I'd say a big piece for me is future-compatibility -- when I've had clients that have been concerned about backward-compatibility, this is a strong argument to help them see that coding nine ways to Tuesday to support old, broken browsers will probably cost them more in the long run because their nonstandard site & code will need to be fixed up to cater to every special new browser that comes out.
The alternative to standards is hacking it together and crossing your fingers whenever you download a new release.
Nate
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On Mar 9, 2004, at 5:33 PM, Amit Karmakar wrote:
Try this link Neerav. This is from Russ' recent presentation. http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/benefits/
Regards, Amit Karmakar www.karmakars.com
-----Original Message----- From: Neerav [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 10 March 2004 10:19 AM To: WSG Subject: [WSG] best ways to "sell" web standards
When preparing a proposal for a potential client or trying to convince your
management, what are the tried and true methods used by WSG members to
convince them that coding to web standards is a plus for their organisation?
I can think of a few to start with:
* Lower data transfer volumes as pages coded with DIV and SPAN tags + CSS
for presentation are usually smaller in size and the CSS will be cached
* Coding to standards lowers testing time in the umpteen available browsers
(in my experience) as pages coded to standards tend to work more out "out of
the box" than older style table layout and font tag coded pages
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