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Jan 23, 2006 
The following is an email sent to the www-html mailing list. This is an open list for geeks worldwide to discuss the future of (X)HTML, the stuff dreams are made on language webpages are written in. It’s supposed to be a hotbed of original ideas and groundbreaking new paradigms, but when I was subscribed to it, it seemed to be full of people suggesting that we should rename the <html> element to something more semantic. I’m not kidding!
Anyway, I was browsing it a while ago, as I occaisonally do, and I came across this little offering. Evidently this guy, scsijon, was asking a question when a member of the list replied that he should be using CSS.
Scsijon replies:
this means:
1- The HTML spec can’t reside on it’s own, as i was told it was suppose to be able to do, when I learn’t it.
2- I now have to learn CSS, something I have no idea about other than as a name!
3- I am expected to rewrite code that IS complete (and works) except for a SINGLE missing attribute, that I expected to be there as it’s alternate (width) IS in the specification.not pleased folks
Is he serious? I love the arrogance and stupidity of some people: you normally find them saying things like “Firefox doesn’t support styled scrollbars, you guys suck”, but this guy is streets ahead. Why stop there when you can moan at the people who author HTML in the first place!
And how can he not have started using CSS, has he been living in a cave?
“not pleased folks” — as if he expects the W3C to turn back time and let all the presentational crap back into HTML. Ha!
Anyway, the thread starts here. You can follow it (3 messages at time of writing) by clicking “Next in thread” at the top of the page.
(The original message is here.)
