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Tuesday, 8 March 2011

technology: development by divination.

Web development is a lucrative business and as web technologies have tried to meet the needs of users old approaches have been deprecated in the name of usability.

One example of this is Tables, back in the 90s every website was built around tables, if you need to position something on a page you used a table. It was messy and more than a little unreliable, but then came the DIV, a neat little box that you can position anywhere on a page, and automatically manoeuvre based on the screen size and resolution.
But with great flexibility comes great annoyance, and web development has been reduced to a hair pulling procedure of messing with CSS, floating here, clearing there. After 20 minutes of trying to float a div at the bottom of the screen you'll be curled up in the corner of the room, rocking back and forth in a puddle of your own drool.

There is only one think that can bring you back from the edge in such scenarios

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