Clients need to be informed of the benefits of standards and most will see the value right away. However compromises on design and functionality can offset the benefits quite quickly. The old saying "The customers always right" seems to fit here.
Government departments are _mostly_ aware of standards especially the accessibility guidelines, so they push for standards compliant sites. It may eventually become mandatory for Governments. In house here its becoming more important, some are more passionate about it than others. It is frustrating when work travels up the work flow and someone decides to bung in invalid markup, or maybe a particular application framework doesn't yet support the markup correctly. If IE wasn't such a pain, then standards are really a "no brainer", write once works everywhere, hmmm.... one day.. soon I hope.. Cheers Chris Blown On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 11:06, Bradley Wright wrote: > I have a question for you all, given that quite a few of you work for large, > CMS-type companies and the collective level of experience here is seemingly > very large: > > How many of you have experienced working for companies/clients which > actively embrace the standards and protocols/working methods we discuss here > every day? It seems to me that very often dealing with clients and client > needs makes using standards to the fullest an impractical thing at best. > > I'd like to know how many of you have experienced work-places where > standards are extremely important, and not just an afterthought in the > production process. > > This is perhaps a little off-topic, but I think it's worth a discussion > because the PRACTICAL, real-world use of standards is surely of utmost > importance to us all. > > > > ***************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > ***************************************************** > > > ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *****************************************************
