Box Model Hack - still confused!

Sent by Bob McClelland on 3 December 2004 12:12

Thanks to all who responded. The reason I'm labouring the point here is
because the very simple styling:

        width : 450;
        w\idth : 400;

type of thing works for me (IE 5.5, IE6, quirks and standards, Mozilla 1,
Firefox 1, Opera 7), so why should I use anything else?  Michael (Wilson)
suggested adding an extra line (which is OK):

    width: 400px;
    \width: 450px;
    w\idth: 400px;

but Zeldman and others suggest using the clumsy voice things.  I ask myself
why, if the simple things do actually work  properly?

I knocked up a very simple example of this at:

http://www.treyarnon.fsworld.co.uk/bmh.html

and tested it with my (few) browsers. Fine!

So can you understand my concerns?  (I do like simple things, where possible
:-)

Thanks,

Bob McClelland,
Cornwall (U.K.)
www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk


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Message thread:

• Box Model Hack - David Sharp, 2nd December 2004 13:14
  • Box Model Hack - Rimantas Liubertas, 2nd December 2004 15:40
  • Box Model Hack - Zoe M. Gillenwater, 2nd December 2004 16:16
  • Box Model Hack - Bob McClelland, 2nd December 2004 16:18
    • Box Model Hack - Jono, 2nd December 2004 21:44
      • Box Model Hack - Larry Israel, 2nd December 2004 21:57
  • Box Model Hack - still confused! - Bob McClelland, 3rd December 2004 12:35
    • Box Model Hack - still confused! - Zoe M. Gillenwater, 3rd December 2004 13:01
    • Box Model Hack - still confused! - Eric A. Meyer, 3rd December 2004 15:13
      • Box Model Hack, then & now: EMoC - Lorin Rivers, 21st January 2005 01:06
        • Box Model Hack, then & now: EMoC - Michael Wilson, 21st January 2005 01:48
        • Box Model Hack, then & now: EMoC - Eric A. Meyer, 21st January 2005 02:30
        • Box Model Hack, then & now: EMoC - Andy Budd, 24th January 2005 10:30
          • Box Model Hack, then & now: EMoC - Zoe M. Gillenwater, 24th January 2005 19:03
            • Box Model Hack, then & now: EMoC - Leszek, 24th January 2005 23:17
    • Box Model Hack - still confused! - Michael Wilson, 3rd December 2004 17:00
      • Box Model Hack - still confused! - Zoe M. Gillenwater, 3rd December 2004 17:28
        • Box Model Hack - still confused! - Michael Wilson, 3rd December 2004 18:09
          • Box Model Hack - still confused! - Zoe M. Gillenwater, 3rd December 2004 18:10
  • Box Model Hack - now happy! - Bob McClelland, 3rd December 2004 19:58