Gracefully degrades to..?

I've read one of Eric Meyer's books, "More Eric
Meyer on CSS," and found
it decent.  The first of his books (conveniently titled
"Eric Meyer on
CSS") I have not read.
 
However, the best learning tool is to find a site you like
and dissect
the CSS.  I have found a number of Firefox extensions that
help with
that (my favorite is one that dynamically updates a page as
soon as you
make an edit on the stylesheet)
 
If you are interested in this, let me know.

________________________________

From: Jennifer Heise [mailto:jenne.heisegmail.com] 
Sent: May 24, 2006 12:20 PM
To: Hankinson, Andrew; Web4Lib
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Gracefully degrades to..?


Can you recommend a good book on using CSS for positioning
that DOES
degrade gracefully? I've really avoided using CSS-based
layout myself
because I've seen it degrade horribly so many times, and I
don't want to
take a chance on my users seeing all the text piled on top
of each
other. 



On 5/24/06, Hankinson, Andrew <HankiAparl.gc.ca> wrote: 

	One possible, standards-compliant way to degrade gracefully
is
to use
	CSS-only layouts for your site, and allow users to switch
the
stylesheet
	off.  If HTML is left only for markup, (i.e. tables are not
used
for
	layout, unordered lists are used for menus, etc.), your
site
will be
	functional, if not pretty, for your users.
	
	Possible, but not necessarily realistic given the wide
range of
coding
	competencies out there.
	
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Of Drew, Bill

	Sent: May 24, 2006 8:54 AM
	To: kgsbluehighways.com; web4libwebjunction.org
	Subject: RE: [Web4lib] Gracefully degrades to..? 
	
	I think all you need to do is have the validation graphic
on
your
	webpages.  Considering how easy it is to get a browser that
will
work up
	to standards any more, there is no need nor should anyone
label
a page 
	to say it works best with  a specific browser.  The help
documents could
	make suggestions for the best version number of browsers to
use.
	
	Wilfred (Bill) Drew
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<mailto:drewwemorrisville.edu> 
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little
temporary
	safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin
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