Re: FN-FORUM 99.9% of websites are outdated

date posted 13th September 2002 20:42

Shaf Cangil [EMAIL REMOVED] writes
>> Neil [EMAIL REMOVED]
>> How does "99.9% of Websites Are Obsolete" insult web designers who write
>> compact, W3C-compatible code? Those people happen to live in the
>> 0.1%....
>
>He has scientific and unequivocal proof of that does he?
>He is a better researcher than I thought. Any fool knows that saying 99.9%
>of anything actually means 100% but tries to allow a small breathing space
>to allow those that think they are above his total 'tar everyone with the
>same brush' attitude, to think they are the exceptional, untouched few.

Ok, his headline was intended to get noticed and make people read, but I
believe the underlying principle is valid; that the vast majority of
websites (and in many cases the biggest, most visited), are guilty of
this kind of bending of the standards.

I think if people consider his points, consider how they go about
developing websites, and think about the reasons they create non
W3C-compliant code, then his job will have been done.

>Ok Ok I will let it go, I am the last one that should be getting a wild hair
>up their ass about this. I would have thought those that kill themselves
>producing good quality code every day would be more insulted at the title.
>Just my opinion.

I suspect the really good developers have read his points, and
understood where he's coming from. The rest will continue to work three
times as hard as they need to, just to support all the different
browsers with their non-standard code instead of writing one standard
version that works well on all.

Neil
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Neil Durant
Octrix Software Ltd.
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