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Comment on I Hate CSS by Guy Mac

Guy Mac — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:45:54 +0000

What about the table-cell CSS property? That’s a dirt simple way to do two columns. http://www.digital-web.com/articles/everything_you_know_about_CSS_Is_wrong/

Comment on I Hate CSS by ravinggenius

ravinggenius — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 21:33:42 +0000

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Comment on I Hate CSS by Matt Briggs

Matt Briggs — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:22:48 +0000

Here is the funny thing, on windows I have tried WPF and WinForms, on linux I have tried GTK+ and Qt, and by FAR my favorite way of creating a UI is with html and css. To go further, I downright hate UI programming on those other platforms, even though I love it on the web. It does take a certain degree of expertise to get passed the quirks of css, but once you have that, the code you are writing is FAR more elegant then any other platform I have seen.

Comment on I Hate CSS by Anthony Aziz

Anthony Aziz — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:00:16 +0000

Wow, it seems this got picked up by HackerNews – http://hackerne.ws/item?id=2271690 and there’s quite a few comments there. Glad to have sparked a decent discussion (though, it’s really a novel debate :P)

@Liam – yes, you’re right. “I’m not even that great of a web designer.” I know that there are ways to do things, and people make amazing pieces of work with these tools that I am complaining about.

But I hold to my points still. Some things that are so simple and common need ridiculous hacks or workarounds to work with, and it seems that while a powerful and capable tool in the right hands, CSS has gone of the path as the best method for web design.

What about something like centering dynamic text vertically? Why is that so difficult to do in CSS? Sometimes I fear people put too much stock in purity and resist change simply for the sake of it.

And don’t get me wrong, I appreciate your comment.

Comment on I Hate CSS by Paulo Schlup

Paulo Schlup — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:44:00 +0000

Aziz, CSS frameworks are great tools and help keeping your sanity. I used the 960 grid system before, but nowadays I just use the 1140 grid system. I think it’s more modern and easy to use: http://cssgrid.net/

I didn’t make it, I’m just a happy user. It works well with 1 to 12 columns, looks great in 1280-wide resolution and adjusts perfectly to lower resolutions even on iPads and iPhones.