[sclug] CSS

[David Given]

On Monday 17 October 2005 22:08, Oliver Carlo wrote:
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> http://www.csszengarden.com/

Visually impressive, but rather less good than it first appears --- a lot of 
the designs are fixed size, for example, and don't resize horizontally. Some 
of the layouts achieve their effects by supressing rendering of the some of 
the text and then using a big image; look at Vin Rouge, for example, and then 
check out http://www.csszengarden.com/179/background_header.gif. And of 
course they all suck from a usability point of view, but then that isn't the 
point; they're designed to be pretty (which they are).

In fact, CSS in general sucks. It's woefully inadequate as a layout language. 
It's impossible to, for example, say that you want element X to be the same 
size as element Y; that you want element X to be wide enough to contain a 
particular string without wrapping, but no wider (or narrower); that you want 
an element to have three children, one of which is n pixels wide, and the 
rest of the space should be divided equally between the other children... 
most CSS-based column layouts end up having to make some of the columns a 
fixed size simply to make them work properly. Other layouts just use CSS 
table rendering to duplicate the functionality of the <TABLE> tag, which is 
cheating...

...but I suspect I shouldn't be ranting at 0216. Must go to bed.

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