Fun: HOWTO Spot a Wannabe Web Standards Advocate

Thought you might enjoy this. ------- Forwarded message ------- From: "Karl Dubost" &lt;karl(a)w3.org&gt; To: &quot;&#39;public-evangelist(a)w3.org&#39; w3. org" &lt;public-evangelist(a)w3.org&gt; Subject: HOWTO Spot a Wannabe Web Standards Advocate Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 20:10:30 -0000 Evangelistas, [[[ HOWTO Spot a Wannabe Web Standards Advocate If there is a match, you have spotted a wannabe. * Talks about the importance of the alt tag. * Claims <b> and <i> are deprecated. * And spells it %u201Cdepreciated%u201D. * Uses <span style="font-style: italic;">, because <i> is presentational. * Wants software to use <em> and <strong> when the UI says italic and bold. * Marks up quoted text as <cite>. * Complains about upper-case tags in HTML. * Claims XHTML 1.0 is more semantic than HTML 4.01. * Claims XHTML 1.0 is more structured than HTML 4.01. * Claims XHTML 1.0 is less presentational than HTML 4.01. * Claims browsers parse XHTML served as text/html faster than they parse HTML. * Refers to %u201Cthe benefits of XHTML%u201D without specifying what the benefits are. * Uses large XHTML 1.0 Transitional documents with table layouts while claiming enhanced compatibility with handheld devices thanks to XHTML. * %u201CFuture proofs%u201D a site by migrating from HTML 4.01 Transitional to XHTML 1.0 Transitional and keeps serving it as text/ html with all the old JavaScript scripts in place. * Uses the XML empty element notation on pages that are supposed to be HTML pages. * Complains about doctypeless application/xhtml+xml or SVG documents and smugly points to validator.w3.org. * Claims all tables are evil. * Advocates pixel-based absolute CSS positioning as the righteous replacement for evil tables. * Changes //EN at the end of the public identifier in the doctype to the language code of the language the page is written in. * Omits the namespace declaration in XHTML or SVG and claims it is OK, because it validates. * Serves documents written using a home-grown XML vocabulary along with an XSLT transformation to HTML to browsers instead of serving HTML, because XML is more semantic. ]]] -- HOWTO Spot a Wannabe Web Standards Advocate http://hsivonen.iki.fi/wannabe/ Wed, 27 Jul 2005 17:06:31 GMT -- Jim Stuttard