File under: Web Standards Evangelism
That this otherwise brilliant company wastes untold bandwidth to deliver a look and feel no one admires says everything you need to know about the entrenched mindset of developers who hold “backward compatibility” in higher esteem than reason, usability, or their own profits.
– Jeffrey Zeldman, referring to Yahoo.com
“…it has persuaded middleware and backend developers to view technologies like XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript as contemptibly primitive.”
And I live with that every day at work. Our programmer hates ASP and HTML with a passion, and expresses herself outloud often. I’m convincing myself that she doesn’t directly point her finger and laugh, but when she’s done, I feel like I’m just going to sit down at my desk with my stone knives and sticks and chisel out another web app.
Call me crazy, but I use html and I think my site looks pretty decent . . .
YOU’RE CRAZY
har har har
jackass
Aw, you walked right into that one.