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Re:This Could be Big: Decentralized Web Standard Under Devel... by halo on Friday May 06, 2011 @09:15PM (#2523004)
CSS1 was deliberately designed to be 'simple' which is why they avoided the problem of layout entirely. Appendix E of the specification even says so (http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS1/#appendix-e).
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Re:This Could be Big: Decentralized Web Standard Under Devel... by haberman on Friday May 06, 2011 @11:58PM (#2523179)
Good to know -- though in that case, it seems inappropriate that web standards advocates were demanding everyone abandon table-based layouts when CSS did not actually support layout yet.
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Re:This Could be Big: Decentralized Web Standard Under Devel... by bandushrew on Saturday May 07, 2011 @02:45AM (#2523323)
it was fairly inappropriate, and for the most part pragmatic web designers ignored it until it become realistic.

OTOH, it was the early adopters that were driving it, and I dont really have a problem with that. That is what early adopters do.

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