Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

From: Chris (racerx_at_makeworld.com)
Date: 12/25/04

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    Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 19:26:15 -0600
To: Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no>

    Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
    > Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> writes:
    >
    >>Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
    >>
    >>>Responding to Chris: CSS is neither outdated nor a Windows thing. You
    >>>apparently need to get an extra clue or two before you rejoin this
    >>>discussion.
    >>
    >>Not really - Some years back MS made a big issue about CSS. It was
    >>then that I lost interest in web devel. Besides - web devel isn't my
    >>bag, so I really don't think that I need to have or get a clue.
    >
    >
    > CSS is a W3 standard, but was originally designed by the CTO of Opera
    > Software, a company which is one of Microsoft's more vocal detractors
    > and which recently received a large settlement in a lawsuit regarding
    > Microsoft's (alleged) intentional efforts to make their website render
    > poorly in Opera's browser. IE handles CSS1 badly, and CSS2 almost not
    > at all. Calling it a Windows thing severely misrepresents the facts.
    >
    >
    >>One does not need to know how to rebuild an engine to know how to
    >>drive the car.
    >
    >
    > One should not criticize the design of an engine while vehemently
    > claiming to have no interest in how enginges are built.
    >
    > DES

    Technically - I didn't criticize. Allow me to post verbatim;

    "CSS? Isnt that a bit outdated? Isnt that more a Windows thing?"

    Doesn't look like it to me - looks more like a query or two.
    But that's just me tho - perhaps you read something else?

    Perhaps too much eggnog? Perhaps not enough? 

    -- 
Best regards,
Chris
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