On 2/26/06, SunUp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I hereby publicly declare that my days of complaining to website > authors that I cannot view their site at 800x600, and then opening my > big mouth about other dubious issues I notice on their site, are now > over.
Ah, but when annoying little standardistas like me tell others to make their sites accessible and validate their XHTML, I'm being too harsh. /rant I think you have come across a key lesson for the standards community: techies know about standards, they are not ignorant, they just have their own reasons (however lame) for not following them. Often it is fruitless to try and argue with them. Egos get hostile, excuses are made, and you are told to back off. I don't even bother. I think the best you can do is just wait until they come along with one of these questions: - how can I make my pages load faster? - how can I make my layout flexible? - how can I meet accessibility checkpoints? - how can I cater to more browsers? - how can I make my website more successful? and then educate them, as un-condescendingly as possible, on standards/css/usability/etc. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... rdpdesign.com ... cssliquid.com ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
