I popped over to meyerweb.com this morning and see that the new netscape Dev Edge site is up and running.

Netscape DevEdge now showcases efficient, accessible cross-browser design. A tableless, CSS-driven design lets the visitor choose their preferred theme and incorporates a host of other improvements.

Eric Meyer, who does css for Netscape, reported this Feb. 13, but I have been out sick. As Meyer notes, Wired News is also laid out with style sheets instead of tables.

This is the wave of the future, folks. With these two major sites laid out in style sheets - and a lot of spiffy eye candy at Wired - other developers will have to fall in line.

Being a lazy scut myself, I want to jump over the era of building klutzes to match every browser quirk. Take me to the easyweb, where a style sheet does it all! As often happens with life, the easy way out IS sometimes the better way.


-- posted by Palema on 2/22/2003

 
Meyer is a css genius. His new book makes good bedtime reading (doesn't make your eyes cross with complxity) and an excellent Saturday morning breakfast companion as well. I have just added the css sidebar tabs to my mozilla browser (found a link for taking this one-click step at Meyers' web page), so I'll have them as a handy reference. Up to now, I have been relying heavily on TopStyle to give me syntax for any style sheets I write. I have way more to learn, though, even to get up to the intermediate level. A very basic style sheet is pretty easy; where I start getting confused is with descendant, sibling, and child styles.
-- posted by Palema on 2/09/2003

 
I have a new book on css I cant wait to get my teeth into. It's by Eric Meyer, the guru of cascading style sheets. I have read his web pages online, and he's very good.

Today I strolled into Borders - happened to be in the neighborhood- thinking I might pick up the book by David Pogue on Dreamweaver. I read Pogue's column "Circuits" every week in the New York Times and like it. He's a good, clear writer. I saw the book I thought was the one I wanted, but it wasn't written by Pogue. It's part of Pogue's series "The Missing Manual" but it's actually written by David McFarland..

Well, I decided for today to go with Eric Meyers's book. I shall be back for more soon, though.

-- posted by Palema on 2/08/2003