Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 02/19/07 13:13

Scripsit Andy Dingley:

> On 17 Feb, 15:17, "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorp...@cs.tut.fi> wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>
> It's not one of the design aims of CSS and it's still not one of the
> W3C's four listed benefits to CSS,

That should be obvious.

> but it's still an "emergent
> benefit" that is extremely valuable to a lot of larger-scale projects.

You babble a lot about incompetent codes abusing CSS instead of learning
programming. I'm surprised - not at the phenomenon (there's always someone
who wants to use a hammer as a toothbrush because he does not want to get a
toothbrush or to learn how to open its package) but at your appraisal of it.
My parody detector didn't alarm. Is it broken?

> After all, if the HTML is structurally
> adequate and the "presentation" change is strictly just that and
> purely presentational, then this is obviously possible.

Now you are talking about something completely different. The topic was
hiding text with CSS. Do you suggest that hiding text is "purely
presentational"?

For example, if we have
"You are <em>not</em> an idiot."
is it OK to you that I say it with
em { display: none; }?

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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