Don't know about best practice but I can tell you about ways I
approached it in the past and how I like it when I come to a page
with the options you offer.
I usually put helpful information in the title attribute of a link,
so a "new window" link includes : "..to open x in a new window
On 2/16/08, Joe Ortenzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Icons also help people make quick choices and allow you to provide the
> documents in a tabular format when required.
> Title of This Lengthy Document [PDF ICON] title="download the
> PDF: Title_of_This_Lengthy_Document" [MSWORD ICON] title="do
As Joe said, I also think icons are a great way for users to quickly
scan the page and get a sense of what is going on.
There is a nice article [1] that can show you how to automatically
style links with little icons depending on the extension of the file
it points to if you are interested.
Cheer
Dwain, Matt
Sorry forgot to mention I also getfilesize in php for reasons Dwain
mentioned and I have created simple functions like the one he
mentions, with a pool of file icons to display with. Sorry for not
mentioning these.
Joe
On Feb 17 2008, at 00:27, Matt Fellows wrote:
As Joe sai
Matt Fellows wrote:
There is a nice article [1] that can show you how to automatically
style links with little icons depending on the extension of the file
it points to if you are interested.
Cheers,
Matt
[1] - http://www.askthecssguy.com/2006/12/showing_hyperlink_cues_with_cs_1.html
Hi M
that's because IE6 doesn't support attribute selectors. but you can
use classes instead.
Max.
2008/2/17, Designer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Matt Fellows wrote:
>
> > There is a nice article [1] that can show you how to automatically
> > style links with little icons depending on the extension of the
s.
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Matt Fellows wrote:
There is a nice article [1] that can show you how to automat
On Sun, February 17, 2008 10:02 pm, Thomas Thomassen wrote:
> Yes, IE doesn't handle attribute selectors.
>
There are always javascript workarounds for attribute selectors in
IE.
> However, I'd still be tempted to use it. The only
thing that happens is
> that
> IE6 doesn't display the
icons.
True. Dean Edwards got a very good library to aid IE:
http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/
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Thank you to both you and Joe! Good info!!!
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On 2/16/08, Joe Ortenzi
K> On 2/16/08, Joe Ortenzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
K> Icons also help people make quick choices and allow you to provide
K> the documents in a tabular format when required.
K> Title of This Lengthy Document [PDF ICON] title="download the PDF:
K> Title_of_This_Lengthy_Document" [MSWORD ICON] tit
Alexey Novikov skrev:
I use this pattern:
Title_of_This_Lengthy_Document, PDF, 1234kb
I would suggest putting the abbreviation PDF and the size inside the
a-element if anyone tabs from link to link with JAWS or anything similar.
or with icon:
Title_of_This_Lengthy_Document, PDF, 1234kb
I
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