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Originally Posted by DaleDe
today there are all sorts of ways to remove control from the reader. CSS is one of those. Such things as making the screen wider than my current window so I have to scroll to see things. Picking hardcoded fonts, sizes, and hundreds of other very specific things. Even forcing colors to be something I can't even see due to contrast issues. Java and Javascript things can dominate a screen display. And don't get me started on some of the dynamic realplayer junk. Then there is forcing music on me that I don't care to hear. In 3.2 you have control over everything very easily. Now you have to be a hacker to just get control over your own screen display.
don't get me wrong, some of the screens are really slick and really well done but a lot of them are crap and take 10 times as long to load. Active X, et. al. CSS is the tip but the whole philosophy of web browsing has changed from information display to fancy display but who cares about the information so long as it looks pretty.
Dale
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I agree almost completely with everything you said. It is incredible the terrible page and site design that is happening, even on big name sites which I'm sure they paid a fortune for. It's a pet peeve of mine (yea you can add it to the list).
But I must defend css. I like css. The problem is in the design decisions being made, the way people are using the tools available, it's not the fault of the css.
Thanks for the answer.