Re: Questionable implementation of IMG ALT attribute as tooltips

Originally on www-html now crossposted to www-css:

On Mon, 26 Jan 1998 12:50:06 +0100 Rasmus Kaj <kaj@cityonline.se> wrote:

> >>>>> "JG" == James Green <jmkgre@essex.ac.uk> writes:
> 
>  >> I never use non-<HR> separators, simply because they don't behave well  
>  >> for browsers on different screen sizes.
> 
>  JG> Agreed. However, the existance of simple colour gradients in CSS may be 
>  JG> nice.
> 
> I've not actually tested this, but something like the following style
> should work:
> 
> HR { width: 100%; height: 1ex; 
>      background-image: url(gradient.gif);
>      border: none; /* Some browsers may defaultrender a HR as a border */
> }
> 
> Then, you can use different classes of HR with different gradients, or
> maybe different sizes ...

This is not what I intended. When I think of an idea, I like to think 
of a way whereby the machine can do as much of the work as possible. In 
asking for gradients, I was thinking somwhere along the line of:

HR
   {
   width: 100%;
   left-color: blue;
   right-color: red;
   gradient-step: 4
   }

This would give a horizontal rule of maximum page-width, default 
height, specifying that the left-most area be blue, red for the 
right-most area, merging to each other in four coloured steps.

Enhancing on this, top, bottom, even corners could be specified. All 
that would be needed is a clever browser and colour support on the 
client OS.

Comments on the above welcome.


Regards,

James Green

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Received on Monday, 26 January 1998 09:43:16 UTC