> Whilst tiny "W3C Valid XHTML" badges generally annoy me, but I think the BBC is the perfect place to display them.
This is where some standards advocates over do it for me. 99.999%* of visitors to the BBC homepage (or pretty much any other mainstream website) don't care how its made - they just care that it works. Just like you don't care what printing process was used on your newspaper or what codec was used to deliver your Freeview picture. Techies like us naturally think about how technology is delivered and what standard is used, because it is what we do. Users on the other hand don't care if their news feed is RSS or Atom, a page has a CSS or table layout, or an image is a GIF or JPG - they just want it consume it reliably. Having to, or wanting to explain how something is achieved to an end users is, to me, a sign of the technology's infancy - and is something we need to overcome. Best recent example of this - Flash video - it just works and everyone loves it. </rant> :-D J * Unscientific number of 9s added, but you get the point ;-) ________________________________________________ Jason Cartwright Client Side Developer - CBBC Interactive [EMAIL PROTECTED] Desk: (0208 22) 59487 Mobile: 07976500729 "Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here" - Ray Bradbury - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
