Re: [WSG] Re: Use of Fieldsets other than in form?

2007-06-06 Thread David Dorward
t the form controls, their labels, and their relationships to each other. The DTD almost always errs towards the liberal, it is expected that documents be written according to the prose of the specification and not just the machine readable components of it. -- David Dorward http://dor

Re: [WSG] WCAG Samurai Errata

2007-06-08 Thread David Dorward
ith the correct content type -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] Back to the Future

2007-06-12 Thread David Dorward
to the site will upgrade. So, any tips to do this without reverting all the way back to 1996 tables and spacer gifs? Or am I doomed to non-standards hell? Does 'work' really mean 'look the same'? -- David Dorward ht

Re: [WSG] Accessibility and "fly out" menus

2007-06-21 Thread David Dorward
avaScript. I'm yet to see a JavaScript-free menu that: * Can be used without a pointing device (e.g. by keyboard or breath switch users) * Doesn't vanish the moment that the mouse drifts outside the menu (thus requiring fine motor control that users with, for instance, arthritis ar

Re: [WSG] Skip to Content?

2007-06-28 Thread David Dorward
not see it. If you feel you must hide content from users who can see, then please bring it back into view when they point at it. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://websta

Re: [WSG] Robot meta tags

2007-07-04 Thread David Dorward
;s important to use the right one. Well. Meta tags are depreciated too - their value has been reduced from 'some' to 'almost nothing'. ;) -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/

Re: [WSG] Shadow validation

2007-07-10 Thread David Dorward
alidate it, then copy/paste the URL (don't forget to convert ampersands to entities). Or see http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/validation.html#icon -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List G

Re: [WSG] an inline element (inside a block element) sibling of another block element

2007-07-26 Thread David Dorward
On 26 Jul 2007, at 11:14, Micky Hulse wrote: Rimantas Liubertas wrote: Why not to check it? From HTML 4.01 Strict DTD: .. Woohoo, A is here. Case closed. Well, that went over my head... Mind explaining? http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/intro/sgmltut.html#h-3.3 -- David Dorward http

Re: [WSG] Target 1st item in list

2007-07-27 Thread David Dorward
On 27 Jul 2007, at 00:08, Nick Roper wrote: I need to target the 1st item in a list. http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/selector.html#first-child But: http://www.webdevout.net/browser-support-css#css2pseudoclasses -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] Auto scaling within a table's background image

2007-08-01 Thread David Dorward
er encountered a situation where it was "absolutely necessary" to use tables for layout. It might be the only way to achieve a given presentation, but is that presentation really "absolutely necessary"? -- David Dorward h

Re: [WSG] Auto scaling within a table's background image

2007-08-02 Thread David Dorward
On 2 Aug 2007, at 16:10, Kepler Gelotte wrote: One thing to remember is that absolute positioning is from the next higher block element. No. Positioned element, not block element. Doctype?

Re: [WSG] setting fontsize in body

2007-08-07 Thread David Dorward
ke body text bigger then the vendor default, only smaller and harder to read. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe

Re: [WSG] Internet Explorer and XHTML support (was: (X)HTML Best Practice Sheet goes live - correct link)

2007-08-10 Thread David Dorward
HTML 4.01 and CSS 2 are older standards then either of those. Surely people should be able to use all their features by now? And aren't there several third party plugins that add support for SVG to IE anyway? -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/

Re: [WSG] (X)HTML Best Practice Sheet goes live - correct link

2007-08-10 Thread David Dorward
ntire repeated messages), it is limiting quotes to only relevant material. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

Re: [WSG] (X)HTML Best Practice Sheet goes live - correct link

2007-08-10 Thread David Dorward
interesting CSS bugs would. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] Investigating the proposed alt attribute recommendations in HTML 5

2007-08-30 Thread David Dorward
s quite useful to be able to tell if a picture is of "my car" or "my birthday party" before telling my browser to load the thumbnail. Lots of people seem to be hung up on the idea that alt text is for blind people, but there are quite a few other use cases for th

Re: [WSG] Investigating the proposed alt attribute recommendations in HTML 5

2007-09-10 Thread David Dorward
earch engine indexing bots, and probably a host of other use cases. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

Re: [WSG] Speaking of alt tags . . .

2007-09-11 Thread David Dorward
On 11 Sep 2007, at 10:00, Mohamed Jama wrote: First of all isn't ALT an attribute not a TAG? Yes, it is. (but see Part 5 of "NOT the comp.text.sgml FAQ" http:// www.flightlab.com/~joe/sgml/faq-not.txt :) 1. When should one use an empty tag? I don't think you should empty attribute to st

Re: [WSG] Accessible - Standard Compliant - Club Membership System

2007-09-14 Thread David Dorward
dix C is something of a pain. I wouldn't look so far to a possible (and increasingly unlikely) future at the expense of the present. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidel

Re: [WSG] Accessible - Standard Compliant - Club Membership System

2007-09-14 Thread David Dorward
y are still planning this, but the point is that HTML is not dead, (real) XHTML is still badly supported among user agents, and support for other namespaces mixed with XHTML (which is the only major benefit for it on the client side) is even worse. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/

Re: [WSG] Encoded mailto links

2007-10-17 Thread David Dorward
thods are either highly ineffective, or block out users you want as well as spam bots. I take the view that email addresses are going to end up on spam lists eventually no matter what I do, and just run spam filtering software. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.

Re: [WSG] POSH article question

2007-11-02 Thread David Dorward
to wrap the word in a span with a class assigned, like so: HTML: We say "yes", but the French say "Oui" We say "yes", but the French say "Oui"span> CSS: .foreignWord {font-style: italic;} [lang] { font-style: italic; } [lang=en] { font-sty

Re: [WSG] Input tag - closing tag optional?

2007-11-23 Thread David Dorward
EMPTY", this is strengthened to the rule that the end tag must be omitted.' -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Un

Re: [WSG] Numbers in HTML 5 Was: Appropriate use of the ABBR tag and Roman Numerals

2007-12-02 Thread David Dorward
o that not available from the lang attribute? -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsub

Re: [WSG] Downloading a WAV

2007-12-11 Thread David Dorward
le="">. any help and comments welcome? What is inaccessible about that? -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscr

Re: [WSG] Downloading a WAV

2007-12-12 Thread David Dorward
Content-Disposition header instead. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscr

Re: [WSG] Opera files antitrust against MS: standards one part

2007-12-14 Thread David Dorward
suits them. The market does not have perfect information though, very large numbers of consumers are either unaware of alternatives to Internet Explorer exist, or that there are benefits to switching. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dor

Re: [WSG] w3c link checker

2008-01-07 Thread David Dorward
contact link for the link checker. They have limited resources to devote to providing free QA services. You can download the link checker and install it on your own systems, if you do so you can change the cap. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] w3c link checker

2008-01-08 Thread David Dorward
http://www.perl.com/download.csp when you hit step one, the link isn't all that useful). -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm U

Re: [WSG] Where did I come from?

2008-01-18 Thread David Dorward
he History object to go back or forward...I just want to know what the previous page was...so I can create a button to go back to it... The user already has several of those. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dor

Re: [WSG] Where did I come from?

2008-01-18 Thread David Dorward
e they use, is doing them a disservice. Additionally, an in page control marked "back" causes confusion since users don't know if it will act in the same way as their back button or go forward to the previous URL (which it is will alter the effect on the normal ba

Re: [WSG] Usability for downloading documents

2008-01-28 Thread David Dorward
On 28 Jan 2008, at 18:04, Rochester oliveira wrote: Doesn't have a way to force the "don't" download? It is difficult to make a PDF open in a plugin if the user doesn't have that plugin installed. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/

Re: [WSG] Conflict between Mime Type and Document Type

2008-01-28 Thread David Dorward
just stick to HTML 4.01. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [

Re: [WSG] This IE8 controversy

2008-01-29 Thread David Dorward
about Bluetooth to write this section? It is going to be a long time before claiming conformance to HTML5 is going to be a sane thing to do in production. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List

Re: [WSG] long description and its implementation

2008-02-02 Thread David Dorward
On 2 Feb 2008, at 06:26, dwain wrote: i was saddened by the "D" link being deprecated. I'm not; as techniques go, it is ugly and confusing. Unless a user is aware of the convention, they are left wondering what a link labelled "d" means. -- David Dorward h

Re: [WSG] long description and its implementation

2008-02-04 Thread David Dorward
ailed alternative content Including multiple paragraphs and alt="images" longdesc="foo.jpeg.html"> Since object is designed to allow rich alternative content, it shouldn't see a longdesc attribute. -- David Dorward http://dorward

Re: [WSG] Hero Style Presentation

2008-02-05 Thread David Dorward
://www.hotdesign.com/seybold/ -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm

Re: [WSG] display differences firefox ie 7.0

2008-02-07 Thread David Dorward
dth: 960px; margin: auto; } If you use that technique, then don't forget to set text-align back to left on #container. ... but it is pretty pointless today - IE has supported margin: auto for many years now. Just make sure you aren't in quirks mode. -- David Dorward http:/

Re: [WSG] hello

2008-02-15 Thread David Dorward
On 15 Feb 2008, at 08:11, Gitanjali wrote: So web2.0 is the mixture of scripts, tools.. etc.. It is a vague and poorly defined buzzword that is of no use in a technical discussion. In a non-technical discussion, it means pretty much whatever you want it to mean. -- David Dorward

Re: [WSG] form problem

2008-02-25 Thread David Dorward
iv is probably a better bet. Comments: <<--Cols now 35 The for attribute of a label refers to the id attribute of a form control, your id attribute is missing. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ **

Re: [WSG] multiple css style sheets

2008-02-27 Thread David Dorward
, separation of layout from colour schemes, etc. and how does the browser determine what to use if there is a conflict The same was it does when it gets conflicting rules within a single stylesheet - using the specificity rules. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] Re: WSG Digest

2008-03-03 Thread David Dorward
eds a time delay before the menu vanishes if they are using a mouse. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

Re: [WSG] Safari 3.1 and webkit-border-radius

2008-03-21 Thread David Dorward
ted the effect... Effects are the realm of CSS and JS, not markup. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://we

Re: [WSG] Why is deprecated?

2008-03-27 Thread David Dorward
? CDATA markers in XHTML documents (served with the right content type). I know you can use entitiy codes but this one saved the trouble and is now depreciated. Set up a macro in your text editor to do it. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dor

Re: [WSG] :: dropdown menus ::

2008-03-27 Thread David Dorward
t minimise accessibility problems (such as those involved with tracking the mouse down a narrow column while suffering from arthritis) with CSS alone. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidel

Re: [WSG] a target=” blank” not part of xhtml

2008-03-27 Thread David Dorward
with a proxy. Sticking to a single window is usually a better idea. http:// diveintoaccessibility.org/day_16_not_opening_new_windows.html -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List G

Re: [WSG] a target=” blank” not part of xhtml

2008-03-27 Thread David Dorward
ments, i.e. those with a instead of a . They aren't suitable for most pages on the web. They include the target attribute because the alternative content section lets you use anything in Transitional. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blo

Re: [WSG] a target=” blank” not part of xhtml

2008-03-27 Thread David Dorward
rent, _top), frame target names must begin with an alphabetic character" -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guideli

Re: [WSG] a target=” blank” not part of xhtml

2008-03-28 Thread David Dorward
on the taskbar, but makes it less obvious when a new window is opened. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://w

Re: [WSG] accessible fluid button

2008-04-04 Thread David Dorward
described there. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] SMTP

2008-04-05 Thread David Dorward
n, might require you to enter the hostname of an SMTP server that the web server has access to. http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/ is a useful resource. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/

Re: [WSG] Centering Elements

2008-04-09 Thread David Dorward
x27;t do since they have an insignificant market share. http://dorward.me.uk/www/centre/#ie -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guideline

Re: [WSG] Shorthand rule for border?

2008-04-17 Thread David Dorward
On 17 Apr 2008, at 14:09, Cole Kuryakin wrote: This is something that I’ve been wondering about for a long time – a shorthand rule for borders. http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/box.html#border-shorthand-properties -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] animated scroll

2008-04-24 Thread David Dorward
nd the doesn't-work- in-outside-ieness of "Have your visitors easily bookmark your site into their browser favorites" ... I would avoid this. It might be cheap, but any reward for producing something of that quality would be too much.

Re: [WSG] animated scroll

2008-04-24 Thread David Dorward
On 24 Apr 2008, at 13:36, Ted Drake wrote: Ah, where's your sense of adventure? Buried under a desire not to see people rewarded for lowering the quality of the WWW :) -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.

Re: [WSG] Question on YUI

2008-04-28 Thread David Dorward
who would not be using Javascipt? Yes. The example that i quickly looked over is: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/menu/topnavfromjswithanim.html http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/menu/topnavfrommarkupwithanim.html is the same menu built from markup instead of JS. -- David

Re: [WSG] Image links

2008-05-01 Thread David Dorward
n image" can never match anything. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/uns

Re: R: [WSG] Alternative to align = center?

2008-05-03 Thread David Dorward
nt element works. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: R: [WSG] Alternative to align = center?

2008-05-04 Thread David Dorward
Y not the WHAT - i.e. the reason for the presentation, not what the presentation is. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.c

Re: [WSG] Firefox skips dropdown and multi-select list with tabbing (?)

2008-05-07 Thread David Dorward
On 7 May 2008, at 14:54, Scott Limmer wrote: Using the tabindex attribute on form elements should allow you to specify the tab order. This shouldn't help, and is likely to add confusion if there is anything on the page other than form controls. -- David Dorward http://dorward.

Re: [WSG] Firefox skips dropdown and multi-select list with tabbing (?)

2008-05-07 Thread David Dorward
keyboard access to All controls. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe

Re: [WSG] XHTML 1.1 & CSS3 - Is it worth using right now?

2008-05-12 Thread David Dorward
mably because more people are going to benefit from better CSS support than from XHTML support). -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guideline

Re: [WSG] XHTML 1.1 & CSS3 - Is it worth using right now?

2008-05-14 Thread David Dorward
when the example was originally created. A reaction to the number of people using XHTML syntax in HTML without understanding the implications. But W3C's validator warning messages are overly cautious Depending on error recovery features (or bugs) in browsers simply isn't wis

Re: [WSG] Accessibility for HTML Email

2008-05-15 Thread David Dorward
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED].p> or possibly mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Email Jon at [EMAIL PROTECTED].p> -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http:/

Re: [WSG] Accessibility for HTML Email

2008-05-15 Thread David Dorward
ers without speakers). -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] Accessibility for HTML Email

2008-05-15 Thread David Dorward
attribute! -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] firefox 3 beta5

2008-05-19 Thread David Dorward
x27;d be concerned. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [

Re: [WSG] Tag for quotes

2008-05-20 Thread David Dorward
On 20 May 2008, at 16:13, Rob Enslin wrote: Please could someone help me decide which is the most appropriate tag to use with quotes? These are actual comments made by folk during a show. You are quoting paragraphs, use blockquote. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http

Re: [WSG] NoScript Help Please!

2008-05-21 Thread David Dorward
;, </tt><tt>'form'); </tt><pre style="margin: 0em;"> YAHOO.util.Event.addListener(elements, "submit", deleteFiles); YUI documentation is available from http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/ -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dor

Re: [WSG] Fwd: using fieldsets and legends (outside a form) for adding structural markup

2008-05-21 Thread David Dorward
emantics and using them even though they don't fit. Fieldsets group controls and their labels. You can't just throw away all but the first two words of that. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ **

Re: [WSG] Fwd: using fieldsets and legends (outside a form) for adding structural markup

2008-05-22 Thread David Dorward
onal). The DTD allows fieldset pretty much anywhere a block level element is allowed (since forms can contain pretty much any block element, and thus a fieldset needs to be allowed inside them in order to go inside forms properly). -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.d

Re: [WSG] Alt versus Title Attribute

2008-05-28 Thread David Dorward
n: lynx (a free text-only browser) will probably help you a lot more for deciding how and where to use alt text ... This is a good approach. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** L

Re: [WSG] Marking up company logo

2008-05-30 Thread David Dorward
On 30 May 2008, at 15:50, Thierry Koblentz wrote: I'd say when it comes to "news" the source is very important, so imho the publisher is key. Important? Yes. More important then the title? No. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blo

Re: [WSG] Mixing CSS3 and CSS2

2008-05-30 Thread David Dorward
ector will understand the code, those that don't won't. No, since support for rounded corners and support for CSS 3 selectors do not come hand in hand. Just use the property as normal, browsers that don't support it will ignore it. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http:

Re: [WSG] inline images in p

2008-06-04 Thread David Dorward
On 4 Jun 2008, at 15:23, Andrew famiano wrote: What's the best way to display inline images in a ? non, congue, arcu. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines:

Re: [WSG] inline images in p

2008-06-04 Thread David Dorward
On 4 Jun 2008, at 17:38, Andrew famiano wrote: the problem is the alignment. how do you align the image centered with the text? img { vertical-align: whatever; } http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visudet.html#propdef-vertical-align -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http

Re: [WSG] a good practise for adding email link (mailto)?

2008-06-16 Thread David Dorward
has gotten through in over two years. I haven't had a single spam make it through the JS-free forms I have backed with Akismet testing, and no false positives either (as far as I can tell). -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ ***

Re: [WSG] a good practise for adding email link (mailto)?

2008-06-16 Thread David Dorward
ion of legitimate mail as well. You don't need to get it all. You need to get enough that the remainder is manageable. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webs

Re: [WSG] Browsers and Zooming

2008-07-03 Thread David Dorward
On 3 Jul 2008, at 13:41, James Jeffery wrote: Are all browsers now using zooming to resize pages? The latest version of each of the big four do by default. Happily, it can be turned off in at least some of them. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] Validation

2008-07-03 Thread David Dorward
On 3 Jul 2008, at 17:01, Fuji kusaka wrote: I have a flash animation in my webpage and this causes a big problem when i have to validate the page. Can someone help me out? http://validator.w3.org/docs/help.html#faq-flash -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] ADA Compliant Flash

2008-07-07 Thread David Dorward
As far as I know, the accessibility features of Flash are not bad (although somewhat Windows-centric), it's just that most authors don't use them. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *

Re: [WSG] [at]font-face confusion

2008-07-14 Thread David Dorward
bits of text (headings and the like) then you might consider sFIR (search engines will tell you more). -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] AJAX and Clickable Elements

2008-07-18 Thread David Dorward
I would need to create a form just to create a button that won't be sending any data, which seems overkill. Why? Buttons don't have to appear in forms. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ **

Re: [WSG] S separators and TACG

2008-07-23 Thread David Dorward
(10) LF SEPCHAR (9) HT -- http://xml.coverpages.org/sgmlsyn/sgmlsyn.htm#C6.2.1 TAGC">" -- http://www.w3.org/TR/sgml.l -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *

Re: [WSG] Inline style works but css does not

2008-08-01 Thread David Dorward
On 1 Aug 2008, at 16:22, Michael Horowitz wrote: but this does not .small { font-size:8x; } "x" isn't a unit. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List G

Re: [WSG] ARIA

2008-08-09 Thread David Dorward
A markup? Graceful degradation (if the page is well written). -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://websta

Re: [WSG] Re: ARIA

2008-08-10 Thread David Dorward
updated in the local catalogue since that change (Obviously you have to validate against a DTD that includes ARIA features) -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidel

Re: [WSG] Re: ARIA

2008-08-10 Thread David Dorward
On 10 Aug 2008, at 23:49, Hassan Schroeder wrote: David Dorward wrote: (Obviously you have to validate against a DTD that includes ARIA features) Right, and the only thing I could find relating to this was: This is a public identifier that I've never heard of ... "htt

Re: [WSG] Re: ARIA

2008-08-11 Thread David Dorward
On 11 Aug 2008, at 15:14, Hassan Schroeder wrote: David Dorward wrote: It doesn't really reject it, it just warns you that the combination doesn't make much sense. Sigh. Semantics. That was one suggested DOCTYPE that I found -- and no, I'm not sure at this point where --

Re: [WSG] Re: ARIA

2008-08-11 Thread David Dorward
On 11 Aug 2008, at 15:47, David Dorward wrote: http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/ says: "http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/DTD/xhtml-aria-1.dtd "> ... except that http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/DTD/xhtml-aria-1.dtd is a 404 error. This is one of

Re: [WSG] Re: ARIA

2008-08-11 Thread David Dorward
On 11 Aug 2008, at 16:16, Hassan Schroeder wrote: David Dorward wrote: When will the W3C validator support ARIA? As I said "Now". Using your provided DTD, a simple test file results in: 1. Error Line 2, Column 76: could not get "/MarkUp/DTD/xhtml- aria-1.dtd" from

Re: [WSG] W3C Validation Question

2008-08-26 Thread David Dorward
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 10:02 -0400, Joseph Taylor wrote: > Well for starters you're missing your opening tag... ... which is optional. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.

Re: [WSG] Google chrome... Coming very soon...

2008-09-03 Thread David Dorward
tee wrote: > I really like to see that it magically repairs IE6 broken web, so that > we can forever moving forward and it helps save IE team from > implementing compatibility view in IE8. Hack!, they might just start > thinking why do we wasting our time on IE8. Rumor has circling in > Technorati,

Re: [WSG] Google chrome... Coming very soon...

2008-09-03 Thread David Dorward
Naveen Bhaskar wrote: > so one more browser to check for browser compatibility in > future...like other google products this is going to be the popular one. It's Webkit, so rendering issues should be insignificant. Any differences will likely only come out if you're doing complicated JavaScript.

Re: [WSG] Learning Javascript properly

2008-09-18 Thread David Dorward
ult, is robuster then most homebrew things because it has more eyes spotting problems and fixing bugs)? > Any good arguments of Why it is still OK to use JQuery? "It's a framework" should be a good one. --

Re: [WSG] Looking to source a JAWS version

2008-09-24 Thread David Dorward
you wanted to use it again). > With, I believe, a license that explicitly forbids using it for the purposes of testing websites for screen reader compatibility. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http:

Re: [WSG] Uppercase Tag Names

2008-09-27 Thread David Dorward
section that describes the conventions used in the documentation for the spec, not implementations of the spec. -- David Dorward <http://dorward.me.uk/> *** List Guidelines: http://webstanda

Re: [WSG] Is it a good practice to have 'Back to Top' link?

2008-09-29 Thread David Dorward
Robin Shi wrote: > How about the tabs with JS? It visually breaks the page into small parts and > switch by tabs. > So - the visitor comes, they read to the bottom, then they have to scroll to the top and activate the next tab (and repeat). I'm not too keen on this idea. --

Re: [WSG] Is it a good practice to have 'Back to Top' link?

2008-09-29 Thread David Dorward
Henrik Madsen wrote: > > Perhaps the solution then is an accordian approach? Perhaps long pages aren't a problem in the first place. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgro

Re: [WSG] Is it a good practice to have 'Back to Top' link?

2008-09-29 Thread David Dorward
page. Scrolling past "Back to Top" links at every section is more of a chore on a shorter screen. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscri

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