Wow, that's kinda harsh - and at Christmas!!
I think you've got it backwards. Those of us who aspire to live in a
standards-based www are not fascists trying to impose some arbitrary
and unreasonable set of conditions. We just want our stuff to "just
work". Our fight is not with users or clients, or even our
competitors, but with monopolist organizations who use their flouting
of standards as a weapon against their competitors. (Who could he
mean??)
If you were a car mechanic, for example, how would you feel about
having to buy a complete set of tools for use with each manufacturer,
or even worse each model? Pretty unhappy, I'd guess.
And is anyone actually charging more specifically to write standards
compliant code? Is it more expensive to do so?
Or is that skill part of the whole package that differentiates a
competent coder from the hacks?
Andrew Maben
Webmaster
Alachua County Library District
http://www.aclib.us/
The content is yours but the code is mine...
On Dec 21, 2006, at 10:33 AM, Barney Carroll wrote:
The search engine thing is pretty much a lie.
People are begging Google to factor w3c validity into the relevance
of their results, but there's no good reason they should - and I
personally believe this is a bit sinister.
Invalid code should succeed or fail on its own merits, not because
standardistas bully 'validity' into practice.
I hold Google in very high esteem for their complete magnanimity
over standards while maintaining (some might say as a result) the
highest elegance and popularity.
If human beings or machines start complaining that this irreverence
is in any practical way detrimental to their experience, then
standardistas should flock to the rescue. Until then, the notion
cannot help but smell mafiosi - protection racket kind of stuff (-
You need this 'help' I'm giving you. I know it seems inconvenient
and expensive but you really do. - This really doesn't look like
help to me. - I don't remember asking you a goddamn thing).
...
I sympathise with the client: if I can't justify how it's useful to
them, then there's no reason they should be bothered with it. If I
can't justify it to myself, there's no reason I should bother
myself with it. This is the ultimate opportunity to question
yourself and work out whether you adhere to standards because of
their actual virtue or simply because you like rules, big crowds,
and being better than other people.
Regards,
Barney
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