[WSG] Standards way of getting div background color?

2008-11-27 Thread Dennis Suitters
Dunno, if this has been asked before. I've been looking wherever I can for a way to get a div's or any element's background color in a sementic friendly way (ie. works in IE and FF) using javascript. so far i've tried the below: document.getElementById('element').bgColor;

Re: [WSG] Fw: The Great Firewall of Australia

2008-11-26 Thread Dennis Suitters
Yes, real, definitely. But think about it, the government would already, and in some part already do filter information. If they went to the extremes outlined though, don't you think that generally the public (not just the web development community) would put up such a stink about it, the

Re: [WSG] your best practise for CSS sprites for elements that have no height declared

2008-11-24 Thread Dennis Suitters
Check out http://www.alistapart.com/articles/sprites and http://www.alistapart.com/articles/sprites2 I think this what your trying to achieve, or at least close to either one of those articles. I haven't played much with horizontal sprite images, but usually use vertical ones, and I