RE: [wsrp] [change request #237a] Can a CSS class write the label of a button?

[Eilon Reshef <Eilon.Reshef@webcollage.com>]

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Forcing all buttons to be images may not be a practical solution, since well-formed pages would contain alternative text anyway, for accessibility (and related) reasons, etc.

 

Eilon

-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Thompson [mailto:richt2@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 11:23 PM
To: wsrp@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [wsrp] [change request #237a] Can a CSS class write the label of a button?

In looking back through previous work, it is clear I was confusing XSLT styling with CSS styling. In XSLT it is trivial to write the labels for buttons, but appears to not be doable in CSS. One can use CSS to set a background image, but any label text of the markup overlays this. Therefore I think either we require Consumers to set such an image and prohibit Portlets from writing label text for elements using our control classes (allows the image to contain the relevant words) or we decide they are not worth defining in v1 as they are more likely to cause poor UIs than good UIs.

Rich Thompson