What Web Standards Crisis?
I was tempted to write this reply during the week in which the crises were announced but found it unnecessary. All crises on the internet have life expectancies measured in days (or, hours). The latest Web Standards Crisis has passed. I have never—Ever—considered myself a Standardista; a Neo-Standardista but not Standardista. My perception of early Web Standards was that of Sans-culottes with Molotov cocktails and wishes for Utopia. That hasn’t changed. The Executive Safety Committee has but its mission has not: Universality (which includes Accessibility), separation of structure and presentation. And, the semantic use of markup languages. The difference between true Web Standards practitioners and Everyone else is mission versus work. Consider this. Practitioners believe in the Mission; agency drones who must meet Accessibility because it is in the client’s contract requirements view Web Standards as part of the job: nothing more, nothing less. Those who believe in the Web Standards M
