http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2001/04/16/site-going-tableless/ More than just a blog. Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:45:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2001/04/16/site-going-tableless/#comment-55599 Climb to the Stars (Stephanie Booth) » SpiroLattic Resurrection Sat, 25 Feb 2006 11:11:43 +0000 http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2001/04/16/site-going-tableless/#comment-55599 <p>[...] Back in 2001, I was all a-buzz about web standards, after the “browser push” campaign. Who remembers those times? It seems like so long ago, now. I first thought about it, translated “To Hell With Bad Browsers” and launched Pompage.net in the process, before converting my site to a tableless layout and publishing a tutorial which soon became pretty popular. As I understood very recently during an interview, I’m interested in doing what not many people are doing. I like the cutting-edge stuff. So at the time, it was web standards — because people needed evangelising and convincing that you could do great stuff with CSS, and that producing standards-compliant markup was important. Now, most people are sold on the topic, so I’ve moved on. I guess that when nobody wonders if they need a blog or not, or what blogs can do for them, I’ll have moved on to something else too. [...]</p> [...] Back in 2001, I was all a-buzz about web standards, after the “browser push” campaign. Who remembers those times? It seems like so long ago, now. I first thought about it, translated “To Hell With Bad Browsers” and launched Pompage.net in the process, before converting my site to a tableless layout and publishing a tutorial which soon became pretty popular. As I understood very recently during an interview, I’m interested in doing what not many people are doing. I like the cutting-edge stuff. So at the time, it was web standards — because people needed evangelising and convincing that you could do great stuff with CSS, and that producing standards-compliant markup was important. Now, most people are sold on the topic, so I’ve moved on. I guess that when nobody wonders if they need a blog or not, or what blogs can do for them, I’ll have moved on to something else too. [...]

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