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Posted by Matt Probert on 06/03/06 17:46
On Sat, 03 Jun 2006 10:03:28 -0600, Chris Gunn <cgunn@bizynet.com>
wrote:
>On Sat, 03 Jun 2006 09:30:31 -0600, www@probertencyclopaedia.com (Matt
>Probert) wrote:
>
>>Wow Chris, some controversial arguments put forward there! This should
>>set the temperature rising!
>
>Howdy Matt,
>
>Lots of people are confused about what W3C is advocating. If they had their
>way, every web page on the Internet would have to be rebuilt at least once a
>year. Not a very good attitude on their part.
I'm with you all the way. I leave the nonsense to the academics, and
get on with running a successful web site.
>
>They are the knights in imaginary shining armor tilting at windmills and I
>prefer being a hard nosed business man and programmer. I build profitable
>web sites that sell products and I hand code every web page. I don't have
>time to type a bunch of surplus characters when a tag like <TH> gets the job
>done.
Ditto.
>>From a business perspective, with an increasingly global market,
>>should not US-based companies start recognising the global nature of
>>their prospective clients and display their telephone numbers in
>>standard international notation, rather than assuming US and local?
>
>I prefer "(505) 586-1225", which is easier to read. I suppose you could run
>it together as "1(505)586-1225" so it's still clear. What I really hate are
>programmers that insist it be typed as "15055861225" because they are too
>lazy or unskilled to parse out the punctuation. Similar for credit card
>numbers that are easier to type and read with the spaces retained.
Okay, I guess most of your business sites deal with customers in the
same country? This will perhaps change with time. I'm in the UK, I
sell in France, to Americans, with a server in Canada.....
>
>The prejudices against "foreign" languages is rampant in many places in the
>way our computers and keyboards were originally designed. The original
>ASCII character set covered things pretty well but far too many programmers
>refused to support the upper 128 characters and didn't know what to do with
>the lower 32. Even today, when you try to transfer quotes and apostrophes
>from MSWord to web pages, you get square boxes.
Oh tell me about it. I once had to interpret Slovak. The ISO character
set was incorrect for the alphabet. We got there eventually, however.
Matt
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