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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 26 June 2003 19:17, Kai Hendry wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 01:06:04 +0100, Jonathan Melhuish wrote: > > Okay, so it's "forbidden" to use tables for page layout, but what *real* > > reasons are there for doing everything in CSS? > > It is for semantics. I can't be bothered to explain. Separating style > from content. You may find it difficult to understand. Think > accessibility. Yeah, sure, I see how seperating style and content is valuable. So my data goes in my database, the style goes in the template. They're seperate until they're served up; as HTML, plain text or WML or whatever. Is that not going far enough? Anyway, if you are specifying the layout through CSS, what's the difference? My web sites are pretty easy to read with a text-based browser (or, I guess, a screen-reader) - just read the table cells top to bottom, left to right! Presumably if you read a completely-CSS web page without the stylesheet, it just comes out in much the same way? > > How about when I pick up a magazine? Why would I choose the magazine > > over the same information printed in a book? > > I don't quite understand your point. I mean that the style of the magazine/web site *is* important, especially if you're selling something rather than just providing information. > > /me hears a "because you're a shallow and unintelligent lifeform"-type > > answer on it's way > > Read and learn before dropping comments like that. It is as ignorant as > saying; "well I have Windows here, why should I install that Linux > thing?" Because linux rocks! Perhaps CSS rocks, I just can't see it yet ;-) Jon -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE++3HFeTVvFHAhe5cRAvfCAJ9VQkWudnwQlr19cUbXpMHFYmzKwwCfcvCk SOx2axOohQMT0i8lp8NpREI= =4a/V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.