File under: Web Standards EvangelismThat

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

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Scott is a CSS Ninja who has been creating web sites for over 15 years. He lives in sunny Portland, Oregon with his wife and daughter, and spends his free time playing video games and watching movies. He is probably not a Cylon.

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5 Responses to “File under: Web Standards EvangelismThat”

  1. urn

    “…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.