[thelist] Re: Why code for standards

[Peter-Paul Koch]

>Sometimes a harmless little non-valid attribute can make the site easier to
>use for some visitors. Sometimes perfectly valid HTML combined with good
>CSS
>can break the site for some or even most browsers - IE5 box model bug,
>anyone? So you have to know the browsers inside out, not just naively churn
>out
>code that makes the validators happy.

Yes, in general I agree completely.

However, for the clueless newbie who has only coded for IE5, starting with
the standards is a good idea, as long as you don't think the standards will
solve all problems for you.

But in the end you code for browsers, not for standards (though the two
increasingly overlap).

ppk

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