Subj : Re: Telgate/Mudgate Echo
To   : Tracker1
From : Deuce
Date : Sun Jul 03 2005 04:01 am

  Re: Re: Telgate/Mudgate Echo
  By: Tracker1 to Angus Mcleod on Sat Jul 02 2005 23:26:00

 > XHTML and CSS do simplify things from say HTML4, or 3.2 specs.. but that is
 > just my opinion on it.. it's a few rendering issues in the biggest browser
 > (gag) IE that is a big part of the stagnation of newer standards...

So... you feel that:
<div "align: center;">This is centered</div>

Is simpler than:
<center>This is centered</center>

CSS is layout, HTML is markup.  They're different things.  And needing to worry
about the overflow attribute for example definately does NOT simplify anything.
CSS makes layout *possible*, not easier.  If CSS really made anything simpler,
the w3c would have a working reference implementation and Amaya would have
taken over the world.  While each new "standard" does fix braindead errors in
the previous ones, they get more complex each time.  Lone hacker can say "I'll
take a month off and write a web server" he can't say "I'll take 10 years off
and write a web browser"  CSS/HTML4/XML/etc continue to leave a large number of
things implementation defined too... and there is *STILL* no way to correctly
specify a tale that is 95% of the display width and contains two columns... one
140pixels and the other taking up the rest of the width.

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