Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 01/07/06 16:30

Greg N. wrote:

> Jonathan N. Little wrote:
>
>> Here is an example to illustrate the advantage of separating
>> presentation from markup
>> http://www.mezzoblue.com/zengarden/alldesigns/
>
>
> My first visit was about a year ago when I first heard about the CSS
> concept. Today, I had another look at that page, and I found two
> strange trends there:
>
> 1. font colors that do not contrast enough with their background. Yeah,
> it all looks artsy, elegant, and light, but kermit green type on
> pistachio green background? Light gray on white? Give me a break,
> ever heard about accessability?
>
> 2. None of those pages are liquid. Is that the new fad? Donate up to
> 50% of the window real estate to pastel colored nothing?
>
> Is there anything I'm missing that can be said in favor of these trends?
>

I think the main concept is to demonstrate how far you can push the
styling by only editing the stylesheet than to create a really usable page.

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Take care,

Jonathan
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