Re: Attracting newbies
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 01:52:58PM -0500, Daniel B. wrote:
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> >>>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.
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> What do you mean by "the author simply provides multiple CSS"?
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> 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?
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> >Just to be historical, HTML text adapted to the user's browser long
> >before CSS had even been invented.
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> 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.
-- hendrik
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