Stas Bekman wrote:
> allan wrote:
> > is "solved" using divs instead of <ul> and <li> tags.
> > the problem (well, its only in netscape4 i think) is that
> > when you apply a list-style of "none" it will show a
> > question mark (?), why i don't understand, but it does. i
> > have tried several tricks to solve that and it can be done
> > but we have to use another stylesheet for netscape or opera
> > or whatever etc.
> > so enter the div solution. take a look and see what you
> > think about it, i think it can be used in our case.
> 
> You are talking about the search page, right?

right.
 
> This CSS solution works in NS4
> <li class="search">
> li.search { list-style: none; }
> 
> I've just tested. is it bad?

yes, see enclosed
 
> Allan, your div solution has at least these 2 drawbacks:
> 
> 1. absolute margin length (could be probably fixed)

probably

> 2. text browsers like lynx, cannot handle it, so you get a flat column.

didn't think of those yo be honest.
 
> > 2)
> > while working on the different headers-issues i also came up
> > with the enclosed colour-scheme for the toc-section.
> > the reason for introducing these colors here is twofold.
> > a) simply to better seperate the toc from the content.
> 
> -1 on this change. IMHO, it makes the page look bad. We needed the dark
> bg to separate the content from the site's skeleton. There is no need to
> separate TOC from its document.
> 
> also -1 on moving from normal/default <li> style to the div solution. It
> was only wanted for the search because of the checkboxes, which looks
> better without the disks. We introduce more troubles here for no reason.
> 
> > b) indicate whether links inside that toc-section is visited
> > (i forgot why we don't do that already)
> 
> good point, this should be fixed. can you please send me a patch that
> fixes only this issue at this point, since it's clearly broken and needs
> no discussion. Thanks.

will do later ...

./allan

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