Re: [WSG] Shopping cart - who does what

2008-08-14 Thread Jason Grant
Hello everyone, Will try to keep it simple. I have much experience of working on various e-commerce systems and know the following: 1. Serious e-commerce systems are very complex (i.e. Magento) 2. 90% of e-commerce systems are not accessible, let alone standards compliant 3. Even

Re: [WSG] Shopping cart - who does what

2008-08-14 Thread Krystian - Sunlust
Will try to keep it simple. I have much experience of working on various e-commerce systems and know the following: Serious e-commerce systems are very complex (i.e. Magento) 90% of e-commerce systems are not accessible, let alone standards compliant Even templated UI solutions tend to

Re: [WSG] Shopping cart - who does what

2008-08-14 Thread tee
On Aug 14, 2008, at 3:09 AM, Krystian - Sunlust wrote: It costs £300 man, I would prefer to get an open source solution, community paid support. Try getting support from Magento, likely £300 is comparably very inexpensive, considering that commercial software ought to give you

[WSG] OT: AJAX

2008-08-14 Thread designer
Sorry about the OT, but I'm bewildered by the choices! Can anyone suggest a good starting book to learn AJAX? I'm familar with javascript and PHP and want to investigate. Reply offlist if you find it preferable. Many thanks, Bob

RE: [WSG] Shopping cart - who does what

2008-08-14 Thread Steve Green
On Aug 14, 2008, at 3:09 AM, Krystian - Sunlust wrote: It costs £300 man, I would prefer to get an open source solution, community paid support. Try getting support from Magento, likely £300 is comparably very inexpensive, considering that commercial software ought to give you support on

Re: [WSG] Shopping cart - who does what

2008-08-14 Thread tee
On Aug 14, 2008, at 5:22 AM, Steve Green wrote: I have no idea what they mean by UK DDA aware. DDA is not a technical standard and has nothing to do with the WCAG. Compliance with WCAG (even AAA) is no guarantee that a site meets the requirements of the DDA. The latter is concerned with

RE: [WSG] OT: AJAX

2008-08-14 Thread James Leslie
-Original Message- Sorry about the OT, but I'm bewildered by the choices! Can anyone suggest a good starting book to learn AJAX? I'm familar with javascript and PHP and want to investigate. Reply offlist if you find it preferable. I wouldn't think it is

[WSG] Wrapping multiple paragraphs around an image

2008-08-14 Thread Mark Stickley
Good evening folks, Does anyone know a good method of wrapping the text of multiple paragraphs around a single (large) image? It's possible I'm having a brain malfunction but I can't think of a good way to do it. All I can come up with is: 1) Combine all paragraphs into one and separate

Re: [WSG] Wrapping multiple paragraphs around an image

2008-08-14 Thread Kim Kruse
How about just floating the image and add some margin to the float. Kim *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [WSG] Wrapping multiple paragraphs around an image

2008-08-14 Thread Mark Stickley
...rather embarrassingly option 2 seems to work as I'd hoped it would and not as I expected it to. So I suppose that raises the question: What's the best way to NOT wrap text around an image but maintaining a fluid layout (so you can't fix the width of the ps)? I guess you could put all

RE: [WSG] Shopping cart - who does what

2008-08-14 Thread Steve Green
I thought that UK DDA is based on the WCAG AA guideline no? One time I did a template coding for a UK company, and was asked to follow WCAG AA guideline. As for Section 508, my impression is that, despite the additional requirements, it doesn't even quite meet the WCAG A. In the early years of

[WSG] Issues making compliant code using Joomla! [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2008-08-14 Thread Chris Vickery
Hi, For anyone with experience in making a Joomla! site generate compliant code, are there any tips, tricks, pitfalls or advice that you could impart? We've got a company setting a site up for us in Joomla. Their other sites seemed to validate quite well, but it would be great to get

Re: [WSG] Issues making compliant code using Joomla! [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2008-08-14 Thread Henrik Madsen
No direct experience but joomla seems to me to be bloated and exceedingly slow-loading. Coincidentally, only yesterday did I discover a number of joomla-based sites (here in AU and elsewhere) that had been hacked. I alerted the owners. Yesterday afternoon they were clean (those that had

Re: [WSG] Shopping cart - who does what

2008-08-14 Thread tee
On Aug 14, 2008, at 12:44 PM, Steve Green wrote: No, the DDA is not based on WCAG. The DDA is not a technical standard, it is a UK law. If a website is not accessible to someone, they can (in theory) bring a case against the website owner under the DDA regardless of whether the website

[WSG] Out of Office AutoReply: WSG Digest

2008-08-14 Thread Foong, Kevin
I am currently away and will be back on Mon 14 August. For urgent matters please contact Dorothy Weregola. *** This e-mail may be confidential and/or privileged. Only the intended

Re: [WSG] Issues making compliant code using Joomla! [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2008-08-14 Thread Kim Kruse
Good morning Alex and Florin, I hope it would be possible that Florin could have the sample ready for me today. Do you think it's possible? (Please tell him to use the sample code I posted. Also I would be great if I could have the header for the formbuilder index page (whip and devil@) and