[thelist] Re: Browser Stats
Mark Gallagher
mark at cyberfuddle.com
Fri Aug 30 01:54:01 CDT 2002
rudy writes:
>> http://www.zeldman.com/daily/0802d.html#livedandlovedlikefrank
>
> the zeldman says,
>
> Since �float� is essential to CSS layout...
>
> it is no such thing
>
> it is merely one of many layout techniques that you may choose to use
>
> one of the more broken ones
As should really occur to anyone who thinks about it for half a second.
> Until [microsoft fixes the ie6 bug that cuts off long text in
> any floating div], A List Apart and other sites that use �float�
> to present columnar layouts will frustate some percentage
> of would-be visitors.
>
> i don't suppose it would occur to him that perhaps there is something
> basically wrong with the columnar layout? nah
Oh, of course not!
It's like him and percentage font-sizes. "We must use pixels because ems
are broken in IE," without acknowledging that percentages *aren't*.
> his conclusion is
>
> transitional XHTML layouts that include some table-driven
> formatting feel more and more like a reasonable choice. :::
Table-layouts aren't bad. Browsers like Lynx, that completely ignore tables
(sort of), attach no significance to <div id="menu"> that they wouldn't to
<td>[menu]</td><td>[content]</td>, so that's not a problem - there's just
less flexibility.
> (aside: what's up with those colons? and why three of them? sheesh)
It's a nice effect, IMHO.
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Mark Gallagher
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