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Problems at the W3C

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the family-feud dept.

dustin writes "Public outcry against the workings of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is growing. On Sunday, Björn Höhrmann announced his departure in a lengthy critique of problems at the W3C. Web standards champion Zeldman adds his comments as well: 'Beholden to its corporate paymasters who alone can afford membership, the W3C seems increasingly detached from ordinary designers and developers.'"

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  1. All hail Flash. by supabeast! · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    This sort of crap is why more and more web development is going to be heading to Flash. It's bad enough that the two major browser developers can't get it together and give us full implementations of the W3C standards, but the W3C itself is a nightmarish group of technocrats arguing over what crazed esoteric implementation path the next versions of XHTML and CSS will follow.

    As a designer, why should I give a damn about the W3C and its standards when the W3C can't even get it together? Why should I spend my days debugging issues caused by convoluted standards piecemealed together by a bunch of wacky nerds when I can just fire up Flash and just lay out websites however I want to? I'm sure that people can give me the usual speeches about open standards, accessibility, etc., but I don't see that kind of rational thought in the work of the W3C. What I see when I look at the standards they churn out reminds me of Stallman and HURD - well intentioned, but unlikely to ever produce something that most people want to deal with.

    If the W3C can't get it together, XHTML/CSS are going to fade away as more and more developers get sick of esoteric markup languages and Flash will conquer the web.

    But hey, at least Adobe seems like a better overlord than Microsoft...