> Yeah, but you should s'plain a bit, IMO. > > If the biggies ignore the standards scenario, what are *we* doing?
Ok, let's expand a bit. There are at least two reasons why the biggies are ignoring standards: the speed of change in large organisations (management can often move at the speed of glaciers) and the fact that a lot of the big sites rely on large CMS applications (bespoke or off-the-shelf) which do not output standards-compliant (x)html. Both these aspects take time and money to change. Examples of large companies and sites which HAVE adopted standards-compliant code abound...or are we going to start the game of "yes, but this site is bigger than that site / my dad could beat up your dad"? Also: some large sites are obviously striving for validating code, but fall short on some occasions (unescaped special characters, ampersands, etc). Do these count as well? Changing over to standards is a journey, a process... particularly when you're retrofitting content and trying to tame an antiquated CMS or similar system. P ________________________________ Patrick H. Lauke Webmaster / University of Salford http://www.salford.ac.uk ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************
