Re: [wsrp] menu CSS class

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Sounds good to me, Rich,

Thanks,
Rex

At 8:35 AM -0500 1/23/06, Rich Thompson wrote:
>As part of updating the menu example in the spec, I created a small 
>test file that roughly reproduces what had previously been drawn in 
>an editor using html and CSS. The one class I found to be missing in 
>doing this was portlet-menu-cascade. This is an equivalent to 
>portlet-menu at the top level, but allows things like having the 
>border around the submenu match the text color in 
>portlet-menu-item-hover. Any objections to adding this class?
>
>Rich
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>Rich Thompson/Watson/IBM@IBMUS
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>01/20/06 07:23 AM
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>[wsrp] portlet-menu-description CSS class
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>I agreed yesterday to start this email thread.
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>We had feedback from CSS experts that the portlet-menu-description 
>class appears inappropriate. In particular, it violates a number of 
>UI guidelines used on various platforms and would be problematic for 
>screen readers. The equivalent functionality is normally provided 
>using tooltips, but these are handled via the underlying windowing 
>system rather than being styled through CSS.
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>The questions we were all asked to investigate:
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>1. Do other CSS experts agree with this evaluation of the 
>portlet-menu-description?
>2. Is the portlet-menu-description class in use (i.e. would it be 
>disruptive to remove it)?
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>As we are trying to move rapidly toward a "Committee Draft" level of 
>the spec, early feedback on these questions would be great!
>
>Rich 
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