- From: Todd Fahrner <fahrner@pobox.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 23:41:30 -0700
- To: vertigo@triberian.com, "Chris Wilson (PSD)" <cwilso@microsoft.com>
- Cc: "'Taylor'" <taylor@wired.com>, Scott Isaacs <scotti@microsoft.com>, www-style@w3.org, Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr
At 21:54 -0500 7.3.97, Gregory Houston wrote: >Another note for Chris Wilson and Scott. I think another thing that lead >me astray was my observation of the sample CSS pages at microsoft.com: I >checked the source code on several of Microsoft's example CSS pages, and >all of them [that I looked at] used tables to define the colored >rectangles backdropping all the new wild layered text effects. It might >be helpful if some of the pages used the CSS layers instead for this. I >believe in both HotWired and WebReview that there were statements >stating that one of the "cool" things about CSS was that you no longer >had to mess with the <table>s. I hasten to add that Microsoft's CSS Gallery pages [1], in general, have had a profoundly negative impact on the design community's assessment of CSS, at least after the initial 5-minute thrill wears off. The fact that these gallery pages are totally unintelligible in non-CSS browsers is contrary to one of the core design principles of CSS: degradability. Now that near-complete implementations of CSS exist (beta or otherwise), I would think it wise to pull the gallery pages, as a way to emphasize the real promise of CSS as something beyond a browser-specific amalgam of structure and style. [1] http://www.microsoft.com/truetype/css/gallery/slide5.htm ________________________________________ Todd Fahrner mailto:fahrner@pobox.com http://www.verso.com/ The printed page transcends space and time. The printed page, the infinitude of books, must be transcended. THE ELECTRO-LIBRARY. --El Lissitzky, 1923
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