> -----Original Message----- > From: John Allsopp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 8 September 2005 4:46 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [WSG] Educate the educators (was) Barclays > standards redesign > > Hi all, > > > Now we are getting to the core of it! What we need is ISO > > standardisation > > for web development! Something like the famous ISO 9000. Quality > > Control! > > I an hoping that is an ironic exclamation mark.
I can assure you I am not a big fan of ISO for exactly the reasons you mentioned: it's something only big companies can afford and the main purpose is not to enhance quality, but to have a nice little logo on your website that will bring you more clients. But I am sure over time the enforced quality, which Scott mentioned exists in other industries such as construction, will slowly emerge in our industry as well, in particular what commercial web development is concerned. Of course we already see this enforced quality appear in the area of accessibility, where government and corporate organisations are "legally obliged" to fulfil minimum standards. A few more cases in which large organisations get hit with fines for not adhering to accessibility expectations and the quality of web development will suddenly improve over night. ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
