Okay, so the whole point of my little site here is for me to piss-fart about with HTML and various other ‘web technologies’. The lack of a client means I’m not all that concerned with ironing out all the bugs… at least not right away. Of the five browsers that run on my current system, two of them do an okay job of rendering the site near what I’m aiming for, none of them display my flash logo yet which seems a bit odd but I’ll get it sorted one day. My ultimate conclusion is that CSS can’t live up to the hype that surrounds it, it is impossible to render a page in HTML 4 Strict and have it look the same (and in many cases as good) as a page done in HTML 4 Trans. And it will be a long time before the good old table tag will no longer be needed. I’ve also reached a few of Greymatters limits, the next step there is to go digging through the perl code (thank the gods of open source), but I’m not sure if I could be bothered just yet… there are some “neat-o” things that I’d like to add but the question is ‘could I be arsed?’. There is much yet to play with, and the experiments continue.
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This is what web browser manufacturers seem to agree on, which is why none have bothered implementing the standards properly. There was a lot of argument that Mozilla doing it ‘right’ might shame the other big player into shaping up. I’m not sure that has happened.
re: CSS - welcome to 1998! 🙂 re: Mozilla - is so embarrassing that it would shame other companies to admit they were using it as a goalpost. 🙂 Both Opera and IE have had substantial CSS support for some time, but are also generally usable. I like the low tech web. It keeps “developers” and “designers” from disenfranchising the common folk. re: open source gods - I wouldn’t steal Noah’s mojo by thanking them.
I know that CSS left a lot to be desired when it was first introduced… but I had hopped that 3 years later we would be seeing this technology mature it to a worthy replacement for the dark arts of the web. And in the case of Greymatter, Noah is the god I was thanking.
I’m being a bit disingenuous. In 1996 I was suspicious of tech that tried to make the web like magazines - that is, pretty it up. In 1997 I jumped on the CSS bandwagon. In 1998 I realised that the implementations sucked. It wasn’t till 2000 that I realised what a crock CSS was and had to be. (I was right in 1996, except for the bad attitude.)
CSS offers the joy of being able to redesign an entire site by changing just one file! Yet I find that I’m going to be forced to use a combonation of the new and the old. I think I’ll try dropping the tables and use only divs for a few weeks and see how that goes.