Tim Lucas wrote:
Nancy Johnson spoke the following wise words on 17/06/2004 10:26 PM EST:
Most people have no idea what web standards are.
And why should they? How much of the POP or HTTP standard does a user need to know?
While it can be helpful for users to know what they are and what they are used for, there is probably little benefit to know anything beyond that. Those who commissions a Web site to be built, however, should know what Web standards are and have some familiarity with the related technologies. While there's no need for them to be experts (that what we're for), it's irresponsible for them not to have at least a cursory understanding.
Users may also care about IE's proven lack of security -- but that's not exactly a web standards issue now is it ;)
For reasons which I haven't been able to figure out, this seems to be a non-issue. More and more, I'm getting the feeling that the only thing which will wake people up to Web standards is a few major law suites over accessibility issues. But even this seem to be a non-starter, since many of the agencies who represent the disabled don't themselves comply to either Web standards or accessibility guidelines.
If you really want to make a difference don't try and get everybody to change to IE. Go and grab the closest web designer that has no idea about web standards and bring them to the next WSG meeting.
I would love to, but who's going to pay the air fare?
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