I decided to modernize the old Gyrate theme a little in order to remind myself of why I hate web design. Okay, so maybe that wasn’t the original intent, but it was the result. I know this is taboo, and I’m well aware of all the arguments against them, but I miss “layout tables.” I’m sorry, but CSS positioning is overly complicated bullshit. And why is there still no simple way to do rounded corners? I can’t believe people are still using the same stupid hacks (e.g. transparent .gifs) I used back in 1997. That’s it, rounded corners are hereby banned from Gyrate.org until the major browsers start implementing that part of the CSS3 spec. I would ban CSS positioning too, but I already figured out a nice ugly hack to solve the problem I was having. That doesn’t mean its off the hook though. CSS positioning, you are on probation until further notice!
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why dont you just code how you like? its the end result that the people will see.
Because moving towards web standards will make it easier to assume that websites use the correct semantic tags and therefore make it easier to design layout engines and alternate ways of viewing pages and search databases. Or so I hear.
~~drinking the semantic XHTML/CSS kool-aid
Yes, but can you do this or this with tables! Yes, I know the second one is heavy into javascript and AJAX.
And without CSS, AJAX wouldn’t be as useful (hidden divs anyone?).
Now only if all browsers could pass the latest ACID test, webdevelopers would have it easy.
and if web developers had it easy we could do even more work in less time, yay!!!! i can’t wait for all browsers to pass the acid test so that trickle of work hitting my desk can become an avalanche of monotonous, repetitive, uncreative tasks!
Hey…my links never made it! Anyway the first was to csszengarden.com and the second was demo.eyeos.org