Re: [WSG] Images as DIV Background with and without link (w3c friendly)

2006-01-05 Thread Martin Heiden
Paul, on Wednesday, January 4, 2006 at 17:35 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote: You can't use the :hover pseudo class on any element other than an anchor in IE unfortunately. I don't have time to look too far, but with a brief search I found this link that mentions it:

Re: [WSG] Images as DIV Background with and without link (w3c friendly)

2006-01-05 Thread Paul Collins
rollover graphics! Paul - Original Message - From: Martin Heiden To: Paul Collins Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 4:07 PM Subject: Re: [WSG] Images as DIV Background with and without link (w3c friendly) Paul,on Wednesday, January 4, 2006 at 15:48 wsg

Re: [WSG] Images as DIV Background with and without link (w3c friendly)

2006-01-04 Thread Paul Collins
Hi Fausto, A good way of doing it, but It doesn't work with Images off and CSS still turned on, which becomes an Accessibility issue. Has anyone ever resolved a way ofdoing this for graphic links containing a rollover state? The problem is, IE doesn't let you add a hover state to anything

Re: [WSG] Images as DIV Background with and without link (w3c friendly)

2006-01-04 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Fausto Balloni wrote: It also helps Google and other search engines to find the name, title or alt of the image. Somehow I don't think Google and co. have any trouble finding the ALT attribute on images already... -- Patrick H. Lauke

Re: [WSG] Images as DIV Background with and without link (w3c friendly)

2006-01-04 Thread webmaster
Hi Fausto, To cut things short: there is nothing wrong with images used as background via CSS as long as theses images are used as layout and not to give meaningful pieces of information to the visitors. You may end up confusing people who use text-only or speech devices. Read this article

Re: [WSG] Images as DIV Background with and without link (w3c friendly)

2006-01-04 Thread Martin Heiden
Paul, on Wednesday, January 4, 2006 at 15:48 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote: I thought the Gilder/Levin/Shea Enhancement Method was best, but you can't have a hover state on a graphic link using this. Example HTML would be: a id=header title=Revised Image Replacement

RE: [WSG] Images as DIV Background with and without link (w3c friendly)

2006-01-04 Thread Fausto Balloni
2006 12:48To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.orgSubject: Re: [WSG] Images as DIV Background with and without link (w3c friendly) Hi Fausto, A good way of doing it, but It doesn't work with Images off and CSS still turned on, which becomes an Accessibility issue. Has anyone ever

Re: [WSG] Images as DIV Background with and without link (w3c friendly)

2006-01-04 Thread Paul Collins
: Martin Heiden To: Paul Collins Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 4:07 PM Subject: Re: [WSG] Images as DIV Background with and without link (w3c friendly) Paul,on Wednesday, January 4, 2006 at 15:48 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote: I thought the Gilder/Levin/Shea Enhancement