Can CSS be dynamic or do they have to be manually updated?
Rich
-----Original Message-----
From: Emilio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 11:29 PM
To: Fusebox
Subject: RE: CSS
CSS rocks!! It opens the doors to interacting with all your HTML
programmatically. When you get the hang of modifying simple things like
border styles and positioning you start to find that almost everything in
your web page can be scripted. For instance you can use a series of DIV's
to construct a menu. Through CSS you can define an "off" state background
color and use the DOM to switch the color when the user rolls their mouse
over the contents of the DIV.
<div style="background-color:CCCCCC"
onmouseover="this.runtimeStyle.backgroundColor='FF0000'"
onmouseout="this.runtimeStyle.backgroundColor=''">text</DIV>
This is super fast and uses built in functionality that the browser( dodgy
IE5.5/NS6 ) supports...because of the thought put into the CSS API you can
start doing whacky things when you get the hang of it:
I just found this out myself; You can have a xml file that contains
syndicated news from where ever. You can drop the XML DOM into the browser
<XML SRC="http://localhost/xmlFile.xml"></XML> and through that API you can
grab all the data, underlying structure, datatype declarations and any style
information that came with the XML document. this means you can script
connectivity between HTML,CSS,XML,XSL,Flash (flash likes xml) anything...So
outside of font definitions there is a freakin shed load you can do with
CSS.
there is something new everyday on MSDN and it gets more wiggy with things
like VML/SVG which allows you to use CSS to exactly construct interfaces
with no HTML. Go into word and start drawing...look at that source
code...vml...see what you can do in word...everything there is
scriptable....svg poses to allow for photoshop filtering via
script...err..CSS..err..javascript
phewph
*breath*
Cheers,
Emilio
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