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Dvorak Rants on CSS

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the internets-most-successful-troll dept.

John Dvorak writes on CSS after working on redesigning his weblog, the article ended up being extremely funny. From the write-up:
As we move into the age of Vista, multimedia's domination on the desktop, and Web sites controlled by cascading style sheets running under improved browsers, when will someone wake up and figure out that none of this stuff works at all?!

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  1. What a loser by tak+amalak · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Even 14 year old kids on Myspace can figure out CSS.

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  2. It's not a "standard" by Billosaur · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    That's not the worst thing. You can live with the basic cascading mess; it's a matter of debugging. The real problem is that no two browsers--let alone no two versions of any one browser--interpret CSS the same way! The Microsoft browser interprets a style sheet one way, Firefox interprets it another way, and Opera a third way. Can someone explain to me exactly what kind of "standard" CSS is, anyway?

    CSS is not really a standard, but a concept, namely that formatting information should be separate from content. Good idea, assuming you can get the people generating the content to actually pay attention to all the formatting you've set up.

    A "standard" would indicate that everyone in industry recognizes it and applies it equally and consistently, a fact we know to be in error as far as browsers go. Let's skip the IE bashing and Firefox fanboy routine and agree that so far, CSS compliance is decent but spotty and nobody really does it exactly as the standard outlines. Unless someone makes a CSS ruling body and gives it some kind of power, don't expect there to be any change in the status quo.

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  3. Re:Two problems by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Are you ever going to tire of linking to that post of yours? It seems to use it in every single Dvorak discussion. We've all seen it. Give it up.

  4. Re:Blame Internet Explorer by Mister+Whirly · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Yes, it is always better to design for the minority rather than the majority. Why didn't I think of that?? I wasn't implying anything was better, just stating a fact. More people use IE than any other browser? Care to refute that? No, didn't think so, now back down to your parent's basement so you can post more stupid shit annonymously....

    What's that in your head? Oh, ideals instead of useful knowledge...

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