Paul Novitski wrote:
At 11:09 AM 8/11/2006, Designer wrote:
Richard Czeiger wrote:
Hi all :o)
Just thought I'd throw a bit of code out there and see if anyone
thinks it's useful..
Unobtrusive Semantic Branding
http://www.grafx.com.au/dik/branding.html
Yes, it's interesting - but is there an advantage over pure CSS? see
[1]. It seems simple, but I knocked it up very quickly, so someone
may find a problem . . .
[1] http://www.marscovista.fsnet.co.uk/template/branding_CSS.html
Bob, you're presenting the markup that Richard's script produces. By
the time his script has finished running, his and your solutions are
both HTML & CSS. He's just using javascript to automate the
distribution of his solution throughout the markup.
Which, of course, is why I missed the reasoning behind the choice of js
over html in this case, especially since Richard's approach doesn't work
in Opera (yet).
What does make sense -- and this is the intelligence at the core of
Richard's script -- is the separation of the brand name from the brand
styling. Because his method of branding (applying different colors to
substrings within the whole) requires specific markup, he's inserting
his classed spans into vanilla markup instead of hard-coding the whole
thing in HTML. This is smart. It's the decision to perform this
morph after download that I question.
I missed the subtlety of this (too tired!). Thanks.
--
Best Regards,
Bob McClelland
Cornwall (UK)
www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk
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