"Walter Bright" <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:hsqhhg$fm...@digitalmars.com... > Nick Sabalausky wrote: >>> I recently completed a revamp of the digitalmars site that got rid of >>> the table based layout in favor of using floating CSS layout. The result >>> looks a bit nicer, and the printing should be much better. >>> >> >> Speaking as a web developer, I've found that floating CSS is irritatingly >> gimped compared to tables when trying to adjust how things flow upon >> resizing. (Speaker as a web user, I've never cared one bit whether a site >> used floating CSS vs tables.) > > Doing them as floating CSS makes it possible to "nodisplay" the navigation > sections when formatting for print. >
Ahh, good point. > The whole HTML/CSS design is such a horrific kludge it's a wonder it works > at all. That's exactly how I feel about 99% of internet "technologies" (including HTML/CSS, of course). And they're all horrific kludges *on top* of horrific kludges - I almost wish I never learned how ethernet, *ahem*..."works". It's a wonder I have any sanity left.
