The Fluidity-Thwarting Flaw in CSS April 28th, 2009
Patrick Stein

I am the one who decides how big to make my browser window. Web sites have a hard time coming to grips with that. There is a mythical minimum browser size.

When I am browsing, I don’t want to have to care.

When I am designing a site, I don’t want the user to have to care.

CSS is my enemy

All of the trouble using floats for columns all spring from a fundamental flaw in CSS:

How items flow with CSS is a property of the object instead of its container.

Now, maybe I am being a bit harsh in calling it a fundamental flaw. For all I know, it was a conscious choice. My guess though is that it seemed natural to people who wrote browsers in the early 90’s (<blink> tags and all).

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