Week 8 Notes

This week I decided to go backwards in the readings. I am unfamiliar with CSS so I decided to read chapter two from Cascading Style Sheets, designing for the Web first in hopes that it would give me a good introduction.

• CSS seems to be a style add-on to HTML
• Have you ever read something and then had to go back and read it all over again because you have no idea what you just read? Yeah...
• This gluing thing... wait what?
• Why not just write the style sheet into the HTML sheet in the first place? WRITE THEM TOGETHER!
• This book must be old if it is referring to Netscape and IE4. Obviously the material is still relevant.
• I believe that all browsers today have CSS capabilities. That or I'm living in an alternate reality.
• Now we're inserting text gifs?!

• Does anyone realize that one can write a blog in HTML with CSS? It seems to be a good way to practice the techniques in these readings cause that's how I wrote this one!

• I love the W3 Schools tutorials. They break everything down into terms that a former liberal arts major like me can understand.
• Now I see why they call them "cascading" style sheets. These things can really get away from you if you're not careful.
• Well at least W3 answered my question about why CSS is contained in a different style sheet:

"When tags like <font>, and color attributes were added to the HTML 3.2 specification, it started a nightmare for web developers. Development of large web sites, where fonts and color information were added to every single page, became a long and expensive process.

To solve this problem, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) created CSS.

In HTML 4.0, all formatting could be removed from the HTML document, and stored in a separate CSS file."

• Also I was right. All browsers today do support CSS. One that doesn't is just silly.