Re: FN-FORUM: basic css/firefox question?

date posted 15th August 2005 13:39

On 15 Aug 2005 13:06:31 -0000, Adam Dyson [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>=20
> This CSS thing is not terribly intuitive is it? I'm reading a book
> that explains it from the ground up, and now it makes sense (sort of)
> for the first time. It's way too easy to end up with classed divs
> nesting almost as much as the old tables approach, and then wondering
> why the hell they don't work properly.=20

this book?
http://www.workalone.co.uk/reviews/stylinwithcssreview.htm



> I am beginning to grasp why it
> actually takes a totally different approach to designing the page in
> the first place.

Hurrah!

that bit does eventually become intuitive, in the same way that a
painter needs to work with his media, oil on canvas is as different to
watercolors as CSS is to Tables for layout.

The key is to really understand how CSS works and then choose
appropriate bits to work with the visual design...

Think how cartoon animators think - background image, characters
positioned on top, interaction on top of that. (layers upon layers)

soon we'll have multiple background images (CSS3) and a better MS IE
to work with too.

;o)

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