November 20, 2003

Better Living Through Standards

From a web developer after updating an old, non-standards compliant site:

Of course, at the end of the day, I've had something reaffirmed for me as well: folks, it's not worth working without web standards any more. That's it: no zealotry, no nothing. If I'd started with a foundation of valid, well-structured markup that was styled by CSS and scripted through the DOM, I wouldn't be ranting at you today. But now, I've a solution in place that's about 60% lighter than the previous one, degrades gracefully to older, non-compliant browsers, and ensures that I won't have to deal with another “later” in another two years.