[thelist] CSS Article... I can't find it!

[Shawn K. Quinn]

On Friday July 11 2003 13:37, Sarah wrote:
  [Matt Plunkett wrote:]
    [Kristof Neirynck wrote:]
> > > Your CSS Bores Me
> > > <http://www.chunkysoup.net/opinion/boringcss/>
> >
> >Does anyone else find it amusing that an article railing against CSS
> > layouts requires me to scroll over twice to read the text?
>
> I totally agree. And what's up with the pages found by clicking on
> the links in the 3rd paragraph? "creating works" changes the size of
> my browser window to about 100x100 pixels, and "beauty", well... this
> site is just about the hardest to look at that I've ever seen.

Actually this is the link from "works", <URL:http://www.jodi.org/>, 
quite far from a work of beauty for browsers secured against scripts 
from untrusted sites. Though if they expect me to open a security hole 
just to view whatever is shoved into a 100 pixel x 100 pixel window, I 
really can't be missing much. That's about 10 to 12 characters wide by 
5 (maybe 6) lines tall at my preferred font size, and not much more at 
my browser configuration's minimum font size (it's hard for me to 
believe some browser authors still don't believe readers need this 
feature).

(The word "creating" is actually linked to a different site, not 
surprisingly the author of that site is as lost on "graceful 
degradation".)

And I just noticed something else on the site mentioned in Kristof's 
original message: some clue-deficient soul decided that visited links 
should become the exact same color, with no way to find them after 
visiting them! (I really think waving the pointer all over the page to 
see where it changes shape should not be necessary. Is that actually a 
minority view on today's Web? Or is it just something that "eleet" 
desginers think is "k00l"?)

-- 
Shawn K. Quinn