Bob Schwartz wrote:
First a disclaimer:
This post does not reflect my personal views on web accessibility or
handicapped persons, it is merely a collection of academic thoughts
triggered by various posts of the past few days.
How and why did the web get singled out from among all of the
Chris Williams wrote:
A pen and a yellow legal pad.
hehe, or how about MS Paint? poor thing barely gets a look-in these days.
I think most of the comps I receive are done in word... Just find
something they know how to use already, save faffing around with any
software training and the
Regnard Kreisler C. Raquedan wrote:
Ouch. I had a similar situation where the client just won't listen--
They wanted to integrate a part of an old website to a new one that I
did that looks *exactly* as is. I followed what they wanted and now
they have a mish-mash of junk code.
On 5/16/07,
Nick Gleitzman wrote:
On 16 May 2007, at 11:28 PM, Nick Fitzsimons wrote:
http://www.wizwebz.co.uk ...
http://csszengarden.com/?cssfile=http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/zen/sample.css
OK, enough - I quit. How can I possibly compete with these world-class
designers?
N
It's a tall order
Susan Grossman wrote:
Today i just told them to go back to using table based layouts and i
will restrict my designs accordingly- i cant listen to the whining
anymore.
What would you have done in this situation?
Back to your original topic - the client is always right in the
Jason Robb wrote:
Hello friends,
I'm marking up a group of (maybe 25-50) anchored images.
They need to be held tight to a grid, and I want about 6 or 8 to a row.
Here is the (lazy) table based solution:
http://bws.jasonrobb.com/collections/
I've considered a few different approaches.
I want
Barney Carroll wrote:
Stuart Foulstone wrote:
Hi,
The for attribute should NOT be used when the label tag encloses the
label text.
What are the dangers?
Regards,
Barney
Hello,
Its probably not a danger per se for most people but if you ever use a
cms that writes out form fields
I think it would be more useful to try an work out where Marvin is
coming from when he mentions those two programs. He's on a web design
course and has some awareness of web standards and that it's good to
support screen readers. Some of these courses are still teaching 'Save
as HTML' and
Designer wrote:
Good Morning/afternoon/evening,
Further to recent discussions on text size, and in particular, using
graphics sized in ems so that they resize, I've pondered the use of
graphical text when wanting to use an uncommon font. So, I put a
heading into a simple graphic (using the
Tee G. Peng wrote:
In this page I have the photo placed in body background with fixed
position. When fontsize enlarge, the bottom part of the photo shows
the background color which is fine because I intentionally wanted it
appears as if it's part of the design, however when fontsize reduces,
sorry Tee, misread your question. Put the background image in the div
that has the white background (#container i think) and it won't show up
below the footer.
@Jamie: that password isn't stupid just because it gives firebug a hard
time. Why not use chris pederick's developer toolbar AND
Tee G. Peng wrote:
On Jun 18, 2007, at 9:39 AM, Robert O'Rourke wrote:
Hi Tee,
nice looking page! It doesn't get a vertical scroll bar though
(firefox 2 latest)...
could you attach the background image to the bottom of the main
content area as opposed to a fixed position on the body
Tee G. Peng wrote:
On Jun 18, 2007, at 11:49 AM, Thierry Koblentz wrote:
I may be wrong, but I'm not sure ie6 does transparent border (if I
recall,
it turns them black).
Yeah, it doesn't. I actually not sure how to write the rule.
I had {border-top: 5px transaprent},
{border-top: 5px;
Ryan Moore wrote:
I'm looking for a Stylesheet Switcher Script that users can use to
dynamically change text sizes on the fly.
Our text size is already quite legible and sized in em's for easy
resizing, but i've been told by the powers that be that we also need a
style sheet switcher.
Ryan Moore wrote:
page cannot be displayed...???
On 8/2/07, *Robert O'Rourke* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://webrocket.ulmb.com/ability/
http://webrocket.ulmb.com/ability/
Strange, works for me...
The alistapart article someone sent you looks like
Middle out?
I don't really worry about the font-size other than to leave the default
on the body tag at 100%.
From there I size fonts relatively up or down depending on the design,
if it's my own design I never dip below 12px. As long as you don't use
px for font-sizing in the CSS the site is
Joseph Taylor wrote:
Hey everyone!
I wanted some of you windows users to test out this site if you'd be
so kind on your IE browsers.
http://steveframe.sitesbyjoe.com
Please let me know if there are any layout issues you encounter (float
drops etc)
Some pages won't validate because I'm
Jason Pruim wrote:
On Dec 14, 2007, at 12:09 PM, Genesis One And One wrote:
I want another OS that works like Windoze but is better than Windoze.
I wish Mozilla would develop one. Their products are already consumer
friendly etc. Imagine a FFOS. I would imagine M$ poor customer
support
Katrina wrote:
Gday,
Can someone please remind me how to set the width on a simple table
column without suffering classitis?
Doctype: HTML4.01 strict. Must validate.
Thanks!
Kat
Hi Kat,
I tend to mark up my tables using something like this:
table
thead
tr
th
No big layout issues at all but on a quick perusal there are few things
I've noticed:
The stripey background - close thin stripes get flickery and a bit
distracting when the page is scrolled
IE:
- the search area needs some cross-browser attention. font-sizes,
input widths and the submit
Krystian - Sunlust wrote:
IE5 ?
Each time I hear about IE5 I want to laugh, honestly, IE6 is old, and
most companies that actually create revenue in our modern times use
Vista and IE7, who would worry/use IE5?
My friend who I just finished designing website for is using IE6 but
his computer is
Lately I have coded many templates that clients wanted an element
that aligns horizontally and has it stayed at the bottom of a
content block. The only way I could think is using absolute
position, but it creates an overlapping problem with font size
resize. I am curious if there is a
Rob Enslin wrote:
Please could someone help me decide which is the most appropriate tag
to use with quotes? These are actual comments made by folk during a show.
For example:
q
pqLIW 2007 was a great show for Technogym. We showcased an
exciting 7 new products which our customers loved. LIW
Chris Pearce wrote:
Hi,
For a few years now I’ve been marking up a clients company logo as a
h1. I just wanted to get an idea of how many people actually do this
compared to using a html image tag? I believe a h1 is more
semantically correct however I’d be interested in seeing what other
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you want to look at things from that angle, then we have to make a
split between what the user wants - news, information, entertainment,
etc.
what the commissioner wants,
and what the search engines want.
All sites on the web arguable fall into one of three
Thierry Koblentz wrote:
Hi Tee,
In Magento, they use
address.../address
for customer address.
afaik, the address element is not supposed to contain this kind of
information as it is related to the people who maintain/are responsible
for the document itself (or a section of the
tee wrote:
On Jun 3, 2008, at 4:49 PM, tee wrote:
Thierry
afaik, the address element is not supposed to contain this kind of
information as it is related to the people who maintain/are
responsible
for the document itself (or a section of the document).
It's a plain English but I read
tee wrote:
On Jun 4, 2008, at 2:07 AM, Robert O'Rourke wrote:
So you could have:
defaultFormat![CDATA[
div class=vcard
div class=n{{var firstname}} {{var lastname}}/div
{{depend company}}div class=org{{var company}}/div{{/depend}}
div class=adr
span class=street-address
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
HI,
I have an ajax call in my page and while loading I am showing an
animated loading gif animation. Sometimes In IE the animated gif is
not animating.
Anybody knows why?
Thanks a ton in advance..
Thanking you
*Naveen Bhaskar *
Can you provide a
Rick Lecoat wrote:
On 13 Jun 2008, at 04:05, Jason Ray wrote:
Definition lists are for definitions, which this is not.
Not necessarily so. The W3C gives character dialogue as an example
usage of a DL http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/lists.html#h-10.3
which seems to encourage finding
Incase it hasn't come up yet the reason for doing this is pretty
straight forward. You might want to serve up the same content but with a
BIG reduction in the amount of markup used and smaller image files.
Bandwidth costs money on a mobile and your users will appreciate the
reduced costs and
Christian Montoya wrote:
Hello list. I just put up a new design at http://christianmontoya.com
and I'm just trying to make it work in IE 6. The one problem that's
left is that the legends on my fieldsets don't show up. If you view it
in IE 6 you'll see just white spaces in place of them. Can
Cole Kuryakin wrote:
Hello All -
...
First, go here with FF:
http://www.koisis.com/.clients/asdem/dev/index.php?cmd=004004
You'll notice in the UL a heading called Getting Help. In that the single
LI that follows there's a little question-mark icon (which sit's in a span
tag). That's the way
tee wrote:
I am trying to optimize a site, though the file sizes of the overall
images aren't so much of a problem but the http requests. So I am
attempting to put 10 icons in one gif file, the individual icon size
is merely 600b and the dimension is 18px by 12px.
I made a 18px by 150px to
tee wrote:
I use label:hover for a site, it's working fine when there is one
input field or radio button. But it's creating a confusion for client
on checkboxes and select option as clicking on the label text trigger
no focus /selection on checkbox or option.
One oversight I did that added
tee wrote:
Thanks Rob, and David.
If the label and the checkbox or select have matching 'for' and 'id'
attributes they should be getting focus when clicked. As far as the
value label:hover goes I tend not to make labels change colour on
hover as they may be misinterpreted as links. If you
John Horner wrote:
I adopted the use of the button element in an application I'm working
on, used like this:
a href=foo.htmlbuttonfoo/button/a
one main reason I liked buttons is that they can be disabled with an
attribute, which was useful for things like keeping a next button
everywhere,
Frank Palinkas wrote: http://dev.opera.com/articles/accessibility/
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Nick Cowie cowie.n...@gmail.com
mailto:cowie.n...@gmail.com wrote:
Rob wrote:
Buttons were mainly designed as triggers for javascript behaviour,
I disagree, if you look at the
Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 2:10 PM, michael.brocking...@bt.com wrote:
Surely the button element is REQUIRED to be enclosed in a form ??
Is it though? Just looking at HTML 4.01, I don't think it's
forbidden/invalid to have form elements outside of form
Nick Cowie wrote:
2009/2/23 Frank Palinkas fmpalin...@gmail.com:
IMHO, not very semantic in nature. We need the button element to be able to
carry a valid link-type attribute. Enclosing it in a form just don't cut it.
We are talking HTML 4 here, so to have a link you have to use an
There was a wee bug (or two!) in that link I posted, very sorry.
http://www.sanchothefat.com/dev/sfhelp/validations.php
If you validate that page now it works with the buttons outside of a
form. They do however need to be contained by a block element such as a div.
Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Robert O'Rourke r...@sanchothefat.com wrote:
I don't really know how toread the DTDs properly
Yeah, it's obscure for sure.
!ELEMENT BUTTON
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#edef-BUTTON - -
(%flow; http
James Jeffery wrote:
After reading 'Transcending CSS' I have learnt that grids are not a
replacement for table based layouts (as has been drummed into me by so
called evangelists on IRC). I understand the importance of grids in
print and non-web media and now want to start using them.
I've
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