[REBOL] Re: css vs View (VID) compositing? (was) Re: Re: page-breaks in html or
From: jason::cunliffe::verizon::net at: 6-Dec-2003 8:56
> > OTOH - studying css docs for one day I have to say that it is way more
> > complicated than View. Maybe just a question of becoming used to
> > different concept? What do others think?
CSS has the huge advantage of being widely used and documented - books
tutorials communities.
Alas, most of the early confusion around CSS stems from browser wars and
version/feature cross-fire cross-platform trickiness. Most of that is behind
us now.
/View has some very cool features, but is terribly weakened by being only
known to the select digerati of lonely planet Rebol.
CSS has many tools which support it and make it trivial to format via
wysiwyg interfaces.
Macromedia Flash 7 [aka FlashMX 2004] now supports basic CSS in its text
fields. This is very cool and speeds up developement and allows on-the-fly
changes because ActionScript can dynamically alter internal CSS stykles in
swf movies. View could adopt a similar scheme to good effect I think.
Famous sites for smart CSS use
http://www.alistapart.com/
http://www.zeldman.com/
Books by Eric Meyer and Jeffrey Zeldman are recommended.
- Jason
