To be clear, my statement, which was quite sweeping, was meant to express that when a site is built for computers as opposed to humans then that to me flies in the face of Web Standards. So I agree :-)
2008/6/3 Rick Lecoat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 3 Jun 2008, at 12:55, Darren West wrote: > >> I do feel this is all rather subjective and depends on what you're >> building, that is until you consider SEO; which I feel flies in the >> face of Web Standards > > I agree that much of this stuff is, inevitably, subjective. Web standards > gives us a good framework to work to, but within that there are always > numerous ways to skin the same cat (yes, it's a very unlucky cat). > > Re. SEO, I think that it can work just fine alongside web standards -- in > moderation; as soon as you get too SEO-crazed you risk starting to erode the > web standards 'purity' (if that doesn't sound too fascist) in order to > accommodate some pro-Google trick or another. > > The root of Google's webmaster guidelines can be summarised as "just create > your page for humans to read without difficulty and don't obsess about > trying to manipulate our search engine", and really that's not so far from > web standards, is it? > > -- > Rick Lecoat > > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
