Re: [WSG] Brand logos with links to home

2007-03-18 Thread Micky Hulse
Lee Powell wrote: Aye's or Nay's appreciated Aye! But also depends on client requests... I recently dealt with a client that did not want this. Good question! :) M -- Wishlists: http://snipurl.com/vrs9 Switch: http://browsehappy.com/ BCC?: http://snipurl.com/w6f8 My:

Re: [WSG] New Yorker Redesign

2007-03-27 Thread Micky Hulse
Mike at Green-Beast.com wrote: Nice site. Looks like 1204x768 is becoming the new 800x600, but it's something that is probably ahead of its time. Especially since two members I work at a newspaper... we are heading that direction for our next site design iteration Content area will

Re: [WSG] Accessible Forms - empty labels (??)

2007-04-11 Thread Micky Hulse
Bojana Lalic wrote: I don’t want any text displayed before or after the query text input element. Should I wrap a label around the input element and then hide it using css? How do I get around this accessibility issue? Me personally, I setup my form normally using label/input, then apply

Re: [WSG] Floating Divs Over Flash

2007-05-01 Thread Micky Hulse
John Gribben wrote: Does anyone have any experience floating HTML elements over Flash via absolutely-positioned divs? I know that this is possible with the most up-to-date browsers, but I’m not aware of how wise this is in terms of backward-compatibility. Can anyone point to successful

Re: [WSG] Floating Divs Over Flash

2007-05-01 Thread Micky Hulse
Tony Crockford wrote: http://www.boldfishclient.co.uk/go/flash (uses the UFO embedding method with wmode set to transparent) Ooooh! I like UFO! Thanks for sharing link. Can I link to this example from my Sitepoint posting? If not, I totally understand. :) -- Wishlists:

Re: [WSG] Floating Divs Over Flash

2007-05-01 Thread Micky Hulse
Nick Cowie wrote: I have done a little bit of experimentation, you can find the results on my blog and a discussion of the techniques used http://nickcowie.com/2006/layering-flash-and-html-tutorial/ the footer is HTML layered over flash. Sweet! Thanks for sharing. :) I posted a link via my

Re: [WSG] Suggestions Please for: CMS / E-commerce Solutions

2007-05-28 Thread Micky Hulse
Mark Hedley wrote: Feedback and advice again appreciated. Expression Engine is good and reliable... but you got to pay approx 200$ for commercial license. Also, currently EE does not have a full-featured E-commerce module (just basic paypal.) The current approach for most EE users is to

Re: [WSG] Suggestions Please for: CMS / E-commerce Solutions

2007-05-28 Thread Micky Hulse
Mark Hedley wrote: Are you aware of any E-commerce solutions + CMS with support for the 3D Secure Protx VSP Direct? Sorry, not sure. You might find someone who *is aware* on over at the WSG-CMS list... I signed up for the CMS list durning my sign-up for this list... but I am not aware of a

Re: [WSG] Suggestions Please for: CMS / E-commerce Solutions

2007-05-28 Thread Micky Hulse
John Faulds wrote: Additionally, code redundancy is also a problem when it comes to templates (though, some would say this is a feature of EE) I've not found that so far. Once you get your head around the way you can embed templates in other templates, it's just like using includes. [OT]

Re: [WSG] Suggestions Please for: CMS / E-commerce Solutions

2007-05-29 Thread Micky Hulse
Micky Hulse wrote: You might want to look at these sites: http://www.cmsmatrix.org/ http://start.websitebaker.org/en/introduction.html Doh, just noticed I pasted the website baker url in the wrong spot, I meant to suggest these two sites: http://www.cmsmatrix.org/ http

Re: [WSG] OT on list

2007-05-29 Thread Micky Hulse
Mark Hedley wrote: Where on the site do you sign up for the CMS List? I am also after support from people in this list. Yeah, the CMS list is hard to find. I signed-up for it when I signed-up for this list... Other than that, I have not found any reference to the CMS list on the net. I

Re: [WSG] Best practice embedding a Quicktime/Flash video

2007-06-28 Thread Micky Hulse
Designer wrote: Note the 5th line of code. If a user doesn't have Flash, he/she just sees the equivalent gif. NO pestering. Interesting. Thanks for sharing that. :) I personally prefer swfObject. UFO is another (unobtrusive alternative to swfObject): http://www.bobbyvandersluis.com/ufo/ I

Re: [WSG] Best practice embedding a Quicktime/Flash video

2007-06-28 Thread Micky Hulse
Sander Aarts wrote: I prefer it above SWFObject as it seems to be more web standards compliant. Well that's what Bobby says himself anyway ;-) in this A list Apart article about Flash embedding: I like the UFO approach, but I found that it is not the best option if you have to dynamically

Re: [WSG] Best practice embedding a Quicktime/Flash video

2007-07-02 Thread Micky Hulse
David Little wrote: These solutions are interesting, but I'm only willing to spend time looking at them if: Seems like you are over-thinking it. swfObject or UFO. I personally prefer the latter mostly due to reasons I stated before (cms... needing access to certain params for dynamic

Re: [WSG] Re: Microformats was [ Is this a good use of dl ]

2007-07-07 Thread Micky Hulse
Hey all, I picked-up this book off of Amazon a few weeks back... it does a great job of explaining MF's... For those wanting to learn more, I suggest thumbing through it at your local bookstore: Microformats: Empowering Your Markup for Web 2.0 (Paperback) http://tinyurl.com/2b946q Great

Re: [WSG] Fieldset background

2007-07-07 Thread Micky Hulse
Dean Matthews wrote: IE6 doesn't appear to render the background correctly in a fieldset with a legend (extends beyond top border). Oooh, yah. Fieldsets are tricky to style. I opt to keep things simple when it comes to fieldset/legends. Is there a fix or alternatively how would you hide the

Re: [WSG] Making Accessible Flash

2007-07-12 Thread Micky Hulse
Robby Jennings wrote: I'm in a situation where we're hosting externally created flash files on our page. When embedding these files, what is the best method for providing a text alternative? How much text alternatives are we talking here? More detail on what you need would help me. Are

Re: [WSG] Javascript image rotator

2007-07-12 Thread Micky Hulse
For my last project I used this: http://www.electricprism.com/aeron/slideshow/ You can simplify it down to fading transitions with random image display. It will display a placeholder image of your choosing if JS is not available. I have yet to find an equivalent JS slideshow. Uses

Re: [WSG] Javascript image rotator

2007-07-13 Thread Micky Hulse
Al Sparber wrote: The animations are cool but if one optimizes images for the web then there's not much to work with and you're back to a cross-fade. All the animations are jittery in Firefox, which is normal, and there does not seem to be a fallback if script is disabled to at least be able

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

2007-07-26 Thread Micky Hulse
Rimantas Liubertas wrote: Why not to check it? From HTML 4.01 Strict DTD: ...snip... Woohoo, A is here. Case closed. Well, that went over my head... Mind explaining? -- Wishlists: http://snipurl.com/1gqpj Switch: http://browsehappy.com/ BCC?: http://snipurl.com/w6f8 My:

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

2007-07-26 Thread Micky Hulse
David Dorward wrote: On 26 Jul 2007, at 11:14, Micky Hulse wrote: Well, that went over my head... Mind explaining? http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/intro/sgmltut.html#h-3.3 Looks interesting. :) Thanks! Cheers, Micky -- Wishlists: http://snipurl.com/1gqpj Switch: http://browsehappy.com

[WSG] Simple, almost silly, question:

2007-09-18 Thread Micky Hulse
Hi, I have a headline styled as an H2, like so: h2Headline for main story/h2 Would it make more sense to style a sub-headline as an h3 or as a non-header? I was thinking this made sense: h2Headline for main story/h2 h3This is the subhead for the main story/h3 Thoughts? :) Thanks in

Re: [WSG] Simple, almost silly, question: Sub-header

2007-09-18 Thread Micky Hulse
Horst Gutmann wrote: I hope I'm not writing complete rubbish :-) Ah, no, not at all. :) Actually, that is how we (me and my co-workers) are currently doing it. It seems to work well. I was just in the process of updating the site styles, and thought it might be good to change things, but

Re: [WSG] Simple, almost silly, question:

2007-09-18 Thread Micky Hulse
Hey Mike, thanks for you quick reply, I really appreciate the help. :) Mike at Green-Beast.com wrote: It sort of looks like you answered your own question: ...snip... sheet while keeping the semantics intact. Sounds like solid advice. :) I do not know why, but I always have trouble with

Re: [WSG] HTML/XHTML/XML - Question about the future of.

2008-11-20 Thread Micky Hulse
Christian Montoya wrote: You'll have telepathic computer displays before _real_ XHTML replaces HTML. link rel=stylesheet type=text/css media=mind href=... Ha! Nice one. A while back, I stopped using XHTML strict and switched to HTML 4.01 strict DTD's. Personally, I think HTML 4.01 strict

Re: [WSG] HTML/XHTML/XML - Question about the future of.

2008-11-20 Thread Micky Hulse
Frank Palinkas wrote: To follow up on Micky, Christian and Rimantas, here's the latest info on HTML 5: Thanks for those links! :) Cheers, Micky *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

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

2008-11-27 Thread Micky Hulse
Maybe not the best solution, but I tend to set the legend to display:none (IIRC, one can't position off-screen in some browsers), and then insert a tad bit of additional HTML which is styled to emulate a legend... I call this class .pseudoLegend: (CSS:) /* Emulate fieldset/legend: */

Re: [WSG] Progressive Enhancement

2010-02-05 Thread Micky Hulse
Hi, Does anyone have any good resources for current progressive enhancement techniques and also talking points? Google has shown me rather old articles, so I thought I'd hit you guys up for what you are I hate it when Google returns hits from years ago... Thank god they added that little

Re: [WSG] Progressive Enhancement

2010-02-09 Thread Micky Hulse
ot Also, IMHO, Google buried that date feature. I had to dig for it. ;-) Ha! You think that is buried?? Man, up until a few months ago it was hiding deep within the advanced search section. Personally, I wish the new Google sidebar would stay open. There is also a GreaseMonkey script that

Re: [WSG] IE7 overflow

2010-02-10 Thread Micky Hulse
Hi, Any suggestions? Maybe: word-wrap: break-word or overflow: hidden See: http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/expandingboxbug.html Hths? Micky *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] Tweetmeme and application/XHTML+XML problem

2010-02-19 Thread Micky Hulse
Hi! I wanted to implement the Tweetmeme button on some pages of my site http://www.seoworkers.com which pages I served as XML (application/xhtml+xml) for Mozilla based browsers (not for IE), and does not work. Just out of curiosity, why did you choose to serve the pages as XML? Thanks! M

Re: [WSG] Tweetmeme and application/XHTML+XML problem

2010-02-21 Thread Micky Hulse
I am in the process of deconstructing the Tweetmeme widget (link below) for a project at work. http://widget.tweetmeme.com/ I first started experimenting with the button: http://help.tweetmeme.com/2009/04/06/tweetmeme-button/ ... which document.writes an iFrame: document.write('iframe src=' +

Re: [WSG] IE8 bug?

2010-03-03 Thread Micky Hulse
Has anyone come across this issue before? (and better yet, come across a fix??) Not sure if this will help, but I suggest using a div instead of an href: div id=top.../div ulliblah blah blah/liliblah blah blah/li/ul I have not used named anchors in ages. Hope you get it figured! M

Re: [WSG] validator error or my code?

2010-03-27 Thread Micky Hulse
I personally use only the W3C online validator. Personally, I would go with what the W3C validator tells you. Were there other errors on your page? Your code looks correct to me. M *** List Guidelines:

Re: [WSG] HELP WITH SETTING UP A CMS PROJECT

2010-09-15 Thread Micky Hulse
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Marcos Paulo Machado marcosp...@gmail.com wrote: Marvin, I suggest you study more before choose any CMS to your project and verify wich better fit in your requirements. Totally agree with Paulo. In terms of CMS/Blogs, I like these: 1. ExpressionEngine

Re: [WSG] HELP WITH SETTING UP A CMS PROJECT

2010-09-15 Thread Micky Hulse
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Micky Hulse mickyhulse.li...@gmail.com wrote: 2. Pinax Ooops, I forgot to include Pinax link: http://pinaxproject.com/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] lazyweb://schema.agnostic.URLs

2010-11-09 Thread Micky Hulse
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Andrew Harris and...@woowoowoo.com wrote: works fine. http://www.no-http.org/ http://www.webreference.com/html/tutorial2/3.html Interesting! Thanks for sharing. Learn something new every day. I wonder how many folks don't specify the http: part? It sounds like

Re: [WSG] mixing media queries?

2010-11-09 Thread Micky Hulse
vs. the AND (or combo of both.) I hope that helps! Cheers, Micky -- Micky Hulse Web Content Editor The Register-Guard 3500 Chad Drive Eugene, OR 97408 Phone: (541) 338-2621 Fax: (541) 683-7631 Web: http://www.registerguard.com

Re: [WSG] lazyweb://schema.agnostic.URLs

2010-11-10 Thread Micky Hulse
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Russ Weakley r...@maxdesign.com.au wrote: Yikes! It all seemed so easy... suspiciously easy!  :) Haha! Too true! Back to the drawing board I guess. :D Dang, I am still undecided about weather or not I should adopt this technique! On one hand, the no-http site

Re: [WSG] lazyweb://schema.agnostic.URLs

2010-11-10 Thread Micky Hulse
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Patrick H. Lauke re...@splintered.co.uk wrote: It really just depends on what you're trying to do though. The bug apparently only affects stylesheets, and the whole reason I'm assuming you'd ...snip... another domain using the same protocol as the one you're

Re: [WSG] XHTML or HTML?

2010-11-11 Thread Micky Hulse
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Chris Taylor chris.tay...@figureout.com wrote: And there's Andy Clarke's new book Hardboiled Web Design which deals with HTML5 and more: http://hardboiledwebdesign.com/ So is HTML5 ready, as far as http://ishtml5readyyet.com/ sees it isn't the same as can I

Re: [WSG] XHTML or HTML?

2010-11-11 Thread Micky Hulse
reading the PDF myself. :) Have a great day! Cheers, Micky -- Micky Hulse Web Content Editor The Register-Guard 3500 Chad Drive Eugene, OR 97408 Phone: (541) 338-2621 Fax: (541) 683-7631 Web: http://www.registerguard.com *** List

Re: [WSG] XHTML or HTML?

2010-11-11 Thread Micky Hulse
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Micky Hulse mickyhulse.li...@gmail.com wrote: Looks like the ebook includes PDF, ePub, and mobi formats. Looks like one of the chapters is online: A Brief History of Markup http://www.alistapart.com/articles/a-brief-history-of-markup/ I thought that chapter

Re: [WSG] mixing media queries?

2010-11-11 Thread Micky Hulse
! Cheers, Micky -- Micky Hulse Web Content Editor The Register-Guard 3500 Chad Drive Eugene, OR 97408 Phone: (541) 338-2621 Fax: (541) 683-7631 Web: http://www.registerguard.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] XHTML or HTML?

2010-11-11 Thread Micky Hulse
Designers http://books.alistapart.com/products/css3-for-web-designers This book will be released on November 16th. Should be a good read. :) Cheers, Micky -- Micky Hulse Web Content Editor The Register-Guard 3500 Chad Drive Eugene, OR 97408 Phone: (541) 338-2621 Fax: (541) 683-7631 Web: http

Re: [WSG] Detecting Mobile user agent - what methods work best?

2011-01-11 Thread Micky Hulse
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 4:17 PM, tee weblis...@gmail.com wrote: http://detectmobilebrowser.com/ Nice! Thanks for link Tee. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

Re: [WSG] Mobile detection using CSS media queries

2011-05-03 Thread Micky Hulse
Hi Caleb, You might find this site interesting/helpful: http://mediaqueri.es/ I plan on using that site as a reference when I re-build my work's website in the coming months. Good luck! Cheers, Micky *** List Guidelines:

Re: [WSG] embedding flash in html5 - alternative content

2011-05-13 Thread Micky Hulse
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 3:34 AM, designer desig...@gwelanmor-internet.co.uk wrote: Thanks Henrik, but the trouble here is that classid is deprecated in html5 and it won't validate. . . SWFObject WIKI page: SWFObject 2 and HTML5 http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/wiki/html5 If you find any

Re: [WSG] IE9's Browser Mode Controls - Reliable?

2011-09-23 Thread Micky Hulse
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Dan Freeman dan.free...@lexi.com wrote: This is my favorite tool: http://utilu.com/IECollection/ OMG @ IE 1.0 (4.40.308)! :D That's pretty cool though. I have always avoided IE multiple installers due to various issues that I can't remember at this moment; it