Posted by ironcorona on 05/03/06 19:53

Alan J. Flavell wrote:
> On Wed, 3 May 2006, ironcorona wrote:
>
>> The W3C have an excellent tutorial:
>
> Well, the W3C do have a few excellent tutorials on selected topics...
> but...
>
>> http://www.w3schools.com/css/
>
> Hey, ***just a minute***. They are NOT the W3C (nor, as far as I can
> see from their web page, do they make any false claims to be so).

Yes, another poster has already informed me. I just assumed from the
URI that it had something to do with them. Like I said before; I never
bothered looking at the "about"


>> If you want your pages to look as good as possible
>
> Well, the w3schools site already refuses to fit in the browser window
> that I made available to it by default - so it immediately failed the
> test of looking "as good as possible".

The full sentence was:

"If you want your pages to look as good as possible you should try to
learn it."

The "it" referred to is CSS. I agree that may not have been clear. And
from a grammatical perspective I *was* referring to the website (since
"it", being a pronoun, was referring to the last mentioned noun
"W3schools"). In reality I was referring to CSS.

>> you should try to learn it.
>
> Certainly one should learn CSS. No argument there.
>
> However, this, quoted from the above site:
>
> |In our CSS tutorial you will learn how to use CSS to control the
> |style and layout

Yeah, honestly, as I mentioned in another post, I only use it for its
reference. I just assumed the tutorial was decent (mainly because I
thought the W3schools had something to do with W3C. Now I know.)

> CSS is used to *propose* (some commentators would go so far as to say
> *suggest*) one - or more - presentation(s). An important part of the
> significance of that word "Cascading" in CSS is that the author's
> proposals are cascaded with user settings, whether via the user's
> choice of browser defaults or, with the more sophisticated users, with
> their user stylesheet. IMNSHO anyone learning CSS needs to get to
> understand that from the outset, otherwise they start off on the wrong
> foot (wrongly thinking that they really /are/ "controlling" the final
> presentation), and will be doomed to disappointment when they
> ultimately have to un-learn that wrong assumption.

I agree totally.

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ironcorona

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