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Re:Don't Blame CSS For Your Incompetence by joe_the_user on Wednesday February 04, 2009 @01:10AM (#465324)
Ah, the thing I just realized that I know more about divs and CSS and yet I can still use tables better. Having only worked with table a dozen times, I still know exactly what a table will look like when I create it. I know that I won't know, exactly. what div/CSS is going to look like when I'm done.

And mod-up "Regardless, one thing that bothers me is when people claim that it's entirely your fault if you can't use something, because you didn't bother to learn enough about it." A good language, a good system, a good process "makes easy things easy and difficult things possible". As far as I can see, CSS fails with both. And, today was the tipping point for me personally. I would have endorsed CSS yesterday.

Well, I know CSS is great if I want arbitrary rectangles place on the page.

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Re:Don't Blame CSS For Your Incompetence by sam_in_nyc on Wednesday February 04, 2009 @11:28AM (#465931)
When I was like 13 and CSS was just getting started, I was so excited that I could add decorative styles to things. I mean, I thought it was ridiculous that instead of <b></b> I had to look up some arbitrary thing like "font-weight:bold" and I still to this day have trouble remember how to do italics.. I just looked it up, it's "font-style:italic" and same goes for underline... "text-decoration:underline". Who comes up with these names?

Anyway, I agree... today I no longer fear using tables... and, fuck it, I'm bringing back <b> <u> and <i>.

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