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Author: | Trenton: view profile | all posts by this author | add to favourites | |
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Date: | 16:53:40 16 July 2004 | |
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Hi Dan
Glad you like the site! I think there is a warning about the newsletter opening in a new window as the submit button has a title tag assigned to it - not perfect, but this is changing in a few weeks as we're changing how we manage the newsletter.
With regards to the place-holding text in the search box, you're probably the 1,000,000 who's brought that up! The W3C rule on this says "Until user agents handle empty controls correctly ... " From what we're aware, most modern screen readers can now handle input boxes without place-holding text. As far as I'm aware the same applies for adjacent link text too.
Just had a look at your site too - it's quite sad really but I get so excited when I see good stylesheets, standard compliance and a good looking website all in action together! Nice one!
Ten ways to speed up the download time of your website, Trenton, 13 Jul 17:49 Avoid tables for layoutHere are six reasons why pages that use CSS for layout download faster than tabular pages:
- Browsers read through tables twice before downloading them ... Ten ways to speed up the download time of your website, Dan Zambonini, 14 Jul 09:21 (How come I've used CSS since it came out, yet I didn't know about the 'font' shortcut? Blimey...).
Anyway, a couple more ideas along similar lines can be ... Ten ways to speed up the download time of your website, textor, 15 Jul 11:53 But I havn't been able to find out how to do multi-column tables using CSS that works with mozilla. Does anyone have a reference? ... Ten ways to speed up the download time of your website, Dan Zambonini, 15 Jul 11:57.. Ten ways to speed up the download time of your website, textor, 15 Jul 12:44.. Ten ways to speed up the download time of your website, Dan Zambonini, 16 Jul 09:24..
What I meant was: if you just want a 'table' (as in tabular data), then use <table>, surely? If, however, you're talking abo ... Ten ways to speed up the download time of your website, textor, 16 Jul 12:40 As simple as that.
Except the code you propose doesn't seem to work with Mozilla.
Bob ... Ten ways to speed up the download time of your website, Dan Zambonini, 16 Jul 13:05.. strange... that's the exact type of solution we used in the redesign of our site (http://www.boxuk.com), which works fine in all the Mozilla versions I've tested.
Do you ... Ten ways to speed up the download time of your website, textor, 16 Jul 17:44/dev.textor.com/test/css.html
the third column (blue) appears on the next line with firefox..
I can make it work by having the third column floatin ... Re: Ten ways to speed up the download time of your website, Alex Chudnovsky, 16 Jul 15:50 Use / at the end of directory links
Don’t do this: <a href="http://www.URL.com/directoryname">
Do this instead: <a href="http:/ ... Re: Ten ways to speed up the download time of your website, Dan Zambonini, 16 Jul 16:02 or never), I am dubious about any performance ga ... Re: Ten ways to speed up the download time of your website, Alex Chudnovsky, 16 Jul 16:21 I’ve experienced it at least once - I’m not sure if it was the app ... Re: Ten ways to speed up the download time of your website, Trenton, 16 Jul 16:32 Trenton posted example of CSS usage in tables-for-presentation context.Check out the links in this post: http://www.e-consultancy.com/forum/101232-accessible-does ... Re: Ten ways to speed up the download time of your website, Dan Zambonini, 16 Jul 16:41XHTML - it's great to see people using this!!! Very commendable.
One minor niggle though - you claim AAA compliance on the site, but there are at least ... Re: Ten ways to speed up the download time of your website, Alex Chudnovsky, 16 Jul 16:53XHTML - it’s great to see people using this!!! Very commendable.
I have to join Dan in his praise ... Re: Ten ways to speed up the download time of your website, Trenton, 16 Jul 16:53.. Re: Ten ways to speed up the download time of your website, Dan Zambonini, 16 Jul 17:02reap the rewards from it in the future!
It's a shame at the moment, in that XHTML sites don't really provide the user with that much extra value (I ... Re: Ten ways to speed up the download time of your website, Trenton, 16 Jul 17:07ll be nice to have version 2 of the standard out, which will hopefully be a bit more up to date!
Definitely, although the more the W3C dev ... Re: Ten ways to speed up the download time of your website, textor, 16 Jul 17:49 There is another message pair when you omit the slash. I am pretty sure about this but stand ready to be corrected. ... Re: Ten ways to speed up the download time of your website, Alex Chudnovsky, 16 Jul 20:18 There is another message pair when you omit the slash. I am pretty sure about this ... Re: Ten ways to speed up the download time of your website, Dan Zambonini, 17 Jul 02:04.. Re: Ten ways to speed up the download time of your website, Alex Chudnovsky, 17 Jul 13:16m afraid my original message (and indeed Trenton’s) was correct (I wasn’t imagining things!) - the server does respond with ... Re: Ten ways to speed up the download time of your website, textor, 19 Jul 08:24.. Re: Ten ways to speed up the download time of your website, textor, 19 Jul 08:27>which depends on latency, so 56k users will feel it more than broadband ones<<
Sorry to be a pedant again, but the latency would not depend on the speed in bits per second. T ... Re: Ten ways to speed up the download time of your website, Alex Chudnovsky, 19 Jul 09:35>which depends on latency, so 56k users will feel it more than broadband ones<<
Sorry to be a pedant again, but the latency would ... Re: Ten ways to speed up the download time of your website, textor, 19 Jul 10:23
The buses are red on at least one side as well.
Bob ... Re: Ten ways to speed up the download time of your website, Alex Chudnovsky, 19 Jul 10:31
The buses are red on at least one side as well.
No its fine, its good to taste my own medicine fro ... Re: Ten ways to speed up the download time of your website, textor, 19 Jul 10:43 He said 'Red'. Then paused and added 'Well on at least one side'.
Bob ... Re: Ten ways to speed up the download time of your website, Dan Zambonini, 19 Jul 09:07.. Re: Ten ways to speed up the download time of your website, Alex Chudnovsky, 19 Jul 09:44.. Ten ways to speed up the download time of your website, Nucleus Limited, 16 Jul 15:58
Here's one:
www.codekko.co.uk ... Ten ways to speed up the download time of your website, nickharrison, 7 Aug 01:28rules that have been discussed here - consider a more technical-based way of speeding up downloads, which has several business benefits and really ...
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