Posted by Kevin Scholl on 09/14/06 23:40

Runnin' on Empty wrote:

>> I reiterate... regardless of what all goes on in the background,
>> ultimately everything the user sees is sent to the browser as HTML. As
>> such, if everyone involved does their job, it is perfectly POSSIBLE for
>> any site as you describe to be accomplished with a standards-based
>> approach, and indeed even validate. The trick, and the part that is seldom
>> realized, is getting the various developers to all use that
>> standards-based approach.
>>
>> If you are merely saying that it is not often done, then I couldn't
>> agree more. But there's a difference between not doing something, and not
>> being able to do it.
>>
>> That's my point, nothing more.
>
> That reminds me of a song...
>
> In the Big Rock Candy Mountains there's a land that's fair and bright
> Where the handouts grow on bushes and you sleep out every night
> Where the boxcars are all empty and the sun shines every day
> On the birds and the bees and the cigarette trees
> Where the lemonade springs where the bluebird sings
> In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
>
> In the Big Rock Candy Mountains all the cops have wooden legs
> And the bulldogs all have rubber teeth and the hens lay soft boiled eggs
> The farmer's trees are full of fruit and the barns are full of hay
> Oh, I'm bound to go where there ain't no snow
> Where the rain don't fall and the wind don't blow
> In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
>
> In the Big Rock Candy Mountains you never change your socks
> And the little streams of alcohol come a-trickling down the rocks
> The brakemen have to tip their hats and the railroad bulls are blind
> There's a lake of stew and of whiskey too
> You can paddle all around 'em in a big canoe
> In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
>
> In the Big Rock Candy Mountains the jails are made of tin
> And you can walk right out again as soon as you are in
> There ain't no short handled shovels, no axes saws or picks
> I'm a goin to stay where you sleep all day
> Where they hung the jerk that invented work
> In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
>
> I'll see you all this coming fall in the Big Rock Candy Mountains

Heh heh ... not sure what THAT'S all about, but amusing nonetheless.

> So yeah, I guess you're right....if we lived in a perfect world, and all the
> many hands the web code passes through were capable, standards driven
> hands.... then there's no reason it shouldn't.... that's just not the world
> we live in.

Indeed. Shame, too, because it's a world that we as the developers have
the power to change. Unfortunately, some are just too lazy to actually
exercise that power.

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