Another standards rant
A message to clueless website authors is an entertaining and informative rant against browser specific, standards incompliant sites. Via Aquarionics.
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A message to clueless website authors is an entertaining and informative rant against browser specific, standards incompliant sites. Via Aquarionics.
Previously hosted at http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2003/01/27/anotherStandardsRant
You know the history of Internet, don't you? We don't use the standard protocol for networking you know. There was the standard way and there was the TCP/IP way. People picked TCP/IP and now we thank them. Don't get me wrong I like the idea of standards, but we don't have standards for the sake of it. They have to solve problems and people working in those standard bodies have to be up to the challenge. For example, if web application developers realize that w3c is building standards for only web site designers, I don't see why Microsoft and others go in the other direction. At the end we can't get stuck with these standard bodies who refuse to innovate but yet still accuse you of violating the standards.
Again, I like the idea, but that doesn't mean that anybody can come and accuse you of "violating the standards", especially if they have no idea what they are talking about. Designing pretty web sites do not entitle anybody of bossing people around and trying to dictate others how not to use certain things just for the sake of being standard complaint.
Sergio - 29th January 2004 13:14 - #