In an ongoing Usenet thread I’m coming very close to asking someone “what do you mean by semantics?”
But even though I now strongly suspect that the person in question might well mean something completely different than the rest of us I’m resisting the urge to use the above phrase.
This thread has also thrown up the challenge of colouring the squares of a chessboard with CSS, with the artificial constraint of only setting a class on the main table element.
This wasn’t too difficult to do but if you look at the source code you’ll see why people have variously described it as “Very clever!”, “quite entertaining” and more commonly “gross”.
Following a suggestion from Alan Flavell I managed to halve the amount of code but really I’d like to see CSS 3 nth-child selectors because then the massive blocks of adjacent selectors would be reduced to just a few lines. Here’s a demo of the CSS3 technique to check new browser versions against.
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