The old paradigm: we can make a page look equal. This is correct for the most part. But should we still do this? When talking with co-workers, they tell me that a page has to look the same (they usually omit qualifiers like "to the degree possible"). With respect to maintenance costs, performance costs, and with regard to the overall browser and specification development process, I think it matters more if we start discussing the "reasonable degree".
There are good reasons for "functional hacking", that is, to keep a page usable for IE6 users. More and more, I tend to think there are lesser reasons for "presentational hacking", cosmetic things like a transparency here, an equal height column just to show a gradient there, how great we are. Currently, with the old paradigm, I have to fix an irrelevant 3px bug but I am not allowed to make full use of CSS 2.1 or to try some CSS3 modules? Ingo ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
