Btw Jared, The site appears to be down to me also, so I think there's a little hiccup somewhere. :)
Frances FRANCES BERRIMAN http://www.fberriman.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jared Smith Sent: 21 June 2006 16:52 To: [email protected] Subject: [WSG] Methods for decorative images I'd like to get your opinions on methods for adding non-content conveying images. I'm talking about images that cannot be added as backgrounds to existing page elements - things like 'smiling lady' images that are placed within the text flow and are used to provide visual enhancement to content, but do not actually convey content. http://webaim.org/community/ for an example. As I see it, there are 3 options: 1. Use <img alt=""> and style it into position. 2. Add a span or div and then use inline styling to add the background image, sizing, float, etc. 3. Add a span or div and provide the styling in your external CSS file. #1 adds an extra non-semantic element to the page and if styles are disabled, the image can disrupt the content flow. #2 and #3 also require additional elements (and even worse, empty elements) be added to the page. #2 requires inline styling which makes it about the same as #1, but #3 requires that style definitions for one image on one page be loaded on ALL of the pages in the external CSS file. It seems that none of these work very well. Right now, I'm tending to go with #2 as it's the easiest to administer. Perhaps content:before or content:after would be a better option, if it were supported. So what do you do? Jared PS - there seems to be some Coldfusion permission errors with the http://webstandardsgroup.org/ site. ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ****************************************************** ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
