Re: [WSG] Safari now on Windows

Hi Come October or thereabouts there will be another KHTML browser in the form of Konquerer 4 on Windows. All good news for implementing web standards. Now I don't have to buy a Mac... Cheers James On 6/12/07, Geoff Pack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This will be interesting... Safari 3 Publi

Re: [WSG] Visual Design Of Websites

Hi This is true, the C4 course in Web Technology or whatever it is called now at TAFE NSW aims to give everyone a grounding knowledge in the fundementals of well, web technology. This includes graphic design, database design, server side coding, project management and many others. Some people fin

Re: [WSG] Site test & Google analytics

HI Jason You can stick it in the of the document although that will load it prior to the rest of the document being loaded which may cause the page to display a bit later than usual. The way around that issue is to use an event listener on "load", it could even be delayed by a few seconds using a

Re: [WSG] Form styling

Hi Try using a definition list with the dt holding the labels and the dd holding the input - you can float the dt and dd to get two left-right "columns" and if you want to present the form differently then just use a dt/dd with no floats: Login Foo Username Username

Re: [WSG] Accessible Adobe Photoshop and flash With Jaws

Hi James J: I see no impediment to a blind person creating graphics. Just because they are only seen by people with sight doesn't and shouldn't mean they can't be created. A blind person can have a graphical work described to them and, as we all do, interpret it in their own way. Technically, tho

Re: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash

Hi Michael I had about 2 minutes to wait for the flash to download (and I have a 20Mbps connection), so ample time to click one of the menu items in Konquerer. For those browsers that don't do the wmode thing, how about some links elsewhere on the page. For instance in drop down menus it's a good

Re: [WSG] Rounded Courners .... Your Take

Hi James I got so sick of doing rounded corners and having to open a graphics program to change them (Hey, I'm a developer) when the design changed that I wrote PHP script using Imagick2.0 that draws the quadrants using the correct foreground colour, background color (or transparent), border si

Re: [WSG] Rounded Courners .... Your Take

Hi Paul Too true, I'll figure out some sort of caching - probably a combo of server and client - at the moment it is just me hitting the script during testing. Thanks James On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:07:45 am Paul Bennett wrote: > > Now instead of opening up inkscape it's just a call to a PHP scri

Re: [WSG] Help IE

Hi Bob Not related to your IE issues, but if you need some help with testing in IE (including multiple IEs), here's a fairly successful workflow to follow as a write up in the WSG resource section: http://webstandardsgroup.org/manage/resource_display.cfm?resource_id=896 I've found this makes a w

Re: [WSG] opera doesn't play nice with Opacity

Hi Tee You are correct: Opera doesn't do opacity. The best way I have found is to use an opaque transparent PNG, which will work on everything not IE6. For IE6, use one of their opacity "filter:" things. Not to helpful with those fade effects but it will work in your case. With Opera I have a fe

Re: [WSG] opera doesn't play nice with Opacity

Sheesh, I could have sworn I was fiddling around with Opera and opacity the other day and it wasn't working, there goes my opacity credibility. I ran a few test on 9.5b and 9.24 (windows and linux) and they both do the opacity rules. It's only Konquerer that doesn't do it. Maybe that's where I

Re: [WSG] Invisible US Passport renewal page

On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:33:44 am Crocker Ryan (rc) wrote: > Looks good in IE 6 & IE 7 also. Hi I think it's a case of works in IE, then good enough. Hello 1999! : "Designed forInternet Explorer 6.0" Something weird about passport renewal pages, I don't know if they are all developed by the sam

Re: [WSG] preserve whitespace

Hi You'd have to define a "blank" is it a tab -> \t, a newline -> \n, a carriage return \r You can use pre or you can use "white-space : pre;" to PREserve the whitespace in the string appearing in the cell.   is an html entity for the non breaking space character. You should use it when you

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

Hi I read this on the Opera feed this morning, I'm not sure how it will proceed but it mentions: "The complaint describes how Microsoft is abusing its dominant position by tying its browser, Internet Explorer, to the Windows operating system and by hindering interoperability by not following a

Re: [WSG] Preventing copying of text from web page.

Hi This is an oft asked question by a lot of clients and relies on a basic misundertanding of how documents are passed around the internet. Basically, it is impossible (see examples below). If you don't want information copied from your web page then don't put in on the web. period. Additionall

ADMIN Re: [WSG] Re: Where did I come from?

Hi list This is starting to move off topic, if not already there. Being more a question of client or server side scripting rather than web standards, it really doesn't belong on the WSG list (see guidelines) - I'd suggest a general web development source or moving it to the WSG forums for further

Re: [WSG] running ie7 on my mac??

Hi Kevin One option is to use VirtualBox (virtualbox.org) which is virtualisation software written in Qt. Looks to have Mac OSX host capabilities (http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewforum.php?f=8) I use the open source edition in KDE and run all the Windows browsers in an XP guest for testing.

Re: [WSG] Usability for downloading documents

Hi Tony On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:07:06 am Tony wrote: > Hello, > > If, by default, > PDFs open within the browser, then won't we be changing their user > experience by forcing them to open/save? > > Regards, > > Tony Not really, the current position of "inline" PDF and other documents in probably

Re: [WSG] linking to images with //

Hi It's a bit difficult to work out what is going one given the image itself seems to be a 1x1 transparent gif. You may find that your browser is blocking these as they most likely represent "web bugs", causing the issue you see. the HTML spec redirects URI info to RFC2396. In section "3. URI Sy

Re: [WSG] linking to images with //

Hi That's a common enough response when dealing with standards based implementations from companies that either: * do know and don't care * don't know and are scared/worried * do know, do care but don't have the resources * do know but implementation would have internal political implications (I'v

CLOSED Re: [WSG] PHP includes

Hi This discussion is off topic for the WSG list. If you would like to respond to Michael, please do so off list. The list guidelines are available at the footer of each list email. Thanks James -- cc:core On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 07:34:22 am Michael Horowitz wrote: > If I am including a menu using

Re: [WSG] running ie7 on my mac??

and remember that Wine is an emulation layer, it may not give the same results as virtualising Windows (which is a standard Windows install). It depends on how good the emulation is. For instance, before using virtualisation to test IE in XP, I was using Wine and ies4linux and not getting v

Re: [WSG] tableless forms !!!

Hi Naveen Options are, as discussed, fieldsets and labels to assist with positioning. There is nothing "illegal" about using form elements in a table - some see it as the widget labels being in the "th" and the actual widgets being in the "td". For a quick, single fieldset form, it's a useful l

Re: [WSG] Controling Windows DPI settings

Hi Angus Do you happen to be talking to people who like itsy bitsy font sizes ? Do they happen to be setting their own font sizes ? I guess, find out if it is widespread and then consider your options. Font-size is bit like calling purple lavender, violet or magenta - everyone has an opinion :)

Re: [WSG] re: generate data

Hi, inline comments .. On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 03:02:46 pm Breton Slivka wrote: > > > i understand that javascript is needed to pass information from a form to > > a data base for storage or retrieval of data. > > Incorrect- Javascript is absolutely not needed for this. In fact, I > would actively di

Re: [WSG] IE8 news

Agreed, plenty of virtualisation software out there that makes problems like the ones reported just go away. In most VM's you could take a snapshot of Windows prior to install of IE8 then roll back to that snapshot when you are done with IE8 or until a workable standalone comes through. For virt

Re: [WSG] IE8 news

I had this crazy idea that MS would allow developers to implement something like this so we could forget about the various furbar'd rendering engines MS produces and just run with something that works for those of us who code to, or try to code to, the various standards: or at least allow us

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

Hi The validator is doing the right thing in flagging these rules as either not existing or at another version of CSS. Usage of -vendor-specific-css in this manner is also perfectly fine when you want to target a feature that has been introduced into a rendering engine but has not yet been fina

Re: Standards slipping (was RE: [WSG] USERS - was [Why is deprecated?]

Hi I read through that post and the available comments and I'd say it's a bit pedantic of the author to go on about a subset of an application and link that to the end of XHTML and worse. Especially one that seems to be third party and incorporated into WP. The author also confuses the function

Re: [WSG] Full flash websites

On Wed, 7 May 2008 02:35:51 pm Elizabeth Spiegel wrote: > > It can be great for getting immediate feedback without reloading a page > e.g. building a customised bag at Timbuk2: > http://www.timbuk2.com/tb2/products/bagbuilder > > Elizabeth Hi Yes, but that kind of functionality can easily be d

Re: [WSG] [OT] users - IT literate?

Hi Reading through all the replies on this topic is quite interesting. The one thing that you can be sure about in web work of any kind is (aside from taxes) that users will interact with an interface in ways we never dreamed of - using their fridge, a keyboard, a mobile, the "wrong" address ba

Re: [WSG] PHP Standards

Hi Using both Tidy (1) and HTML Purifier (2) can improve tag soup no end -- although even they have their limits. They also add a bit to processing time, especially HP as it is written in PHP - you can solve that issue with page caching, though. (1) php.net/tidy (2) htmlpurifier.org HTH James

Re: [WSG] Conditional styles not being used on first-run

Hi Try sticking a revision number on the style/script url like so: href/src="/path/to/file?r=12" Browsers will download and cache that link (depending on the cache settings of the browser/ web server / proxy). When you make a revision to the file, bump the revision number: href/src="/path/to/

Re: [WSG] Wiki's and standards

Hi Note sure about which one is the best for standards support - they all have their little oddities that are usually down to the developers' interpretation of "what is correct". Most of them have this odd wiki "markup" so you type in headline instead of headline - which stupidly make

Re: [WSG] Firefox 3 candidate

Hi That's not exactly right .. if you install v3 to a different location (tip: choose Custom install) then you can run either version from the relevant file location, but not at the same time. The only problem you will find is compatibility with some extensions when you run FF3. If you want to

CLOSED - Re: [WSG] Help

On Sunday 06 July 2008 17:43:08 Matijs wrote: > Wrong group I'm afraid Bidemi, but one wonders, why Flash in the first > place? > > On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 2:20 AM, Bidemi Adejumo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello All, > > Is there anyone who can design guestbook with flash? I guess you know > >

CLOSED, again Re: [WSG] Help

Hi This thread has previously been closed. If you want to continue with it, either do so off list or alter the subject to something descriptive and ask questions in the context of web standards. If you are unsure of what is on and off topic for the list, consult the mailing list guidelines, a

Re: [WSG] Encoding odities

Barney, One other thing you might want to check is how (mime type, character encoding) your web server is serving the file. If you are using a server side language then most (if not all) can send http headers to a browser, including a content type header. In PHP, for instance, you'd do this to

Re: [WSG] Opera opacity bug

Hi I guess the first questions are - where is the bug report, do you have an example url and what is the opacity issue you mention ? If I remember rightly (and I stand corrected) opera uses Qt 3 as it's widgeting engine and I think the Konquerer/KHTML developers were running into similar issu

Re: [WSG] iphone should not be part of your url

It's just a name branding exercise... having an "iphone" in your domain, e.g as a subdomain has more to do with marketing efforts and user identification (I've got an iphone and I want to use it on something) than it does with the code it actually presents. Look under the hood at iphone.news.

Re: [WSG] Firefox and IE font sizes

On Sunday 27 July 2008 08:41:04 Hayden's Harness Attachment wrote: > At http://www.choroideremia.org/new/crf_header.php I have three buttons. > The first is "Decrease font size" the second is ?Default font size". And > the third is "Increase font size:. Firefox 3.0.1 shows them in 15 point > Arial

Re: [WSG] Firefox and IE font sizes

On Sunday 27 July 2008 08:41:04 Hayden's Harness Attachment wrote: > At http://www.choroideremia.org/new/crf_header.php I have three buttons. > The first is "Decrease font size" the second is ?Default font size". And > the third is "Increase font size:. Firefox 3.0.1 shows them in 15 point > Arial

Re: [WSG] What is the best solution for IE6 png issue?

Hi There is some really good information in all these posts. I'd also go so far as to say look at the theory of developing specifics for IE6. There is a gaining movement around to start phasing out IE6 support - look at 37signals, I think they begin IE6 phase out this week or next. They've done

IE6 support - was - Re: [WSG] What is the best solution for IE6 png issue?

Hi Not wanting to hijack the PNG thread, so I've altered the subject. I understand the issues involve in huge migrations, it's not that easy.. especially if your systems have a vested interest in some piece of obsolete technology.. but there are two things that strike me as odd here - - IE7 h

Re: IE6 support - was - Re: [WSG] What is the best solution for IE6 png issue?

Hi Mike No worries, not interested in war, but I do understand. I guess the one big answer about "why change" is that, over time, sites will just stop working to their full efficiency. There is also the big one called "security" (or lack of). I hope, but I don't think, that this fabled desktop

Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: [WSG] Marking up a Calendar

A table is a good option for static calendars. i.e a grid. On the flip side, using a list based calendar, you'll be able to present it in different ways by altering the style rules for the elements, e.g as a pseudo-grid, a list etc etc. And of course, there's no reason why you can't do both opti

Re: [WSG] Shopping cart - who does what

On Wednesday 13 August 2008 21:23:23 Krystian - Sunlust wrote: > Could some of you guys trim the messages? > It's really hard to read when you top post above useless tones of wording. > > Regards, Hi all This thread has gone off topic for the list, if you want to continue to discuss it, please d

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

Interesting to read the many comments on this. It's utilising Webkit as a rendering engine (also behind Safari and Konquerer 4), which is BSD and LGPL licensed. In turn Google say they are licensing Chrome as Open Source, meaning depending on the actual license, items like V8 (http://blogoscoped

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

You can grab the source from : http://code.google.com/chromium/ & http://dev.chromium.org/Home and try to build it if you want .. According to the site, it won't (yet) build fully on Mac or Linux (http://dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/build-instructions-linux) but I'm sure it'll happen s

Re: [WSG] Opera not playing nice with checkbox

Tee: I haven't seen your code but is it possible this is occurring because both checkboxes and radios are, in fact, input elements ? e.g input { border : #000; background-color : #f00; } I'd suggest just adding a rule to text fields if that is what you want. HTH J On Wedne

Re: [WSG] URL length best practices

..and if you are truncating url paths based on a page title at a certain point, you'll end up with some odd urls sooner or later.. e.g example.com/blog/why-xyz-browser-sucks.html when your title is: "Why XYZ browser sucks less than ABC browser" RFC 2616 (HTTP/1.1) doesn't set a maximum length o

CLOSED Re: [WSG] Question on servers and Email campaign

Hi Sherri and others.. This topic is outside the guidelines for the WSG list. Please feel free to continue it off list. Guidelines are available in the footer of each list message. Thanks James On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Graphics & Web Designing, LLC < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A

Re: [WSG] is there a way to force legend text shows in TWO lines?

Hi If there is CSS related issue that doesn't seem to want play nice, no matter what you do, it's probably a rule being set by the browser in its user agent stylesheet. In firefox's case, it's in /res/forms.css (for forms). Have a peek at that stylesheet and you'll see all the rules it applie

Re: [WSG] E-commerce

Kevin There have been several discussions on the list regarding ecomm systems, you might find your answers browsing the archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/search?q=ecommerce&l=wsg%40webstandardsgroup.org Thanks James On Thursday 26 February 2009 16:27:17 Kevin Erickson wrote: > Hi, > > Do

Re: [WSG] blocking out of office replies [OT?]

Hi Not at the moment. For out of office replies I suggest you write a filter in your mail program checking the message subjects for the text "out of office" and variations., dumping them in another folder. Works for me, hardly ever see em. Return receipts are harder and we suggest people just

Re: [WSG] SEO vs. Accessibility

On Wed, 27 May 2009 12:04:48 pm Chris Dimmock wrote: > "We can flag text that appears to be hidden using CSS at Google. To > date we have not algorithmically removed sites for doing that. We try > hard to avoid throwing babies out with bathwater." > MattCutts at Oct 21 2005 - 02:09 > > That was nea

Re: [WSG] Remove CSS inheritance property

Hi Firefox places 1em 0 anyway on p elements anyway (not sure about the other browsers), so it (firefox) will define the same margin as your framework's p rule. Type this into your firefox address bar: resource://gre/res/html.css p, dl, multicol { display: block; margin: 1em 0; } You ca

Re: [WSG] website fonts

On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:00:27 pm Mark Harris wrote: > Henry Mencia wrote: > > So you just have serif or sans serif in the font-family? > > Pretty much, unless a client specifies otherwise (and I'll try to talk > them around). > > The biggest cost I have seen in web design since 1996, when I start

Re: [WSG] website fonts

> > To put what you wrote another way, with a font family list such as your > example, the visitor is at the designer's mercy to see only the designer's > choice of fonts, Yes, that's the point of typography and meeting the requirements of a client specification. Provided it's readable I don't

Re: [WSG] table inside a dd?

Hi Two good resources may help you here: HTML help: http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/lists/dd.html "Contents Inline elements, block-level elements" The DTD for XHTML (strict e.g): http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd and http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/dtds.html#a_dtd_XHTML-1

Re: [WSG] Multiple IE's for browser testing

Hi Use virtualbox (.org) and run up a virtual machine that only has IE7 on it. You can do this by installing XP into the virtual machine and updating it to IE7. Remember to turn off Windows Update so it doesn't upgrade to IE8 when you are not looking. Virtualisation is the only real way to get

Re: [WSG] Major memory leaking in IE

Hi Try looking at Drip, an IE memory leak detector: http://www.outofhanwell.com/ieleak/index.php?title=Main_Page (first result in Google) https://ieleak.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/ieleak/trunk/drip/docs/index.html Thanks James On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Mads Erik Forberg wrote: > Yeah,

Re: [WSG] CSS Validation Error

Hi You can safely ignore any -prefix validation errors (-moz, -webkit, -opera) - they are never going to validate on the W3C validator. The point of the vendor specific rules is to do stuff the W3C haven't standardised yet. The validator should probably ignore them as well. If you really must hav

Re: [WSG] CSS Validation Error

Hi I guess it's understand the consequences and use at your own risk. I doubt a vendor will change the spelling and if they do, I'm pretty sure they'd maintain BC by allowing both to work. Using the example of *-radius, the vendor differences are more to do with what the values selected will rende

Re: [WSG] Difference between applied CSS and Computed CSS

Hi One problem might be that you have the word "paris" before your doctype, which shows up as the page is rendering: " paris " heading. Additionally, it's fine to serve your CSS from any file provided it's valid CSS of course and it sends the correct header to the browser. e.g in PHP - which

Re: [WSG] Background music on web pages

Hi Give them all the background information that people have listed here. WCAG, usability info etc. If they still decide they want it, do as the client instructs. Make sure you code in a simple off switch configuration option into the site and when they want to change it, turn it off while countin

Re: [WSG] lost my web projects

Hi As this is a web design & dev list please keep the discussions on-topic. If anyone wants to help Marvin please contact him directly. Thanks James (core admin bod) On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Uday wrote: > Hi Marvin, > > You can try Easy Recovery Pro. if your hard drive is detecting prop

Re: [WSG] help

Hi Sorry, Marvin, but you raised this topic on the WSG list a few weeks back and, if memory serves me correctly, it was deemed off-topic. While it's obviously a very annoying situation to be in, it really has nothing to do with the WSG. Please stick to the mailing list guidelines when posting. If

Re: [WSG] overflow: auto;

Chris I use overflow : auto; to display text that requires its whitespace to be preserved - i.e the headers of an email message and the source of an email message. It's a fantastic thing in this instance, but don't go too wild - it can lead to confusion about what scrollbar needs to be used, a

Re: [WSG] Very odd behaviour on IE5 Mac. Any ideas?

Hi Try hiding the CSS from this magnificent piece of "software" by using the \*/ hack as outlined elsewhere in a thread here (try mail-archive.com) - it's called the backslash hack, It's the only hack I've employed as users on OS 8 and 9 have no upgrade path. Does tend to bloat the CSS a tad as

Re: [WSG] IE4 /Win

Hanni My opinion is don't bother, it's not worth the effort. Users still with this browser should be pushed to upgrade for various reasons, not just for the benefits of standards support they bring. Any user who approaches me complaining about a site that doesn't work in IE4, NN4, Opera 5 or Ma

Thread closed : Re: [WSG] FireFox 0.9 is out

People, Discussion of installation of Firefox is for http://www.mozillazine.org, rather than here. Discussion of browser support for your pages is fine. If you'd like to put the Web Developer extension (and similar) up on the wsg site resources section then go for it. Cheers James *

Re: [WSG] Recommended Books

Hi all To not lose these examples in a thread somewhere I have set up a resource category on the website. As with code editors, please put your recommended books up on the site in the category "Offline resources (books, magazines etc)" We can then refer back to this listing if the topic comes up

Re: [WSG] What do browsers download?

John Whenever I've been forced to test IE5 Mac I've found it to be unreasonably slow - the rendering engine is a dud compared to other browsers. I'm sure it was cutting edge 3-5 years ago but not now. Safari is much faster and better but it tends to have a pretty fierce cache (like Opera), as I

Re: [WSG] IFR

You will have to explain a bit more about what you are trying to do - what is SI_IFR, do you have any links to examples and what is the relevance of it to web standards. Cheers James 7 sinz wrote: Im pulling my brains out trying to get SI_IFR to work; *

Re: [WSG] PDA Viewer

Hi Gecko based browsers have an extension called "Small Screen Rendering". Again, like the Opera SS rendering option it just passes the page through a special stylesheet to emulate the screen res. It doesn't emulate the various quirks of various handheld User Agents. http://www.disruptive-innov

Re: [WSG] Tags for file names

Peter - The tag is HTML 4, and represents 'computer code'- http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/phrase/code.html Quote: " The *CODE* element denotes /computer code/. Visual browsers typically render *CODE* as monospaced text, but authors can suggest a rendering using style sheets

Re: [WSG] entities bug in camino

Marc Camino, like Firefox, is a beta release so it's going to have bugs in it. You should lodge these bugs at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/, rather than here and you'll get noticed by the Camino development team. HTH James Marc Greenstock wrote: Hi all, I hope this isn't too OT but I have discove

CLOSED Re: [WSG] Styling Text... (Andy Budd Accessibility Quiz)

Hi all WCAG is on topic -please discuss all you want, but address the topic, not the person. The list is here to provide a constructive discussion on web standards and accessibility. If you want to be destructive or have a beef with the author, don't do it here as your subscription will be remov

Re: [WSG] HELP REQUEST: netscape float:absolute problem

Hi Scott Which version of Netscape..? This is important as with Netscape 4 you are better off hiding the stylesheet. Netscape 6 is/was a dud so better off pressing for an upgrade for the < 1 % of users who use it. If you are targeting Netscape 7 then the problem *should* (touch wood) manifest it

Re: [WSG] Frameworks of Design for Easy Reuse and Change in CSS

Hi I do just this for a reseller based product. One set of markup styled with CSS based on the client's 'look n feel' requirements. All done with floats and works off the bat with all modern browsers and some older ones like IE5.x for both platforms. It took me a while to do it but once done I

Re: [WSG] Good radio station sites?

Hi I'd be interested in John Horner's comments on this, as he's a member of this list. Given the ABC is a government organisation shouldn't they really be fulfilling some requirements of the DDA? I'd have thought making the feature image (Chris and Craig at the mo) a non background image would

Re: [WSG] Flash in different browsers

Gavin, Scott. Try doing this: http://www.webqs.com/experiment.php?id=15 apologies for the "link" links. I stopped working on my site ages ago due to other work commitments. I'm sure you can tweak it to output a markup page based on the method. Currently it allows you to output a XHTML compliant

Re: [WSG] technique of converting to tablefree layout

Hi I do it manually. Start from scratch and if was charging for it (i.e contracting) would put in a tag soup multiplier of between 1.1 and N times the estimate for the work, depending on whether it was touched by the Hand of Frontpage :D You could also do some regex work to remove all tags, ev

Re: [WSG] semantic way to mark up form help?

Hi Ted, all Title attributes don't have to pop up in a "tooltip", that's up to the user agent. I'd suggest you do something like this... Your arrival date at Hotel WSG Also, user of fieldsets allow to you to control the appearance of different parts of a form: .. .. .. HTH James Ted Drake w

Re: [WSG] Web Accessability, SEO, Bookmarking - mod_rewrite

Mark you are better off developing to a subdomain on localhost then you can use relative links :D e.g In Apache set up a vhost called test.localhost (followed by the relevant VirtualHost information) then add test.localhost to your hosts file, pointing it at 127.0.0.1 Cheers James Mark Stanton wr

Re: [WSG] access keys and tab index

Hi Ted I've steered clear of access keys as they cause some problems on Safari etc. After seeing a screen reader in action at a previous WSG meeting in Sydney there are some much better ways it has to directly access content on a page (e.g list links, list headings etc). Cheers James Ted Drake

Re: [WSG] Valid XHTML and Flash

Olajide Olaolorun wrote: I know that some other browsers like Firefox might not work without the embed code, * Olajide Firefox, Mozilla, Opera 7 et al actually support the object tag far better than Internet Explorer for Windows. It's a parado

Re: [WSG] safari display = konqueror display ?

Neerav It depends on the version of khtml you are running... and there will always be differences in the two, although slight. I believe Apple are putting back some good css and markup support into the khtml development project.. See : http://www.konqueror.org/developers/ and http://bugs.kde.or

Re: [WSG] position : fixed; with Internet Explorer

Arnaud... Arnaud Metens wrote: 1. The PNG is not rendered like I should; Internet Explorer doesn't do this - it's very simple, but it doesn't. 2. The "position: fixed" is not really fixed !!! Internet Explorer doesn't do this - it's very simple, but it doesn't. Frustrating, isn't it? Cheer

Re: [WSG] Spacing Between Paragraphs

Hello Chris Glad to see you got what you are after and welcome to the WSG list. Please remember to post all code, including a valid doctype, to a site so we can use browsers to work out any quirks - email programs aren't the best at rendering code and introduce their own quirks into the mix. Y

Re: [WSG] Horizontal List in Mac IE

Jaime I guess you are having the problem where IE Mac doesn't float your list elements properly and they all go to 100% width down the page? I did this to solve the problem.. you need to float the anchor to the left as well.. it's the only hack I use: #menu ul li { float : left;

Re: [WSG] IE print bug crashes page

Gavin Do you have any code? Cheers James Gavin Cooney wrote: Hi all, I've got a page that when someone tries to print it in IE 6 on windows, it crashes the browser. There's nothing fancy in it, and i've stripped it down so i know the problem only happens when something is the second line of the tab

Re: [WSG] XP SP 2 - Thread Closed

Hi Unless there are some major benefits to Win IE's support of CSS (I doubt it but please prove me wrong), the Web Standards Group list isn't the best place to post information like this. Cheers James Chris Stratford wrote: Hey List, Just letting you know XP SP2 is out now. It says its not for S

Re: [WSG] RE: Image replacement techniques for linked elements

Peter Ottery wrote: these are still linked. the actual (non graphic) heading is just using the technique [1] of making the font size 1px and white (so its not visible on a white page) leaving the background image visible. the link that contains the heading is given a width & height and display:bloc

Re: [WSG] Valid Flash state of play

Hi I have a feeling that the inconsistencies in valid xhtml markup for embedding () Flash were from general badness in the ActiveX used by Flash Player (somebody mentioned a corrupt OCX file on the Flash Satay discussion at ALA) and Internet Explorer having it's own version of the object tag.

Re: [WSG] Job Posting

Hi Marc, all Anyone interested in this, please reply off list. Thanks James Marc Greenstock wrote: I know it's not common for this list to hold job postings although we are really desperate to find someone here. From: http://jobs.careerone.com.au/search/dsp_show_job.cfm?AD_ID=1235550 Shock Media St

Re: [WSG] Online browser XTHML editor

Hi Sarah You could try this project at Mozdev.org - it's cross browser/platform (Mac, Linux, Win32 - anything that runs Mozilla). http://mozile.mozdev.org/ I had a go at it a few months ago, not sure how it would integrate with a data store. Probably just a matter of POSTing content to a server

Re: [WSG] RE: PHP, FORMS and XHTML validation

Steven There is a setting in your php.ini file to turn off auto propagation of your session id's via URLs (enable_trans_sid I believe). This is good for validation (if you are having & problems in URLs) and very good for security. I think there was a thread on this about a week ago (regarding t

Re: [WSG] accessible audio-visual content

One quick question about Quicktime - my colleague said Quicktime is a Bad Idea because the file sizes are big and it doesn't have a big installed base... is this a good enough reason not to use it? Vicki That's an opinion from a distinctly Windows perspective. It would be interesting to see you

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