HTML:lists

[Thomas Dowling]

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Duncan <duncanr at lafvax.lafayette.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at library.berkeley.edu>
Date: Monday, March 02, 1998 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: HTML:lists


>It's possible with Style Sheets, using the "list-style-image" property.
>Unfortunately, this property has limited current support.  (Doesn't work in
>Netscape yet; it's supposed to work in IE4).

I suspect Bob and I both relied on the Web Review master grid for this
(http://style.webreview.com/mastergrid.html), and I think we were both led
astray.  IE4 is listed as supporting it, but my copy doesn't do so.

>
>To try it, pop the following into an HTML doc header:
><STYLE><!-- UL { list-style-image: url(http://somewhere.edu/image.gif) }
>--></STYLE>
>(Not sure if URL to image *has* to be absolute or not?)

It should be interpreted relative to the document's URL, but some browsers
wig out on this; better to expend a few keystrokes on an absolute URL.


This problem, of course, goes back eons in web time.  The late, lamented
HTML 3.0 draft handled it simply and cleanly: <UL src="image.gif">.
Needless to say, the Big Two had other more pressing issues than
implementing this sensible markup.  MARQUEE, LAYER, channels...


Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu