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From: Tim Beadle
Date: Nov 26, 2004 6:58AM

"michael.brockington" wrote on
26/11/2004 13:19:01:
> It doesn't look like you read the article yourself - the images are
being
> used to instead of the natural element borders, thus replacing a
structural
> element, ie the border.

Huh? "Natural element borders"? Whether the visual effect is a "real" CSS
border, or an image, is irrelevant! Both are stylistic elements and are
therefore completely seperate from the *structure* of the document!

> In that example this was probably justifiable to
> create the required effect, but here what the author wants is a border -
> replacing a border with an image is wrong. Wrong! Always!

In your opinion. But if we want a web that is structurally and
semantically sound under the hood (markup) but visually attractive on top
(CSS), then we need techniques like this.

Tim



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