Re: [Fink-devel] Concerning fink.css..

[Max Horn]

At 9:38 Uhr -0500 16.01.2003, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:

On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, David wrote:

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 Why don't you just do it?

Because I really do not feel like triggering a flood of protest.
Changing the site "layout" is considered a pretty "big" step by me and
I really do not feel that settled within the project yet that people
would simply accept my decision to do so.

I think changing site layout is a big step. more so if it moves things
around, less so if it just changes fonts and padding a bit...

 We might decide to convert it to a pure CSS site one of these day (I'd
 be all for it).

Well here is the famous "me too" I am just not sure which browsers wont
like that

depends heavily on what you do. Netscape 4 and IE 3 have pretty sorry
implementations of CSS so you have to do a bunch of hacking around them (this
has been documented by all-CSS sites like http://www.alistapart.com when they
switched) and implementation of the cooler features is still a bit patchy.
But I wrote basic commercial sites in 1999 with all-CSS they were ok.

I definitly do *not* want to support v3 or v4 browsers in the sense that I care whether the page looks good to them or not. Fifth generation it is. lynx/links will just not display the CSS, and only render the HTML, which is perfectly fine, too.

(I am sympathetic to people who say "I don't want to change from iCab to KDE,
I will live with the lack of 'float'", but I am also happier than many to say
"if you use foo3.5 when foo7.2 is available and doesn't have the bugs your
old version does, upgrade or tell someone who cares...")

Exactly.


Max
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