Flash and standards
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- sparker0
oh, and i agree that support and advertisement of the cause is a good thing.
but people shouldn't cling to things.
it amazes me how dependent some people become.
it is like people who can only use dreamweaver. why cling to a certain program? xhtml is editable in any text editor...xhtml is a markup...it is independent of any platform, system or ide. so, then why do people concentrate on learning software instead of the markup?
it is the same with standards. since it has gained in popularity...people cling to the notion that the validator is gospel.
well, it's not. the w3 isn't even the only validator out there.
and, in the end...a little link to a validator is completely worthless to an end user.
not only will they not understand what they're looking at...but it distracts them from your site.
a better solution is to write a "about this site's standards" page which users can go to and read the how and why you built it that way.
case study style information is more relevant to a user than validator output.
:)
i'm a standards zealot...but even i think little links and buttons to the w3 are trite.
besides, it adds few bytes to your markup weight...doesn't that defeat using standards? you know, adding useless fluff to the site?