Re: [xml-dev] Re: [ubl-dev] Technology heavy-weights consider thefuture

[Rick Marshall <rjm@zenucom.com>]

Even when you conform it doesn't work. I test everything on Firefox and 
IE 6 for javascript and css errors. Once the errors are gone, one then 
has to deal with the imponderable of the layout engines ...

And while I'm on it, my nuisance of the week is the the css "float" 
option. We all know that we should use divs instead of tables for layout 
control (sic) which is fine, except that divs with a style "float:right" 
have to be written in reverse order (ie the right hand one first, the 
one just to the left of it etc and finally the stuff that's floating 
around them ... that is not intuitive, not even sure it's *WELL* documented)

wrong list i know, but the subject is standards writing, interpretation, 
and conformance

Rick

Len Bullard wrote:
>
> Everyone knows how to play the Standards Game these days. Few have the 
> tenacity and talent to write good standards and fewer organizations 
> can afford them. If the standard requires a consulting army to 
> implement, things are worse. Standards are supposed to relieve that 
> stress, not make it worse.
>
> If you want an eye opener with regard to the fault tolerance and 
> variation of even the common stacks, turn on your Jscript/Javascript 
> debugger in your web browser and surf your favorite sites and a 
> variety of others. It’s amazing anything on the public web works.
>
> len
>
>
> *From:* Fraser Goffin [mailto:goffinf@googlemail.com]
>
> Technologies come and go as they always have and we adjust accordingly 
> (agile anyone). Long term strategic initiatives are a massively hard 
> sell these days, and perhaps rightly so. Most Project Managers I know 
> have trouble looking beyond the immediate delivery and the set of 
> problems that it addresses. Most architects are having a tough time 
> getting funding for long term infrastructure spend, and many supposed 
> pundits are already planning their meal tickets on the back of the 
> next hype curve. The rest of us are just getting on with the job.
>