Well, the students are back in full force at ISU and my cable internet connection is geeettttttiiiinnnnnggggggg ssssssssssllllllllloooooooowwwwweeeeeeerrrrrrrr….
Time to look at DSL again. The only problem is, word in the street is that Verizon’s put in junk equipment in our area. Great. When are the satellite guys going to get in the game here? I can’t wait to get rich, famous, and have a T1 coming into my home. That’ll be sweet.
Okay, so the title is a bit extreme… but I’m really getting fed up with a few things in CSS. Why is it that it takes me an hour to get things aligned? Why is it that I have to bend over backwards to get the same page to look the same way in more than one browser??
I’ve drunk the whole “web standards” coolaid - I know the value in staying away from tables for layout, and trying CSS tricks for drop shadows and nifty corners. But at what cost? So I can join the “elite” CSS gurus in the ivory tower of tableless webpages?
Well - poop on it.
I’m using tables again. No, I’m not going gang-buster like the folks at Slashdot and use a zillion tables to do everything. But let’s face it - when you want things to line up - rows and columns kinda do the trick. And it ain’t that hard to do. Oh, suuuuure, my code is little messier - but NEWS FLASH! USERS DON’T CARE ABOUT THE SOURCE! So why do WE care so much?? Why do I care so much?
Sorry - I’ve just been banging my head against the wall trying to get two boxes side by side. Simplest thing in the world, right? Sure… if I didn’t have a copyright footer at the bottom that keeps popping up right smack in the middle of my boxes. I was beating that dead horse for hour and then just threw it in a two-column table. BANG! Everything lined up - in both major browsers. Geesh, I feel so… dirty. Eeww… tables are evil!
Well, I once I got over my oh-my-gosh-I-used-a-table guilt, I pulled up good ‘ole IE (I develop with FireFox) to view the same page.
Yea, see… I was trying to use pure-CSS corners to round out my boxes. Works great - till you put it in a table - and then IE screws it all up.
Well, now that’s pickle, ain’t it? Is it any wonder that all the major e-commerce sites use tables for their layout and images for their “nifty corners”?
Oh well, I guess one doesn’t make money by being a purist.
*sigh* Now my head hurts.
Construction has begun on IronEvents! Yea! It’s been quite a process getting to this point, but all the groundwork is done and ready for the final product. Chris is done a fantastic job on the survey site that’s up there now.
For the super curious we’re going to be using Tapestry and Spring as our two main frameworks on this site. So far, I’ve learned more about both frameworks then I thought could possible fit in my brain. I’ll have to regurgitate what I’ve learned when I get a chance (haahahahaahaaa! when I get a chance… I kill me). It’s a nifty environment work work in. Thank goodness for Tapestry In Action from Manning Publishers. That book was a life saver.
Well… I’m off to construction land once again!
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