{"id":137,"date":"2006-11-24T00:40:16","date_gmt":"2006-11-24T05:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2006\/web-standards-real-world\/"},"modified":"2018-07-21T09:46:42","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T14:46:42","slug":"web-standards-real-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2006\/web-standards-real-world\/","title":{"rendered":"How important is web standards and clean xhtml in the real world?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/audio\/web_standards_real_world.mp3\" target=\"podcast\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image127\" src=\"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/podcast_icon_large_text.gif\" alt=\"podcast_icon\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With all these Web standards zealots running around proudly placing W3C validation buttons on their websites, you have to ask yourself:<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone really care about web standards, clean code (xhtml, html and css) in the real world?<\/p>\n<p><strong>THE SAD TRUTH<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Only in large companies (if you&#8217;re lucky,) and government might you find someone that <em>may<\/em> care. Sorry zealots, you can take down your little W3C buttons now &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The web design community codes itself into an academic dreamland sometimes. That&#8217;s why I attacked the web-standards-movement in the past &#8230; the leaders were misleading the &#8216;faithful&#8217; down the path to the unemployment line.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PAYING WEB DESIGN, IS ABOUT BUSINESS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day, all this web design junk is there to do, is to get out a message.<\/p>\n<p>As for business, they don&#8217;t care about code validation and other nerd stuff that the web design zealots have fooled everyone into believing really means anything in the real world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL FOR <a href=\"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2006\/web-design-degrees\/\">CODE-MONKEYS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But in the programming world, code quality moves to the front &#8211; well near the front of the line. This is because good code means faster more adaptable software &#8211; this has a bottom-line ($) affect.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; On the other hand:<\/p>\n<p>Clean, standards compliant web design code (html\/xhtml and css,) does not have any financial impact for most sites:<\/p>\n<p>In the days of super cheap hosting and bandwidth, saving a few kilobytes on a web page amounts to nothing &#8211; most of us are not building sites that have millions of page-views!<\/p>\n<p>So if you&#8217;re a frustrated web designer who is obsessed with code, you should get into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.killerphp.com\">php programming<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>By Stefan Mischook<\/p>\n<p>www.killersites.com<br \/>\nwww.killerphp.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all these Web standards zealots running around proudly placing W3C validation buttons on their websites, you have to ask yourself: Does anyone really care about web standards, clean code (xhtml, html and css) in the real world? THE SAD TRUTH Only in large companies (if you&#8217;re lucky,) and government might you find someone that &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5569,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/5569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}