CSS Hacks and Filters
Chapter One
Why Hack CSS?
in this chapter
The Cascading Style
Sheets Promise
Why CSS Is Broken
To Hack or Not to
Hack
The theory of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a means to an end: better,
more efficient Web site design. In the real world, however, CSS
does not provide a perfect, clear-cut path to that goal. To achieve the
promise of CSS, working designers have employed a series of workarounds
known collectively as hacks. At the most basic level, a CSS hack is a
modification to the standard CSS code. Like any deviation from the norm, the use
of CSS hacks has both its supporters and detractors: Some designers feel
CSS hacks are an absolute necessity and others are fervently opposed to
them.
To figure out why the Web design community is divided over CSS hacks-and
which camp you should be in-you'll need a little background on the
emergence of CSS.
The Cascading Style Sheets Promise
When work was begun in 1995 on the first CSS specification, the Web was
one giant kludge. Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) tags were being
pressed into service to handle chores they were never ... read full excerpt from CSS Hacks and Filters: Making Cascading Stylesheets Work ebook
