RE: Firefox vs IE - help

["Gordon McLean" <Gordon -dot- McLean -at- GrahamTechnology -dot- com>]

So you'd rather take the quick and dirty and hard to maintain route?

Yes, CSS can be a little confusing at times, but once you have the basics it
is far more maintainable in the future.

There are HUNDREDS of CSS layout templates out there, you can dump your
content into them very easily. If you decide to change the layout of the
pages (no matter how many) at a later date (and presuming you are
referencing a separate CSS file) then it will require ONE change.

If you have a help system that is anything like ours, that means you aren't
searching and replacing across thousands of HTML files. Far less risk of
error. 

Personally I think it's worth the time and effort to learn the basics, grab
a template, and use that. Of course it depends on the scope of the project,
if it's only a couple of pages worth of info, then fine, use tables. If it's
more, and you have the scope to include time to learn CSS layout at a
rudimentary level it will benefit you in the future as well. Relying on
tables for layout, won't.

Gordon

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om] On Behalf Of John Garison
Sent: 30 July 2007 16:22
To: Elizabeth J Allen
Cc: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: Firefox vs IE - help

Entering into this late ...

If you know CSS, are familiar with it and use it frequently, it's pretty
easy to set up, modify, and use. If not, it's a learning curve involving
several books and heaps of trial and error. If I were doing something for a
friend, I'd use whatever was easiest for me and provided a decent result.

So, if it were me, I'd use CSS. For Lauren, it's tables. Only geeks like us
would ever dream of doing View Source to see how it was done, anyway.

Have a great wedding!


John G


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