Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
Geoff Welsh wrote:
CSS was in the standard as of 1999 and NOBODY (among web site
designers) cared until the iPhone came out.
Since you capitalized NOBODY, implying, well, nobody at all, I decided
to reply. Your statement isn't true, as I (and many others) have been
using CSS to design and lay out my web sites since CSS 1.0. I learned
about it in the web-authoring newsgroups and began using it well before
the last millennium was over.
It's nothing to do with the iPhone; it's lack of training for all those
WYSIWYG web designers. My local community college advertised a web
design class which I investigated several years ago. The prerequisite
for students was "you must own a copy of Microsoft FrontPage" - and that
was already after FrontPlague had been discontinued.
Ah yes, well put about using Frontpage. The pages I've seen produced by
that usually have so many nested Tables that to edit the code is almost
impossible, you are stuck just continuing to use Frontpage to make
changes. To expand on my iPhone comment, the popularity of handheld web
browsing sorta "forced" some designers to wake-up, and use CSS to
specify a different layout for a different device.
That's the way it seemed to me anyway.
GW
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