Re: need help with an explanation

Fact is You did not need those HTML tags in the past
few version's but you did need them at one time which
tells us that if a lower browser version hit your page
you had better have them or possibly generate
errors...

My wife works for a school Distric and this mean two
things.. 1) Mac. Systems.. and 2)no money therefor
lowend Mac's and low end browser as they have now
memory or money for upgrades... that is a big hunck of
people and I for one rely on mt township as much as
the guy cross country....

Just add the stupid tags Be safe not sorry.. You you
do not know him/her you would wear a condum would you
not?




--- Karin Ransdell <kransdell(at)squishedmosquito.com>
wrote:
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Catenae Web Sites <catenae(at)catenae.com>
> To: Kristin Henry <krhenry(at)sirius.com>; HWG
> Techniques
> <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
> Date: Monday, June 19, 2000 11:26 AM
> Subject: Re: need help with an explanation
> 
> 
> >there may come a time in the
> >not so distant future when such strict stuctures
> *are* necessary to
> >differentiate between document types. At that
> point, sloppy coding
> >practices will have to be cleaned up, so why start
> with them
> 
> (applause)
> Sure, (*some*) browsers might render (*some*) pages
> without all the
> "troublesome little tags", but does anyone really
> want to take that chance?
> Particularly when it only takes an instant to do it
> right to begin with?
> And here's another one-word explanation:
> consistency.  If you have 100 pages
> that have the tags and 1 that doesn't, what are you
> inclined to do?  That's
> what conventions are all about.  Good coding is like
> good baseball, if you
> play by the rules, you get to stay in the game.
> 
> Always think in future terms.  Look at your own
> situation.  You're coming in
> behind someone who has a different concept than you.
>  What about the person
> who follows you?  I shudder to think of where some
> software programs would
> be right now if programmers hadn't followed the
> conventions of their
> programming languages.  It's the "it renders, so who
> cares" attitude that
> makes so many so-called hardcore language
> programmers look to HTML
> developers as "script puppies", "code wannabies" and
> "slop hackers".
> Believe me, I've heard this plenty from the back-end
> folks I work with and
> when you look at a lot of HTML source code, it's
> easy to see why.  It's
> probably the least structured language out there and
> historically sloppy
> HTML coders have a more difficult time moving into
> something like Perl, PHP,
> or even Javascript, if they've cultivated the
> attitude that "it renders, so
> who cares."
> 
> ---------------------
> Karin Ransdell - kransdell(at)squishedmosquito.com
> Escapade Development Team
> Squished Mosquito, Inc.
> http://www.squishedmosquito.com -
> http://www.escapade.org
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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