Why eBay needs Standards-Oriented Design: An Interview with Eric A. Meyer
An argument for using standards and validating pages ...
"I'm seeing a growing interest in standards-oriented design as something that should be done by any organization. Various redesigns have certainly helped awareness. As many organizations make the shift to standards, others are starting to realize that they're being left behind and that they need to look into standards-oriented design and figure out how to move forward.
The driving forces are interesting and diverse. In many cases, you'll have a web team that has come to realize this is something they need to do. They won't get management onboard by saying "Hey, we need to move to standards," but by saying, "Hey, a standards-based design can make our site more efficient. It'll be faster and more accessible." Development teams can promote their cause by stating all the reasons that standards-oriented design benefits the organization as a whole.
For most developers, they aren't getting close to a bandwidth ceiling with their provider. But someone like eBay, I can't even imagine. I've heard that the markup to content ratio for eBay is just heinous, like 85% markup or so? They've got to do millions upon millions upon millions probably an hour if not a day. And a typical auction page -- just the HTML document -- is somewhere in the vicinity of 40-45KB. It's all built with font tags, tables and spacer gifs. I've done standards-oriented re-creations of those pages, where, without changing the design, I cut the markup down as much as possible and using style sheets for display. I can go from about a 40KB page to a 20KB page." continued ... (Via uie)
"I'm seeing a growing interest in standards-oriented design as something that should be done by any organization. Various redesigns have certainly helped awareness. As many organizations make the shift to standards, others are starting to realize that they're being left behind and that they need to look into standards-oriented design and figure out how to move forward.
The driving forces are interesting and diverse. In many cases, you'll have a web team that has come to realize this is something they need to do. They won't get management onboard by saying "Hey, we need to move to standards," but by saying, "Hey, a standards-based design can make our site more efficient. It'll be faster and more accessible." Development teams can promote their cause by stating all the reasons that standards-oriented design benefits the organization as a whole.
For most developers, they aren't getting close to a bandwidth ceiling with their provider. But someone like eBay, I can't even imagine. I've heard that the markup to content ratio for eBay is just heinous, like 85% markup or so? They've got to do millions upon millions upon millions probably an hour if not a day. And a typical auction page -- just the HTML document -- is somewhere in the vicinity of 40-45KB. It's all built with font tags, tables and spacer gifs. I've done standards-oriented re-creations of those pages, where, without changing the design, I cut the markup down as much as possible and using style sheets for display. I can go from about a 40KB page to a 20KB page." continued ... (Via uie)
Not a standards-oriented design.
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