[thelist] design feedback
aardvark
roselli at earthlink.net
Wed Aug 30 18:52:22 CDT 2000
> From: "David McCreath" <mccreath at ak.net>
>
> Wholesale, man. I'm still figuring out some of the CSS stuff and this
> sheet (well, the original, not mine) is pretty much a "how to make a
> functional and kick-ass stylesheet" tutorial, especially with the
> visual cues from the actual site up there. I actually am going through
glad to hear it... that f*cking thing has been a pain in my arse to
get it compliant, clean, *and* have it work (most of the time) in the
4.x and above...
> and changing some things around and I need to account for variable
> font sizes rather than locking it down, but this was just too good a
ahh, those font sizes were of course samples, given the fact the
CSS will be user-configurable... but i think you knew that...
> place to start from. I stand in full admiration, and I hope that you
> understand this is not just "Oh, cool, Adrian's already done
> everything. Now I don't need to!" This stylesheet has taught me more
> about degradeable CSS than anything else I've read.
nup, glad i could help... ultimately, building that damn thing taught
me more about degradable CSS than i thought i could handle...
and remember, it's compliant and thorough... what with jeff, isaac,
dan, rudy, etc. beating the hell out of it, it's been through a good
deal of auditing...
> For those of you that don't know what we're talking about, I lifted
> aardvark's stylesheet from the new evolt design that's currently being
> hashed out (read more about it on thesite mailing list.)
hope you got the latest one... it had all the comments after each
style (/* as foobar /*, for example) so coders would know how to
assign variables from the db...
> > glad i could help... lemme know if you have any questions about
> > what's in there... i'm curious why all your classes and such are in
> > all-caps....
>
> I think it's because when I went to look at the sheet, IE opened it in
> FrontPage 2000, which did its little Microsoft dance on it.
AAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHH !!!
i can't believe you just said that.
it's ok, i'm sure the bar across the street is still open...
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