Shelagh ([info]ingaborg) wrote,
@ 2008-12-30 19:44:00
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I'm trying out the 'sliding doors' technique for creating pretty tabs on a web page:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/shelagh.lewins/shelagh/games/tabs_01/testindex.html

This is from "A List Apart":
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/slidingdoors2/

and seems very cool.

I've also implemented a max and min width which is a bit scary in IE: since it doesn't support the css commands directly, I've used javascript instead. I'm nervous because there seem to be a lot of ways this approach can crash. This version *currently* works on *my* (well Al's) machine. If anybody would like to try it in any flavour of IE on their machine and report any problems, I'd be very grateful. Things which may break it include opening the doc in a small IE window (so that it's already below the minimum size).



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[info]quercus
2008-12-30 09:04 pm UTC (link)
Sliding Doors is really good and copes nicely with font size changes — until some muppet of a dezyner starts to insist on a funny font (and thus a bitmap).

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[info]ingaborg
2008-12-31 11:17 am UTC (link)
That's good to know.

I may be an evil dezyner but I *do* know that using images for text is eeevil. I'm also not too impressed with people who lock the font size on the tabs so that users can't make them bigger.

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