Gunlaug Sørtun wrote:
Erika Meyer wrote:
I think that one issue is that there still tends to be a big
real-world divide between designers and developers. Very few people
"design" in CSS, and from what I've seen, there is little financial
incentive to do so.
Granted. Emphasis is, as always, financial incentive.
That's a huge barrier.
True. Barriers are made to be broken, though. I wish I were among those
who could do so...
Instead, the web dev model is still (as far as I can tell) wireframe
-> photoshop -> CSS . Web design is still a relatively new field,
and a lot of designers (and perhaps more importantly, employers) are
still thinking in print. The ongoing desire to have a site look and
behave the same in all browsers is evidence of that.
Sites can and do look and behave the same cross-browser employing
CSS. That is not the issue. It is the overwhelming desire to emulate
print on the Web that is at issue.
I know my "broad content concept --> source-code --> CSS --> test across
media --> add imagery --> enhance --> repeat until finished" model is
not widely used. One has to visualize in code from the start to use it,
which probably throws visual designers - print designers - off.
Much easier to start with the "picture" itself and trivialize the rest
until it breaks. One can't easily blame the "picture" for weakening the
code necessary to realize it, so the "picture-makers" go free and the
overall cost goes up.
It is my opinion, a more sensible and meaningful front-end development
concept will win out in the end. In the meantime only the brave and
daring are willing to go your route. But they grow in number. Some are
found among the contributers and posters to this list...
Guess that's why so many web creations tend to break under the slightest
amount of stress and can not be easily redesigned with CSS alone to work
in/on other media than the regular "browser defaults on screens" setting
- that's most likely all they are made for.
Such sites are made to satisfy a prevailing need to succeed. And until
such time as these sites are replaced by efforts to succeed within the
wider gates and freedom offered by the Web and the intrinsic merits of
CSS we live with emulated unreadable broken magazine ads.
The way toward change in web design trends is always by setting
examples, especially high-profile examples.
Know of any existing ones out here?
There are some out there. Not many. There will be more. Someone will
break the barrier. Others will follow suit...
regards
Georg
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