Adam Ruppe wrote:
On 6/5/10, Stewart Gordon <smjg_1...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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Others claim that some layouts just can't be made fluid.
The most annoying thing is the web is fluid by default - you have to
fight it to make it fixed width! But, meh, people are stupid.
Taken the words out of my mouth there. I once came across this:
http://www.wiltshirefarmfoods.com/accessibility.asp
"Wiltshire Farm Foods has worked hard to make this site as accessible to
as many customers as possible, whether you have a disability or are
simply not using the latest technology."
I guess this shows how content writers and coders are often not on the
same wavelength.
I've a feeling I've come across a delusion that websites have to be
explicitly programmed to make browers' built-in text size settings work.
But I'm not sure....
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You know what annoys me? alt="image". Ugh. Or another bad one:
alt="logo". gah, these people have obviously never browsed the web
without images! Perhaps, worst of all, alt="left_rounded_corner". Ew!
Sometimes you even see images explicitly mislabelled as being purely
decorative (alt=""). You may have noticed from the page I linked to
before that this is one of the many things WebPlus likes to do of its
own accord.
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Anyway, the css transforms that regular link into a button, with a
gradient background, rounded corners, an icon, fluid width and height
(height isn't ideal if it changes though, since the gradient is fixed
height.
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One possibility is to make the background image tall enough to allow for
this. Either do the gradient over the default height and pad it with
solid colour, or use a sigmoid gradient. But it would be better if only
CSS provided a means to scale the background image....
Stewart.
