Re: FN-FORUM: Opinions on W3C validator

date posted 24th September 2007 14:51

On 24 Sep 2007 14:10:49 -0000, aidan wrote
> I thought the point we were debating was whether w3C compliance was
> generally prefered.

Nope, one of the original posters stated that MS got away with poor
standards implementation because designers didn't give them a hard enough
time about it.

I stated that this was not the case, and that the real reason MS gets off
with poor standards implementation is because users don't care about it.
Providing they can access the site and do what they want (i.e. its usable)
then they could care less about standards compliance.

> Uesability is a side issue with regards to the
> job in hand. In the current debate, useability is not anywhere on
> the redar of discussion. It should be (as mentioned before)
> accesibility and standardisation.

Accesiblity and standardisation over usability?! Surely you're not serious?!

> the field based sales
> person trying to access a web based sales application from a laptop
> in the middle of a field is probably as brain dead as the person who
> would design such a system

That is the funniest thing I've read in a long time.

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Gary Short
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