Re: [WSG] Unstyling named anchors

2005-10-31 Thread Mordechai Peller

Paul Noone wrote:

I'd tinkered with a[name]:hover but I'm loathe to create a style for this. I
don't think hiding them is th eoption either.


Why not use a class () as a[name] 
doesn't yet work on IE, never mind any browser which doesn't understand 
jumping to an id.

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Re: [WSG] Unstyling named anchors

2005-10-31 Thread Mordechai Peller

Gez Lemon wrote:

The name attribute is formerly deprecated for...form...in XHTML 1.0, and 
deleted from XHTML 1.1.
From ,  yes, but not from the various form elements such as 
, where it may in fact be required for proper functioning, 
though "valid" without. While I'm sure most of you know this, I'm sure 
that there are some who would read "form" and think that they could no 
longer use it with their radio buttons.

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RE: [WSG] Unstyling named anchors

2005-10-31 Thread Geoff Pack


Martin J. Lambert wrote:

> Actually, when using XHTML Strict, "name" is not a valid attribute for
> anchors. You can use the "id" attribute to get the same jump-to-that-
> section-of-the-page behaviour, but this will work with *any* element,
> not just anchors. Since you don't want the appearance of a link on the
> page, I suggest eliminating the anchor altogether and linking to the
> id of whatever element is already there in the markup.
> 

Unfortunately, this won't work in Netscape 4 and earlier, so if you are getting 
any hits from those browsers, you pretty much need to use name as well as id or 
you will be breaking navigation for some people.

Geoff.
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Re: [WSG] Unstyling named anchors

2005-10-31 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Paul Noone wrote:
> Well now I'm totally confused. Ah...can anyone spell Dreamweaver? :\
> a-HEM. Big sorry there.
> 
>> What make you think you can't leave them empty?
> 
> Assumptions based on a code rewrite. Is that not the case? In which
> case can it be self-containg and self-closing too?
> 
> 

It's:


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Re: [WSG] Unstyling named anchors

2005-10-31 Thread Patrick H. Lauke

Gez Lemon wrote:


The name attribute is formerly deprecated for a, applet, form, frame,
iframe, img, and map in XHTML 1.0, and deleted from XHTML 1.1.


I stand (well, sit) corrected. I meant deleted, but said deprecated...d'oh!

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Re: [WSG] Unstyling named anchors

2005-10-31 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
> Damien Hill wrote:
>> For IE and Firefox on PC, the styles I apply to a:link don't effect
>> anchors. 
> 
> Because  is not a :link, but a local anchor,
> whereas a more generic "a" style selector will include those as well.
> So yes, a simple way to avoid issues is to just define a:link,
> a:visited etc, leaving the generic "a" out.

I believe older versions of Opera would have a problem with that.
They ignore "a:link" and require "a" to be styled.
Please correct me if I'm wrong here.

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Re: [WSG] Unstyling named anchors

2005-10-31 Thread Gez Lemon
On 31/10/05, Patrick H. Lauke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thierry Koblentz wrote:
>
> > "name" is used for old browsers. And I'm pretty sure it validates against a
> > Strict DTD (HTML or XHTML 1.0).
> > Please correct me if I'm wrong here...
>
> No, you're indeed correct. Up to XHTML 1.0 Strict it's perfectly valid
> to use the name attribute on anchors. It's only XHTML 1.1 that
> deprecated it.

The name attribute is formerly deprecated for a, applet, form, frame,
iframe, img, and map in XHTML 1.0, and deleted from XHTML 1.1.

Best regards,

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RE: [WSG] Unstyling named anchors

2005-10-31 Thread Paul Noone
Well now I'm totally confused. Ah...can anyone spell Dreamweaver? :\ a-HEM.
Big sorry there.

> What make you think you can't leave them empty?

Assumptions based on a code rewrite. Is that not the case? In which case can
it be self-containg and self-closing too?



I'm sure I ran into problems with that somewhere.

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Subject: RE: [WSG] Unstyling named anchors

For IE and Firefox on PC, the styles I apply to a:link don't effect anchors.
See example > http://www.damienhill.com/tests/links/


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Subject: RE: [WSG] Unstyling named anchors

Thanks guys. Patrick is right. I'd already validated the code and it came up
fine.

The reason I've run into this little problem is because, unlike HTML, XHTML
seems to require that the  tag surrounds some text. Perhaps an  
would do it?

The named anchor is picking up the color of the a:link style.

I've currently got your standard style layout as below. I was wondering if
simply adding an a {} style with the right color would be appropriate.

a:link {}
a:visited {}
a:hover, a:active {}

How are other people preventing this, apart from hiding their anchor tags
(which I suppose is a fair enough solution.

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Thierry Koblentz wrote:

> "name" is used for old browsers. And I'm pretty sure it validates 
> against a Strict DTD (HTML or XHTML 1.0).
> Please correct me if I'm wrong here...

No, you're indeed correct. Up to XHTML 1.0 Strict it's perfectly valid to
use the name attribute on anchors. It's only XHTML 1.1 that deprecated it.

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Re: [WSG] Unstyling named anchors

2005-10-31 Thread Patrick H. Lauke

Damien Hill wrote:

For IE and Firefox on PC, the styles I apply to a:link don't effect anchors.


Because  is not a :link, but a local anchor, whereas 
a more generic "a" style selector will include those as well. So yes, a 
simple way to avoid issues is to just define a:link, a:visited etc, 
leaving the generic "a" out.


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RE: [WSG] Unstyling named anchors

2005-10-31 Thread Damien Hill
For IE and Firefox on PC, the styles I apply to a:link don't effect anchors.
See example > http://www.damienhill.com/tests/links/


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Subject: RE: [WSG] Unstyling named anchors

Thanks guys. Patrick is right. I'd already validated the code and it came up
fine.

The reason I've run into this little problem is because, unlike HTML, XHTML
seems to require that the  tag surrounds some text. Perhaps an  
would do it?

The named anchor is picking up the color of the a:link style.

I've currently got your standard style layout as below. I was wondering if
simply adding an a {} style with the right color would be appropriate.

a:link {}
a:visited {}
a:hover, a:active {}

How are other people preventing this, apart from hiding their anchor tags
(which I suppose is a fair enough solution.

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From: Patrick H. Lauke

Thierry Koblentz wrote:

> "name" is used for old browsers. And I'm pretty sure it validates 
> against a Strict DTD (HTML or XHTML 1.0).
> Please correct me if I'm wrong here...

No, you're indeed correct. Up to XHTML 1.0 Strict it's perfectly valid to
use the name attribute on anchors. It's only XHTML 1.1 that deprecated it.

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Re: [WSG] Unstyling named anchors

2005-10-31 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Paul Noone wrote:
> The reason I've run into this little problem is because, unlike HTML,
> XHTML seems to require that the  tag surrounds some text. Perhaps
> an   would do it?

What make you think you can't leave them empty?

> How are other people preventing this, apart from hiding their anchor
> tags (which I suppose is a fair enough solution.

As a side note, hiding named anchors using "display:none" will confuse IE.

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RE: [WSG] Unstyling named anchors

2005-10-31 Thread Paul Noone
Thanks guys. Patrick is right. I'd already validated the code and it came up
fine.

The reason I've run into this little problem is because, unlike HTML, XHTML
seems to require that the  tag surrounds some text. Perhaps an  
would do it?

The named anchor is picking up the color of the a:link style.

I've currently got your standard style layout as below. I was wondering if
simply adding an a {} style with the right color would be appropriate.

a:link {}
a:visited {}
a:hover, a:active {}

How are other people preventing this, apart from hiding their anchor tags
(which I suppose is a fair enough solution.

-Original Message-
From: Patrick H. Lauke

Thierry Koblentz wrote:

> "name" is used for old browsers. And I'm pretty sure it validates 
> against a Strict DTD (HTML or XHTML 1.0).
> Please correct me if I'm wrong here...

No, you're indeed correct. Up to XHTML 1.0 Strict it's perfectly valid to
use the name attribute on anchors. It's only XHTML 1.1 that deprecated it.

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Re: [WSG] Unstyling named anchors

2005-10-31 Thread Patrick H. Lauke

Thierry Koblentz wrote:


"name" is used for old browsers. And I'm pretty sure it validates against a
Strict DTD (HTML or XHTML 1.0).
Please correct me if I'm wrong here...


No, you're indeed correct. Up to XHTML 1.0 Strict it's perfectly valid 
to use the name attribute on anchors. It's only XHTML 1.1 that 
deprecated it.


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Re: [WSG] Unstyling named anchors

2005-10-31 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Martin J. Lambert wrote:
>> From: Thierry Koblentz
>> I'm not sure about that, I think it is better to use both attributes
>> and may be even "more" to prevent a IE bug related to tabbing
>> navigation. http://www.motive.co.nz/glossary/anchor.php
>> http://www.juicystudio.com/article/ie-keyboard-navigation.php
>
> I don't see anything in those links that necessitates the use of
> "name"; the problems seem to be related to the element having
> 'layout', not which attributes it uses. But if I'm wrong, or if name
> is required for some other reason, then it's perfectly valid to use
> it in (X)HTML Transitional, just not Strict.

"name" is used for old browsers. And I'm pretty sure it validates against a
Strict DTD (HTML or XHTML 1.0).
Please correct me if I'm wrong here...

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RE: [WSG] Unstyling named anchors

2005-10-31 Thread Martin J. Lambert
> From: Thierry Koblentz
> Martin J. Lambert wrote:
> > Actually, when using XHTML Strict, "name" is not a valid attribute for
> > anchors. You can use the "id" attribute to get the same jump-to-that-
> > section-of-the-page behaviour, but this will work with *any* element,
> > not just anchors. Since you don't want the appearance of a link on the
> > page, I suggest eliminating the anchor altogether and linking to the
> > id of whatever element is already there in the markup.
> 
> I'm not sure about that, I think it is better to use both attributes and
may
> be even "more" to prevent a IE bug related to tabbing navigation.
> http://www.motive.co.nz/glossary/anchor.php
> http://www.juicystudio.com/article/ie-keyboard-navigation.php


I don't see anything in those links that necessitates the use of "name";
the problems seem to be related to the element having 'layout', not which
attributes it uses. But if I'm wrong, or if name is required for some
other reason, then it's perfectly valid to use it in (X)HTML Transitional,
just not Strict.

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Re: [WSG] Unstyling named anchors

2005-10-31 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Martin J. Lambert wrote:
> Actually, when using XHTML Strict, "name" is not a valid attribute for
> anchors. You can use the "id" attribute to get the same jump-to-that-
> section-of-the-page behaviour, but this will work with *any* element,
> not just anchors. Since you don't want the appearance of a link on the
> page, I suggest eliminating the anchor altogether and linking to the
> id of whatever element is already there in the markup.

I'm not sure about that, I think it is better to use both attributes and may
be even "more" to prevent a IE bug related to tabbing navigation.
http://www.motive.co.nz/glossary/anchor.php
http://www.juicystudio.com/article/ie-keyboard-navigation.php

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RE: [WSG] Unstyling named anchors

2005-10-31 Thread Martin J. Lambert
> From: Paul Noone
> 
> When using XHTML strict named anchors need to surround some link text, yes?
> 
> I'd tinkered with a[name]:hover but I'm loathe to create a style for this.
I
> don't think hiding them is th eoption either.


Actually, when using XHTML Strict, "name" is not a valid attribute for
anchors. You can use the "id" attribute to get the same jump-to-that-
section-of-the-page behaviour, but this will work with *any* element,
not just anchors. Since you don't want the appearance of a link on the
page, I suggest eliminating the anchor altogether and linking to the
id of whatever element is already there in the markup.

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Re: [WSG] Unstyling named anchors

2005-10-30 Thread Joshua Street
On 10/31/05, Paul Noone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anyone have a standard approach to unstyling named anchors I this case
> which will work cross-browser?

How about some Javascript? I don't really know what I'm doing with
that beast, but maybe something like document.getElementsByName("*");
and then do this.style.display="none"; ? I doubt wildcards work as
simply as that, though, if at all...

...or am I missing what you're trying to do here?

(If you're not proficient in Javascript... ignore me, I don't know
what I'm talking about, and it takes hours for me to make any script
do what I need it to do!)

Hope this isn't too far off the mark...

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RE: [WSG] Unstyling named anchors

2005-10-30 Thread Damien Hill
How have you applied your link styles? 

a { ... }

Or

a:link, a:visited { ... }


If you style links without specifying the :link pseudo-class, then you
select all anchors - whether or not the href attribute is present.

Hope that solves the problem.

Cheers,
Damien


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Subject: [WSG] Unstyling named anchors

Hiya,

When using XHTML strict named anchors need to surround some link text, yes?

Does anyone have a standard approach to unstyling named anchors I this case
which will work cross-browser?

I'd tinkered with a[name]:hover but I'm loathe to create a style for this. I
don't think hiding them is th eoption either.

Thanks.
 

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Subject: Re: [WSG] Semantic Calendar

Hi,

Check out the hcalendar microformat

http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar

It's based on the widely used iCalender format from the IEEE.

Two of the founders of Microformats, Tantek Celik and Eric Meyer are
speaking at Web Essentials in Sydney at the end of September.

http://we05.com

Tantek in particular will be looking a the issues of semantics in detail

john

On 18/08/2005, at 1:20 PM, Scott Swabey ((Lafinboy Productions)) wrote:

> G'day all
>
> I have been tinkering with a calendar generation script (PHP if 
> relevant), and have developed two versions. One uses a semantically 
> correct table for layout, the other uses ordered lists to hold and 
> layout the day names and month dates. After working on this for a 
> while and thinking about it for wa too long I am faced with the 
> quandary - which of the two versions is _more_ semantically correct? 
> Does a calendar (single month) qualify as tabular data, are ordered 
> lists a better fit, or should I be looking at another option?
>
> Any feedback/opinions would be appreciated.
>
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