Wise words: CSS is not hard to learn — if you recognise it for what it is! .
I’m still amazed that we’re still having these discussions, trying to persuade poor coders to get their act together and the advertising people (who should’ve stuck to print ads instead of messing with a biz they apparantly don’t understand) that going for ‘pixel-perfect’ doesn’t make us think they’re really cool as they demand good quality…
Cross-Browser means “functioning in different browsers†not “looking the sameâ€
I still get the “I have a background in graphic design so of course I want it to look perfect — just as the printouts I gave you”. Newsflash: You can’t have it that way. And your job’s in danger.
I want to be the boss about what others see when I design a website. And pixel perfect is not very bad because that should be possible
You don’t understand what I was saying then. While it should always look good, professional etc. — the ‘perfect’ from the print era is gone. You can get close, but the point is to understand what you can expect having control over, what you should’t have control over in the first place because of the very essence of the web — and where you just have to settle with ‘good’. Spending time getting something to look 100% the same across all browsers is often a complete waste of time.
Do I sense a certain amount of frustration here? I am so happy, I turned my back on the web design business. :D
Totally. And I don’t mind admitting it. The ‘web design business’ is luckily not that big anymore; people have gone back to whatever they wanted to do — now powered by the web. But the technical part should’nt hold people back…which is what we get if people keep fighting over what putdated technology to use ;-)