Ashley Sheridan wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 14:48 -0400, tedd wrote:
>
>> At 10:48 AM +0100 5/16/09, Ashley Sheridan wrote:
>>
>>> Trust me, semantics are gonna be the next big thing,
>>>
>> Semantics?
>>
>> What do you mean by that?
>>
>> And therein lies the problem -- what means something to me, may not to you.
>>
>> For example, if I make my header <div id="header"> (or whatever) what
>> makes it the same as yours?
>>
>> I think the next big thing will be an argument over meaning. :-)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> tedd
>>
> I don't mean using id attributes that appear to have meaning, but using
> the proper tags to mark up content. That's things like <abbr> and
> <acronym> tags for abbreviations and acronyms respectively, tables for
> tabular data and lists for list data, quote tags for quotations, etc.
>
> What you mention does have some merit to it though, as microformats are
> an idea to use the class attribute to classify data in certain ways,
> like <span class="date"> or <span class="author"> etc, although I'm not
> sure how well these work!
>
>
> Ash
> www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
>
>
Ok, guy, enough is enough.
I started this thread in the hope of finding some sanity in CSS, but it
looks like that is about as likely to happen as the very logic or non
logic of CSS.
I anyone knows where there is a real source of information about CSS,
how to use it with logical explanations of what is used how, I sure
would like to hear aboutit.
So far, I see the most absurd logic to CSS that I have seen anywhere.
Surely I must be wrong but there must be a logical explanation why such
simple things as a <div id="some_thing> will show the first of three
<img>s as being part of the div tag and the rest not - but rather as
part of <body>.
If you put a box around the div tag, it includes the first image but not
the next two.
Putting 5 images of 98px width not only shows four in linewitht the
fifth is off by the margin-top height but also displays the images in a
reverse order. How do you explain that? And how do you get it to do what
you want?
And what about all the weird CSS configurations that are not documented
anywhere I could find in a reasonable time - where are the definitions
for form positioning and displaying? What do such definitions signify:
"form div fieldset label.labelCheckbox, form div fieldset
label.labelRadio {..."
and - "form div input.inputText, form div input.inputPassword {..."
I thought that form would be subservient to div or is it the opposite?
Where is the information on this, where did these constructs come from?
The clarity of information on CSS is preposterously absurd.
I would like to understand this stuff but what process do you have to go
through to get CSS to place object, text etc. in an understandable
way... I have tried the display, clear, overflow and god -knows-what but
serious layouts seem almost impossible.
And as glorious as people may think this zen garden is, I have always
found it rather banal. I don't see anything particularly difficult in
it... try to place images, with text, graphics and db tables (not html)
and place them accurately --- it is a seemingly impossible task.
I waste more time trying to figure out why things don't work than I do
in creativity/productivity.
And I don't even give 2 hoots for IE... if people find it too difficult
to download and install and use Firefox... then, too bad. Anything that
is non-M$ is better, particularly since it is almost always free.
--
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