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Posted by JDS on 05/08/06 20:16
On Mon, 08 May 2006 00:26:02 +0100, Jaxtraw wrote:
> Really? That's it? A technology can only be used for what it was originally
> intended to be used for?
>
> Okay. Better shut down the web then. The internet wasn't originally intended
> to be used for that.
>
> CSS is great as a styling rules system. As a layout system, it doesn't work.
> But then, CSS was never originally intended for layout anyway, was it?
Certainly not. I can use a screwdriver to hammer in nails. But is it
better? Similarly I can use tables to lay out a page. Is it better? I
don't think so...
CSS has flaws, yes, but the point, the thing that makes it better, is that
using CSS properly inherently separates the content from the way it looks.
If you can't see why this is inherently better than using tables for
layout then you need to do some reading.
And the internet *was* originally intended to be "used for that". The
internet, as intended, was (and is) a large multinetwork of networks the
uses of which were intentonally undefined in large part. The WWW is only
one use of many unforseen uses that were able to be enacted due the very
general, flexible nature of the Internet as designed.
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