Re: [WSG] CSS Dropdown menu

2005-05-24 Thread Rowan Lewis
Nothing wrong with styling states with CSS, but there is plenty wrong with using javascript to overwrite CSS states when you could do exactly the same thing with CSS. However, adding javascript to make a browser work like the others do is fine, but you should try to compress it some what, to save

Re: [WSG] CSS Dropdown menu

2005-05-24 Thread Michael Lykke
On 5/24/05, Thierry Koblentz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is said that flyout and dropdown menus belong to the behavior layer and that CSS should not be used to accomplish such things. Also, because this technique relies on CSS *and* Scripting it overlaps 2 layers; and that's supposed to be bad

Re: [WSG] CSS Dropdown menu

2005-05-24 Thread Joshua Street
On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 14:00 +0200, Michael Lykke wrote: Im just wondering - Cause sometimes it seems to me that alot of effort is put into making something correct way beyond just adhering to the webstandards. Like asking whether it is ok to use list definitions when the list only has a single

Re: [WSG] CSS Dropdown menu

2005-05-24 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Rowan Lewis wrote: Nothing wrong with styling states with CSS, but there is plenty wrong with using javascript to overwrite CSS states when you could do exactly the same thing with CSS. However, adding javascript to make a browser work like the others do is fine, but you should try to

Re: [WSG] CSS Dropdown menu

2005-05-24 Thread Rowan Lewis
I'm just saying that its silly to reinvent things like :hover with javascript and DOM but its perfectly fine to write javascript to fix browser incompatability (IE doesn't support :hover on all elements). On 5/25/05, Thierry Koblentz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rowan Lewis wrote: Nothing wrong

Re: [WSG] CSS Dropdown menu

2005-05-23 Thread Frederic Fery
on your site is says What's Bad We're using CSS for another purpose than presentation. why is it that bad? On 5/24/05, Thierry Koblentz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For people interested in à la suckerfish menus, this one now allows tabbing navigation in MSIE too:

Re: [WSG] CSS Dropdown menu

2005-05-23 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Frederic Fery wrote: on your site is says What's Bad We're using CSS for another purpose than presentation. why is it that bad? It is said that flyout and dropdown menus belong to the behavior layer and that CSS should not be used to accomplish such things. Also, because this technique