Sent by Rich Shepard on 29 October 2004 21:09
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Eric A. Meyer wrote:
> There is; you could use floats or positioning. I did an example using
> floats:
Thank you.
> Honestly, I didn't take it that way. I was more concerned about what I
> saw as a mischaracterization of the book, intentional or otherwise.
> Someone who was thinking about buying a CSS book might Google around and
> find your post saying "what's with all the tables?" and decide that any
> CSS book that extensively used tables wasn't worth buying. So I posted a
> correction, the same as I would if someone said (or implied) my books were
> largely based on techniques that don't work in IE/Win. A few things I
> discuss don't work in IE/Win, it's true, but the vast majority do.
I spent a couple of hours at Powell's Tech Books reading everything they
had on css. I ended up with your two example books and I'm absolutely
delighted. If I was doing more than my simple site I'd also have your
complete CSS tome published by O'Reilly. It's extremely well done and highly
informative; I just don't have a continuing need for the details.
> Others just can't relate to the text-editor hands-on approach, as they
> much prefer to use a program like Dreamweaver or GoLive and not muck
> around directly with the markup and CSS.
My preference is emacs. It has a great html mode with syntax highlighting
and all. I also found a GUI css editor but discovered that it's much faster
for me to edit that in emacs, too.
Many thanks for your books, Web site and discussion on this list. I'll
recommend your books to all who ask. :-)
And, I worked out a kludge for placing the footers so they are aligned
with the variable content on each page. It's far from elegant, but it works
and no one responded to my enquiry from two days ago. Ugly hack but
functional.
Rich
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