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bjg said:
rf said:If you need to ask the question you will not understand the answer.
bjg said:The reason I ask, is I have always seen standards as important for my own
personal projects, but how do you convince your boss that? I work for a
large well-known online retailer, and soon we are re-designing the site.. I
have seen the other people's work who are helping and they don't even care
about standards. Time = money and it takes time to make a site comply with
standards, especially if you're a messy coder who has no idea.
By question would have been better phrased, as what are some reasons why
standards are important for a high-traffic website? "If it looks good in IE,
who cares" seems to be the attitude at work. I don't think I can persuade
them with moral arguments...
Any ideas?
bjg said:The reason I ask, is I have always seen standards as important for my own
personal projects, but how do you convince your boss that? I work for a
large well-known online retailer, and soon we are re-designing the site.. I
have seen the other people's work who are helping and they don't even care
about standards. Time = money and it takes time to make a site comply with
standards, especially if you're a messy coder who has no idea.
By question would have been better phrased, as what are some reasons why
standards are important for a high-traffic website? "If it looks good in IE,
who cares" seems to be the attitude at work. I don't think I can persuade
them with moral arguments...
Any ideas?
bjg said:
By question would have been better phrased, as what are some reasons why
standards are important for a high-traffic website? "If it looks good in IE,
who cares" seems to be the attitude at work. I don't think I can persuade
them with moral arguments...
"If it looks good in IE, who cares" seems to be the attitude at work.
trustworthy).Also, you lose the customers who prefer to use Opera, Netscape,
Mozilla/Firefox, Safari and whatnot as their browser, simply because it
looks ugly (which makes the visitor think your company is less
Steve said:bjg wrote in message ...
That's the policy of the company that I work within. They cater for the
*majority* as in many walks of life.
Steve said:bjg wrote in message ...
That's the policy of the company that I work within. They cater for the
*majority* as in many walks of life.
Steve said:Kim André Akerø wrote in message ....
trustworthy).
My company's policy is that it's only *nerds* who use browsers other than
IE, so they don't give a damn about Opera etc., users
Steve said:Kim André Akerø wrote in message ....
My company's policy is that it's only *nerds* who use browsers other
than IE, so they don't give a damn about Opera etc., users
The reason I ask, is I have always seen standards as important for my
own personal projects, but how do you convince your boss that? I work
for a large well-known online retailer, and soon we are re-designing
the site.. I have seen the other people's work who are helping and
they don't even care about standards. Time = money and it takes time
to make a site comply with standards, especially if you're a messy
coder who has no idea.
By question would have been better phrased, as what are some reasons
why standards are important for a high-traffic website? "If it looks
good in IE, who cares" seems to be the attitude at work. I don't
think I can persuade them with moral arguments...
Browsers have error correction, unfortunately, IE being by far the worst
[3]. Throw any mangled bit of HTML at IE and it will make an attempt to
decide what you are talking about.
rf said:If you need to ask the question you will not understand the answer.
bjg said:"If it looks good in IE,
who cares" seems to be the attitude at work. I don't think I can
persuade them with moral arguments...
David Mackenzie said:Browsers have error correction, unfortunately, IE being by far the worst
[3]. Throw any mangled bit of HTML at IE and it will make an attempt to
decide what you are talking about.
IE really lets you get away with murder. My colleage was creating a
website, and he wrote (by mistake):
<td style='border-top-style=solid'> [1]
IE "assumed" what he wanted and applied the border to the top of the
cell.
Opera correctly ignored the rule, as it is invalid.
Jukka K. Korpela said:There was no question, just a question mark.
"What if they made American roads only for Chrysler cars?"
Personally, I've made sure my new corporate website complied to standards..
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