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10 Best Resources for CSS

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the slashdot-is-moving-to-css-in-just-a-few-weeks dept.

victorialever writes "Since one could have noticed an increasing number of websites that are employing CSS and an increasing number of resources talking about how great CSS is, it seems to become impossible not to jump on the CSS bandwagon as well. The 10 Best Resources for CSS provides an impressive list of the CSS resources which have recently become essential for web-developers. Among them - CSSZenGarden, The Web Developer's Handbook, Stylegala, PositionIsEverything etc."

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  1. Re:No CSS on that site. by BishonenAngstMagnet · · Score: 5, Interesting

    But we all know that it can be fixed...

  2. The REAL news ... by ggvaidya · · Score: 5, Interesting

    from the slashdot-is-moving-to-css-in-just-a-few-weeks dept. ...

    Is that for real? Not been having much problems which Slashdot recently, but if they're chucking away their mess of tables ... the apocalypse might be at hand after all! Yippee!

  3. CSS Zen Garden styles by AaronLawrence · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I find it interesting that none of the CSS ZenGarden style sheets I tried resized at all with the browser window, and most of them coped poorly or not at all with large text (many became unusable).

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    For every expert, there is an equal and opposite expert. - Arthur C. Clarke
  4. Take a step back and re-evaluate CSS by Loundry · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm a programmer who has been thrust into the world of CSS and been on many occasions quite frustrated with it. It seems arbitrary, arcane, and particularly difficult to debug. On top of that, it seems to have a set of zealots who defend it (and demand it) with bitter viciousness.

    I had concluded that CSS was "programmer-friendly" in the same way that a rusty jigsaw was "penis-friendly".

    I recently picked up a book entitled _Designing with Web Standards_ by Jeffrey Zeldman. It's a good an honest resource, and he even claims to avoid zealotry. But, in the book, he examines a particular website, one with a plain-jane two-column appearance, which he said took "three CSS experts" to re-code from tables to CSS layout. Not three CSS advocates, three CSS *experts*. On top of that, their "solution" turned out to be a hack.

    Honestly, what success am I supposed to expect in using CSS when recoding common layouts in CSS is a struggle for even CSS experts? I am forced to conclude that it is folly trying to adhere to any kind of CSS standards with any kind of rigor until CSS itself becomes more mature.

    Now this is where I get flamed. I'm sorry, but I have to call it like I see it.

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