Comments on: Web standards in South Africa – Top 10 SA sites validated

By: Antony Carthy

Antony Carthy — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:04:39 +0000

Cool article, but you haven’t W3C’d this site either…

I don’t like Internet businesses who don’t create compliant websites. I sometimes wish browsers were not so forgiving.

To be fair though, I often have to take short cuts in my development. I use the target attribute, and I use a web based WYSWYG editor in my CMS that doesn’t generate compliant XHTML code.

About 35% of my dynamic sites and almost 100% of my static sites are totally compliant.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:31:23 +0000

I knew I smelt a rat! ;-) kidding…

I was impressed by the new design which was launched a couple of months ago (I think) and as I said in the post, being one of the top 10 visited sites in SA, you almost have a responsibility towards developing a site that takes things like standards and semantic markup into account. So kudo’s to you folk for standing up and being counted.

By: mariusmarius

mariusmarius — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:23:17 +0000

Sorry Jason, my fault for not noticing it is an old post! Yes I do represent CareerJunction. We spent a lot of time and effort getting our standards right. (Mostly only on the new sites and the home pages.) Changing the old code would cost too much money. We have some of the best people in the industry working for us now, making sure the environments look pretty AND conforms to W3C standards. CareerJunction is slowly migrating all aspects of the environment into Opensource. While we are doing the migration we are paying a lot of attention to the standards aspect. So keep checking up on us, you may be pleasantly surprised.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 10:49:10 +0000

Marius, before I throw my toys out of my cot and throw them at you, please check the date that this post was created. April 4th 2006. ;-)

(Ok, I see that on the left I do not show the year, so you are forgiven. Just check the dates of the comments.) No hard feelings?

Do you represent any of the sites?

By: marius

marius — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 10:38:05 +0000

Jason,

So you are telling me you are throwing mud at these sites with stats that are older than one year? I would have al least expected you to quote recent stats for that privilege.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 07:40:42 +0000

Hi Marius, I checked these sites in April 2006, so since then Career Junction has had a redesign, and secondly, the site currently cannot be checked as the character encoding for the site is incorrect.

By: Marius

Marius — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 07:08:34 +0000

How did you get 50 errors on CareerJunction? I only found one? Could you tell me what you classified as errors?

By: adrian kirsten

adrian kirsten — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:13:22 +0000

hey bro,

I used to work for a internet company, and I can tell you first hand that standards is NOT an issue for them. They simply do not give a shit. In fact I almost got FIRED because I was insisting on implementing standards ( “We told you we would look into your proposal, and the department head does not agree with you and you still went on and spent company time implementing this” )

It’s sad… oh well…

By: lebogang nkoane

lebogang nkoane — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 22:52:27 +0000

Arrrrggg.

I was gonna argue, but me is too lazy. One word.

context.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:08:55 +0000

I completely agree with you, looking at it from that point of view, some sort of action group to get the big players into realising the importance of standards.

Any ways…..good luck.
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