Miss the Point?

You sound afraid to learn to do things differently by depreciating yourself as a "regular mortal" - as if there is some magic in doing it right. Standards-based CSS design is all about accessibility, portability and the ability to redefine the presentation of your data across mediums. The idea that you should be maintaining separate versions of your information based on the medium used to diseminate it is so 20th century. "Write once, Use Anywhere" cannot be achieved completely by using tables for layout. They were never meant to be used that way, and though you may find it difficult to accept, you will have to learn how to do it, because pretty soon those bosses breathing down your neck are going to want to know why half of their users can't access your form layout on their PDA's, not to mention start questioning the two month time frame you quote to do a simple face-lift. This may not be happening to you right at the moment, but as far as I'm concerned, if you're still designing sites based on tables, not only are you wasting *your* time, you're being entirely unprofessional by costing your clients and/or your employers time and money in the years to come simply because you were too lazy to learn how to design web pages free of the handcuff's that tables put on *their* content.

(Posted by guest: Allan) posted to CSS Sucks. at Sat Mar 12 03:02:53 EST 2005.