Web Design Restrictions
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- TheBlueOne
My good friend does web development for a major financial institution. When we talk about all things development/design he says that his development teams have to deal everyday with Federal restrictions on how information can be displayed and handled on banking/financial sites that flies in the face of the "Semantic, all CSS" development/design process that there is really no incentive to move beyond tables for layout.
Are there other industries that are hampered by this?
- heavyt0
i think that he is mistaken.
section 501 has requirments that effect certain industries more than others, but it sounds like an inept dev team more than a limitation of standards-based coding.
- van_rijn0
doing a site for a bank right now. pure css. im only using tables for the display of multi-cell data only
- madirish0
that friend is stuck in what is the leader of the team's comfort zone.
- jevad0
Um...hi..that's total BS.
- k0na_an0k0
our developers here have tried to pull that shit on us, so we've learned that when doing our non-working pulling-in-dummy-information prototypes to actually make everything work.
for the last project we presented to them we were showing them a page and explaining what it was supposed to do, they were like 'oh, we can NOT do that due to restrictions and blah blah' and we then showed them that we built it, it works, and it's safe.
for bank stuff it could be real but my boss just keeps saying to us 'those guys are the laziest fuckers i know'
laziness.
- TheBlueOne0
I don't know man..it's not a rinky dink bank, it's like Chase International..they have to meet with legal dept to check fed regs everyday when they do development...
- liquid0
I hate css. the box model sucks... :-P
- van_rijn0
hate css. the box model sucks... :-P
liquid
(Sep 27 06, 13:06)thats cause you told me you suck at it ken :)
- jevad0
I don't know man..it's not a rinky dink bank, it's like Chase International..they have to meet with legal dept to check fed regs everyday when they do development...
TheBlueOne
(Sep 27 06, 13:04)Really? We didn't have to do that when I was designing/developing sites for goldmans, UBS, Charles Schwab, etc...
- seed0
I really don't have problems with the box model. I rarely have to use a hack for IE.
- Nairn0
Really? We didn't have to do that when I was designing/developing sites for goldmans, UBS, Charles Schwab, etc...
jevad
(Sep 27 06, 13:14)Quickly - someone tweak Jevad's nipples before that vein on his head explodes!
- ornj0
i think that he is mistaken.
section 501 has requirments that effect certain industries more than others, but it sounds like an inept dev team more than a limitation of standards-based coding.
heavyt
(Sep 27 06, 12:48)Section 508... section 501 has to deal with recieving a tax exemption for not being profitable for an individual and not campaigning to influence legislation...
- myobie0
there are no restrictions that would mean you would have to use tables for layout...
some people who don't know how, assume that since the last developers used tables and it complied that there is no other way...all this new fangled stuff is no good!
it's about the presentation and accessibility of the information, not the underlying layout code that matters...