David Emberton: Narrow Minded Individual
Via Simian Design, apcmag.com: Opinion with David Emberton, a most ridiculous article that makes me wonder just where David got his material. Here we have someone who has obviously been burned in some fashion by the emergence of web standards and his only reaction is to take the ignorance stance and wave it all off as a fad. Given my love for CSS, David’s rant on them really got my goat:
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are a classic example of the madness. Reared in a cubicle somewhere, they’re pitched as the pinnacle of document styling. CSS are public, free and future-proof. Sounds great until you realise that: a) you need a degree to understand them; b) Microsoft doesn’t care about them; and c) they suck. What’s more, CSS have been promoted as “the future” since the mid-90s, and by now the only thing keeping them alive is a steady stream of guilt and the occasional Movable Type installation.
Anyone who says that CSS is hard to learn has obviously never taken the time to learn this simple rule-set language. How much easier can you get than selecting an element and applying clearly worded rules to that element? Not easy enough if David feels the need for a college degree, a subscription to geek magazine, five computers in your room, no social life or all of the above.