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Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 02/17/07 15:17
Scripsit Andy Dingley:
> On 16 Feb, 12:16, "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorp...@cs.tut.fi> wrote:
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>>> To quote the OP: "I can't modify because is automatically added by
>>> the script that is generating the page, "
>>
>> That sounds like "I don't know how to" rather than "I can", in
>> reality.
>
> Isn't that one of the reasons behind CSS ?
Nope.
> A competent HTML + CSS author can thus re-work the presentation of a
> page without needing to change a server-side scripting language they
> might not be competent with. This is a good thing.
Nope. CSS wasn't meant to act as a substitute for changing content or
structural markup. If the problem is that you cannot edit an HTML document,
then CSS is not the answer. Well, not to an _author_. As a mere _user_ of
pages, you might wish to create fancy style sheets just to make sense of
some pages, or to get them printed decently.
>> Weird things are
>> possible in this weird world, but your guess is just a shot in the
>> dark.
>
> Outside of the ivory log-cabins of Academia, this is what we often
> find ourselves doing.
Yes, people do stupid things, like make wild guesses on other people's
problem when those other people don't really want to be helped (i.e., don't
want even describe their problem and context properly).
--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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