[uf-discuss] Re: RFC: sHTML Video Thumbnailing

[Charles Iliya Krempeaux]

Hello Benjamin,

On 5/27/07, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Intriguing. A few points:
>
> 1. About your CSS, neither border nor text-decoration remove the
> quotation punctuation added to q by browsers that attempt to follow the
> HTML specification for q. You'd want to use the quotes property:
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/generate.html#quotes
>
> Since q is an inline element and blockquote is block, presumably
> sometimes you'd want to use blockquote instead.

You must have been typing this as I wrote my correction...

http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2007-May/009703.html

Originally, for some reason, I was thinking about the style I add to
the <abbr> element when I use it for dates.


> 2. Your examples should include proper alt text.

Good catch.  (You are correct.  It should have included it.)


> 3. I'd suggest using class="videothumbnail" instead of class="video",
> which could mean all sorts of things.

That's a good point about class-video.


See ya

>
> --
> Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
>
> Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Note... there is a detail I left out of this.
> >
> > One many browsers, the <q> element adds a specific style that really
> > doesn't work a thumbnail.
> >
> > So I add the following to the <q> element...
> >
> >  style="border:0;text-decoration:none;"
> >
> > (I could probably get away with just the "border:0"... but I add the
> > "text-decoration:none" just to be safe.)
> >
> > See ya
> >


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