Re: [WSG] Skip to Content?

2007-07-05 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
On 04-Jul-07, at 9:29 PM, Sander Aarts wrote: Angel Martin Alganza schreef: On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 10:19:51PM +0200, Sander Aarts wrote: I alway make skip links to all major parts of the page, being the different levels of navigation, main content, sub content (side bar) and sometimes even

Re: [WSG] Client - Site Edits

2007-07-11 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
On 11-Jul-07, at 4:09 AM, Kevin Ross wrote: Now that I have a realization that I need to incorporate some sort of a CMS solution, can anyone lead me to resources that may help to teach me the ropes? I am leaning towards PHP, as I am somewhat familiar with the language. Thanks. Hi Kevin,

Re: [WSG] Client - Site Edits

2007-07-11 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
On 11-Jul-07, at 4:09 AM, Kevin Ross wrote: Now that I have a realization that I need to incorporate some sort of a CMS solution, can anyone lead me to resources that may help to teach me the ropes? I am leaning towards PHP, as I am somewhat familiar with the language. Thanks. Hi Kevin,

Re: [WSG] Font sizing: top down or bottom up

2007-09-07 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
On 07-Sep-07, at 3:01 PM, Rick Lecoat wrote: On 7/9/07 (07:50) Tony said: I've been using CSS for seven years or more and I'm trying to adopt best practice in a pragmatic way, which means I can't deliver my clients sites with excessively large fonts - they are trying to design interfaces that

Re: [WSG] Browser Check

2007-09-08 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
On 07-Sep-07, at 10:17 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Browser check for the following site: http://www.condometropolis.com/buy_orlando_condos.php? Name=action=searchSubmit=Browse+All+Condos!first=yes I get a MySQL error: Warning: mysql_connect(): Access denied for user:

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

2007-09-08 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
On 31-Aug-07, at 11:08 PM, Designer wrote: Well Vlad, whether it fits your conception or not, there is such a thing as a site whose prime function is visual. The only 'information' in the site I mentioned is what something 'looks like'. If you can't see it, there is nothing you can do

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

2007-09-09 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
On 09-Sep-07, at 8:54 PM, Hassan Schroeder wrote: Nick Gleitzman wrote: Language is what we have as our primary tool of communication. There are others, of course - Rothko's paintings speak volumes (even if the man himself lets them speak, choosing enigmatic reservation about their

Re: [WSG] Social Networking Site Software / Script

2007-11-09 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
On 09-Nov-07, at 5:04 PM, Web Dandy Design wrote: Discussion Forums. Vanilla [1] seems to be an interesting project, which aims to be a standards-based discussion forum. I seem to remember having little difficulty in installing the software, though I haven't experimented with styling it

[WSG] Colour Blindness Statistics

2007-11-10 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
Hi, I'm searching for first-hand, authoritative statistics on colour blindness, for use in a formal, academic document. Would anyone be able to point me in the right direction? This webpage [1] says 8% of all men and 0.5% of all women have some form of colour-blindness, though sadly, has

Re: [WSG] Colour Blindness Statistics

2007-11-11 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
On 10-Nov-07, at 6:33 PM, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Rahul Gonsalves wrote: I'm searching for first-hand, authoritative statistics on colour blindness, for use in a formal, academic document. Would anyone be able to point me in the right direction? Maybe this will help in the search... http

Re: [WSG] Best way to clear a float

2007-11-12 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
On 12-Nov-07, at 9:28 PM, Likely, James A. wrote: I am curious to see how others clear floats. Jamie, I often use this method [1]. It seems to work well, and far better CSS-brains than myself have recommended it. Best, - Rahul. [1] http://www.positioniseverything.net/easyclearing.html

[WSG] AccessResearch // Page Check

2007-11-17 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
Hi, http://rahulgonsalves.com/research/site/ I'm throwing together a quick site to try and fund my travel to an accessibility conference. I haven't had too much time to check it, or think it through, but I would appreciate a page check, and general suggestions/comments. Also, I don't have

Re: [WSG] AccessResearch // Page Check

2007-11-17 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
On 18-Nov-07, at 1:18 AM, James Jeffery wrote: - The first thing that struck me was the blatent missues of the em element. grinI like misusing me some ems! Seriously, though, yes. I am using a technique that I saw on Stu Nicholls site, CSS Play [1], which uses ems. Using a div, or a

Re: [WSG] AccessResearch // Page Check

2007-11-17 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
On 18-Nov-07, at 5:06 AM, James Jeffery wrote: He has an abbreviation in his link: 'FAQ' which should be wrapped in abbr/abbr and he should use the title attribute here to add more clarity. Thanks for catching this one James. I did forget to add an abbreviation for this. I have updated the

Re: [WSG] AccessResearch // Page Check

2007-11-17 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
Ah shoot, mixed up my footnotes. I need some tea. Apologies to all for increasing your inbox count. The Ragged Float technique used by Stu Nicholls on CSS Play is located here: http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/flow.html The WSG article on using xHTML versus using HTML is located here:

Re: [WSG] CMS and site design

2007-12-03 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
On 04-Dec-07, at 4:09 AM, Lyn Patterson wrote: I have never had to use a CMS and know very little about them. I have a client who wants to update his site himself and my hosting company supports Joomla. My question is: do I design the site in the normal way and then append the CMS or

Re: [WSG] Developing for Mac Browsers

2008-01-13 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
Hi Peter, On 13-Jan-08, at 11:21 AM, Peter Mount wrote: I'm tossing up whether to buy a Mac or to save my money and buy a new PC and just have Linux and Windows on it. I've read that Safari for Windows will help Web Developers without a Mac be able to develop for that. Ultimately, your

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

2008-03-19 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
Hi Lars, On 19-Mar-08, at 10:39 PM, Keryx Web wrote: I.e. I added support for webkit and any future browser that might implement CSS 3 rounded corners. However Safari 3.1 fails at showing any rounded corners at http://keryx.se/ On a test file [1], Safari 3.1 styles fieldsets with rounded

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

2008-03-19 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
On 19-Mar-08, at 11:26 PM, cto wrote: I ran the css validator on the page you linked to. It shows a number of errors. The specific comments of concern are: Property -moz-border-radius doesn't exist : 15px Property -webkit-border-radius doesn't exist : 15px Property border-radius doesn't

Re: [WSG] Print stylesheet and long urls

2008-03-26 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
Hi Sarah, On 26-Mar-08, at 12:22 PM, Sarah Peeke wrote: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/improvingprint/ However, this is only useful if JavaScript is enabled. In the article listed, if javascript is disabled, then the links are displayed inline. I don't think there is a more elegant

Re: [WSG] strechable round rect and center align

2008-04-21 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
On 21-Apr-08, at 1:50 PM, Naveen Bhaskar wrote: I want a rounded strechable rectangle inside another rectangle which is 500px width. the rounded strechable rectangle should align center . Naveen, This seems to be a good way to build rounded corner boxes [1]. Aligning elements to the

Re: [WSG] Centered Horizontal List in IE7

2008-05-07 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
On 07-May-08, at 4:18 PM, IceKat wrote: I have a list menu which is supposed to be horizontal and centered. Does this work for you? http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/horizontal27.htm Best, - Rahul. *** List Guidelines:

Re: [WSG] Older Browsers

2008-05-08 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
On 08-May-08, at 11:16 AM, chris | chrisbuttery.com wrote: Do you have older browsers handy to test them with? Yes, and now you can too [1]! Multiple IEs allows you to run copies of various versions of IE, going all the way back to IE3. I have noticed that conditional comments do _not_

Re: [WSG] The Problem of adjacent links

2008-05-08 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
On 08-May-08, at 2:33 PM, Designer wrote: The WAI validator complains [...] Do you have to build a WAI-validating site? If you don't have to, I would suggest ignoring that guideline, as it doesn't necessarily enhance accessibility for visitors. I would suggest using :focus to provide

Re: [WSG] Embed a flash file 100%

2008-05-09 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
On 10-May-08, at 6:29 AM, Laert Jansen wrote: well, I´d like to know what´s the right way to embed a flash file into the html without tables. The flash file is 100% width and height. Have you looked at SWFObject [1]? It has worked well for me in the past. Best, - Rahul. [1]

Re: [WSG] Centering all items in a li

2008-05-18 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
Darren, On 17-May-08, at 8:09 PM, Darren Lovelock wrote: I've been trying to find a solution that will allow me to vertically center all the items in a li. The big problems i've got are that the li's are a non-fixed height and are floating to the left. A link to a stripped down test would

Re: [WSG] Tag for quotes

2008-05-20 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
On 20-May-08, at 8:43 PM, Rob Enslin wrote: Please could someone help me decide which is the most appropriate tag to use with quotes? The most appropriate tag to use is the blockquote element. I would mark up your content like so: blockquote pLIW 2007 was a great show for Technogym. We

Re: [WSG] Mixing CSS3 and CSS2

2008-05-31 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
On 31-May-08, at 12:26 PM, James Jeffery wrote: If i place the CSS3 background property before the CSS2 background property, will the CSS3 declaration win over the CSS2 one if browsers support CSS3 and if not, then the CSS2 declaration will be used? _After_. Declarations placed later in

[WSG] Proposed National Policy on Online Accessibility for India

2008-10-27 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
Gonsalves. (apologies for cross-posting) - Rahul Gonsalves e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: www.rahulgonsalves.com m: +91 98866 19365 - *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] embedding quicktime .mov cross-platform

2009-01-15 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
On 16-Jan-09, at 2:38 AM, William Simpson wrote: Flash is the ultimate cross-browser/operating system software. Unless you'd like to target the iphone/ipod touch. I know that Youtube is moving some (all?) of their content over to H.264 [1]. Best, - Rahul. [1]