Comments on: jQuery fade-in spoiler revealer: The failsafe, progressively enhanced version http://www.pathf.com/blogs/2008/04/jquery-fade-in/ Running commentary about agile development, user experience design and Ajax. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:33:43 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Brian Dillard http://www.pathf.com/blogs/2008/04/jquery-fade-in/comment-page-1/#comment-30 Brian Dillard Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:39:29 +0000 http://www.pathf.com/blogs/?p=26#comment-30 <p>@Jones: I know strict semantics heads prefer this solution, but isn't mobile browser support still lagging for links that point to IDs instead of anchors?</p> <p>This page is a few years old, but the caveat on this point within it has led me to avoid this approach to date:</p> <p><a href="http://bitesizestandards.com/bites/cleaning-up-code-with-semantic-anchors" rel="nofollow">http://bitesizestandards.com/bites/cleaning-up-code-with-semantic-anchors</a></p> @Jones: I know strict semantics heads prefer this solution, but isn’t mobile browser support still lagging for links that point to IDs instead of anchors?

This page is a few years old, but the caveat on this point within it has led me to avoid this approach to date:

http://bitesizestandards.com/bites/cleaning-up-code-with-semantic-anchors

]]> By: Jones http://www.pathf.com/blogs/2008/04/jquery-fade-in/comment-page-1/#comment-29 Jones Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:21:38 +0000 http://www.pathf.com/blogs/?p=26#comment-29 <p>A little nitpick: rather than slapping an IMO ugly anchor element (ie [spoiler]), just slap an id to a span (or any other relevant tag) with the spoiler itself (eg [spoiler].</p> A little nitpick: rather than slapping an IMO ugly anchor element (ie [spoiler]), just slap an id to a span (or any other relevant tag) with the spoiler itself (eg [spoiler].

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.pathf.com/blogs/2008/04/jquery-fade-in/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Anonymous Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:01:54 +0000 http://www.pathf.com/blogs/?p=26#comment-28 <p>nice post with actual comments in the JS, something many sites' examples lack, thanks</p> nice post with actual comments in the JS, something many sites’ examples lack, thanks

]]> By: Brian Dillard http://www.pathf.com/blogs/2008/04/jquery-fade-in/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Brian Dillard Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:40:16 +0000 http://www.pathf.com/blogs/?p=26#comment-27 <p>@Chris: Yeah, progressive enhancement is ugly, but it works! Sorry about the misspellings, now corrected. My eyes aren't what they could be.</p> @Chris: Yeah, progressive enhancement is ugly, but it works! Sorry about the misspellings, now corrected. My eyes aren’t what they could be.

]]> By: Chris Coyier http://www.pathf.com/blogs/2008/04/jquery-fade-in/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Chris Coyier Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:07:30 +0000 http://www.pathf.com/blogs/?p=26#comment-26 <p>Hi Brian,</p> <p>Nice thoughtful approach, good work =) Kinda ugly seeing all those br tags in there, but if you are trying to be as truly careful with not revealing the spoiler as possible (preparing for both No CSS and No Javascript), they are needed right in the markup itself.</p> <p>Quick fix if you don't mind... My last name is actually "Coyier" and the site is "CSS-Tricks" =)</p> Hi Brian,

Nice thoughtful approach, good work =) Kinda ugly seeing all those br tags in there, but if you are trying to be as truly careful with not revealing the spoiler as possible (preparing for both No CSS and No Javascript), they are needed right in the markup itself.

Quick fix if you don’t mind… My last name is actually “Coyier” and the site is “CSS-Tricks” =)

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