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There is nothing wrong with any of the above except they're being touted
by...guess who?...people who offer web design services specializing
in...guess what?...Web Standards, Usability, and tableless CSS. These are
simply tools. Remember, nobody gets excited about the tools used to build a
house ("Please tell me what brand of hammers you used!"). People get excited
about how the house looks and performs.
</quote>It's got nothing what-so-ever to do with the brand of hammer used, it's to do with the material. You can build a perfectly good house using asbestos products but why would you when they are proven to be bad. I don't tell anyone that a standards-based design will make more money than a table layout, but there are significant savings in building, maintaining and serving a standards based website. Whether the developer passes these savings onto the client or not is a matter often discussed. We do and we get penalised for it often by people thinking our quotes are too cheap to be realistic. I've never liked this guy much anyway. His domain name is entirely appropriate for the site it holds. P > Interesting thoughts from Vincent Flanders: > http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/biggest-web-design-mistakes-in-2004.html > > Go to number 3: Mystical belief in the power of Web > Standards, Usability, > and tableless CSS > > What do you think? > > Stephen ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
