And the other excuse is that is "that everybody use it". Just ask for proves of that (both the standards and the numbers). Weak developers hide under this "false" statements to avoid doing their job.
P.S. If they ask for your proves, you only have to show them the W3C pages. They are in html, so somebody are using it. César Páris 2008/6/19 Jonathan D'mello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > To go off on a tangent Patrick, this is getting to be a rather common > excuse from some developers. If they don't want to change code, they > say it will break W3C standards. > > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:37 AM, Patrick H. Lauke > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Rob Enslin wrote: > > > >> I recently started noticing that our CMS system generated .htm pages > where > >> previously the system produced .html pages. I questioned the support > staff > >> and was told that the W3C deemed .html as non-standard file extensions > (or > >> rather .htm were more-widely accepted as the standard) > > > > Rubbish. Absolute rubbish. Challenge the support staff to actually point > out > > where this statement from the W3C is supposed to be... > > > > -- > > Patrick H. Lauke > > ______________________________________________________________ > > re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively > > [latin : re-, re- + dux, leader; see duke.] > > www.splintered.co.uk | www.photographia.co.uk > > http://redux.deviantart.com > > ______________________________________________________________ > > Co-lead, Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force > > http://webstandards.org/ > > ______________________________________________________________ > > > > > > ******************************************************************* > > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ******************************************************************* > > > > > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
