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Your frustrations with the state of CSS 2.0 at the time were quite common, and part of what CSS Zen Garden aimed to inspire people to transcend. Now, CSS has ev
by yosito 10d ago
Your frustrations with the state of CSS 2.0 at the time were quite common, and part of what CSS Zen Garden aimed to inspire people to transcend. Now, CSS has evolved to the point where none of these hacks are necessary. You can now write pure, semantic HTML, and pure CSS, and implement full-fidelity designs that work across all modern browsers. That was the whole dream of the CSS Zen Garden, which wasn't fully realized at the time, but now it is.
- cyberax 10d agoThat's the issue. The CSS pushers did not have any ways of solving the CSS issues. All that "inspiration" resulted in a loss of scalable interfaces and a switch to hard-coded element dimensions. And this persisted for a LONG time because Web UI designers are, in general, bad and were fine with flashy UI that is finger-breakingly bad. Heck, it's _still_ a problem because people are by now completely oblivious to that. The art of automatic UI layout has been lost completely.