CSS Woes

July 9, 2006

Alex Bunardzic:

The most scary part related to css happened to me recently, when I was trying to (finally) master it. I’ve stumbled upon this scary sentence in one of the countless css tutorials I’ve tried out:
Remember, even one small mistake will degrade or even break the layout, so be very careful!
To me, brittleness and smart technology do not go hand in hand. Something is terribly wrong with this picture, if I have to walk on egg shells when developing web sites.

I totally agree. CSS, conceptually, may be great; but the only way I’ve found so far to work with it is pure trial and error, Experimental Computer Science …

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