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› November 26, 2001
Compliency to Standards Soldiers
It sounds like owen is fed up. To paraphrase the concept: create a motivator so bone crunching that browser makers take heed to standards. A paramilitary arm past the wasp, if you will.
Well there really is only one way that I can see - unearth the financial incentive of complete standards compliance. The problem, in my oversimplified 3 person view (web user|web author|browser software company), is that the web users and the browser software companies haven't the motivator. Web users want the goods, but don't care about the means; and I'm not sure it's their responsibility to give a hoot.
Owen Posted…
this needs general awareness. the wasp [which has my deep respect and gratitude] is for convincing developers. which is a little pathetic that any developer needs convincing. what we need is a general attitude throughout the industry. an unapologetic one. it's gotta be so bad that when ie/nyet/opera 7 is released even ziffdavis starts off with "..and it's still a malformed piece of steaming junk foisted on a entire world trying to view the web. When are these morons going to get their basic code right?" every web book, every magazine, every site. but we're web developers, right? that means we're content producers in the most powerful media in history. time we grew up and filled those boots. there's never been a lever this long. we've got to be conscious of the message -write once run everywhere code- and show that we, developers, know how to transmit a message in this medium better than anyone. _and_ part of that is getting the skills to speak on the web available to everyone who can read on it. there's nothing to convince someone just how bad our browsers are than to get them slinging code.