[thelist] Re: Why code for standards

Bill Haenel bill at webmarketingworx.com
Tue Feb 5 10:16:01 CST 2002


> The Internet itself is not a technology.
>
> The Internet is a collection of agreed standards that allow many
> diverse technologies to exchange data.
>
> Any thoughts..?
>
> tommy

Very good point, but I think you could easily argue that although the
internet itself is not a technology, the tools we use to utilize the
internet are very much a technology. Radio waves are not themselves a
technology, but they require a technology to be transmitted and received. It
certainly would be useless if your transmitter did not use the same
standardized technology as my receiver. Perhaps in light of this, the
responsibility should be even more so on the part of the browser
manufacturer to adopt and stick to established standards, and then we as web
developers would be required to build for that technology standard. Keeping
in mind of course that we're already there almost completely, but some of us
have radios that can only pick up some of the FM stations, and others of us
have three radios so we can listen to them all, if you know what I mean.

BH




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