- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@sidar.org>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 11:01:34 +0100
- To: "P.H.Lauke" <P.H.Lauke@salford.ac.uk>
- Cc: "Mirabella, Mathew J" <Mathew.Mirabella@team.telstra.com>, "w3c-wai-ig list" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Another is that :hover is only relevant to a mouse or similar pointer, and people just forget to provide access for keyboard. cheers Chaals On Thursday, Jan 15, 2004, at 10:42 Europe/Rome, P.H.Lauke wrote: >> Actually I have seen some claims that the whole thing can be >> done using CSS with no need to have scripts at all? does >> anyone know of examples? > > One of the problems of an all CSS approach is that IE only supports > the :hover pseudo class on links, while other modern browsers support > it fairly well on most, if not all, other elements. > So in some situations JS is necessary, but the JS can be used to > supplement the pure CSS solution and make it work in IE > (as happens on http://devedge.netscape.com/ for instance - they > actually > have an article on there somewhere explaining how/why they did it). > -- Charles McCathieNevile Fundación Sidar charles@sidar.org http://www.sidar.org
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