[Web4lib] Resources? -- Web Standards and Semantic Markup

[Tim Spalding]

There are no rules in web design. There is, rather, a bunch of people
who believe that you should write code in a certain way, and the
actual "industry" that has learned something from them, but was never
fully persuaded.

The industry and most web developers didn't learn "rules first" then
start deviating. They learned the way people did it, and were later
told they were deviants.

Ultimately, these are questions of ideology, taste, personality and
practice, not "rules" in any meaningful sense. The priest and the
rabbi don't care; the police consider it a family matter.

Tim

On 5/1/07, K.G. Schneider <kgs at bluehighways.com> wrote:
> > I'm in hearty agreement with you on this, Tim.  The Champeon article is
> > particularly good on how you can get it wrong despite complying with
> > standards.  If good design were easy, everyone with a validator would be
> > doing it.  The danger is in thinking you can get by without knowing what
> > your doing by merely following the letter of standards and using
> > "friendly" tools.
>
> The practice in most disciplines is to learn the rules so you know what
> you're deviating from.
>
> K.G. Schneider
> kgs at bluehighways.com
>
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