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

2007-06-04 Thread Lucien Stals
f fieldset is "group thematically related" content. I say go for it! Lucien. -- Lucien Stals Multimedia/Web Developer Academic Development and Support Swinburne University of Technology PO Box 218 Hawthorn, 3122, Australia email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] telephone: +61 3 9214 4474 office: AD223

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

2007-06-04 Thread Lucien Stals
the only solution, but it's a valid one. And not just valid by the DTD. I think it's semantically valid as well. BTW, I've said my piece, and I'll be quiet now. This mailing list has become the domain of too many snippy little flame wars of late. I don't know what's bee

Re: [WSG] reading the spec [WAS: Use of Fieldsets other than in form?]

2007-06-05 Thread Lucien Stals
calling myself a visionary. But I'm inviting everyone here to be one, and not get stuck in the minutia of the specs, as if that all that matters. Lucien. Lucien Stals [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/06/07 6:52 PM >>> On 6/5/07, Paul Novitski <[E

[WSG] What does Semantic mean?

2007-06-05 Thread Lucien Stals
Hi Ben and others, Here is my own bit of pedanticness... -- Lucien Stals Multimedia/Web Developer Academic Development and Support Swinburne University of Technology PO Box 218 Hawthorn, 3122, Australia email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] telephone: +61 3 9214 4474 office: AD223 >>> On 6/06/2

Re: [WSG] What does Semantic mean?

2007-06-05 Thread Lucien Stals
-- Lucien Stals Multimedia/Web Developer Academic Development and Support Swinburne University of Technology PO Box 218 Hawthorn, 3122, Australia email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] telephone: +61 3 9214 4474 office: AD223 >>> On 6/06/2007 at 1:25 pm, Nick Gleitzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [WSG] What does Semantic mean?

2007-06-05 Thread Lucien Stals
Maybe I used a poor example. Microformats would certainly be my first choice for this. I just wish there was *more* software that could use it. And a plugin to add microformat data into a groupwise client. That would be nice :) Lucien. -- Lucien Stals Multimedia/Web Developer Academic

Re: [WSG] What does Semantic mean?

2007-06-06 Thread Lucien Stals
't get it to work after having gone to the trouble of adding microformat event and vCard data to our departmental calendar and staff contact pages, respectively. Lucien. -- Lucien Stals Multimedia/Web Developer Academic Development and Support Swinburne University of Technology PO Box 218

[WSG] Print style sheets

2007-06-07 Thread Lucien Stals
used me a further problem: Because I used a link to trigger the script, clicks get added to the browsers history, when technically the user hasn't left the page. Any suggestions for how to get around this? Should I have used a select list? Regards, Lucien. -- Lucien Stals Multimedia/Web Deve

Re: [WSG] Safari now on Windows

2007-06-11 Thread Lucien Stals
-- Lucien Stals Multimedia/Web Developer Academic Development and Support Swinburne University of Technology PO Box 218 Hawthorn, 3122, Australia email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] telephone: +61 3 9214 4474 office: AD223 >>> On 12/06/2007 at 12:21 pm, "Michael MD" <[E

Re: [WSG] Safari now on Windows

2007-06-12 Thread Lucien Stals
I haven't had any trouble with it either. Lucien Stals [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> "Sagnik Dey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 13/06/07 12:59 AM >>> The Safari on Win XP is running smoothly on my machine -Sagnik On 6/12/07, Frederick Matzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [WSG] Dutch guild of front-end developers in the making

2007-07-02 Thread Lucien Stals
tion" says... "Mark-up language May include but are not limited to HTML, DHTML, XHTML, SGML, VRML, XML. " That unit is part of a Cert IV in IT (Websites). Lucien. Lucien Stals [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> On Tue, Jul 3, 2007 at 3:53 PM, "Matthew Pennell" <[EMAIL

Re: [WSG] Who's A "Front End" Developer?

2007-07-04 Thread Lucien Stals
lear definition of designer or developer. I've done enough jobs where I did all the design work as well. They would have been better, and more expensive, if there had been a proper designer involved. But I know, and like, the code cutting side of the web. So I call myself a developer. Luci

Re: [WSG] Who's A "Front End" Developer?

2007-07-04 Thread Lucien Stals
n, but he too acknowledges the "grey area" around development. And I'd say that once you touch the db, you are definitely back end, not front end. In the end I guess I question the validity of defining developers in terms of front end and back end. Can we just stick to designers a

Re: [WSG] Who's A "Front End" Developer?

2007-07-04 Thread Lucien Stals
s involves maintaining the server itself as well as maintenance of applications on the server and some development in php/mysql. What do the rest of you do? How many of us *don't* have to be a jack-of-all-trades? Lucien. Lucien Stals [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> On Thu, Jul 5, 2007 at 10:41

Re: [WSG] Shadow validation

2007-07-09 Thread Lucien Stals
your fine work :( Lucien. -- Lucien Stals Multimedia/Web Developer Academic Development and Support Swinburne University of Technology PO Box 218 Hawthorn, 3122, Australia email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] telephone: +61 3 9214 4474 office: AD223 >>> On 10/07/2007 at 1:20 pm, Dean Matthews <

Re: [WSG] vCard File

2007-08-01 Thread Lucien Stals
Oh, you so just put a huge smile on my face :D Thanks for the technorati link. I was unaware of this, and it makes all the work I did on microformats on my staff listing page worth it. (http://www.swinburne.edu.au/ads/about/staff.htm) Thanks. Lucien. -- Lucien Stals Multimedia/Web Developer

Re: [WSG] Using CSS to select a tag having an ID attribute: page served as application/xhtml+xml

2009-12-17 Thread Lucien Stals
I don't kow the answer to this question but I just wanted to clarify that XML *does not* require "lowercase only". XML *is* case sensitive so that in XML would not be valid, but and are. On 18/12/2009, at 7:07 AM, Stuart Foulstone wrote: > > It might be that xml requires lowercase only and

[WSG] IE7 overflow

2010-02-10 Thread Lucien Stals
Hi everyone. I have a paragraph with a width set on it (500px). The text inside the p includes one very long URL. IE7 and Safari (both mac a win) are wrapping the URL in the wrong place and part of it extends out beyond the edge of the p. Curiously IE6 displays correctly, as do FF3.6 and Opera.

Re: [WSG] IE7 overflow

2010-02-10 Thread Lucien Stals
Sorry, can't do that. The project isn't live yet, and I'd get in trouble :( I know that makes it harder to get help with. On 11/02/2010, at 3:05 PM, David Laakso wrote: > Lucien Stals wrote: >> Hi everyone. >> >> I have a paragraph with a width set

Re: [WSG] IE7 overflow

2010-02-10 Thread Lucien Stals
Bingo! > "word-wrap: break-word" did the trick. Thanks for that. L. On 11/02/2010, at 2:49 PM, Micky Hulse wrote: > Hi, > >> Any suggestions? > > Maybe: > > "word-wrap: break-word" or "overflow: hidden" > > See: > > >

Re: [WSG] Yes/No structure?

2010-06-07 Thread Lucien Stals
And I seem to recall that the old radios on which the metaphor is based could be pushed half in. That would cause all buttons to pop out thus having *no* selection. Not saying that as a justification for having no selection in a radio group. Just pointing out that the metaphor wears a bit thin ;

[WSG] image substitution

2011-07-30 Thread Lucien Stals
The designers have specified a font I must use to write a sites name in the top banner. It is not a standard font, and I don't think it's licensed for redistribution anyway. I think my only option is to generate an image for the banner using the right font (or is there a better option?). What

Re: [WSG] Talking about tabular data...

2007-03-08 Thread Lucien Stals
ts.html#h-10.3 > HTML 4.01 Specification > 10.3 Definition lists: the DL, DT, and DD elements > > > > *** > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup

Re: [WSG] safari debugger

2007-03-13 Thread Lucien Stals
ucien. -- Lucien Stals Multimedia/Web Developer Academic Development and Support Swinburne University of Technology PO Box 218 Hawthorn, 3122, Australia email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] telephone: +61 3 9214 4474 office: AD223 >>> On 14/03/2007 at 10:17 am, Héctor Lupuche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: [WSG] WANAU - anyone heard of them?

2007-04-10 Thread Lucien Stals
PROTECTED] Thanks, Lucien. -- Lucien Stals Multimedia/Web Developer Academic Development and Support Swinburne University of Technology PO Box 218 Hawthorn, 3122, Australia email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] telephone: +61 3 9214 4474 office: AD223 >>> On 11/04/2007 at 9:41 am, Susie Gardner-Br

Re: [WSG] css type loop

2007-05-17 Thread Lucien Stals
should be generating the id's for you. Lucien. -- Lucien Stals Multimedia/Web Developer Academic Development and Support Swinburne University of Technology PO Box 218 Hawthorn, 3122, Australia email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] telephone: +61 3 9214 4474 office: AD223 >>> On 18/05/2007 at 4

Re: [WSG] css type loop

2007-05-21 Thread Lucien Stals
Thanks for that :) Lucien. Lucien Stals [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Breton Slivka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 22/05/07 9:24 AM >>> Tell that to this search engine: http://kitchen.technorati.com/search/ On 21/05/2007, at 9:31 PM, Rob Kirton wrote: > More precisely, the use o

Re: [WSG] css type loop

2007-05-21 Thread Lucien Stals
to those of us goofing around with this stuff. Lucien. Lucien Stals [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> "Rob Kirton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 21/05/07 9:31 PM >>> More precisely, the use of id and class can only add semantic value to developers or to those who have to maintain the

RE: [WSG] css type loop

2007-05-21 Thread Lucien Stals
Good point. Thanks. L. Lucien Stals [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> "Thierry Koblentz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 22/05/07 11:46 AM >>> > But at the end of the day, this will only piss of the people on this > mailing list, and the next developer to work on your web site.

Re: [WSG] stand alone blog software

2007-05-23 Thread Lucien Stals
Sounds like you need Wordpress. http://wordpress.org/ >From what you describe, it can do all that. It's also highly themeable if you need a specific custom look and feel. L. Lucien Stals [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> "Lisa B McLaughlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 24/0

Re: [WSG] stand alone blog software

2007-05-23 Thread Lucien Stals
I *want* to like Drupal. I really do. When it's working, it's a beautiful thing. But I've recently had a lot of trouble installing the recent version. So much trouble that I gave up on it :( Lucien. Lucien Stals [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Raine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: [WSG] safari hack for overflow-x/y

2007-05-30 Thread Lucien Stals
webkit.org/ Lucien. Lucien Stals [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> kevin mcmonagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 31/05/07 6:49 AM >>> Hi, Im building a design that hinges on support for support overflow-y/x. Are there any safari hacks that validate and will be somewhat permanent? I google'