My Thoughts » standards http://martijnpannevis.nl/blog It compiles; Let's ship it! Mon, 13 Dec 2010 13:18:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 That works nice in theory, but will never work in practice http://martijnpannevis.nl/blog/2008/03/19/the-problem-with-standards-is-that-there-are-so-many-of-them/ http://martijnpannevis.nl/blog/2008/03/19/the-problem-with-standards-is-that-there-are-so-many-of-them/#comments Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:57:16 +0000 Martijn http://martijnpannevis.nl/blog/?p=23 I have been planning to do more “I read this, liked it, have a look there” type of posts. Maybe I’ll create a specific linkblog for it, or work some del.icio.us magic, or just stick with small posts. Not sure on that one yet, but this is a good article, I really liked (as most of Joel’s articles).

Two quotes:

“The IE team has to walk a fine line between tight support for W3C standards and making sure sites coded for earlier versions of IE still display correctly.” This is incorrect. It’s not a fine line. It’s a line of negative width. There is no place to walk. They are damned if they do and damned if they don’t. ”

“As usual, the idealists are 100% right in principle and, as usual, the pragmatists are right in practice. The flames will continue for years. This debate precisely splits the world in two. If you have a way to buy stock in Internet flame wars, now would be a good time to do that.”

Without further ado: Go! Read: Martian Headsets – Joel on Software

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