Most people, or rather web developers must have found out the limitations to the existing structure of the CSS”. Separating content from the looks”, that was the major aim of the existence of the CSS. However, the Cascading Style Sheet, has its own limitations.
Due to the various technologies and the front-end display structure of the various browsers, that some browsers supports some CSS functions while others doesn’t; or just interprets some functions differently.
As such, look at the screenshots carefully. The displayed page is the same webpage viewed with
different browsers, ie. Internet Explorer 7, Firefox and Google Chrome. The page is a simple static page generated with plain HTML using tables and cells, Javascript a
nd CSS. The page looks extremely perfect in Internet Explorer while in Firefox and Chrome, the alignment is different and as you can see, the cell-padding and cell-spacing seems weird. The image on the page seems to float above the navigation menu on the right.
This is the main reason why we need CSS hacks. With the use of well streamed CSS functions, you can let your page displayed in different manner according to the type of browser the user is browsing with. Changing a few things on the linked Style Sheet saves you from the repeated
work of changing every file manually.. which can quite be a mess for a large website. There will be more posts following on CSS and how to hack it, making it a more powerful design tool for a webmaster. Keep checking back.
I’ve decided to start a category “Roadmap” on my
KanglaPark blog.
KanglaPark.com, is still early in its development phase and the blogs under this category will tell you about the phases of its development, the works i’ve done, the difficulties – whether in scripting, integrating or designing templates, logos or anything KanglaPark.
For the first thing, i’ve some hard tasks finding out
bugs from the joomunity component for Joomla. I like the looks and feel of joomunity to a much farther extend as compared to
Community Builder, which have limited customizing ability.
The very first thing i struggled was a good host. I’ve considered hosting it at novahost.org and since the cPanel doesnt have a Fantastico installer, everythng was manual – from setting up the MySQL databases, setting folder permissions and blah blah. The configuration.php file was unwriteable and it created quite a mess showing a lot of script errors. However, i got a little help from
WHS and now everythings fine.
Joomunity social networking package was my main option. Since the package is also in its early development phase, it still has got a lot of bugs, limited plugins, extensions and features. I spent a whole lot of time rectifying and editing the php codes to the needs of KanglaPark front end.
As for the present, i’ve one more upgradation to do and after that, the site will be launched officially. Hope u’ll hang by me for now.
For the poeple of
Manipur, Kanglapark.com – soon to be open!!
Google Chrome
Type these on your chrome browser address bar and see what each of these do:
about:memory
about:network
about:histograms
about:cache
about:plugins
about:stats
about:version
about:internets (this one’s really interesting!!)
about:dns
about:crash
Google really makes things interesting.
Most people, or rather web developers must have found out the limitations to the existing structure of the CSS”. Separating content from the looks”, that was the major aim of the existence of the CSS. However, the Cascading Style Sheet, has its own limitations.
