XML is the future. Or the present. Or past?

Studying these languages has made me realize I wasted a whole bunch of time ignoring stuff that is quite BIG.

After years of slow implementation, XHTML + CSS are now for real, readable by most browsers and there's no more excuse for using table layouts. A page made in good old HTML, using tables, will look just fine on HTML browsers, but what about a cellphone? Old mentality demanded versions for each media, but isn't that dumb?

Since it's XML-based (I read a book about it too), XHTML enables content to be viewed universally, displayed however necessary. You can even set up a specific layout for this or that media, such as display or screen, but if you're using something that doesn't render images, for example, it won't destroy your layout, because it simply will ignore the CSS and the content will still display just fine.

We're way beyond, for instance, that silly appliance named WebTV - which launched and sunk pretty quick, years ago; all it did was provide a browser on a Television. Why would you browse a page made for computers on a television? Maybe digital TV will be able to display dynamic content for a more interesting user-experience, maybe iPods will. That's uncertain. The only certainty is you want your site to comply. So hire me, dammit! hehehhe

A lot of people (I'd say most) still do table-based HTML, even advocate against new techniques. Those people, I believe, are forever stuck in 1996 and deserve a business card that says "WEB DESIGNER," like that, all-caps. Universal NOW!