Greetings, In FF, I cannot get the following link to "find" the target - although it gets close... ...
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Axel Berger
absalom_nemini
Nov 7, 2007 4:33 pm
... I don't see what you mean. Firefox 1.5.0.12 and Opera 9.24 do exactly the same thing. But neither Netscape 4.8 nor IE 5.5 seem to be able to use an ID as...
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WV-Mike
mikebreiding
Nov 7, 2007 5:13 pm
... I have had the FF behavior verified by others but not the Opera behavior. Opera Works fine for me. So does IE. ... I just switched from name to ID. Back...
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Corl DeLuna
corl_deluna
Nov 7, 2007 6:04 pm
Hi Mike, I use both name and ID: <a href="#a1"><a name="a1" id="a1"></a> <!-- match anchor link name --></a> <a name="a1" id="a1"></a> <!-- match anchor link...
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loro
yastupidhoo
Nov 8, 2007 12:22 am
... That can't be right. IE has been able to use an id as an anchor since IE4 IIRC. Netscape 4 - that's another cup of tea. Mike, I see no problem with your...
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WV-Mike
mikebreiding
Nov 8, 2007 12:36 am
... Weird. I must have some gremlins in my connection! Thanks, -Mike...
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Axel Berger
absalom_nemini
Nov 8, 2007 9:26 am
... Both FF and Opera do the same thing here, they choose the anchor and place it right at the top of the window. As you have anchored the description beneath...
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WV-Mike
mikebreiding
Nov 8, 2007 11:02 am
... Greetings, I added the image dimensions, but I see now I missed a few. I will go back and fix these and then see what happens. To be on the safe side I...
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Axel Berger
absalom_nemini
Nov 8, 2007 11:39 am
... I wouldn't if it was me. The decided advantage of the ID is, that you can add it to any existing semantic tag, while the <a name needs to be a separate...
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WV-Mike
mikebreiding
Nov 8, 2007 12:00 pm
... Hi Axel, To be sure I know what you mean: A semantic tag would be <p>, etc and unsemantic element would be <img and ??? If I am understanding you correctly...
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WV-Mike
mikebreiding
Nov 8, 2007 12:44 pm
... I wanted to revisit the necessity of using ALT "tags". ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt_attribute "Alternative text is especially useful in the...
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Axel Berger
absalom_nemini
Nov 8, 2007 2:01 pm
... No, a semantic element is one, that tells you something about the content and must or should be there irrespective of layout like: this is a paragraph this...
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Axel Berger
absalom_nemini
Nov 8, 2007 2:28 pm
... There is one exception, when I only write ALT="Bild"; or ALT="Image" and that's when I make an image plus it's caption into a table (imho this makes it...
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loro
yastupidhoo
Nov 8, 2007 4:34 pm
... Why? Why not use an empty alt? If the alt text isn't needed, well, it isn't needed. Who benefits from being told an image is an image? ... Isn't title...
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Axel Berger
absalom_nemini
Nov 8, 2007 5:36 pm
... For that yes, but the ALT tag is needed too and e.g. IE treats ALT as it should treat TITLE. ... Well for one thing the ALT is compulsory in the standard....
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WV-Mike
mikebreiding
Nov 8, 2007 8:10 pm
The more I read about this ( again), the more confused I get. I have this for my DOCTYPE: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" ...
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Marcelo Listas
mcbastos
Nov 8, 2007 8:36 pm
... This is fine, as long as your page DOES validate as HTML 4.01 strict. ... Both are correct. Which one to use depends on whether you are using UTF-8 to...
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Cary Driscoll
eidirsceoil
Nov 8, 2007 8:36 pm
With NoteTab you should use charset=iso-8859-1 WV-Mike wrote: The more I read about this ( again), the more confused I get. [Non-text portions of this message...
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WV-Mike
mikebreiding
Nov 8, 2007 8:44 pm
... As in: "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" ? -mb...
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Corl DeLuna
corl_deluna
Nov 8, 2007 8:52 pm
Hi Mike, I use: <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> Best, Corl _____ From: ntb-html@yahoogroups.com...
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Axel Berger
absalom_nemini
Nov 8, 2007 9:01 pm
... No the two are completely independant of one another. ... This is fine but it tends to be a bit fundamentalist about separation of content and layout. I...
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WV-Mike
mikebreiding
Nov 8, 2007 9:01 pm
... Except for two errors it does: http://tinyurl.com/yokfja The target="_blank" I do not want to change. The "<li id="currentpage">" is from the PHP include...
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Axel Berger
absalom_nemini
Nov 8, 2007 9:05 pm
... Careful here! 8859-1 and Win-1252 are nearly identical, but not quite. The most frequent error from this misdeclaration is the euro sign €. So this will...
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Axel Berger
absalom_nemini
Nov 8, 2007 9:15 pm
... No. In practice, as far as I know, this route is only open to you if you run your own server. But you can turn it off. In my case the server sent a...
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WV-Mike
mikebreiding
Nov 8, 2007 9:24 pm
Thanks, ALL!! My brain is fried right now and I will pick this back up tomorrow. -mb ===========...
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sisterscape
Nov 8, 2007 10:10 pm
... That's the one I use also. sisterscape __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam...
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Corl DeLuna
corl_deluna
Nov 8, 2007 10:32 pm
For clarification I use this charset based on the following article on accessibility "How to Make Accessible Web Content Using Dreamweaver" ...
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Axel Berger
absalom_nemini
Nov 8, 2007 10:51 pm
... I agree, 8859-1 is very well supported. My main point is, if you declare it, make sure you use it. If you want to be sure never to use an undeclared...
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loro
yastupidhoo
Nov 8, 2007 11:39 pm
... It also treats title as it should treat title. So alt for tooltips isn't needed. ... The attribute is. It isn't required to have a value. Lotta...
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Cary Driscoll
eidirsceoil
Nov 8, 2007 11:58 pm
Which is why I avoid the problem altogether with utf-8 in my html editor. How I wish it were possible for unicode to be implemented in NoteTab. ... From: "Axel...
