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Thursday 18 October 2007
Standards Needs and Wants
What do you need and want from Web Standards?
- I want generated content
- I want CSS3 features, especially design-oriented techniques such as better flow and layout, multiple background graphics, etc.
- I want to rebuild the Web
Rebuilding the Web would be a very sexy pipe dream from which we all woke up with cream in our respective jeans.
I’m hoping CSS3 is more sexy. I kinda think it offers us a lot.
Part of my role is to ask and to translate the collective concerns to organizations that need to hear (and most importantly, understand) your needs. I personally don’t know what is “correct” or “right” really. So, I’m asking. And I’ll keep asking, and hopefully our voices will have some impact. I believe they can, and ultimately will.
Would readers be so kind as to tell me what your role is (designer/developer/implementor/other) in your answer as that will help me understand the context of your responses?
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Posted by: Molly | 22:16 | Comments (54)
Comments (54)
So, is anyone counting how many want “browser consistency” first, and then improvements?
I am a web developer (frontend and backend)
– I want working, complete implementations of CSS1 and 2.
– I want to be able to forget about conditional comments and hasLayout and I don’t want to have to opt out of a new type of quirksmode in IE.Next
– I want working SVG Tiny or more in all browsers
– I want working zoom functions that work like either in Firefox or Opera; that doesn’t produce horizontal scrollbars on em-based relative layouts and float bugs like IE’s page zoom and that can be found and operated by normal, uneducated users
– I want alternative stylesheet switching support in Browsers in a way that can be found and operated by normal users and which remembers style settings, preferably with a user interface like the one that the Stylesheet Chooser Plus extension for Firefox offers
– I want browsers and especially assistive technology to support relationships in a reasonable way and I want an additional rel=”sitemap” for sitemaps
– I want IE.Next to be delivered with a current version of Uniscribe so that Asian Language Support becomes better and I want a Uniscribe Updater program from Microsoft for people who still use Win2000
– I want XHTML support in browsers including incremental rendering and I want that people understand that microformats are fundamentally broken since they have no mechanism of name spaces and that people use XHTML or something else instead
– I want screen readers to support aural CSS
– I want CSS-based content generation
– I want that Mozilla doesn’t run ahead like crazy and that IE doesn’t wait behind with ECMAscript
– I want web developers to be be careful when using @font-face as to not increase page load too much and browser developers that implement it to take care about @font-face related security issues
And after these things are fine, more “fancy” stuff can be added to the web, as long as there are standards for it.
Well, I guess you get the idea
Keep up the good work
Christian
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