It’s our responsibility of professionals to deliver high-quality work to our
clients and advocate on and protect user’s interests. It’s our responsibility to
confront clients when we have to, and we will have to do it at some point
anyway, because 100% cross-browser compatibility is just not going to
happen.
Comfortable Factor
A possible contributing factor that we should also look into is that some
people in the community are just too comfortable with how we design
today and are not willing to learn new technology. There are those of us
who already tire of the extra work involved in the testing and coding to
make everything work as it is, so we have little to no interest at all in an
approach that seemingly calls for more thought and time. But really, if we
start using new technologies today, we will have to master a learning curve
first, but the advantages are certainly worth our efforts. We should see it as
the challenge that will save us time and deliver better and cleaner code.
To some extent, today we are in the situation in which we were in the
beginning of 2000s; at those times when the emergence and growing
support of CSS in browsers made many developers question their approach
to designing websites with tables. If the majority of designers passed on
CSS back then and if the whole design community didn’t push the Web
standards forward, we probably still would be designing with tables.
Doubt Factor
Doubt is another thing we must consider when it comes to our being in
hold mode, and this could be a major contributor to this issue. We begin to
doubt ourselves and our ability to pull off this innovative, boundary