I second this wholeheartedly. It would be great use the collective knowledge of this group to build a list of 3rd party software vendors for common solutions (e-commerce, CMS, forums, search, etc.) that are written using, or designed to easily support, web standards. I would look to such a list as a first option when looking for off-the-shelf solutions. Maybe such a list already exists - does anyone know?
Thanks! Chris Block Ian Chamberlain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/13/2008 10:28 AM Please respond to wsg@webstandardsgroup.org To wsg@webstandardsgroup.org cc Subject Can I widen the question? Re: [WSG] Shopping cart - who does what Talking about this or that shopping cart may be a long way off topic for this place; but the underlying question is so similar to one a raised a few weeks ago (re PHP libraries) I will step in again. Our focus here should be web standards; the problem is that sometimes the tools or systems we use may make it difficult to live the dream and all too often spacer gifs, font tags and layout tables leap in to view because of this or that poor template which allows such nastiness to clutter our clean pages. The purist in me tends to avoid such tools and software; but the pragmatist; you know, the one who has to earn a living sometimes needs to learn who to make these tools to the web standards thing. It would be really nice it such software came with a sticker, either; [1] Not standards based, loves tables too much - Avoid [2] Can be standards based but needs work - May be painful [3] Creates standard code out of the box. - Rare and hard to find. If anybody is likely to "collect" a list of tools and software that can (or can be made to) deliver standards based content, it should be us; any idea how we could list and share? just a thought Ian ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************************************************************* ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
