Jonathan Wilson wrote:

>> Point well made. *sigh* You only have to visit the newsgroups of 
>> authoring tools like FP and DW to see how many out there have no clue 
>> about the w3c validator or even attempting to 
> 
> 
> Well if you convinced the companies that make these programs to change 
> them so they output code thats standards complient enough to render on 
> gecko then that should solve the problem.
> Also, mabie we need to evangelise on the FP, DW etc newsgroups about how 
> making standards complient code is better.


I've tried a few recently in the DW group, but it's way to much for one 
person to do. That's a very busy group - hundreds of message a day. I 
have to say though, by the look of it, one of the most useful groups 
I've seen (for those in that community of course).

Perhaps you're right. It's a different kind of evangelism campaign. If 
we could get some people to target even just the DW group (it's the #1 
authoring tool for "professionals" sic) that would make a difference. 
People in there mostly hate NS and it is miguided (even though many of 
their complaints are valid) and the solutions are mostly wrong.i.e. it's 
bad html.


> On the other hand, if the web starts getting more standards complient, 
> MS will simply change IE 6.5 or 7.0 so that it "breaks" with the 
> standard in just enough key places so that people will be forced to go 
> back to coding specially for IE which means gecko will never take off.
> 
> 


Aiyeee, so what to do then?




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