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I Don't Comply With Standards

Throughout life, I've easily been considered a rebel.  In High School, I've served more detention then anyone would ever want; I've even been suspended... twice :-(. 

Why should I follow some standards set by the W3C?  And if the page looks fine in 99.99% of browsers, who the the hell is going to care?  One group of people will... "browser standard compliance nuts" - the people who can't look past a specification.  I'd like the people who think that standards are everything to read this quote:

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is" -- Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut

Okay, although my pages don't always comply to standards, I try to do my best to minimize my deviation.  I try to make sure my pages work with a wide range of browsers, I guess you can call that "my standard." 

NOTE: Due to an ASP.NET 1.x limitation, any page using ASP.NET Server Side Controls won't be standards compliant.  Guess what? there are well over 50 of those controls on this page. 


Posted Aug 04 2005, 12:28 AM by Ryan Hoffman
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