:hover (was: Re: "display: image;" for CSS styling of images embedded in XML documents?)

At 2003-07-08T22:27+0300, Mikko Rantalainen wrote:-

> [1] Eric Meyer has produced a well known example(s) of what we could do
> if all UAs supported reflow on hover
> <URL:http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/menus/demo.html>

Is that really reflowing, given that nothing actually moves? What it
certainly does require is :hover on arbitrary elements. As Eric Meyer
points out, the use of "display: none" means it doesn't degrade especially
well on a browser that supports CSS but not :hover on that particular
element. Perhaps it would be useful to have a :hoverable pseudoclass (and
indeed :activatable), although using that so that it will degrade well
with existing browsers would still be fiddly...


Tim Bagot

Received on Tuesday, 8 July 2003 17:59:46 UTC