D Online Presence

nick nick.atamas at gmail.com
Sun May 7 01:44:11 PDT 2006


Georg Wrede wrote:
> nick wrote:
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>>> 2) it uses javascript to change the look when a mouse is over
>>> something, can the style sheet 'hover' thing be used instead?
>>
>> It doesn't, actually. It uses hover to change the appearance. It uses
>>  javascript to disable an outline that firefox draws around the tabs
>> when you click on them. It is somewhat of a hack, which can easily be
>> removed.
> 
> Those outlines are very handy!
> 
> First of all, tabbing actually is a good option in some situations (bad
> mouse, no mouse, or laptop in awkward place).
> 
> Second, I regularly open new tabs or new windows, instead of just
> clicking. (Especially when I want to do breadth-first browsing, which is
> practical on a new (to me new, that is) web site. Later coming back to
> the page I instantly can see where I was!
> 
I will take out the outline hack and sacrifice appearance for usability.



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