[WSG] A web service that converts MSWord to HTML

Hi, For a while now one problem that kept coming up was dealing with MS Word files, and getting them into a format that was easy to parse. Anyway, I figure some people might also have this problem so I wrote a web service that converts MS Word to Oasis OpenDocument 1.0 format, and then optionally

Re: [WSG] A web service that converts MSWord to HTML

Hi Matthew Sounds cool! Tidy has an MS Word parameter that can be used to cleanup the kludge that is supposed to be HTML generated from this piece of software. See: http://tidy.sourceforge.net/docs/quickref.html#word-2000 >From memory a couple of other things have to be used as well like

Re: [WSG] A web service that converts MSWord to HTML

On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 21:35 +1000, Joshua Street wrote: You are an absolute legend. Thankyou! Haven't got time to try it yet, but will do in the near future! If it's likely to receive future updates, any chance you could setup an RSS file/feed? (Because I'm thinking we're minutes away from a

[WSG] Flash elements

Hello all, Can someone point me to the latest and greatest method for adding Flash to a page. Also, adding alternate content to a Flash element. Can the alt content be an image? Off list if you think it's best... Thanks! -- Tom Livingston Senior Multimedia Artist Media Logic

Re: [WSG] Flash elements

http://www.bobbyvandersluis.com/ufo/ -- Jan Brasna aka JohnyB :: www.alphanumeric.cz | www.janbrasna.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting

Re: [WSG] Flash elements

Hi, Greatest is always debatable in this vocation latest, as current as the next query by a news aggrigator, but here goes one of the best methods I've found: (http://blog.deconcept.com/flashobject/) C On Sep 13, 2005, at 8:32 AM, Tom Livingston wrote: Hello all, Can someone point me

[WSG] Questions about the new european parliament web site

As many of you probably noticed via the WASP web site, a new web site was launched for the European parliament and it is a mess. Now, I'm the first to admit that I don't know everything and graciously ask for advice. When I looked at the source code, I saw all sorts of bizarre mixtures of xml,

RE: [WSG] Flash elements

Hi Tom No need to go off list, I think this is a valid question for many people. I used to use the flash satay (http://www.alistapart.com/articles/flashsatay) method but the UFO (http://www.bobbyvandersluis.com/ufo/) technique is really quite nice and easy to use. Here's a site that I've

Re: [WSG] Flash elements

Best I ever have seen: http://blog.deconcept.com/flashobject/ Bruce Prochnau BKDesign Solutions www.bkdesign.ca - Original Message - From: Jan Brasna [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 11:40 AM Subject: Re: [WSG] Flash elements

Re: [WSG] Questions about the new european parliament web site

It is run on Apache, so the Xalan mentioning there looks like it's a product of some bad XSTL transformation. And it's not .NET, it's Java. -- Jan Brasna aka JohnyB :: www.alphanumeric.cz | www.janbrasna.com ** The discussion list for

[WSG] Width / min-width and max-width

Just a quick qustion. Can you use width, min-width and max-width at the same time? Here is the code: #test { width:774px; min-width: 774px; max-width: 999px; } #test element will be 774px, but should expand to 999px if the screen size is bigger. Any comments. Thanks Jacobus -- No virus

[WSG] XSLT errors: was - Questions about the new european parliament we b site

Hi Jan Thank you for clearing it up. I was hesitant to dump on .net. It gets more than its share of abuse and the XSLT errors are also good to know. XSLT is not discussed often on this list. I would be interested in knowing what people would suggest to fix the problems this site is having.

Re: [WSG] Flash elements

Tom Livingston wrote: Hello all, Can someone point me to the latest and greatest method for adding Flash to a page. Also, adding alternate content to a Flash element. Can the alt content be an image? Off list if you think it's best... Thanks! here's one from, i think, this list:

Re: [WSG] Flash elements

Dwain, please read the preceding replies before posting, this was already mentioned, and it is one of the older and not the top notch solutions. -- Jan Brasna aka JohnyB :: www.alphanumeric.cz | www.janbrasna.com ** The discussion list for

Re: [WSG] Flash elements

Jan Brasna wrote: Dwain, please read the preceding replies before posting, this was already mentioned, and it is one of the older and not the top notch solutions. sorry, i read what i had and replied. what then would be a more standards way of it? dwain -- dwain alford [EMAIL

Re: [WSG] Flash elements

sorry, i read what i had and replied. No problemo ;) It was just mentioned by Ted before. what then would be a more standards way of it? It's not abou being more standardised, but rather more compatible, effective, flexible etc. ... See the replies for them. -- Jan Brasna aka JohnyB ::

Re: [WSG] display inline question

Hi Ted, I have had a similar experience with the same issue. The two solutions I had were: 1. Accept the currentlimitations of Definition lists until support for CSS3 is strong and have the definition term above the definition details. But to make things look a bit more attractive, why not

RE: [WSG] display inline question

Hi Nathan I had actually just removed the data from a table, cutting the code by 40% and removing over 1,000 images. This was an enormous page! I will probably play around with variations of the dl to get a nice separation from parent dl and child dl elements. Ted Hi

Re: [WSG] Flash elements

Jan Brasna wrote: It's not abou being more standardised, but rather more compatible, effective, flexible etc. ... Worth a read from an accessibility angle: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/accessibility/archives/2005/08/in_search_of_a.cfm -- Patrick H. Lauke

[WSG] Firefox rendering issue

Hello all, I'm seriously annoyed by some sort of rendering bug in Firefox and I wonder if anyone has a workaround. It seems whenever the HTML contains an image with no width/height or whenever the html is updated on the fly through Ajax, the page is messed up. It can be seen (the Ajax issue)

Re: [WSG] Questions about the new european parliament web site

It definitely looks like generator/cms code that isn't being converted, but I don't know for sure.On 9/13/05, Drake, Ted C. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:As many of you probably noticed via the WASP web site, a new web site was launched for the European parliament and it is a mess.Now, I'm the first to

Re: [WSG] Questions about the new european parliament web site

Maybe it would be more educational if someone could describe how these tags might have been built. I'm assuming they are using a .net platform that has been horribly hacked. Maybe I shouldn't throw blame immediately at .net, but I have noticed similar things with them. Should the CMS

Re: [WSG] XSLT errors: was - Questions about the new european parliament we b site

On 9/14/05, Drake, Ted C. THEODORE.C.DRAKE-at-saic.com |WSG| ... wrote: Hi Jan Thank you for clearing it up. I was hesitant to dump on .net. It gets more than its share of abuse and the XSLT errors are also good to know. XSLT is not discussed often on this list. I would be interested in

Re: [WSG] XSLT errors: was - Questions about the new european parliament we b site

On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 10:14 -0700, Drake, Ted C. wrote: XSLT is not discussed often on this list. I would be interested in knowing what people would suggest to fix the problems this site is having. Consider it an open-ended xslt suggestion post. My guru is this Dave Pawson guy, he

[WSG] Standards based visual design guidelines

Hello, I'm looking for some examples of standards based visual design guidelines and wondering if you can point me to anything you've seen or personally use in your design process...? If it is something you use during design development, let me know that too, as I'm interested to see how

Re: [WSG] Standards based visual design guidelines

Herrod, Lisa wrote: Hello, I'm looking for some examples of standards based visual design guidelines and wondering if you can point me to anything you've seen or personally use in your design process...? If it is something you use during design development, let me know that too, as I'm

RE: [WSG] Standards based visual design guidelines

Hi David, yes I've done that. I'm more interested in hearing directly from designers who have a focus on standards. Lisa -Original Message- From: David Laakso [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 14 September 2005 11:46 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG]

RE: [WSG] Standards based visual design guidelines

I had a quick Google. It is difficult because 'web design' is (often wrongly IMHO) used to describe IA, UI and front-end website development. But these were kinda interesting. http://www.webdesignpractices.com/ http://usability.gov/guidelines/designconsid.html

RE: [WSG] Standards based visual design guidelines

Thanks Ben :) Just to clarify this for the list - I have googled this extensively. I'm more interested from your personal perspective and experience. all the best, lisa -Original Message- From: Ben Wrighton - StraightForward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 14 September

Re: [WSG] Standards based visual design guidelines

Herrod, Lisa wrote: I'm more interested from your personal perspective and experience. Oh well, you asked for it. Pick and choose: http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/toc_7a.html ...plenty of 'personal' there, and I think there are standards at the base -- along with some pretty acid test-stuff.