You're right! Screw the standards! (Score 4, Insightful)

You're utterly right. Standards have done nothing for us, and won't ever.

I know that I love testing my pages in all the different flavors of IE on Win, Mac and Linux. And, its even better making sure the NN 4.x and Netscape 6 work too. I mean, some people like being creative with their time, but me, I like screwing with different CSS, JS and HTML flavors of the different browsers.

I also agree that XSLT is a total waste of time. Its not like its supported by any browsers. Well, it is supported by numerious server technologies, and is used to render content in HTML lots of places on the Web. And, I guess if you really look at it, it probably never was intended for the browser anyway. But, you're right! Just because I don't fully understand it, its a total waste of time!

And, you are so dead on with the W3C. I mean, any organization that could produce XML 1.0 is a bogus waste of time. What is XML ever going to do for us? It doesn't even have a FONT tag!

(Come on man, I hope you were kidding. Standards allow us to do our job ... not prevent us. Learn about the stuff. Don't just stick to HTML 3.2 ... the Web has moved on.)

--Mark.