I recieved my copy of Everything You Know about CSS is Wrong the other day and have just finished writing a review of the book.
comments are welcome by everyone especially developers with more experience than I have (not hard to qualify).
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November 13, 2008 7:13am
Subscribe [4]#1 / Nov 13, 2008 7:13am
I recieved my copy of Everything You Know about CSS is Wrong the other day and have just finished writing a review of the book.
comments are welcome by everyone especially developers with more experience than I have (not hard to qualify).
#2 / Nov 13, 2008 8:28am
Hey mine came yesterday! Not had a chance to look at it yet but just read your review. Oh - did I waste my money….?
#3 / Nov 14, 2008 5:58am
The entire book is basically about display:table and display:table-cell and it’s possible uses but since both properties are not supported in IE6/7 that’s limited for the time being.
I’m sure in 2011-2012 (by which time IE6/7 will hopefully be history) this book will come in very handy 😊
#4 / Nov 16, 2008 9:03pm
If it bares any resemblance to the article that was published on Digital Web then… here’s the comment I wrote on there about it 😉
Those display properties are absolutely nothing new, IE6 + IE7 are not going away anytime soon, the specific HTML implementation is terribly bloated, and none of the examples used are difficult to achieve with regular floats.
What was the point? I mean, besides increasing adsense revenue with the catchy title…
#5 / Nov 16, 2008 9:48pm
Same article just extended. It’s a valid piece though. What really annoys me is that I have been evangelising semantic mark up and real life css for years now and have watched so much agency work get away with continually building table based layouts - and now we are potentially going back to table type layouts. Pah. There is going to be another learning curve again but this one is going to be a bit easier. The mark up makes much more sense.
And we might very well see the return in force of wisiwyg layout programmes - again kind of good but for those of us who have invested years in getting to grips with CSS this kinds of dilutes our skill base.
#6 / Nov 16, 2008 9:57pm
I wouldn’t worry about it… This article (can’t comment on the book, but seems like it applies to…) doesn’t represent any move towards going back to table based layouts. It’s just a marketing gimmick, hence the complete (excuse my French) bullshit title…
The basic premiss of the article is that it’s difficult to create layouts with CSS. But it’s not… unless you don’t have a solid understanding of CSS, which honestly seem to be the case when you look at the sample code…
Semantic markup is not going anywhere. But agency will always get away with table based layout… Just like Communication Arts awards will always go to Flash sites 😉