Orchid XP v8 escreveu:
>>> I'm particularly pleased with how I managed to insert chevrons
>>> *between* the links, but not before or after them. That look some
>>> figuring out.
>>
>> I was thinking about how you managed that one.
> 
>> Guess I'm missing latest CSS goodies, cause I've not heard of "content:"
>> before...
> 
> I read about the "content:" property way, waaaaaay back in 1998 or so. 

damn, I'm truly behind the times... :p

ok, I'm just unaware of the complete spec... I've got the box model 
pretty worked out though... :)

> Of course, reading about this, I was very excited, and immediately went 
> to try it out. But, as it turns out, neither Netscape nor IE took any 
> notice of these properties at all. I promptly forgot all about them, 
> since they don't work.
> 
> (In a similar vein, it's supposed to be possible to add drop shadows to 
> text and so on. That didn't work either.)

weirdly enough, I'm aware of latest CSS goodies like drop shadows, 
transitions, gradients, border-radius and so on.  Since they are still 
experimental, web browsers tend to have them available only via prefixes 
such as -moz-border-radius or -webkit-border-radius... won't cause any 
problem to browsers unaware of them because html-related techs were 
build around the idea to simply ignore tags and properties they don't 
understand.

Imagine if they used a static type system like in haskell:  "This page 
can't be shown:  a type mismatch has occurred!" :)

> Fast forward 10 years, and it seems these funky features are actually 
> *implemented* now. (I didn't bother to check whether IE supports it - 
> mainly since I don't give a damn.)

yeah, what percentage of your 2 blog readers would possibly be using IE?...

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