Everyone,
Ever since I joined this list, I have been impressed with the
wealth of knowledge here and people's willingness to help. I've been
programming for 12 years and the front end CSS / JS / DHTML stuff has
been giving me a headache every since I really got into it a year ago
or so - it doesn't seem amenable to the more organized way of
programming other stuff - there are so many exceptions and corner
cases due to browser behaviors etc so I am wrestling with trying to
develop that body of experience / internal database of knowledge
about how to solve problems
So, given my perspective as a sort of novice here, I was wondering:
1) does anyone have an idea of how to approach learning CSS other
than just learning the tags and learning case by case how browsers
react in different ways? yes, the box model etc... I guess I'm
struggling with how to make my understanding more intuitive (so I
don't have to spend hours searching the net for relevant info on a
issue)
which leads me to
2) what do people think of trying to encode all this data / case
studies on this list into some sort of expert system - i am thinking
something where you could type in keywords or a description of your
problem and the system serves of possible useful info and examples of
problems solved? If there is something out there already, please
let me know. As for the task of programming something like this, it
(to me) is more tractable than figuring the behavior of IE5/Win,
IE5/Mac, IE6, and IE7 .... :)
doug
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