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WebWord Weblog Posting Posting Date: July 25, 2002 Why Web Builders Must Move to XHTML (Molly Holzschlag) -- "Everybody has to make the transition if they expect to continue in the field and increase their opportunities from a career perspective—designer, developer, or any profession that requires document management. Not just Web designers and developers, but people who work in law, medicine, and even car manufacturing—anybody who's given the responsibility to update an intranet or the Internet."
Reader Comments...
"Skills are for the long term." Oh what a nasty little thing to say. What I learn today will not be an active standard 10 years from now. However, I guess there's an odd sense of comfort in the fact that the industry lags far behind standards. For example, web sites are still built with tables for layout today precisely because old dogs hate new tricks. Posted by: Jack on July 26, 2002 07:29 PM
I object to the "must" used here. I use XHTML for my blog Zen Haiku, but to say everyone must use it strikes me as the usual web standards overkill. Who's to say you can't make your HTML 4 more structural and use stylesheets? I talked on Zen Haiku recently about usability for programmers, but Molly specifically mentions non-professionals. As much as I like stylesheets and clean HTML, your average user will most likely use a visual editor, or do it the old-fashioned font tag way (shudder) because it's easier. It's only professionals that debate what CSS techniques to use: the rest of the world just wants to get that picture of their dog on their web page.
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