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. -- Cheers, Marc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
