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Re: Small issue with homepage & Firefox
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Date: 
Mon, 19 Feb 2007 22:02:38 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Rene Hoffmeister wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Ross Crawford wrote:
> > In lugnet.admin.general, Rene Hoffmeister wrote:
> > > In lugnet.admin.general, Ross Crawford wrote:
> > > > When using Firefox, if I middle-click one of the top stories to open in a
> > > > new tab, the description popup stays displayed, and mousing over the other
> > > > topics displays their popups behind it.
> > > 
> > > Hi Ross,
> > > 
> > > this is [correct behaviour], because the whole link is still active. The
> > > link consists of the subject in the blue Top Stories Box AND the text in the
> > > yellow box (in FF clarified by the dotted line). Click on any place on the
> > > site to de-activate the link.
> > 
> > Yeah I was pretty sure it was correct behaviour, but it could be a little
> > confusing/annoying. I guess there's no easy way to work around it?
> > 
> > ROSCO
> 
> Hi Ross,
> 
> to be honest, the way I wrote the source code isn't the cleanest way.
> 
> The closing tag for the link isn't placed between "Green Quad" and <span> like
> it would be correct. But to force IE to display <span> it has to be a link,
> because IE knows :hover for <a>-tags only (which is NOT correct behaviour).

Ah good old IE! Maybe we should penalise people who use IE by using the correct
code?????? (Yes, I am kidding!!!!)

ROSCO



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  Re: Small issue with homepage & Firefox
 
(...) I have to admit that I haven't installed IE7 yet, does anybody know whether IE7 knows the :hover pseudo also for other elements than just <a>? If yes, I indeed would change the code, because IE6- users wouldn't lose any significant (...) (20 years ago, 19-Feb-07, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: Small issue with homepage & Firefox
 
(...) Hi Ross, to be honest, the way I wrote the source code isn't the cleanest way. Example: <div class='box_top box_topcol_x'> <a class='top_link' href='(URL)Green Quad <span> <img src='(URL) alt='' /> Hey all, check out my (URL) Green Quad, now (...) (20 years ago, 19-Feb-07, to lugnet.admin.general)

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