Re: FN-FORUM: Opinions on W3C validator

date posted 24th September 2007 11:43

I couldn't disagree more strongley on that statement. Usability and
standards go hand in hand. I've seen situations plenty of times where
someone has rattled together a site that looks fine in IE, but is
completely all over the place in safari, mozilla and pretty much every
other browser out there.

In this case, how is the site useable? Obviously it's not. IE may be on
a good proportion of computers out there, but of those computers with it
on, you'd be surprised at the amount of people who prefer Opera or
firefox.

The big problems come with people who think that buying frontpage or
dreamweaver then makes them a web guru and they can clunk together a site
like a lego castle. I use dreamweaver, but I hand code most things.
Wouldn't trust the auto gererated code as far as I could throw it.

Poor project management also play a large part. Most of the bigger w3c
offenders have a team of developers who work on seperate parts of the site
(sound familiar?). It should then be the managers job to ensure that they
peices fit together and work as a whole. Generally this doesn't happen.

I would never look at a corperate website and think "that's the way it
should be done".

> Usability is key not standards - the two are not necessarily the same.
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