- From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Sep 1997 19:41:04 -0700
- To: www-html@w3.org
At 3:04a +0000 09/03/97, David Marsh wrote:
> On 31-Aug-97 19:45:40, walter@natural-innovations.com (Walter Ian Kaye)
said:
> >That is good. I recently found a way to make my title graphics appear to
> >"stretch" in the middle -- check out my counters-at-a-glance page at
> ><http://www.natural-innovations.com/counters.html> for an example (zoom
> >and unzoom/restore your window to see how it adjusts). It does require
> >a 3.0 browser for the full effect (uses background cell color), but it
> ^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ A-ha!
>
> >will still stretch on older browsers (just with a hole in the middle;).
>
>
> That's a nifty trick, but beware: you strayed into "works on both browsers"
> territory with the way you wrote that ;-)
Ok, I didn't describe it with the best choice of words, but the HTML itself
is ok... ;)
> Of course, cell colors aren't in HTML3.0 (which is hypothetical now anyway),
> so you must mean browser version v3.0..
Right, that's what I meant...
> I guess I'm stuck, using Voyager v2.88ß :-)
> (which handles cell colors quite nicely, fortunately ;-)
Oops! Guess I'll have to stop using "a 3.0 browser" shorthand... ;)
> Just a gentle reminder that for greater accessibility, authors should
> remember that there's more than two graphical browsers out there. :-)
Ok, so it's "To see the full effect, your browser must support background
cell colors." :-)
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Received on Tuesday, 2 September 1997 22:41:44 UTC