Betr.: [WSG] Window Pop-ups

2005-04-26 Thread Gerard Copinga
Hello, besides the warning that the link will open in a new window, also make sure that the pop-up will work if JavaScript is disabled or not supported by assistive technologies. The way to do that is: a href=help.htm target=_blank onClick=javascript:openNewWindow(this.href); return false;

Re: Betr.: [WSG] Window Pop-ups (I have RMIT TestLab)

2005-04-26 Thread Malcolm Raymond
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Re: Betr.: [WSG] Window Pop-ups

2005-04-26 Thread Kornel Lesinski
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 08:44:24 +0100, Gerard Copinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a href=help.htm target=_blank onClick=javascript:openNewWindow(this.href); return false; title=opens in new windowHelp/a Why do you put *useless* javascript: *label* inside onclick handler? -- regards, Kornel

Re: Betr.: [WSG] Window Pop-ups

2005-04-26 Thread Prabhath Sirisena
You might find this useful: http://www.accessify.com/tutorials/the-perfect-pop-up.asp Prabhath http://nidahas.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints

Re: Betr.: [WSG] Window Pop-ups

2005-04-26 Thread Kornel Lesinski
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 12:04:39 +0100, Prabhath Sirisena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might find this useful: http://www.accessify.com/tutorials/the-perfect-pop-up.asp This popup is imperfect. In examples there is always return false;. It should be return !window.open(..); It uses inline JavaScript -

Re: Betr.: [WSG] Window Pop-ups

2005-04-26 Thread Jeremy Keith
Kornel Lesi?ski wrote: It uses inline JavaScript - event handlers should be assigned via DOM. As an example, you could use a class to indicate which links should open in a new window: a href=http://www.example.com/; class=popupvisit the site/a Then in an external JavaScript file, you could have

RE: Betr.: [WSG] Window Pop-ups

2005-04-26 Thread Patrick Lauke
Jeremy Keith lnks[i].onkeypress = lnks[i].onclick; I'd advise against assigning an onkeypress. In some browsers (Moz), even a TAB is (rightly) seen as a keypress. An onkeypress on a link makes it effectively impossible to tab past the link without triggering the behaviour. All major current

[WSG] Web calendar

2005-04-26 Thread Erwin Heiser
Hi all, I'm currently working on a standards-based redesign of a local schools website and I would like to add some kind of calendar to it. Their current one is just a massive (ugly) table, coded in Frontpage tag-soup (116kb of code no less!):

Re: Betr.: [WSG] Window Pop-ups

2005-04-26 Thread Kornel Lesinski
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 13:16:12 +0100, Jeremy Keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) If the link has a class of popup: 1) add an onlick behaviour 2) cancel the default action 3) make onkeypress do the same thing. No, don't use onkeypress. lnks[i].onclick =

Re: [WSG] Web calendar

2005-04-26 Thread Kvnmcwebn
check this one out, youd have to modify it to see the whole year http://veerle.duoh.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list

Re: Betr.: [WSG] Window Pop-ups

2005-04-26 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Gerard Copinga wrote: Hello, a href=help.htm target=_blank onClick=javascript:openNewWindow(this.href); return false; title=opens in new windowHelp/a As a side note: using _blank as the value of the target attribute is not a good idea unless the designer wants a *new* window to open each time

Re: Betr.: [WSG] Window Pop-ups

2005-04-26 Thread Kornel Lesinski
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:24:28 +0100, Thierry Koblentz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a href=help.htm target=_blank onClick=javascript:openNewWindow(this.href); return false; title=opens in new windowHelp/a As a side note: using _blank as the value of the target attribute is not a good idea unless

RE: Betr.: [WSG] Window Pop-ups

2005-04-26 Thread Patrick Lauke
Kornel Lesinski And what about what _user_ wants? For me there is nothing more annoying that page with links to screenshots or faq entries that all stubbornly open in the same window and don't let me see more than one of them at once. But for every user that thinks like you

Re: Betr.: [WSG] Window Pop-ups

2005-04-26 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Kornel Lesinski wrote: And what about what _user_ wants? For me there is nothing more annoying that page with links to screenshots or faq entries that all stubbornly open in the same window and don't let me see more than one of them at once. IMHO, this technique gives some control to the user

Re: Betr.: [WSG] Window Pop-ups

2005-04-26 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Thierry Koblentz wrote: IMHO, this technique gives some control to the user since it is still possible for her to open such links in new windows (i.e. Right-click Open Link in New Window (or Tab)). Using _blank leaves her with no choice. Even if a link *has* _blank, you can use the right click

[WSG] 100% height of viewport

2005-04-26 Thread Stevio
Is there a way to stretch an element to be 100% height of the viewport? Also what is the best way to create a footer, which is at the foot at the page no matter the height of the viewport, but below and not overlapping any other elements? Thanks, Stephen -- No virus found in this outgoing

Re: [WSG] 100% height of viewport

2005-04-26 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Stevio wrote: Is there a way to stretch an element to be 100% height of the viewport? An ugly hack, but my pixel pushing experiment may provide a starting point http://www.splintered.co.uk/experiments/49/ -- Patrick H. Lauke _ re·dux (adj.):

Re: [WSG] Styling of legend in Firefox

2005-04-26 Thread Chris Griego
What's going on here is that all form elements, which includes fieldsets and labels, are replaced elements, which by the letter of the W3C specs, are not required to honor direct CSS styling. IE's ties into the operating system actually helps it here because IE simply exposes all the styling

Re: [WSG] Re: [Repost] 4 px gap in Safari and Gecko based browsers

2005-04-26 Thread tee
tee wrote: Sorry, realized I got the url wrong. Here is the right one: http://www.clients.lotusseeds.com/catering_new.html Simple fix: #intro {line-height: 0;} Note also: LOCATION is too high up in Opera. Some adjustments needed to top of that list. regards Georg -- Hi Georg,

Re: Betr.: [WSG] Window Pop-ups

2005-04-26 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Patrick H. Lauke wrote: Even if a link *has* _blank, you can use the right click option. I know that ;-) My point is that setting the target attribute's value to WhatEverName gives the user a *choice*. It allows him to either open these links in new windows or in the *original new one*. With

Re: Betr.: [WSG] Window Pop-ups

2005-04-26 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Thierry Koblentz wrote: Even if a link *has* _blank, you can use the right click option. I know that ;-) My point is Ah ... oops ... I see what you mean now (makes mental note to read a message first before replying). P :) -- Patrick H. Lauke

[WSG] Little cool feature?

2005-04-26 Thread David Laakso
Ah, the possibilities...? http://biocandy.dk/test.html And it works in Opera8, too! Sorry. I think temptation exceeds my better judgement. Rgards, David -- http://www.dlaakso.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

Re: [WSG] Little cool feature?

2005-04-26 Thread Brian Cummiskey
thats pretty neat! it says it doesn't work in ie, but i see the skeleton in it... strange. David Laakso wrote: Ah, the possibilities...? http://biocandy.dk/test.html And it works in Opera8, too! Sorry. I think temptation exceeds my better judgement. Rgards, David

Re: [WSG] Little cool feature?

2005-04-26 Thread Paul Menard
Ah that is cool...very nice. --- David Laakso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, the possibilities...? http://biocandy.dk/test.html And it works in Opera8, too! Sorry. I think temptation exceeds my better judgement. Rgards, David -- http://www.dlaakso.com/

Re: [WSG] Little cool feature?

2005-04-26 Thread Chris Stratford
Same effect as the diver in this css zen garden entry: http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=http://www.css-praxis.de/cssocean/zenocean.css Very nice indeed. One thing - is the character meant to look like a man with that huge dongle between its legs? Or am I just not noticing something here???

[WSG] divs are shrinking when i move my mouse over them in IE6, how can i fix this?

2005-04-26 Thread Jeroen Verburgh
This is my first attempt at a XHTML1.0/Strict website, and thus far things are going okay. The layout is displayed perfectly in Firefox and IE6 gets close enough. However, I appear to have less luck with one page on my site. When I move my mouse over the hyperlinks, the divs appear to be

Re: [WSG] divs are shrinking when i move my mouse over them in IE6, how can i fix this?

2005-04-26 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Jeroen Verburgh wrote: . When I move my mouse over the hyperlinks, the divs appear to be shrinking a little. http://81.69.108.105/?start No time to test, but at a quick glance I'd say your problem stems from defining no border for links, and then defining a border-bottom for a:hover. This new

Re: [WSG] divs are shrinking when i move my mouse over them in IE6, how can i fix this?

2005-04-26 Thread Lennart Fylling
Jeroen Verburgh wrote: This is my first attempt at a XHTML1.0/Strict website, and thus far things are going okay. The layout is displayed perfectly in Firefox and IE6 gets close enough. However, I appear to have less luck with one page on my site. When I move my mouse over the hyperlinks, the divs

[WSG] float problem in IE

2005-04-26 Thread tee
Hi I am sure many people have encountered similar problem with float in IE, here I am, fighting with it in the last three hours still can't get it fix. My problem also that I can't tell whether it's double float margin bug or something else. http://clients.lotusseeds.com/menus_1_new.html

RE: [WSG] divs are shrinking when i move my mouse over them in IE6, how can i fix this?

2005-04-26 Thread Jeroen Verburgh
change ``border: 0;'' to ``border: 1px #fff solid;'' I've just tried this suggestion, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to work. I'm not really sure it has anything to do with the contents of the floating divs, because none of them move around. When I move my mouse over a hyperlink, then all

Re: [WSG] Web calendar

2005-04-26 Thread Neerav
Most blogs that use wordpress before 1.5 have a pretty good web standards calender in the navbar by default. eg: http://www.accessibility1st.com.au/ this would be a good place to start -- Neerav Bhatt http://www.bhatt.id.au Need a Sydney based web standards contractor? You need my services.

Re: [WSG] Web calendar

2005-04-26 Thread Dmitry Baranovskiy
Hi, You could check my version also. It is JavaScript based calendar with heaps of options. Fully CSS supported. Could be inline or pop-up. http://siter.com.au/dmitry/cal.html -- Best regards, Dmitry Baranovskiy ** The discussion list for

Re: [WSG] a required field marker in forms

2005-04-26 Thread Lachlan Hardy
Peter Ottery wrote: 1) I'm curious if the use of an asterix to indicate a required field, and the way I've done it, is ok accessibility-wise or if theres anything else i could/should do...? G'day Pete I've recently undertaken the same work myself. I'm beginning to undertake a very OO approach to

[WSG] new mycareer.com.au design

2005-04-26 Thread Peter Ottery
very proud to say the new mycareer site launched today: http://mycareer.com.au/ its the next major site from the Fairfax Digital network to take on css layout as part of a redesign. the site gets hundreds of thousands of visitors a month and is one of australias largest job ad websites. check it

Re: [WSG] new mycareer.com.au design

2005-04-26 Thread Neerav
Peter Just curious to know what the many lines of CDATA code achieve and the reason for putting them inline? -- Neerav Bhatt http://www.bhatt.id.au Need a Sydney based web standards contractor? You need my services. Recent projects for Glassonion, Freshweb, Cogentis, Ceneka ...

Re: [WSG] new mycareer.com.au design

2005-04-26 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day Peter Ottery wrote: very proud to say the new mycareer site launched today: http://mycareer.com.au/ css was a huge part of the redesign (which also overhauled some of the information architecture). all the developers were keen on the benefits and the business people love the agility of