On 7/22/06, Al Kendall wrote:
try these http://www.html.it/articoli/nifty/index.html
At 05:06 AM 7/22/2006, Janos Hardi wrote:
This solution has nothin to do with common semantics - not recommended.
Janos, may I assume that it's the use of the B tag you're objecting
to, rather than the addition of DIVs to the markup to support the
rounded corner effect?
Alessandro Fulciniti, the author of that technique, uses B tags
simply for brevity of markup -- ironic, because while saving six
characters for each element (using B instead of SPAN) he's adding a
couple of dozen for inline styling. He says, "A few words on the use
of the <b> element. I needed an inline element to obtain the rounded
corners, since it could be nested in almost every kind of tag
mainting the markup valid. So the choice fell on b because it doesn't
have semantical meaning and it's shorter than span, like Eric Meyer said."
We're currently using a different rounded corners technique on our
site http://juniperwebcraft.com/ but similarly adding markup with
JavaScript; we're adding classed DIVs to the markup and keeping all
the styling in an external stylesheet. (Look at the generated source
with the Firefox webdev tool, not the simple page source, to see the
resultant markup.)
I don't think Fulciniti's technique should be discarded simply
because of his debatable tag choice when there are other neutral
elements that can more innocuously substitute.
Regards,
Paul
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