maybe standards don’t matter after all…
November 6th, 2009
If you are like me you have met or are a web standards zealt and will say or will tell you in a nutshell it is not worth building a website unless you have validated it 10 times plus adhere to the W3C and meet it’s strictest guidelines
. Ok that maybe this is a little over the top, but none the less you have probably heard something like this said by someone or told somebody this by yourself. One day looking at a site called Modern Life is Rubbish
I noticed an article that was titled web standards don’t matter as much as you think
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This lead me into thinking about all the website redesigns I have done lately and how much I (or maybe you might have) have stressed over W3C’s approval of the website. Yes if you can pull it off it can be a very strong and convincing selling point to a technical client or a under designer because it shows your attention to details and people with special needs (screen readers, high contrast screens etc). Although because we don’t live in a perfect world and not every browser out there (most noticeably Microsoft Internet Explorer) follows W3′s example of compatibility to the word, which forces many designers into dilemmas that more times than not cause the website to have invalid code. One thing this article says though is that unless you have a very technical audience (which most of us do not) more likely than not that they are not going to care about validation, just that the text is readable and good. Just food for thought.