{"id":33,"date":"2005-02-08T18:02:11","date_gmt":"2005-02-08T23:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/?p=33"},"modified":"2017-02-23T10:07:22","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T15:07:22","slug":"web-standards-raison-detre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2005\/web-standards-raison-detre\/","title":{"rendered":"The raison d&#039;\u00c3\u00aatre for the Web Standards."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst all the nerd talk, it&#8217;s rare that you actually get a concise explanation of the <strong>ultimate<\/strong> purpose of the Web Standards &#8230; so I&#8217;ve decided to state it here for those who may be interested:<\/p>\n<p><strong>The raison d&#8217;\u00c3\u00aatre for the Web Standards: <\/strong>to simplify the web design work-flow.<\/p>\n<p>Keep that in mind when you are doing your web design work; if you find you&#8217;re getting caught up in details that will not have any practical impact on the project&#8217;s success &#8230; you must learn to think (and work,) outside of the Web Standards box.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not saying to forget the Standards (heaven forbid,) all I&#8217;m suggesting is that you remember that your ultimate goal is to build  quality websites as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Case in point:<\/strong> The use of <a target = \"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/mvnforum\/mvnforum\/viewthread?thread=3151#15778\">IE conditional comments<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of using questionable CSS hacks to make your web pages work in both IE and Standards compliant browsers (FireFox etc,) it is better to use a the non-standard IE conditional comments.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Why?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>IE conditional comments are forward and backward compatible (in Internet Explorer,) and will not break functionality in the other browsers &#8211; thus you can safely use them to isolate CSS code for IE.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conclusion:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>IE conditional comments are NOT part of the Web Standards (that&#8217;s for sure!) but they offer a better solution than the hodgepodge of widely touted and soon to be breaking CSS hacks.  <\/p>\n<p>Yes, we are thinking and working outside of the Web Standards box &#8230; but by golly, it works better! <\/p>\n<p>The web heretic. (a.k.a.: Stefan Mischook)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst all the talk, it is rare that you actually get a concise explanation regarding the ultimate purpose of the Web Standards &#8230; so I&#039;ve decided to state it here for those who may be interested &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33"}],"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=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4780,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/4780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}