Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters.
-- Lord Chesterfield
Style is Not NeutralMonday, October 13, 1997 I was sending a status report to my manager this morning, about what I've been doing, One of the things I do is read the microsoft.public.* newsgroups that are IE related, and the comp.infosystems.www.* heirarchy as well. (I'm glad I haven't seen a lot of people saying that their web pages look bad in IE4! That's what I've been on the lookout for, because IE4 is stricter about correct HTML than some other browsers. So pages that scraped by before might have some problems now.) I've noticed a sprinkling of people having trouble with Cascading Style Sheets and mentioned that fact. He immediately picked up on that and asked me to think about what we could do about that. So I gave him some ideas about what we could do now. It wasn't until I was getting into the car to drive home when it struck me that I should also think about what would make CSS easier for what they call "end users" in future versions of my product! So what puzzles you about CSS? If you aren't using it, why not? Do you even know what it is? One journaler I wrote to didn't, and if you aren't really into the HTML thing, that isn't surprising.
I had dinner with the "Fool Serious" crowd tonight, at the Noodle Studio on Broadway. The pretext for the dinner was to hear reports from several folks who had been at the Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver Film Festivals, and the recent Eastside Film Festival. But of course we chatted about all manner of things. A man who arrived late went down the table, writing down our names. "I promised Virginia I'd give her a complete report!" he said. Jon Newman, who was at dinner with us, would really like people to read his movie reviews! Check them out, then rent a cool video.
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