- From: Denis Boudreau (WebConforme) <dboudreau@webconforme.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 09:27:23 -0400
- To: W3C HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Mornin! On 23-Apr-07, at 06:38 AM, Daniel Glazman wrote: > > On 15/04/2007 13:31, Kornel Lesinski wrote: > >> Making HTML harder won't stop incompetent developers from trying. >> It will just make developers' lives harder and increase cost of >> web development. > > Fully agreed. Not to mention that it is our responsability to make sure HTML does not increase the cost of web development (at least, I feel it shouldn't). Any improvement to HTML should strive to make it simpler & more powerful, not harder & more powerful. I feel these so-called improvements shouldn't only be oriented towards technology, but also towards the context in which it becomes implementable. Pushing the limits of HTML at the expense of it's simpleness only makes it harder to achieve properly. And for every expert that will benefit from it, thousands more will keep producing bad code. Web development is already expensive enough - every new addition to the developer's toolbox is just another reason to keep pushing the envelope. Some developers are already doing a good job at overbilling their clients and hurting our credibility as a whole with their incompetence, please let's not give them another argument to keep abusing that way. Let's work at simplifying things (and that should also include defining these things better), but let's just not dumb it down in the process. -- Denis Boudreau, Directeur WebConforme / AccessibilitéWeb 1751 rue Richardson, bureau 3.501 Montréal (Qc), Canada H3K 1G6 Téléphone : +1 514-448-2650 Télécopieur : +1 514.667.2216 dboudreau@webconforme.com blackberry@webconforme.com http://www.webconforme.com/ ======// À méditer //======= Les choses changent plus lentement que l’on pense. La rapidité des changements technologiques est tempérée par la lenteur de leur acceptation sociale. (Michel Cartier)
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