You Shouldn’t Be Obsessed With Perfect Markup

Jan 18, 2007

I personally know what such an obsession can do. Actually for a few months I got into this rut of creating web pages that strictly adhered to the W3C standards. Creating DIV-based layouts became an excruciating pain for me and I cannot even imagine how many hours I must have spent trying to align everything and going through hundreds of tutorials teaching the same thing in hundreds of ways. Sparingly using tables for creating layouts is not that bad, after all.

Modern Life is Rubbish has published a post titled Web Standards Don’t Matter (As much as you think) and I tend to agree with them. I mean standards are good and they make your website and blog compliant to various browsers and screens, but why waste hours trying to make your website look good in a browser being used by merely 3 geeks. Why create a drab layout so that it looks good in browsers made in 1994?

So recently I re-stared using tables; not as much as I used to, for DIVs have their own advantages. I try to follow the standards as much as I can but don’t spend much time over trivial things.

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