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[I'm sending this to Friam because it may have wider interest than
wedtech]
Recently there has been a quiet revolution in the web's basic language:
html. From its early days, it has been stressed from its initial goal
of simple page layout and linking to pixel-perfect rendering. This has
been achieved by browsers making up their own capabilities to extreme
use of tables to perform tasks they were never designed to do. Its
resulted in slow, ugly, inflexible, and just plain broken web sites.
But a really beautiful solution has sprung from an unusual camp of web
warriors: the web designers. Html has grown up through several
revisions, and has separated into two halves: xhtml, the markup
language, and css (cascading style sheets) a new language for styling
and laying web pages.
This has resulted in the same html data being used for web sites that
easily change their look and feel at will. It has allowed the same web
data to be viewed on tiny palm devices, tailored to their constraints.
It has made the web more accessible to blind users. It has made it
easier for sites to talk to one another, exchanging data easily and
unambiguously.
I'll present a quick run through the xhtml/css world, peeking in on the
designer's revolution. We'll then "style" a simple web page in three
radically different ways by making no changes to the xhtml,
manipulating the css file only.
Meeting: Wed, 12:15 - 1:30 at RedFish office, 624 Agua Fria. Pizza
will be ordered, let me know if you'd like to be included in the order.
Owen
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