MythMoth - Slashdot User

+ - CSS considered irritating-> 0

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MythMoth

on Wednesday August 13, 2008 @11:38AM

MythMoth writes "I admire the aspirations of Cascading Style Sheets, but was it really meant to be so difficult? Are the deficiencies down to poor design, faulty implementations, my tiny brain, or wrong-headed expectations? Why are there so many fiendishly complex and ingenious workarounds for simple styling effects when they could and should be incorporated into the standard. GeekLondon raises a top-ten hit list of CSS nastiness and dons his asbestos trousers.

Disclosure: GeekLondon is MythMoth"
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+ - Should developers fix Microsoft's past mistakes?

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MythMoth

on Wednesday May 09, 2007 @06:09AM

MythMoth writes "We've heard all about the pain and discomfort of working with Windows' User Account Control (UAC) switched on, but now Ian Griffiths is explaining that the developers are the problem — they brought it on themselves.

In earlier articles we have heard that Microsoft think that everyone should do it like this — Ian does acknowledge that things are better in the Unix world, but is he right? Is the onus now on the developers to help fix a problem that they did not cause?

Should Microsoft maybe use the dialog that Ian proposes to push the point home?"