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Are 99.9% of Websites Obsolete?
citizenkeller writes "Zeldman is at it again: " Though their owners and managers may not know it yet, 99.9% of all websites are obsolete. These sites may look and work all right in mainstream, desktop browsers whose names end in the numbers 4 or 5. But outside these fault-tolerant environments, the symptoms of disease and decay have already started to appear.""
99.9% of websites are offer crap. Roll the presses!
Our website is not only obsolete (it was designed that way from the ground up), but it's ugly and almost entirely non-functional too! Mainly we use it to harbor and distribute viruses inside the company. It's been very effective.
Now that he's completely met his goal of total obsolescence, our webmaster spends every day looking for new ways to make our website even less useful, uglier, and more of a pain-in-the-ass to use. He's been very effective.
Here's a condensed version of the article for those who don't have time to slog through it:
1. Standards are good.
2. Bad code that happens to work in current browsers is bad.
3. Buy my book.
It's Slashdot's evil twin... SlashNOT
Just as Ford defines what a Taurus or a Focus is and does, so does MS as to what IE is and does. The internet is a celebration of individuality. Everyone has their own 'way' of doing things.
Particularly Microsoft. I applaud their attempts to encourage individuality by setting their own standards. This proves that Bill Gates loves us all (I think).
The Internet didn't become what it was today through standardization- thank God that pesky TCP/IP plan never took off.
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