Straw man #1:
I never said that you should be focusing on creating valid XHTML at the cost of it rendering in 'popular' browsers, or anything close. I said, or at least tried to say, that the problem is with the mindset of working on pages to fix them for a particular browser, rather than fixing them to the standards. Fixing them to the standards does not imply immediately abandoning all testing in or care for support of 'popular' browsers: you'd have to be an idiot web designer in the *other* direction to do so.
Straw man #2:
Accusing me of saying that "web designers are idiots". I didn't say this; given the amount of work I seem to end up doing we web-related things, it'd be somewhat self-degrading. I said "*many* web designers are idiots", and there are 'many' hideously-constructed sites out there, in terms of standards, usability, and/or accessability to back that up. Dumb corporate policy may be a contributory factor, but certainly not the sole, or even major, one. |
