- From: Drew McLellan <dru@dreamweaverfever.com>
- Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 22:53:48 +0100
- To: W3C Evangelist <public-evangelist@w3.org>
Chris Hubick wrote: > I mean...the problem is the kinda thing we all talk about in theoretical > terms...but I don't know of anywhere you can really /show/ people the > results. An excellent point, Chris. It was always much easier to say "if you code like this, it will work in both IE4 and NS4". Developers could try it out and see results. What's more everyone back then knew numerous other folk who had a different browser preference to themselves, so the benefits were obvious. When trying to evangelize web standards, the benefits are not always so apparent. How many people personally know someone who browses the web with a Braille reader? How many people even use their darn PDA for browsing the web? I know I only use my to check sites I've built. As far as the forward compatibility benefits go, not that many every-day developers have been around on the web as long as some of us, and maybe haven't been put in the position of dealing with legacy pain-in-the-butt systems - they simply can't imagine the immense value in forward compatibility. Who can blame them? The rest of web culture tells them to live for the moment. (you're only ever a quick FTP command away from correcting your mistakes, so why worry?). So how the heck to we make the benefits of standards-based markup/code real to the worker ants on the ground? -- drew mclellan WaSP dreamweaver task force http://www.webstandards.org/ team macromedia volunteer http://www.macromedia.com/go/team
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