What No One Told You About Z-Index

Re:What No One Told You About Z-Index by Arelius on Tuesday January 15, 2013 @11:24PM (#5065255)

Does ruby even have a proper spec?

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Re:What No One Told You About Z-Index by sandGorgon on Wednesday January 16, 2013 @12:14AM (#5065426)

yes - http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_...

there are other community-driven sources - like RubySpec [1], etc. but this is the (expensive!!) ISO standard.

FYI - I had intended it as an example. I'm really interested to know if the most effective way to work with CSS is to understand its spec... which is not the way it works with most programming languages.

But perhaps CSS is more similar to a rulebook (declarative) than a language.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RubySpec

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Re:What No One Told You About Z-Index by Arelius on Saturday January 19, 2013 @04:43PM (#5084888)

I think generally speaking, reading the spec is useful when trying to figure out the details of more complex topics, I think this holds true for most languages. I used to pull out the C spec regularly, and even the c++ draft spec on occasion, it gets better for smaller languages, for Scheme for instance, I would pull out the spec rather quite often.

Since I imagine the CSS spec is relatively small (compared to say C++) I imagine it would be useful for solving more adavnced use cases.

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