Divya Manian Divya Manian is a web opener for Opera Software in Seattle. She made
the jump from developing device drivers for Motorola phones to
designing websites and has not looked back since. She takes her duties
as an Open Web vigilante seriously which has resulted in collaborative
projects such as HTML5 Boilerplate.
A few concerns keep bobbing up now and then for Web developers, one of which relates to how to lay out a given design. Developers have made numerous attempts to do so with existing solutions. Several articles have been written on finding the holy grail of CSS layouts, but to date, not a single solution works without major caveats.
At the W3Conf, I gave a talk on how the CSS Working... Read More
Update (November 12th 2011): Read a reply by Jeremy Keith to this article in which he strongly argues about the importance of pursuing semantic value and addresses issues discussed in the article as well as in the comments here on Smashing Magazine.
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