Comments for Martini Lab Blog http://www.martinilab.com/blog Web design, CSS, scripting, Adobe, tips and other scraps of things that come my way Sun, 18 Apr 2010 05:56:54 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Comment on Tackling Safari’s slow gif “feature” with jQuery by Tim Gurske http://www.martinilab.com/blog/75/tackling-safaris-slow-gif-feature-with-jquery/comment-page-1/#comment-79 Tim Gurske Sun, 18 Apr 2010 05:56:54 +0000 http://www.martinilab.com/blog/?p=75#comment-79 Thanks, that helped me alot! Thanks, that helped me alot!

]]> Comment on Fun with WebKit css gradients by Chris Williams http://www.martinilab.com/blog/104/fun-with-webkit-css-gradients/comment-page-1/#comment-40 Chris Williams Wed, 27 May 2009 18:51:15 +0000 http://www.martinilab.com/blog/?p=104#comment-40 I totally agree with that. I suppose my take on text shadow come from already avoiding using graphics in place of text to begin with (or as much as possible). Text-shadow is just adding in an effect that I've already let go of. I totally agree with that. I suppose my take on text shadow come from already avoiding using graphics in place of text to begin with (or as much as possible). Text-shadow is just adding in an effect that I’ve already let go of.

]]> Comment on Fun with WebKit css gradients by David Woods http://www.martinilab.com/blog/104/fun-with-webkit-css-gradients/comment-page-1/#comment-39 David Woods Wed, 27 May 2009 18:07:01 +0000 http://www.martinilab.com/blog/?p=104#comment-39 "The only benefit of text-shadow is not downloading graphics for what can be expressed in css." I'm going to disagree there, there are plenty of benefits other than reducing bandwidth. The other css properties you mentioned, yes those benefits are mostly just visual/graphic. But text styles are much, much different. Off the top of my head: - There are SEO improvements by using HTML text instead of images - likewise there are improvements with compatibility with vision impaired people using screenreaders - people with reduced visual acuity can apply custom styles to increase the font size of css/html text that they wouldn't be able to with images (in the same way), and pages can be designed to flow around this modification - HTML text responds to browsers' find-in-page functions so users will be able jump to text while they couldn't jump to text in image - you can specify a simpler print style, reducing the ink use dramatically by not having to print an entire image - the content is much easier to make dynamic (updating via DHTML/Ajax/etc), or just to show dynamic content (e.g. displaying a data-derived page title in a content management system) - the text is selectable Good examples of css gradients though, that album example in particular was just beautiful. Thanks for the post! “The only benefit of text-shadow is not downloading graphics for what can be expressed in css.”

I’m going to disagree there, there are plenty of benefits other than reducing bandwidth. The other css properties you mentioned, yes those benefits are mostly just visual/graphic. But text styles are much, much different. Off the top of my head:

- There are SEO improvements by using HTML text instead of images
- likewise there are improvements with compatibility with vision impaired people using screenreaders
- people with reduced visual acuity can apply custom styles to increase the font size of css/html text that they wouldn’t be able to with images (in the same way), and pages can be designed to flow around this modification
- HTML text responds to browsers’ find-in-page functions so users will be able jump to text while they couldn’t jump to text in image
- you can specify a simpler print style, reducing the ink use dramatically by not having to print an entire image
- the content is much easier to make dynamic (updating via DHTML/Ajax/etc), or just to show dynamic content (e.g. displaying a data-derived page title in a content management system)
- the text is selectable

Good examples of css gradients though, that album example in particular was just beautiful. Thanks for the post!

]]> Comment on Fun with WebKit css gradients by RyanMorr http://www.martinilab.com/blog/104/fun-with-webkit-css-gradients/comment-page-1/#comment-38 RyanMorr Wed, 27 May 2009 17:39:17 +0000 http://www.martinilab.com/blog/?p=104#comment-38 Actually, browser detection isn't neccessary. I recently wrote a method capable of detecting support for any CSS styles in Javascript; <a href="http://ryanmorr.com/archives/detecting-browser-css-style-support" rel="nofollow">http://ryanmorr.com/archives/detecting-browser-css-style-support</a> Actually, browser detection isn’t neccessary. I recently wrote a method capable of detecting support for any CSS styles in Javascript; http://ryanmorr.com/archives/detecting-browser-css-style-support

]]> Comment on Fun with WebKit css gradients by Ajaxian » CSS Gradients in Action http://www.martinilab.com/blog/104/fun-with-webkit-css-gradients/comment-page-1/#comment-35 Ajaxian » CSS Gradients in Action Wed, 27 May 2009 12:52:01 +0000 http://www.martinilab.com/blog/?p=104#comment-35 [...] Williams has been having some fun with CSS gradients on a quest to create nice looking elements without [...] [...] Williams has been having some fun with CSS gradients on a quest to create nice looking elements without [...]

]]> Comment on -webkit-background-clip Problems by Fun with WebKit css gradients | Martini Lab Blog http://www.martinilab.com/blog/91/webkit-background-clip-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-32 Fun with WebKit css gradients | Martini Lab Blog Fri, 15 May 2009 21:38:59 +0000 http://www.martinilab.com/blog/?p=91#comment-32 [...] a follow up to yesterday’s woeful tale of using WebKit’s proprietary css properties, I wanted to follow up with a couple examples of how [...] [...] a follow up to yesterday’s woeful tale of using WebKit’s proprietary css properties, I wanted to follow up with a couple examples of how [...]

]]> Comment on A better jQuery slider by Harley http://www.martinilab.com/blog/25/a-better-jquery-slider/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Harley Sat, 04 Apr 2009 11:00:14 +0000 http://www.martinilab.com/blog/?p=25#comment-12 that is pretty badass. that is pretty badass.

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