thumperward wrote:It doesn't cost a fortune to remove a bogus element from a CSS layout. It seems that often the cost implied in making a site standards-complient is blown well out of proportion.
- Chris
It's not as simple as that... (and i AM playing devil's advocate here.. i try to write all my pages in xhtml strict)..
but imagine ur an e-commerce company and 95% of ur target market uses ie 5.0 in 800x600 resolution (these figures are not made up)... Do you write pages that support standards even if they might break on ie5 because of bad implementation? or do you write pages that "look good" on ur target market's browsers?
I don't necessarily agree with the latter... But it's just to illustrate it's not a clear-cut simple issue.
I believe all personal (or non ecommenrce) webpages should be written in xhtml sctrict in an attempt to force people upgrade their browsers.