Why I hate web standards

Why I hate web standards

Why I hate web standards

In recent years, there has been talk of 'new web standards'... standards meant to keep the web structured and pages 'well-formatted'. I have been working in the web design and website development field for near to five years now, and maybe it's the "you can't teach an old dog new tricks" quandary, but in my opinion, these 'web standards" folks should just let designers get on with their work and not have to learn ream upon ream of 'new standards' every five seconds!

When I started designing web pages, I used picture layouts. I literally went into my trusted CorelDraw 9 and laid out my images neatly and just exported the file to html, uploaded to the web and presto... new website!

As time passed however, and I got deeper into it, so many structures involved in design started popping up, css, tags, xhtml, utf-8, unicode....and the list goes on....forever! It was mind boggling, however I guess, someone had to study about it, and as it was my bread and butter....that someone was me. So I read it. I stuck to using tables for my layout and for years now I have finished beautiful internet pages with those same html tables without problems... be it in terms of Web optimization, or display.

Yet , everyone is pushing me to utilize CSS along with div and lists... bah! I have tried to do simple layout with those things and I can inform you, it truly is a field on its own! You might get it correct and smile proudly at your handiwork....until you open the same work in a different browser and the whole lot looks a hodge-podge mish-mash of lines and boxes and misplaced text and images!

You see, just about every month, somebody out there gets the bright idea to launch a new web browser, and while he is doing that, Microsoft, Firefox, Apple Google plus every other big player also decides to include 'new features' to their already existing browsers... .It's all part of this so called "browser wars"... ... never ending upgrades.

Anyway, because there are so many browsers on the marketplace, and each one utilizes its own standards, designing a web page to look the same in all of them is impossible....ESPECIALLY if you use CSS and divs.

My solution? Exploit the good old trusted tables. You can't go wrong with that chunky chum. Setting up a layout is a 5 minute activity. Centering it is a matter of editing one tag... and the rest is history. With Divs and CSS....it is a serious mission, comparable to the 'Mission to Mars'! You just cannot be certain what you put together in CSS/Divs will work because you will never be able to test for all browsers.

Accordingly, web standard compliant or not, I for one will stick to a tried and tested formula... tables. Am I the only one who feels like this? Who knows, but I know what works for me!

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