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A dream never realized...(sadly)...that one day websites would be redesigned by only changing the CSS. I'd love to hear everyone's opinion on why this doesn't s
by malgorithms 13y ago
A dream never realized...(sadly)...that one day websites would be redesigned by only changing the CSS. I'd love to hear everyone's opinion on why this doesn't seem to happen, in practice.
- notjustanymike 13y agoProbably because it's extremely rare you change only the visual element of a site. Total graphic redesigns are often accompanied by more traditional upgrades and feature requests.
- wvenable 13y agoI frequently change fonts, adjust margins, borders, colors, positions of elements on my sites all the time. I might not be doing anything radical but I am redesigning the site in it's entirety every time I change the CSS. Imagine how difficult it was to just changing the font size on a website before CSS.
- Silhouette 13y agoUnfortunately, something that CSS Zen Garden has also demonstrated, however unintentionally, is that to have so much flexibility with CSS you also need a bunch of extra non-semantic mark-up in the original HTML. We've developed a few tricks over the years using things like pseudo-elements to avoid some of this, but the HTML+CSS model isn't quite powerful enough at the moment to really live up to the ideal of complete separation of content from presentation.