Dave Winer is (still) an Ass.
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Of course I could go on. In February 14th of 2002, Dave was still bitching about CSS. I’ll still bet he will support the horrible Netscape 4 in 2004 and use that as his crutch against CSS. Dave, CSS is the future present.
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April 22nd, 2003 at 1:04 am
How can he rip on CSS? CSS freakin’ rules. Logan Whitney (the company I work for) hopes to go all tableless design in the next year or two. Its absolutely the future, and its just so sweet and beautiful and brilliant.
April 22nd, 2003 at 7:04 am
It’s one of those things I regret, but I wish I did more CSS earlier in my “career”. I know for a fact, it saved me from adding 100k worth of menus to my work site.
It does have limitations…browser limitations, but that falls back to the programmers and not the designers…who have coped with hacks and workarounds to make their site look 100% on all platforms.
Instead of taking it out on CSS, it needs to go back to the companies…mainly Microsoft and Opera, to step inline with what designers and the public need.
April 22nd, 2003 at 10:04 am
I’ve been following these threads at a distance– and I think what bothers me most is Winers constant repetition of the same old, “CSS is buggy,” mantra.
Coming from someone of Daves obvious intelligence this is intellectually dishonest. The CSS spec is *not* buggy. Surely there are bugs in the way various browsers render it, but to intentionally confuse the two is disingenuous at best. Daves point is pretty much, “My crappy software doesn’t work very well in Microsofts browser implementation, therefore the standard is broken.”
This is just stupid and Winer knows it, he just figures if he says it loudly enough and often enough, people will believe him.
Harvard has obviously lowered their standards since they rejected me :)