We have met the enemy, and he is us

Browsing Around for New Targets

Jeffrey Zeldman and the Web Standards Project are back with a wake-up call for Web developers everywhere: The problem today isn't Microsoft or Netscape –- it's you.

What's amazing is that many of the leading Web development tools turn out non-compliant code. Let's not even get started about M$ FrontPage, but it's not alone. Dreamweaver can generate code that will fail a simple HTML 4.01 compliance test, though to its credit the errors are generally easily fixed. What remains a mystery to me is that these standards are well documented. There's not really any good excuse these Web CASE tools can't crank out perfect code.