He makes a point of "[compressing] (to the highest point possible)" all his images but doesn't bother to gzip the actual html.<p>His site's layout is so trivial that it could be implemented in 4 divs, and they would render cross browser no problem, not to mention, easily styled so that the menu and content are inlined vertically when rendering on a small 80px phone screen.<p>Also, there is no indication whatsoever as to what is a link, this is just plain bad usability.
The author pooh-poohs CSS, and pooh-poohs bulky sites, but the table-heavy pages on the site have many repeated, wasteful inline styling tags. Some trivial, cross-compatible CSS would streamline the site further (admittedly, down from almost never more than 40kB HTML, but streamlining is streamlining).<p>That said, I was jonesing for Zelda seriously less than 10 minutes ago, so he can do whatever he wants for so long as he makes getting my fix possible.
I've felt that way many times. I use CSS but I don't like it. Tables are quick and dirty and sometimes quick and dirty is all that matters. Would you rather have this guy working on his website all day or making an NES emulator?<p>I believe the fellow that made this site (news.y) had something to say about CSS and Tables and which one wins in the RAD department.
If by "best" you mean "most pointless" and if by "FAQ" you mean "uninformed rant".<p>There's no real substance, it adds nothing to the debate, uses unjustified hyperbole ("CSS is flawed"), doesn't show the added flexibility of CSS, overstates cross-browser CSS incompatably horribly and abuses half-truths to twist the argument (unless magically you think my low-resolution phone is going to love your table-based layout). CSS scales in big sites, reduces load times and lets you do many, many clever things you couldn't do in raw HTML and makes life easier, especially when combined with a CMS.<p>And that site is ugly and it's not because of tables. The site would look better without any graphics of styling at all. Hating Photoshop is not a good reason for having a site that's horrendously ugly.<p>But I do agree content is king. Just as well that he has something worthwhile that makes people look past the godawfully bad site.
<i>You wanna know what I use to make the graphics on this website? Microsoft Paint. Seriously. All of the graphics on this website were either made in Microsoft Paint</i><p>no wonder it looks like so 1980s