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WaSP Survey

by anders pearson Tue 08 Jun 2004 11:21:22

at the "Web Standards Project":http://webstandards.org/, we've been in the process of reinventing ourselves. originally formed to pressure browser makers into supporting "web standards":http://w3.org/, lately, we've been changing our focus to developer education. all the browser support in the world will mean nothing if 99% of the pages on the web use invalid markup. to help shape this new mission, we've put up a "survey":http://webstandards.org/press/releases/archive/2004/06/08/ to find out a little more about the web developer community. if you are a web developer, please go fill it out and send us your comments.
TAGS: web standards survey

comments

ouwiyaru - Tue 08 Jun 2004 16:46:23

This is what I entered into the comments section: I'm a passive member of the standards community--meaning I use them, but don't help design them, etc. However, I've noticed the current breed of standards coming out of W3C is FAR less usable and readable than in the past. A perfect example is X-Forms which may add many very important features, however they seem to have abandoned all pretense of readability--requiring headers which can't really be set locally within a form. Even the most basic form seems like it would be writing in a _programming language_ rather than mark-up text. Why did the <form> tag have to disappear? Whereas, you don't mention this as an item affecting broader use of standards, I think it's inevitable for this to affect use, since composer tools will have to be ever-more widely used and usable for adoption to spread.

anders pearson - Tue 08 Jun 2004 23:32:15

thanks, sky. fwiw, there are at least a few of us at the WaSP who definitely agree with you.

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