Of CSS and XHTML

[Cory 'G' Watson]

On Dec 4, 2003, at 3:44 PM, Christian Robottom Reis wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 03:36:00PM -0600, Cory 'G' Watson wrote:
>> - Modifies header.html.tmpl to include two stylesheets (css/layout.css
>> and css/content.css).  It does this _before_ user-specified styles so
>> they can override our defaults.
>
> Any reason to do this via @import and not via a <link> element?

Dave's RedHat patches used this, and I thought it was a good idea, 
because IIRC, older browsers ignore @import, so they would skip them.
>
> BTW, I have a hard time thinking that we'll be moving to a completely
> table-free layout -- there are a lot of tables there, granted, and many
> of them are unnecessary, but tabular data was designed to fit, well, in
> HTML tables <wink>.

A table's place is to display tabular data, and that's where I'll leave 
them ;)  I'm much more concerned with pages like banner, which used 
tables for simple, div-able content.

Cory 'G' Watson

"The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment 
an incredible miracle." - Dr. John Paul Stapp