Does CSS Suck?

[Bill Norton]

Over at PCMag.com there is a debate going on over the usability of CSS. The
discussion was initiated by an article by John Dvorak called "Why CSS Bugs
Me" (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1987181,00.asp). The discussion
starts here:
http://discuss.pcmag.com/forums/1/10...spx#1004331343.

Someone suggested that some of you folks might have a thing or two to say
about the topic, so I'm inviting everyone to drop by and give their
thoughts.

May I suggest that you not spend too much effort or attention on the Dvorak
article per se, since it's one of the more poorly written posts.

The upshot of it all is that there seem to be a lot of people - myself
included - who feel that CSS is seriously flawed, maybe even fatally flawed.
I'd like to hear your thoughts on it.

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

Santos L Halper wrote:

firefox is what happens when you dont have a highly paid QA
department. a browser with more bugs and flaws than IE ever had

<cough>bullshit </cough>

http://secunia.com Count the flaws and exploits yerself for IE and
Firefox.

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-bts
-Motorcycles defy gravity; cars just suck.

[Kevin Scholl]

Santos L Halper wrote:

pretty dumb thing to say considering 9 out of 10 posts here sound like "it
works in IE but not FF"

Maybe because 9 out 10 people haven't a clue of what they are really doing.

people like you use firefox because somewhere along the line you were told
microsoft is bad... theyre taking over the world... bill gates is satan....
everything should be free and open source.

I would venture to say that most of us that use Firefox do so because
it's a superior browser that supports the W3C standards FAR better than IE.

thats ridiculous.

I couldn't care less what company produces Internet Explorer, or who
runs that company. What I DO care about is a browser that works the way
it should, and in that regard, IE is vastly inferior.

firefox is what happens when you dont have a highly paid QA department. a
browser with more bugs and flaws than IE ever had

I think you mistyped that statement ... should read "Internet Explorer
is what happens when you dont [sic] have an apathetic QA department."

Think about it: would you rather have the power of a multitude of actual
users in the real world providing feedback, or a small group of cube
inhabitants who get paid regardless of the quality aspect of their
Quality Assurance?

"axlq" <ax**@spamcop.n etwrote in message
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>CSS isn't flawed, and it doesn't suck. What sucks is Microsoft's
implementati on of it. That alone is *the* cause of *my* grief
concerning CSS. If nobody ever used IE for browsing again, CSS
would be a beautiful thing to use. But with IE around, it becomes a
mess of ugly hacks.

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