I've wasted about three days doing CSS, and I finally gave up and started doing it in tables - it took me 30 minutes to get it right using tables. CSS is much easier to program around, but when it takes so long to get things just right in all the browsers, why would I want to waste that time? I know it's the future, but this implementation is just not right yet. I'm really surprised that whoever designs this stuff has not yet realized that the business world both wants and needs a positioning language that
1) Allows for absolute positioning like a newspaper 2) Allows for an area to grow 3) Allows for positioning relative to the growing area. Tables do this now, but they have problems with irregular table cells. So I need something better. - Matt Small -----Original Message----- From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 10:09 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: CSS I can sympathize Matt, but it does get better. I've finished a beta of a page that is pure CSS and the positioning can work. It drives you crazy but it does work. I'll put a page up showing the example tonight. larry On 4/14/05, Matthew Small <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <cf_rant> > > CSS is completely useless for positioning. > > Whoever designed it has an abstract mind where things like 2 + 2 = Green. > > It's a silly waste of time to actually design a dynamic site using CSS > positioning. > > Table positioning is much easier to understand, and actually works the way > you expect it to. > > I've seen a lot of things about CSS, one of the central concepts is that > it's supposed to "influence" your design rather than make it fixed. > > That's the biggest problem with CSS - it does not allow you to really fix > things the way you want them fixed. > > I mean, how hard is it to set an anchor point - like the HTML <a> tag - and > then reference that point to be a relative distance from? > > Relative positioning - what a joke. > > It lets you move things from where it's SUPPOSED to be, rather than from > another object? > > Who's screwed up mind thought this one up? > > And then it leaves white space where your object was SUPPOSED to be. > > I've gone back to good ol' tables. > > At least there's only so many ways to render a table. > > And firefox and IE look about the same. > > I've written a haiku about this: > > CSS on web > > Crazy fools have made you up > > Death for programmers > > </cf_rant> > > - Matt Small > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:153945 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
