Daily Meh is an edited stream of consciousness, by Simen.

This is all very well and good, but two things irk me. For a start: it’s actually just a collection of links. Translation: Digg/Google-bait. But that’s between the author and his god.

Second thing: When did “techniques” become so important? People are using more techniques than ever before when styling their websites — sliding doors, mountaintop corners, faux columns, and so on, and so on. I remember when I wanted to be a big, famous web developer, a few years ago. I had exactly one technique. I called it “Knowing CSS.” I guess it never really caught on.

nostrich. He’s both right and wrong. Right, in that a web developer should know CSS, not CSS techniques. Wrong, in that techniques have their place. The key, of course, is that when you know CSS, if you don’t know how to do something, when you see the solution, you usually know why it works (unless it happens to be a browser quirk). You see this with Rails, too: there are some “rails developers” who know the rails techniques but don’t know Ruby, the programming language Rails is written in.