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Re: Use of characters as separators/arrows, etc.

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From: Christian Heilmann
Date: Apr 3, 2006 11:40AM

> .noshow { display: none; }
> <span class="noshow">[</span> ... <span class="noshow">|</span> ...
> <span class="noshow">]</span>

I think the difference is also that with web semantics in mind and
wonderful styling examples like listamatic[1] more and more developers
started using lists for navigation menus rather than just links
following each other, which makes the whole debate less of a problem.
With a more beaurocratic mind this can lead to rather fascinating
results. I found this construct on a German site the other day:

<ul>
<li><a href="/themen/">Themen</a><span>.</span></li>
<li><a href="/termine/">Termine</a><span>.</span></li>
</ul>

This mixes both approaches, as the span was hidden via CSS. IMHO
superfluous, or are there cases were modern user agents won't be able
to distinguish between list items?

[1] http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/

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