Quoting john <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I thought this was interesting. Jennifer Kyrnin, About.com's "Web > Design/HTML" Guide, wrote an article recently regarding XHTML and CSS. > In it, she mentions that she asked one of the About.com developers why > their site isn't using Web Standards. She stated that they had to main > reasons for not doing it: > > 1. Bandwidth - With over 700 sites on About receiving millions of > pageviews a day, even 1KB of extra characters on a page can result in > huge transfers. By cutting out things like alt tags and quotes they can > save a lot of money. > > 2. Compatibility - The audience for About Web pages is huge, and moving > to more modern HTML variants like XHTML 1.0 and CSS positioning will > make it more difficult for older browsers to view the pages.
The reason for these answers are quite obviously because they don't want to tell everyone the real reason which is that there all wysiwyg monkeys and don't know any better :-P *dons flame suit* -- Aaron Tate ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
