Reading over the "To Hell With Bad Browsers" article made me realize just how behind I am in terms of understanding and working with the new CSS standards... Along with working on the next release of my cms I'm also currently working on a redesign of my site ( originally for visual purposes ), and will be boning up on my standards while I'm there. I had already planned to eliminate the tables on my site largely because I think CSS is a much more elegant solution, but now I seem to have a bit more purpose than that. As the DOM standard evolves I'll have to make sure that my back-end supports it properly as well and I suppose at some point that will mean my back-end will support Mozilla, NS, Opera and IE ( and possibly others ), which is a good thing. :)
S. Isaac Dealey Certified Advanced ColdFusion 5 Developer www.turnkey.to 954-776-0046 >> I don't think supporting standards means anything to the average site >> user. > I don't think you can address web standards in the current climate without > acknowledging the interconnectedness of it all. Sure the vast majority of > users don't know what web standards are. But how many of the services they > use on the web would be available if it wasn't for web standards? That is, > without browser vendors being made to pay attention to the obvious need > for > standards, how many companies' web budgets would be eaten up (more than at > present!) in development time for cross-compatibility coding? > So: supporting standards means a hell of a lot to the average site user, > they just don't know it yet ;-). >> Deciding what browser to use depends on business need. > I think the key question is, how important is visual hegemony in terms of > ROI for companies? And how does it balance against the costs saved by > developing for standards compliance? It's very interesting this, it's > getting to the stage where companies are actually having to weigh up how > important 'image' is, as web budgets decrease, instead of assuming that > image is all and throwing money at clever people who know how to make a > site > look exactly the same in all 3+ browsers. > Here's a really good recent article by Jeffrey Zeldman: > 99.9% of Websites Are Obsolete > http://www.digital-web.com/features/feature_2002-09.shtml > The catch in the short term isn't convincing users, it's convincing > clients. > But I think the evidence (for standards being both 'important' *and* > cost-effective) is mounting to the point where even they can be convinced > by > developers who understand the importance of standards. >> I >> believe standards are just a small footprint in the grand scheme of >> things. > No, standards *are* the grand scheme of things! If they fail, there will > be > no grand scheme, only many smaller incompatible schemes ;-) ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
