On Monday, June 14, 2004, at 08:00 PM, Marc Greenstock wrote:
A friend of mine sent me this link; http://www.decloak.com/Dev/CSSTables/CSS_Tables_05.aspx
He loves to play devils advocate so he just refuses to adopt current standards, it's ok though cause he's the competition.
Happy reading :)
I'm adding my 2c after the topic's been fairly widely commented on, as you can see.
What this guy doesn't get - obviously - is that 'Standards' is a label for an approach to coding, not a hard-and-fast set of rules. PF pointed out that that's why there's been a bunch of versions; MF said 'We need people to bend, stretch and break standards in order to push out the boundaries...' Absolutely. I think it was Zeldman in DWWS that said that Standards is a continuum, a way of thinking - of course it's constantly changing! It's *supposed* to!
Standards means using a communication medium in such a way as to reach the maximum number of people. The medium will change; the technology that runs it will change; the people that use it will change. (Well, all except our friend at decloak...)
BTW, has anybody else seen how his site looks in Safari? eesh...
Nick ___________________________ Omnivision. Websight. http://www.omnivision.com.au/
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