- From: PWP - Information <info@professionalwebpages.biz>
- Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 17:36:43 +1000
- To: <david@dorward.me.uk>
- Cc: <www-validator@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <002801c4454f$b71e0f70$6401a8c0@hawkeye>
Hey David, You have opened a can of worms here, haven't you :) I actually stood, right there in your position, at about october of 2003 saying, why on earth should i validate?! no one else does, and no-one else cares, and why should i? everyone looks at website through IE (well at least the majority of people) Soooo..why? Well, I cant give you the official reason, maybe someone from the W3C can give you that but i can give you my reasons, maybe they will answer your question. *I love quality - quality work, quality products, If i build to standards, I can say I have built my clients (and myself) a quality website (as far as coding is concerned). *It is sooooooo much easier(in some respects) to build a website when building to standards. * my original website for pwp was over 1000 lines long before i used standards, I reduced that to just under 100 lines when i finished (after a long and lengthy fight with the validator who was right in the first place and I who came off second best) * the speed of my websites downloads faster. *reduced file sizes no longer 50-23kb now about 1-3kb in size* *easier management with CSS *I no longer have to build 2 versions of the one page (1 for IE,NS) now i build one page that fits every browsers(works in IE, NS, opera- they are the only ones i tried it in) - which means less work for the same money(not that i charged my clients to build 2 versions of the one page) *no more (well not exactly no more err about 1/100 ) reduced fighting to get the browsers to display exactly the same the only 2 problems i have had with standards are that IE displays CSS tables differently to NS and opera so there for i juse use normal tables so that problem is solved and PNG tranpancies in IE have a blue background (which is realllllllllllllllllllllllllly annoying) *other people will be able to read your coding and understand it. *once i got to know standards, i wondered how i ever survived without them *someone is atleast trying to clean up the web and say "hey look at this mess - where supposed to be a professional industry and look at the state its in!" *if the corporations such as MS are at willing to back the standards, then so am I because I love developing for the web -its my passion. * if i develop to standards it makes me look competant as a web developer *I get to say to there other guys that i studied with who do no develop to standards "did you develop that to standards?" and they sort of look at me as if "what standards?" - meaning that you are ahead of the pack and are looking good. last but not least which should be at the top of the list, but i left it till last to make sure that you took special notice of it, is because * It is the right thing to do. I hope that has helped you... Gavin
Received on Saturday, 29 May 2004 03:37:33 UTC