2006/10/15, Erik van Dyck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi Gabriele, > > > > I fully endorse your view. Usefulness can be value in many cases, in art > and games and in many other situations it isn't. It's not needed either. > Happily Leonardo and Michelangelo and Dante had a larger view on life than > just usefulness. > > > > Erik > > > > > > http://www.css-zibaldone.com/the-css-switch-project/november-2006/shapes/ > > > > >> > > > > >> a little tribute to Tantek and Mark Schenk. enjoy! > > > > >> > > > > >> ps. I've not specified the exact versions of the various browsers. > > > all > > > > >> apologies. the latest versions, of course. otherwise, as specified. > > > > >> > > > > > > Christian wrote: > > > > > > > > This keeps cropping up as an amazing new CSS discovery. Can anyone > > > > > think of a situation where this would be useful? It is like using a > > > > > lot of HTML, background colours and spacer GIFs to paint an image. > > > > > > This is NOT a discovery. This is only a test. I don't pretend to have > made > > > a new discovery. > > > > Experiments are not useful strictu sensu. that's the basic difference. I > > can't ignore this difference. > > your criticism is very similar to literary criticism: would be this poem > > "useful"? utilitarism, I suppose. > > or marxian criticism: everything should be "useful" to the underlyining > > structure of society. otherwise, is useless. on the web, every single > layout > > should be "useful". that's the underlyning pragmatism of the WWW. sorry, > > this is not my point of view. regards, > > > > Gabriele > > > > thank you so much for the endorsement. as I said before, >
ars gratia artis. bye ;-) Gabriele http://www.css-zibaldone.com/the-css-switch-project/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
