Developers and designers must be educated
Posted Apr 20, 2004 in Technology.
After reading articles like this one by web professional David Emberton (see if you can find a way in from his homepage), it is obvious that the Web Standards Project to educate designers and developers still has a long way to go. But there is still hope, as you can see from the flurry of comments that immediately follow Emberton's article.
I think it is crucial that those of us who have embraced web standards do our level best to educate and encourage those that haven't. Once we are all doing it, our job will be made infinitely easier - and the Web will explode into a period of super-growth. I cannot wait!
Comments
I read this article last night and couldn't believe it. What a ridiculous way to rationalize why web standards aren't good: because they suck.
But do you think that maybe the article is a (very late) April Fool's joke? It's too dumb to be real.
Posted by Todd on Apr 20, 2004.
Certainly the word "fool" has to apply somewhere. I did a hunt around for some of this guy's work, and he really does seem to exist in the mid-ninties.
What really pissed me off was that he was offensive to those of us that DO support web standards.
Posted by Simon Jessey on Apr 20, 2004.
Yes he was. It's one thing to respectfully and intelligently disagree with someone but it's another to run down what they support without decent reasoning,
Posted by Todd on Apr 20, 2004.