How do I convince my company to utilize Web standards?
the few, usual immediate advantages that I could think of, given your particular situation: – way lighter bandwidth load -> faster loading time, etc. – easily customizable by CSS – you could enhance the general app usability by using one of the various js frameworks available (on properly structured HTML with all the IDs in place) – accessibility. You don’t need it now, you might in a few years and transitioning from the mess you’re describing will be a lot of sweat, so better be prepared as much as possible – easier to maintain code – easier interoperability and future expandability, e.g. your document exporting example would be way easier to implement with properly structured documents – again, way easier to use on different media/clients by way of stylesheets, so you’ll have better printouts, perhaps mobile versions, etc. etc. – overall longer product/feature life the case for transitioning from 1996 to 2008 HTML is fairly strong, in my opinion. I think it doesn’t necessarily have t
