• Reported by Nate

ScottAndrew expresses some clear thoughts on the attractiveness of standards, dom, css and the like. For my additional two cents, I'd like to go back to an very simple concept everyone has heard (and I just mentioned in my last post):

1. function
   
2. form
   

If we are clearer with function, structuring our documents with meaning (table means table, not table means interface hack), then our expression of form is on more solid ground. Limitation can be a fantastic vehicle for creative expression, and most visual design work has some sort of structure from which to shine. I'm suggesting that the validity of design principles used in web development should be associated with the validity of the content and code structure they inform.