Topic: CSS nice read
With the imminent launch of IE7 your usual CSS hacking methods are going to fail. If you want to save web design, as we know it, it?s time to take some drastic action.
CSS has experienced a colourful and unusual history. From historic slow adoption to the current slow rate of development, ugly hacks have meant filling in the gaps is par for the course.
With CSS1, we had a simple and elegant styling language that was supposed to be friendly to even non-programmers. Hence decisions like, say, lack of variables and constants, or conditional logic. (My kingdom for an if statement!)