[thelist] link borders on a MAC

[Philippe Wittenbergh]

On Tuesday, September 23, 2003, at 04:02  AM, Maisha Walker wrote:

> Thank you, everyone for your responses!
>
> And thank you, Philippe, this worked!
>
> Can you enlighten me as to:
>
> 1. where I would find code like this?  Is there a good resource for 
> CSS code
> that you know of?

The css specification is a good start ;-)
>
> 2. why would you strongly recommend not doing this?  Very curious to
> understand the usability issues involved.

You've heard it already, it kills the visual feedback for keyboard 
users. Without that focussing ring, they have no idea which link is 
selected.

Now for IE Mac, instead of killing that focussing ring by stating
a:focus {outline:none}
you can always try to control it:
a:focus {outline: 10px lime dashed} /* fill in values to taste. */[1]
I use that on my IE bug pages (see sig below)


[1] the default in the hard coded UA CSS for IE Mac is a:focus 
{outline: 2px /*colorvalue*/ solid}, whereby colorvalue is the same one 
as the color selected for the browser chrome (user selected)

HTH

Philippe


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