Posted by Bone Ur on 12/04/07 09:05

Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 07:57:07 GMT
rf scribed:

>> I dont know much about CSS, but in order to get the same colours all
>> the time, I try
>>
>> message_ok { color: #ff0000; }
>> message_fail { color: #008000; }
>
> As dorayme says,
> .message
>
>> Then
>> <font class="message_ok">Success!<font>
>
> That last should surely be </font>
>
> Why are you using the deprecated font element?
> <p class="message_ok">Success!</p>
>
> or even
> <span class="message_ok">Success!</span>
>
> I would think red for the fail and green for success though.

I used to be an electrician. Typically, a motor starter or motor control
switching center would have running lights on each, green for when the
device was operating and red for when it was off to the remote. Using
impeccable logic, this one corporation reversed that procedure because, in
their engineers' opinion, a running motor was dangerous while a stopped
motor was safe to inspect/work-on/etc. Whether there is any validity to
that or not, can you imagine the confusion it caused for maintenance people
and users, not to mention the actual real-life danger?

I only brought this up because somehow it reminds me of Microsoft.

--
Bone Ur
Cavemen have formidable pheromones.

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