Posted by dorayme on 11/08/07 07:23

In article <fguco1$fro$1@aioe.org>,
"Nik Coughlin" <nrkn.com@gmail.com> wrote:

> dorayme wrote:
> > In article <13j5b6j72c0ahfc@corp.supernews.com>,
> > mbstevens <NOXwebmasterx@xmbstevensx.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Nik Coughlin wrote:
> >>
> >>> I believe that this is the minimum amount of markup necessary to
> >>> achieve this effect :) Would love to be proven wrong.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Is the effect worth the internal complexity?
> >
> > Depends on how you count it. It only has to be done once by the
> > author, and from then on it can give multiple pleasure. On
> > principle, this may well be worth it.
> >
> >> Forcing markup like this:
> >> <div class="hr"><div><div><hr></div></div></div>
> >> is just unsemantic, even though it is technically valid.
> >
> > This is yet another issue. But, given that there are limitations
> > in browser implementations of some css where this sort of thing
> > can be more easily done in a kosher manner, it is very severe to
> > never fall to temptation. Perhaps it is an area where a little
> > individual choice might be allowable.
>
> I hope so :) I try to only compromise on these things when a visual effect
> that I want is otherwise unattainable. Oh, for multi-browser support of
> CSS3!

Indeed, tell you what though: I would at this moment settle for
multi-browser support of CSS 2.1

:)

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dorayme

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