Mark,
You’ve hit the nail on the head. Let’s not also forget the vast numbers of people who want to enjoy, for example, blogging for the fun of it, and not just the bragging rights of XHTML Verified! for their sites. Many people would like to do it right, and in the most simple and easy fashion. Even the myriad of DTDs to choose from has many folks scratching their heads, never mind those folks who will only use the HTML 4.01 Strict and nothing else because “it’s as good or better than XHTML Transitional.”
I’m not an expert by any means. I want to know what the standards are, and I will happily construct my little sector of cyberspace to those standards. I’m personally sick of the big names in the web-world engaged in pissing matches about everything from DTDs to how many H1s should be “allowed” in an HTML document.
Let’s not even get started on XML. What we are likely going to see, is that egos will come to be more important than the standards. This is the case in many instances already. Tribes will form, and blogs and sites will be clogged a la MT with hews and cries of despair from all camps. Meanwhile, I’ll still be sitting here, wondering which standard to follow. Not unlike the browser wars themselves, the standards wars will see one set conquer the other, and most of us will jump onto that bandwagon and ride it into the cybersunset until a new technology is born and a new set of standards is released. Besides, if we all agreed, then how will some of the self-proclaimed experts get book deals?
Yep, I’m cynical, which is kind of sad. Show me a path to standards-paradise, and I will happily walk it and add my own distinctiveness to the collective.
An avid fan of business, education, technology and finance. I lead a lean, highly focussed and capable team of Java Back End developers and Front End developers through a maze of complex software wizardry to fulfill the web maintenance needs of a large chemical manufacturer. As per Myers-Briggs Personality Types, I am an ESTJ. I pride in a project completed on time and according to plan. My hobbies include all kinds of technology, anything that I can taste and anything that goes fast or flies in the air. I like to read business books and comics in my spare time.
Mark,
You’ve hit the nail on the head. Let’s not also forget the vast numbers of people who want to enjoy, for example, blogging for the fun of it, and not just the bragging rights of XHTML Verified! for their sites. Many people would like to do it right, and in the most simple and easy fashion. Even the myriad of DTDs to choose from has many folks scratching their heads, never mind those folks who will only use the HTML 4.01 Strict and nothing else because “it’s as good or better than XHTML Transitional.”
I’m not an expert by any means. I want to know what the standards are, and I will happily construct my little sector of cyberspace to those standards. I’m personally sick of the big names in the web-world engaged in pissing matches about everything from DTDs to how many H1s should be “allowed” in an HTML document.
Let’s not even get started on XML. What we are likely going to see, is that egos will come to be more important than the standards. This is the case in many instances already. Tribes will form, and blogs and sites will be clogged a la MT with hews and cries of despair from all camps. Meanwhile, I’ll still be sitting here, wondering which standard to follow. Not unlike the browser wars themselves, the standards wars will see one set conquer the other, and most of us will jump onto that bandwagon and ride it into the cybersunset until a new technology is born and a new set of standards is released. Besides, if we all agreed, then how will some of the self-proclaimed experts get book deals?
Yep, I’m cynical, which is kind of sad. Show me a path to standards-paradise, and I will happily walk it and add my own distinctiveness to the collective.
Resistance is futile.