[thelist] Re: Why code for standards

[martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com]

Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers

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Time for a bit of devil's advocacy:

Why do we want to code for standards? Is it to avoid the
extra work involved in multiple sets of coding plus the
intelligence to serve the correct one?

Now I can see the point of that in a booming economy when
we're all overloaded with work, but that's not the case anymore.

Times are hard. We're short of work. We have to work our backsides
off to find it.

So why are we turning away free work handed to us on a plate? And
more - there are a lot of people who *only* know standards (or one
browser). Knowing how to code round a lot of them is a competitive
advantage - sell it to your clients as a 'must have' requirement for a
professional, and you lock out your competitors.

Who wouldn't do that?

Cheers
Martin




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

But I think that's exactly it, we are tired of coding
for browsers. We want standards. We want to code for
standards.



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