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Standards Compliance   [Edit]

Survey period: 1 Oct 2001 to 7 Oct 2001

Many technologies such as programming and markup languages all adhere in varying degrees to Standards. How important is Standards compliance versus innovation?

OptionVotes% 
Standards compliance is essential, even if it means legacy applications break or cool features are slow to be added8919.26
Standards compliance is important as long as it is done in a way that doesn't break old code or slow down innovation too much.16235.06
Standards and innovation are equally important to me.10021.65
Niether is important to me.132.81
Standards compliance is good, but not if it gets in the way of innovation in a technology.6514.07
Standards slow down innovation. I prefer to see a technology pushed as far as it can, as fast as it can, and then settle on standards.337.14



 
GeneralStandards for a global world Pin
7-Oct-01 7:32
suss7-Oct-01 7:32 
GeneralRe: Standards for a global world Pin
Paul Watson7-Oct-01 13:19
sitebuilderPaul Watson7-Oct-01 13:19 
GeneralIE6 and Java Pin
5-Oct-01 5:32
suss5-Oct-01 5:32 
GeneralRe: IE6 and Java Pin
Paul Watson6-Oct-01 3:03
sitebuilderPaul Watson6-Oct-01 3:03 
GeneralRe: IE6 and Java Pin
6-Oct-01 4:38
suss6-Oct-01 4:38 
GeneralRe: IE6 and Java Pin
Paul Watson7-Oct-01 13:16
sitebuilderPaul Watson7-Oct-01 13:16 
GeneralStandards vs. Innovation Pin
Paul Watson1-Oct-01 5:28
sitebuilderPaul Watson1-Oct-01 5:28 
I put to you:

Our current level of innovation across most areas of computing I reckon is at a very workable and satisfactory level.

Our level of standards however is not.

Real world businesses could not give a Flying Phuket that there super fabulistic Wizzamoogo interface shell does not work on Netscape but works fine on IE. They don't want to know the excuses.

To them, bottom line, it must work.

Now with proper standards, enforced and enforced again, we would not have the super-phuket problems that face web developers. Sure maybe I would not have the BLINK tag or I would still be using an animated gif instead of a Flash file but all I want, and am sure every business want, is something that works, works well and works as itended. That does not require work arounds, fixes and "alternate features".

Innovation basically IMESHO needs to slow down so that the standards can actually be authoratively called standards and not "working drafts".

* a small bird found only on the island of Phuket which acts differently to the same situation depending on the time of day

regards,
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa

"We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible."
- Chretien Malesherbes
GeneralRe: Standards vs. Innovation Pin
David Wulff1-Oct-01 7:42
David Wulff1-Oct-01 7:42 
GeneralRe: Standards vs. Innovation Pin
Chris Meech1-Oct-01 10:37
Chris Meech1-Oct-01 10:37 
GeneralRe: Standards vs. Innovation Pin
Paul Watson2-Oct-01 1:32
sitebuilderPaul Watson2-Oct-01 1:32 
GeneralFlying Phuket Pin
David Wulff4-Oct-01 16:02
David Wulff4-Oct-01 16:02 
GeneralBreak existing code? Pin
CodeGuy1-Oct-01 2:03
CodeGuy1-Oct-01 2:03 
GeneralRe: Break existing code? Pin
Chris Maunder1-Oct-01 3:20
cofounderChris Maunder1-Oct-01 3:20 
GeneralRe: Break existing code? Pin
CodeGuy1-Oct-01 3:42
CodeGuy1-Oct-01 3:42 
GeneralStandards... Pin
Tim Smith1-Oct-01 1:49
Tim Smith1-Oct-01 1:49 
GeneralWhat's in a standard? Pin
peterchen30-Sep-01 21:48
peterchen30-Sep-01 21:48 

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