On Thursday, December 12, 2002, at 06:06  AM, Stephen Pair wrote:

> Julian,
>> I am pretty
>> confident that
>> as we go forward and browsers begin to properly parse HTML (and soon,
>> hopefully, XHMTL) and properly interpret the full range of
>> CSS that such
>> hacks will be unnecessary and we will finally be able to consider CSS
>> sufficient.
>
> What?  Properly parse HTML?  Why would you want to do that?
>
> Anyway...I've occassionaly thought this about the designer problem:
> Just give them some fully rendered examples of the pages in your
> app...let them go nuts re-designing it, then have the developers fold
> the changes back into the system.  That way you can use whatever web
> application framework that makes sense and maintain control over how it
> all hangs together with the application.


That's fine if you only have one iteration. But if the designer is 
tweaking the look every week, he drives the programmer nuts with change 
requests for trivialities as far as the programmer is concerned.


Colin Putney
Whistler.com