Comments on: CSS 3: A Giant Serving Of FAIL

By: Continuing Intermittent Incoherency » CSS 3: Progress!

Continuing Intermittent Incoherency » CSS 3: Progress! — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:52:54 +0000

[...] of days regarding how effective (or not) the CSS Working Group has been. I’ve been pretty brutal in my critique in the past (and much of it still stands), but there’s reason to [...]

By: CSS Variables Are The Future | Continuing Intermittent Incoherency

CSS Variables Are The Future | Continuing Intermittent Incoherency — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:54:50 +0000

[...] But where the spec is in-front of the important implementations…well, I’ve ranted before on the topic. CSS sucks, and the editor of the spec has now written at length of his intent to keep [...]

By: oda kapisi

oda kapisi — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:11:48 +0000

It would be great to be able to vote somewhere for W3C spec ideas & recommendations.

By: oda kapisi

oda kapisi — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:08:46 +0000

I guess this is why I’ve been generating my CSS files programmatically for some time!!…

By: Stubbornella » Blog Archive » CSS 3 and where we shouldn’t be

Stubbornella » Blog Archive » CSS 3 and where we shouldn’t be — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 11:07:01 +0000

[...] It amuses me that someone who says, CSS 3 is a joke. A sad, sick joke being perpetrated by people who clearly don’t build actual web apps. [...]

By: Continuing Intermittent Incoherency » The W3C Cannot Save Us

Continuing Intermittent Incoherency » The W3C Cannot Save Us — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 23:22:02 +0000

[...] But all is not well, nor has it been for a long, long time. No work on hbox or vbox or mixins/inheritance. There’s no indication that the WG has taken stabs exposing the expressive power that Microsoft did with their CSS expressions implementation. Ugg. [...]

By: CSS 3: A Giant Serving Of FAIL « turnings

CSS 3: A Giant Serving Of FAIL « turnings — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:08:43 +0000

[...] CSS 3: A Giant Serving Of FAIL 14 11 2007 CSS 3: A Giant Serving Of FAIL: [...]

By: The CSS3 Soapbox! » Blog Archive » » Recent Perspectives on the CSS Working Group and CSS3

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:19:31 +0000

[...] Alex Russell starts a discussion of CSS3 as a failure. [...]

By: Continuing Intermittent Incoherency » The Strangely Charged ES4 “Debate”

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 08:31:26 +0000

[...] We’ve seen both of these voices before, particularly in regards to W3C activities. Some of my previous comments on that topic made the debate louder without (I’m afraid) providing much perspective about how the community can effectively advocate for fixes. What’s good about the ES4 debate (in contrast w/ my CSS ramblings) is that they are scoped to particular implementers. Insofar as advocacy makes a difference, lobbying a working group which is moribund is nearly useless. They have authority but no power. Power in these situations always lies with implementers, aka browser vendors. The CSS discussions are weird and airy because there’s no real skin in the game. Swatting at the W3C is just so much shadow boxing. Asking browser vendors to take risks, to show some good old-fashioned technical leadership and put some of their theories about how to evolve into their competing implementations….now that’s got legs. [...]

By: Tercüme bürosu

Tercüme bürosu — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:39:39 +0000

I guess this is why I’ve been generating my CSS files programmatically for some time!!

By: Joseph Silvashy

Joseph Silvashy — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:56:20 +0000

I would like to say that, at this point in time I am probably more comfortable with all the workarounds I use to achieve the effects that CSS3 claims to do “so easily” that I would rather stick to my workarounds entirely, other things are proving to be more useful than our never coming CSS3 anyway, like DOM scripting in the general sense, even though CSS relies heavily on the DOM.

By: developercast.com » CSS Positioning: Three Specs Better than One?

developercast.com » CSS Positioning: Three Specs Better than One? — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 03:51:26 +0000

[...] Introduced by the W3C as a working draft in December 2005, there’s no denying the CSS Advanced Layout module is way better than what we have now, but the apparent lack of interest from browser vendors in implementing this module suggests it might be on the wrong track. Following the release of the latest working draft in August, SitePen’s Alex Russell had some harsh criticism: [...]

By: SitePoint Blogs » CSS Positioning: Three Specs Better than One?

SitePoint Blogs » CSS Positioning: Three Specs Better than One? — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 03:29:04 +0000

By: Standardy sieciowe - (x)HTML, CSS i nie tylko...

Standardy sieciowe - (x)HTML, CSS i nie tylko... — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 23:46:14 +0000

[...] Chodzi mi o świetny artykuł Alexa Russella. Uważa on, iż tak istotne kwestie jak dziedziczenie zapisów i możliwość tworzenia własnych zmiennych powinny być już ujęte w CSS 2. Okazuje się, że w wersji roboczej CSS 3 również tych zagadnień nie znajdziemy – w zamian osoby pracujące nad rozwojem CSS skupiają się na mniej ambitnych celach. Faktem jest, że na chwilę obecną kwestia dziedziczenia jest mocno zaniedbana. Pozostajemy przy dziedziczeniu klas w kodzie HTML, ale co z samym CSS? Przecież często narzuca się, aby zaimportować do jakiejś klasy inną – wcześniej zdefiniowaną o uniwersalnym charakterze. Niestety takiego mieszania klas zrobić się nie da – pozostaje mozolne dopisanie wartości, co niewątpliwie wpływa na puchnięcie całego kodu. [...]

By: Missing Features » Building a Better Standards Group

Missing Features » Building a Better Standards Group — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:49:47 +0000

[...] Alex Russell, lead architect of the insanely beautiful Dojo framework correctly points out in a recent post that the CSS3 spec is dead on arrival. Indeed, Alex aptly points out that the W3C has failed its mission wholesale of “Leading the web to it’s full potential…”. [...]