Ron Koster wrote: > > But that's basically where things are at now -- a world of hacks and > fixes. I'd like to think, though, that hopefully within the next > decade things will indeed become better in that regard. In the > meantime, I can't understand why anyone would take issue with > something that *does* work (i.e. table layouts), that works in the > long, long, long term, without any problems at all.
You've alluded to this in your other posts, but I'll respond to it here. I absolutely understand your drive to create the best, most "perfect" web site the first time around, for the requirements you're working with. But you must work in much more static environments than anything I've ever seen. Don't your clients ever send new requirements your way that require major redesigns, and much sooner than 5 years? That's absolutely amazing to me. > >> It is not only possible to develop 100% hack free CSS based web pages, >> but it is possible to do so quickly and efficiently. The browser wars >> are over and the good side won. Now 99% of non vision-impaired web >> users have browsers that are IE 6 or newer (80% are much newer than IE >> 6) and this means the days of hacking and witching our HTML into cross >> browser compatible pages are over. > > Interesting. So the thousands of posts that I've seen go by on this > list, all of which require a solution that involves "hacking and > witching", are just my imagination? Well, sort of, yeah. All those thousands of designers who don't need to do any "hacking and witching" aren't the ones who are posting questions. I rarely post, because I so rarely have any problems in CSS that I'd need to tap the list for help. In the meantime, I can get the benefit of hearing other people's issues and seeing the solutions. Isn't that what this list is for? If I want to peruse examples of interesting, working, CSS, there are other venues to visit. A few years ago, I undertook to switch all of the websites I was maintaining from the old table-based layouts to pure CSS. It has been so freeing, I could only wish the technology had arrived sooner. But oh well, that's what we all deal with in computer science, right? Laurie m...@winternet.com http://www.winternet.com/~milo ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
