Discuss: Sliced and Diced Sandbags

by Rob Swan

41 Why not position the image absolutely?

Since absolute positioning takes the block out of the stack, couldn’t the image be positioned absolutely over the sandbags?

posted at 03:01 pm on September 7, 2006 by Artie Kuhn

42 Why not position the image absolutely?

Never mind, missed the post about this. My bad.

posted at 03:09 pm on September 7, 2006 by Artie Kuhn

43 Come on! It's the new "tables for layout"...

You were all so happy to abandon the table layout “trick”. It validated nicely, but still: Not a correct use of the table-tag. And now you’re all at it again. Articles like this makes A List Apart a bit hypocritical, posing to be pro-standard good-gal/guy.

posted at 11:34 am on September 11, 2006 by Espen Klem

44

Espen,

Whilst I concur that this article isn’t coming from a 100% standards compliant stance, I still think that there’s room for ideas like this to be discussed on ALA without it becoming hypocritical. I’d like to think of it as an ‘interesting’ approach to a problem. I think we can be pro-standard and still have a little ‘fun’ every now and again ;)

posted at 11:27 pm on September 11, 2006 by Rob Swan

45 A new (better ?) way of doing this

Hello Rob.

First off, thank you for the well-written script. It is an effect I have been wanting to create on my site for a while, and just never got the guts to start writing a script. I had seen this effect done before on Mike Davidson’s website, and so I was aware of a “better” way to create this exact effect.

So I wrote a new version of your script (a little more sloppy, so you can change it if you want). It seems to work in most browsers, but I couldn’t test in IE (windows) unfortunatly, but I doubt Mike would let anything go wrong in IE.

You can read more at http://www.mcb.mcgill.ca/~jette/wordpress/2006/09/12/sandbags/

posted at 11:19 pm on September 13, 2006 by Miguel Jette