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Posted by windandwaves on 10/14/05 04:43
Travis Newbury wrote:
> "windandwaves" <winandwaves@coldmail.com> said:
>> I am not actually angry about people making a mess, but what
>> annoys me is that their page can "look" just as tidy as html
>> strict with superbly formatted stylesheets, etc...
>
> I think there are a heck of a lot of people out there that "prefer"
> the looks you can get with that shity code.
>
>
>> How do you convince your clients they need to clean up their
>> mess "behind the scenes"? and can we blame frontpage +
>> dreamweaver for this mess?
>
> Tell him about all the nerds and geeks that use something other than
> FF or IE that his pages may not look exactly the same way in... I am
> sure you will knock their sox off when you show them how great it
> "looks" to a blind person...
>
> Ok, I may be joking a litle, but that is argument you will have to
> win ESPECIALLY if they perceive their current website as being
> sucessfull.
You will win the argument, but not the commercial argument, because for
small and medium-sized business with a couple of hundred clients each year,
the blind and the ultrageeks are a very smalll percentage of their customers
(if any).
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