[sclug] CSS

[Tom Dawes-Gamble]

On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 19:05 +0100, David Given wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 October 2005 16:24, Tom Dawes-Gamble wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 02:16 +0100, David Given wrote:
> > > In fact, CSS in general sucks. It's woefully inadequate as a layout
> > > language.
> >
> > So what do you recommend as a better alternative.
> 
> Well, there's obviously TeX and LaTeX, which can generate superb results --- 
> but they're not a lot of use for web pages, 

Of course I should have said for web pages.
> 
> Unfortunately, CSS is the only game in town if you want web pages. (I 
> periodically wonder about how feasible it would be to do your layout using 
> Javascript to modify the HTML code, which ought to let you do things that CSS 
> can't do, but nothing ever comes of it.)

Yes Javascript is great.  I haven't used it for years.  Lots of people
turn it off.  Though they can turn off Style too.

I guess the best solution is pdf files but then there are lots of down
sides to that too.

Personally I stick  XHTML and CSS at least that way the page should be
usable by any browser.

Regards,
Tom.

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