Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > > There's a lot of freedom in CSS based design if one has a deep enough > understanding to release it, but the mental, and to some degree the > practical, barriers seem to be high. I would like to get a better > understanding of these barriers, in order to find more ways around them. >
I think that one issue is that there still tends to be a big real-world divide between designers and developers. Very few people "design" in CSS, and from what I've seen, there is little financial incentive to do so. Instead, the web dev model is still (as far as I can tell) wireframe -> photoshop -> CSS . Web design is still a relatively new field, and a lot of designers (and perhaps more importantly, employers) are still thinking in print. The ongoing desire to have a site look and behave the same in all browsers is evidence of that. (Even the concept of a web "page," though that seems to be fading.) And then there is people's tendency to follow well-worn paths... The way toward change in web design trends is always by setting examples, especially high-profile examples. Erika ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] 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/
