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1. Dan Martin:

   I remember taking a webdesign course in college back in 1995. Most of the students in the class did not see the need to utilize tables...they argued that it is too difficult. At this point that sounds absurd.
   However I believe that once talented web/graphic designers start expanding the CSS horizons, then "Anti CSS" rants are going to sound pretty absurd.
   I am currently struggling with CSS and all of it's little quirks, much like I did in 95 with cross browser table layouts. You are right most people will continue to curse CSS layouts until someone begins to show them the full scope of its capabilities.

   May. 8 2003 at 4:32 PM EDT

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2. Dave S.:

   CSS is a design language, as written by geeks. It's kind of a tough combination to make work, which could go towards explaining the lack of interest so far. I also strongly attribute it to lack of proper design tools. I don't mean authoring tools; that's the problem. Design is *designed*, not authored. Quark, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop. All are WYSIWYG. And rightly so. CSS may never have a proper WYSIWYG editor, thanks to the endless flexibility you have to design for given differing browser widths, technology levels, and rendering quirks. Not the best way to attract a bunch of left-brained artsy types.

   May. 9 2003 at 9:17 PM EDT

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3. Craig Saila:

   That's true, and in fact mentioned those program in that rant. But you're right, one of the things I always find difficult about doing mock-ups in PhotoShop is it's static -- and tend to "design" for a liquid environment. Even Dreamweaver makes liquid CSS-based designs tricky.

   May. 12 2003 at 10:59 AM EDT

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