As the president and chief designer of my young web design business...
I feel that my first priority is the presentation of my client's websites. Their clients won't know (much less care) if my client's site is W3C validated. Now, with that said, I have modified my coding habits to resolve the vast majority of nitpicky things that the validators balk at. Things like closing tags in a different order than they were opened... using instead of ... not closing tags at all... that kind of stuff. Once the site presents perfectly, I do go back, and make the site validate. However, I haven't bothered to notify my clients. If they get curious and run my work through a validator, they'll be even more pleased with their purchase.
I am a contractor working at AT&T, and I get the same corporate emails that AT&T employees get. Here is the email that we all got this morning regarding Comcast:To all AT&T employees,
By now I'm sure you've seen media coverage about Comcast's offer to acquire AT&T Broadband. I wanted to be sure you had information about AT&T's position on this unsolicited bid. Here's our position:
We recently had some informal conversations with Comcast at their request. However, those conversations never led to any concrete proposals and there is no truth to the rumor that we agreed on valuation or reached an impasse over so-called "social issues."
We have no current plans to sell our Broadband business, including the transaction proposed yesterday by Comcast.
However, we will evaluate the Comcast proposal and do what is in the best long-term interest of our shareowners.
Our current plan is to proceed with the restructuring that we announced last October. To date, the restructuring is on schedule. We continue to reduce our debt. We conducted a successful exchange offer for AT&T Wireless shares. Just last Friday, we sold $1.6 billion of our AT&T Wireless stake. And today we successfully split off AT&T Wireless as a separate company.
If you receive any media inquiries regarding the Comcast offer, please contact xxxxx xxxxxxx at xxx xxx-xxxx. Refer inquiries from financial analysts to xxxxxx xxxxxx at xxx xxx-xxxx.
Dick Martin
Executive Vice President
Public Relations
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As the president and chief designer of my young web design business... I feel that my first priority is the presentation of my client's websites. Their clients won't know (much less care) if my client's site is W3C validated. Now, with that said, I have modified my coding habits to resolve the vast majority of nitpicky things that the validators balk at. Things like closing tags in a different order than they were opened... using
instead of
... not closing tags at all... that kind of stuff. Once the site presents perfectly, I do go back, and make the site validate. However, I haven't bothered to notify my clients. If they get curious and run my work through a validator, they'll be even more pleased with their purchase.
I am a contractor working at AT&T, and I get the same corporate emails that AT&T employees get. Here is the email that we all got this morning regarding Comcast:To all AT&T employees, By now I'm sure you've seen media coverage about Comcast's offer to acquire AT&T Broadband. I wanted to be sure you had information about AT&T's position on this unsolicited bid. Here's our position: We recently had some informal conversations with Comcast at their request. However, those conversations never led to any concrete proposals and there is no truth to the rumor that we agreed on valuation or reached an impasse over so-called "social issues." We have no current plans to sell our Broadband business, including the transaction proposed yesterday by Comcast. However, we will evaluate the Comcast proposal and do what is in the best long-term interest of our shareowners. Our current plan is to proceed with the restructuring that we announced last October. To date, the restructuring is on schedule. We continue to reduce our debt. We conducted a successful exchange offer for AT&T Wireless shares. Just last Friday, we sold $1.6 billion of our AT&T Wireless stake. And today we successfully split off AT&T Wireless as a separate company. If you receive any media inquiries regarding the Comcast offer, please contact xxxxx xxxxxxx at xxx xxx-xxxx. Refer inquiries from financial analysts to xxxxxx xxxxxx at xxx xxx-xxxx. Dick Martin Executive Vice President Public Relations