I bounced the following idea off some people at @media (Douglas
Bowman, Molly and a lot of others) and I am ready to go along with it.
It'd be good to hear some thoughts though:
We all know and love CSSZengarden. It showed the design community what
can be achieved with CSS and how easy it is to redesign a web page
completely, simply by applying another style sheet.
However, for our day to day web development life, the garden has
become a bit of a problem, mainly because:
* The designs have become an image replacement competition instead
of testing what CSS can do
* It is too easy to style only one document that has been marked
up with loads of IDs and classes � in the real business world we'll
have CMS defining the content markup and we don't have that option
* The focus seems to have shifted from style and functionality to
style/brand on its own.
My idea now is to start a CSSFactory. The idea is the same as
CSSZengarden, the difference though is:
* The Markup will be a 5 page web site with different layouts and
content for each page
* The Markup might have variable content order on reload to
simulate a CMS that allows editors to rearrange them
* The content will be available in English, German and maybe French
That way we can prove that it is possible to create bullet-proof CSS
that can be applied to real life web sites, and maybe get a bit more
buy-in from project management and managements when we try to advocate
standards.
Comments on the blog please: http://www.wait-till-i.com/index.php?p=97
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Chris Heilmann
Blog: http://www.wait-till-i.com
Writing: http://icant.co.uk/
Binaries: http://www.onlinetools.org/
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