Interesting article on CSS

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...written by a idiot.

Double Serious Dvorak Warning: Stylesheets are unstable and dangerous. You risk having your stylesheet fall apart if you lose a bit of CSS data. Elements will cascade out the bottom of your screen. This will leave an unbearable mess on your desk, and may incur irreparable damage.
I emphasise, for the safety of yourself and others around you, do not use CSS.
 
John C. Dvorak said:
The first problem is the idea of "cascading." It means what it says: falling—as in falling apart. You set a parameter for a style element, and that setting falls to the next element unless you provide it with a different element definition. This sounds like a great idea until you try to deconstruct the sheet. You need a road map. One element cascades from here, another from there. One wrong change and all hell breaks loose. If your Internet connection happens to lose a bit of CSS data, you get a mess on your screen.
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Goodness knows how Mr Dvorak is writing his stylesheets if he's having problems with the cascading function of cascading style sheets. Even a five year old could grasp the intricicies of inheritance.

P.S. Replacing the "CSS" acronym in the title of the article in question and it reads "Why Cascading Style Sheets Bugs Me" ;)

P.P.S. The Internet is a series of tubes! The slightest leak and there is a mess everywhere! :eek:
 
robmiller said:
Considered Dvorak admitted on-record that he posts most of his articles as elaborate trolls to get a rise out of people (mainly Mac fans) I'd hardly take the guy seriously.
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Oh man, I could remember someone saying that; didn't know it was Mr Dvorak himself! It's a bit surprising that he'd use a respected news source such as PC Magazine to spread his flamebait, however - they must be getting a lot of flak for publishing that article! :p
 
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