Question re UL nav bar and no images

[Dave Patton]

In another thread(HTML 4.01 and Netscape 4.78) there
was a link to this interview:
<http://www.webstandards.org/learn/interviews/dcederholm/>
about the redesign of http://www.fastcompany.com/

In the interview, the issue of the 'navigation tabs'
is addressed("Those are some sexy navigation tabs…").

If I load their main page in Mozilla:
http://www.fastcompany.com/homepage/index.html
and disable image loading, the site navigation links
for the tabs are there, but with no indication of
their existance until you hover the cursor over the link.

The navigation links are an unordered list.
Is there a different way to code this, so that the links
have an indication of their presence when image loading
is disabled?

Is this a 'stylesheet issue', rather than an HTML issue?
Should I be asking this in c.i.w.a.stylesheets?

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[Martin Honnen]

Dave Patton wrote:

In another thread(HTML 4.01 and Netscape 4.78) there
was a link to this interview:
<http://www.webstandards.org/learn/interviews/dcederholm/>
about the redesign of http://www.fastcompany.com/

In the interview, the issue of the 'navigation tabs'
is addressed("Those are some sexy navigation tabs…").

If I load their main page in Mozilla:
http://www.fastcompany.com/homepage/index.html
and disable image loading, the site navigation links
for the tabs are there, but with no indication of
their existance until you hover the cursor over the link.

The navigation links are an unordered list.
Is there a different way to code this, so that the links
have an indication of their presence when image loading
is disabled?

Is this a 'stylesheet issue', rather than an HTML issue?
Should I be asking this in c.i.w.a.stylesheets?

Yes, they are using CSS background-images to display the tabs, not a
good approach if the navigation disappears without images being loaded.
And I think the text display is suppressed by using
height: 20px
and a top padding of 20px with overflow hidden. That way the link
without background-images is just an inline box with no visible content.

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Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/