On Aug 20, 2008, at 2:57 AM, Bill Brown wrote: > Aside from the W3C pages, the CSS-D wiki and this list, where do you > go > for information about CSS?
> For the more senior members of this list, what would you consider the > absolute worst practices, and conversely, the best practices? Coming late to the party… Resources that haven't been mentioned: the HTML validator (extremely important to have a valid document/DOM tree to work with) and CSS validator (syntax checking). The other resources I use: www-style mailing list and archive, the specs (!) - and take some time to read the errata to the specs, developer drafts of upcoming specs. Under best practices, Georg made a good summary. - Again, take time to read (and read again and again) the specs. - Kiss: keep your stylesheets and selectors simple - Understanding and make use of the cascade worst practices: - copy/paste a method/layout/trick/hack/ without taking even the minimum of time to understand; because someone said it fixed 'it' for him/her. - reset.css > Wow--you read this far down, eh? > Thanks again! Why, yes :-) It looks like a quite extensive seminar. Good luck with it. > David, thanks for your input. I'd love to chat more, but I'm > rebuilding > my entire site so that all the content is created with the Yahoo JS > Library with a Flash-based interface embedded in a Java applet. ;-) Lol. Can't wait to see it. On my default browser with Java disabled, FlashBlock active and Yahoo JS blocked in my host file :-). Couldn't resist… Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://l-c-n.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/
