Re: [WSG] CSS - Fixing PNG Transparency Issues in IE?

2005-12-09 Thread Srecko Micic
Well, hmmm I try it with java disabled in IE, and it still works. 2005/12/9, Christian Montoya [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 12/8/05, Matthew Cruickshank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Srecko Micic wrote: But what if Java is disabled in browser ? Then it won't work anyway, because all methods I've

Re: [WSG] CSS - Fixing PNG Transparency Issues in IE?

2005-12-09 Thread Christian Montoya
On 12/9/05, Srecko Micic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, hmmm I try it with java disabled in IE, and it still works. That's what I thought. Of course, if your users don't have DirectX, the filter won't work, but what's the likelihood of that? -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ...

Re: [WSG] Dynamic Styles - Inline? What?

2005-12-09 Thread Srecko Micic
Definitly .htaccess 2005/12/9, Joshua Street [EMAIL PROTECTED]: .htaccess maybe? On 12/9/05, Paul Noone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not so. It depends on Apache and how it's configured. You can check how PHP is set up by creating a new PHP page and just inlcude the following: ?php

RE: [WSG] *Why* doesn't Google validate? was New logo scheme was talking points for standards

2005-12-09 Thread Collin Davis
Surely either you jest, didn't read the whole article or need to update your feeds. ;) From the article itself: This is a spoof article. Please compare it with the original and you will see how little it has been changed. From the blogosphere: http://www.forgetfoo.com/?blogid=5150

Re: [WSG] *Why* doesn't Google validate? was New logo scheme was talking points for standards

2005-12-09 Thread matt andrews
On 09/12/05, Lea de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 08/12/2005, at 10:29 PM, James Ellis wrote: Having a valid frontend has nothing to do with whether an organisation attempts to be socially responsible. I'm sure there are heaps of slightly dodgy organisations out there that hire

[WSG] Out of Office AutoReply: digest for wsg@webstandardsgroup.org

2005-12-09 Thread Virginia Ingram
Title: Out of Office AutoReply: digest for wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Good Day! I will be out of the office December 9 for the Capstrat annual meeting. If you require an immediate response please contact me on my cell phone: 919-475-7706. Otherwise I will respond to your email on Monday.

Re: [WSG] *Why* doesn't Google validate? was New logo scheme was talking points for standards

2005-12-09 Thread Christian Montoya
On 12/9/05, Collin Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Surely either you jest, didn't read the whole article or need to update your feeds. ;) Sorry, I should have made it more clear I was kidding. They do remind me of that article though :) -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ...

Re: [WSG] *Why* doesn't Google validate? was New logo scheme was talking points for standards

2005-12-09 Thread Lea de Groot
On 10/12/2005, at 1:20 AM, matt andrews wrote: Hi Lea, I completely agree. Google have somehow developed a blind spot when it comes to meeting even the basics of current web standards. As an exercise, I just threw together a valid version of the Google Search page: blog entry:

Re: [WSG] *Why* doesn't Google validate? was New logo scheme was talking points for standards

2005-12-09 Thread Christian Montoya
On 12/9/05, Lea de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/12/2005, at 1:20 AM, matt andrews wrote: Hi Lea, I completely agree. Google have somehow developed a blind spot when it comes to meeting even the basics of current web standards. As an exercise, I just threw together a valid version

Re: [WSG] *Why* doesn't Google validate? was New logo scheme was talking points for standards

2005-12-09 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
... I thought about doing that, but decided I didn't have time. Interestingly, comparing the two pages in http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/ shows the original is *slightly* lighter (but I bet you could beat that by removing more carriage returns, same as the original) ...

Re: [WSG] Problems styling dl's

2005-12-09 Thread Bert Doorn
Can't recall seeing an answer to this post, so I thought I'd have a look at the issue. Eg. http://www.business.ecu.edu.au/schools/mtl/staff/index.htm and http://www.business.ecu.edu.au/schools/mtl/staff/spettigrew.htm In IE I get the 3px jog and in FF dd's that are shorter than their

Re: [WSG] *Why* doesn't Google validate? was New logo scheme was talking points for standards

2005-12-09 Thread Chris Dimmock
Michael Cordover's comments were the correct answer. :)Here is an excerpt from an Interview with Matt Cutts, Google engineer, just last month:Q: In more general terms, what do you think is the relationship between Google and the W3C? Do you think it would be important for Google to e.g. be

Re: [WSG] *Why* doesn't Google validate? was New logo scheme was talking points for standards

2005-12-09 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Chris Dimmock wrote: *Google's home page doesn't validate and that's mostly by design to save precious bytes. So, he's saying font color=red loads faster than font color=red ? I'd like to see some documented proof of this. The homepage of google is only a couple lines of code... but yet

Re: [WSG] *Why* doesn't Google validate? was New logo scheme was talking points for standards

2005-12-09 Thread Francesco
Multiply those two by millions of hits every day and we're talking big bandwidth! --- Brian Cummiskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Dimmock wrote: *Google's home page doesn't validate and that's mostly by design to save precious bytes. So, he's saying font color=red loads

Re: [WSG] *Why* doesn't Google validate? was New logo scheme was talking points for standards

2005-12-09 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Francesco wrote: Multiply those two by millions of hits every day and we're talking big bandwidth! Good point. I didn't even think about it like that. I wonder how many visits google gets in a day... ** The discussion list for

Re: [WSG] *Why* doesn't Google validate? was New logo scheme was talking points for standards

2005-12-09 Thread Chris Dimmock
I wonder how many visits Google gets in a day...? Brian - I'm not sure how many visits Google gets in a day,but Danny Sullivan reported on the Nielsen netratings numbers back in Julythat Google has 46.2%market share of 4.5 billion searches/ month

Re: [WSG] *Why* doesn't Google validate? was New logo scheme was talking points for standards

2005-12-09 Thread Christian Montoya
On 12/9/05, Chris Dimmock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Either way - small coding issues (and vaildation/ use of semantic code etc) are going to mean a lot of bandwidth when looked at in light of that kind of volume... You all act like you don't know how much bandwidth can be saved with