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

[marc]

dwain said:

> Graham Todd wrote:
> 
>> We have all had experience of web pages "designed for Windows" that do
>> not work properly in Linux.  This is generally because they do not use
>> the version of HTML internationally recognised as a standard by the W3
>> Consortium.
> 
> actually the problem lies with developers and designers writing pages
> for internet explorer, along with not writing valid html code and not
> supporting cross-browser compatibility.

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.

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Best,
Marc