Kevin Futter wrote:
Yes, I've argued strongly in the past that a list is not completely
semantically-appropriate for breadcrumbs markup. Unlike breadcrumbs, a flat
list does not represent a hierarchy, unless you nest them
...
Of course I have to qualify this by saying that I treat breadcrumbs
Lachlan Hunt wrote:
No, that just demonstrates how ignorant judges can be with regard to
technical implementations. The article states:
Off topic, but it made me smile thinking about my not so clued up higher
management going on about adding a GIF to pages to mean image. If
only they knew
Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
Lachlan Hunt wrote:
No, that just demonstrates how ignorant judges can be with regard to
technical implementations. The article states:
Off topic, but it made me smile thinking about my not so clued up higher
management going on about adding a GIF to pages to mean
David Nicol wrote:
Hello everyone,
I would appreciate it very much if you could look at this site: http://www.visitshetland.com/
I have already checked it on several different machines and
everything seems to be working fine.
Today I received a call from someone saying that
David Nicol wrote:
Hello everyone,
I would appreciate it very much if you could look at this site: http://www.visitshetland.com/
I have already checked it on several different machines and
everything seems to be working fine.
Today I received a call from someone saying that
David,
on Monday, February 20, 2006 at 21:47 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote:
On the subject of trying to please everyone
I know that it is impossible to please everyone, but I'd like to find
a method which makes the world better for at least one person without
doing any harm to others ;-)
Hi again,
Thanks for all the recent advice.
I'll modfy the CSS so that the site can better handle font re-sizing. I'm not sure how much success I'll have, though, as the current page layout does not really accommodate large font sizes.
My take on this is that layouts should be tested against
David,
It looks like they may have disabled the rendering of images
(advanced tab of Internet Options), enabled the feature to
ignore font color, font size and font family options
(Accessibility button in Internet Options).
Jon
Original message
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 20:02:07
For quite some time I've had a problem with missed and late posts on
this list. I've talked to my ISP, as I'm sure the SPAM volume they have
to deal with contributes to the problem, but lately following threads
here has been rather difficult. As example, early yesterday's Font
Sizes - Best
I too rarely get the start of most threads (although I got this one)
Daz
On 21/02/06, Felix Miata [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For quite some time I've had a problem with missed and late posts on
this list. I've talked to my ISP, as I'm sure the SPAM volume they have
to deal with contributes to
Hi guys!
I'm creating a new website, I've uploaded the problematic page to
http://2much4u.net/test/
Sometimes when I do scroll the text dissapears in Internet Explorer, by
the way it works fine in Firefox, Opera, Netscape...
The second problem is that the second "Las Salinas" is displayed
Forget it. I've solved the problem.
Roberto Santana escribi:
Hi guys!
I'm creating a new website, I've uploaded the problematic page to
http://2much4u.net/test/
Sometimes when I do scroll the text dissapears in Internet Explorer, by
the way it works fine in Firefox, Opera,
Hello all,
Wondering why firefox likes to exclude my #nav element out
of the box model here. The sites CSS can be viewed in the source for
readability.
http://www.rockitdevelopment.com/test/
It works fine in IE but who cares about that browser. What
is the method around this that
I'm assuming you want the border to go under the #nav also? If you
remove float:left from the #nav element the border goes all the way under.
Elaine Jordan
WolfPack Web Design
http://www.wpwd.net/
720-690-1249
Ryan Moore wrote:
Hello all,
Wondering why firefox likes to exclude my #nav
Hello Ryan,
You can fix that issueand
shortenyour CSS a bit with this. I didn't test it in IE but it should be
fine.
* {border: 0;margin:
0;padding: 0;text-decoration: none; }
body {text-align: center;
}
#wrapper {border: 1px solid
rgb(204, 153, 102);margin: auto;width: 800px; }
ul#nav {
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Felix Miata wrote:
For quite some time I've had a problem with missed and late posts on
this list. I've talked to my ISP, as I'm sure the SPAM volume they have
to deal with contributes to the problem, but lately following threads
Perhaps I can shed some light here. I have
Terrence Wood wrote:
Jakob Nielsen responded to my request for clarification
Jacob has used this request for his latest article
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/within_page_links.html
Regards
Jason
**
The discussion list for
On 21/2/06 7:00 PM, Patrick H. Lauke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kevin Futter wrote:
Yes, I've argued strongly in the past that a list is not completely
semantically-appropriate for breadcrumbs markup. Unlike breadcrumbs, a flat
list does not represent a hierarchy, unless you nest them
...
Title: Message
I came across a
strange issue last night while converting some XML data via an XSL template into
XHTML.
Issue 1: In the Head
sectionof my XHTML I had an empty script element (see below). IE refused
to load the page. FF had no problem with this.
script
Hello Paul,
On 22 Feb 2006 at 9:16, Paul Hempsall wrote:
I came across a strange issue last night while converting some XML
data via an XSL template into XHTML.
yes, there are some problems. I had the same problems creating output
pages inside my main project 'server-daten'. Users can create
On 22 Feb 2006, at 9:16 AM, Paul Hempsall wrote:
Issue 1: In the Head section of my XHTML I had an empty script element
(see below). IE refused to load the page. FF had no problem with this.
script type=text/javascript src=nav.js/
To get IE past this line in the markup I had to change
A frequent request, which occasionally needs to be remade: could list
members please use plain text for posting? It makes the posts much
smaller in file size, which is kinder to those who only have dialup
connections (yes, there are still some), but more importantly, makes
the posts more
Paul Hempsall wrote:
I came across a strange issue last night while converting some XML data
via an XSL template into XHTML.
Issue 1: In the Head section of my XHTML I had an empty script element
(see below). IE refused to load the page.
IE does not support XHTML at all.
All of your
Jason Turnbull wrote:
Terrence Wood wrote:
Jakob Nielsen responded to my request for clarification
Jacob has used this request for his latest article
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/within_page_links.html
Regards
Jason
Ignoring the discussion of in-page links and jumping straight
Hi all you former table hackers out there. Ive got a
simple question.
If I have two or three columns in a table and I want the
cells to share the space equally, what would you suggest? I dont have a
width on these cells right now and if one cell has lots of content, its
pushing the other
On Feb 22, 2006, at 8:10 AM, Ted Drake wrote:
If I have two or three columns in a table and I want the cells to
share the
space equally, what would you suggest? I don't have a width on
these cells
right now and if one cell has lots of content, it's pushing the
other column
to the curb.
Ted Drake wrote:
Hi all you former table hackers out there. I've got a simple question.
If I have two or three columns in a table and I want the cells to share the
space equally, what would you suggest? I don't have a width on these cells
right now and if one cell has lots of content, it's
On 22 Feb 2006, at 10:00 AM, Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
Nick Gleitzman wrote:
Easy. In both cases, 'self-closing' elements is incorrect. Both
script and div need full closing: /script and /div, whether
they're empty or not.
To expand on that answer: unless you're sending XHTML with an XML or
Kevin Futter wrote:
While I can concede that an ordered list offers more chance of an implied
hierarchy than an unordered one, I'm not keen on the amount of code required
to produce the result, nor the concept of a series of nested lists, each
with one element.
I'm not keen on the nesting of
Geoff Pack wrote:
If the users don't understand a particular feature of the web, one
that's been around since its very beginning, then they (damn well)
should feel insecure in their mastery. They are not masters (yet). If
we don't confuse the users occaissionly, how will they ever learn
that
Thanks for everyone's responses - a wealth of information, as usual.
Nick: I'm using plain text now for my emails, I apologise for the
inconvenience.
PaulH
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distribution of this message or any information it contains, by
I thought it would be interesting to see what Yahoo says (and does)
about breadcrumbs in their pattern library: http://
developer.yahoo.net/ypatterns/pattern_breadcrumbs.php
They don't discuss the HTML, but looking at the source, I see they
use an unordered list in some sort of template, as
This is really interesting article in that it contradicts findings of a
recent study we completed just 2 weeks ago.
We recently conducted user testing on a site with 22 participants, which is
a significant sample (often we test with 8 to 12).
The demographic was 18 skilled workers and 4
Just a followup - in case anyone else was following this thread. I found
a really informative page that expands on the answers provided on this
list: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/03/19/dive-into-xml.html
I've also discovered (after trying to figure out why the W3C Validator
kept saying my MIME
Nick Gleitzman wrote:
A frequent request, which occasionally needs to be remade: could list
members please use plain text for posting?
Yes, absolutely! The following articles discuss the various issues
further. Although they generally relate to USENET, most of the advice
applies equally to
Herrod, Lisa wrote:
This is really interesting article in that it contradicts findings of a
recent study we completed just 2 weeks ago.
We recently conducted user testing on a site with 22 participants, which is
a significant sample (often we test with 8 to 12).
The demographic was 18 skilled
Actually, the interesting thing is that we met one of their usability
consultants O/S recently, and were told that they don't actually do much of
their testing with users. That it's mostly 'Expert Reviews'.
But I'm sure he tests with users if he says he does. Not casting aspersions!
A friend of
Actually Mike, according to a recent Jakob Neilsen study, Jakob Neilsen is
right 100% of the time.
;)
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Brown
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 3:28 PM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG]
Martin Heiden wrote:
I know that it is impossible to please everyone, but I'd like to find
a method which makes the world better for at least one person without
doing any harm to others ;-)
Touché!
(Have you read A theory of justice by John Rawls ;-))
Actually, no. But I just googled and
Paul wrote:
I came across a strange issue last night while converting
some XML data via an XSL template into XHTML.
You can write your XSLT to output XHTML that follows compatibility guidelines.
You can use the technique in this XSLT:
http://misc.xstandard.com/wsg/preview.zip
If you need a
Or do we just dumb everything down until we have some small subset that
everyone understands?
I've often found the Nielsen goes too far - beyond make it more
usable, through to make it more stupid or even cater to such a low
common denominator that average users actually start to get
Vlad Alexander (XStandard) wrote:
You can write your XSLT to output XHTML that follows compatibility
guidelines. You can use the technique in this XSLT:
http://misc.xstandard.com/wsg/preview.zip
If you need a hand with your XSLT, contact me off the list and I'll
be happy to help.
If you're
Jason Turnbull:
Terrence Wood wrote:
Jakob Nielsen responded to my request for clarification
Jacob has used this request for his latest article
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/within_page_links.html
Wow! there's my 15 seconds of fame. If he'd mentioned me by name I'd be
immortal! The other
On 22 Feb 2006, at 2:50 PM, Lachlan Hunt wrote:
Outlook users should ...switch to a better mail client that isn't
broken.
Outllok can be configured to send plain text can't it?
I usually don't bother to read the 1mm tall text it sends out
(screenshots on request), unless I'm really
On 2/22/06, Terrence Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 22 Feb 2006, at 2:50 PM, Lachlan Hunt wrote:
Outlook users should ...switch to a better mail client that isn't
broken.
Outllok can be configured to send plain text can't it?
I think Lachlan meant that + bottom-quoting?
On 2/21/06 11:10 PM Joshua Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent this out:
On 22 Feb 2006, at 2:50 PM, Lachlan Hunt wrote:
Outlook users should ...switch to a better mail client that isn't
broken.
Outllok can be configured to send plain text can't it?
I think Lachlan meant that + bottom-quoting?
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