- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 08:31:58 -0500
- To: robert@ocallahan.org
- Cc: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>, David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com>, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, W3C style mailing list <www-style@w3.org>
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Robert O'Callahan<robert@ocallahan.org> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Aug 3, 2009, at 4:08 PM, David Hyatt wrote: >> >> In fact Web sites even deliberately hide elements offscreen using large >> negative left/top values, so we couldn't scroll to reveal this stuff at this >> point even if we wanted to. :) >> >> I could be wrong, but I thought we used to be able to do that on the right >> also a few years ago, and then that got "fixed". > > > You've never been able to do it on the right, at least not in Gecko. > > Note that doing it on the left stuffs up accessibility. It really shouldn't > be done at all. Sometimes we use it *for* accessibility, but that's often a large negative text-indent instead. Put text in your links, indent it way off the left edge of the screen, then add backgrounds to make a good image link. These days I just use <img alt>, but I know that's a real common technique touted for its accessibility benefits. (It also means that text-indent is pretty much poisoned forever in terms of the left edge.) ~TJ
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