[Gllug] [OT]Reforming wayward web designers

Ian Norton bredroll at darkspace.org.uk
Thu Oct 7 14:40:15 UTC 2004


On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 11:46:48PM +0100, Garry Heaton wrote:
> Richard Jones wrote:
> 
> Another thing beginning CSS designers often neglect to test is the effect of
> text resizing. Many CSS layouts go to pieces when the text is resized unless
> the layout has been carefully crafted. I find <div> containers are much less
> reliable than <td>s in this respect. If you add float: into the mix you
> really do have your hands full with browser testing. Working round the
> browser bugs to get a pure CSS layout for a complex design I find to be a
> waste of time that could be spent adding value to the site with
> PHP/Perl+database.

Those kind of developers really pi** me off, they have a good tool to make an
accessible site and go and use that tool to make it worse. 

Ian
 

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