In article <brddYgxvE0gm-pn2-JDXiRdrX6hbo@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
"Dolores Park" <noone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Tue, 6 May 2008 01:50:22 UTC, TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
> > On Mon, 5 May 2008 19:19:40 -0500, Dolores Park wrote (in article
> > <brddYgxvE0gm-pn2-6I6Hd78kudeq@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>):
> >
> > > Your question (and the ensuing discussion) arises from an incorrect
use
> > > of
> > > terminology.
> > >
> > The ECR site under discussion was implemented in Freeway Pro 5, a
WYSIWYG
> > website implementation application produced by SoftPress, a British
> > company.
> > The Freeway tools and the Freeway do***entation refer to those seven
"menu
> > items" as "buttons".
> >
> > > So, to answer your question, there is an agreed upon standard for
button
> > > behavior but only a generally accepted convention for links.
> >
> > So it looks like that there is unfortunately some disagreement in the
> > website development community over terminology.
>
> That company is free to do***ent their product as they wish. If it is
> aimed at those who are not overly conversant with GUI concepts, it may
> serve their purposes to call these links "buttons" for the sake of
> simplicity. However, if you review the page source, you'll see that
> the menu items are substantially identical to the links you'd find on
> any webpage (i.e. they are all anchors, as indicated by the <a> tag).
> If you'd like a more comprehensive description of anchors and buttons,
> see the HTML 4.01 specification (http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/),
in
> particular chapters 12 & 17.
>
> BTW... this tool is rather dated in the way it format pages using
> tables & transparent GIFs. That was considered fine some years ago
> but is now deprecated in favor of using CSS to handle positioning.
>
> BTW2... why is all of the text rendered as GIFs? That technique is
> usually reserved for logos and other text that requires an uncommon
> type face. It's pretty unusual for text rendered in Times Roman or
> the like and can have a downside. If your cellphone has a browser
> be sure to check your page for readability on a small screen.
This is quite correct. It is a very bad idea to deliver text by pictures
because it does not cater for those who want their text bigger or in
their own chosen font.
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dorayme
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