RE: [WSG] Scrollbar Colouring...

[Peter Firminger]

Hi Chris,   I think the first thing is that it's an annoyance to some (read: me). Whenever I look at http://virginblue.com.au/ I groan and think that some little kid had a field day with Frontpage. (Hopefully the author isn't on the list. Sorry if you are.) Let the system do the chrome elements. This is a personal opinion only, but I think it looks like an amateur trick and resides in the same basket as auto-play midi files (those sea-shanties... YUK) and animated flags.   More importantly, it doesn't validate. This alone puts it out of our code practice.   http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http://virginblue.com.au/CSS/virginblue.css&warning=1&profile="">   I recommend against it.   I wouldn't have written just to say that, so the real message is: Is everyone else getting everything twice or is it just me? (please answer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] )   Regards,   Peter (Listdad)     From: Chris Stratford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 4:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WSG] Scrollbar Colouring... I have noticed that the scrollbar colouring is not a standard piece of CSS material…   For example:   Body { background-color: #EEEEEE; scrollbar-base-color: #808080; scrollbar-arrow-color: #808080; scrollbar-darkshadow-color: #008000; scrollbar-face-color: #808080; scrollbar-highlight-color: #FFFFFF; scrollbar-shadow-color: #FFFFFF; scrollbar-3dlight-color: #808080; }   That is claimed to be correct CSS, and it works in Internet Explorer – but when you use the W3C CSS Validator, it comes up saying that the scrollbar-base-color etc… are not functions. I don’t know why its not real CSS because it seems to work, I am curious if it works in other browsers other that IE, I cannot test that’s why I am posting this here… Sorry again – this is my 2nd email… I apologise if it’s majorly newbified…   Just wondering what the others think… I am currently remodelling my website, and as such I am going to make sure it adheres to HTML 4.01 and CSS standards. So I need some advice, whether I should use the scroll-bar colouring technique or not.   Thanks people!     ------------------------ • Chris Stratford • [EMAIL PROTECTED] • www.neester.com ------------------------