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what does that mean?
by zackattack 16y ago
what does that mean?
- chc 16y agoI think he's saying that designers are offended by certain things, such as the font Comic Sans and layouts based on the table tag, and that's just the way they are. This implies that the designers' distaste for these things is not well-founded and is primarily a pretension adopted for the purpose of impressing other designers. (I don't agree with this. I hate table layouts from the experience of maintaining sites with them.)
- nkurz 16y agoI think he means it's OK to use tables from a purely technical point of view, but from a social perspective you're probably better keeping this opinion private. The current approved attitude among designers is that HTML tables are evil, so by agreeing you gain social standing. If you adopt the technically arguable but socially inappropriate stance that there's a time and place for tables, you'll be treated similarly to a C programmer who defends 'goto': at best a relic, at worst a moron. Nod and smile, then get back to work. Improve your toolset by learning how it's done in Haskell (Erlang, Lua, R, other up and coming language) on the side, but don't be worried about using the language you know to get the job done. Understand the potential advantages of CSS, but don't worry too much about a perfectly workable solution. Just realize that you'll be mocked for it in certain circles. But better to be mocked with a site that's up and running than to still be debating whether quotes should always be used even if not required by the spec.