The HTML Purity Test
Well, it's not a crock. There, I said it. HTML is not a crock, and anyone who tells you that it is either doesn't understand it or is trying to sell you something, or both. It's a structural markup language, and if you're trying to make it into something else, it's no wonder you hate it, because it really sucks at being anything else. And if you insist on treating it with no respect, then it will continue to give you grief, and you deserve it.
Hello, my name is Mark, and I'm an HTML purist.
[diveintomark]I've been trying to explain this to our design department since they day they were all hired. My side of the story goes something like this:
You see, HTML was designed as a structural markup language. It was designed to be a subset of SGML, so that it would be easy for people to use. It was always assumed that the user agent would render it however it needed to. There was never a spec for universal, pixel-perfect rendering. Stop thinking like this is Pagemaker, because you aren't working at a magazine anymore. There is no four color separation and you have to work at 72 dpi.
It still hasn't sunk in because they don't care what I have to do as long as it looks like their Photoshop comp. Which is something else that really chaps my hide, but that is a whole different post.
