{"id":495,"date":"2004-12-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-05T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2004\/12\/06\/429\/"},"modified":"2004-12-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-05T23:00:00","slug":"429","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2004\/12\/06\/429\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyranny of the geeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sriram Krishnan &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/dotnetjunkies.com\/WebLog\/sriram\/archive\/2004\/11\/18\/32707.aspx\">Tyranny of the geeks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;Nowadays, it is the &#8218;in&#8216;-thing to be CSS-aware. If you&#8217;re dumb enough to use a table tag, you&#8217;re branded as a clueless moron. However, no one really tells you why table tags are bad. In fact, the equivalent CSS for generating something like your standard sign-up form is downright scary. And with every browser (Opera, Firfox, IE) having a different idea on what &#8218;right&#8216; CSS is, you&#8217;re much safer with table tags. For those using CSS and use divs and floats to build their tables, I ask them why. Why do something that is so un-intuitive? I could teach a kid about rows and columsn.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;] A year ago, I read up a lot on the Semantic Web and RDF. I have to admit that I didn&#8217;t understand any of it. Any of it. Ontologies, RDF, OWL, what not. However, you see blogs and enclosures getting the same effect with only a fraction of the complexity. I dont need smart agents to find what I want &#8211; I just search in Google and it is usally smart enough to give me what I need. I dont have high hopes for the semantic web unless they simplify and do it real soon.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sriram Krishnan &#8211; Tyranny of the geeks: &#8222;Nowadays, it is the &#8218;in&#8216;-thing to be CSS-aware. If you&#8217;re dumb enough to use a table tag, you&#8217;re branded as a clueless moron. However, no one really tells you why table tags are bad. In fact, the equivalent CSS for generating something like your standard sign-up form is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}