Quoting Shaul Karl, from the post of Tue, 11 Mar: > > 1. Should be cheaper to develop and maintain.
Sadly, I think we have reached the conclusion it's not exactly correct anymore. but what annoys me is that banks (who for tax reasons are recognised as "Malkar" in Israel!!!) boast multi-million dollar profits, Leumi in particular just launched a 3-4 million $$$ campaign a while ago (remember the "human bridge" ad on TV?), raise the amlot, lower the pakam interest, and yet have the khuzpah to tell us they can't afford another $15K (at a VERY extreme estimate!) to make the damn site standard. > 2. Easier to support multiple languages: Hebrew + Arabic + Russian + > Rumanian + Portugaze (is this what is used in the Philippine)? + > Thai + ... Portuguese is spoken in Macao, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde Portugal and a tiny place called Brazil. In the Philippines you may find Ilocano and Filipino. I don't think standard compliance will help porting the site between LTR languages as such though, that's more of a question for the application designers. LTR and RTL support of the same app IS a question for the web designers as well :) > 3. Should be faster and convenient to the clients at the expense of > the site resources since, as far as I understand, delegating more > work to the clients is done in a sub standard ways. huh? > 4. Doesn't force the clients into specific browsers, which enhances > the clients freedom. "Now that's crazy talk! we've tested and it works on MSIE5, 5.5 AND 6.0!" and the excuse of "opera+gecko are only 3 promil, THEY are not the standard" plays into their hands here. ouch. in a world where MSIE is the de facto standard, it's hard to convince any capitalist that the w3c are holier :( -- Refrigerate after opening Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ This post is encrypted twice with ROT-13. Documenting or attempting to crack this encryption is illegal. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
