Why people like me are going bonkers over web standards
There is solid ground to the campaign that some of the more responsible web developers are running these days, to promote web standards and educate people about the same. Go ahead and read what some of the people in the industry have to say about using web standards to code websites:
The web standards way is the way we should have built the web from the beginning.
Roger Johansson - 456bereastreet.comIn the case of ESPN (which recently adopted Web standards), the savings include 50% reduction of page weight to 50kb, with 40 M page views per day, this translates to a saving of 2 TB/day, 61 TB/month and 730 TB/year. Take your ISP contract, your Web statistics, and do the math.
The Web Standards ProjectThe economic benefits of standardization are tangible. Once we can quantify them, businesses will begin realize the true promise of the Web - interoperable content freely shared.
Jeffrey Veen - Adaptive Path (MindMap - now with Google)Regaining developer trust when we had broken the web was a way of bringing them back in to show them best case scenarios, accessibility, maintainability and reuse. We had to create a love affair with a truly standards compliant platform.
Stuart - muffinresearch.co.uk (Yahoo!)A problem is that people seem to think that validation is for the good of the web developer. To slap on a badge of being valid, boast about it to your fellow web developers, maybe show-case it in some conference and that's it. However, having valid content is not to have something to be proud of; it's a given cornerstone for stable web sites and for doing your job properly as a web developer.
Robert NymanThe relevance of Web standards is most obvious when we consider emerging technologies. In these times of tremendous growth, the Web needs guidance in order to reach its full potential - and standards can serve as the perfect guides to help realize that potential.
Denis Boudreau