tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post7381329984798939097..comments2024-03-18T17:28:44.693-07:00Comments on Rondam Ramblings: CSS vindicationRonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11752242624438232184noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post-44149872037286271782010-05-01T11:31:38.851-07:002010-05-01T11:31:38.851-07:00> Did you mention you were moving up here?
Yep...> Did you mention you were moving up here?<br /><br />Yep. Beginning of June. Would be great to get together.Ronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11752242624438232184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post-17233257559500626032010-05-01T11:18:49.682-07:002010-05-01T11:18:49.682-07:00> I thought the work you did on the Virgin Char...> I thought the work you did on the Virgin Charter site was terrific.<br /><br />Thank you. By the way, I am living in San Francisco again. Did you mention you were moving up here? It would be fun to grab dinner sometime if you are around.Danstonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09407727136490964205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post-47256992509395246662010-05-01T11:13:31.007-07:002010-05-01T11:13:31.007-07:00> I think your point is that there are a collec...> I think your point is that there are a collection of things CSS can say and things it can't say. And no combination of CSS, no matter how convoluted, can say the things that CSS can't say.<br /><br />That's exactly right.<br /><br />> That doesn't stop these tools from being incredibly useful because they give the developer the ability to use variables and control flow Ronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11752242624438232184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post-42764947035229009702010-05-01T10:42:09.243-07:002010-05-01T10:42:09.243-07:00> Don't know HAML, but it looks like nothin...> Don't know HAML, but it looks like nothing more than HTML with a pythonic syntax<br /><br />If that's true then PHP is nothing more than HTML with perl syntax and ERB is nothing more than HTML with ruby syntax the view code of GWT is nothing more than HTML with Java syntax, etc. That doesn't stop these tools from being incredibly useful because they give the developer the abilityDanstonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09407727136490964205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post-72470520678891047692010-05-01T07:51:07.953-07:002010-05-01T07:51:07.953-07:00> People don't write HTML anymore.... Peopl...> People don't write HTML anymore.... People write pre-processing languages like HAML.<br /><br />Don't know HAML, but it looks like nothing more than HTML with a pythonic syntax. One of these days the world may come to realize that inventing new lexical conventions for writing S-expressions is not actually a technological advance.<br /><br />> Just because we use other languages Ronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11752242624438232184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post-12080268914874285562010-04-30T23:45:07.978-07:002010-04-30T23:45:07.978-07:00Ron, I think you're right that CSS is not grea...Ron, I think you're right that CSS is not great for layout. But I happen to be pretty good with it. (disclaimer: I used to work for you crafting CSS.) One thing that strikes me as very odd in the whole CSS-is-not-good-enough argument is this:<br /><br />People don't write HTML anymore. Especially not on a database-driven site like stackoverflow. People write pre-processing languages like Danstonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09407727136490964205noreply@blogger.com