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by chairface 18y ago
> you can do it without changing your templates. ... > I sometime edit the markup to change classes or add the occasional <div>. Case in point. > I guess table-base layout would be easier to experiment with using a wysiw
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by chairface 18y ago
> learn selectors! The grand majority of those selectors are not available in IE6, which most of us still have to support, so this is a non-starter. Nobody is arguing that we wouldn't be much better off with better CSS support. The ar
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by chairface 18y ago
> CssZenGarden also shows that refactoring a CSS-driven site is easier since you can do it without changing your templates. In my experience, this just doesn't happen in the real world.
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by chairface 18y ago
> I realize that css isn't the best language in the world. But if it was intuitive to write css forwards and backwards regardless of document flow -- this wouldn't be a discussion topic. The question is the amount of time invested to le
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by chairface 18y ago
> I meant this by reading http://www.csszengarden.com/zengarden-sample.html not reading the html markup But you started that part of you message with > The HTML won't make any sense if you start reversing it ? > If CSS Zen Gar
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by chairface 18y ago
You said it was misleading that he implied it was "typical", which is a synonym for "common". You can take issue with his conclusions, but illustrating your thesis with a common case can in no way be construed as a trick.
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by chairface 18y ago
You should read my reply to the other guy for a fuller treatment, but here's what I said about this to him, 'perhaps "demand" was hyperbole, but CSS does still push developers to rewrite their HTML when design changes happen.' The cost in
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by chairface 18y ago
> and then you wanted col 2 to be on the left of col 1, you'd write the css differently then you would the forward method. At the cost of a lot of flexibility. Most people, when faced with a change in design like this, simply reorder t
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by chairface 18y ago
> I mean what is the point of putting <h2> tags below your <p> when it's obvious that the <h2> tag is acting as the heading for the <p> below. I wouldn't be able to read that, so why is CSS @ fault? Nobod
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by chairface 18y ago
The auto-expanding equal height three column layout is such a standard layout on the web, and ways to do it are so often requested that it is referred to as the "holy grail" by the CSS community. So I find your critique and accusation of t
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by chairface 18y ago
The markup on CSS Zen Garden makes use of things like layers of wrapper divs to achieve what it does in terms of design. And this means the HTML is being used for more than just content, which is a direct controversion of CSS's goals. The
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by chairface 18y ago
This was a rant? Honestly?
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I think my perception of Africa's size comes entirely from the fact that it's only worth 3 armies in Risk.
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by chairface 18y ago
> Can anyone think of a software package — or anything else, really — that proudly displays a version number higher than 23? Well, there's Emacs.
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by chairface 18y ago
Sounds like you must be in the Milwaukee area. The tech market there looks like a dream from where I am (live in Appleton, work in Green Bay). All a matter of perspective, I guess.
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by chairface 18y ago
agents
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by chairface 18y ago
Am I correct that CO is one of those states that can divide their electoral votes between candidates, and if so, did you take this into account?
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by chairface 18y ago
Are you implying that any parenthetical remark is out of bounds? It seems to me that "saying how great an article is" captures more of the intent of the prohibition than you suggest. That said, this particular parenthetical remark isn't al