It’s been … a year(?) since I switched over to CSS layouts from table-based. I can whip out a good 3-column page with a header and footer in, oh maybe an hour. Yesterday I find out that the IT group where I’m working is still coding like it’s 1998. They expect me to code likewise – and give them a working mock-up of the project in table-based layout. Because “it’s easier, and because of the skill set we have in the dept.”
You’ve got to be kidding me, right? This is 2007. Seven, dammit!
I’ve just spent the last 2 hours trying to make one single simple table cooperate with me. One table – I could have made a whole layout in CSS by now… I suppose loosing one skillset for another isn’t paying off. It’s not like I don’t know how to do this, I simply don’t remember any of the tricks. Or any of the associated browser quirks.
But right now, I can’t imagine how people did this in 1995 without going insane. Heck, I can’t imagine how I did this in 2001 and enjoyed it. …I remember enjoying it. I can’t comprehend how, or why. But I did.
When I get home tonight, I’m going to have to code some nice, clean, valid, complicated CSS just to get rid of this weird ‘dirty’ feeling…