Ian Burgmyer wrote:
> Tim Cook wrote:
>>> As you've seen, however, CSS is still horribly broken.  I can't even 
>>> tolerate doing any sort of web design work anymore thanks to IE. :(
>>
>> Because it's physically impossible to make a webpage without using CSS 
>> or CSS features that IE doesn't render properly.  Gotcha.
> 
> Standards were created for a reason.  The second you have to start 
> intentionally modifying your code to dodge implementation issues it 
> completely defeats the point of having the standard in the first place.
> 
> And really, since when should it be the web designer's responsibility to 
> mangle their perfectly compliant page just because Microsoft can't seem 
> to fix their broken web browser after this many years?

It shouldn't; I'm just saying that there's nothing *requiring* you to 
use CSS to design a webpage, or that you can't use the parts of CSS that 
*do* work with IE and make a working layout.  I use some CSS on my 
webpage and it renders fine in IE.

-- 
Tim Cook
http://empyrean.digitalartsuk.com

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