Re: [WSG] more usable forms

2004-01-23 Thread Universal Head
I bought their 'Designing Without Tables Using CSS' book by the way, and found it remarkably misleading since most of it was about basic CSS while only briefly touching on layout CSS, and then only as regards to one type of layout. The reference section is handy, but apart from that the book wa

Re: [WSG] more usable forms

2004-01-23 Thread Hugh Todd
Mark, Russ, I didn't write the article, but sitepoint does have a facility to provide feedback (http://www.sitepoint.com/feedback/1273) and I know the author responsible is listening. Done. Thanks. -Hugh * The discussion list for http://webs

RE: [WSG] more usable forms

2004-01-22 Thread Mark Stanton
Hey Hugh I didn't write the article, but sitepoint does have a facility to provide feedback (http://www.sitepoint.com/feedback/1273) and I know the author responsible is listening. There is also a discussion forum for the article. http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=148944. J

Re: [WSG] more usable forms

2004-01-22 Thread russ weakley
Hugh, This sort of feedback would be worth passing on to Simon Willison too! I'm sure he would like to know which browsers are not supporting it. You can email Simon directly or add a comment under his blog entry on the subject: http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2004/01/23/moreUsableForms#comments

Re: [WSG] more usable forms

2004-01-22 Thread Hugh Todd
Mark, Nice article on making forms a bit nicer. http://www.sitepoint.com/article/1273 Hmm. Pity that the example layout breaks in IE5 Mac, and that in Safari it looks nice but the label focus code doesn't work. In Opera neither the label focus nor the "you haven't filled in this field" trick wor

Re: [WSG] more usable forms

2004-01-22 Thread Chris Blown
I was quite surprised when I first saw the way that some Mac browsers highlight focused inputs with a light blue border. If only :focus was better supported by IE. and PNG's and.. and.. ChrisB On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 13:42, Mark Stanton wrote: > Nice article on making forms a bit nicer. >

RE: [WSG] more usable forms

2004-01-22 Thread Miles Tillinger
Stanton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 1:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WSG] more usable forms Hey Andrew You may also be interested in the accessible form demo presented to the Sydney group by Roger Hudson - http://webstandardsgroup.org/resources/documents

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Re: [WSG] more usable forms

2004-01-22 Thread James Ellis
Andrew : See my tables or css post a while back for an example of this, copied below. It may help out.. Hi But then we have tables used as a layout device, and a form isn't associated tabular data.. it's a user interface. What if we wanted to present the form in a different way using C

RE: [WSG] more usable forms

2004-01-22 Thread Mark Stanton
Hey Andrew You may also be interested in the accessible form demo presented to the Sydney group by Roger Hudson - http://webstandardsgroup.org/resources/documents/doc_5_accessform.html. There are a few other links to stuff he discussed that night at - http://webstandardsgroup.org/go/resourcecat1

Re: [WSG] more usable forms

2004-01-22 Thread Andrew Cheong
I have never heard of the tag. This article is quite useful. It is true - every detail matters once you get to a certain level of web development. I guess the tag also mets conformance standards since the text that used to float around without a semantically defined purposenow can be inside t