[WSG] IE Madness

2005-08-18 Thread Bob Schwartz
which gives the following error message: Internet Explorer cannot open the internet site http:// www.fifeweb.org/wp/events/evnt_ga_res_2005_01.html. Operation aborted. It seems as if IE is striping off the #top fragment. Anyone know how to fix this? Thanks, Bob Schwartz

[WSG] IE Madness

2005-08-19 Thread Bob Schwartz
2005 14:42:37 -0700 Subject: Re: [WSG] IE Madness Bob Schwartz wrote: On this page: http://www.fifeweb.org/wp/events/evnt_ga_res_2005_02.html I have a link at the bottom of the page (Back To Page One) which should send a visitor to: http://www.fifeweb.org/wp/events/evnt_ga_res_2005_01.html#top

Re: [WSG] IE Madness

2005-08-19 Thread Bob Schwartz
I don't think it is a bug, it's just the result of not having jscript turned on (the menu is a p7 Pop Magic Menu, which is jscript driven).On 19 Aug, 2005, at 1:12 PM, Juergen Auer wrote:On 18 Aug 2005 at 9:58, Bob Schwartz wrote: On this page:http://www.fifeweb.org/wp/events/evnt_ga_res_2005_02

Re: [WSG] IE Madness

2005-08-19 Thread Bob Schwartz
Thanks Al for the tip, though in this case those with jscript turned off are going to have a lot of other problems on this site as well. However, as I want everyone (within reason) to be able to use the site, I will read the tutorial and see if I can tweak the menu to display better for

Re: [WSG] IE Madness

2005-08-19 Thread Bob Schwartz
site http://www.fifeweb.org/wp/events/evnt_ga_res_2005_01.html.Operation aborted.It seems as if IE is striping off the #top fragment.Anyone know how to fix this?Thanks,Bob Schwartz

Re: [WSG] IE Madness

2005-08-19 Thread Bob Schwartz
Thanks Al, changing to pagetop seems to have done the trick. On 19 Aug, 2005, at 4:57 PM, Al Sparber wrote: Bob Schwartz wrote: On this page: http://www.fifeweb.org/wp/events/evnt_ga_res_2005_02.html I have a link at the bottom of the page (Back To Page One) which should send a visitor

Re: [WSG] IE Madness

2005-08-19 Thread Bob Schwartz
Thanks, I followed a tip from Al Sparber and changed #top to #pagetop and that seems to have done the trick. Who knows what lurks in the mind of IE Windows On 19 Aug, 2005, at 5:17 PM, Ingo Chao wrote: Bob Schwartz wrote: On this page: http://www.fifeweb.org/wp/events/evnt_ga_res_2005_02

Re: [WSG] standards or confusion?

2005-12-04 Thread Bob Schwartz
Oddly enough I've been thinking about making a similar post. I would have said all you said and then added two more tidbits. 1. Just read on some blog (pointed to from this list) where doctypes are useful only for validation, otherwise of no use. 2. A friend just got back into the web

Re: [WSG] standards or confusion?

2005-12-04 Thread Bob Schwartz
a complicated layout to work in as many browsers. I'm all for standards and everything else this list is about, but I do feel we might be spending a lot of time preparing for a State Dinner when what we are really going to attend is a come-as-you- are BBQ in the backyard. On 04/12/05, Bob

Re: [WSG] standards or confusion?

2005-12-05 Thread Bob Schwartz
Exactly where in my posts did I say I create web sites in the style of my friend? On 12/4/05, Bob Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: None of those. I just mentioned that I was unable to convice my friend to change his ways and his strongest reason not to was his (fairly complicated) site

Re: [WSG] standards or confusion?

2005-12-05 Thread Bob Schwartz
of having to maintain that sort of code would eliminate any thought of reverting to the old school way of making web sites. On 12/5/05, Bob Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Exactly where in my posts did I say I create web sites in the style of my friend? On 12/4/05, Bob Schwartz [EMAIL

Re: [WSG] standards or confusion?

2005-12-05 Thread Bob Schwartz
Lachlan, By far, the most important issue facing beginners with regards to standards is the separation of semantics, presentation and behavioural layers into well structured, valid, non-presentational markup; CSS and javascript, respectively, and it sounds like you've already made

Re: [WSG] talking points for standards

2005-12-06 Thread Bob Schwartz
Donna,in another thread, someone essentially asked "why code like this", in trying to convince a friend.  I don't think he's getting very good answers but at any rate, it made me think of a "problem" I'm having and I've decided to make a new thread. I've noticed that responses to your similar

Re: [WSG] standards or confusion?

2005-12-06 Thread Bob Schwartz
//a/div 3. body onload=P7_setNV('p7NVim10',2);P7_trigNV() This one all alone on the page, with no linked JS in the head: div id=copy script type=text/javascript var d=new Date(); yr=d.getFullYear(); if (yr!=2003) document.write(copy; +yr); /scriptnbsp;Cedar Tree Books /div Bob Bob Schwartz

Re: [WSG] standards or confusion?

2005-12-07 Thread Bob Schwartz
Lachlan,I'm going to take your much appreciated response one bit at a time.By doing as you suggested, I lose the point of having used the JS in the first place.(For the purposes of this discussion, let's assume that having the copyright notices reflect the current year is a desired thing).With the

Re: [WSG] standards or confusion?

2005-12-07 Thread Bob Schwartz
a year like that, it SHOULD be enshrined in markup (which means static or server-side processing). On 12/7/05, Bob Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lachlan, I'm going to take your much appreciated response one bit at a time. By doing as you suggested, I lose the point of having used the JS

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-12 Thread Bob Schwartz
But CSS is the de-facto preferred way of defining layout of (X)HTML documents, and using tables for layout is a case of ignoring a particular item in the HTML spec. Maybe I'm behind in my CSS religious training, but... I've found the need to use one table as a base layout because I still

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-12 Thread Bob Schwartz
, no regrets (unless I'm tossed out of the garden). From: Bob Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 10:02 AM Subject: Re: [WSG] CSS Driven? But CSS is the de-facto preferred way of defining layout of (X)HTML documents, and using tables for layout

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-12 Thread Bob Schwartz
Thanks, Sometime it is absolutely positioned. Couldn't the if floated solution be considered a hack? :-} It is starting to sound as if my reasons for using one table once-and- awhile are still valid and that there are still some height issues with divs. Bob Schwartz I've found

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-12 Thread Bob Schwartz
I mis-spoke (maybe), the issue is not the horiz centered box, it is the box expanding in height according to its contents. (ie the whole box expands in height according to the content in the main cell). (Some clients don't want 100% height). From: Bob Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wsg

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-12 Thread Bob Schwartz
I'm not trying to center, the issue is height and more correctly height which expands to fit content of nested divs and probably even more correctly a box with columns in it which expands all columns to be equal in height to the one with the most content. Bob Schwartz Couldn't

Re: [WSG] Flash and Validation

2005-12-12 Thread Bob Schwartz
I use this: http://blog.deconcept.com/2005/03/31/proper-flash-embedding- flashobject-best-practices/ Guys and Gals, A problem I have ignored all too long is Flash and XHTML. The problem lies in the embed tag and its attributes of course. I have of course read the alistapart articles

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-13 Thread Bob Schwartz
Christian, On 12/12/05, Bob Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not trying to center, the issue is height and more correctly height which expands to fit content of nested divs and probably even more correctly a box with columns in it which expands all columns to be equal in height to the one

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-13 Thread Bob Schwartz
There is one browser with issues, not the specs. Which browser can correctly render the following: 3 columns, no height defined and a background color different from that of the body in column 1 goes a 1000px high image in column 2 goes a 750px high image in column 3 goes a 500px high

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-13 Thread Bob Schwartz
I'd rather have that single, easy to spot hack, which adds very little overhead, than multiple background images and extra divs coupled with hyroglyphics in my css file. Amen ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-13 Thread Bob Schwartz
On 12/13/05, Bob Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is one browser with issues, not the specs. Which browser can correctly render the following: 3 columns, no height defined and a background color different from that of the body in column 1 goes a 1000px high image in column 2 goes

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-13 Thread Bob Schwartz
On 13 Dec, 2005, at 1:51 PM, Rimantas Liubertas wrote: I'd rather have that single, easy to spot hack, which adds very little overhead, than multiple background images and extra divs coupled with hyroglyphics in my css file. Amen So, how are you going to style your single table? Either

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-13 Thread Bob Schwartz
Try it in IE Mac, you're in for a surprise. 2005/12/13, Bob Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There is one browser with issues, not the specs. Which browser can correctly render the following: ... http://rimantas.com/bits/notable.html Opera: since version 4. Gecko browsers: works

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-14 Thread Bob Schwartz
Al, Since, my whole point has been that using a simple layout table, as opposed to a nested monstrosity, can sometimes be a good thing I'm glad you are championing my original cause, which somehow got way off course in the thread. Not only can a simple table be a good thing, it is still

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-15 Thread Bob Schwartz
the non-table people that maybe there is an instance in the real world where a table is not only OK, but probably THE solution so I can fell less unpure:-} about using a table to solve my problem. Bob Bob Schwartz wrote: I had hoped for some real solutions when I posted my original two cents

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-15 Thread Bob Schwartz
Rimantas, Seems like you are not looking for solution, but for simple encouragament to stick with tables. Ok, if the only solution you are going to accept is table, Is there anything to gain in these discussions by you always being so polemic If you have nothing except snide remarks to

Re: [WSG] Browser Resolutions

2005-12-15 Thread Bob Schwartz
I once read on the A List Apart web site that a 550px wide text box is about the limit of comfortable reading, so I use that as my base rule for site design. In the end it works out to 760px wide total content surrounded by pretty colors in the margins. Stephen Stagg wrote: Slightly

Re: [WSG] Browser Resolutions

2005-12-15 Thread Bob Schwartz
Can't give you the stats but the 550px max width for text rule-of- thumb I use sort of dictates image sizes. (about 250px - 300px wide max). I've also found with clients that I often have to design for thier browser/monitor no matter my well-founded arguments to the contrary:-} I thought

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-16 Thread Bob Schwartz
No can do Bob. I showed you the solution. End of story: solution, choices made, move on :) Yes Sir. Thank you Sir. I will just fold my table and slink away. It's been a honor being in your illustrious presence. I will return when I feel more worthy . bob

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-17 Thread Bob Schwartz
Terrence. Plus I don't want to get into the quirks of clients in this thread, I'd like to concentrate on finding a solution to a real problem that is as reliable (browser-wise) and as easy to implement as it is with a table, Sure... clients who needs them? But see the real problem is

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-17 Thread Bob Schwartz
Christian, Do these table layouts go in your portfolio? Since you asked. I have my very first site in my portfolio and it is a nested table/spacer gif monster. But except for you guys, I doubt if anyone has ever done a view source on the site. Do these clients recommend you to others

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-17 Thread Bob Schwartz
Terrence, Obviously you haven't found this thread helpful, but others have. Oddly enough I have, though the (seems to be) answer came in off list. If after doing some testing, the solution does indeed work as I need it to, I will post it for those who remember what the original question

Re: [WSG] Best Web Standards thing I learnt in 2005.

2005-12-22 Thread Bob Schwartz
Christopher, + getting into microformats I guess I missed something along the way. Where can I find out more about this? Bob ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] CSS Rollover Flicker

2005-12-27 Thread Bob Schwartz
I would do a preload images on the body tag for the over state images since as it is they seem to load for the first time when you do a mouse over. bob Hi everyone, happy after holiday, I have a CSS rollover flickering problem that not just occurs in IE but all browsers. The problem

[WSG] unobtrusive js help

2007-03-01 Thread Bob Schwartz
I am in the process of converting my javascript library to nonobtrusive js. I bought a few books and with them, managed to convert most, but I still have a few that defy my very limited skills. Where could I go for help in converting these? Thanks.

Re: [WSG] unobtrusive js help

2007-03-01 Thread Bob Schwartz
); testdiv.appendChild(para); } and think I know where it is wrong I need to get it to write the year (ex-document +yr) in the () of the txt2 node, but I don't know how to do it. I also don't think the if (yr!=2003) from the old js is necessary, but I may be wrong Bob Schwartz wrote: I am

Re: [WSG] unobtrusive js help

2007-03-01 Thread Bob Schwartz
Darren On 01/03/07, Mordechai Peller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Schwartz wrote: I am in the process of converting my javascript library to nonobtrusive js. Where could I go for help in converting these? Here, for one place. Can you be more specific about the problems

Re: [WSG] unobtrusive js help

2007-03-01 Thread Bob Schwartz
Nick, Thanks. Now that I see how you have done it, I may be able to guess my way through the others I have to do. Is there a ( missing in the second line of your version? On 1 Mar 2007, at 14:44:59, Bob Schwartz wrote: var d=new Date();yr=d.getFullYear();if (yr!=2003)document.write

Re: [WSG] unobtrusive js help

2007-03-01 Thread Bob Schwartz
Rolf , Thanks for the info. On Mar 1, 2007, at 6:53 AM, Bob Schwartz wrote: On 01/03/07, Mordechai Peller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Schwartz wrote: I am in the process of converting my javascript library to nonobtrusive js. Where could I go for help in converting these? Here

Re: [WSG] unobtrusive js help

2007-03-02 Thread Bob Schwartz
Paul, I agree with you and as I am trying to learn this stuff I'm going one step at a time in the hopes that I can one day drop the crutches I needed an example of how to put a js string in a text string. The next step will be to try and figure out how (I have some examples that I am

Re: [WSG] unobtrusive js help

2007-03-02 Thread Bob Schwartz
Paul, Unobtrusive javascript doesn't just mean separation of the script from the markup, it is also the use of javascript that doesn't break the page when scripting is disabled. http://onlinetools.org/articles/unobtrusivejavascript/chapter1.html Further thoughts on this statement:

Re: [WSG] unobtrusive js help

2007-03-02 Thread Bob Schwartz
Michael, Thank you for the information. If we were in a perfect world it just might be reasonable to try and be as legal as possible, but reality is that the copyright notice is almost useless in that it only gives a (false) sense of protection, to actualy be protected is another matter.

Re: [WSG] unobtrusive js help

2007-03-02 Thread Bob Schwartz
Michael, Another point. All the sites I do have something in them updated at least once a year, so the copyright (current year) would reflect the year of last revision. On 3/2/07, Paul Novitski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please generate the notice server-side -- or hard-code it into the

[WSG] noscript

2007-03-05 Thread Bob Schwartz
What are currently accepted practices for using noscript for serving content to those with js turned off? In particular I'm talking about eye candy things on a web page that do not take away from the content if the non js visitor is served a static equivalent as opposed to a you need js to

Re: [WSG] noscript

2007-03-05 Thread Bob Schwartz
); container.replaceChild(p, oldtext); p.appendChild(document.createTextNode(text)); document.getElementById(copy).appendChild(p); } html div id=copyp id=copy1copy; 2007 Fédération Internationale Féline/p/div On 5 Mar 2007, at 13:52:35, Bob Schwartz wrote: What are currently

Re: [WSG] noscript

2007-03-06 Thread Bob Schwartz
Ian, The only think I would add is a check to make sure that a browser understands the methods you are using. Avoiding an error caused because a browser doesn't understand var container = document.getElementById(copy) is almost as important as making sure that the site works without

[WSG] tabular data

2007-03-06 Thread Bob Schwartz
I'm reworking a site to get it up to web standards. Tables should be used only to contain tabular data Would current accepted practices be: If it can be done without a table that should be first choice. or Is there a definition of what is considered tabular data (or is it in the eyes of

Re: [WSG] noscript

2007-03-06 Thread Bob Schwartz
Thanks, I'll update my code. Getting there and learning in the process. Bob Schwartz wrote: like this in the load function? if (!document.getElementsById) return false; Bob Yes, just like that. I think my favourite method (as used by PPK at http://www.quirksmode.org/) is to use

Re: [WSG] tabular data

2007-03-06 Thread Bob Schwartz
to use for making decisions in the future as to what can be put in a table. Bob Bob Schwartz wrote: Is there a definition of what is considered tabular data (or is it in the eyes of the beholder)? Would this be acceptable for using a table: http://www.fifeweb.org/wp/org

[WSG] PopUp windows

2007-03-07 Thread Bob Schwartz
Problem: client wants (insists on having) popup windows. Question: can they be made OK according to all canons of WSG? (ie served in a different/alternative manner for people, devices, etc. - leave aside the js argument, as that I have solved).

Re: [WSG] PopUp windows

2007-03-07 Thread Bob Schwartz
The target is not used, it is popup via js or regular window without. Canons! The religion of W3C! All praise to the W3C Only the transitional doctype is available for new window targets, not the strict compliance with W3C Papal enclyclicals. Tim On 07/03/2007, at 9:05 PM, Bob Schwartz

Re: [WSG] PopUp windows

2007-03-07 Thread Bob Schwartz
Al, Got an example somewhere? I Googled around but only found references, not a working iframe. From: Bob Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Example would be a page with a sort of table of contents which lists minutes of the past five years board meeting, the user clicks on one, it pops up

Re: [WSG] PopUp windows

2007-03-07 Thread Bob Schwartz
(http:// www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/) but its not yet ready for release as I havent fully stress tested it. Cheers, David. Bob Schwartz wrote: Problem: client wants (insists on having) popup windows. Question: can they be made OK according to all canons of WSG? (ie served

Re: [WSG] PopUp windows

2007-03-08 Thread Bob Schwartz
/) but its not yet ready for release as I havent fully stress tested it. Cheers, David. Bob Schwartz wrote: Problem: client wants (insists on having) popup windows. Question: can they be made OK according to all canons of WSG? (ie served in a different/alternative manner for people, devices

[WSG] web accessibility-some thoughts

2007-03-08 Thread Bob Schwartz
First a disclaimer: This post does not reflect my personal views on web accessibility or handicapped persons, it is merely a collection of academic thoughts triggered by various posts of the past few days. How and why did the web get singled out from among all of the other publishing

[WSG] asp and accessibility

2007-03-11 Thread Bob Schwartz
At the risk of seeming an idiot: As I go through a site overhaul, I pop my questions here as they come up so... Do database driven, dynamically created asp pages pass muster for accessibility? I suppose if I could see the devices handicapped people use to surf, I would better

[WSG] doing things right

2007-03-11 Thread Bob Schwartz
Someone made a comment the other day about my empty table cells which are marked as such; tdnbsp;/td Should they be only: td/td *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

Re: [WSG] asp and accessibility

2007-03-11 Thread Bob Schwartz
Mike, Thanks for the information. Yes, I have an idea, but never having seen any of the devices people talk about here, I often have doubts about what I think I have understood. Bob Schwartz wrote: Do database driven, dynamically created asp pages pass muster for accessibility

Re: [WSG] doing things right

2007-03-11 Thread Bob Schwartz
That's what I thought, but a few days ago someone made a snide remark about them on a test page I had put up, so I just thought I'd double check. No, they should be marked up as: tdnbsp;/td Reasoning: if you don't put a holder into the cell and you select a border (or not) the cell border

Re: [WSG] doing things right

2007-03-12 Thread Bob Schwartz
Chris, Also, from you(?) (has been fixed), but there was a reference from someone else as to the need for all the nbsp's that populate the empty cells. Bob Schwartz wrote: That's what I thought, but a few days ago someone made a snide remark about them on a test page I had put up, so I

Re: [WSG] unobtrusive js, document.submit IE

2007-03-12 Thread Bob Schwartz
I thinks this would help, http://www.friendsofed.com/download.html?isbn=1590595335 DOM Scripting he have somes examples it's allowed to download, in chapter 11 on contact.html see the example. And if u buy the book u will learn some good stuff . If you (or anyone else reading this) are in or

Re: [WSG] doing things right

2007-03-12 Thread Bob Schwartz
So, according the the site Georg posted, the world's most used browser does not support the empty-cells property. In light of that bit of news, would tdnbsp;/td still be considered the wrong answer? Shelley Purvis wrote: No, they should be marked up as: tdnbsp;/td Bzzzt - wrong answer

[WSG] style sheets - best practices

2007-03-15 Thread Bob Schwartz
What is the current best practice for style sheets - imported or linked - and why? Bob *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help:

Re: [WSG] style sheets - best practices

2007-03-15 Thread Bob Schwartz
to be picked up by most modern browsers. Netscape 4 and below and IE 4 and below do not support the @import rule. This allows you to target stylesheets to specific browser versions. Does that make sense? On 3/15/07, Bob Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the current best practice

Re: [WSG] style sheets - best practices

2007-03-15 Thread Bob Schwartz
: http://ele.vation.co.uk On 15/03/07, Bob Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Makes sense and I already knew that. The reason behind my post has to do with me noticing a trend towards importing style sheets and I was curious if this was the current best practice and if so, why. Bob Using

Re: [WSG] style sheets - best practices

2007-03-15 Thread Bob Schwartz
are ignored. I've never seen this happen with any browser I've ever used. Is the information on this site by any chance out-of-date by a lot? There's a good explaination here: http://www.unix.org.ua/orelly/web/html/ch09_01.html (Scroll down to 'Linked Versus Imported Style Sheets') Dave. From: Bob

[WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time

2007-03-19 Thread Bob Schwartz
The test site at http://www.fotografics.it/fife/ has been refurbished to make it more standards compliant, before moving on to the accessibility layer I would appreciate it if you guys could check it out for any errors or wrong practices Thanks, bob

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time

2007-03-20 Thread Bob Schwartz
You should also perhaps markup your logo H1 content as a change from the declared natural language of the page (English). Thanks for you tips Stuart: 1. How do I do that? 2.I'm curious as to why you think it is necessary - it is the name of the association - I doubt if Danone or Armani

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time

2007-03-20 Thread Bob Schwartz
Thanks Lyn, During the planning for the site re-do we relied pretty heavily on a year's worth of visitor stats in making decisions. One of the things our stats showed us was the very low percentage of 800 x 600 and below visitors we had, plus people were complaining that the site was

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time

2007-03-20 Thread Bob Schwartz
Thanks Kenny, I would appreciate it if you guys could check it out for any errors or wrong practices Most/every page has two h1's, and there should only be one per page. Ideally, you should keep the h1 for the page title, but not for the site title. I've fixed these (not yet uploaded to

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time

2007-03-20 Thread Bob Schwartz
Nick, As no screenreaders read title attributes by default (and no screenreader user ever changes the default setting, apparently) you aren't really deriving any benefit (at least in accessibility terms) from the title attributes, so they might as well go. They were originally put there

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time

2007-03-20 Thread Bob Schwartz
Stuart, Your menu has links with the same anchor text but different destinations - introduction, current and members. When you can see the menu structure the context is obvious but when using a screen reader this can This is a real head-scratcher. I'm having trouble finding other words

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time

2007-03-20 Thread Bob Schwartz
Rob, The navigation is dependent on javascript for the flyouts which not only do the flyouts cease to work when js is turned off they also become dead links leaving only a partial working menu. What browser - OS are you using? In everything I've checked it in, the links are not dead with

[WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time - IE weirdness

2007-03-20 Thread Bob Schwartz
In the test site I put up the other day for scrutiny http:/// www.fotografics.it/fife/ I have discovered a funny one with IE 6 If you go to organization ---commissions--- any commission except show you should see an image beside the list of names. The image is attached as a background to the

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time

2007-03-20 Thread Bob Schwartz
OK, you convinced me. Your reason for doing so is far more valid than my lame reasoning with the Danone and Armani examples. Thanks. On Tue, March 20, 2007 11:56 am, Bob Schwartz wrote: You should also perhaps markup your logo H1 content as a change from the declared natural language

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time

2007-03-21 Thread Bob Schwartz
I ran my style sheets through the w3 validator and in the style sheet that comes with ThickBox I got the following errors. They seem to me to be CSS hacks that the author has used to solve problems with different browsers. Should I leave them, or fix them? #TB_overlay Parse Error -

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time

2007-03-21 Thread Bob Schwartz
In my primary style sheet I got 29 warnings like this: Same colors for color and background-color in two contexts .month and h5 As there are no h5's with a .month class anywhere in the site, I would assume I can just ignore these types of warnings, but it bugs me that the style sheet does

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time

2007-03-21 Thread Bob Schwartz
Kenny, Your cites should probably not be in their own paragraphs if the cite can be styled directly. I took the cites out of the paragraphs and the page did not pass w3 validation, I put them back in and it did. Bob ***

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time

2007-03-21 Thread Bob Schwartz
Philip, It looks like the site may have problems displaying at widths of less than 1000px in Opera 9 and Firefox. The backgrounds don't stay within the three columns properly, leaving some text unreadable. Probably an issue with div positioning, and the box model since the problem

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time

2007-03-21 Thread Bob Schwartz
Stuart, Your menu has links with the same anchor text but different destinations - introduction, current and members. When you can see the menu structure the context is obvious but when using a screen reader this can be confusing. OK. I've fixed them all but one and I'm at a loss to how

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time

2007-03-25 Thread Bob Schwartz
Stuart, I did as you suggested. I now have another bi-lingual site to do and was wondering if there is a way to mark up for languages (Italian/English) something like: linome/name/li span class perhaps? Seems like it would add a lot of bytes to the page. The declared language on the

[WSG] 100% height

2007-05-10 Thread Bob Schwartz
Here's my problem: I need to have all the pages on a site fill the page at 100% of page height if lots of content or 100% of browser window iif short on content with the footer sitting nicely at the bottom in both cases in both IE 6 and IE7. Something I had no problems with until IE7

Re: [WSG] 100% height

2007-05-11 Thread Bob Schwartz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/05/2007 9:19:37 pm Thanks, this one seems to be the best I've found so far. I'll take it for a test drive. Hope this will solve the problem: http://www.xs4all.nl/~peterned/examples/csslayout1.html regards Puneet Original Message: - From: Bob Schwartz [EMAIL

Re: [WSG] 100% height

2007-05-11 Thread Bob Schwartz
: - From: Bob Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 14:41:10 +0200 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] 100% height Here's my problem: I need to have all the pages on a site fill the page at 100% of page height if lots of content or 100% of browser window iif short

Re: [WSG] 100% height

2007-05-11 Thread Bob Schwartz
I have been at it all day and no luck. Anyone who would like to help can see some test pages at: http://www.fotografics.it/test/ The problem is explained on the pages. Bob let us know how you go I myself are in the middle of a website were I need something similar and it works fine

Re: [WSG] 100% height

2007-05-11 Thread Bob Schwartz
I'll try that, but I was sort of following: http://www.themaninblue.com/writing/perspective/2005/08/29/ which suggests to leave it outside. Bob Schwartz wrote: I have been at it all day and no luck. Anyone who would like to help can see some test pages at: http://www.fotografics.it/test

[WSG] IE help

2007-08-23 Thread Bob Schwartz
Some users have complained that when they go to this page http://www.fifeweb.org/wp/lib/lib_current.html and try to download the linked files with IE 7 they get a message stating something like Explorer is unable to download the requested file My Windows (server 2000) testing computer has

Re: [WSG] IE help

2007-08-23 Thread Bob Schwartz
Thanks to all who responded. Some users have complained that when they go to this page http://www.fifeweb.org/wp/lib/lib_current.html and try to download the linked files with IE 7 they get a message stating something like Explorer is unable to download the requested file My Windows

[WSG] Help IE

2007-11-10 Thread Bob Schwartz
it out (and in IE7, if possible). http://www.fgtestserver.net/rain/index.html Thanks, Bob Schwartz *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm

[WSG] Help (another topic)

2007-11-10 Thread Bob Schwartz
I have a client who wants a page personalized for him similar to this: http://www.vermiip.es/il-mio-ip/ so people can discover their IP. I have Googled about trying to find code that does it, but all I find are site that do it. Does anyone know (have) the code? Bob Schwartz

Re: [WSG] Help IE

2007-11-10 Thread Bob Schwartz
that's a relief, one down. one to go. Thanks, bob Hi Bob, Can't help you with ie6 but thought I would let you know that it seems to be fine in IE7. Cheers Adam Bob Schwartz wrote: I have a site in progress that is currently pixel perfect in all real browsers, it's all over the screen

Re: [WSG] Help IE

2007-11-10 Thread Bob Schwartz
. Bob Schwartz wrote: I have a site in progress that is currently pixel perfect in all real browsers, it's all over the screen in IE 6 (don't yet know about IE7). IE7 is doing fine :-) http://www.fgtestserver.net/rain/index.html IE6' margin-doubling on floats bug is causing most damage. Adding

Re: [WSG] Help IE

2007-11-10 Thread Bob Schwartz
Georg, I'm still getting a problem with the area under the tabs, IE is showing about 25px of the content background (con-cen) above the top content curve (con-top) In other words, the con-top div is looking to be 25px or so under con- mnu. Bob Schwartz wrote: http

Re: [WSG] Help (another topic)

2007-11-10 Thread Bob Schwartz
Thanks James, Only one minor problem, I know nearly nothing about PHP. How would I write this up? Bob For something that simple you could use PHP and use $_SERVER ['REMOTE_ADDR'] www.php.net James On Nov 10, 2007 1:41 PM, Bob Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a client who wants

Re: [WSG] Help IE

2007-11-10 Thread Bob Schwartz
problem fixed, and others broken. I just dearly love IE6. There's fresher version on my site (with your fixes in). Bob Schwartz wrote: I'm still getting a problem with the area under the tabs, IE is showing about 25px of the content background (con-cen) above the top content curve (con

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