Comments on: Why stick to Web Standards?

By: Swizec

Swizec — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:42:32 +0000

I’ve been completely standards compliant for the past several years and have been getting semantically cleaner with each website I create, because let’s face it, semantically clean is something that takes a long time to refine and get used to.

However, I am appaled, absolutely disgusted, by the fact that there are so many people out there who aren’t into standards … at all. I think the most disgusting bit is how they’re usually big corporations/governments. Never understood that phenomena really.

By: Escorts

Escorts — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:40:58 +0000

All true. We, webmasters, must comply with the rules a build a more professional Internet.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:03:44 +0000

I’m a standards guy through-and-through. And what I’ve been surprised by most is that adherence to standards tends to be a HUGE selling point for clients. When you educate potential clients the importance of standards (in contrast to what the “other guy” is doing) they’ll buy your product 9 times out of 10 because of your attention to detail.

By: Jt Hollister

Jt Hollister — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:08:42 +0000

Hear, hear to standards!

I don’t really run into situations where I need non-standards friendly hacks to get things to work. In fact, when I code semantically and according standards from the beginning, I run into a lot less problems along the way. Development time is down, and time spent in the future updating things will be dramatically lower.

By: admin

admin — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 06:17:53 +0000

Yes I have to say amen to that Stuart. I work with web standards on my mind but when I come across problems I tend to use evil deeds, but on debugging stage we will have to find a way to make it work on the standards.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:01:20 +0000

I used to be really guilty of that, as I’m a real pragmatist, and if something works as it is I tend to leave it alone.

That said, I’m almost there (in terms of full standards-compliance) on my personal site, just a couple of innocuous Opera “filters” to try to phase out…

This post serves as a good reminder to us all!