I think any of us that have worked in big companies know just how slowly things move in terms of technology.
Im working on a redesign of a fairly high profile site now and, although the company Im working for and the client are both reasonably knowledgable about standards and realise there benefit, the planning for this redesign was done a good 6-12 months ago (when web standards weren't as widely adopted) and to introduce it even now would cos enormous amounts of extra cash (for a whole new load of HTML to be supplied by the design agency then for us to intergrate and test it with the back end). This situation does annoy me alot as it's terrible going to this huge effort of making a massive new site when I know full well that it's going to need to be rebuilt again in a year or two but that's the way it is with huge projects like this. I'm am starting to see a definate slant towards standards in a lot of the high profile companies in the UK (the ones I've worked with anyway) so we shouldn't be discouraged. I've be involved in a couple of pitches to very large ecommerce companies where the main focus of the pitch was the adoption of web standards and its benefits and the clients seem to be very responsive (although I interested to see if they put their money where their mouth is. Has anyone else seen any changes in larger organisations? Quoting Ian Fenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Rick, > > > If the biggies ignore the standards scenario, what are *we* doing? > > I suspect the problem with the biggies is normally that they have grown so > big that making significant changes in the name of web standards isn't as > big a priority as other business aims, such as increasing sales, etc. > > Oh, and hello. I just joined WSG. > > All the best, > > -- > Ian Fenn > Director, Chopstix Media Limited > http://www.chopstixmedia.com/ > > ***************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ***************************************************** > > ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************
