- From: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
- Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 11:12:03 -0800
- To: www-style <www-style@w3.org>
(oops, I'd left the previous, unfinished post sitting on my messy desktop and apparently hit the send button by mistake.) Tantek Celik wrote: > My experience has been that authors using CSS (or HTML or any other web > authoring language) rarely read the actual spec, and typically learn by > experimenting with a particular browser. Once they get something to look the > way they want it to, they expect that to not break. True. And it's my experience that authors typically look at other authors' web pages and study markup from pages they like. I certainly did. Subsequent browser upgrades highlighted my ignorance. IMO, CSS should not be designed to accommodate work-arounds that inevitably break as technology changes. Future web authors will appreciate consistency, not unfathomable exceptions in deference to previous bad practice. David Perrell
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