[ZDP] CSS

[Stephan Richter]

At 07:33 PM 5/8/00 +0200, Maik Roeder wrote:
>Hi Chris !
>
>Chris Withers wrote:
> > It strikes me that ZDP could really use a decent CSS stylesheet. It
> > would probably alleviate a lot of the interface problems I've been
> > bitching about.
> >
> > I'm willing to do it given a list of styles that need to be supported,
> > also what the common use of <UL> and <DL> <DT> <DD> is on the site...
>
>I don't think we should use Stylesheets. We have had some problems
>with stylesheets before, and I don't want to go through that again.
>
>The ZDP site should be as simple as possible, and load as fast as possible.
>CSS would only mean some more precious bytes that need to be loaded.
>I wish each page would load under one second to make surfing the
>site really swift. People just need the docs, and don't care about the
>look.

Wow, I cannot believe you said that.

1. Stylesheets are your friend. In professional development almost nothing 
is done without them.
2. You guarantee a uniform look and feel.
3. Stylesheets and Zope work very nice together.
4. You load less bytes, since you do not have to specify colors and fonts 
all the time.
5. If you don't like your color scheme anymore (like my client this past 
weekend), it takes 30 min to make the changes, instead of hours.

I really would like to know what problems you had in the past. Could it be, 
that you did not use the stylesheets correctly?

Regards,
Stephan

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