Re: Separate adjacent links with more than whitespace

I know, we just have to keep alert.

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Foliot - bytown internet" <foliot@bytowninternet.com>
To: "David Poehlman" <poehlman1@comcast.net>; "Scarlett Julian (ED)"
<Julian.Scarlett@sheffield.gov.uk>; "'Steve Vosloo'"
<stevenvosloo@yahoo.com>; <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Cc: "'W3c-Wai-Ig'" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 1:51 PM
Subject: RE: Separate adjacent links with more than whitespace


onfocus  (besides, I said "playing"...)  no samples for public view.

JF

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> Behalf Of David Poehlman
> Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 1:41 PM
> To: John Foliot - bytown internet; Scarlett Julian (ED); 'Steve Vosloo';
> w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> Cc: 'W3c-Wai-Ig'
> Subject: Re: Separate adjacent links with more than whitespace
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> and if I cannot hover?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Foliot - bytown internet" <foliot@bytowninternet.com>
> To: "Scarlett Julian (ED)" <Julian.Scarlett@sheffield.gov.uk>; "'Steve
> Vosloo'" <stevenvosloo@yahoo.com>; <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> Cc: "'W3c-Wai-Ig'" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 1:27 PM
> Subject: RE: Separate adjacent links with more than whitespace
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> uh-huh, especially since the user will in fact choose one of the 5 links
> (presumably).  Visual display vs logical structure.
>
> Links to "this", "that" or "the other" are, semantically, an
> unordered list;
> it doesn't matter which order you approach them, only that they
> are equal in
> importance.  I have an associate who has been playing with nested lists as
> "dynamic menus", where hovering over a list item "reveals" the secondary
> nested list, place and styled via CSS.
>
> JF
>
>
> >
> > I'm not sure I see the distinction. What is it about footer links
> > that makes
> > them different?
> >
> > Forgive me if I've misunderstood but what John is saying is that
> > a bunch of
> > links can be thought of structurally (and thus marked up) as a
> > list. Whether
> > that list is layed out vertically or horizontally, or in a
> > left-hand menu or
> > in a footer is besides the point.
> >
> > --Julian
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Steve Vosloo [mailto:stevenvosloo@yahoo.com]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 4:41 PM
> > > To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> > > Cc: 'W3c-Wai-Ig'
> > > Subject: RE: Separate adjacent links with more than whitespace
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > What I'm offering isn't a list, it's a series of footer links
> > > (e.g. not
> > > "Choose from this list of 5 links:")
> > >
> > > I see what you're suggesting, but I think if I had to go for strict
> > > adherence then wrapping the vertical links in square brackets
> > > might be a
> > > more suitable solution.
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