Felix & Todd,
Felix, nice to know that I'm in good company. Todd and Phillipe, I
think that the footer business is the sticking point. But what is
sacred about a footer? What information goes into a footer that could
not go elsewhere? This has me puzzled. In the "table days," the most
important element in a footer was a text version of image links. Even
today there seems to be very little of consequence in the footer on
most pages. In addition, there must be others ways (or other places)
to display this information. Lachlan, don't the faux columns
technique (and its fellow travelers) address the problem of equal
height columns? The reason I pose these questions is that I am
testing a WYSIWYG program whose goal is to accommodate the rank
beginner and the advanced user. I think that the engineers have hit
on the idea of using absolute positioning to prevent beginners from
making float errors--an interesting approach. Because the program
emphasizes absolute positioning (it's also perfectly capable of
floating everything), it has caused me to rethink all sorts of
received wisdom.
Best,
Paula
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Paula Petrik
Professor
Department of History & Art History
Associate Director
Center for History & New Media
George Mason University
http://www.archiva.net
On Mar 13, 2006, at 9:57 PM, Todd Baker wrote:
The main reason I dont use absolute positioning for all my layout is
that most of the sites I build require footers at the base of the page
content.
With every page of differing content length the only way to achieve
this is to float and then clear for the footer.
Thats just me. There are wiser brains on this list tho :)
On 14/03/06, Paula Petrik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
When I read the W3C specs (not the most riveting exercise on the
planet), it seems that the developers emphasize absolute positioning.
For example, they describe using floats to float small bits of text
or images. It seems, however, that floats have become the order of
the day. Rather than small bits, whole parts of designs are floated
about. Was this the W3C's intent? Or, have floats become the modern
equivalent of tables? Is there some reason why absolute positioning
has fallen by the wayside? CSS-Discuss's wiki describes absolute
positioning as capable of "simple designs"; yet, a significant
proportion of csszengarden designs are absolutely positioned, and I
wouldn't term them simple. Just wondering what the current wisdom is
on this issue.
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