Freelancers Forum Messages on Wednesday January 10th 2007
Re: FN-FORUM: Accessible Website Tutorial Site
date posted 10th January 2007 21:48
Tony Crockford wrote:
> even the experts find it hard to agree on how useful "accesskeys" can be
> - there are no standards for key allocation, so the net result is
> potential clashes with UA's -...
Re: FN-FORUM: Accessible Website Tutorial Site
date posted 10th January 2007 21:44
I do agree with you on that... however isn't alot of web design like that?
there are alot of different ways of doing things in web design all with
their pros and cons however the more information av...
Re: FN-FORUM: Accessible Website Tutorial Site
date posted 10th January 2007 21:35
Andy Henderson wrote:
> I think the problem would be to make it authoritative. The Internet is
> awash with opinions but it's hard to know which to trust. If a new site
> could overcome that issue,...
RE: FN-FORUM: Accessible Website Tutorial Site
date posted 10th January 2007 21:02
James Herrington wrote:
> I was thinking about developing a site with more information about
> this subject as not only would it help raise awareness of the subject
> but it would also help me get a...
Re: FN-FORUM: Accounting software
date posted 10th January 2007 20:05
How so ?
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> Terry Price
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RE: FN-FORUM: Accounting software
date posted 10th January 2007 19:56
Goes to show my point even more, nobody gets it...=20
Best Regards
Terry Price
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Re: Challenge Response (Was: FN-FORUM: XML Question (verification))
date posted 10th January 2007 19:54
> Having posted a message to the list here, I have received an email from
> 'Justin' [EMAIL REMOVED] wanting me to verify my email
> address.
>
> Anyone using challenge/response for list traffic shoul...
Re: Challenge Response (Was: Re: FN-FORUM: XML Question (verification))
date posted 10th January 2007 19:52
>> If you dont want spam, be careful what you do with your email address
>> online, simple > as that.
>
> With respect, it's not as simple as all that. I receive upwards of 300
> spam messages a...
FN-FORUM: Accessible Website Tutorial Site
date posted 10th January 2007 19:50
I have been reading through the posts about designing accessible websites
and have noticed that alot of web designers are unsure how to make their
websites more accessible (me being one of them)!
C...
Re: FN-FORUM: RE: Adding an accessibility bar to a website - thoughts please
date posted 10th January 2007 18:43
Ben Moxon wrote:
> For some reason I find the cover disturbing. I suspect certain Christmas
> Island domains are to blame...
yeah, I share the same shudder every time I see it, and thumbnails like...
Re: FN-FORUM: RE: Adding an accessibility bar to a website - thoughts please
date posted 10th January 2007 18:39
Gary Short wrote:
> Screen readers are a great boon and they are much better than they used to be.
> They are great (and practicle) for static pages but, as I said, they web is an
> interactive place...
Re: FN-FORUM: RE: Adding an accessibility bar to a website - thoughts please
date posted 10th January 2007 18:13
On Wednesday 10 Jan 2007 4:18 pm, Ben Moxon wrote:
> For some reason I find the cover disturbing. I suspect certain Christma=
s
> Island domains are to blame...
!
--=20
5: When responding to a post...
FN-FORUM: RE: Adding an accessibility bar to a website - thoughts please
date posted 10th January 2007 18:11
I used to work at the Access Technology support unit at the RNIB so it was
my job to get all the technology for the blind and partially sighted staff
over the country. It's a big area and there seemed...
RE: FN-FORUM: Date conversion problem
date posted 10th January 2007 17:43
Aha!
I think the problem was staring me in the face all the time.
The problem date was "2007-01-03T19.52.51" in an xml value that is always
program generated.
However, I always generate dates in th...
RE: FN-FORUM: Date conversion problem
date posted 10th January 2007 17:15
>>>Have you tried taking the T out of the string? Its a pretty standard
format, which I've used with Cdate before but I've never seen it with a T in
place....
Re: FN-FORUM: RE: Adding an accessibility bar to a website - thoughts please
date posted 10th January 2007 17:13
I think the idea of making the web more accessible is a really good idea, I
think persuing ideas and such will be good because with the technical
advances that we are seeing regularly it would be go...
RE: FN-FORUM: XML Question
date posted 10th January 2007 16:55
Sounds like classic web services to me. And if the connection between
the servers is down for some reason it wouldn't matter what process you
used.
Unless you completely replicate all the data that y...
Re: FN-FORUM: Back-up software.
date posted 10th January 2007 16:30
yes wait for Leopard to come out and use Time Machine
or if you can't wait try www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/
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Regards
Peter Stubbs
Applejack
http://www.applejack.co.uk...
FN-FORUM: Back-up software.
date posted 10th January 2007 16:15
Hi
Can anyone recommend a good back-up software for Mac OSX. I have used
retrospect but was wondering if there is any other alternative
applications out there.
Many thanks
Malcolm
Product...
RE: FN-FORUM: RE: Adding an accessibility bar to a website - thoughts please
date posted 10th January 2007 16:00
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Re: FN-FORUM: RE: Adding an accessibility bar to a website - thoughts please
date posted 10th January 2007 15:52
I do know what you are saying, and a year or two ago hearing 'website for
the blind' would of prompted a WTF response from me but I've learnt other
wise. There are of course other more easier option...
Re: FN-FORUM: RE: Adding an accessibility bar to a website - thoughts please
date posted 10th January 2007 15:47
Duncan Glendinning wrote:
> I am just starting on building what needs to be a fully compliant web
> site, and wanted your thoughts on accessibility features and having an
> accessibility bar on the si...
Re: FN-FORUM: RE: Adding an accessibility bar to a website - thoughts please
date posted 10th January 2007 15:44
Just found this site: http://www.accesskeys.org/
Maybe it will cover a lot of the requirements, recommendations. Anyone
got time to peruse and feedback?
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Dominic Raywood
Rubicon Computer Services...
RE: FN-FORUM: Date conversion problem
date posted 10th January 2007 15:44
>>>OK, well, it was just a hunch and a suggestion. If you Google around,
you'll find that problems with the old Microsoft.VisualBasic like CDate
conversion functions do exist - have a search for CDat...
Re: FN-FORUM: RE: Adding an accessibility bar to a website - thoughts please
date posted 10th January 2007 15:41
One quite simple thing to add is Access Keys -
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.11.2 for info.
One example site is http://www.puretrust.org.uk/Accessibility.aspx
Can't say I've ev...
RE: FN-FORUM: RE: Adding an accessibility bar to a website - thoughts please
date posted 10th January 2007 15:38
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RE: FN-FORUM: RE: Adding an accessibility bar to a website - thoughts please
date posted 10th January 2007 15:34
I think it's more to do with having your HTML coded so that screen readers
can easily pick up the text in the right order and speak it out (they're
pieces of software)
I'd suggest getting the most po...
Re: FN-FORUM: RE: Adding an accessibility bar to a website - thoughts please
date posted 10th January 2007 15:29
Duncan Glendinning wrote:
>
> I wanted to know if anyone can point me to any good tutorials about
> how to do these, but also what other accessibility features could be
> built into the site.
I don'...
Re: FN-FORUM: RE: Adding an accessibility bar to a website - thoughts please
date posted 10th January 2007 15:28
try this link: http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex9/textsizer.htm
that my help.
Martin
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Re: FN-FORUM: RE: Adding an accessibility bar to a website - thoughts please
date posted 10th January 2007 15:26
For the visually impared large amounts of text would be hard to read so
audio would be good.
As for your "websites for the blind, WTF!". What happens there is someone
will help with the navigation...
Re: FN-FORUM: RE: Adding an accessibility bar to a website - thoughts please
date posted 10th January 2007 15:18
Gary,
Yes, websites for the blind. Ever heard of screen readers?
Duncan...
RE: FN-FORUM: RE: Adding an accessibility bar to a website - thoughts please
date posted 10th January 2007 15:13
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Re: FN-FORUM: RE: Adding an accessibility bar to a website - thoughts please
date posted 10th January 2007 15:00
I've never really come across any tutorials but for your question about
accessibility options you can do things like have important text also
available in audio format for the visually impared and t...
FN-FORUM: RE: Adding an accessibility bar to a website - thoughts please
date posted 10th January 2007 14:48
Hi there,
I am just starting on building what needs to be a fully compliant web
site, and wanted your thoughts on accessibility features and having an
accessibility bar on the site.
I have seen these...
RE: FN-FORUM: Date conversion problem
date posted 10th January 2007 14:27
> Thanks for that response. However, this code has been out in the field
for
> many years without any previous problems. Cdate might be 'legacy' but
it's
> still perfectly valid and supported, so I'...
Re: FN-FORUM: Date conversion problem
date posted 10th January 2007 14:12
Have you tried taking the T out of the string? Its a pretty standard
format, which I've used with Cdate before but I've never seen it with a
T in place.
Also Andrew suggested a fix:
Try using the...
RE: FN-FORUM: XML Question
date posted 10th January 2007 14:02
>>>If XML is the answer how does it get parsed from one server to the
next?...
RE: FN-FORUM: Date conversion problem
date posted 10th January 2007 13:52
Thanks for that response. However, this code has been out in the field for
many years without any previous problems. Cdate might be 'legacy' but it's
still perfectly valid and supported, so I'm pret...
Re: FN-FORUM: Quirks introduced by Internet Security applications?
date posted 10th January 2007 12:35
Ben Moxon wrote:
>
> So I've asked about problems to do with this a few times now and I've
> not really found an answer so maybe it's only something I'm running
> into, but does anyone know of any...
Re: FN-FORUM: XML Question
date posted 10th January 2007 12:29
Hi Dave,
> Surely most databases have
> networking support.
Yes, but you cannot relly on that. if on the same server it is nice
and easy, if on seperate servers you need to consider inconsistan...
Re: Challenge Response (Was: FN-FORUM: XML Question (verification))
date posted 10th January 2007 12:29
I'm not a fan either, but have no objections to others using them as
long as they know how to use them properly.
Having posted a message to the list here, I have received an email from
'Justin' [EM...
FN-FORUM: Quirks introduced by Internet Security applications?
date posted 10th January 2007 12:20
So I've asked about problems to do with this a few times now and I've
not really found an answer so maybe it's only something I'm running
into, but does anyone know of any sites enumerating the desi...
Re: FN-FORUM: Any Flash Gurus here?
date posted 10th January 2007 11:59
> are you talking about an SWF or an FLA?
I have the SWF, but not the FLA and the original 'developer' has gone
walkies.
However it can be decompiled and there are a number of tools out there,
and...
RE: FN-FORUM: Date conversion problem
date posted 10th January 2007 11:52
> The VB.net code that is causing the problem is:
> CDate(xmlChannel.SelectSingleNode("CheckDue").InnerText)
The CDate is a legacy date conversion function from VB6 - this might (might)
be causing yo...
FN-FORUM: XML Question
date posted 10th January 2007 11:48
Hi Andrew and Dave
Thanks for getting back to me so quickly.
Your right I should have given more detail. (Dave) The other website that needs
updating is in another country on another server compl...
RE: Challenge Response (Was: Re: FN-FORUM: XML Question (verification))
date posted 10th January 2007 11:44
> If you dont want spam, be careful what you do with your email address =
online, simple > as that.
With respect, it's not as simple as all that. I receive upwards of 300 =
spam messages a day from...
FN-FORUM: Date conversion problem
date posted 10th January 2007 11:40
I publish a free RSS Aggregator, and one of my users has just sent in an
error log that shows the program failed with:
Cast non valido dalla stringa "2007-01-03T16.43.51" al tipo 'Date'.
Which I tra...
Re: FN-FORUM: XML Question
date posted 10th January 2007 11:31
Quoting Julian Voelcker [EMAIL REMOVED]
>
>> Can anyone give me any directions?
>
> Are the sites on the same server - if they are they could read the
> updates from the same database.
This seems to...
Re: Challenge Response (Was: Re: FN-FORUM: XML Question (verification))
date posted 10th January 2007 11:22
Dave,
First of all, is Cross your surname or just how you feel at the moment :)
Personally, they don't annoy me; but I can't say I have ever clicked =20
to confirm any. So to that end, the person...
Re: FN-FORUM: Any Flash Gurus here?
date posted 10th January 2007 11:20
Do you not have the fla? This might be what you want...
http://www.sothink.com/product/flashdecompiler/
Paul
On 10 Jan 2007 11:19:50 -0000, Julian Voelcker [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I hav...
RE: Challenge Response (Was: Re: FN-FORUM: XML Question (verification))
date posted 10th January 2007 11:17
I dont know how much you hate them to be able to compare ;) but I have no love for them. It just makes me think that whoever you're trying to email thinks they're 'special' enough for people to make...
Re: Challenge Response (Was: Re: FN-FORUM: XML Question (verification))
date posted 10th January 2007 11:13
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:55:18AM -0000, Dave Cross wrote:
>
> Does anyone else hate challenge response systems[1] as much as I do. I
> think that requiring people to jump through hoops is just ru...
Challenge Response (Was: Re: FN-FORUM: XML Question (verification))
date posted 10th January 2007 11:07
Does anyone else hate challenge response systems[1] as much as I do. I =20
think that requiring people to jump through hoops is just rude in =20
order to send you mail is just rude and I'll never clic...
RE: FN-FORUM: XML Question
date posted 10th January 2007 11:03
Hi Andrew and Dave
Thanks for getting back to me so quickly.
Your right I should have given more detail. (Dave) The other website that needs
updating is in another country on another server complete...
Re: FN-FORUM: XML Question
date posted 10th January 2007 10:59
> Can anyone give me any directions?
Are the sites on the same server - if they are they could read the
updates from the same database.
Failing that and assuming you are using MS technologies you c...
RE: FN-FORUM: Any Flash Gurus here?
date posted 10th January 2007 10:48
are you talking about an SWF or an FLA? backwards compilation of SWF's in order to make changes is, as far as I know, not possible.
if its the FLA chuck it my way and I'll see what I can do - quiet d...
RE: FN-FORUM: XML Question
date posted 10th January 2007 10:46
XML would do it, but an alternative would be to use a scripted FTP transfer to copy the DB from one location to another (unless they're on the same server, in which case a scripted move would do it) a...
Re: FN-FORUM: XML Question
date posted 10th January 2007 10:43
Quoting [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Dear Forum
>
> I think XML Parsing is the answer here but I would like to check =20
> with you guys!
>
> I have a website which is being updated and has a SQL database with...
RE: FN-FORUM: XML Question
date posted 10th January 2007 10:42
Anthony,
You might be able to do this automatically - have a look into the
replication features of SQL Server (I assume this is SQL Server we're
talking about). Are the databases on the same server,...
FN-FORUM: Any Flash Gurus here?
date posted 10th January 2007 10:31
Hi,
I have a small flash file for a site that needs hacking/opening to get
an address changed and then recompiled.
Anyone here have the tools/capacity to do this for me?
I would do it myself, but...
FN-FORUM: XML Question
date posted 10th January 2007 10:26
Dear Forum
I think XML Parsing is the answer here but I would like to check with you guys!
I have a website which is being updated and has a SQL database with the updated
information.
There is an...
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