RE: [MACCAWS] Webmonkey article: Web Standards for Hard Times

At 11:58 07/08/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>He has a very good point here. What I'm asking is: Should we be pushing
>workarounds/hacks to work WITH the older browsers, or settle with
>(possibly) less visually appealing & precise layouts which ARE cleanly
>laid out but still remain W3C compliant.
>
>Thoughts? Am I even making sense? ;)

Personally I'm a huge fan of CSS hacks and workarounds, /provided they are 
kept within the style sheet/. Write standards compliant, logical, 
structural markup and keep all of the unpleasant browser workarounds in the 
external CSS. Mark Pilgrim took exception to the rounded corner thing 
partly because it used some pretty nasty markup to achieve the desired effect.

Not that that answers your question about what we should be recommending, 
but that's my stance on things.

Cheers,

Simon Willison