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[nick]

Lucas Goss wrote:
> nick wrote:
>> Georg Wrede wrote:
>>> Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>>>> Try this for a great show of the potential of CSS and separation of
>>>> content and presentation:
>>>> http://www.csszengarden.com/
>>> Ouch!
>>>
>>> I used to think I know something about CSS and the separation of content
>>> from presentation. This site simply embarrassed me.
>>
>> Again, I'd like to point out that none of those designs scale
>> properly(ctrl+wheel to see what I mean). This is largely because CSS is
>> inflexible, but the fact remains.
>>
>> Although they sure are pretty.
> 
> They seemed to scale fine for me.
If you increase font size they lose shape, become unreadable, or both.

However some of the designs aren't as
> scalable as others, but I don't think that is because of CSS. How is CSS
> inflexible?

Don't get me wrong; I think CSS is a step in the right direction.
This isn't really the place for CSS discussion, but here is a summary of
what annoys me about it:

1. Positioning is often very hard, requires more hacking for
compatibility than tables do. /* IE5 Mac Hack... so terrible \ */

2. You are only allowed one background per div; you should be allowed
like 8 to get the desired effect.

> And since we're talking about CSS...
> here's some sites I've found useful:
> http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/
> http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/
> http://www.alistapart.com/
> http://www.wellstyled.com/
> http://www.positioniseverything.net/
Those are pretty useful, thanks.