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Wow, When i commented on Dvorak a few weeks ago, I thought it would be over and done with very quickly, but searching round the blogsphere it looks like he annoyed a lot of people. One of the funniest replies i’ve see so far include this article from And All That Malarky

“With thirty designers and developers working together on a single CSS file, we have a page worthy of the mighty John C. Dvorak”

Andy Clarke has decided to let loads of readers collaborate on a single stylesheet to see what comes of it. Good luck to him and its good to see people who know what they are talking about trying to set Mr Dvorak straight on a few things.

Finally on this subject check out Molly’s letter to the man himself.

Now onto the friday funny. I was looking around the net for some reason i forget and i came across some interesting anagrams - now here for you to look at. Have a good weekend all.

• Dormitory = Dirty Room
• Evangelist = Evil’s Agent
• Desperation = A Rope Ends It
• The Morse Code = Here Come Dot
• Slot Machines = Cash Lost in ‘em
• Animosity = Is No Amity
• Snooze Alarms = Alas! No More Z’s
• Alec Guinness = Genuine Class
• Semolina = Is No Meal
• A Decimal Point = I’m a Dot in Place
• The Earthquakes = That Queer Shake
• Eleven plus two = Twelve plus one

I read alot of columns and forums on the web around technology, and one name comes up time and again called Dvorak. Most people seem to think he talks out of his arse, but I hadn’t read any of his articles and so didn’t want to pass judgement on him. That all changed yesterday when I read an article he wrote called ‘Why CSS Bugs Me‘ Essentially what he goes on about is that CSS is breaking the web because you can’t display things cross browser using CSS. From his article

The real problem is that no two browsers—let alone no two versions of any one browser—interpret CSS the same way! The Microsoft browser interprets a style sheet one way, Firefox interprets it another way, and Opera a third way. Can someone explain to me exactly what kind of “standard” CSS is, anyway?

From reading the article, it appears to me that rather than saying that CSS is rubish and is making the web ‘fall apart’ what he actually manages to do is to show that he doesn’t actually understand CSS in the real world. His central argument is that CSS doesn’t work in different browsers identically. This is not a fault of CSS, this is the way that each agent interprets style sheets. He has a simplistic view of how to use CSS. Before he goes off about why a technology is rubbish perhaps he should do more research.