On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Roger Roelofs wrote: > The major drawback to css popups is that to be compatible with ie6 > and lower, you must use an [a] element as the container, which means > you can only put inline elements inside of the popup
There are other drawbacks too, and they might be considerably more serious. Here's how the "Pure CSS popups" page http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/popups/demo.html starts on a non-CSS browser: "Home The main page of the site-- a jumping-off point, as it were-- and not actually a picture of our house Links A collection of things which interest me, and might interest you Away Who knows? Could be anywhere; you clicks the link and you takes your chances! Eric He's been called "an internationally recognized expert," but then he's also been called a "techno-fascist" Kat She cooks fabulous meals, she throws great parties, she helps women deliver their babies-- what can't she do? Other Inevitably, there's stuff that doesn't fit in with other stuff, so we stuffed it all into this page of random stuff" The problem is that the popup content is on the page, usually after the element to which it relates (and anything else would be somewhat unnatural and could cause much worse problems). When presented as such, it does not make it very clear that secondary information relating to something is being given. If you can infer some punctuation (like parentheses), it becomes clearer. You could add some precautions, like short pieces of text (like punctuation) in span elements, with display: none, similarly to what one does in Ruby markup using the rp (Ruby punctuation) elements. I'm afraid most people who want to use popups don't want to spend time with such things - elements that are not displayed at all when CSS is off. -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- 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/
