RE: FLASH: OT: IE destroys website design

[Brack, Jeremy]

I think if James had specified that he was developing on a Mac, then the

question would have not been so obscure.

the "border" does appear when you use almost any web developing software, or

even just a plain text editor unless you specify border="0"..


-----Original Message-----

From: Matt Spiegler [

mspieglerlightbulbpress [dot] com (mailto:mspieglerlightbulbpress [dot] com)

]

Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 9:09 AM

To:

flasherchinwag [dot] com

Subject: Re: FLASH: OT: IE destroys website design



Actually, Jeremy, this is incorrect, at least in terms of IE5 on Mac.

Setting

border="0" does absolutely nothing to stop the border effect. If, in the

preferences, under "Keyboard Accessibility", you have the "Tab To Each Item

On

Text Page" option selected, you'll get the effect no matter what you do to

the

IMG tag. You have to make sure to have "Tab To Just Text Fields" selected to

kill it. Basically the "Tab To Each Item" option mimics the WebTV style

interface, where you use direction buttons to tab through anything with a

link

on it, an annoying yellow square appearing around each item as you land on

it.

It sucks in WebTV, and I have no idea why Micro$oft would want to imitate

it.


Matt Spiegler


"Brack, Jeremy" wrote:


> This "annoying/offensive" blue outline is automatically placed on images,

> unless you turn it off with the border="0" tag.  If you someday decide to

> take a class in basic website design, you will learn all about these

> mysterious HTML tags..

>

> Some new fangled programs like Dream Weaver and Front Page 2000 allow

> novices to edit the HTML tags without knowing HTML.. You will only need to

> right click on an image and click on check boxes to remove the

> "annoying/offensive" blue outline.

>

> here is how your code should look...

> <img src="name-of-image.jpg" border="0">

>

> -----Original Message-----

>

From: James Cutts [jamesinone [dot] co [dot] uk (mailto:jamesinone [dot] co [dot] uk)]

> Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 11:29 AM

>

To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

> Subject: FLASH: OT: IE destroys website design

>

> Hi list

>

> Apologies. Very off topic this one:

>

> Anyone know how to disable IE 5's annoying/offensive preset

> of putting a blue box around every clicked on link, graphic or text.

>

> It ruins the look of websites and is pointless.

>

> I tried contacting Microsoft UK and was told to contact the company

> that supplied the software. As i got it free off a magazine, I asked if

they

> expected me to ask a publishing house how to use IE 5. They replied "yes"

>

> I then asked him if he knew how to change this setting. Again they replied

> "yes" but said they wouldn't tell unless I paid for support.

>

> Bill Gates is an *ss hole. IE is sh*t.

>

> J



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