- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 06:44:46 +0000 (GMT)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> this problem when someone was pushing the envelope and trying to > produce unusual results. A lot of web pages are for marketing purposes, and that tends to make pushing the envelope pretty much standard practice. Unfortunately pages for organisations with a mission to communicate, rather than to sell, seem to either get outsourced to the same companies that design marketing sites, or written by in house people chasing after higher paid jobs in the private sector. (The UK is particularly into outsourcing governmental web sites.) > simply various private entities trying to gain an advantage by > designing systems that are incompatible with accepted standards > and practices. I think lock-in is a secondary benefit. The main aim has been to take a semantic medium and make money from using it in an environment that abhors overt semantics. As a result, it gets decorated with presentational features, then scripting is added to allow one to grossly change the user interface. > > There are two or three browsers being developed that work > in a text environment which handle some of the common practices > of javascript, but I have yet to see one that really works The problem with idiom based script handling is that faces a moving target, and has to be continually maintained to track current fashions.
Received on Friday, 28 March 2003 02:21:58 UTC