Do any of you know any real world examples of corporate sites using the CSS positionning approach* to designing their site? Should this approach be used if you want to put your site available to the most users possible?
* stripping all non neccessary tags and using CSS for positionning and stylingYep: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.ryanbrill.com/archives/00013.phpGreat">http://www.ryanbrill.com/archives/00013.phpGreat</a><!-- m -->! Just adds weight to a decision to go for a full CSS positionning site
Would there be a compilation of browser issue with this type of approach? I figure that all the newest browsers that this wouldn't cause any problems. How far back can one go without expecting problems (ie. IE 5.0, ect..)?Yes, for many layouts you can get back to IE 5.0 without much difficulty. For others, they may not look as desired in that browser. My site (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.ryanbrill.com/">http://www.ryanbrill.com/</a><!-- m -->) uses semantic XHTML with CSS for presentation, and looks nearly the same in IE 5.0 as it does in IE 6 and Mozilla. 4.0 browsers have very little CSS support, and it is highly improbable that your layout will work for those browsers. Having said that, the content will still be accessible, which is the important part.Agreed. But for some high management people, it HAS to look good no matter what
Thanks for all your help!Or, you could educate them to the fact the so few people use NN4.x, etc any more that the few who do will be used to seeing little more than the acutal content. As time draws on, that excuse it becomming less and less important to consider.True!
Here we preach coding to the standards. Yet, my collegues don't validate their documents to the DTD (HTML 4.01 Transitionnal). I do however. And i've yet to convince them to use the semantic XHTML / CSS approach. As for I, I'll start to use it on my sites very soon.
I first saw the power of this approach when I saw csszengarden.com. Using CSS and the same semantic XHTML, one can have so many looks for a site without any major changes in the markup
A couple more sites to bookmark...
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* stripping all non neccessary tags and using CSS for positionning and stylingYep: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.ryanbrill.com/archives/00013.phpGreat">http://www.ryanbrill.com/archives/00013.phpGreat</a><!-- m -->! Just adds weight to a decision to go for a full CSS positionning site
Would there be a compilation of browser issue with this type of approach? I figure that all the newest browsers that this wouldn't cause any problems. How far back can one go without expecting problems (ie. IE 5.0, ect..)?Yes, for many layouts you can get back to IE 5.0 without much difficulty. For others, they may not look as desired in that browser. My site (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.ryanbrill.com/">http://www.ryanbrill.com/</a><!-- m -->) uses semantic XHTML with CSS for presentation, and looks nearly the same in IE 5.0 as it does in IE 6 and Mozilla. 4.0 browsers have very little CSS support, and it is highly improbable that your layout will work for those browsers. Having said that, the content will still be accessible, which is the important part.Agreed. But for some high management people, it HAS to look good no matter what
Thanks for all your help!Or, you could educate them to the fact the so few people use NN4.x, etc any more that the few who do will be used to seeing little more than the acutal content. As time draws on, that excuse it becomming less and less important to consider.True!
Here we preach coding to the standards. Yet, my collegues don't validate their documents to the DTD (HTML 4.01 Transitionnal). I do however. And i've yet to convince them to use the semantic XHTML / CSS approach. As for I, I'll start to use it on my sites very soon.
I first saw the power of this approach when I saw csszengarden.com. Using CSS and the same semantic XHTML, one can have so many looks for a site without any major changes in the markup
A couple more sites to bookmark...<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.dailystandards.com/">http://www.dailystandards.com/</a><!-- m -->
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.9rules.com/cssvault/">http://www.9rules.com/cssvault/</a><!-- m -->