Ethan on ALA: Where Our Standards Went Wrong
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A *great* article by Ethan Marcotte on how we need to redefine the message we use in web standards evangelism. He touches on two things that baffle my mind. First, I don't understand why anyone would ever validate someone else's code and then speak publicly about the errors they find. If you do that, you're being an asshole. Period. Validation is a process for you to do on *your code*, so as to help you avoid the timesink that is working with broken code later -- using invalid code will especially kill you when you go to add DOM scripting or CSS to the page. Don't validate other people's code. It's assholish. Second, he mentions how some CMSes are still spewing tag-soup all over our web. I find this, frankly, absurd. If your CMS that doesn't allow you 100%, full control over its output via a template system of some sort, you've got to find a way off of that thing. Any CMS that doesn't give you full control of the output is not worth anyone's time.
A *great* article by Ethan Marcotte on how we need to redefine the message we use in web standards evangelism. He touches on two things that baffle my mind. First, I don't understand why anyone would ever validate someone else's code and then speak publicly about the errors they find. If you do that, you're being an asshole. Period. Validation is a process for you to do on *your code*, so as to help you avoid the timesink that is working with broken code later -- using invalid code will especially kill you when you go to add DOM scripting or CSS to the page. Don't validate other people's code. It's assholish. Second, he mentions how some CMSes are still spewing tag-soup all over our web. I find this, frankly, absurd. If your CMS that doesn't allow you 100%, full control over its output via a template system of some sort, you've got to find a way off of that thing. Any CMS that doesn't give you full control of the output is not worth anyone's time.
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