February 16, 2001
This issue marked ALA’s conversion from traditional table-based layout (ALA 1.0) to CSS layout (ALA 2.0). The CSS redesign was timed, and this issue was written, to coordinate with The Web Standards Project’s Browser Upgrade campaign of February, 2001.That campaign was intended to persuade designers and developers that, where web standards were concerned, browsers had at last come of age; and that it was time for designers to learn CSS layout techniques and structural markup and use them wherever possible.
To Hell With Bad Browsers
by Jeffrey Zeldman
In a year or two, all sites will be designed with standards that separate structure from presentation (or they will be built with Flash 7). We can watch our skills grow obsolete, or start learning standards-based techniques. In fact, since the latest versions of IE, Navigator, and Opera already support many web standards, if we are willing to let go of the notion that backward compatibility is a virtue, we can stop making excuses and start using these standards now. At ALA, beginning with Issue No. 99, weпїЅve done just that. Join us.
From Table Hacks to CSS Layout: A Web Designer’s Journey
by Jeffrey Zeldman
Redesigning A List Apart using CSS should have been easy. It wasn’t. The first problem was understanding how CSS actually works. The second was getting it to work in standards-compliant browsers. A journey of discovery.
