On Friday 24 December 2004 17:08, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > > > Responding to Chris: CSS is neither outdated nor a Windows thing. You > > > apparently need to get an extra clue or two before you rejoin this > > > discussion. > > > > Not really - Some years back MS made a big issue about CSS. It was > > then that I lost interest in web devel. Besides - web devel isn't my > > bag, so I really don't think that I need to have or get a clue. > > CSS is a W3 standard, but was originally designed by the CTO of Opera > Software, a company which is one of Microsoft's more vocal detractors > and which recently received a large settlement in a lawsuit regarding > Microsoft's (alleged) intentional efforts to make their website render > poorly in Opera's browser. IE handles CSS1 badly, and CSS2 almost not > at all. Calling it a Windows thing severely misrepresents the facts. > > > One does not need to know how to rebuild an engine to know how to > > drive the car. > > One should not criticize the design of an engine while vehemently > claiming to have no interest in how enginges are built. > > DES
Hey, beastie! I've just come back to the list after some years away, and I must say I've been well entertained by the "Visual Identity" thread these last few days! Someone, I forget whom, kept mentioning the "bikeshed," and that is what caught my attention. So I went the the plain-old drab website at www.freebsd.org and enterend the term in the search form, just to refresh my memory. Then I followed all of the links until I came to the original "bikeshed" post. I include a link here for reference, in case anyone else wants a good laugh: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=506636+517178+/usr/local/www/db/text/1999/freebsd-hackers/19991003.freebsd-hackers Hope the link doesn't get folded in the email process. I think that one does not necessarily have to have experience building a bikeshed to know what it is. But it's always good exercise building one! Flame On! lane P.S. I also looked up Brett Glass on google. They say any publicity is good publicity, but I'm not so sure in his case. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
