers server-side or possibly consider (scary cross-browser issues) some _javascript_ on the client side. Something that W3C should possibly consider would be a different list item type that performed this behaviour. Gary Menzel Web Development Manager IT Operations Brisbane -+- ABN AMRO Morgans Limited Level 29, 123 Eagle Street BRISBANE QLD 4000 PH: 07 333 44 828 FX: 07 3834 0828 To unsubscribe from this email please forward this email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If this communication is not intended for you and you are not an authorised recipient of this email you are prohibited by law from dealing with or relying on the email or any file attachments. This prohibition includes reading, printing, copying, re-transmitting, disseminating, storing or in any other way dealing or acting in reliance on the information. If you have received this email in error, we request you contact ABN AMRO Morgans Limited immediately by returning the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and destroy the original. We will refund any reasonable costs associated with notifying ABN AMRO Morgans. This email is confidential and may contain privileged client information. ABN AMRO Morgans has taken reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy and integrity of all its communications, including electronic communications, but accepts no liability for materials transmitted. Materials may also be transmitted without the knowledge of ABN AMRO Morgans. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited its directors and employees do not accept liability for the results of any actions taken or not on the basis of the information in this report. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited and its associates hold or may hold securities in the companies/trusts mentioned herein. Any recommendation is made on the basis of our research of the investment and may not suit the specific requirements of clients. Assessments of suitability to an individuals portfolio can only be made after an examination of the particular clients investments, financial circumstances and requirements. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited (ABN 49 010 669 726 AFSL 235410) A Participant of ASX Group
Re: [WSG]
Sergio Villarreal has written 'Tables Vs. CSS - A Fight to the Death', a SitePoint article where he does the same design in tables and then in css, and then comes to some conclusions about which was better. http://www.sitepoint.com/article/tables-vs-css Interesting read. After finishing reading this, I felt like I was Luke Skywalker and had just found out that Darth Vader was my father. I wanted to join the dark side of the force and go back to coding with tables again. I'll tell you why... It was the compatibility thing that got me. So. he wrote more code (embedded tables shudder) - but he delivered an acceptable end result that rendered friendly in virtually all of the browsers. And, other than remembering the old hacks (versus the new ones he was still to implement to fix up some of the CSS/XHTML incompatibilities) it was all smooth sailing from beginning to end. The result with CSS and XHTML was less than pleasant and he still had to go through the hack files to get it to work acceptably across the majority of platforms. Dont worry though. I will continue on with CSS/XHTML. In the end, Darth Vader wont seduce me to the dark side and he will finally, on his death bed, repent of his sins and return to his rightful place and the Emporer will lose. [NOTE: any similarities of the above-mentioned Star Wars (tm LucasFilm) characters to anyone living or dead is purely co-incidental] Gary Menzel Web Development Manager IT Operations Brisbane -+- ABN AMRO Morgans Limited Level 29, 123 Eagle Street BRISBANE QLD 4000 PH: 07 333 44 828 FX: 07 3834 0828 To unsubscribe from this email please forward this email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]If this communication is not intended for you and you are not an authorised recipient of this email you are prohibited by law from dealing with or relying on the email or any file attachments. This prohibition includes reading, printing, copying, re-transmitting, disseminating, storing or in any other way dealing or acting in reliance on the information. If you have received this email in error, we request you contact ABN AMRO Morgans Limited immediately by returning the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and destroy the original. We will refund any reasonable costs associated with notifying ABN AMRO Morgans. This email is confidential and may contain privileged client information. ABN AMRO Morgans has taken reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy and integrity of all its communications, including electronic communications, but accepts no liability for materials transmitted. Materials may also be transmitted without the knowledge of ABN AMRO Morgans. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited its directors and employees do not accept liability for the results of any actions taken or not on the basis of the information in this report. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited and its associates hold or may hold securities in the companies/trusts mentioned herein. Any recommendation is made on the basis of our research of the investment and may not suit the specific requirements of clients. Assessments of suitability to an individual?s portfolio can only be made after an examination of the particular client?s investments, financial circumstances and requirements.ABN AMRO Morgans Limited (ABN 49 010 669 726 AFSL 235410) A Participant of ASX Group
RE: [WSG]
Surely that would depend on your contract with the client - I'm pretty sure ours has all sorts of wriggly little disclaimers to guard against that kind of thing. Our expensive legal advice tells us that disclaimers (however wriggly) usually cannot be used to avoid responsibility under the law - and are not even generally worth the bandwidth they travel on. So if the law is framed in such a way that is similar to things like building codes (and speeding laws) then the developer and or the development company can be held as responsible as the owner of the site. It may be very similar to Tax Law. If you go to a Tax Accountant and convince them (outside of their better judgement and knowledge) to claim things that you cannot reasonably claim within said Tax Law, then the Tax Accountant is just as liable as you (given they are the lodging agent). Gary Menzel Web Development Manager IT Operations Brisbane -+- ABN AMRO Morgans Limited Level 29, 123 Eagle Street BRISBANE QLD 4000 PH: 07 333 44 828 FX: 07 3834 0828 To unsubscribe from this email please forward this email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]If this communication is not intended for you and you are not an authorised recipient of this email you are prohibited by law from dealing with or relying on the email or any file attachments. This prohibition includes reading, printing, copying, re-transmitting, disseminating, storing or in any other way dealing or acting in reliance on the information. If you have received this email in error, we request you contact ABN AMRO Morgans Limited immediately by returning the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and destroy the original. We will refund any reasonable costs associated with notifying ABN AMRO Morgans. This email is confidential and may contain privileged client information. ABN AMRO Morgans has taken reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy and integrity of all its communications, including electronic communications, but accepts no liability for materials transmitted. Materials may also be transmitted without the knowledge of ABN AMRO Morgans. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited its directors and employees do not accept liability for the results of any actions taken or not on the basis of the information in this report. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited and its associates hold or may hold securities in the companies/trusts mentioned herein. Any recommendation is made on the basis of our research of the investment and may not suit the specific requirements of clients. Assessments of suitability to an individual?s portfolio can only be made after an examination of the particular client?s investments, financial circumstances and requirements.ABN AMRO Morgans Limited (ABN 49 010 669 726 AFSL 235410) A Participant of ASX Group
Re: [WSG] Extra border/padding on a checkbox
I am trying to get rid of the extra border/ padding on a checkbox in an IE browser. A checkbox is a UI element and, as such, is under the control of the Browser (and/or operating system) to render. It isn't under the control of CSS/HTML. A checkbox on a Mac will probably look different to one on Windows or Linux. So - even if one browser lets you do it on one operating system that is not likely to be the case across the board. Gary Menzel Web Development Manager IT Operations Brisbane -+- ABN AMRO Morgans Limited Level 29, 123 Eagle Street BRISBANE QLD 4000 PH: 07 333 44 828 FX: 07 3834 0828 To unsubscribe from this email please forward this email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If this communication is not intended for you and you are not an authorised recipient of this email you are prohibited by law from dealing with or relying on the email or any file attachments. This prohibition includes reading, printing, copying, re-transmitting, disseminating, storing or in any other way dealing or acting in reliance on the information. If you have received this email in error, we request you contact ABN AMRO Morgans Limited immediately by returning the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and destroy the original. We will refund any reasonable costs associated with notifying ABN AMRO Morgans. This email is confidential and may contain privileged client information. ABN AMRO Morgans has taken reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy and integrity of all its communications, including electronic communications, but accepts no liability for materials transmitted. Materials may also be transmitted without the knowledge of ABN AMRO Morgans. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited its directors and employees do not accept liability for the results of any actions taken or not on the basis of the information in this report. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited and its associates hold or may hold securities in the companies/trusts mentioned herein. Any recommendation is made on the basis of our research of the investment and may not suit the specific requirements of clients. Assessments of suitability to an individual?s portfolio can only be made after an examination of the particular client?s investments, financial circumstances and requirements. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited (ABN 49 010 669 726 AFSL 235410) A Participant of ASX Group * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help *
Re: [WSG] WSG design competition voting time
One possible flaw in voting is that we cant tell what code been used in each site, in terms of efficiency, page weight (size in kb) and which is most compatible across browsers. It's a design. There shouldn't be any code behind it at all (for the moment). But, if code was used to produce the design, that is irrelevant as I would expect the code to be optimised for a production site. Gary Menzel Web Development Manager IT Operations Brisbane -+- ABN AMRO Morgans Limited Level 29, 123 Eagle Street BRISBANE QLD 4000 PH: 07 333 44 828 FX: 07 3834 0828 To unsubscribe from this email please forward this email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If this communication is not intended for you and you are not an authorised recipient of this email you are prohibited by law from dealing with or relying on the email or any file attachments. This prohibition includes reading, printing, copying, re-transmitting, disseminating, storing or in any other way dealing or acting in reliance on the information. If you have received this email in error, we request you contact ABN AMRO Morgans Limited immediately by returning the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and destroy the original. We will refund any reasonable costs associated with notifying ABN AMRO Morgans. This email is confidential and may contain privileged client information. ABN AMRO Morgans has taken reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy and integrity of all its communications, including electronic communications, but accepts no liability for materials transmitted. Materials may also be transmitted without the knowledge of ABN AMRO Morgans. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited its directors and employees do not accept liability for the results of any actions taken or not on the basis of the information in this report. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited and its associates hold or may hold securities in the companies/trusts mentioned herein. Any recommendation is made on the basis of our research of the investment and may not suit the specific requirements of clients. Assessments of suitability to an individual?s portfolio can only be made after an examination of the particular client?s investments, financial circumstances and requirements. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited (ABN 49 010 669 726 AFSL 235410) A Participant of ASX Group * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help *
Re: [WSG] CSS Debugger in JS
very very handy crossbrowser tool - works in safari and firefox for me - macie and the latest opera 7.5 beta/release candidate for mac don't support it (yet - for opera) - can't test winie right now but i'm sure someone will answer :) This looks very kewl - but, while I could cut and paste the stylesheet into the Edit CSS window for FireFox, I could not get the bookmarklet's to work. Has anyone else had success with that ? Or might I be running some extensions that are clashing (e.g. Edit CSS extension) ? Gary Menzel Web Development Manager IT Operations Brisbane -+- ABN AMRO Morgans Limited Level 29, 123 Eagle Street BRISBANE QLD 4000 PH: 07 333 44 828 FX: 07 3834 0828 To unsubscribe from this email please forward this email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If this communication is not intended for you and you are not an authorised recipient of this email you are prohibited by law from dealing with or relying on the email or any file attachments. This prohibition includes reading, printing, copying, re-transmitting, disseminating, storing or in any other way dealing or acting in reliance on the information. If you have received this email in error, we request you contact ABN AMRO Morgans Limited immediately by returning the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and destroy the original. We will refund any reasonable costs associated with notifying ABN AMRO Morgans. This email is confidential and may contain privileged client information. ABN AMRO Morgans has taken reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy and integrity of all its communications, including electronic communications, but accepts no liability for materials transmitted. Materials may also be transmitted without the knowledge of ABN AMRO Morgans. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited its directors and employees do not accept liability for the results of any actions taken or not on the basis of the information in this report. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited and its associates hold or may hold securities in the companies/trusts mentioned herein. Any recommendation is made on the basis of our research of the investment and may not suit the specific requirements of clients. Assessments of suitability to an individual?s portfolio can only be made after an examination of the particular client?s investments, financial circumstances and requirements. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited (ABN 49 010 669 726 AFSL 235410) A Participant of ASX Group * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help *
Re: [WSG] Request: Is it semantically correct?
Of course, it all comes down to personal opinion! What do others reckon? I suppose it really depends on what is trying to be achieved. To my way of thinking, the clean dtdd combination is more semantically correct. For me the ulli seem to throw the semantics out a little - moreso than the p. Even though I can see it is a list of fruit. If the p were in the dt instead of the dd would that improve the semantics more? (seeing the content is talking about fruit generically rather than specifically?) Then. what about styling? Does the list need bullets next to it? Do all browsers support the ability to bullet anything? Are bullets on any item part of the W3C CSS standard (I'm asking cause I dont know it all back to front)? You can do a lot with CSS - but you can only really work with the blocks you have created. Putting the p in the dt block may mean you have to use some horrid positioning to get it where you want it (for example) OR vice versa. BUT. maybe that is what you need to do semantically (i.e. remove the p altogether and position it separately). For me it always comes back to this You understand the standards and known how to use them - then there is 'getting the job done' In my case, the latter always takes precedence over the standards because, in the end, I have to get the job done and meet the requirements (in spite of standards). Gary Menzel Web Development Manager IT Operations Brisbane -+- ABN AMRO Morgans Limited Level 29, 123 Eagle Street BRISBANE QLD 4000 PH: 07 333 44 828 FX: 07 3834 0828 To unsubscribe from this email please forward this email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If this communication is not intended for you and you are not an authorised recipient of this email you are prohibited by law from dealing with or relying on the email or any file attachments. This prohibition includes reading, printing, copying, re-transmitting, disseminating, storing or in any other way dealing or acting in reliance on the information. If you have received this email in error, we request you contact ABN AMRO Morgans Limited immediately by returning the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and destroy the original. We will refund any reasonable costs associated with notifying ABN AMRO Morgans. This email is confidential and may contain privileged client information. ABN AMRO Morgans has taken reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy and integrity of all its communications, including electronic communications, but accepts no liability for materials transmitted. Materials may also be transmitted without the knowledge of ABN AMRO Morgans. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited its directors and employees do not accept liability for the results of any actions taken or not on the basis of the information in this report. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited and its associates hold or may hold securities in the companies/trusts mentioned herein. Any recommendation is made on the basis of our research of the investment and may not suit the specific requirements of clients. Assessments of suitability to an individual?s portfolio can only be made after an examination of the particular client?s investments, financial circumstances and requirements. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited (ABN 49 010 669 726 AFSL 235410) A Participant of ASX Group * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help *
RE: [WSG] Org Charts
I still think that SVG is worth investigating though will be a steep learning curve. While I have not had time yet to do anything with SVG I have played around with it's Mutant Cousin (VML - Microsoft IE only). I have built some core objects in Javascript that give me a CANVAS and an OBJECT. Actual shapes derive from OBJECT and are placed on an instance of a CANVAS. My proof of concept is a diagramming tool. You can create a shape and can link the shapes with lines. Then you can move the shapes around and the lines follow. It is on my home system and I will attempt to put it up somewhere over the weekend and repost to the list so people can have a look (again - IE only). Gary Menzel Web Development Manager IT Operations Brisbane -+- ABN AMRO Morgans Limited Level 29, 123 Eagle Street BRISBANE QLD 4000 PH: 07 333 44 828 FX: 07 3834 0828 To unsubscribe from this email please forward this email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If this communication is not intended for you and you are not an authorised recipient of this email you are prohibited by law from dealing with or relying on the email or any file attachments. This prohibition includes reading, printing, copying, re-transmitting, disseminating, storing or in any other way dealing or acting in reliance on the information. If you have received this email in error, we request you contact ABN AMRO Morgans Limited immediately by returning the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and destroy the original. We will refund any reasonable costs associated with notifying ABN AMRO Morgans. This email is confidential and may contain privileged client information. ABN AMRO Morgans has taken reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy and integrity of all its communications, including electronic communications, but accepts no liability for materials transmitted. Materials may also be transmitted without the knowledge of ABN AMRO Morgans. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited its directors and employees do not accept liability for the results of any actions taken or not on the basis of the information in this report. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited and its associates hold or may hold securities in the companies/trusts mentioned herein. Any recommendation is made on the basis of our research of the investment and may not suit the specific requirements of clients. Assessments of suitability to an individual?s portfolio can only be made after an examination of the particular client?s investments, financial circumstances and requirements. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited (ABN 49 010 669 726 AFSL 235410) A Participant of ASX Group * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help *
Re: [WSG] print headers/footers
I've done that with a header for the print version only, but because we can't reliably control page breaks, I'm lost on how to make sure our logo shows up on each printed page. All is fine if it prints out to only one page, or even two, because I can use both a header and a footer, but the pages in between are left without the logo. Just to reiterate what has been said elsewhere.. There is at least one ActiveX control that provides better access to printing on IE. The actual IE printing engine can be controlled from languages like C++ and C# (and .NET derivatives). The ActiveX controls simple expose this functionality to Javascript. I was interested in the concept of repeating the background image on each page. I am not sure this would work - it may be browser dependent. Looks like I have something to play with today and test :) Part of the problem with printing from a Browser is that it is not meant to be used that way (i.e. - not meant to be used for pixel perfect printing - nor is it ever going to provide pixel perfect layout on the screen for that matter). If you want reliable control over print formatting, then PDF is the only mechanism commonly used. Gary Menzel Web Development Manager IT Operations Brisbane -+- ABN AMRO Morgans Limited Level 29, 123 Eagle Street BRISBANE QLD 4000 PH: 07 333 44 828 FX: 07 3834 0828 To unsubscribe from this email please forward this email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If this communication is not intended for you and you are not an authorised recipient of this email you are prohibited by law from dealing with or relying on the email or any file attachments. This prohibition includes reading, printing, copying, re-transmitting, disseminating, storing or in any other way dealing or acting in reliance on the information. If you have received this email in error, we request you contact ABN AMRO Morgans Limited immediately by returning the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and destroy the original. We will refund any reasonable costs associated with notifying ABN AMRO Morgans. This email is confidential and may contain privileged client information. ABN AMRO Morgans has taken reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy and integrity of all its communications, including electronic communications, but accepts no liability for materials transmitted. Materials may also be transmitted without the knowledge of ABN AMRO Morgans. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited its directors and employees do not accept liability for the results of any actions taken or not on the basis of the information in this report. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited and its associates hold or may hold securities in the companies/trusts mentioned herein. Any recommendation is made on the basis of our research of the investment and may not suit the specific requirements of clients. Assessments of suitability to an individual?s portfolio can only be made after an examination of the particular client?s investments, financial circumstances and requirements. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited (ABN 49 010 669 726 AFSL 235410) A Participant of ASX Group * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help *
Re: [WSG] A discussion leads to an idea - Dynamic CSS!
Whilst it is a limited system, the benefits are good and it doesn't have any of the downsides that others have mentioned so far. I may have read the original post wrong, but I think the concept was generating CSS on the fly to tailor a page. In this case, it would probably be better to embed the CSS into the actual page. I have found that some browsers will cache a CSS include which would preclude you just generating a CSS file each time. However, you can reference any normal URL (including a server-side script) to get the CSS (as long as your headers are correct) and you can then tailor the caching in the header returned. Having said all of that, the issues that others have raised in terms of the benefits of caching CSS on the client machine apply. But, if you wanted it to be dynamic then, by definition, you DONT want it to be cached on the client machine - because it may not be the same the next time. You still can separate the CSS from the content though, using server-side scripting. Gary Menzel Web Development Manager IT Operations Brisbane -+- ABN AMRO Morgans Limited Level 29, 123 Eagle Street BRISBANE QLD 4000 PH: 07 333 44 828 FX: 07 3834 0828 To unsubscribe from this email please forward this email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If this communication is not intended for you and you are not an authorised recipient of this email you are prohibited by law from dealing with or relying on the email or any file attachments. This prohibition includes reading, printing, copying, re-transmitting, disseminating, storing or in any other way dealing or acting in reliance on the information. If you have received this email in error, we request you contact ABN AMRO Morgans Limited immediately by returning the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and destroy the original. We will refund any reasonable costs associated with notifying ABN AMRO Morgans. This email is confidential and may contain privileged client information. ABN AMRO Morgans has taken reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy and integrity of all its communications, including electronic communications, but accepts no liability for materials transmitted. Materials may also be transmitted without the knowledge of ABN AMRO Morgans. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited its directors and employees do not accept liability for the results of any actions taken or not on the basis of the information in this report. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited and its associates hold or may hold securities in the companies/trusts mentioned herein. Any recommendation is made on the basis of our research of the investment and may not suit the specific requirements of clients. Assessments of suitability to an individual?s portfolio can only be made after an examination of the particular client?s investments, financial circumstances and requirements. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited (ABN 49 010 669 726 AFSL 235410) A Participant of ASX Group * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help *
Re: [WSG] Relative Fonts
The whole point is to be relative in your units so the layout design can look the same across different resolutions. Yes - I know the reasons behind it. And I spend way too much time thinking about it now and dont see any clear pathways to a sensible outcome. Hence why I am bringing it to a wider group. It is the current implementations of it all that I am critical of. And until my images scale flawlessly as well (because someone with a sight impairment is going to have as much trouble seeing my images as they are my text) it all seems a little bit of a hack to me. It makes more sense to produce my design so it works and then encourage the use of the accessibility options in an OS (like magnifier software, screen readers, etc.) than to have a browser botch up the job of scaling my design. Flash isn't CSS and XHTML and it isn't a browser. And you don't have to think in relative font sizes when you create a Flash movie. It just sizes itself - because the whole environment is vector based. To achieve that in a HTML type environment we really should all move to SVG or even VML (or some other more palatable version of vector based markup). In any case, relative font sizes are not vector based - only the technology to scale the fonts themselves is (assuming the fonts being used are vector based fonts - e.g. True Type, etc.). I have been running around on a number of sites - sizing them up and down - and am disappointed by what I see. Can anyone point me to some sites that maintain a sensible CSS/XHTML design (with mutiple columns - both fixed and fluid - and images and banners and footers) that scale correctly when sized in a Browser using the browsers scaling and dont go all wonky? I don't want to rip off their designs - I want to absorb their techniques. If I am going to do this thing with scalable, relative fonts, etc. I want to do it properly. At the moment I feel that all the efforts I am expending are really being wasted. I love all the kewl techniques that I see on sites like CSS Zen Garden, Max Design, Man In Blue, etc. But in many cases function loses out over form (e.g. Zen Garden is wonderful, but the sites I have to build need more function than form, they are full of figures and tables and graphs, and that is where I find the brick wall gets more solid). Gary Menzel Web Development Manager IT Operations Brisbane -+- ABN AMRO Morgans Limited Level 29, 123 Eagle Street BRISBANE QLD 4000 PH: 07 333 44 828 FX: 07 3834 0828 To unsubscribe from this email please forward this email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If this communication is not intended for you and you are not an authorised recipient of this email you are prohibited by law from dealing with or relying on the email or any file attachments. This prohibition includes reading, printing, copying, re-transmitting, disseminating, storing or in any other way dealing or acting in reliance on the information. If you have received this email in error, we request you contact ABN AMRO Morgans Limited immediately by returning the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and destroy the original. We will refund any reasonable costs associated with notifying ABN AMRO Morgans. This email is confidential and may contain privileged client information. ABN AMRO Morgans has taken reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy and integrity of all its communications, including electronic communications, but accepts no liability for materials transmitted. Materials may also be transmitted without the knowledge of ABN AMRO Morgans. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited its directors and employees do not accept liability for the results of any actions taken or not on the basis of the information in this report. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited and its associates hold or may hold securities in the companies/trusts mentioned herein. Any recommendation is made on the basis of our research of the investment and may not suit the specific requirements of clients. Assessments of suitability to an individual?s portfolio can only be made after an examination of the particular client?s investments, financial circumstances and requirements. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited (ABN 49 010 669 726 AFSL 235410) A Participant of ASX Group * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help *
[WSG] Relative Fonts
I don't consider myself a guru on web standards (specifically XHTML/CSS) but am learning and getting better. I like standards. I dont like how they aren't uniformly supported (and am not really concerned about getting into another Browser Wars thread). But I am having some issues with Relative Fonts (you know the EM's). I understand them. Know why it is good to use them. And have built the templates (header/footer wrappers) for our site with EM's. There are issues though * Embedded WYSIWYG editors are still very immature when it comes to XHTML and CSS (our CMS lets us plug in lots of editors but most of them lack something in some way or other) so enforcing the use of EM's is flawed (at best). Some of the editors support the use of stylesheets and I suppose that is a path I could go down - but fully compliant XHTML is still difficult given that most editors still allow hand editing (and you do still need that because the HTML world is not perfect). Some of it may size - some of it may not. * Lots of people out there don't even know their Browser has the ability to control font size in a relative way. So when we launched our new site we had HUNDREDS (not exagerating - they are all logged) of complaints about the font size being too small or too big because they did not have their font size set to medium (and there doesn't appear to be a way to detect what the setting is - probably because it is not standard). And, if you have a mouse with a scroll wheel, it is very easy for the size to change when you are on a fixed size page and not realise it. * Some (more likely than less) designs just CANNOT be implemented using only relative fonts. Say you want to have a fixed 200px wide column on the right hand side and a stretchy column in the middle. The content on the right hand side HAS to be designed to look right in that 200px space. So that means you cannot really use relative font sizes if you are filling the 200px space. If they size it up - it wont fit and will look stupid. So this then defeats the purpose of using relative fonts at all - because, when they DO upsize the font, part of the page will size and part of it wont. Just go to some of the well known CSS/XHTML standards-based sites (wont mention any names) and you will find that not every part of the page sizes - but is this right? What if the bit that is too small for my eyes (e.g. the Menu) is the bit that the designer has in a fixed font ? Lots of reasons to go back to fixed point sizes. So - what does everyone do? As I said, I know how EM's work, what they are for, why you would use them and am not asking about that - but I am just about ready to go back to fixed point sizes. I always thought I was just a tech head programmer but the designer in me is coming out and the aesthetics of sites are starting to assert themselves rather strongly. Relative font sizes ruin good design. Gary Menzel Web Development Manager IT Operations Brisbane -+- ABN AMRO Morgans Limited Level 29, 123 Eagle Street BRISBANE QLD 4000 PH: 07 333 44 828 FX: 07 3834 0828 To unsubscribe from this email please forward this email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If this communication is not intended for you and you are not an authorised recipient of this email you are prohibited by law from dealing with or relying on the email or any file attachments. This prohibition includes reading, printing, copying, re-transmitting, disseminating, storing or in any other way dealing or acting in reliance on the information. If you have received this email in error, we request you contact ABN AMRO Morgans Limited immediately by returning the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and destroy the original. We will refund any reasonable costs associated with notifying ABN AMRO Morgans. This email is confidential and may contain privileged client information. ABN AMRO Morgans has taken reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy and integrity of all its communications, including electronic communications, but accepts no liability for materials transmitted. Materials may also be transmitted without the knowledge of ABN AMRO Morgans. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited its directors and employees do not accept liability for the results of any actions taken or not on the basis of the information in this report. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited and its associates hold or may hold securities in the companies/trusts mentioned herein. Any recommendation is made on the basis of our research of the investment and may not suit the specific requirements of clients. Assessments of suitability to an individual?s portfolio can only be made after an examination of the particular client?s investments, financial circumstances and requirements. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited (ABN 49 010 669 726 AFSL 235410) A Participant of ASX Group * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some
RE: [WSG] Relative Fonts
We've faced this as well, particularly with the Perth International Arts Festival, and we just decided to politely educate each user who complained about what their problem was and why it was better the way we'd done it. Time consuming, but after the first couple it was all cut and paste anyway. While this was obviously what we had to do (in answer to the above - and to the other suggestions/questions about educating the users) I am still at a loss as to how I get information that will only just fit into an available space (e.g. 200px) to be aesthetic and functional and to not break when upsized (downsized is less of a problem as it wont hit the widht barrier - if they can read it smaller than the default presentation size then their eyesight is better than mine). There are obviously times when you decide to comprimise on these things (Russ' Max Design site uses a mixture of relative and non-relative fonts). I am looking for some pointers or rules of thumb to know when to use and when to NOT use relative fonts. Gary Menzel Web Development Manager IT Operations Brisbane -+- ABN AMRO Morgans Limited Level 29, 123 Eagle Street BRISBANE QLD 4000 PH: 07 333 44 828 FX: 07 3834 0828 To unsubscribe from this email please forward this email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If this communication is not intended for you and you are not an authorised recipient of this email you are prohibited by law from dealing with or relying on the email or any file attachments. This prohibition includes reading, printing, copying, re-transmitting, disseminating, storing or in any other way dealing or acting in reliance on the information. If you have received this email in error, we request you contact ABN AMRO Morgans Limited immediately by returning the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and destroy the original. We will refund any reasonable costs associated with notifying ABN AMRO Morgans. This email is confidential and may contain privileged client information. ABN AMRO Morgans has taken reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy and integrity of all its communications, including electronic communications, but accepts no liability for materials transmitted. Materials may also be transmitted without the knowledge of ABN AMRO Morgans. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited its directors and employees do not accept liability for the results of any actions taken or not on the basis of the information in this report. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited and its associates hold or may hold securities in the companies/trusts mentioned herein. Any recommendation is made on the basis of our research of the investment and may not suit the specific requirements of clients. Assessments of suitability to an individual?s portfolio can only be made after an examination of the particular client?s investments, financial circumstances and requirements. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited (ABN 49 010 669 726 AFSL 235410) A Participant of ASX Group * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help *
RE: [WSG] Relative Fonts
I use em for all measurements (except images). So those column widths are not 200px but 16.7em. With a fixed width page (60em) long lines of text ie 80+ characters per line are difficult to read. OK - so is there a formula to work out PX to EM ? (at least on a vanilla type of setup). And I am not sure what you were saying in the line that had (60em) in it. On the JavaScript front. that is something I want to avoid. I was not even sure I could play around with the font size in JavaScript - but I would not consider this to be standard. And, in any case, the user can supplant my stylesheet with one of their own (and that would be even uglier than turning off stylesheets alltogether). At least I have tried to lay out the pages so they will degrade reasonably with no stylesheet. I would not like to see what would happen if the user used a stylesheet of their own. The A+ and a- bit you mean some JavaScript trickery to size the fonts and place some bean in their cookies that my JS uses as a seed for a starting size? Again - don't like the idea of all that JS to play with something that is (obviously) getting too close to Don't change what the browser does. That being the case - I might as well go with PX and be done with it (not saying I will - but saying that if I have to do all of the above to get back the control then I might as well make my life a lot easier and go with fixed sizes). Gary Menzel Web Development Manager IT Operations Brisbane -+- ABN AMRO Morgans Limited Level 29, 123 Eagle Street BRISBANE QLD 4000 PH: 07 333 44 828 FX: 07 3834 0828 To unsubscribe from this email please forward this email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If this communication is not intended for you and you are not an authorised recipient of this email you are prohibited by law from dealing with or relying on the email or any file attachments. This prohibition includes reading, printing, copying, re-transmitting, disseminating, storing or in any other way dealing or acting in reliance on the information. If you have received this email in error, we request you contact ABN AMRO Morgans Limited immediately by returning the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and destroy the original. We will refund any reasonable costs associated with notifying ABN AMRO Morgans. This email is confidential and may contain privileged client information. ABN AMRO Morgans has taken reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy and integrity of all its communications, including electronic communications, but accepts no liability for materials transmitted. Materials may also be transmitted without the knowledge of ABN AMRO Morgans. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited its directors and employees do not accept liability for the results of any actions taken or not on the basis of the information in this report. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited and its associates hold or may hold securities in the companies/trusts mentioned herein. Any recommendation is made on the basis of our research of the investment and may not suit the specific requirements of clients. Assessments of suitability to an individual?s portfolio can only be made after an examination of the particular client?s investments, financial circumstances and requirements. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited (ABN 49 010 669 726 AFSL 235410) A Participant of ASX Group * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help *
[WSG] [OT] A few question about PHP/MySQL/Coldfusion
This is very much off topic. For the CF stuff with IIS you should probably join the Daemon list called CFAUSSIE (http://lists.daemon.com.au). However, we install CF under IIS all the time and have no trouble - just follow the prompts. For the IIS and Apache sharing PHP - a PHP list would be better (I have never run PHP with both at the same time). And the rest of the stuff would probably have more people on those other lists that would know the answers. Gary Menzel Web Development Manager IT Operations Brisbane -+- ABN AMRO Morgans Limited Level 29, 123 Eagle Street BRISBANE QLD 4000 PH: 07 333 44 828 FX: 07 3834 0828 theGrafixGuy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/02/2004 07:27 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject [WSG] A few question about PHP/MySQL/Coldfusion (A little off Topic) I had a wipeout on a hard drive that went south so I replaced the drive and loaded Windows Server 2K3. I have just installed Apache on my production machine and run it alongside IIS 6 (which is running port 8080) I am also wanting to install Coldfusion, but that is next. My question is... I have installed PHP for apache, renamed the directory PHP2 and set the config file up properly - All is good and works great! Now I would like to install PHP and MySQL for IIS (WHICH I HAVE NEVER DONE BEFORE). Do I need to install a second PHP or do I use the included IIs config.exe??? If so, how do I protect the already modified PHP.ini in the Windows Directory??? I think the IIS config is the route to take, but I figure I should ask first. Thanks!!! Now to the ColdFusion part - I want to get ColdFusion MX up and running on this machine, but in the past, it has really screwed up on me and messed up the IIS - so what am I doing wrong??? Brian * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help * To unsubscribe from this email please forward this email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If this communication is not intended for you and you are not an authorised recipient of this email you are prohibited by law from dealing with or relying on the email or any file attachments. This prohibition includes reading, printing, copying, re-transmitting, disseminating, storing or in any other way dealing or acting in reliance on the information. If you have received this email in error, we request you contact ABN AMRO Morgans Limited immediately by returning the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and destroy the original. We will refund any reasonable costs associated with notifying ABN AMRO Morgans. This email is confidential and may contain privileged client information. ABN AMRO Morgans has taken reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy and integrity of all its communications, including electronic communications, but accepts no liability for materials transmitted. Materials may also be transmitted without the knowledge of ABN AMRO Morgans. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited its directors and employees do not accept liability for the results of any actions taken or not on the basis of the information in this report. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited and its associates hold or may hold securities in the companies/trusts mentioned herein. Any recommendation is made on the basis of our research of the investment and may not suit the specific requirements of clients. Assessments of suitability to an individual?s portfolio can only be made after an examination of the particular client?s investments, financial circumstances and requirements. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited (ABN 49 010 669 726 AFSL 235410) A Participant of ASX Group * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help *
Re: [WSG] Pixy's Rollover IE Flicker Fix - Good or bad?
The problem with the CSS sprites solution that Matthias posted is that it I went to the link posted (not the pixy one - the alistapart one) and there was no flicker. Nor did it see that background-position was being used. Then, after reading this last post, I went to the pixy link (which does use background-position). No flicker there either. I'm using IE 6. Did I miss something ?? Gary Menzel Web Development Manager IT Operations Brisbane -+- ABN AMRO Morgans Limited Level 29, 123 Eagle Street BRISBANE QLD 4000 PH: 07 333 44 828 FX: 07 3834 0828 If this communication is not intended for you and you are not an authorised recipient of this email you are prohibited by law from dealing with or relying on the email or any file attachments. This prohibition includes reading, printing, copying, re-transmitting, disseminating, storing or in any other way dealing or acting in reliance on the information. If you have received this email in error, we request you contact ABN AMRO Morgans Limited immediately by returning the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and destroy the original. We will refund any reasonable costs associated with notifying ABN AMRO Morgans. This email is confidential and may contain privileged client information. ABN AMRO Morgans has taken reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy and integrity of all its communications, including electronic communications, but accepts no liability for materials transmitted. Materials may also be transmitted without the knowledge of ABN AMRO Morgans. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited its directors and employees do not accept liability for the results of any actions taken or not on the basis of the information in this report. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited and its associates hold or may hold securities in the companies/trusts mentioned herein. Any recommendation is made on the basis of our research of the investment and may not suit the specific requirements of clients. Assessments of suitability to an individual?s portfolio can only be made after an examination of the particular client?s investments, financial circumstances and requirements. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited (ABN 49 010 669 726 AFSL 235410) A Participant of ASX Group * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *
RE: [WSG] New CMS / Framework
I dont know if any of the Daemon guys are on this list (maybe Ben Bishop is) to reply to this, but while I am sure Mike has done the homework he needs I was concerned about a couple of the statements and thought I would comment/clarify.. I am not sure what is meant by too far-removed from coldfusion to use. FarCry is a CMS as well as a Framework. But I have found that with any CMS you have to learn a new environment. And FarCry is built on all the current CFMX type of technology - lots of components and object orientation. So if these technologies are still unfamiliar, it may be difficult to extend FarCry. You DO have to know CFMX well. But it is still all Cold Fusion. As far as spectra-head - I never liked Spectra (hated it in fact) but I love FarCry. IF you want to do anything different, you better be willing to learn an entire new vocabulary. Every comprehensive CMS I have ever used has required me to think in a different way and has always had it's own vocabulary. I am not sure what is meant by anything different either. With the new site we have released, we are doing LOTS of different things (including running a HTTP request out to a third party provide to deposit content right into a container on our splash page) than what FarCry provides. We have even integrated some legacy items from our old site into FarCry. You only have to look at the FarCry reference sites to see HOW different every instance of FarCry can be. http://farcry.daemon.com.au/go/features/farcry-sites I don't think it was ever designed with shared environments in mind I disagree with this statement. The FarCry core (which you should only ever deploy once in a shared environment) has been deliberately designed to have multiple FarCry applications running on the one box. When the instances are installed correctly, the Admin Console is able to automatically switch between the instances based on the domain name of the site. finding out how to set it up for shared environments The FarCry developers list has posted many solutions to setting up FarCry in a shared environment. While I can understand that the solutions may not have worked for some people, there is no lack of information on how to go about doing it. There is a lot of the app outside the site, and that is a worry in a shared environment. I would also disagree with this. I think it reduces worries for a shared environment. You don't want multiple copies of a core piece of code running if you want to maintain a standard platform for all your FarCry instances. You want the core code in one place - outside of where any of the clients can touch it. Only the system admin should be updating the core code. However, requiring the shared code to be under the control of the site administrator means your shared host must agree to host FarCry. There are several hosting companies in Australia that are prepared to do this. Would you want to run multiple versions of Cold Fusion on the same box and control them yourself ? Nope, you leave that up to the administrator of the shared box (and they dont want you to touch it). So too would you leave updating FarCry code in a shared environment to the sys admin. One of the main reasons for having a CMS is you want to allow non-technical people to update the site safely. I tried my test app on a dozen non-technical people, and not one of them could find out how to add a page without having to be shown where it was. FarCry Admin (where you add in new stuff and maintain old stuff) has been well recieved by our non-technical staff (who maintain all the general content pages as well as many of our back database systems which have all the admin tools created as plug-ins to the FarCry Admin Console). They love it and don't have any problems using it. Yes, they needed some training, but it was minimal and would be expected with any new system. Every document that is edited is done so in DRAFT mode and the document is then submitted for approval by a central place. That is pretty safe from my perspective. Am I a FarCry evangelist?? Yes - certainly. Gary Menzel Web Development Manager IT Operations Brisbane -+- ABN AMRO Morgans Limited Level 29, 123 Eagle Street BRISBANE QLD 4000 PH: 07 333 44 828 FX: 07 3834 0828 If this communication is not intended for you and you are not an authorised recipient of this email you are prohibited by law from dealing with or relying on the email or any file attachments. This prohibition includes reading, printing, copying, re-transmitting, disseminating, storing or in any other way dealing or acting in reliance on the information. If you have received this email in error, we request you contact ABN AMRO Morgans Limited immediately by returning the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and destroy the original. We will refund any reasonable costs associated with notifying ABN AMRO Morgans. This email is confidential and may contain privileged client information
Re: [WSG] OT: damn I feel old
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Re: [WSG] ordered list for events
There's nothing wrong with tables, provided they are used for tabular data like rather than layout. webmail entries, invoices and payments etc medal tallies (in case you do Smiggins Holes 2010 Winter Olympics site) etc etc And why not a table of events ? (as in this instance) First column is event date, second column is event title. The rows are the events. It if looks like a table and smells like a table.. I have seen a lot of wonderful stuff in the last 6 months done with HTML and CSS. I have also seen a lot of horrid efforts to change things into things that they dont need to be. [No offence Peter] But I just cannot see myself marking up that event data in anything but a table - unless I wanted to display it in some other way (that would be a different story all together - but my first instinct would be to call that data tabular unless there were some requirement that indicated it wasn't). Gary Menzel Web Development Manager IT Operations Brisbane -+- ABN AMRO Morgans Limited Level 29, 123 Eagle Street BRISBANE QLD 4000 PH: 07 333 44 828 FX: 07 3834 0828 If this communication is not intended for you and you are not an authorised recipient of this email you are prohibited by law from dealing with or relying on the email or any file attachments. This prohibition includes reading, printing, copying, re-transmitting, disseminating, storing or in any other way dealing or acting in reliance on the information. If you have received this email in error, we request you contact ABN AMRO Morgans Limited immediately by returning the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and destroy the original. We will refund any reasonable costs associated with notifying ABN AMRO Morgans. This email is confidential and may contain privileged client information. ABN AMRO Morgans has taken reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy and integrity of all its communications, including electronic communications, but accepts no liability for materials transmitted. Materials may also be transmitted without the knowledge of ABN AMRO Morgans. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited its directors and employees do not accept liability for the results of any actions taken or not on the basis of the information in this report. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited and its associates hold or may hold securities in the companies/trusts mentioned herein. Any recommendation is made on the basis of our research of the investment and may not suit the specific requirements of clients. Assessments of suitability to an individual?s portfolio can only be made after an examination of the particular client?s investments, financial circumstances and requirements. * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *
Re: [WSG] big trouble...still!
Can someone please check again for me? Checked it then in my IE6 (which crashed before). Works fine now. Gary Menzel Web Development Manager IT Operations Brisbane -+- ABN AMRO Morgans Limited Level 29, 123 Eagle Street BRISBANE QLD 4000 PH: 07 333 44 828 FX: 07 3834 0828 If this communication is not intended for you and you are not an authorised recipient of this email you are prohibited by law from dealing with or relying on the email or any file attachments. This prohibition includes reading, printing, copying, re-transmitting, disseminating, storing or in any other way dealing or acting in reliance on the information. If you have received this email in error, we request you contact ABN AMRO Morgans Limited immediately by returning the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and destroy the original. We will refund any reasonable costs associated with notifying ABN AMRO Morgans. This email is confidential and may contain privileged client information. ABN AMRO Morgans has taken reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy and integrity of all its communications, including electronic communications, but accepts no liability for materials transmitted. Materials may also be transmitted without the knowledge of ABN AMRO Morgans. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited its directors and employees do not accept liability for the results of any actions taken or not on the basis of the information in this report. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited and its associates hold or may hold securities in the companies/trusts mentioned herein. Any recommendation is made on the basis of our research of the investment and may not suit the specific requirements of clients. Assessments of suitability to an individual?s portfolio can only be made after an examination of the particular client?s investments, financial circumstances and requirements. * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *
Re: [WSG] Big trouble!
#content p:first-letter
{
font-size: 1.5em;
vertical-align: -5px;
text-indent: 2px;
}
I am no expert on CSS - but the vertical-align: -5px will probably NOT be
nice in IE.
My experience has been that it expects something like top, middle, bottom
for vertical-align. A keyword - not a measurement.
But I could be wrong here (but not if you believe the doco on the MSDSN
site).
The other two values look as though they would be valid for IE and the
first-letter pseudo-element seems to be accepted by IE as well.
I have no idea what vertical-align should accept for standard CSS though.
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Re: [WSG] ordered list for events
Envelopes are good. Pushing them is good. But - I suppose I still look at a table as being a table - and hence get some backwards compatibility from it (especially in the case that Peter has). I am actually surprised at the number of support calls that we still get that have people using browsers that are not CSS compliant - regardless of what all the kewl web stats say about CSS browser penetration. I have looked at your coloured boxes design and we will look more closely at that again once we have this latest site revamp (it wasn't just the template - we have replaced the whole underlying system) bedded down. I did use coloured boxes - of sorts - to do our new design but I would like to apply your approach top to bottom and see if I come up with a different answer (I think I probably will). However, the WYSYWIG embedded editors we use in CMS's still don't really allow our content people the same flexibility that we can get by hand-coding our HTML/CSS. So a lot of the content that gets created still relies on old technologies. We have tried, in the new template design, to stick pretty much to a CSS-based layout. Gary Menzel Web Development Manager IT Operations Brisbane -+- ABN AMRO Morgans Limited Level 29, 123 Eagle Street BRISBANE QLD 4000 PH: 07 333 44 828 FX: 07 3834 0828 If this communication is not intended for you and you are not an authorised recipient of this email you are prohibited by law from dealing with or relying on the email or any file attachments. This prohibition includes reading, printing, copying, re-transmitting, disseminating, storing or in any other way dealing or acting in reliance on the information. If you have received this email in error, we request you contact ABN AMRO Morgans Limited immediately by returning the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and destroy the original. We will refund any reasonable costs associated with notifying ABN AMRO Morgans. This email is confidential and may contain privileged client information. ABN AMRO Morgans has taken reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy and integrity of all its communications, including electronic communications, but accepts no liability for materials transmitted. Materials may also be transmitted without the knowledge of ABN AMRO Morgans. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited its directors and employees do not accept liability for the results of any actions taken or not on the basis of the information in this report. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited and its associates hold or may hold securities in the companies/trusts mentioned herein. Any recommendation is made on the basis of our research of the investment and may not suit the specific requirements of clients. Assessments of suitability to an individual?s portfolio can only be made after an examination of the particular client?s investments, financial circumstances and requirements. * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *
RE: [WSG] Big trouble!
Crashes IE 6 5.5 on Windows XP here, no idea why though, sorry. (I just saved the HTML locally had a look - everything was okay, so I'd say it's something in the CSS) Yes - same story here. IE 6 on XP crashes with a Send this error to MS type dialog. Something is very evil on that page (at least that would be Bill's story if you asked him). Works fine in Mozilla Firebird though. While I have become partial to Firebird I am still a pragmatist and realise that 95%+ people in the world are apparently using IE. Do you have IE to test it with? Gary Menzel Web Development Manager IT Operations Brisbane -+- ABN AMRO Morgans Limited Level 29, 123 Eagle Street BRISBANE QLD 4000 PH: 07 333 44 828 FX: 07 3834 0828 If this communication is not intended for you and you are not an authorised recipient of this email you are prohibited by law from dealing with or relying on the email or any file attachments. This prohibition includes reading, printing, copying, re-transmitting, disseminating, storing or in any other way dealing or acting in reliance on the information. If you have received this email in error, we request you contact ABN AMRO Morgans Limited immediately by returning the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and destroy the original. We will refund any reasonable costs associated with notifying ABN AMRO Morgans. This email is confidential and may contain privileged client information. ABN AMRO Morgans has taken reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy and integrity of all its communications, including electronic communications, but accepts no liability for materials transmitted. Materials may also be transmitted without the knowledge of ABN AMRO Morgans. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited its directors and employees do not accept liability for the results of any actions taken or not on the basis of the information in this report. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited and its associates hold or may hold securities in the companies/trusts mentioned herein. Any recommendation is made on the basis of our research of the investment and may not suit the specific requirements of clients. Assessments of suitability to an individual?s portfolio can only be made after an examination of the particular client?s investments, financial circumstances and requirements. * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *
Re: [WSG] styling hr tags
do i need to add any values in the css? Here is a link on styling HR that will help: http://www.sovavsiti.cz/css/hr.html Gary Menzel Web Development Manager IT Operations Brisbane -+- ABN AMRO Morgans Limited Level 29, 123 Eagle Street BRISBANE QLD 4000 PH: 07 333 44 828 FX: 07 3834 0828 If this communication is not intended for you and you are not an authorised recipient of this email you are prohibited by law from dealing with or relying on the email or any file attachments. This prohibition includes reading, printing, copying, re-transmitting, disseminating, storing or in any other way dealing or acting in reliance on the information. If you have received this email in error, we request you contact ABN AMRO Morgans Limited immediately by returning the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and destroy the original. We will refund any reasonable costs associated with notifying ABN AMRO Morgans. This email is confidential and may contain privileged client information. ABN AMRO Morgans has taken reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy and integrity of all its communications, including electronic communications, but accepts no liability for materials transmitted. Materials may also be transmitted without the knowledge of ABN AMRO Morgans. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited its directors and employees do not accept liability for the results of any actions taken or not on the basis of the information in this report. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited and its associates hold or may hold securities in the companies/trusts mentioned herein. Any recommendation is made on the basis of our research of the investment and may not suit the specific requirements of clients. Assessments of suitability to an individual?s portfolio can only be made after an examination of the particular client?s investments, financial circumstances and requirements. * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *
RE: [WSG] do people still use bookmarks?
With all due respect Gary... http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html (look for I didn't think URLs have to be persistent - that was URNs) I think that document just highlights how inefficient the current conventions are for ensuring a piece of information will always be accessible. I think it also indicates that the most useful and reliable URI is one that identifies the document in space and time. Referring back to Taco's original comment about URL's.. this would not really make for a memorable URL (as it would tend to be mostly made up of date/time information). The article even says that date/time is a good place to start for creating URI's. The opening sentences in that document says: There are no reasons at all in theory for people to change URIs (or stop maintaining documents), but millions of reasons in practice. The process is so subjective and every different organisation has it's own rules on what it will and wont do with URI's (which include both URL's and URN's). Saying that Apache as a web server has ways and means to mask all of this is fine. Except so many webmasters out there don't even know what their web server can actually do - or they are hamstrung by internal policies that dont allow them to use the server effectively. Again I quote from the article: A lot of people don't know that servers such as Apache give you a lot of control over a flexible relationship between the URI of an object and where a file which represents it actually is in a file system. So - in terms of this list and standards. there are some standards out there about what these things are - but a lot of imagination about how they are are actually being used. That being the case, then surely therein is the argument for coming up with a better approach. I brought up URN's because they are not used very much. Tim clearly states in the section you mentioned that what people should do is build a database of URN's that map to the underlying file system. Make a database which maps document URN to current filename, and let the web server use that to actually retrieve files. And he also states that the tools for doing the above really aren't mature enough at the moment. See the section entitled: We would like to but we just dont have the right tools. And I think you will see exactly where my argument was coming from. So - I tend to think I am pretty much in agreement with what is being said there. Gary Menzel Web Development Manager IT Operations Brisbane -+- ABN AMRO Morgans Limited Level 29, 123 Eagle Street BRISBANE QLD 4000 PH: 07 333 44 828 FX: 07 3834 0828 If this communication is not intended for you and you are not an authorised recipient of this email you are prohibited by law from dealing with or relying on the email or any file attachments. This prohibition includes reading, printing, copying, re-transmitting, disseminating, storing or in any other way dealing or acting in reliance on the information. If you have received this email in error, we request you contact ABN AMRO Morgans Limited immediately by returning the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and destroy the original. We will refund any reasonable costs associated with notifying ABN AMRO Morgans. This email is confidential and may contain privileged client information. ABN AMRO Morgans has taken reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy and integrity of all its communications, including electronic communications, but accepts no liability for materials transmitted. Materials may also be transmitted without the knowledge of ABN AMRO Morgans. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited its directors and employees do not accept liability for the results of any actions taken or not on the basis of the information in this report. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited and its associates hold or may hold securities in the companies/trusts mentioned herein. Any recommendation is made on the basis of our research of the investment and may not suit the specific requirements of clients. Assessments of suitability to an individual?s portfolio can only be made after an examination of the particular client?s investments, financial circumstances and requirements. * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *
[WSG] Web Standards OT ?? (was: do people still use bookmarks?)
I don't know about you guys, but Word Documents, Bookmarks and URI namespace rules takes a lot of space on this list now, and I'm drowning.. Could we all please be a little more brief when discussion thos (OT) issues, ok? While I agree with regard to discussion on Word Documents (and probably bookmarks), I have to disagree with regard to URI's. URI's (URL's and URN's) are a fundamental web standard that should be discussable in this forum and are not OT. Gary Menzel Web Development Manager IT Operations Brisbane -+- ABN AMRO Morgans Limited Level 29, 123 Eagle Street BRISBANE QLD 4000 PH: 07 333 44 828 FX: 07 3834 0828 If this communication is not intended for you and you are not an authorised recipient of this email you are prohibited by law from dealing with or relying on the email or any file attachments. This prohibition includes reading, printing, copying, re-transmitting, disseminating, storing or in any other way dealing or acting in reliance on the information. If you have received this email in error, we request you contact ABN AMRO Morgans Limited immediately by returning the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and destroy the original. We will refund any reasonable costs associated with notifying ABN AMRO Morgans. This email is confidential and may contain privileged client information. ABN AMRO Morgans has taken reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy and integrity of all its communications, including electronic communications, but accepts no liability for materials transmitted. Materials may also be transmitted without the knowledge of ABN AMRO Morgans. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited its directors and employees do not accept liability for the results of any actions taken or not on the basis of the information in this report. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited and its associates hold or may hold securities in the companies/trusts mentioned herein. Any recommendation is made on the basis of our research of the investment and may not suit the specific requirements of clients. Assessments of suitability to an individual?s portfolio can only be made after an examination of the particular client?s investments, financial circumstances and requirements. * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *
Re: [WSG] do people still use bookmarks?
For myself, only rarely. I still think it's nice to have a URL that can sort of be read I suppose the place I am coming from on this is that... URL's change Many sites are updated regularly and things move around. There is no gaurantee that something you bookmark (or remember) today will be in the same place tomorrow. That's why I use a search engine before I rely on bookmarks. I maybe have about 4 bookmarks. For the rest I either user my browsers History list or the funky typeahead thing in the address bar. Even so, I usually go to the domain and not a specific page. I say. Bring on URN's (Uniform Resource Names) and a whole new industry to manage them and employ all the software engineers in the task !!! Gary Menzel Web Development Manager IT Operations Brisbane -+- ABN AMRO Morgans Limited Level 29, 123 Eagle Street BRISBANE QLD 4000 PH: 07 333 44 828 FX: 07 3834 0828 If this communication is not intended for you and you are not an authorised recipient of this email you are prohibited by law from dealing with or relying on the email or any file attachments. This prohibition includes reading, printing, copying, re-transmitting, disseminating, storing or in any other way dealing or acting in reliance on the information. If you have received this email in error, we request you contact ABN AMRO Morgans Limited immediately by returning the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and destroy the original. We will refund any reasonable costs associated with notifying ABN AMRO Morgans. This email is confidential and may contain privileged client information. ABN AMRO Morgans has taken reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy and integrity of all its communications, including electronic communications, but accepts no liability for materials transmitted. Materials may also be transmitted without the knowledge of ABN AMRO Morgans. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited its directors and employees do not accept liability for the results of any actions taken or not on the basis of the information in this report. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited and its associates hold or may hold securities in the companies/trusts mentioned herein. Any recommendation is made on the basis of our research of the investment and may not suit the specific requirements of clients. Assessments of suitability to an individual?s portfolio can only be made after an examination of the particular client?s investments, financial circumstances and requirements. * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *
Re: [WSG] directory structures
I think logical to the user not the owner is spot in for the website navigation. Definitely agree with that. But the actual directory structure, where you put your content, you need to own that. And the #1 rule I aim for is that you don't want to change your directory structure (whereas you quite likely will want to adapt your website navigation). Agree/Disagree. Agree that you need to own the directory structure. The directory structure for a site should make sense to the owner of the information. It may make no sense at all to a user of the information. Disagree that you dont want to change the directory structure. If you own it you should be able to change it. More importantly, you should be able to change it without it impacting on how the user of your information finds said information. IE. your directory structure is only a convenient mechanism to represent an information architecture because web servers work that way. Because the directories will be reflected in the URL Part of the problem with the way URL's worked in web servers initially (and in many cases still do) is that the web server was lazy and simply mapped everything after the domain to some point in the file system. This is an implementation thing that does not need to be so. That is becoming less and less the rule these days as organisations realise that what a user sees via a URL does not have to match up with where the resource is in their system. Even a URL that LOOKS as though it is a directory struct may not even map to the file system at all and may map to a database. That was another point I was trying to make earlier when I was talking about URN's. Just because a URL looks like it maps to directories doesn't mean it does. Gary Menzel Web Development Manager IT Operations Brisbane -+- ABN AMRO Morgans Limited Level 29, 123 Eagle Street BRISBANE QLD 4000 PH: 07 333 44 828 FX: 07 3834 0828 If this communication is not intended for you and you are not an authorised recipient of this email you are prohibited by law from dealing with or relying on the email or any file attachments. This prohibition includes reading, printing, copying, re-transmitting, disseminating, storing or in any other way dealing or acting in reliance on the information. If you have received this email in error, we request you contact ABN AMRO Morgans Limited immediately by returning the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and destroy the original. We will refund any reasonable costs associated with notifying ABN AMRO Morgans. This email is confidential and may contain privileged client information. ABN AMRO Morgans has taken reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy and integrity of all its communications, including electronic communications, but accepts no liability for materials transmitted. Materials may also be transmitted without the knowledge of ABN AMRO Morgans. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited its directors and employees do not accept liability for the results of any actions taken or not on the basis of the information in this report. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited and its associates hold or may hold securities in the companies/trusts mentioned herein. Any recommendation is made on the basis of our research of the investment and may not suit the specific requirements of clients. Assessments of suitability to an individual?s portfolio can only be made after an examination of the particular client?s investments, financial circumstances and requirements. * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *
RE: [WSG] Fixed Width Design
Now for the classic: What if you're in a internet cafe and you don't remember the url? My response to that is that the Internet does not support portability of your personal configuration information properly. This is what I think needs to be addressed - not what a URL actually is or isn't. That to me is the accessibility issue with regard to URL's (not what they look like). Over time, I am expecting we will find that the URL itself doesn't matter as much as it is made to at the moment. Gary Menzel Web Development Manager IT Operations Brisbane -+- ABN AMRO Morgans Limited Level 29, 123 Eagle Street BRISBANE QLD 4000 PH: 07 333 44 828 FX: 07 3834 0828 If this communication is not intended for you and you are not an authorised recipient of this email you are prohibited by law from dealing with or relying on the email or any file attachments. This prohibition includes reading, printing, copying, re-transmitting, disseminating, storing or in any other way dealing or acting in reliance on the information. If you have received this email in error, we request you contact ABN AMRO Morgans Limited immediately by returning the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and destroy the original. We will refund any reasonable costs associated with notifying ABN AMRO Morgans. This email is confidential and may contain privileged client information. ABN AMRO Morgans has taken reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy and integrity of all its communications, including electronic communications, but accepts no liability for materials transmitted. Materials may also be transmitted without the knowledge of ABN AMRO Morgans. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited its directors and employees do not accept liability for the results of any actions taken or not on the basis of the information in this report. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited and its associates hold or may hold securities in the companies/trusts mentioned herein. Any recommendation is made on the basis of our research of the investment and may not suit the specific requirements of clients. Assessments of suitability to an individual?s portfolio can only be made after an examination of the particular client?s investments, financial circumstances and requirements. * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *
RE: [WSG] Fixed Width Design
Over time, I am expecting we will find that the URL itself doesn't matter as much as it is made to at the moment. I was trying to say that URL's/URI's are not really for humans. The URN (Uniform Resrouce Name) is what we are actually talking about. This is a specific form of a URI that is persistent for a particular object that can always be found even if it actually moves from time to time. They aren't used very much - sadly. You see, the way everyone works is different. So to rely on a single categorisation of a piece of information is actually foolish. You want to be able to access a single piece of information in hundreds of different ways. The URL/URI is only a key to the information. A URN would allow a piece of information to be permanently identified but allow it to move around in cyberspace. An agent of some type needs to exist to actually convert it to a URL. Ultimately, the idea should be that once a piece of information - let's say a document for ease of conversation - comes into being it should be allocated some unique identifying key that NEVER ever changes. Even if the information is deleted there should be a remnant that it existed under this unique key (and possibly even still have history stored about that piece of information). And that unique key will never be used again. Then what you need is globally (universally??) accessible mechanisms to collect these keys and organise them in any way that makes sense to you as a user. Whack it into multiple categories, allocate keywords for it (which are just another means of categorisation), write notes about the item, etc. etc. So - my dreams a much less humble than hoping for memorable URL's. Hence - I don't care what a URL looks like. Just that the tools I use to access resources know how to use them. I wonder when/if Browsers and websites will start using URN's instead of URL's ?? Here's a nice page (with a nice cryptic URL) on the subject: http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid26_gci214164,00.html Gary Menzel Web Development Manager IT Operations Brisbane -+- ABN AMRO Morgans Limited Level 29, 123 Eagle Street BRISBANE QLD 4000 PH: 07 333 44 828 FX: 07 3834 0828 If this communication is not intended for you and you are not an authorised recipient of this email you are prohibited by law from dealing with or relying on the email or any file attachments. This prohibition includes reading, printing, copying, re-transmitting, disseminating, storing or in any other way dealing or acting in reliance on the information. If you have received this email in error, we request you contact ABN AMRO Morgans Limited immediately by returning the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and destroy the original. We will refund any reasonable costs associated with notifying ABN AMRO Morgans. This email is confidential and may contain privileged client information. ABN AMRO Morgans has taken reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy and integrity of all its communications, including electronic communications, but accepts no liability for materials transmitted. Materials may also be transmitted without the knowledge of ABN AMRO Morgans. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited its directors and employees do not accept liability for the results of any actions taken or not on the basis of the information in this report. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited and its associates hold or may hold securities in the companies/trusts mentioned herein. Any recommendation is made on the basis of our research of the investment and may not suit the specific requirements of clients. Assessments of suitability to an individual?s portfolio can only be made after an examination of the particular client?s investments, financial circumstances and requirements. * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *
Re: [WSG] Browser Engine Standard???
I'm not sure why the browser wars were so damn violent Two words Market Share The big companies realised, once the Internet started becoming popular outside of Universities and large organisations, that the Browser was the perfect conduit into people's homes (far moreso even than Television). TV is a very passive medium. As such, it is much harder to gain peoples attention and concentration. Most of us actually don't really concentrate on what is happening on the TV even when we are sitting in front of it. Even so, TV had a huge impact on marketting products to people. Part of the appeal was from the psychology of subliminal influence. The web, however, is very different. The person surfing is generally engaged in the process 100%. And psychology has come along again to tell us that when people are very focussed on something that subliminal messages can be even more effective. So. THAT's why Browser manufacturers want to be THE one on your desktop and why the Browser Wars still are in full swing. Because if they can dominate the marketplace then THEY are the ones in control of how you are influenced (maybe) and can then charge other people (who want to influence you) lots of money to use the conduit. This is why the browser technologies are free. Because you will end up paying for them in the products that you buy. Personally, I think this is a load of fetted dingoes kidneys (TM Douglas Addams, HHGTTG). And the Marketting arm of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation are just a bunch of mindless jerks who will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes! Gary Menzel Web Development Manager IT Operations Brisbane -+- ABN AMRO Morgans Limited Level 29, 123 Eagle Street BRISBANE QLD 4000 PH: 07 333 44 828 FX: 07 3834 0828 If this communication is not intended for you and you are not an authorised recipient of this email you are prohibited by law from dealing with or relying on the email or any file attachments. This prohibition includes reading, printing, copying, re-transmitting, disseminating, storing or in any other way dealing or acting in reliance on the information. If you have received this email in error, we request you contact ABN AMRO Morgans Limited immediately by returning the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and destroy the original. We will refund any reasonable costs associated with notifying ABN AMRO Morgans. This email is confidential and may contain privileged client information. ABN AMRO Morgans has taken reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy and integrity of all its communications, including electronic communications, but accepts no liability for materials transmitted. Materials may also be transmitted without the knowledge of ABN AMRO Morgans. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited its directors and employees do not accept liability for the results of any actions taken or not on the basis of the information in this report. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited and its associates hold or may hold securities in the companies/trusts mentioned herein. Any recommendation is made on the basis of our research of the investment and may not suit the specific requirements of clients. Assessments of suitability to an individual?s portfolio can only be made after an examination of the particular client?s investments, financial circumstances and requirements. * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *
Re: [WSG] Too Much Space..
Don¹t feel bad! Using a basic table grid for layout and everything else via CSS is not evil - it is completely acceptable. However, it is just not as pure as full CSS (from the removing presentation from content point of view). Zeldman would call this hybrid layout. It is still a long way better than nested tables, font tags and invalid code. Russ makes a good point here and I just thought I would that using tables for actual tables is not evil either. That is, in fact, what they were originally for and still allow critical data formatting (such as numbers in rows and columns) to be maintained for non-CSS browsers. The evil is in using tables for page layout (as opposed to presenting tabular content). It's also important to remember that in a devolved content management model that the content creator is not likely to use DIV for tables of numbers/information as they are not likely to have the tools or skills available. Gary Menzel Web Development Manager IT Operations Brisbane -+- ABN AMRO Morgans Limited Level 29, 123 Eagle Street BRISBANE QLD 4000 PH: 07 333 44 828 FX: 07 3834 0828 If this communication is not intended for you and you are not an authorised recipient of this email you are prohibited by law from dealing with or relying on the email or any file attachments. This prohibition includes reading, printing, copying, re-transmitting, disseminating, storing or in any other way dealing or acting in reliance on the information. If you have received this email in error, we request you contact ABN AMRO Morgans Limited immediately by returning the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and destroy the original. We will refund any reasonable costs associated with notifying ABN AMRO Morgans. This email is confidential and may contain privileged client information. ABN AMRO Morgans has taken reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy and integrity of all its communications, including electronic communications, but accepts no liability for materials transmitted. Materials may also be transmitted without the knowledge of ABN AMRO Morgans. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited its directors and employees do not accept liability for the results of any actions taken or not on the basis of the information in this report. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited and its associates hold or may hold securities in the companies/trusts mentioned herein. Any recommendation is made on the basis of our research of the investment and may not suit the specific requirements of clients. Assessments of suitability to an individual?s portfolio can only be made after an examination of the particular client?s investments, financial circumstances and requirements. * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *
