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JCrowe wrote:

> 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.

Indeed. My web application consists of over 200 000 lines of code and
started its life well before things like CSS2 was widespread. So much
of my output HTML looks pretty darn old, and the sheer complexity of
the system makes moving to a new paradigm (i.e table-less layout and
css-only layout) is cumbersome, and the lack of support in IE makes it
hard to justify it, unfortunately.

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