A List Apart: Articles: Where Our Standards Went Wrong

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Egonbianchet on 2008-03-21 - Tags webdesign , webstandards
Meratspain on 2007-03-18 - Tags css , sales , salespeech , standards
Vanderwal on 2007-02-28 - Tags article , css , design , html , standards , xhtml , webdev , webdesign , web , accessibility , business

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shorten development cycles, as we no longer have to slog through through six layers of nested tables to build site templates.

lower maintenance costs, as the CSS Zen Garden showed us.

decrease page weight, which in turn reduces page load times and dramatically lowers bandwidth costs (we’ve Mike Davidson’s excellent ESPN.com interview to thank for those metrics).

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A proven increase in a site’s accessibility,

The promise of device independence,

The presence of a metric against which an individual or a team’s production can be measured, and

The knowledge that your site is future-proof, displaying in any standards-compliant browser yet to be invented.

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Toward the end of my first year in business, I noticed that more and more of my time was spent working around invalid code. Layout issues that would have been trivial to fix in a valid, error-free template would take significantly longer to debug in a live page that had a few hundred validation errors. It was a matter of figuring out which parts of the page weren’t causing the errors, so I could focus on fixing the problematic section. But when the page’s markup has three or four hundred validation errors, this process quickly becomes a time sink. A necessary one, but a sink nonetheless.

So by year’s end, I found that approximately fifteen percent of my time was spent mired in invalid code

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