Uploader refactoring and opacity

[Colin Clark]

Hi Eli,

Interesting problem...

On 11-May-08, at 10:15 AM, Eli Cochran wrote:
> There is some code in Progress that does some tweaking to the format  
> of the Progress dialog. There is a comment there now that the code  
> should be moved to CSS. The reason the code is there is to make up  
> for problems in CSS.
>
> Specifically that the opacity setting is browser specific. We can  
> put it in CSS (and many people do) but then the CSS file will not  
> validate, so when dealing with CSS, I usually let jQuery deal with  
> it and handle the browser foo.

The general idea we were trying to encourage was that any appearance- 
related settings are ideally expressed in CSS. Your point is that  
opacity is specified in different ways depending on the browser. What  
a drag!

So it seems like we have two possible options:

1. Expose opacity as a optional parameter in the JavaScript
2. Specify opacity value within the CSS in the W3C format but continue  
to use jQuery to actually set the value

Any recommendations?

Colin

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Colin Clark
Technical Lead, Fluid Project
Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto
http://fluidproject.org