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Party like it’s 1994
Posted by Mike Sugarbaker at 4:51 am on 8/17/2003
The real reason pure-CSS layout is sweeping Geek Nation lately is simple: it makes web page layout difficult again! It’s like taking a one-way trip in the Wayback Machine, right back to when no two browsers worked alike, it took half an hour of research to accomplish anything, and ugly, asinine hacks were so ubiquitous as to be a de facto part of the language. So we’ll have job security again, if we can just convince our bosses that web standards and separation of code from layout will actually confer them any advantage.
Well, that and static page backgrounds. You thought it was hot when HotWired figured out how to indent things? Man. You ain’t seen hot.
August 19th, 2003 at 5:48 am
LOL!
I like to say that CSS puts design back in the hands of the programmer!
The shit you can do with selectors and overrides (especially of descendant selectors) lets you do really neat object oriented graphic design. To bad the intersection of people who understand how to implement inheretance and overrides with the group that understands visual design for presenting information and marketing is vanishingly small.