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Thanks for the plug, David. And Leo, if you dig the current incarnation, you'll love the next one ;).

Great work. I'm playing with a couple minor mods for my personal uses right now, but I love what you've done with this!

That was my thought exactly! I'm attempting to use it on my blog as a "micro-blog", but what I'd really like to do is have a private channel for Circle Six where we could keep each other posted on our doings and progress. It's fun and it's cool, it's just one of those things that, left to their own devices, people will turn in to something asinine.

Virb makes it extremely easy to start with a page that kicks the living shit out of the design of ANY myspace page ever made. They use tables, their one big fault, but their interface is so sweet and smooth. My point being that all the little kids on myspace may not have the motivation to switch, but VIRB will gain a loyal following of designers and geeks. It already has an active community that I'm really enjoying. Way more than anything I ever found on myspace/facebook. It may never kill myspace, but I don't think it will perish in the near future.

Okay, so your my only tag, but thanks, it made me feel warm and gooey inside. I've already posted my 5...

http://blog.circlesixdesign.com/2006/11/12/inte...

This is another option. It allows you to create a nib that you can input your variables into, and then replaces them in the created template. The demo is just a mad lib, but I've created a portfolio template that lets me build entries for my portfolio Wordpress site using a dialog and then writes all the code for me. I think that's pretty much what you're trying to accomplish, right?

@Johan, I think the hackability of TM is in it's ability to create commands from a variety of interpreters (like Ruby, my favorite) and combine snippets, commands, macros and templates to create a custom editor that can fulfill just about any need. But I've never hacked emacs, so I really can't argue.

Well hey, from one punk rock kid to another, the philosophy can make waves in any size community! I went from running the streets with a punk rock band, to art school, to corporate world, to running my own ad agency and my punk rock sensibilities have served me well in all areas. It's not confined to one subculture, it's just another way of spitting in the eye of the status quo.

Holy crap, you found the gems in the comments. I follow the IE blog, but get bored after the first 100 comments, 90% of which are from staunch IE supporters who don't seem to have a clue... thanks for weeding through and finding something for me to LOL about.

I can't wait to drop support for IE6, but at this point I'll be happy to let go of 5.5. I still have Netscape 4 and IE5.0 showing up on the stats (in small numbers, obviously) for some of the sites I run ;=(.

Actually, it's generally IE that's not mature enough for CSS. Anyway, I certainly didn't expect to convince Frederic to change his ways after one comment, nor did I expect him to agree with me. I will simply cite the dozens of coroporate sites that are having the good sense to switch over to pure CSS layouts (3 columns and all) as shining examples of good, clean web design. Personally, I don't care if a site validates or not, I just like semantic markup, completely free of design elements.

Sorry, my address was submitted wrong on the last post... just in case you were going to follow it ;-).

There are more than just purist reasons for demanding separation of presentation and content layers. Accessibility demands that the markup remain purely semantic. The web is too littered with sites that use tables to hold together layouts that could be accomplished just fine with proper knowledge of CSS. The biggest obstacle to overcome is inconsistent rendering between browsers, which does take some tweaking but is worth the effort, in my opinion. I've skinned most of my sites several times in the last year, and I just overhauled my blog for fun, and I did it in half an hour. On the other hand, I struggled through setting up a design for a CRELoaded site that used an excess of tables and put 10 hours into making a terrible design that could have been prevented if the software put out semantic markup to begin with. The arguments for standards are pretty strong.

Tables should be relegated to holding tabular data. We need to learn to design without them. CSS Beauty, Zengarden, CSS-website and others contain plenty of proof that the web no longer needs table based designs to produce beautiful layouts.