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I think PG must have known, what I only ended up finding out myself after trying too hard to make everything CSS, is that it doesn't always need to be. I kinda
by samson 19y ago
I think PG must have known, what I only ended up finding out myself after trying too hard to make everything CSS, is that it doesn't always need to be.
I kinda wish I could have an outter body experience +add that with time travel, and go back a few months so I can kick my old self in the ASS(twice) for wasting hours trying to make a forums page in all CSS, only to give up and accomplish it with tables, in what felt like seconds compared to the time I had spent previously.
CSS is of course a really good thing, especially if your building a big site(my site still mainly CSS based), But there's no need to spend unneeded time on things that the end user won't see,notice or care.
- cedsav 19y agoCSS has a learning curve yes, so it always going to seem harder than it should be in the beginning, but otherwise it shouldn't make a difference time-wise to create a table or css based layout.
- palish 19y ago... Until you realize that your fancy CSS doesn't display properly in IE6.
- run4yourlives 19y agoWhich, on a site like this, can be safely ignored! :)
- palish 19y agoSo you admit that fancy CSS for mainstream sites is generally a huge time sink?
- run4yourlives 19y agoNo, spending time correcting bugs of a browser that 3% of a particular site's users actually use is a waste of time. Correcting IE6 bugs on a mainstream site is part of the job. (and not that bad once you get the hang of it unless you've got a heavy design) I'd be very surprised if a CSS version of Hacker news needed any IE hacks at all really.