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Espen Klem
You were all so happy to abandon the table layout “trick”. It validated nicely, but still: Not a correct use of the table-tag. And now you’re all at it again. Articles like this makes A List Apart a bit hypocritical, posing to be pro-standard good-gal/guy.
Whilst I concur that this article isn’t coming from a 100% standards compliant stance, I still think that there’s room for ideas like this to be discussed on ALA without it becoming hypocritical. I’d like to think of it as an ‘interesting’ approach to a problem. I think we can be pro-standard and still have a little ‘fun’ every now and again ;)
First off, thank you for the well-written script. It is an effect I have been wanting to create on my site for a while, and just never got the guts to start writing a script. I had seen this effect done before on Mike Davidson’s website, and so I was aware of a “better” way to create this exact effect.
So I wrote a new version of your script (a little more sloppy, so you can change it if you want). It seems to work in most browsers, but I couldn’t test in IE (windows) unfortunatly, but I doubt Mike would let anything go wrong in IE.
You can read more at http://www.mcb.mcgill.ca/~jette/wordpress/2006/09/12/sandbags/
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Back to the ArticleArtie Kuhn
Never mind, missed the post about this. My bad.
Espen Klem
You were all so happy to abandon the table layout “trick”. It validated nicely, but still: Not a correct use of the table-tag. And now you’re all at it again. Articles like this makes A List Apart a bit hypocritical, posing to be pro-standard good-gal/guy.
Rob Swan
Espen,
Whilst I concur that this article isn’t coming from a 100% standards compliant stance, I still think that there’s room for ideas like this to be discussed on ALA without it becoming hypocritical. I’d like to think of it as an ‘interesting’ approach to a problem. I think we can be pro-standard and still have a little ‘fun’ every now and again ;)
Miguel Jette
Hello Rob.
First off, thank you for the well-written script. It is an effect I have been wanting to create on my site for a while, and just never got the guts to start writing a script. I had seen this effect done before on Mike Davidson’s website, and so I was aware of a “better” way to create this exact effect.
So I wrote a new version of your script (a little more sloppy, so you can change it if you want). It seems to work in most browsers, but I couldn’t test in IE (windows) unfortunatly, but I doubt Mike would let anything go wrong in IE.
You can read more at http://www.mcb.mcgill.ca/~jette/wordpress/2006/09/12/sandbags/