My biggest reason for following standards originally was selfish: vastly
increased ease of maintainability. When you separate content from
presentation, you can change the presentation aspect of the site once
and it goes into effect across the entire site. I really, really liked
that aspect of it. Pages load faster thanks to smaller file sizes, and
site visitors notice that. There are other benefits, but those were
what convinced me.
Leslie Riggs
None of those. I just mentioned that I was unable to convice my
friend to change his ways and his strongest reason not to was his
(fairly complicated) site that worked just fine in a lot of browsers
which he built without jumping through any of the hoops I go through
trying to get a complicated layout to work in as many browsers.
I'm all for standards and everything else this list is about, but I
do feel we might be spending a lot of time preparing for a "State
Dinner" when what we are really going to attend is a "come-as-you-
are" BBQ in the backyard.
On 04/12/05, Bob Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
2. A friend just got back into the web design game after a long time
away. He sent me his site: pure HTML 2.0, no doctype lots of tables
and the usual tag soup.
I mentioned to him that things had changed and he should "get with"
the modern way of doing things. To his various questions as to why, I
gave all the right answers, but in the end he said if it works, why
change? I viewed his site in all my various MAC & WIN browsers, it
worked just fine in all of them.
Are you asking for the benefits of standards-based design or the ROI
of it? It's on like 1000000 trillions of documents and books written
since 2001. Give him a Zeldman or Cederholm book for Christmas :-)
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Manuel
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