Comments on: The CSS Selector proposal explained for CSS noobs http://cdevroe.com/notes/css-selectors-for-noobs/ Personal thoughts and notes. Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:06:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Chris Harrison http://cdevroe.com/notes/css-selectors-for-noobs/#comment-160837 Chris Harrison Tue, 06 May 2008 16:31:56 +0000 http://cdevroe.com/?p=695#comment-160837 <blockquote>CSS is like a train wreck, covered in glitter, affixed with elephant vomit. Maybe it’s time to stop adding new colors of glitter.</blockquote> Chris, I beg to differ. The more specific we can make our CSS, the better off we are. What Shaun is proposing is simply an evolution of what is already in place in the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/selector.html#type-selectors" rel="nofollow">CSS spec</a>. Your description of CSS is what I would use to describe HTML in general. Presentation doesn't belong in markup.

CSS is like a train wreck, covered in glitter, affixed with elephant vomit. Maybe it’s time to stop adding new colors of glitter.

Chris, I beg to differ. The more specific we can make our CSS, the better off we are. What Shaun is proposing is simply an evolution of what is already in place in the CSS spec.

Your description of CSS is what I would use to describe HTML in general. Presentation doesn’t belong in markup.

]]> By: Colin Devroe http://cdevroe.com/notes/css-selectors-for-noobs/#comment-160819 Colin Devroe Tue, 06 May 2008 16:09:58 +0000 http://cdevroe.com/?p=695#comment-160819 Chris: "affixed with elephant vomit"? Profound. ;) I agree with Kyle on this. CSS <em>implementation</em> seems to be so scattered that it causes a lot of frustration. Standards support across the board is what is needed to fix that. In this particular case, with CSS selectors, I think it would help to clean up HTML quite a bit. Chris: “affixed with elephant vomit”? Profound. ;) I agree with Kyle on this. CSS implementation seems to be so scattered that it causes a lot of frustration. Standards support across the board is what is needed to fix that.

In this particular case, with CSS selectors, I think it would help to clean up HTML quite a bit.

]]> By: Kyle http://cdevroe.com/notes/css-selectors-for-noobs/#comment-160815 Kyle Tue, 06 May 2008 16:06:37 +0000 http://cdevroe.com/?p=695#comment-160815 Chris: This is fixing some of the issues with CSS today. By having selectors like this, you'd be able to eliminate a lot of unnecessary class names (like adding a "image" class to your anchor tag), which would help to clean up code. I think CSS is a great tool for formatting data, but where it fails is in browser implementation. If all browsers properly rendered CSS, designers wouldn't have to resort to hacks to get everything to work. Chris: This is fixing some of the issues with CSS today. By having selectors like this, you’d be able to eliminate a lot of unnecessary class names (like adding a “image” class to your anchor tag), which would help to clean up code.

I think CSS is a great tool for formatting data, but where it fails is in browser implementation. If all browsers properly rendered CSS, designers wouldn’t have to resort to hacks to get everything to work.

]]> By: Chris http://cdevroe.com/notes/css-selectors-for-noobs/#comment-160803 Chris Tue, 06 May 2008 15:51:58 +0000 http://cdevroe.com/?p=695#comment-160803 CSS is like a train wreck, covered in glitter, affixed with elephant vomit. Maybe it's time to stop adding new colors of glitter. CSS is like a train wreck, covered in glitter, affixed with elephant vomit. Maybe it’s time to stop adding new colors of glitter.

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