---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Gabriele Romanato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 21-dic-2007 19.16 Subject: Re: [css-d] How to contain floats without structural markup To: David Hucklesby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I think that when people spend some hours on studying a parser source code, they will soon realize that almost all hacks are evil, from the point of view of a parser. poor Gecko! ^.^/ G. 2007/12/21, David Hucklesby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 08:21:32 -0700, Alan Gresley wrote: > (Re: the use of invalid CSS) > > > > What my concern is that other CSS user may copy parts of this, > potentially morphing > > itself around the various mailing list and forums and result in new user > of CSS who use > > these hack not understanding what is going on in there page when they > may have some > > invalid declaration within the rule set. The whole rule set is thrown > out by the > > validator so the errors within one declaration that could be the cause > of their page > > problem does not be parsed thus not reported as an error. > > > > Yes. You are quite right, Alan. > > While "breaking the rules" may be okay for those who know the reasons > behind the rules, it was unwise of me to suggest this idea as generally > okay. > > It's also true that beginners have a hard enough time understanding > the validator error messages as it is. > > Thank you for pointing this out. > > Cordially, > David > -- > > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ > -- http://www.css-zibaldone.com/ http://mimicry.css-zibaldone.com/ -- http://www.css-zibaldone.com/ http://mimicry.css-zibaldone.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
