[Info-vax] IE8 got me too :-( Sorry Jeff.

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 14-01-2010 11:43, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> In article<TK9PAYZrZv2V at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
> 	koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
>> In article<7r8j3oF3qnU2 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>>> Why should anyone care?
>>
>>     Because it costs money to pay people to make web pages compatable
>>     with all the non-standard web browsers,
>
> What does it cost when they can't read your page with their browser
> of choice and they go to another company who's web page they can
> actually see to buy their products?

But that comparison is not very relevant.

Standard compliant code in general can be read by more people.

>>     And because some of us are professional programmers who believe
>>     failure to follow standards is a sign of poor software quality.
>
> That is funny in a DEC group.  Ever see all the non-standard stuff
> DEC put in their Pascal Compiler and then lobbied to to get it all
> included inthe next standard.  In any event, especially today, too
> many of these "standards" are ivory tower products designed and
> pushed by people who don't have to put up with the crap we are talking
> about here.  And chasing the next standard is not necessarily good
> for business.  If you need to write non-standard code to make sure
> everyone in the world can see your web page that is what needs to
> be done to succeed.  All the standards compliance in the world does
> no good when yur company folds because everyone bought their favorite
> widget from your competitor.

HTML, CSS and JS DOM are very far from ivory tower models.

This is stuff that practically everyone is pushing to get
standardized, because it will reduce cost a lot.

Arne