Patrick, I'll clarify... basically on whatcanido.com.au we have article teasers - they have to fill a particular area of the screen (and this can change on the fly client side). We don't want the teasers to ever scroll.
So, our solution is to have the "read full article" link at between the heading and the teaser. Then we just have a really long teaser in a div with overflow:hidden. The bigger their window/screen/resolution, the bigger the box, the bigger the teaser. The accessibility side-effect is that they get a really long teaser. We couldn't think of a better way to handle changing resolutions on the site nicely. Any suggestions? Thanks, Tatham Oddie Technical Director, Fuel Advance www.fueladvance.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick Lauke Sent: Tuesday, 21 June 2005 6:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [WSG] Preventing scrolling > Tatham Oddie > Lots and lots of content which we never expect > to fit in the box and we just want to be cut off. > However, we only want them to be able to see what > ould fit in the box. So, we need to stop them > from being able to click in the box and use their scroll > wheel. Another way they could see all the content is > by selecting what they can see and dragging down. > What's the best way from stopping this from scrolling? Am I the only one that thinks this sort of thing goes directly against tenets of usability and accessibility? I'm not sure about the context, but would it not be possible to implement some word counting / limiting on the server (assuming this is a template for a content management system or similar)? Patrick ________________________________ Patrick H. Lauke Webmaster / University of Salford http://www.salford.ac.uk ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ****************************************************** ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
