Hi Aaron, "wysiwyg monkeys" - Eh?
Nothing wrong with using WYSIWYGs - so long as they are standards-compliant. I tell you what - if you can get our WYSIWYG to create non-standards compliant markup, we'll get you a Firefox t-shirt. Use the link below, this version will run in Firefox PR1: http://xstandard.com/misc/beta/x-pro.exe Regards, -Vlad XStandard Development Team http://xstandard.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Tate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2004 7:40 PM Subject: Re: [WSG] about.com's Web standards article > 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 > ****************************************************** > > ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
