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November 28, 2005
Hackery costs
Hackery costs: Tantek Celic discusses the long-term effects of getting overly tricksy with CSS. The article is long, starts with detail and bounces back between viewponts, but I think the main point is "stay in the mainstream when rendering on a range of Other Peoples Engines". Steven Wood has a similar summary at Molly Holzschlag's blog. When reading this I think of the original principles of HTML as a way that anyone could create hypertext documents, and of the pressure now for increased amounts of arcane knowledge as a higher barrier-to-entry. (Things are more straightforward when designing for a single engine than for multiple engines, naturally... there's also the issue of whether you write a spec and hope everybody else implements it "correctly", or whether you provide a capability and then hope others adopt it.)
Posted by John Dowdell at November 28, 2005 4:34 AM