Re: Attracting newbies

[marc <gmane@auxbuss.com>]

 said...
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 01:52:58PM -0500, Daniel B. wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > >>>HTML adapts to the user's browser pane width (well, if the author
> > >>>doesn't break HTML's ability to do that).
> > >>Again, to be pedantic, it's CSS that controls the layout, hence the 
> > >>author simply provides multiple CSS, which is what it's designed to do.
> > 
> > What do you mean by "the author simply provides multiple CSS"?
> > 
> > If _you_ want to look at something in a full-screen browser window and
> > _I_ want to use a half-screen-width browser window (e.g., to see two
> > web pages side by side), how is an author going to provide multiple CSS
> > stylesheets to cover both of us?  What about every size in between?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > >Just to be historical, HTML text adapted to the user's browser long 
> > >before CSS had even been invented.
> > 
> > Of course!  (Why do you point that out?)
> 
> Because I was replying to a post that suggested that CSS was the first
> thing that enabled a web page to adjust to a user's browser.

Then you need to improve your reading skills. Or accept you cognitive 
dissonance and keep a careful eye on it.

I said:

  "Again, to be pedantic, it's CSS that controls the layout, hence the 
  author simply provides multiple CSS, which is what it's designed to   
  do."

That's a sentence firmly rooted in the present.

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Cheers,
Marc