> Has anyone else seen any changes in larger organisations? I was hired by Ingles Markets (15,000 employee grocer chain) back in Fenruary, and was lucky enough to have free range over how to best upgrade our web site. Naturally, I went with a standards-based solution. No one here would know the difference between a valid or invalid site, but I have had numerous comments on the faster load times and ease of use among various platforms. My bosses were amazed that after I redesigned the site and moved it to an in-house server, the footprint on our bandwidth was very small.
It's funny that the Decloak guy mentions ESPN's site, which is by-and-large a standards-based site save for some third party ads that keep it from validating. (More info here: http://devedge.netscape.com/viewsource/2003/espn-interview/01/ ) Also, the IBM site he mentions is one trailing slash away from validating. I took a peek at Macromedia's code, and while they have an XHTML Transitional Doctype, it does not validate (yet). They do, however, use CSS for layout. Will Chatham Webmaster Ingles Markets o--------oOo---------o 828.669.2941 - ext.534 www.ingles-markets.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 *****************************************************
