RE: Hoot of the week . . .

YEA !!!!

This is the best rational I have seen for using 4.xSTRICT.

Thanks Darrell!
Fuzzy.



At 06:13 AM 12/15/01 , Darrell wrote:
>Sometimes, it's not just about making the page viewable in browsers (gasp!)
>
>Sometimes, it's about *wanting* to move toward the separation of structure
>and presentation.
>
>I don't use WYSIWYGS much.  I once had my company using Dreamweaver for site
>maintenance, but I found we had to upload every HTML file in the site
>whenever we changed a template item (we work on local development versions.)
>So, I changed our policy and we now use a PHP-driven template system.  If we
>add a link to a menu, we upload 1 file, and all 250 pages (or whatever) are
>changed.
>
>This is an excellent example of efficiency.  A system with independent
>structure and presentation is another.  To be able to present content to an
>HTML browser, an XML viewer, a text-to-speech, a printer and a WAP device
>just by changing a stylesheets appeals to the same part of me that the
>template system above did.
>
>I agree, sometimes (often!) we need to use transitional approaches to get
>the job done.  However, I will keep lamenting the need and pushing the
>envelope because I don't code just to get the job done...I code to keep up
>with tomorrow, because it becomes yesterday so quickly in this business!
>
>:)
>
>D 
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