Re: Firefox vs IE - help

[Amy Gale <amyg -at- grammatech -dot- com>]

Chris Borokowski wrote:

>While your statement is correct, you misunderstand the argument. The
>point was that either tables or CSS could be generated by a script, so
>there was no point claiming greater efficiency to CSS.
>  
>

I understand the argument, I just disagree with it.

Yes, you can hardcode style with a script, but if you want to change the 
way things look you have to rewrite your script; editing arbitrarily 
many locations (in potentially arbitrarily many scripts) and going 
through the inevitable debugging. You also risk your styling falling out 
of sync between pages from different sources.

If you incorporate CSS styling with a script and you want to change the 
way things look, you have to rewrite one stylesheet. So, yeah, it's 
quite likely to be more efficient. If the organisational division of 
labor is such that the script writer and the web designer are not the 
same person, the win is going to be even bigger.

A



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