PUBLIC MARKS from amyrussell with tags css & ajax

The art of float-clearing - getting containers to honor the height of floated elements inside of them - has slowly evolved over the past several years as Safari has taken over many Mac desktops, IE5/Mac has atrophied, IE7 has slowly caught on, and our use of CSS filters has improved. I'd like to share a slight variation on the state of the art that I believe makes for much cleaner markup. But first, a little background.

There's a super-entertaining comment thread/flamewar going down at Ajaxian in response to Dion Almaer's recent editorial on The Future of CSS and the end of 3.0. Almaer has lots of interesting and perceptive things to say about the maddeningly erratic way in which new standards make their way into general use. But the vast majority of commentators jumped at the chance to sound off on some of his minor points: