- From: Kornel Lesinski <kornel@geekhood.net>
- Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 12:31:59 +0100
- To: "Alexander Graf" <a.graf@aetherworld.org>
- Cc: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 12:02:12 +0100, Alexander Graf <a.graf@aetherworld.org> wrote: >> The majority of incompetent web developers use tutorials and copy/ >> paste script, use frameworks and anything premade. >> >> Given such switch, frameworks will require it and will only tell >> you "please copy/paste the following line at the beginning of the >> HTML page". They'll spare the details, if you know what I mean. >> >> It is inevitable, given the switch, we will end up with tons of >> documents relying on buggy behaviour in IE.next. IE n+1 will break >> those pages if it doesn't add yet another switch. > > Why even care about incompetent web developers? Because, depending on definition of incompetence, it might be more than a half of all web developers (judging by number of quirks-mode sites, ill-formed 'XHTML', etc.). And incompetent web developers aren't just limited to myspace users, you can easily find on-line banking websites that are locked into particular version of IE. > I don't want to start a discussion about the trade but seriously, being > a web developer > requires some skill that a lot of people just don't have. Catering > for them and trying to make HTML as simple as possible so that these > people won't have any problems is just weird. Making HTML harder won't stop incompetent developers from trying. It will just make developers' lives harder and increase cost of web development. -- regards, Kornel Lesinski
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