I also think schools are an area that needs a shake up. at my uni they were still teaching inline style sheets and tablular layout in first and second year....
I think this is a key issue for the industry. Realistically we're not going to eradicate non-standards shops, nor are we about to get clients to suddenly recognise certification etc. What we can do is focus on winning over lecturers - probably by offering to help them! There are precious few standards-based beginner tutorials out there. I regularly see threads asking for them, but can't recall a really good one to send... although I think someone was writing one? Methodology and habit start forming at university - if we can catch incoming developers at that level, there'll be a very positive flow-on effect. A big part of it would be to stop people treating web as an add-on to programming courses (literally covered in a lecture or two); or treated as part of art/multimedia courses (which often means being taught to create flash). It needs to be taught as a serious discipline. I don't see why you couldn't teach students the basics in a semester. Get the foundations in - semantics, structure, basic accessibility and usability, XHTML, basic CSS. Then have further units on advanced layout, progressive enhancement and so on. cheers, Ben -- --- <http://www.200ok.com.au/> --- The future has arrived; it's just not --- evenly distributed. - William Gibson ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
