Re: [WSG] Serving Different Content to Returning Visitors

r with AOL users having their IP change while browsing and you couldn't detect this). .Matthew Cruickshank http://holloway.co.nz/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://websta

Re: [WSG] Site test & Google analytics

Jason Robb wrote: My question is this: If I insert the

Re: [WSG] setting fontsize in body

Rob Kirton wrote: I was informed that they had a "far better idea" in the pipeline. I'm not holding my breath... Perhaps they were hinting at the full page zoom. See http://urltea.com/15zr?full-page-zoom (from http://planet.mozilla.org/ ) .Matthew Cruickshank htt

Re: [WSG] Understanding Apache Logs

ly it should be "../.." ?) .Matthew Cruickshank http://docvert.org/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

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

lows, but it of course your internal publishing needs will vary. .Matthew Cruickshank http://docvert.org/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.c

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

Chris Wilson wrote: Better yet, since not everyone can see, lets require all publications to include a braille copy, all musical artists to provide a written transcript of ever performance. That would of course be madness... I'd like a car analogy next please. .Matthew Cruickshank

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

terist.com/archivefiles/000305.html [link is safe for work] .Matthew Cruickshank http://docvert.org/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscrib

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

the desire is there. And certain broadcasters in the United Kingdom are required to audio-describe a portion of their programming; “adult” programming is not, in fact, exempt, so all this may actually come to pass! -- http://joeclark.org/book/sashay/serialization/Chapter06.html#h2-6030

Re: [WSG] SilverLight

ing Python/Ruby .Net variants) in the browser. Adobe have Flash/Flex as the user interface. Firefox has XUL/SVG/HTML5 as the user interface. (sorry this is a such a rushed post -- I'm late for a bus) .Matthew Cruickshank htt

Re: [WSG] SilverLight

fall within the covenant." .Matthew Cruickshank http://holloway.co.nz/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] Re: SilverLight

.youtube.com/watch?v=KFoTFXxcrrw .Matthew Cruickshank http://docvert.org/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

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

g/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/section-parsing.html .Matthew Cruickshank http://holloway.co.nz/blog/ << My new blog on XML, XSLT, and the web http://docvert.org/ << Convert MSWord to OpenDocument, DocBook or clean HTML *

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

m] while advancing Silverlight. -- .Matthew Cruickshank http://docvert.org/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

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

languages, does not help maintain the fiction that only clashing high-level philosophies are involved here" -- http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/archives/2007/10/open_letter_to_chris_wilson.html On Dec 14, 2007 9:01 PM, Matthew Cruickshank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec

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

Michael Horowitz wrote: RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE lol .Matthew Cruickshank http://holloway.co.nz/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join

Re: [WSG] Where did I come from?

27;s not a required field, but that doesn't mean that applications shouldn't make decisions based on it. A good example of web software that makes decisions based on referrers are anti-image-leech scripts*. -- .Matthew Cruickshank http://holloway.co.nz/ [*] and image leech scripts are a go

Re: [WSG] a quick target question

is so older browsers, and search engines, can follow popup links, but newer browsers that use the onclick ignore the href because of onclick's 'return false'. See http://www.alistapart.com/articles/popuplinks/ .Matthew Cruickshank http://holloway.co.nz/ *

Re: [WSG] New Zealand Web Standards??

better than the old tv2 site though. They're getting better :) .Matthew Cruickshank http://holloway.co.nz/

Re: [WSG] New Zealand Web Standards??

better than the old tv2 site though. They're getting better :) .Matthew Cruickshank http://holloway.co.nz/

Re: [WSG] Experimentations in XSLT

;re writing html, set the default namespace to XHTML (or html 4.01, whatever). That way if you integrate with another feed of xml you can distinguish your html from the other stuff. Here's a good XSLT FAQ, maintained by my guru, Dave Pawson, http://dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/sect21.html .Matthe

Re: [WSG] accessible image form buttons

two examples are RateaRod.com and RateaRear.com â then the alt text for submitted photos may end up being inane and/or annoying, like alt="Rate this member!" Porn cannot always be taken seriously. Accessible porn may end up being even sli

[WSG] Validating unicode files

ether and my xml parser didn't like it because of some characters in this range. It seems that even when you tell notepad.exe to save as utf-8 it sometimes doesn't. So is there a bit of software to validate UTF-8 encoded files? .Matthew Cruickshank http:/

Re: [WSG] Somewhat OT - VERY print friendly?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's what we do at DEWR for our minister's press releases. It seems to work well enough, I'm not sure if it's semantically correct, but hey it works. Any idea of the browser support? .Matthew Cruickshank h

Re: [WSG] x-browser javascript: is this OT?

hey're public domain), http://holloway.co.nz/sa/icons.html << drop down list containing icons; http://holloway.co.nz/wsg/branded-resize << dragable image for frame resizing, with a minimum width collapse like a conventional windows app. If anyone improves them please send patc

Re: [WSG] accessible image form buttons

lso, http://joeclark.org/book/sashay/serialization/Chapter06.html#h2-5485 .Matthew Cruickshank http://holloway.co.nz/

Re: [WSG] Java (JSP) v .net for standard and accessibility

- Avoid or minimise the use of poorly written controls and instead write strings of html to the page, perhaps by using literal controls as stubs. - Using another framework that doesn't use the standard ASP.Net templating model. So yeah, it's pretty bad. -- .M

Re: [WSG] Java (JSP) v .net for standard and accessibility

Jachin Sheehy wrote: That said, I note Stuart qualified his question by saying he had worked with an experienced Java programmer. Similarly, a good .NET programmer who is aware of the issues and concerned about web standards will also be able to help you achieve compliance. I have worked with AS

Re: [WSG] University textbook or other resources?

sacrosanct, and your students will laugh their asses off at the book's cover. The good students, anyway. ps. The entire book isn't available online, just the meat of it. .Matthew Cruickshank http://holloway.co.nz/ ** The

Re: [WSG] Input Desired

there's a single image. Eg, http://www.e.govt.nz/ .Matthew Cruickshank http://holloway.co.nz/docvert << Convert MSWord to OpenDocument to any HTML or XML. ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] XSL and CDATA

es, so don't cram everything in one XSLT file. - Because XSLT is XML, some people generate XSLT from XSLT. These people are badasses. - Use to sanity check your incoming XML - Read all of http://dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/sect21.html Good luck. .Matthew Cruickshank http://hollo

Re: [WSG] editor

Lachlan Hunt wrote: Since you're new, you might want to stick with HTML4 until a) browser support for XHTML increases (IE does not support XHTML), Heh... please elabourate on how IE doesn't support XHTML. .Matthew Cruickshank http://holl

Re: [WSG] editor

think you're misleading Lori. I mean no one goes around saying Firefox doesn't support HTML and CSS because it doesn't pass the Acid test or implement soft-hyphens[1] As a community we shouldn't stop demanding more compatibility, but your statement doesn't seem measured t

Re: [WSG] XHTML Issues

#x27;t "even have limited support for XHTML"? Well, we clearly have _very_ different ideas about the English language, and I doubt we'll convince each other otherwise about what sufficient support to render learning XHTML useful would be. Later, .M

Re: [WSG] Newcomers and Web Standards (was editor)

TML. I'm glad that people have been speaking up so that hopefully Lori will see that it's not so black and white an issue. .Matthew Cruickshank http://holloway.co.nz/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandards

Re: [WSG] Newcomers and Web Standards

ot another opportunity for you to derail this thread with more technical references. No one disagrees with that -- this thread is about how it's best to teach people web standards. And you fail it. .Matthew Cruickshank http://holloway.co.nz/ **

Re: [WSG] CSS - Fixing PNG Transparency Issues in IE?

Artemis wrote: If anyone knows anything about this htc file, if it would be good to use, how exactly it works, and where I might find a bit more information about it I would be ever so appreciative :) http://webfx.eae.net/dhtml/pngbehavior/pngbehavior.html .Matthew Cruickshank http

Re: [WSG] CSS - Fixing PNG Transparency Issues in IE?

Srecko Micic wrote: But what if Java is disabled in browser ? Then it won't work anyway, because all methods I've seen use progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader() which is itself a call via Javascript. (fairly sure that's the case) .Matthew Cruickshank http:/

Re: [WSG] styling auto-generated .net id values

d checkItem(object itemIndex)     {     int itemItemInt = int.parse(itemIndex);     if(itemIndexInt == yourItemNumber)        {         return "";        }     } .Matthew Cruickshank http://holloway.co.nz/

Re: [WSG] Copyright Query

agreement was clear I would contact a lawyer. If not, I'd chalk it up to experience and write better contracts next time. More to the point however, this isn't really web standards related. You might get better advice elsewhere ;) .Matthew Cruickshank http://docvert.org << Conv

Autoresponders on the list Was: Re: [WSG] equal height columns

them. And to those sending these autoresponders... I know that these email thingymabobs and computer dohickys get a little complex. Perhaps you could enroll in a night class? .Matthew Cruickshank http://docvert.org << Convert MS Word to clean HT

Re: [WSG] What do we say if we don't say "click"?

yway, would probably understand the layout and some good ALT text like Joes suggestion. btw. It doesn't look like any of the CSS cursors would be an appropriate prompt. .Matthew Cruickshank http://hollloway.co.nz/ *

Re: [WSG] [potentially OT] HTML History

/www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/section-parsing.html .Matthew Cruickshank http://docvert.org/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/

Re: [WSG] Standards and site structuring

Nick Lo wrote: Just out of interest what "standards" (in the sense of a generalised approach) are you all applying to site structuring? Site structure... as in URL design? Or internal file structures? Or common interface elements? .Matthew Cruickshank http://holl

Re: [WSG] Standards and site structuring

, it'll just ignore it and do whatever else it can to parse the data, including falling back on the extension of the URL given. .Matthew Cruickshank http://holloway.co.nz/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help **

Re: [WSG] Centre DIV Vertically? Any compliant methods?

This technique can be broken by spammers too < http://sam.zoy.org/projects/pwntcha/ >. I guess another approach would be using sentences, as in "write the 4th word in the following sentence into the box labelled Passcode", but unfortunately it's only

Re: [WSG] Centre DIV Vertically? Any compliant methods?

x of, #menu {dock: left #content; share-max-height: #content; width:30% } #content {left:30%; share-max-height: #menu; width:70%;} #footer {dock: bottom #content; width:100%;} I guess this wishlist is deviating a bit from web standards so I'll stop now ;

Re: [WSG] [XSL] apply-template on multiple modes?

gh to plugin_test) it's easier to do it in two stages... make the result of the 1st XSLT another XSLT that names all the plugins, and then apply that. That way the 2nd stage XSLT is static (so far as the processor is concerned) but it adjusts. .Matthew Cruickshank http://holloway.co.nz/

Re: [WSG] Parent Selectors

f all the time to get all child nodes). .Matthew Cruickshank http://holloway.co.nz/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help **

[WSG] Javascript events for ?

to call the next one and just assume the first one has finished, but that doesn't seem easy to manage. If the mp3 changes they'd have to fix up all the pages. Unfortunately all the search engines have failed me because javascript OBJECT-oriented programming is more popular than Javascr

Re: [WSG] Object Mp3 into FF

play mp3s in that. This does mean supporting a few more parameters though as the ways of starting play aren't standardised but it's more likely to Just Work. ps. it's an old hack, but lying in the mime-type and using audio/wav gets past a lot of plugin

Re: [WSG] Re: Object Mp3 into FF

ed on the mime-type. Did you really check that as I suggested? What's the difference in the headers between the servers? .Matthew Cruickshank http://holloway.co.nz/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] Re: Object Mp3 into FF

one seems a little small. 10677 bytes is only about a second of audio. also as a side note, when I deleted the it would not work in FF only in IE, so I had to place back the to make it work. This works for me in Firefox and IE / Quicktime and Media Player, .Matthew Cruicksh

Re: [WSG] Re: Object Mp3 into FF

problem (well that and the mime headers which have mysteriously reappeared). To get Firefox compatibility there's no need for the older embed tag, provided your object tags are good (previously posted example code works, as do many others). 1. fix your http headers 2. then

Re: [WSG] Re: Object Mp3 into FF

parse the data, including falling back on the extension of the URL given. -- http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/networking/moniker/overview/appendix_a.asp .Matthew Cruickshank http://holloway.co.nz/

Re: [WSG] problem mixing stucture and content

appropriate to contain formatting and content in the same file. I'm not too familiar with it, but if you're getting into encoding text you might consider the TEI spec <http://www.tei-c.org/>. .Matthew Cruickshank http://holloway.co.nz/ **

Re: [WSG] Valid Code, but Poor Accessibility

tarted working for gave it to me to read... Got a lot of info about making sites accessible...Used copies were on amazon for about $12. Seconding this. It's an excellent book, and his emphasis is on how - within standards - you achieve accessibility. .Matthew Cruic

[WSG] A web service that converts MSWord to HTML

runs the XML through an XSLT pipeline. So, basically, this web service converts MS Word to arbitrary HTML or XML, and returns the results in a .zip file. The software, called Docvert, has reached 1.0 and is at http://holloway.co.nz/docvert Let me know what you think. .Matthew Cruickshank http

Re: [WSG] A web service that converts MSWord to HTML

fice.org were some OpenOffice macros, my XML parser and pipeline, some XSLT and a REST-style web service interface on top of it. Internally it uses DocBook which is far more structured than HTML. So anyway, there's the guts of it. Thanks for the kind words guys! (last post on this to web standar

Re: [WSG] Questions about the new european parliament web site

convert this to XHTML, and then keep a simple sitemap that just aggregates these wrappers together. .Matthew Cruickshank http://holloway.co.nz/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help **

Re: [WSG] XSLT errors: was - Questions about the new european parliament we b site

Pawson guy, he maintains this FAQ, http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/sect21.html And the thing people learn after a bit of XSLT is that it's much more managable with a good XML pipeline, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_pipeline .Matthew Cruickshank h

Re: [WSG] Style a parent element based on an id selector of the child element

ell, a long term strategy might be lobby browser makers to support XPath or something. So basically I don't have any good advice for you. .Matthew Cruickshank http://holloway.co.nz/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup

Re: [WSG] images in html or css

ages in CSS have problems in accessibility software: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fir/ .Matthew Cruickshank http://holloway.co.nz/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.