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@rcherny We also have HTML 5, which has elements like <canvas>. Using JavaScript, you can (theoretically more or less) draw what y ...
There are reasons: More secure email than IE. More stable browser at that time for early, early application development.
@ppk Not everyone. The US military and some research institutions/universities here in the US still hang on to the apps developed for NN4
@rcherny Great minds think alike! Absolute positioning is a missing piece of our design puzzle. Not a new idea, but one bearing more study.
@ppk Absolute positioning is pretty amazing. Inline, you can even do some fairly astonishing designs as far back as Netscape 4.
@inflate the "correct" way is subjective. Best practices these days suggest floating and positioning, with which you can be very creative!
@RubyGrrl42 When you say "JavaScript Engines" do you mean "Libraries" such as jQuery, Dojo, prototype? I'm an advocate of JS libraries FWIW!
@t Not questioning the value of floats now, but in the future.
@meyerweb I agree. I'm not dissing on floats as we use them now. As with tables, we do what we can with what we have. That's innovation, no?
I'm concerned about CSS3. I think the first priority advancement for all web browsers should be an interoperable layout engine.
@batasrki The CSS Working Group and CSS3 are very challenging to me. I mostly want to make sure what is implemented is what we need.
@meyerweb Do you agree that "float" of W3C was not implemented for columnar display?
@t But floats didn't evolve the way Bert intended, if so. Not more flexible than tables now, and Bert is always present at CSS WG meetings.
@lucianmarin because floats were not envisioned as the core of columnar design, simply a way to manage flow. This is why I say "hack-ish"
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@bhenick l'd love to disregard floats for layout. Between effective x-browser clearing and managing content in floated boxes, ugh!
@bikehugger I know, I just had to be pedantic, didn't I :) I use your "Dampersand" word liberally in workshops.
@gsnedders Well Snedds, what exactly is "it" that you'd like me to validate?