On Dec 8, 2004, at 3:53 PM, Charlie Barr wrote: > Hey, that's pretty cool! One nitpicky point that I got from a client > once when making similar dropdowns -- you might want to make the > second level of links staggered downward a bit, or give it a different > style of some kind. When I first tabbed through to the second level > of Remora, I thought that *both* the Percoidei and Anabantoidei menus > were open! > > Charlie > > Matthew Carroll has created a disturbance in the Force. > I felt its presence on 12/8/2004 1:09 AM. > Its substance was as follows: > >> I've also been working on keyboard-accessible suckerfish menus. I'd >> been >> meaning to post my solution here, but Jamie beat me to it :-) >> I go about it rather differently though, and using CSS the menus are >> *still* keyboard accessible in a standards-compliant browser, even >> without javascript. The behavior is a little odd, but it works. I >> worked >> up the obligatory 'Perciformes' 2 level example here... >> http://www.coinet.org.uk/bones2.html >> The ideal solution as I see it would be parent selectors, i.e. >> something >> like: >> ul < li < a:focus { left:auto } >> which would enable the focus to propogate up the menus and affect the >> properties of parent elements, like :hover does, but that doesn't >> exist >> in css (at least not yet... I read somewhere that it was discussed, >> but >> didn't make it into the specs.) >> Until then I think I've managed to make the suckerfish menus as >> keyboard-accessible as possible in a simple way - just by tabbing >> through the links, and I hope that's of help to people. >> Best wishes, >> Matthew > ______________________________________________________________________ This site does nothing when I press tab. I am using Firefox 1.0 and Safari a Mac OS 10.3.6. http://www.coinet.org.uk/bones2.html ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL-REMOVED]] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
