Tom Livingston wrote:
On 8/9/06 6:36 AM, "Nick Fitzsimons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm not sure what he's trying to achieve with markup like:
<ul><li></li></ul>
Maybe it's me. Is the issue was that he had this empty UL sitting around in
his code or is there something wrong with this that I am too un-caffinated
to see? Was it wrong for the doc-type? I didn't look at his code...
I should have shown more of the surrounding markup: this was embedded in
another list as the contents of the first list item. In other places, it
contains a link to a video or audio file, so I assume his CMS is just
too brain-dead to omit it when there's nothing to link to. I removed it
using DOM Inspector, and its absence doesn't break the layout.
When there _is_ a link there, it has a title attribute but no content,
or just a single as content, and is then made visible using CSS
background images. This is a really bad practice; an icon linking
somewhere deserves to be in the page if it's the only visible content
for that link. I don't think that site will be getting any awards for
accessibility any time soon.
Cheers,
Nick.
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Nick Fitzsimons
http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/
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