My situation is as follows: Here at BHP Billiton, I am part of the Global Intranet Team. I wrote the CSS/XHTML for their Global Intranet and then wrote standards compliant templates for other people within the business to use to build their own intranets.
We were able to adopt W3C standards and XHTML/CSS for all this because, basically, before our team was put together, there were no standards at all - intranets were built by whoever with whatever. We wrote documentation, style guides etc emphasing standards compliance as well. This went fine for a year or two. Our team was rebuilding old non-compliant intranets and making them standards compliant and building new intranets with CSS/XHTML, W3C standards etc. Since that time, new CMS's have been bought into sections of the company (against our protests) that do not adhere to these standards, and things are starting to go backwards in some areas. It's sort of like two steps forward - one step back when it comes to web standards here, which can be frustrating. In a company this size, it does take a lot of championing the cause by the right people to get something like web standards in place. We're making progress, but it's a battle. Regards, David McDonald http://www.davidmcdonald.org ---- Original Message ---- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WSG] Real world use of standards Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 11:06:45 +1100 > >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/ *****************************************************
