On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Andrew Maben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm finding myself having to justify my work methods to a boss who has > almost zero interest in usability, accessibility or standards. (Though I > have managed to get into the long-term plan: "...website that is compliant > with W3C standards and Section 508...") > > One question that has been raised is "if site X has pages that validate as > transitional, why do you have to produce pages that validate as strict?"
One argument against the use of transitional doctypes is that they're now more than eight years old which makes them about half as old as the Web itself. Do you want to base your site on what was status quo half a Web lifetime ago? Good luck -- Philip http://NikitaTheSpider.com/ Whole-site HTML validation, link checking and more ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
