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Newer page: | version 2 | Last edited on Tuesday, August 12, 2003 3:56:35 pm | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
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Complying with the standards ([RFC]s, [IETF] documents etc) instead of doing things your own way and causing pain to people.)
Examples: in the WebBrowser world, InternetExplorer is NOT StandardsCompliant. [Mozilla] is. However, InternetExplorer is big (90% of all the web maybe?) so its intracies and syntax have become just as important to designers who want their pages to look good and read well.
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+As an old adage goes (roughly), ''the nice thing about standards is that everyone can pick one for themselves''.