Maybe the next version of CSS... but as long as IE is around, growth of web standards will always be stunted.
-Thadeus On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Mar 19, 2010, at 8:46 AM, Thadeus Burgess wrote: > >> Its really not hard, and the box model is not that bad, its just >> confusing and most don't know how to use it properly. > > That's not a good sign. > >> >> http://www.stubbornella.org/content/2009/02/12/css-doesn%E2%80%99t-suck-you%E2%80%99re-just-doing-it-wrong/ >> >> Here are perfect examples of the box model working correctly. >> >> http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/perfect-3-column.htm >> http://www.alistapart.com/articles/holygrail > > I agree that MJT's example is especially nice. But it also makes my point. > His simple 3-column layout has 160 lines of CSS, not all of them for layout, > but the lion's share. And that doesn't count the html that makes it go. > > Compare that to the same thing with a table. > > And I'm not arguing for tables, particularly, just that CSS should have made > our job easier, not harder. > > Example: I should be able to say, for that kind of layout: > > Give me a box for the page. > > Nest three boxes inside it, on top of each other, each the full width of the > enclosing box. > > In the middle of those boxes, nest three more, but left to right. > > Let me give each box a name. > > Let me constrain each box's horizontal and vertical extent based on any > combination of content, container, percentages and pixels that isn't > self-contradictory. Let the model understand the word "center" in both > dimensions. > > (Now, if on top of that model I want to define more boxes that float around, > etc, fine, no objection. But it needn't be part of my base layout.) > > And now let me, separate from that description, pour my content into named > boxes. > > When I first heard of CSS, way back whenever, that's kind of what I imagined > it'd be like, from the early glowing descriptions. Boy, was I surprised. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "web2py-users" group. > To post to this group, send email to web...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en.
