[WSG] scrolling text and images

what the client is looking for is. http://investhawkesbay.com/ YU. I look forward to your comments. Robin. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join

Re: [WSG] scrolling text and images

out on an unfavorable situation. I just followed the link for the vertical scroll from the link you sent and that looks interesting as well. http://onlinetools.org/tools/domnews/ thanks again Robin Web Dandy Design wrote: Hi Robin, We have used scrolling text on a school website as a 't

RE: [WSG] Social Networking Site Software / Script

http://www.phpbb.com/ might be worth taking a look at. >Can anyone recommend a Social Networking Site Software / Script which is standards compliant? I've been hunting around and most scripts are table based and don't seem to be compliant/accessible. > >The script would need to have s

RE: [WSG] Idiot's guide to JavaScript

p://www.amazon.com/DOM-Scripting-Design-JavaScript-Document/dp/159059533 5/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-3623566-8462356?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194983274&sr=8-1> Scripting as a start. Good Luck Robin Hi guys, Am comfortable with HTML/CSS and accessibility in general, but st

[WSG] clearing position:absolute

n set the #nav to be position absolute but this causes the element below to move up behind the navigation. How can I clear #nav so that the next element doesn't move up behind? http://tuki.xtools.co.nz/ Regards

[WSG] contentEditable

. Has anyone had any experience or problems with using this attribute? Here is the code if anyone would like to test. http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd";> Untitled Document this is my editable div (or is it) Any comments would be most welcome. Rob

RE: [WSG] contentEditable

Ok, this is an in-house project so this may not be a problem but an excellent point. Robin Gorry Senior Web Developer Xplore Net Solutions Xplore.net Website of the Week: Weleda (Australia) - www.weleda.com.au <http://www.weleda.com.au/> Weleda has a range of anthroposophic me

RE: [WSG] Is it a good practice to have 'Back to Top' link?

How about the tabs with JS? It visually breaks the page into small parts and switch by tabs. Robin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Chiang Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 3:49 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Is it a

RE: [WSG] Is it a good practice to have 'Back to Top' link?

] Is it a good practice to have 'Back to Top' link? Robin Shi wrote: > How about the tabs with JS? It visually breaks the page into small parts and > switch by tabs. > So - the visitor comes, they read to the bottom, then they have to scroll to the top and activate the next tab (a

RE: [WSG] Is it a good practice to have 'Back to Top' link?

Oh I did miss the point. You were talking about those small screens and the users really don't like scrolling. In that case, what if put the tabs on the bottom of the page? Robin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Dorward

RE: [WSG] Is it a good practice to have 'Back to Top' link?

using the JS to position the div. If the page has been scrolled down or up, whatever, the JS will reposition the div to make sure it's not outside of the view. But I don't like this crazy idea because 1. it increases the page-load; 2. a lot of work to do with media="print" Ch

RE: [WSG] Is it a good practice to have 'Back to Top' link?

Hi Blake, In my experience, "position: fixed" seems not work with IE. Robin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Blake Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 10:06 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Is it a good practi

RE: [WSG] .NET sites which are XHTML 1.0 strict

http://www.mucu4u.org.nz/Home_61.aspx http://www.oneeast.co.nz/ http://www.colorfastsigns.co.nz/Home_34.aspx Robin Gorry Senior Web Developer Xplore Net Solutions Xplore.net Website of the Week: Weleda (Australia) - www.weleda.com.au Weleda has a range of anthroposophic medicine - the

[WSG] object element in front of all content

or ie. Thank you Robin. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***

RE: [WSG] object element in front of all content

Joshua I could do that , and is looking like I may have to but I was just trying to see if I was missing anything obvious or if there was a fix somebody knew about. Regards Robin Why not just use a transitional doctype? On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Robin Gorry wrote: Hi

[WSG] Inserting text in IE8

n the cursor is placed. See here for very simple example. http://robing.xtools.co.nz/demo_cms/test_editor/ Any idea's why? Robin. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubsc

[WSG] inserting text in to IE8

when the cursor is placed. See here for very simple example. http://robing.xtools.co.nz/demo_cms/test_editor/ Any idea's why? Robin. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubsc

RE: [WSG] inserting text in to IE8

it in, it is only when you place your cursor and try and paste in then. Like I said it worked fine in ie6 and 7 so I have submitted it to Microsoft as a bug. We'll see what happens Robin From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Pet

RE: [WSG] inserting text in to IE8

Thanks Katrina, For any javascript problems the first place I look is quriksmode.com. unfortunatly if you want to support IE you have to fork your code ie one section for IE one for the rest. All I can put this down to is a bug in ie 8 rc1. Robin -Original Message- From: li

[WSG] bluring vertical dotted border is bluring

I am putting together this template and for some reason in IE the first vertical dotted border has areas in it that look bold, Can anyone see why? http://eyecatcher.xtools.co.nz/ Thank you. Robin *** List

[WSG] floating image

float: left;     margin: 5px 10px 2px 0; }   .left p { color: #000; text-align: center; }   (you can change the margins and text size/color to suit)   HTML:   Insert photo insert caption   Robin Button      

[WSG] Color Schemes

Mike: Try this link for color schemes: http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html Robin From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2004 9:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: digest for [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [WSG] Link behavior

and have a background. You might try either removing (or increasing) #navbar a {height: 1em;} or the background colour on #navbar a. -- Robin Berjon Senior Research Scientist Expway, http://expway.com/ ** The discussion list

[WSG] Announcing the W3C Web APIs and Web Application Formats WGs

t to what is being worked on, etc. The WGs will also soon have blogs so that design decisions, hesitations, internal discussions can be tracked from outside. Thanks for your attention, I look forward to working with some of you over there! -- Robin Berjon Senior Research Scientis

[WSG] Out of Office AutoReply: digest for wsg@webstandardsgroup.org

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Re: [WSG] The Evils of innerHTML

nience DOM helpers for instance to use JSON to describe the tree structure you want and convert that into a real DOM tree isn't overly difficult. -- Robin Berjon Senior Research Scientist Expway, http://expway.com/ ** The disc

Re: [WSG] Web design education

Hi John,How long ago was this per chance?I find your comments very interesting because it's taken right from direct experience in formal web education (albeit to graphic designers at the time).In essense, higher/further education guidelines (IT/Graphic Design or otherwise) don't seem to be able to

[WSG] transparent background of png

? Cheers guys. Robin Gorry Senior Web Developer Xplore Net Solutions d: 00 64 (0)6 834 24 84 f: 00 64 (0)6 834 24 86 e : <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: www.xplore.net <http://www.xplore.net/> Take control of your website - ask me today about Xsite-tomor

RE: [WSG] transparent background of png

Thanks to all who contributed to this thread and helped me out. Robin Gorry Senior Web Developer Xplore Net Solutions d: 00 64 (0)6 834 24 84 f: 00 64 (0)6 834 24 86 e : [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: www.xplore.net Take control of your website - ask me today about Xsite-tomorrows Content

RE: [WSG] scrolling text and images

ion for the javascript-less and using for the alternative, but your suggestion for the off screen div I think is a great idea. On 5/3/07, Richard McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robin wrote: > > I have been asked by a client for an area on his website that will have > > sc

RE: [WSG] Content Management issue ?

based Robin I'm surprised no one has really commented on Joomla! I've read the feedback and reviews on Joomla and not only is it free and open source CMS, you're able to customise and add extensions as appropriate for your client. Check out the demo at: http://demo.joomla

[WSG] z-index problem

r.jpg); background-repeat: no-repeat; } which works ok, excepting that the rightcol sometimes goes over the top of the footer (ie when text is resized larger), despite having a lower z-index. Any thoughts why this is happening and how to fix it? TIA > Robin G

[WSG] Windows Accessibility Options High-Contrast

mail/ are rendered the same size in High Contrast, despite being font-size: 135%; and font-size: 118%; in the WSG stylesheet. Appreciate any leads. Ciao > Robin Gallagher > DSTO Intranet & Internet Manager > (03) 9626 7386 > > *

[WSG] help with IE 3-pixel bug

e/explorer/threepxtest.html but can't get it to work so far. I'd appreciate any alternative solutions, advice, etc. Ta > Robin Gallagher > ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mai

[WSG] help with IE 3-pixel bug

browsers Thanks Gunlaug & Chris > Robin Gallagher > ** 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] float (?) problem with Safari

t only affects Safari. Any suggestions appreciated. TIA > Robin Gallagher > ** 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] print css crashing ie6

Hi I've got a 3-column css page that crashes IE6 when I try to print or print preview. Can anyone suggest a possible cause? Thanks > Robin Gallagher > > ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.o

Any experiments with SMIL for menus? (was Re: [WSG] search engine question)

or menu deactivation that degrade very easily to browser that don't support it (and could probably have a script fallback for applicable cases). -- Robin Berjon ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://w

Re: Any experiments with SMIL for menus? (was Re: [WSG] search engine question)

Patrick H. Lauke wrote: Robin Berjon wrote: SMIL has simple ways of handling this sort of thing including with timers for menu deactivation that degrade very easily to browser that don't support it (and could probably have a script fallback for applicable cases). To be honest, I think

Re: [WSG] mutli language websites

ra feature of negotiating the default language rarely seems worth it. -- Robin Berjon ** 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] ® character

, congratulations, you have not wasted time figuring out useless technology :) Yet another reason to forget about the whole mess with entities and just use UTF-8. -- Robin Berjon Research Scientist Expway, http://expway.com/ ** The discussion list for

Re: [WSG] Valid characters in ID attribute

Chris Taylor wrote: Great, thanks. I'm very pleased that I can use periods and colons, that makes it much easier. Not sure this applies to your case but note that colons are fine in HTML but forbidden in XHTML. -- Robin Berjon Senior Research Scientist Expway, http://expwa

[WSG] resizing problem

s you would expect, just keeps reducing. Can anyone suggest the cause of this behaviour and a remedy? TIA Robin Gallagher

Re: [WSG] HR - Presentation or Structure?

ur text for the single purpose of having that separation marked out when such structure would be otherwise meaningless. In musical terms it is more of a rest than other structuring devices such as bars. I believe it was renamed from because (like ) it is not necessarily horizontal. -- Robin

Re: [WSG] CSS 3 color module and deprecation of "system" colors

say the least). Several previous attempts to convince them that they were wrong have failed, but by all means please to do send your remarks to www-style, perhaps they will eventually be convinced? -- Robin Berjon Senior Research Scientist Expway, http://expway.com

Re: [WSG] CSS 3 color module and deprecation of "system" colors

e high contrast). If it's not broken don't deprecate it. -- Robin Berjon Senior Research Scientist Expway, http://expway.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guideli

Re: [WSG] CSS 3 color module and deprecation of "system" colors

t as far a phishing and spoofing, and getting a client to thing your actually part of the browser when your not? Well they're already there (and have been in browsers since 98) so it's a bit late to worry about that :) -- Robin Berjon Senior Research Scientist Expwa

[WSG] Container primer?

It appears from some of the postings here that the use of Containers is considered to be superior to the use of Table.  Is there a guide available to converting old beggers like me from Tables to Containers?   Regards RobinClear skies and warm feet! (expat Brit in Czech Republic)Location: N 50°08'4

RE: [WSG] Container primer?

Thanks for the info.  Whilst waiting for books to be delivered I have found this site.  Thought it might be useful to other aged ones, such as myself, to whom HTML used to mean "High tea mi' Lord?": http://www.elated.com/tutorials/authoring/css/   Regards RobinClear skies and warm feet! (expat Brit

[WSG] Containers and frames

the RPEHLM gif.  No matter what I do it always extends well below the bottom edge of the gif.  Any ideas?   Regards Robin PS. I have big bucket of very cold water ready for the flames :-))Clear skies and warm feet! (expat Brit in Czech Republic)Location: N 50°08'46.6"; E 14°20'01.4" Ele: 872ft

[WSG] Converting Table to Div tutorial?

Is there some sort of tutorial available, preferably on-line, for converting HTML tables to div's?  If you know of one please let me know where it is.   Thanks RobinClear skies and warm feet! (expat Brit in Czech Republic)Location: N 50°08'46.6"; E 14°20'01.4" Ele: 872ft

[WSG] IE div problem

p://www.andrewjoy.com/newsite/ CSS: http://www.andrewjoy.com/newsite/main.css Does somebody have an idea or suggestion? Greetz, Robin ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help **