Re: [WSG] Web Standards Shetland Ponies

2006-02-01 Thread Katrina
Some people write as if there were a club, a them and us, people who get it and people who don't, and never the twain shall meet. My original post was not meant to seperate 'standardistas' from the rest of the industry. It's just that I thought Standards Were the Way Things Were Done by

Re: [WSG] Web Standards Shetland Ponies

2006-02-01 Thread heretic
I wanted to understand why this happened. Is standards only really something a small contingent of geeky developers go for? I think it's fair to say that standards developers are still the minority, but that doesn't make them wrong. What's right is not always popular, what's popular is not

Re: [WSG] Web Standards Shetland Ponies

2006-02-01 Thread Jay Gilmore
heretic wrote: I wanted to understand why this happened. Is standards only really something a small contingent of geeky developers go for? I think it's fair to say that standards developers are still the minority, but that doesn't make them wrong. "What's right is not always

RE: [WSG] Web Standards Shetland Ponies

2006-01-31 Thread Herrod, Lisa
Good point Helen, I like that this is coming up at the beginning of the year by a few people on list. The truth is that people have been scared off the list and that's a shame when the focus here is to share information and promote standards based design and development. One of the strong

Re: [WSG] Web Standards Shetland Ponies

2006-01-31 Thread heretic
Hi there, I've been on this list since returning from WE05 in Sydney last October, hoping that the same feeling of sharing and openness would prevail. It does to a certain extent, but the few glaring exceptions have tended to put me off posting to the list. I doubt an email list could ever