On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 01:52:58PM -0500, Daniel B. wrote: > > > >>>HTML adapts to the user's browser pane width (well, if the author > >>>doesn't break HTML's ability to do that). > >>Again, to be pedantic, it's CSS that controls the layout, hence the > >>author simply provides multiple CSS, which is what it's designed to do. > > What do you mean by "the author simply provides multiple CSS"? > > If _you_ want to look at something in a full-screen browser window and > _I_ want to use a half-screen-width browser window (e.g., to see two > web pages side by side), how is an author going to provide multiple CSS > stylesheets to cover both of us? What about every size in between? > > > > >Just to be historical, HTML text adapted to the user's browser long > >before CSS had even been invented. > > Of course! (Why do you point that out?)
Because I was replying to a post that suggested that CSS was the first thing that enabled a web page to adjust to a user's browser. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
