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"JCrowe" stated in post
yIXGj.2885$p24.1955@nlpi061.nbdc.sbc.com on 3/27/08 6:19 PM:

> Jesus wrote:
>> True, users don't care about standards-compliance.
>
> Users MAY not care about standards compliance specifically, but
> many users prefer the results of standards compliance in the writing
> of web pages. The hacks necessary to support various IE versions and
> quirks are well known and a real pain in the ass. But properly written,
> standards compliant code has a way of failing less often and generally
> performing better. I'm in the process of learning proper web programming
> after years of idly hacking HTML....boy the crap I wrote back in the
> period from the late 90s through the early 00s is downright
> embarrassing. However the experience is really giving me an appreciation
> of well designed web programming and especially websites that do the
> right things for most computer browsers AND handhelds, print and
> access for people with disabilities. Fascinating stuff really.

Any sites of yours you can point to? I know I have talked to some other
designers in CSMA who have been pretty poor at standards compliance - though
they generally get better when told and shown how (there is a desire,
clearly).



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