[Web4lib] Gracefully degrades to..?

[Jonathan Gorman]

On Wed, 24 May 2006, Jennifer Heise wrote:

> 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.
>


It's hard to recommend a book.  I haven't read too many on CSS.  (Well, 
next to none).  However, there are many good online resources for this 
type of design.  A List Apart (ALA) http://alistapart.com/ frequently has 
articles on css layouts.  It's where many current layout techniques were 
developed for CSS.

CSS Zen garden (http://www.csszengarden.com/) shows the same sites with 
many different designs.  The site itself degrades pretty nicely as well. 
They have book out but I've only skimmed it.  Didn't seem to have much 
about the nitty-gritty but more general design ideas.


Those are the ones I can think of off hand.  Surf around various websites 
on occasion and disable the CSS and see what happens.


Jon Gorman