Hi David, Christian, and Gabriele, Gabriele wrote:
> >> http://www.css-zibaldone.com/the-css-switch-project/november-2006/shapes/ > >> > >> a little tribute to Tantek and Mark Schenk. enjoy! > >> > >> ps. I've not specified the exact versions of the various browsers. all > >> apologies. the latest versions, of course. otherwise, as specified. > >> Christian wrote: > > This keeps cropping up as an amazing new CSS discovery. Can anyone > > think of a situation where this would be useful? It is like using a > > lot of HTML, background colours and spacer GIFs to paint an image. David wrote: >If you gotta ask, you'll never kow :-D . >I forgot who said that. LOL! I have been looking for a better way to handle a problem at work. We have a number of product specification sheets usually written in MS Word--the problem is that many of them have what the boss considers important items highlighted which works fine in the various Word versions in use (including some very old ones on hand-me-down computers) except for a document highlighted in violet. When printed out this is nearly illegible what with the dark shade of purple used in the limited color menu for highlighting. I tried some other ways to put a color behind text but all were poor in some way; currently the document is in use highlighted in pink. I then (yesterday) started, stealing a moment at a time, to try to work out something in HTML and CSS (Back on topic!) but it is slow going. I keep tripping over the defaults for handling printing text and backgrounds; it is possible one of the "useful?" methods will offer me something. Putting a bottom border on the line above and using relative position to drop it down under the following line has some promise but I can't just type a line in white text on the white background as it shows up in the printed result. Since this is strictly for a local file and we use IE6 at work, I only need it to work one document at a time in IE6 only. I have reservations about trying to get someone who is not too web-oriented to change the default settings to print a few copies of a document and then set them back. Perhaps there are some other uses! -- Regards, Gene Falck [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
