> I wanted to understand why this happened. Is standards only really > something a small contingent of geeky developers go for?
I think it's fair to say that standards developers are still the minority, but that doesn't make them wrong. "What's right is not always popular, what's popular is not always right." > The more I look around at redesigns, I notice that more are failed than > not. Sunbeam, Shiels Jewellry, VideoEzy, etc, etc, etc. Very few are > standards compliant. Probably mostly done by larger design firms, which tend to be using older techniques. When your profit margins are up, it's easier to get comfortable I think. Also, most clients still aren't aware of standards/accessibility/usability; they're still judging sites on how they look and what the first few users say. > Wouldn't it be better to be straightforwards and honest about the > reasons for the trade-off decisions and their results? Yes, that's true. What really sets off the standards crowd is when the reasons are really bad, and/or people are hostile to standards. The trap is expecting and assuming the worst of reasons, I guess :) Ben -- --- <http://www.200ok.com.au/> --- The future has arrived; it's just not --- evenly distributed. - William Gibson ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
