Updated version history 3rd time
I undid the last two changes I did, because I realized I didn't have to peruse the Mail archives for changes; I could use <http://www.archive.org> instead. Now I updated down to 1999-Sep-1. I still have to look at the old e-mails for earlier results. (I think Beman did all the pre-CVS website edits back then, so if he has a master list, then I don't have to guesstimate releases from reading _every_ old e-mail.) Between my first two changes and the redo, Rene Rivera changed the CSS to fix the table. The new listing doesn't use a table any longer, but the quick glimpse I had of the change (before I paved it over) didn't show any change to the table. Instead of adding CSS attributes to restore table functionality, maybe we should change whatever CSS took it away in the first place. Why was the "...remainder..." paragraph moved inward? I deliberately did _not_ have it within the history list. And what's with the extra "-body" and/or "-DIGIT" sections? Are they for visual CSS layout, because they seem superfluous semantically? -- Daryle Walker Mac, Internet, and Video Game Junkie darylew AT hotmail DOT com
Daryle Walker wrote:
Instead of adding CSS attributes to restore table functionality, maybe we should change whatever CSS took it away in the first place.
The CSS that does that globally removes all styles so that all elements can be styled from a consistent state. It makes positioning, spacing, and anything that involves measurements consistent.
Why was the "...remainder..." paragraph moved inward? I deliberately did _not_ have it within the history list.
It was outside of the history section, semantically, but not withing any other section. Hence it looked to me that it semantically didn't belong to anything.
And what's with the extra "-body" and/or "-DIGIT" sections? Are they for visual CSS layout, because they seem superfluous semantically?
Yes. -- -- Grafik - Don't Assume Anything -- Redshift Software, Inc. - http://redshift-software.com -- rrivera/acm.org - grafik/redshift-software.com -- 102708583/icq - grafikrobot/aim - Grafik/jabber.org
On 8/23/05 10:11 AM, "Rene Rivera" <grafik.list@redshift-software.com> wrote:
Daryle Walker wrote:
Instead of adding CSS attributes to restore table functionality, maybe we should change whatever CSS took it away in the first place.
The CSS that does that globally removes all styles so that all elements can be styled from a consistent state. It makes positioning, spacing, and anything that involves measurements consistent.
But the browser designers (should) have done that for the default style sheet. The flaw in your tactic is that you need to be as exhaustive as the browser (and HTML) creators. Otherwise, the stuff you missed looks bad, as we discovered with TABLE and DL. We should go for a minimal-transformation approach, not an obliterate-then-rebuild one.
Why was the "...remainder..." paragraph moved inward? I deliberately did _not_ have it within the history list.
It was outside of the history section, semantically, but not withing any other section. Hence it looked to me that it semantically didn't belong to anything. [TRUNCATE]
It should have been within the "content" section (unless I messed up the nesting for the original file). -- Daryle Walker Mac, Internet, and Video Game Junkie darylew AT hotmail DOT com
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