Damn, blogger just ate a big rant that I wrote up over that new WaSP Wired News Article. If I feel up to it, I’ll write some of it back up, but it had to do with web standards being an issue from way back (anyone remember Wilbur and the HTML 3.0 mess?), browsers still being a problem (try to write XHTML 1.1 and dealing with the 16% of visitors still using Netscape 4), and the irony that there are more bugs, hacks and workarounds with CSS2 then there ever was with tables. But that yeah, I agree with the vision, the article and the arguments brought up just rubbed me the wrong way. And having just gone through interviewing for a web designer/developer, yeah, there’s a disproportionate amount of people in the industry who don’t know anything about the web whatsoever.
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