{"id":187,"date":"2008-09-24T09:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T13:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=187"},"modified":"2008-12-13T23:07:18","modified_gmt":"2008-12-14T03:07:18","slug":"css-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=187","title":{"rendered":"CSS Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"

I'm continuing my re-exploration of CSS in my spare moments, and it's worked out very well so far. If you're doing static pages that don't need Javascript or other fancy stuff, CSS can make very slick layouts with only a handful of rules. The problem of many people using old browsers that don't fully support CSS still exists (especially for IE) but to some extent it always will. CSS-challlenged IE6 still has 32% of the browser market, which means that at least 32% of people will not see your pages render correctly, and that seems like an awful lot to me. I thought I was alone in grumbling about this, but I'm not<\/a>\u2014and this guy does webstuff for a living. <\/p>\n

Anyway. The browsers aren't there yet, but they do enough to support my modest goals. First of these is to get rid of table-based layouts in my Web articles. Tables are a kluge, but they were the best that the Web could do for its first ten years. Another goal is to create an “imprint style” defined in a single external style sheet. I've taken my several articles about kites and have been CSS-izing them to a common imprint style. These three articles work off the same style sheet:<\/p>\n