At 2:09 PM +0000 2/15/07, Douglas Fraser wrote: >Everyone, > > Ever since I joined this list, I have been impressed with the >wealth of knowledge here and people's willingness to help. I've been >programming for 12 years and the front end CSS / JS / DHTML stuff has >been giving me a headache every since I really got into it a year ago >or so - it doesn't seem amenable to the more organized way of >programming other stuff - there are so many exceptions and corner >cases due to browser behaviors etc so I am wrestling with trying to >develop that body of experience / internal database of knowledge >about how to solve problems > >So, given my perspective as a sort of novice here, I was wondering: > >1) does anyone have an idea of how to approach learning CSS other >than just learning the tags and learning case by case how browsers >react in different ways? yes, the box model etc... I guess I'm >struggling with how to make my understanding more intuitive (so I >don't have to spend hours searching the net for relevant info on a >issue) > >which leads me to > >2) what do people think of trying to encode all this data / case >studies on this list into some sort of expert system - i am thinking >something where you could type in keywords or a description of your >problem and the system serves of possible useful info and examples of >problems solved? If there is something out there already, please >let me know. As for the task of programming something like this, it >(to me) is more tractable than figuring the behavior of IE5/Win, >IE5/Mac, IE6, and IE7 .... :) > >doug
Doug: It's a nice idea, but the permutations would be staggering for a rule base system. If this was easy, then everyone would be doing it. :-) Besides, we have something similar called Google. Whenever I find myself with a piece of code that just doesn't work the way I want, I type the statement in Google and usually find an answer where someone else had the same problem. Cheers, tedd -- ------- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
