Tony Crockford wrote:
> Eric A. Meyer wrote:
>  >  So if people want to revive
>  > the thread, that would be great.
>  >
>
> Cool!
>
> I was about to reference the sectioned CSS that Andy Budd uses in CSS
> Mastery (which you can find in the books downloads - Chapter one -
> prototype.css)
>
> here:
> http://www.cssmastery.com/
> CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions
>
> Each section is delineated with a comment like this:
> /* =Typography
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
---*/
<snip>

Thank you Eric for suggesting this comes back in, for the subject seems more
than a surface issue.

Humbly, for the admirable solutions I've seen here often leave me in awe, it
appears to me that the list has to a great extent driven towards and filled
the gap caused by unnecessarily disparate browser producers. Fixes produced
and referred to by CSS gurus like Zoe, George and of course Eric,* et al,
whilst proving helpful in the extreme to the CSS masses (and shaming browser
manufacturers) leave open a remaining need for a standard approach.

I, for instance, prefer a global CSS file to handle majority site structure
and call small additional files for specific portions of a site or
cross-browser "balancing" (IE=pain). So I'm almost at one with Tony here. As
browser technology oh so sloooowly moves towards meeting standards, and with
accessibility issues now law in many jurisdictions, I frequently wonder if
there is a better approach than the one I adopt. An approach that will work
to standards in so far as possible, and requiring little adjustment when
browsers change. Goggling, reading and corresponding have not helped me so
far - and neither has the unknown position of the coming IE7.

Given the foregoing, I wonder if feedback gleaned from this thread could
form the basis of something solid for adoption in a general approach to
using CSS layout skeletons. Is methodology espoused by Boldfish/Andy Budd
the way to go or simply a springboard people here can use as a starting
point for use with "modern" browsers? Will the list take the lead or is
there a more appropriate place to deal with the subject?...

Mike A.

*Apologies from this lurker of years for not mentioning all those other
gurus who frequently guide, help and coax from as far south as South America
to the northern extremities.


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