Patrick H. Lauke wrote: > Ok, the IR technique I was referring to (now that I've checked) was > the Gilder/Levin method > http://www.mezzoblue.com/tests/revised-image-replacement/#gilderlevin
Believe it or not, but I didn't know about that one ;-) Identical approach in term of CSS, but - as you know - very different regarding markup. > which uses a span, and my point was: if you're using CSS to scale and > apply background to what is essentially an empty/transparent image (a > 1x1 transparent gif or whatever), then why use an image at all and not How do you make the background image of this "neutral element" scale? > settle for a completely empty, neutral element like a SPAN (as happens > in the Gilder/Levin technique)? Either way, you're adding extra markup > to your HTML, so you may as well use something empty. The Gilder/Levin method relies only on CSS to display the image, if there is a need to show both elements in the heading the solution fails if the document is unstyled. Also, an empty span is nothing more than an empty span. I believe an image with meaningful title and alt attributes may be of better use. Thierry | http://www.TJKDesign.com ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
