ESPN web site recently moved to a standard no-tables (css only) design). There is an interview with them about this move on http://devedge.netscape.com/viewsource/2003/espn-interview/01/ As the question "why change to standards?" keeps coming up here, it is interesting to read what ESPN have to say.
>From the article: > Q: What were the primary factors behind your decision to move away > from table-based layout? > > A: The number one factor was forward compatibility, a term I first > heard used by Jeffrey Zeldman. > [...] > Now that digital lifestyle devices, tablets, wireless phones, and<b > other Internet appliances are beginning to come of age, we need to > worry about presenting our content to these devices so that it is > optimized for their display capabilities. Do we want to send a > 100KB index page full of Flash, images, and tables to a small > wireless device or would we rather send them our top story, our > top headlines, and essential navigation to get through our > site? By separating our content pieces in a logical way > rather than a graphical way, we are free to restyle this content > for any device which supports open standards. > > The second big factor in our decision was staying ahead of the curve. > [...] > For us, embracing open standards and dropping support for proprietary > code was clearly the right thing to do... the only question was, was > it the right time to do it yet? > > Basically, we could have done [the redesign] now, or we could have > waited two years until our next redesign. Doing it now keeps us > ahead of the curve, while only potentially risking about 2% of > our online audience. Doing it in two years may put us behind > our competitors. We fully expect our competitors to join us in > embracing open standards with their next redesigns. Our spy > planes haven't produced any illuminating photos yet so we can't > say exactly when that will be. -- Best regards, Shoshannah mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
