Re: RE: Site for cririque - take 2

Hello All...

Well, guess I could continue this thread as one of the negative critiques 
of those buttons was mine.

At 08:05 AM 5/7/2002 -0700, Carole Gay wrote:
>Hi Everybody,
>
>Well, guess I need to answer this question, since it's my class.

>Hmmm, do you know how to validate your sites?  Do you believe in 
>Standards? Shouldn't we promote them?

Hmmm, let's not make assumptions regarding knowledge/opinions NOT expressed 
in a critique.

I don't recall anyone disparaging the actual standards themselves. The 
belief that the display of these buttons on a commercial web site is 
inappropriate for the stated reasons does NOT indicate a lack of support 
for the actual standards,  does NOT indicate that someone is unaware of how 
to validate a site and does NOT indicate an unawareness of "what they are 
for or why they are used".

>The ONLY reason for using them is to demonstrate W3C compliance and 
>support for Standards.  If you don't know
>what they are for or why they are used, perhaps you should take some 
>classes, particularly the Accessibility class
>offered by the IWG/HWG.  The icons for these are much more valuable than 
>all those "download this plug-in" and
>"buy this product" ever were or will be!

Support of the standards is a good idea. The best demonstration of that 
support in a commercial web site for whatever standards are in question 
would be to actually meet those standards.

Promotion of the standards with visible buttons on a commercial web site 
remains a poor idea.

Oh yah... I almost forgot... the reason that commercial web sites exist is 
to display icons for "buy this product", "request your quote", "chat with a 
sales rep now", etc, etc.

Steve

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