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Posted by TaliesinSoft on 02/17/07 03:16
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 21:08:25 -0600, dorayme wrote
(in article <doraymeRidThis-2F92D3.14082517022007@news-vip.optusnet.com.au>):
> In article <0001HW.C1FBC15C004B50D1B022094F@news.supernews.com>,
> TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@mac.com> wrote:
>
>> A further aside, in the your example you provide a highlight border around
>> the miniature under the cursor. I got screamed at several months ago for
>> doing the same thing. If I recall correctly the comment was that having the
>> cursor change to a finger was sufficient and that the hightlight was
>> distracting. To be honest, I like the highlight.
>
> If you like it, put it back in. You could make the highlight
> color black, you could even style the border, so that then it
> looks nice as one fingers the lovely things (it is part of a
> tradition in B & W to often black border photographs). This then
> makes one thing do two. Highlight and border it nicely. To simply
> let it higlight in thin red is just plain silly imo, no matter
> how priests go on about accessibility and uniformity and known
> practice. Who the hell would not know that these are thumbnails
> in your context. I will tell you who, Mr. and Mrs. Nobody, that's
> who. So make it count for something more than almost useless.
What I like about you, dorayme, is that you are a person of thought and to a
great degree sensitivity. My concern about black borders is that they would
get lost in that the photographs themselves are heavy in black. But I'm going
to give it a look.
--
James Leo Ryan ..... Austin, Texas ..... taliesinsoft@mac.com
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