Accessify Forum: Accessiforum & XHTML Mime Types

06 Nov 2003 10:20 pm

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Michael wrote:

At the moment, most people just offer larger fonts, which is underuse. But different colour combinations, different fonts, and different levels of contrast all affect readability.

Yes, there is a "Preferences" link in the navigation menu of the AccessiForum site so that people can select alternate stylesheets (makes use of no JavaScript), create their own stylesheets, upload their own stylesheets, and eventually I will have set up a form that lets you modify each element (if JavaScript is enabled it will be visual, but it does not require JavaScript) of the page on your own to change it to suit whatever you want if you do not know CSS. Whew, run-on sentence? Razz

Okay, I am using the XHTML 1.0 Strict DTD now, so do I need to include the XML directive for the CSS, or do I just use the LINK element? Or both? (Right now I'm using both and serving it as text/html MIME type, so I think I'm supposed to use LINK exclusively, correct?)

[J]ona

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06 Nov 2003 11:44 pm

Jona

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I've updated it, by the way. I know the "new" logo sucks eggs, but other than that tell me what you guys think about what I've done to it, lol. I did the navigation menu in EM's as TOOLman suggested, but in IE with a larger text size it overlaps the content division, although it does keep the text inside of the division block. Should I do the same for the content division to prevent this?

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07 Nov 2003 07:48 am

TOOLman

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Michael wrote:

Did you see Minz Meyer's demonstration of style-switching with the PI?

I did now. Smile

Actually, I'm using that principle myself in my eventually-to-be-launched redesign. There's a common, persistent style sheet; one preferred (set in PHP, based on cookies); and at least one alternate layout. Then there's an alternate style sheet for printing, of course (media="print").

I'm going to use the alternate style sheet for a completely different layout -- not just fonts. The initially preferred style is a kind-of 3-column thing with dark-on-light text. The alternate style will use tabs and a kind-of 2-column layout, with another color scheme altogether. The alternate laout will probably work better on small displays, since the navigation won't occupy an entire column.

Of course, I'll use <link/> when serving documents as text/html (to inferior browsers). I'll even put the IE hacks in a separate style sheet and use a conditional comment for it.

Jona wrote:

Okay, I am using the XHTML 1.0 Strict DTD now, so do I need to include the XML directive for the CSS, or do I just use the LINK element? Or both?

If you're serving the documents as text/html, use <link/>. If you're doing content negotiation in PHP, use PIs (only) when serving as application/xhtml+xml.

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07 Nov 2003 10:23 am

Michael

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Okay, I am using the XHTML 1.0 Strict DTD now, so do I need to include the XML directive for the CSS, or do I just use the LINK element? Or both? (Right now I'm using both and serving it as text/html MIME type, so I think I'm supposed to use LINK exclusively, correct?)

[J]ona

Personally, I'd stick with using <link>.

Later, if you do decide to serve pages as application/xhtml+xml, you could associate the stylesheet with the XML PI for pages served like that. I haven't done it, but I'm told another line or two changed in the header should be simple enough.

If you have a look in the comments for that link I gave earlier, you'll see that Ben de Groot gives a link to show how he does it.

Michael

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07 Nov 2003 10:02 pm

Jona

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Okay thanks, guys, that made a world of difference. Wow, I never knew there was so much to learn about headers! Shocked

Anyway, can you guys tell me what you think of the new design, please? I really am going to chang the logo, I just need something more catchy for portability... Rolling Eyes