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Posted by Ed Seedhouse on 09/25/06 23:20
On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 00:37:45 +0200, Chris <krimgelas@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Thanks, ron. I think that CSS should have solved a lot of design issues, but
>it didn't entirely fulfill its promise (yet). The support for CSS by
>browsers differs immensely.
It's not as bad as you might think.
>Luckily we already have firefox, but we're
>still stuck with IE which most of the average users seem to prefer to use.
>To make a website look the same among browsers, requires a lot of very ugly
>hacks.
Not really. If you write good semantic well structured html you can
style it to be robust across browsers with a minimum of effort and very
few hacks.
Of course complicated layouts can get you into a lot trouble, but I
think there are just too darned many complicated layouts out there
anyway. No one, so far as I know, uses a particular site a lot because
it's layout is cool. On the other hand they will use a badly laid out
site often if it provides them with the content they seek. There's
quite a few sites I return to whose layout I hate.
If that is so, then surely it is layout should be serving content, and
make it accessible with a minimum of fuss. Not the other way around.
That is a constraint, but real creativity lies in creating great results
within the constraints of a medium. And there are always constraints.
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