Standards (was Re: The future of Ubuntu Linux.... Will it make Micro$oft go bankrupt?)

[dwain]

On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 4:50 PM, marc <gmane at auxbuss.com> wrote:

> I was auditing a project the other day, and suggested to the "web devs"
> that they use Firefox's HTML validator plug-in and "keep their pages
> green" - there's a status bar validation indicator. It's so simple that
> you don't have to do anything except load a page!
>
> They simply couldn't cope with the idea of using the tool, let alone the
> concept of "valid" pages.
>
> It's truly scary the quality of folk building sites out there.
>
>
ah, but there is an oasis in this desert of non-valid pages:
http://webstandardsgroup.org/  what a great group to be affiliated with for
build standards compliant web sites.

i have heard the excuse, "well, it works."  too many times.  my reply being,
"for how much longer?"

cheers,
dwain

-- 
"Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.  " - Kahlil Gibran
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