At 12:54 AM +0100 8/26/10, John D wrote:
That makes it very much the wrong place to ask, let alone
discuss, unless the question is how to use CSS to make the form
look better. Since it wasn't, so far as I can tell, the thread is
therefore ended.
Perhaps it was implied in the question by saying:
"Any and all suggestions are welcome."
The problem was framed as a problem of generating a huge amount of
markup from a legacy system. If it had then included something like
"how do I make this page look better with CSS?" then that would have
been on-topic. Tacking on a wide-open question such as the above
does not imply that such a question was asked, however.
You seem to be quite heavy handed these days when the number of
postings per day is on a reducing scale! Do you intend to shut down
this discussion group?
Assuming that taking administrative action twice in the past few
weeks constitutes quite a heavy hand, then my hand has become heavier
due to the increased number of off-topic postings. For some time,
the community was essentially self-regulating. This seems to be less
true of late and so I have taken a more active role, as has sometimes
been the case since I founded the list back in January of 2002.
Until the list really is shut down or I have handed the reins over to
someone else, that will not change. And if I should have been more
active over this past summer, then I apologize for my neglect.
Moreover, I pity the members of any mailing list whose metric of
success is quantity, not quality.
As I said before, this thread is done-- though if the original
poster would like to start a new thread which re-frames the problem
in an on-topic way, that would of course be fine with me. Anyone who
has questions or concerns about my administration of the list is
always free to contact me off-list at
css-d-ow...@lists.css-discuss.org or at the personal address I'm
using to post this message.
--
Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone
"CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously."
-- Martina Kosloff (http://mako4css.com/)
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