[OT] Websites, CSS & stuff

3 posts ยท Jul 30 2004 to Jul 31 2004

From: Brian Burger <yh728@v...>

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:31:43 -0700 (PDT)

Subject: [OT] Websites, CSS & stuff

Regular visitors to my website might have noticed the gradual move to
CSS2-based web design there; layout first, and now more CSS replacement
of FONT tag stuff and even some graphics.

One cool side effect: My HTML files are getting smaller. One large file
has gone from 25Kb pre-CSS down to less than 19Kb w/ CSS replacing one
very common tag! 25% reduction = 25% faster loading = more available
bandwidth... (given that the whole stylesheet for my site is 4Kb, this one
reduction is larger than the whole stylesheet!)

Cascading Style Sheets, the SlimFast Plan for webpages!

Plus, CSS pages look cooler...

From: Michael Llaneza <maserati@e...>

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 18:45:12 -0700

Subject: Re: [OT] Websites, CSS & stuff

Looks good in Mozilla 1.8a2!

> Brian Burger wrote:

> Regular visitors to my website might have noticed the gradual move to

From: Brian Burger <yh728@v...>

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 19:26:33 -0700 (PDT)

Subject: Re: [OT] Websites, CSS & stuff

> On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Michael Llaneza wrote:

> Looks good in Mozilla 1.8a2 !

I figured it would; I did test some of the site with the older Moz version
I've got installed. Similarly, it works in my regular browser, Opera
7.23.

It's the folks still using Jurassic browsers (pre-Moz Netscape, or any
version of IE) that I'm worried about, WRT CSS compliance. You can produce
clean, validated HTML & CSS, and some of the older browsers will *still* screw
it up... "Viewable with any browser" only works up to a point, and I don't
want to take my site too far past that point!

Blerghhh... I've been HTML/CSS geeking too much in the last few weeks.
Got to find a new momentary obsession before I crash my own website!:)