[thelist] Another Site Critique (Please)

[Walter Lee Davis]

One thing I've become more attuned to lately is that if you are 
writing your code correctly (font tag inside the <li> tag) the 
bullets take on the default text style and not the local style you 
may have set. So if you have tasteful -1 Verdana list items, you can 
have honking big Times bullets or numbers along side them. I have 
seen a lot of sites give up on real bulleted lists altogether, and 
use nested tables and &#149; bullets so that everything can be 
properly aligned. This gets you away from the problems of the 1/2 
inch indent on a bulleted list also. It's not good structural code, 
and fails to give text-based browsers (both of them, holed up in a 
commune somewhere) anything to work with, but it is a whole lot more 
good-looking in my opinion.

Walter

At 11:34 AM -0500 1/27/01, thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org wrote:
>Message: 4
>Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 10:36:25 -0500
>From: "H. G. Quinn" <hgquinn at attglobal.net>
>Reply-To: hgquinn at attglobal.net
>Organization: WindyHill Design
>To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
>Subject: Re: [thelist] Another Site Critique (Please)
>Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
>
>I don't think you have any control of the bullets' vertical position, that's
>determined by the font designer.  Never really thought about where HTML
>bullets come from before this.  Yours seem to be aligning their tops with the
>tops of the lowercase letters in the font you're using.  It's rare that fonts
>are designed so that lowercase lettertops are exactly 50% the height of
>uppercase letters.
>
>If you want to do exact vertical postioning that will always work, I think
>you'd have to go with graphic bullets and text.  You might also be able to do
>a graphic bullet that you place with the text items in table cells that have
>valign properties of "middle".
>
>Nice site.  I like the "Notes from the Market" feature.
>
>Beau Hartshorne wrote:
>
>>  ...The one thing that I've noticed (and have yet to figure out) is the
>>  bullet
>>  misalignment problem - the bullets in my bulleted lists (especially on
>>  http://www.gohothouse.com/print_design.php3) don't seem to line up to the
>>  centre of the text....
>
>Cheers,
>--
>Heather Quinn
>hgquinn at attglobal.net
>http://pws.prserv.net/windyhill
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