Do you have a link to the information week story? Nancy
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:53 PM, dwain <dwain.alf...@gmail.com> wrote: > in the april 20th issue of informationweek there is an article about > standards. the title of the article is "standards matter - we all want > interoperability, but are you willing to take vendors to task for breaking > faith?". it was a good industry-wide account of the standards problem. web > designers got a paragraph and i thought i would share it with the list. > > "another high-profile standards failure is browser support for html and > cascading style sheets. designers who don't know -- or don't care -- about > the implications of proprietary extensions to html spew out web sites that > work only in internet explorer for windows." > > i hope that this article gains some serious thought in upper, middle and > lower management to insist on industry standards so that in our neck of the > woods, the web will become a nicer place to navigate. we all know that > browser manufacturers are trying to keep up with the latest developments, > but it's the folks in the trenches, like us doing the work, that need the > guidance into a better more compliant internet experience. > > just my $0.02. > > cheers, dwain > > > > -- > "Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God. " - Kahlil Gibran > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
