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Re: Hiding Legends

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From: Jukka K. Korpela
Date: Oct 17, 2008 9:25AM

Dean Hamack wrote:

> On 10/16/08 5:30 PM, "James Nurthen" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
>> Are you aware that background images disappear in this mode - making
>> the page unusable?
>
> No I was not. Like I said, I've never worked for a company that
> tested in that mode, nor cared about it.

Did you ever care about printability? Background images are almost always
omitted on printing.

(This makes things rather nasty when web sites use background images for
essential content because they offer a seemingly easy way to make sites
customizable.)

> Does anyone have any actual statistics on how many people use this
> mode?

It's funny how people revert to requesting for statistics when they realize
that their techniques are't accessible. The next step is typically accepting
any irrelevant data as "statistics" if the figures are small enough. :-)

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