A roadmap to standards

[francis]

This short introduction to coding with standards (http://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2004/04/30/a_roadmap_to/) may be of use to some out there.

One of the links in the article is to Eric Meyer's "More Eric Meyer On CSS" book (http://more.ericmeyeroncss.com/projects/). A quick look at the contents looks interesting - there's a section on styling a photo collection, which maybe of interest to JB.

[James]

A good article, but ...

He fails to mention that the main frustrations with pure code lie in trying to hack the code round so IE renders it properly. What you end up with maybe standards-compliant, but a right mess to understand, full of fudges and hacks, all for IE's benefit.

I'm all for coding to standards, but until IE sorts its life out and renders properly I'm going to continue with a table / CSS mix, as we have discussed here before. Actually I find CSS is quite easy to understand, but the IE hacks needed certainly are not!

Whilst IE is rubbish at standards, it's the browser we have to please due to its dominance. Therefore I stick with tables for now.