Web Design and Implementation (Fall 2004)


Readings on CSS Positioning (21 September 2004)

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CSS positioning is a little funny. I haven't had that many good experiences with it myself. It's difficult because every browser has its own idea about how it's supposed to go. Like Netscape and IE think that a pixel is not the same size. At least it used to be that way, has it changed? So you can forget about using two different types of measure when you position things. Don't mix pixels and points or picas or anything else when positioning.

Posted by: Jason Zeiner on September 23, 2004 01:28 PM | Permalink to Comment

I remember back in IMM finding my site to be destroyed in Opera and not looking as good in Mozilla as it did in Internet Explorer.

CSS seems to be one of those love hate relationships or maybe in the span of nearly a year, since I took IMM last year in the winter quarter, it really has improved that much.

What is really funny is that they have CSS3 coming out, yet all of CSS2 functionality is not fully supported. It seems like this will just become a large continuous cycle of browsers playing catch up and developers being stuck on waiting for the browsers.

Developers to me are being lead by a carrot never being able to actually use the "latest and greatest" due to what seems to be browsers and W3C not working together at the same time.

Even if one browser works hand-in-hand with W3C, it will not do developers or the audience any good due to the majority of people either using IE, which currently holds the majority or Mozilla, which is slowly taking away IE's majority.

There are probably some people and/or companies who might be willing to take the risk if IE were to be able to use the latest and greatest. Particularly, if they found only a small percentage of their audience used anything other than IE.

Posted by: Gregory Waxman on September 28, 2004 12:07 PM | Permalink to Comment
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