Web Standards
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I never had understood the dislike of not only learning the correct way to do things, but evolving as a developer and designer?
Web standards are going to happen. They are starting right now. New technologies demand understanding of valid, well-formed, well written code.
I don't know why people are so afraid of changing...of learning something knew?
Doesn't make much sense to me.
Explain to me why someone shouldn't learn the right way to develop sites? Explain why standards are bad....without using the tired excuse that it doesn't work in all browsers.
It is a non-issue, since new browsers are adapting standards compliance, and with more similarity now than before.
With more and more clients wanting meaningfull services instead of frivolous web sites, technologies like XML, XHTML, CSS, DOM, unified Javascript, PHP, etc will become standardized and plat-form independent.
So, why must designers and developers still cling to old, poor markup.
And, honestly, if this was a high-level coding (Pascal, C, Java) environment or any design profession like Architecture, Engineering or Industrial....you'd be laughed out for not learning and using industry standards.
In order for the web to mature, limitations and standards need to be imposed. And, a common misconception is that this will limit creativity...but it doesn't. In fact, if will foster a more creative environment...standards don't stop you from designing highly creative and artistic products, it just makes them more uniform on a machine level.